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

We have seen so many clear megatrends that have been coming towards us at lightning speed over the last few years. I really need to spend more time thing about it and trying to dissect the implications for me as an individual and hopefully to also eventually position myself to benefit from it, both financially and…

How well do I know myself? After more than 50 years on planet earth, I am confident to say that I know myself much better now than when I was a 21-year-old. The best measure of this would be the recognition of your strengths and weaknesses. One self-improvement course I attended many moons ago had…

Another long weekend ahead, thanks to labour day on Monday. National Service (NS) is our country’s version of compulsory military service that was started in the 1960s as a means to provide us with a greater sense of security in a time where neighbours were hostile to the birth of a new country. Back then, the…

What is Intensity? The definition is “the quality of being intense”. If the intensity is towards something that consumes one’s heart totally, the sweet smell of success is so euphoric and uplifting that you hit a natural high. On the other hand, if the intensity is constant and involves things you cannot control, it can break…

So glad that we have a long weekend ahead. Been a while since the last one. Most countries even have Monday off too. Today is Good Friday, the Friday before Easter Sunday, on which the Crucifixion of Jesus commemorated in the Christian Church. It is traditionally a day of fasting and penance. We should constantly give…

Is the world getting more cynical nowadays? Gone are the days where a piece of news will shock the markets and stock markets go into a tailspin or financial markets volatility shoot off the charts? We had a crazy Friday where Trump decided to bomb Syria for the sarin attack, another terrorist attack in Stockholm…

Another busy week at work and time did pass quite fast with multiple back to back meetings. The second half of the week was in Hong Kong for business. The Hong Kong weather was pleasant and this time around (3rd HK trip in 4 months), I decided to book a different hotel, opting to put up…

Call it third sense or something, but I felt uneasy the whole weekend into Monday. It was a feeling as if you may get fired or something terrible may happen. We have been seeing senior heads being taken out with a 4 pm Friday email every week for the last 3 weeks. My new job…