Recently, I met up with one of my blog readers who read my old article titled ” Do you want to live your life by default or by design – The concept of Mini Retirement” which sparks some thoughts in her about taking a mini retirement. Mini-retirement is a concept first coined by Tim Ferriss…
I think the buzz word “Retirement” doesn’t really sync in well to potential retirees nowadays as reported in this Straits Times article on ” ‘After retiring, I felt bored’: Why some seniors prefer flexi-work and gig jobs” One of the most common job to consider re-employment is teaching in a MOE school. All MOE staff…
As our world population just went past 8 billion people at the end of last year and is expected to reach 10 billion by the end of this century, the problem of overpopulation led to many other growing issues like increased urbanization thru deforestation, increased demand for basic resources such as food, water, energy put…
Recently, I had a conversation with a good friend of mine who just came back from his hometown after spending almost a year with his dad. His dad is having some old age-related health issues and might not be able to function like in the past. My good friend who is in his mid-forties, married…
Recently, I met up with a old soccer friend of mine who I haven’t seen for more than a decade. We had a really good conversation over dinner as it has been quite awhile since we last saw each other. One of the most amazing similarity is that we share a goal towards achieving financial…
It has been a while since I last blogged. Not that I had intended to take a sabbatical from blogging. But quite a bit had happened in the last 6-7 months. I returned to work, at a new workplace, and the first three months was tough, with a new learning curve, etc. But now I…
It has been a while since I last blogged. And part of the reason was because I haven’t manage to find the time to do so. You see, I had ended my sabbatical and have returned to the workplace, albeit in a different organisation, and a different capacity, details of which I shall spare you…
Many of us would have seen this piece of news last week, as MOE announces that it plans to scrap mid year exams for certain levels in primary and secondary school. This is met with a lot of positive reviews but at the same time, there were certainly quite a lot of individuals out there…
With the World Cup fever roaring on and me on sabbatical, it has been many late nights awake watching the World Cup (with Dave) while nursing baby and practically, I am in a zombie- like state during the day. Which could probably explain the lack of posts for the last two weeks (coupled with the…
I attended the baby shower of a friend over the weekend. This is their second kid, both are daughters. The baby is absolutely adorable and we had so much fun as well as it has been a while since we last gathered with a group of mutual friends. In the course of our conversation, another…