Had family dinner last night.
Dad was nursing a sore knee.
Just seeing him hobbling while walking, I got the sense that we were all growing old. Fast.
At this age, I feel older. A lot older.
Then I look at my mummy and daddy, they’re even older!
I wish them good health for as long as they live, with long lives ahead of them.
ChatGPT produced our weekly dinner family portrait.
Love it in the Snoopy style!
We were at Cow Play Cow Moo the other day.
Playing this machine where you need to get the ball into one of the holes and you win like 20-50 tickets if you got the right hole.
There was one particular hole which was a jackpot, and my girl actually gets the ball into!!!!
Jackpot and we bank 3,034 tickets!!!!
Was a keynote speaker at our annual VIP gala dinner.
I fashioned a pretty good prezzo about AI and what to expect in the future.
Was practicing like crazy.
Quite happy with the final presentation on actual day.
Phew.
Welcome to the new world of AI, where they become our best friends.
These are my best friends, notably ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude.
Just keeping this for record.
Being such a mega fan of The Simpsons, I’m just glad I was enjoying the best, wittiest, funniest episodes back in secondary school.
This year’s record was set by the girl.
That’s an insanely long hang time! Set on 21st September.
I think my best is only 35s!
Our favourite Saturday go-to lunch.
This is at Dunman Food Centre.
It’s been around since I was in secondary school.
Very highly recommended along with the Tau Kwa Pau + Duck Rice stall behind too!
The current days of Artificial Intelligence.
We are using AI so much that I feel lazy to blog anymore these days.
Copilot is helping me out a lot at work.
I have a personal Premium subscription to ChatGPT.
Then I use ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, DeepSeek and Copilot as my personal AI engines.
Hence quite lazy to blog these days.
This is the real deal?
It’s been such a long time since I’ve had a multibagger stock investment, so this is great to see.
Will it go to $10?
And so for the second decade, we change to our third family car.
This time we have sadly let go of our Toyota Corolla 2016 model for a BYD Atto 3 2025 model.
Hope we can drive this EV for the next ten years!
The new EV driving experience has been solid so far!
Let’s just hope this is a solid investment for us!
Made a brief appearance on CNA’s Money Mind series.
Was featured giving my opinion to a potential new investor.
It was fun but I really do not like to do stuff like this too often.
So paiseh when they aired the episode in the office!
Had a very short but interesting weekend trip to Johor Bahru, Malaysia.
It was the wifey’s birthday and we wanted to try this as a celebration of sorts.
What we did was take the TEL to Woodlands, then take bus 950 to the causeway checkpoint. After checking through the Singapore customs, we took another bus to the Malaysian customs. And then straight to our hotel, which was just 5min away!
Malaysia is super cheap for us Singaporeans right now, so everything we ate, bought and did, were cheap!
What a great way to spend the weekend!
Here’re the 10 best photos from the trip.
After the DHS reunion, was the annual Saxo Summer Party!
Our parties have become less wild than before because we’re all a little older.
Also gone are the days we partied by the beaches at beach clubs.
This year was in a little shophouse in Little India where we gave out fantastic prizes and played really fun games.
To many more years of Saxo partying!
This was definitely quite a feat.
Our secondary school class gathering taken to a whole new level.
We invited our cohort of around 400 students and nearly half showed up! And even the teachers too!
I had such a good time engaging with so many of them. What a great catch up.
Our upper secondary class ended up having only 5 representatives while we had 10 from our lower secondary class.
Good times!
This time to Berwin, our Senior Legal Counsel.
Was good having drinks together.
From left, back round to front - John, Darren, Berwin, Ivan, Danny, Darius, Hay Thi, Summer, Mahesh, Joel, Janice, myself
To brighter days ahead!
Had an upper secondary school class gathering.
Haven’t seen a few of them for 30 years!
Here’s a quick photo - from left: Jinde, Clarice, Hak Keong, Zuguang, Sulynn, Amelia, myself, Stacey.
Good to see many of them again after all these years!
I play basketball with the kids on most Sundays now.
Both teens are getting better and better.
Soon they will be beating me effortlessly. I used to beat them effortlessly but now we are starting to be on par. My body is degrading while theirs are growing stronger by the day.
We’d play a first round of primary/secondary school. Then 2v1 which I’m still winning. Then we go to the exercise area to do static exercises and see who can hang on the handle bar the longest.
End it off with chin chow from Marine Terrace hawker centre. Well deserved.
This year is a special birthday year for Singapore!
It is SG60!
As usual we’d go over to my parents’ home to watch the parade.
This year my mum went one further by buying a birthday cake for Singapore!
Happy 60th birthday Singapore!
Had a ball of durians for a short duration when there was a spurt of very good and quality supply.
It really just came a went just like that and now it’s over.
Sad.
Not an Arsenal fan but was actually quite proud that he was unveiled in Singapore’s Festival of Football game between Arsenal and Newcastle.
And I was there to catch Arsenal win 3-2!
