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

MOOC – Massive Open Online Courses has been around for a number of years as we get used to the idea of self-learning at our own pace. Coursera and Udemy are the pioneers that are now one of the largest online learning providers in the world. In the age of the internet where we are…

I have been wanting to visit a new retirement village concept that was launched by the government as an experimental project for a while. It is called Kampung Admiralty and it was finally completed in late 2017. I finally made it and reviewed the project this week. More of that later. Retirement villages have been…

It is that time of the year again where we binge excessively and celebrate the most important period of the year for the Chinese community. Prior to the actual holidays, we will have numerous reunion dinners with various groups of relatives and family members. This is a time of catching up with one another over…

If you have read the news this week, one would have discovered the new term “Polar Vortex” that is sweeping across America now. This phenomenon has caused temperatures to drop like a brick into historical, never before lows. Certain parts of US just experienced -40 degrees (all temperatures referenced in this blog are in Celsius)…

I just spent a week in Bangkok, both for business and pleasure. The trip started on the previous Friday when I spent the weekend there to catch up with an old friend and to discover different parts of Bangkok. I was pleasantly surprised at how cheap it is to travel from the airport to the town…

My usual weekend blog is a bit earlier this week as I will be in Bangkok from tomorrow for a business conference next week. I will also be catching up with an old friend whom I have known since we were 10 years old – 43 years now to be exact, as he is based…

Last week, I wrote about the things I would like to do in 2019. It was a new to-do list which I thought was timely to get me going for the year, sort of like a kick-my-own-butt exercise. As I had mentioned before on the objectives of writing my blog, 2 stands out and come…

After an explosive Dec where most investors sat silently on the sidelines while seeing their portfolio being decimated, we welcome the new year with timid trepidation. Last month was a recipe for disaster in thin liquidity, the holiday-induced environment where everyone got whipped by multiple unexpected events going into the year-end. Not surprisingly, almost 90%…