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

I did not write my weekly blog last week as I was in China for 6 days. It was a meaningful trip for me, even though it was a pretty chill and relaxing semi-vacation. This trip was not planned. Dad called me and my youngest sister about 2 mths ago and asked both of us…

The week passed by relatively fast for me. Monday was a public holiday but I had to go for my monthly Yangon trip as the flights were booked months earlier before they also declared that it was a Diwali holiday there too for the first time. We had a great lunch and dinner with the…

This past week has been my time of realization that things are all coming together, from the technology front and then translating to my halftime career development journey. Over the last 2 years since I had stopped working full time, I had been pursuing 2 goals. One, to reskill and learn about the things that…

Warning: This week’s blog is my rant about HK from an outsider’s perspective. You may agree or disagree with me, but I want to purge all of this sadness and negativity from my system. I see a formerly dynamic and great city crumbling in slow motion in front of the global stage. I fear that…

It has been a whirlwind week for me as I started my new 3 months digital banking consultancy role on Monday afternoon while also juggling my current Myanmar job too. I had to get up to speed fast on this role as my part is already 3 weeks behind schedule. Getting into a work mode…

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…

Three events were the highlights for me this week. They made my days much more interesting in an otherwise quiet week where I was training daily for my next half marathon run on Sunday at 5.30 am. A milestone was reached on Tues where wifey and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary. We had our…

There is a reason why I am blogging about this topic today. Let me elaborate on the various aspects of the whole story first, until the twist to the whole story that I will reveal at the end. I belong to a specific dialect group that originates from the island of Hainan in China. In…