2017 February and March

Wow, its been 2 months since I last posted in this site. Anyway, whats going on?

@ the family side:
1. Brought my son and wife to a quick overnight trip to nearby country for a change.
2. Celebrated my wif'es bday on a good round of golf and dinner with friends last Jan.
3. Similarly celebrated mine with awesome company 1st week of march
4. Bought a watch for my wife for valentines gift.

@ the personal side
1. My golf gear experiment of finding which ones would shoot me a good score is finally coming to a close.  Bought a new TP mills putter, TM ATV 56 wedge to get me out of bunker trouble, CB Titleist irons as well!
2. And, Im back to my old TM R1 driver and TM R11 and R9 woods.
3. Added work on the side focusing on my DMMMSU H/S batch projects of which I was nominated to lead.
4. Bought low end swiss watch to add to my collection

@ work end
1. Biggest chunk of my time is spent formulating, honing, polishing the goal and initiative I would  lead this year.
2. Initiating 0 error project across all of my company and supplier base!

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!!

2017 Blog theme

What are contents that people find interesting to read?

Australia (Sydney) Trip Dec 2016

Golf, travel, food, shopping, sleep. Repeat. Thats the theme of our 2016 Holiday! Every cent is worth it!!

2017 BBC report on Denims

Amazing how this invention by a man to serve the need of miners took off and gave the world a better view on a product and solving problems. The 3 areas discussed by BBC radio focused on:

2016 Year in Review - Finding ones happy place

As humans, it is important for us to find a place where we find HAPPINESS..

Here is my list-
1. Seeing nature and its beauty, power and might,
2. Music, esp those that uplift the human spirit and triumph good over evil
3. Sports and the attraction to push oneself to the limit
4. My work, and the recognition it will bring if I do a good one.
5. Reading a good book to give me hope, to dream and to visualize what could be

Others find happiness in making people laugh or cry. Most in seeing their loved ones success. Whatever it is, finding the happy place and the happy state of mind and heart is vital to a prosperous living.

We all must pass this world once, what it is that we do good to ourselves, to our family, to our community, lets do it now, for we shall never pass this way again.

What and where is your happy place? 

Career plans

People ask me did you plan your career? I said no?

But looking back, I realized that

1. I read extensively on becoming a manager

2. I am now doing what i have read

Don't under estimate the mind power!

You are what you read!

Test blog

Got the new Iphone 7 this October 2017 and testing some new Blog apps!