Need To Blog More

 I reckon I need to make an effort to blog more again.

Write my thoughts, my passions, my emotions.

It’s not only about having a memory of what has happened in my life, but it helps to straighten out my thoughts.

With the advent of AI, I do find myself chatting with different AIs a lot about my feelings and aggregating best possible decisions which I find highly effective in enhancing my decision making skills.

Yet I ought to have a record of all this somewhere in cyberspace so that I can access it all one day when dementia sets in for me.

It’s like this video I just watched last night where dementia and Alzheimer’s is an incurable disease right now and if I happen to have it, then I will surely forget my life and all that’s passed.

It’d be quite a waste to let so many good memories go to waste.

Also exercising helps preserve the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex. That’s what I learned last night haha.

Can’t Upload Pictures On Blogger

 Suddenly I cannot seem to upload pictures on Blogger anymore.

Was quite bummed out since it meant I can’t upload my pictures and post that much.

Then I remembered that this blog has been around for 22 years!

And back then I never could upload pictures!

My posts were long essays.

They were descriptive and emotional and told imaginative and creative stories about what happened in my daily life back then and the feelings I was going through.

I need to bring that writing back.

Here’s to more creative days ahead.

The Sporting Weekend

 So

1) PSG beats Arsenal on penalties to win the UCL Finals

2) San Antonio Spurs beat the Oklahoma City Thunder to win Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals to advance to the NBA Finals against the New York Knicks

3) Loh Kean Yew loses the KFF Singapore Open Men’s Final to France’s Alex Lanier in three sets

What a weekend, sad for LKY but proud of him and hope he wins something this year.

What A Sporting Weekend

 What a sporting weekend!

1) UCL Finals - PSG beats Arsenal on penalties last night

2) NBA WCF Game 7 - San Antonio Spurs v Oklahoma City Thunder

3) KFF Singapore Badminton Open Finals - Loh Kean Yew v Alex Lanier

So exciting!

Lower Back Spasms

 Last Sunday played ball with the kids as usual.

It was that days lunchtime onwards that a freezing lower back pain began to hurt me.

 By the next few days especially over the midweek I was standing a lot and my back aches worsened.

Spent the weekend lying in bed, doing lower back exercises etc which seems to have largely worked.

Lower back pain is really quite the bitch.

Now I have to worry about it becoming chronic.

Sigh, the woes of aging.

UEFA Champions League For Manchester United

 We’ve locked in UEFA Champions League next season!

Currently in third place, we’ve likely gotten that locked in.

Well done to Michael Carrick!

It pains me to think that if we had gotten rid of Ruben Amorim earlier, we might even have challenged for the league title this season!

In any case, back to where we belong, and much to look forward to next season!

Oh and Bruno Fernandez just won Football Writers Footballer Of The Year!

GGMU!!!

The US Stock Markets Are Really Weird

 There’re several wars going on.

The Strait of Hormuz is still closed.

There is an energy and oil crisis around the world.

Inflation is running high globally.

Yet.

S&P is near ATH, touching 7,500.

NASDAQ is near ATH, touching 29,600.

Dow is near ATH, touching 50,000.

What gives?

Things I Have Hardly Done In A While

 Haven’t played my first game of golf in 2026. In fact I didn’t play a single game in 2025 even!

Haven’t cycled in a really really long time as well.

Haven’t travelled at all other than a couple of day trips to JB, in all of 2026. Sad.

Haven’t played basketball with kids in almost a month. Sad.

Haven’t had a proper run in a week, due to the rains.

Wifey bought new paddles for paddle ball, so that’s something new.

Doing more gym, static, home workouts for muscle strengthening.

Life Has Been Work

 Work is consuming me the last few months.

Not in a terrible way.

I have a lot of things going on, a lot of things to oversee, and the business is growing with many positive changes, so make no mistake, I’m not complaining about anything negatively draining at work.

Home is going well too, but with the teens busy with school, friends and their own initiatives, we are sort of confined to set timings to be together - some weekday dinners, meals and family gatherings on weekends, morning ferry drives. That’s really it. It feels normal but it’s also a new normal for us as parents.

A lot more electronic device usage by everyone. Sometimes necessary sometimes could have of. It’s not easy to find a balance.

Health is the bigger issue. I’ve recently been quite obsessed with latest technology and AI and my belief is that we will, without accident, live longer as healthcare and biotech improves. So there’s a lot to think about there. So it’s better diet and more regular exercise that I need to work towards.

Saxo AutoInvest

  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