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I completed my diploma in Business Analytics in Aug last year and will have my graduation event in May. This had started me since late 2017 on a learning journey of understanding what is out there in the world which I am not aware of. https://www.tp.edu.sg/courses/part-time-courses/industry/ict-and-media/specialist-diploma-in-business-analytics The initial 6 months was tough for me, being…

Human mortality is a touchy subject especially when you hit the half-century mark. Thanks to a friend, I developed a morbid fascination of reading the daily newspapers backwards from the sports page and stopping at the obituary columns to scan through all the persons listed there. When a see a familiar face, I will feel…

I have to say that I did quite a lot of things this week. Getting sick at the later part of the week was a bummer though. Went to Yangon on Sunday afternoon, ahead of my regular monthly ALCO meetings on Monday morning. Had a great Korean BBQ dinner with a nice bottle of Italian…

Just completed my 6 weeks Intro to FinTech MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) from HKU last week. Though it cost me about $100 to sign up for the self-learning program, I believe that it was worth it. I learnt a few new things which helped to fill in the info gaps I had for FinTech.…

MOOC – Massive Open Online Courses has been around for a number of years as we get used to the idea of self-learning at our own pace. Coursera and Udemy are the pioneers that are now one of the largest online learning providers in the world. In the age of the internet where we are…

I have been wanting to visit a new retirement village concept that was launched by the government as an experimental project for a while. It is called Kampung Admiralty and it was finally completed in late 2017. I finally made it and reviewed the project this week. More of that later. Retirement villages have been…

It is that time of the year again where we binge excessively and celebrate the most important period of the year for the Chinese community. Prior to the actual holidays, we will have numerous reunion dinners with various groups of relatives and family members. This is a time of catching up with one another over…

If you have read the news this week, one would have discovered the new term “Polar Vortex” that is sweeping across America now. This phenomenon has caused temperatures to drop like a brick into historical, never before lows. Certain parts of US just experienced -40 degrees (all temperatures referenced in this blog are in Celsius)…