The view of my childhood

3 year hiatus

The last 3 years of my life has seen ups and downs in many ways that I have not foresee nor anticipated. From the a financial perspective, no major investments were made except for the renewal of the car COE costing me 26K in cold cash.

Last 2012, the major decision to renovate the house appears herculean. But it went through smoothly and without a hitch. This despite sending kids to college, of which a sizeable portion of their tuition is shouldered by the govt. Here is a snapshot of the major spending we've made.

• Yr 2014- rory's birth: 10k hospital bills, baby expense plus travels by parents for babysitting.
• Yr 2015- lola's death and house rebuild-10k bill plus travels back and forth for visitation. 
• Yr 2016 - car coe 26k and Sydney travels for reunion by my in laws

Purchase of personal collections soar as well.

1. Year 2014 - my first luxury watch (omega) as my 40 year birthday gift.
2. Year 2015 - more watches, (apple watch, hamilton), oakley shades, wilson brown leather bag
3. Year 2016 - Nike vapor driver, woods and rescue, Tumi bags, oakley shade, Mont blanc pen
4. Year 2017 - new IPAD, new bible, new loafers. 

Maybe one is wondering why I need to post this. Simple, counting my blessings. At some point all these would find its way as hand me downs and need to document when were they brought!

Jan weekend 2017

First weekend

- 1st Jan : lounge around and spring clean 

- 2nd Jan: play 9 hole round

Second weekend

- 7th Jan: pick up NS son and jolibee weekend 

- 8th Jan: golf daiman and Rorys birthday celeb

Third weekend

- 14th Jan: golf daiman, handiman fix on the aircon leak and jolibee 

- 15th Jan: church, golf at mandai and dinner with PC and JJ. 

Fourth weekend

- 21th Jan: golf at Horizon,
- 22nd Jan: SMBC Golf at Sentosa Golf Club - Following Adam Scott, Juvic Pagunsan

Fifth weekend
- 28th Jan: Melody bday
- 29th Jan: ???
- 30th Jan: 

Our CEO nuggets of wisdom

1. How do we assess people?
Who has leadership skills?
- Followership!Do people follow you?
- Ability to take action early and make corrections along the way.
- Ability to solve problem!
- Find out who pays the bills!
- Are they leaving the place better when they find it?
- Building for the future.
- Willing to change.
- Consistency of behavior and persistency over time.
- Honest with his/her score.
- Your job as a parent is to listen, not solve the problem!


2. Whats the best advise given to you?
- No advise is the best advise. Son, its your career, work it out.

3. Are you stressed? No. I'm accused of a carrier of stress not sufferer of stress.

4. NOT A BIG FAN of hype! Because it is HYPE!!

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