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

I am perturbed, sad and angry at the same time. Within 10 days last month, 2 teenagers from my son’s junior college took their own lives. It is such a tragedy that I wished we could have prevented them from happening. One of them hinted about her depression in her personal blog, questioning her very…

One can really feel it in the air that big revolutionary events are coming soon. Like when email was introduced, everyone was able to easily get connected anywhere in the world. Then you had Facebook and the world of social media began. Whatsapp came along and we now had real-time private access to multiple groups…

UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle), otherwise commonly called drones, have been evolving at a breathtaking speed in the last few years. I attended a UAV show yesterday and was wonderfully awed at the number of applications a drone could accomplish nowadays. I was initially attracted to drones because of my interest in videography as I had been…

Is the Zika paranoia totally overdone now? While the government wants to be transparent and upfront about this, are we going overboard on the scare factor? Yes, we understand that Zika is harmful to pregnant women. Yes, it can be transmitted via sexual contact. Numbers have suddenly shot up to more than 100 but is…

I came across this interesting article (see link below) which has given me a lot of food for thought. Imagine if you could create a retirement fund for your kids now. The funds are put into a low-risk investment instrument that is protected by a triple-A rated country (there are only 12 such countries in…

With the arrival of new technology, we do see many traditional jobs being wiped out. Fintech in banking is threatening to make most jobs obsolete as Artificial Intelligence replaces slow human reactions, blockchain will destroy inefficient business silos and robo advisors to provide better investment wisdom at a fraction of the cost. Driverless cars previously touted to appear…

How successful as a country are we in Multiculturalism? It is defined as the co-existence of diverse cultures, where culture includes racial, religious, or cultural groups and is manifested in customary behaviours, cultural assumptions and values, patterns of thinking, and communicative styles. For years since the beginning of our young country, our forefathers have been…

The haze is coming back again this year with a vengeance. Just within a span of 12 hours from 1 am to 1 pm today, the 1-hour PM2.5 reading has shot up from a low of 6 to 198 !! The haze had already been making its presence felt for the last few nights as…