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

If you watch American news, you will realise that most are quite US-centric and very bias towards the opinions of their owners. Fox and CNN are prime examples. Some of my American friends acknowledged that they avoid watching local US news media completely so that they can get a more unbiased and balanced understanding of global…

Woah, what a show today! Everybody was waiting for the 1st US presidential debate to kick off and more than 84 million tuned in, even more if you consider those outside the US like myself. Gloves were taken off but this was not as ferocious as I had wanted it to be. Trump seemed to…

Conventional wisdom dictates that to plan for retirement here, you will need at least SGD 1 million in reserve funds. You then target to spend 4% of it per year and this will last you for another 25 years. Assuming that you retire at 55, then you will run out of money at 80. We…

While we were kids in the 1970s, one of our favourite weekly shows  was the Ultraman series.  Without fail every Wednesday at 6.30 pm sharp, someone will shout “Ultraman!!!” at our housing estate and all the kids would rush home immediately. The lucky ones would have colour TVs while the rest have to make do…

Looking back at all the jobs I have had since I started working, some of the memorable ones were those that I did while I was still in school. While in high school, my sister managed to get me part-time work during my school holidays. It was at the company she was working at that…

I attended a full day Corporate Treasury event today. It was their annual Treasury Forum. As a member, I wanted to get an insight of the latest Treasury happenings. There were 4 themes for the day and the first one was on regulations. It seems that the amount of new regulations that banks have to…

I was invited to attend an interesting lunch event today. The theme was “Pay It Forward” and it was organized by my old uni and sponsored by one of the old boys. It featured 2 guests and the event’s message really touched everyone. It was a live example of paying it forward at work, over…

Over the weekend, I finally laid my hands on the new iPhone 7 Plus. It replaces my iPhone 6 which served my well for the last 2 years but seems to be showing problems (battery and Bluetooth issues). I came across an interesting article recently on why Samsung’s Note 7 launch had become a disaster.…