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

I chanced upon this when I attended the grand opening event of the Alibaba TaoBao university in S’pore earlier this year. Managed to convinced my wife to join me for this study trip to Hangzhou, the HQ of Alibaba. We finally went last week after postponing our earlier July date. https://www.sirsdigitalcommerce.com/alibaba-ceo-programme1.html This course was heavily subsidized by…

Almost 20 years ago, I came across this concept of private kitchens when we were having our holidays in Hong Kong. It was a novel idea at that time. Eat at someone’s home that was turned into a private setting for guests with dishes cooked by an experienced chef at a fraction of restaurant prices.…

I have been talking about this topic frequently with friends and an event I attended this week re-enforced it. I do reflect on my peers who are all around my age group and I observe that we are all going through each of our halftime experience in our own ways. Bob Bulford wrote the book…

It has been a relatively quiet week for me. I am still giving tender loving care to my first batch of vegetable seedlings in my new hydroponics experiment, watching a lot of youtube videos on this topic as well as daily comedy channels about American politics. What stood out this week for me were 2…

Over the last few weeks, I have had the opportunity to share with some friends and new acquaintances my experience on building a new stream of passive income for retirement via REITs (Real Estate Investment Trust). While I had blogged about this before, this topic is worthy to put down in writing here again. I…

Myanmar has changed a lot since my first introduction to the country in 2015. I started a new relationship with this country again 9 months ago and this week’s blog will be my record of this journey so far. Before that, a bit of the background building up to this new role of mine is…

Mentorship – the providing of guidance by a mentor, especially an experienced person in a company or educational institution to another person, normally known as the mentee. As I reflect on the various stages of my life, I begin to wonder if it would have been better if I could have had someone older and…

It has been 2 weeks since we returned from our amazing south Italy adventure. Prior to the trip, I wrote in my blog about taking stock of what I had done so far and then deciding on what I want to do next. I believe that things are starting to gel together as I aim to…