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

I have been on a life long learning journey since going on gardening leave from my last banking job in Jun 2017. Since then, with the timely arrival of the Skillsfuture initiative to retrain mid-career PMETs, I have embarked on a path of self-discovery to plot my halftime road map. I had written about the…

I had slowly come to the realization that we are not a nation of book readers. Our top selling book list seemed unchanged for months on end. Crazy Rich Asia has been on the top 20 list for a number of years and most book positions hardly moved. There must only be a very small…

Perhaps my timing was good or maybe it was the divine powers above that had led me to this data analytics to AI (Artificial Intelligence) journey. I have learnt a lot in this short 2 years ride but there is still so much more to absorb. The more I plug in the missing information gaps…

The Pokemon Go mobile phone game started almost 3 years ago in July 2016. In the beginning, whole families like mine got into it big time. We had numerous family outings specifically to “catch them all”… The servers crashed as Nianti (the game developer) couldn’t have anticipated how successful it would be globally. If you…

Wife and I were so amazed by China after our Alibaba study trip to Hangzhou last Oct that we decided to explore China further this year with another trip to a scenic part of the country. The original venue to Jiuzhaigou and panda-watching in Chengdu was scrapped as an earthquake 1.5 years ago destroyed much…

Guess what happened this week? I just completed my online submission of my 2018 tax assessment and realised that I have reached a critical milestone in my tax paying career… I discovered that my tax deductions were more than my income for the first time in my work career!!! Does that mean I can get…

Moving into the end of Mar already and a quarter of the year is over soon. Sometimes it is good to just reflect on the last 7 days about what I have been doing and see if I could make it better, more productive from a personal growth angle. By recording it down in my…

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…