The last time I visited the Jurong Bird Park was about 10 years ago. Last week, I visited it again and this time with my friend and former colleague, Eunis. We spent the whole day exploring the bird park starting at about 10 AM through to around 5 PM. I was knackered by the time I was home but utterly satisfied.

Today, on this Friday, I ended the chapter on my conventional work-life. My initial plan was to enter into early retirement to play full-time—to focus on my personal projects and interests. My employer, though, has a better idea and because of that, I will be entering into an interesting phase of redesigned work where I get to do both: play and work.

My T.I.T.A., short for Topics I Think About, is getting longer. As at today, I have 192 entries in the list that I have been maintaining. My top 10 topics are:[...]

–Tim Ferriss always seems to ask the best questions: What would this look like if it were easy? How will you know if you don’t experiment? What would less be like? The one that hit me the hardest, when I was maybe 25, was “What do you do with your money?” The answer was “Nothing, really.” OK, so why try so hard to earn lots more of it?

The passage above I stole from Ryan Holiday in his blog post "33 Things I Stole From People Smarter Than Me on the Way to 33."

Sambal the Red Typewriter has been with me for almost two weeks now.

10 days to be exact. I started a series of Quotes I’m Pondering working very closely with Sambal.

It looks like the coronavirus is not going anywhere anytime soon, so I've braced myself for impact and for more self-love. In addition to the personal mini library I've built in Singapore (yay, books!), I also thought of other ways to amuse myself.