Wow.
What can I say.
I thought this was already a good thing coming and was expecting a small nice little add-on ‘bonus’ from the company.
Didn’t expect it to be so much.
This is great and I can add it to my retirement goal amount.
Hopefully I get there sooner rather than later!
Definitely feels great and thankful.
Now thinking of where to park all of that and hopefully not gamble it away senselessly ;P
Is Perth a good place for retirement?
IMHO it is great at least six months of the year, autumn and winter time.
Temperature is 10-20°C which is VERY NOICE.
So it’s about whether I’ve got a nice place to stay while I’m here.
Buying a property incurs large sums and many say it is a waste of if I don’t rent it out and collect rent to pay for my taxes and other miscellaneous upkeep costs.
Renting might be an option.
Hmm.
Also I think the AUD is waaaaaaay undervalued against the SGD. Right now at 1 AUD buys only 0.83 SGD. So everything I spend here is at an almost 20% discount. Yummy!
Slowly becoming a fan of Australia as a potential home away from home.
This is gold.
Get your popcorn out people!
Here is a comprehensive timeline of the escalating feud between Elon Musk and Donald Trump, beginning on June 3, 2025, and continuing through June 6, 2025:
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Trump-Musk Feud: Full Timeline (June 3–6, 2025)
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June 3, 2025
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June 5, 2025
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June 6, 2025
🧾 Summary
How do you rationalize Trump?
How do you hate a guy so much yet his antics are finally becoming a little more predictable and you are making truckloads of money off the stock markets because of him?
To a point where you feel bad for not pouring EVEN MORE money to make even more money?
Does that even make sense?
Feeling conflicted.
Got another small windfall last month.
Mini yay!
The first thing I did was dump a small little part of it into our end of year family holiday flight tickets hahahahahaha.
Now to save or invest the rest of it.
One key chalk I’ve also recently completed, and very proud of it, is to accumulate a LARGE chunk of AUD foothold. As I’ve written before, I strongly believe the AUDSGD rate at current 0.84 is very undervalued and at some point in the future we should go back to parity. I hope this pays off.
My next big chalk is to accumulate Bitcoin. This is in progress.
Now what else should I do with my windfall?
Hmmm…
So the PAP won by quite the landslide again. Nothing much has changed from the 2020 outcome.
1. Singaporeans are tired of rubbish opposition. Singaporeans look for quality candidates, this applies to PAP candidates too see point (7)
2. WP is establishing serious GRC strongholds (Aljunied and SK are not even close fights anymore).
3. Tampines and Andre Low getting NCMP = 12 quality opposition voices in parliament.
4. Punggol and East Coast WP teams good fight and if they stay on, will dig roots no matter any gerrymandering claims.
5. This new term we should look forward to see if WP can go from strength to strength to attract even more candidates to challenge in more parts of the island in 2030.
6. Also all eyes on new PAP candidates with more scrutiny than ever whether they are up to the mark
7. Most importantly, NCM vs Andre Low showed that incompetence vs quality new comer can really be a close fight!
8. All winning candidates this term will definitely be judged with even more scrutiny than ever in our history, in 5 years time
Majulah Singapore!
Having a lot of deeper conversations with my kids recently especially about them growing up, what they should study, what they should aspire to work as, what their life goals are.
Yet the way I see it, it is their curiosity towards how I have succeeded in my career and my own learnings and mistakes, that help keep myself honest about my finances.
I want to earn more money to live up to their expectations of how rich I am.
I want to invest well enough so I have something to leave for them, and gift to them.
I want to invest in enough stocks so I can talk to them about what they will ultimately inherit from me.
I want to earn so much money that I have the liberty to pay for their school fees, even when they qualify for overseas schooling.
I want to earn so much money that I can realistically walk them through large investments I make and they get to experience these processes first hand through me.
I want to earn so much money that I can gift them investment accounts that they can invest themselves and see the pitfalls themselves.
I want to lose less money so I do not feel the aches of losing money that could’ve gone towards my goals for them stated above.
I want to lose less money so I do not label myself a compulsive gambler.
These are the things that keep me honest with my finances and investments.
I really want to do and be better for them both.
Learnt on my last CPH trip that this brand is among the more expensive wines in the world.
Definitely worth considering an investment.
I went crazy.
Just threw money at NASDAQ KO Options on IG Markets.
Ended up losing 18K.
Such a damn shit stain to a stellar year in profits so far.
Damn man.
Dunno what got over me seriously.
Argh this is really so damn frustrating!
Wow.
Second one for the year.
Basically a reverse rage is that I make a HUGE pile of money trading/gambling, then proceed to lose it back to the markets BUT still end up in positive territory.
This is super irritating and feeds even more so to the what could have been scenario like if I hadn’t bothered touching my trading with stupid itchy fingers after my jog, I would’ve been waaaaaaaaaay positive.
Now I’m just a little positive.
Damn sad.
This time round I had an early lucky session with the NAS100 index and was up about 20K, then itchy fingers after it to go into negative territory of -5K, and finally came out positive with a +4K.
This Trump and his tariffs.
Absolutely ridiculous yet so good for gambling in the markets.
Sigh.