Reflections

As expected, a relatively quiet week for me, right after my run on Sunday. It was a nice 18km run and my recovery was much better than I thought. A foot massage the following day allowed me to go back to my regular exercise regime by Tuesday.

Spent the rest of the week following up with some business-related correspondence with an overseas lender for the Myanmar company we are working to target the drawdown of the loan facility. I was also trying to finalize and sign the contract to my new 3 months consultancy project which I mentioned about last week. If all things go according to plan, I should start this role on Monday.

Also managed to tie up some loose ends with regards to my ongoing learning journey this week. Completed the two outstanding MOCC courses I had enrolled into – Digital Transformation by Boston U and Industry 4.0 by NYP.

My mission to seek out new technology teachings based on personal interest is finally coming to an important crossroad as I proceed to the next phase of my halftime. I am now going to embark deeper into my consultancy career switch that ties up well to what I have been studying about over the last 2 years. With new Skillsfuture acquired technical skills and past Treasury work experience, I hope to pivot into the consultancy business eventually.

It started with a part-time financial consultancy role in Myanmar since Jan 2018. During that time, I also completed a 12-months tenor of evening classes to obtain a diploma in Business Analytics. Earlier this year, our Myanmar company CEO decided that it was time that we plot out our digital transformation road map. He believes that it will be a critical strategic initiative to allow the firm to engineer a quantum leap within the next few years. Much can be done with mobile technology, AI, Cloud and Big Data. Around the same time, S’pore is also trying to do a catch up with HK by opening up for digital bank licenses by the end of the year.

Spent the last 2 days having lunch with 2 different groups of ex-colleagues. All of them are around my age and the common themes that were discussed revolve around what we are going to do next in this phase of our lives that would be meaningful and rewarding as well.

The next 3 months into year-end will be very interesting. I still have my regular monthly Yangon trips and watching the company blossom into its next stage of hyper growth, plus the new one that starts on Monday. Then there is the Hainan trip with my parents together with the Project Smile team which my brother in law has been championing for the last 10 years. Finally a long holiday in Japan. First with some good friends to celebrate their 50th birthdays, then a long family holiday before the younger son goes into the army by early Jan 2020. A really packed calendar ahead!