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

This has been a pet interest for me since 2012 – the concept of setting up a Retirement Village (RV), as my cohort go into the second half of our lives. As a country becomes more affluent, the middle class segment continues to increase. The aging population would also create a demand for RV like…

An FT article hit me in the nuts today. I shared it with some friends and most agreed that this trend is already showing itself in Asia, while the article states this as a fact in London now. The title reads : “In search of the missing office minority – the over-fifties”. Apparently, we hardly…

This was one of the exceptional Mondays where I had a really pleasant day. With my sisters and brother in law, we had a lovely day excursion up north. The destination was a small town where the pace of life was slower. A large shopping mall was the town center and it was surrounded by…

Had a bit of a nostalgic adventure today. I was at the gym of my Alumni club and it happened to be located within my old uni campus. I had been thinking of doing this before and today was as good a time as any – to take a walk through the campus that I…

A newbie like me had no idea what the fuss is all about when one insert hashtags in social media. Naively, I thought it was just a way for my post to look cuter… So I signed up for a free Udemy course on Hashtag Marketing today. What an eye opener this was !!! This has…

Another strong woman to highlight today : Sheryl Sandberg It is amazing what a super woman like her had done so far, actively managing FB and pushing the Lean In initiative at the same time. Yet personal tragedy that struck a year ago could not stop her irrepressible spirit. She advises the Berkeley graduates to count…

What is Failure? Is it a lack of success or is it a process of learning, picking oneself up and becoming stronger in the process? Is it good for you and should we encourage it? If you ask someone from a startup, the probability of failure is expected to be high but then success when…

Mindset change has to happen first. Firstly, we have to realise that we are behind the curve and are willing to want to change, to reinvent oneself. For me, it was the realization that the old banking economy I was in for the last 26 years was dying big time, that the new economy is…