I grew up watching The Simpsons and today at the age of 40+, watching it remains to be my guilty pleasure. Long live The Simpsons. D'oh!

Extreme heat is the default heat setting in Singapore. So it boggles the mind whenever I see dog owners walking their Huskies or Chow Chows. Their dogs look miserable in our sweltering weather.

Surely it's time for Americans to say, "fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me"?

Last year, I got a work phone. I turn it off after work and on weekends. This creates a boundary since I cannot control colleagues' respect for personal time. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Weekend vibes. The library.

It was a heavy week at work. Thank god it's the weekend.

Free upgrade, free breakfast, and late checkout beat novelty. In the current economy, most, if not all, consumers will chose value over bells and whistles. www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article...

Man, I'm really feeling my age these days. There's nothing I love more than just chilling at a coffeeshop, sipping my kopi-o kosong, with the uncles chatting away in the background – it's like perfect background noise.

Ruthless prioritisation is not a productivity hack. It's a leadership philosophy. It means being willing to name the trade-off out loud: if we build this, we delay that by 6 months. Leaders who skip that convo aren't being optimistic. They're being dishonest: with their teams, and with themselves.

"We were conned by the tech companies on Y2K. I think we're being conned by the same actors now on AI". - things heard in my boardroom. 🫠

AI isn’t the problem. Using it to avoid fixing fundamentals is. So is calling dysfunction “efficiency” and outsourcing bad decisions to machines.

The best thing about hanging out with people my age or older is that everyone wants to be home before 10 pm. 10pm is like 3am GenZ time.

AI adoption reveals the limits of businesses' operating models built for a different form of intelligence. When the underlying architecture is optimised for control, consistency and managerial mediation, any new capability gets bent back toward those constraints.

Sambal but not spicy? Blasphemy! Nasi padang with no nasi? Double blasphemy!

Blessed Resurrection Sunday ❤️

Microsoft Teams should come with a health warning.

Hosted our overseas friends and took them around the island. I was appalled by the low service standards in our country that I suffered a 2nd-hand embarrassment. Yikes - we've got a long way to go as a society.

Bye pesky flyers! www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/pr...

I've never watched a single episode of Single's Inferno. Just like how I've never watched a single episode of Game of Throne. I remembered vacationing in Dubrovnik and many GOT fans were cooing about the places or the castles idk and i had to nod along politely, feigning interest.

"You let people ride over our heads; we went through fire and water, but you brought us to a place of abundance."

Went tile shopping yesterday and discovered a world I hadn’t known existed—variety not just in patterns, but in materials. My interior designer’s eyes lit up as he explained each choice for my new home, making me wonder what it feels like to love one’s work so deeply. I've never had it.

Man Utd came out top in the Manchester Derby. Who would have thunk it?

Better a dry crust with peace and quiet than a house full of feasting, with strife. Even fools are thought wise if they keep silent, and discerning if they hold their tongues.

Amazon managers are now expected to hall monitors. *slow clap* www.businessinsider.com/amazon-flags...

One of the quirks in Singapore society that I never embrace is the usage of the term up/downgrading when it comes to property, e.g., moving from public to private housing = upgrading; from a 5-room flat to a 3-room flat = downgrading.

Death, taxes, and #ManchesterUnited sacking their manager mid-season.

Remember that news don't travel unless they're bad news. For the most part, at least.

"Are you not of more value than this little lily?"

What drained you in 2025? How can you have less of that this year? What energised you in 2025? How can you have more of that this year?

I found out that my mobile phone has reached its EOL. This means there's no more software and security update, which, according to Reddit, makes my phone more prone to security issues. Should I just get a dumb flip phone next?

"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes" - Oscar Wilde.

2026, let's go!

Such are the paths of all who go after ill-gotten gain; it takes away the life of those who get it.

The FIRE movement. "FI" is arguably achievable. But I struggle with the "RE". (1) How early is early? (2) What do I do when I retire? Do I join uncles in kopitiams drinking beers?

Earlier this year, I removed my "Caller ID" from my phone plan. It doesn't matter who rings me. I never pick up my phone, and most of the time, I put my phone on a flight mode.

"Did you study for your degree just to spend most of your time on slides?"

It's better to draw your own boundaries than to have someone else do it for you.

Retail shops in Singapore. 25 Dec: 🎶 We wish you a Merry Christmas... 🎵 26 Dec: 🧧 GongXi GongXi Ni Ya 🍊

Finally, good pizza in #Singapore

Frohe Weinachten und ein neues gutes Jahr! 🎄🌟✨️❤️

One day you're young and trendy. The next you go, "What's the deal with Pickeball? How is that a sport? What's with all the ruckus?"

Annual general reminder to the public: If you're doing your last min Christmas shopping this weekend, pls be nice to the retail workers you see on the floor. They're likely to have been working overtime since Black Friday, and they're missing their own holidays to serve you. Be kind.

Do not add your coworkers on social media. Do not add your coworkers on social media. Do not add your coworkers on social media.

"The human spirit can endure in sickness, but a crushed spirit who can bear?"

I am clearing my PTO this few weeks. Went to the library alone. Read a book. Drank coffee. Cooked dinner. I enjoy a slow and quiet life.

Twenty years ago, everyone was obsessed with Millennials. Every brand wanted to crack the "Millennial code." Now it's Gen Z's turn in the spotlight. But blaming an entire generation for subdued retail spending? That's just lazy analysis and marketing.

Besides running A/B testing and measuring the uplift from the test vs. control group over a period of time, while assigning a % of confidence level - a perfect attribution model is a unicorn... it looks pretty on a story, but it doesn't exist.

You can sprint. You can run a marathon. But you can't sprint a marathon. That's how you burn yourself out.

"The customer is always right, but they might not be the right customer for our business."