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

What an overload of Trump news in the last 2 weeks!! Things are coming in furiously from the left, right, front and center. All the comedy channels cannot keep up, having to retape/add new segments as new revelations appear in real time. Just when you think that we have hit a new low, we get surprised…

I had 3 very meaningful dinners this week which are still fresh in my mind. They were memorable for the various discussions about life and the stages we go through. I was in Yangon from Tues to Thurs for my part-time financial consultant role with a microfinance company headed by an ex-colleague of mine. He is…

I realize that as we grow older, we become easily agitated and stressed. Our bodies are also telling us that the parts are getting worn out and aches seem to take longer to recover. I see myself get perturbed over little things and observed that friends are also like me, some exhibiting strange behaviours or retreating…

Started the week on Monday with some quality time with elder son before sending him back to army camp. Then I was off to my final evening class of the term to take my last exam paper. Getting a thrill taking tests nowadays, am I ok? Will need to sign up for a 2nd 6…

It is that time of the year again. This Chinese New Year is on a short Feb month and a day after Valentine’s day. My usual 3 annual reunion dinners have started since last Sat, firstly with my in-laws family, then today with my side of the family and finally on the actual eve of…

After a stressful last week, it was nice to settle into a nice quiet one. I had a catch up with good friends mid-week and reconnected with a few that I have not seen for years. As one gets older, it seems that we humans tend to want to get in touch with friends from our…

It was a week where family and work pressures came to a boil. Thankfully, I had strong support from my wife to help me weather through it. My younger son was feeling unwell for the past week, having dizzy spells and fluctuating high fevers. We thought that he recovered over the weekend but he vomited on…

We had a fantastic ride up in the last month of 2017 for all cryptocurrencies. My newly created crypto portfolio from end-Sep was already up +500% by then, mostly thanks to XRP which went from $0.20 to over $3 in a matter of weeks. As I told my close buddies, this was indeed the forming…