Musings of a 50+ year old boy – a halftime journey
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A High SIGMA Event, The Next Phase of Corona – Week 37
The week literally started with a bang this week, even as worsening news of the virus develops. One cannot make out where we will be heading next as winter arrives and Christmas could be cancelled for most of the western world. Just before the US markets open on Monday, the new vaccine announcement hit the…
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Presidential Limbo, Elon Musk, Skillsfuture 2.0 – Week 36
So many things happening at once as we started the 2nd last month of an otherwise horrible year for everyone. It has been a blur for most as we grapple with factors out of our control, with an invisible enemy that ravaged the world and still continues to do so into the winter season. I…
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Freedom, Final Presidential Showdown – Week 35
I can start to smell freedom soon, to be released from my hotel room cell in Shangri-La after 14 nights of compulsory quarantine since returning from my UK trip. The COVID19 test results I did on Tues (first trip out of the room on Day 11 for 30 mins in the same building) came back…
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Quarantine in S’pore – Week 34
Just back from the UK after a month in Oxford, I stepped off the plane on Sat morning, 17 Oct with trepidation on what lies ahead for me. There were only about 50 passengers on the SQ flight from Heathrow and I could even lay down on the empty seats for a nice 4 hours…
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UK Trip Ends, Heading Home – Week 33
It was amazing that I had already spent almost a month in Oxford with my son. So much planning and apprehension about the trip during these COVID19 times is coming to an end. We landed in the UK with S’pore just being exempted from quarantine 2 hours before, got into Keble College to settle him…
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Apprehension – Week 32
We have been in the UK for 3 weeks now. It seems like most western countries do not have a good handle on COVID19 yet. The 2nd wave had started and we are heading into winter soon. Boris wants to cancel Christmas now. The weak was lovely initially, then the rains started and the temperature…
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Oxford Journal Part 2, US Elections Get Interesting – Week 31
Just when we thought that Oct cannot get any more interesting, more unexpected things happen… Traditionally, this month scares the financial markets as it is one of the most volatile and bank traders look to achieve their budget by the end of this month before the year-end holidays and closure of the bank books. But…
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Our Oxford Journal So Far – Week 30
My older son and I arrived in the UK on 19 Sep, Sat at 0555. Just 2 hours earlier, UK had added S’pore into the quarantine exempt list of countries. We originally planned to do 14 days of quarantine separately in his dorm and in the apartment I rented. But we found out only a…
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