Musings of a 50+ year old boy – a halftime journey

A week of birthday celebrations for me. A milestone too, as my personal blog reaches its 3rd-year of existence. A group of good friends decided that we should have an overnight trip to nearby Batam on Tues. Previously, we have had a day trip there and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves with the cheap massages and…

A pretty quiet week of reflection for me, catching up on my readings and doing my online AI course. Two things stood out for me this week. It started my thoughts on life’s fragility, that what we usually take for granted may suddenly be pulled away from us. One may not realize its importance until…

I was lucky, I had 2. Both happened in the first 10 years of my work career. With so many changes in bosses in the latter half of my work life, I might have gotten a bit jaded by then and I might already have set a much higher benchmark for future bosses. But these…

For human relationships, everything is based on trust. When that is gone, nothing else matters, even when faced with facts and logic. I will come back to that again later. What a week this was, on the American political front. The dam is breaking on the Trump induced White House stonewalling of information. The deafening…

A shortened week due to a public holiday on Monday. Then it was off to Yangon for my monthly financial consultancy work from Tue to Fri. This was one of my longest trip for a while, having to spend 3 nights there. The agenda was packed with meetings and discussions with deadlines to work towards. We…

I have been on a life long learning journey since going on gardening leave from my last banking job in Jun 2017. Since then, with the timely arrival of the Skillsfuture initiative to retrain mid-career PMETs, I have embarked on a path of self-discovery to plot my halftime road map. I had written about the…

I had slowly come to the realization that we are not a nation of book readers. Our top selling book list seemed unchanged for months on end. Crazy Rich Asia has been on the top 20 list for a number of years and most book positions hardly moved. There must only be a very small…

Perhaps my timing was good or maybe it was the divine powers above that had led me to this data analytics to AI (Artificial Intelligence) journey. I have learnt a lot in this short 2 years ride but there is still so much more to absorb. The more I plug in the missing information gaps…