The little tidbits in my life.
Here’s my very own magnificent seven AutoInvest portfolios!
I’m hoping with great discipline, these portfolios will help me FIRE earlier than planned!
1. Boglehead
2. China Power
3. Dividends
4. Greatest Risk
5. JIBVISC
6. Max Aggressive
7. Purely CSPX
Really win liao lor.
This heat is ridiculous.
This year’s April must be one of the hottest + humidest in a very long time.
It’s soooo hot especially at night.
And it’s sooooo humid!
It’s already April.
How quickly this year is moving along really.
The Iran War is still ongoing and it looks likelier to escalate further and drag on, than end.
There is an energy crisis where many governments are already sounding the alarm, but the masses are not panicking yet.
It is harder to plan family holidays, as worries of an escalating oil crisis might mean that any overseas tickets I buy now, may not be a viable destination. Quite worrying.
Work is also weird. There is too much volatility in the markets that the markets have become so unpredictable that traders have all gone to the sidelines.
So we went from thinking we’d do really well this year, to bracing for this being a year we might miss our targets. In a short matter on two months.
And April is projected to be hotter than March :(
Today was a walk down memory lane.
I went with my dad to the location of his old home. We called it Old House.
It was off Beatty Road. One of the first of its kind government housing before HDB even came to form.
I have faint memories there as my parents brought me there on a weekly basis when my grandmother was still alive and my paternal side of the family would gather there to drink beers, gamble, play mahjong and make merry.
Today we walked Beatty Road, then Sturdee Road, drove through Jalan Besar.
It was a great time reminiscing the past, both for dad and I.
He was narrating all the old stories of his childhood, while walking different streets. Where different things happened in his life as he was growing up.
We saw the beautiful Peranakan terrace houses on Petain Road.
Then we drove to Berseh Food Centre at Jalan Berseh for dinner. We had herbal turtle soup paired with mutton tendon soup, washed down with sugarcane juice.
It was delicious.
Today was a good day.
Here’s an interesting problem I am currently facing.
Say you invested a significant amount X into a stock that you believe in strongly. A very high conviction stock.
Said stock manages to 2X in six months, at which point you could sell off, realize the gains, place it into fixed deposits and earn $1,000/mth in interest at current interest rates, guaranteed.
OR
The stock turnaround has only just begun and the reasons it has already 2X are the same reasons of very high probability it could possibly propel the stock price to an even higher level of 3-5X in the next 1-2 years.
Which would you choose to do?
There appears no end in sight.
Trump definitely doesn’t know what he’s gotten himself into.
Iran is surviving better than most would’ve expected.
The people in the GCC especially Dubai and Doha, do not seem to be alarmed by the fact that this war is only just beginning and rescue flights can still go in and out of the GCC states. Who knows if this will escalate further and desalinations plants, more oil depots and airports will be completely decapacitated. Only then will true panic set in.
Hopefully this whole situation will deescalate instead but let’s see.
Trump is definitely going to find it very difficult to 下台 now.
Dad’s surgery is off.
I guess I have next week super free now.
It’s feels weird but I suppose this is for the best.
Who knows what other twists there will be.
It’s been a very weird year so far.
The general feeling is negative.
Life isn’t great, health is great, family stuff isn’t great, work stress is rising.
Haven’t travelled at all this year and have ZERO travel plans and it’s already March.
Yet wealth is increasing at the fastest pace ever.
It’s a very weird year that feels very off somehow.
Hopefully the not so good parts will improve.
So my dad has decided to undergo the suggested operation.
It is good in the sense that it was what I’d have liked for him since he is able and deemed healthy to do so.
That said it is a tough thing for him to go through. No matter his choice of next path, all roads are life changing, so the decision is certainly not easy.
Hopefully the surgery goes well as expected.