Month: January 2017

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!

2017 Mens collection

Gentlemen have pen peeves for mens collection items! Heres mine as of Jan 2017

1. Watch collection (15 watches as of 2017!)


a. Dive Watch                                 Year bought
OMEGA Seamaster    – $5000        March 2015 
Orient Mako                  -$250        Sept 2014

b. Sports Watch/Chrono
Tag Heur                     – $2000        March 2013
Apple watch                 – $650         Dec 2015

Garmin s20.                  -$299          October 2016   
Garmin swim                -$250         April 2016
Swatch Chrono              -$270        Feb 2017

Gshock.                         -$150        June 2015             gift to paolo

Timex ironman.             -$125        October 2016
Timex expedition           -$65          July 2016
Casio calculator              -$30         March 2015
Casio Compass             -$78           October 2016    

c. Field Watch
Hamilton Khaki           – $500         March 2015         gift to paolo

Luminox                       -$350         March 2015          gift to pocholo

d. Pilot Watch
Aviator brown              – $350           March 2015
Aviator black                -$330           May 2016

e. Dress Watch/Fashion 
Longines Black            -$350           March 2017
Tissot brown                 -$350          June 2016
Citizen eco drive.          -$239          Jan 2017         

Bering                           -$150           March 2015     gift papa
Seiko Black leather       -$150          March 2015
Seiko Brown leather     -$150          Feb 2016
Seiko Brown leather     -$150          Feb 2016          gift to paolo
Swatch white                 -$100         Feb 2017           gift to mel
Swatch Valentines         -$200          Feb 2017
Seiko Dress metal         -$180          March 2017
Swatch Field watch      -$180          Feb 2017  

2. Travel and Personal Bags Collection
Tumi.                                              -$300

Braun and Buffel carry on             – $350
Wilson leather brown.                   – $300
Eminent carry on                           – $150

Swiss polo carry on                         – $80
Zara brown duffell                           -$80

Samsonite backpack                        – $80
Under Armour backpack                 – $80Aldo brown leather laptop case     – $150
Condotti laptop bag                       – $150
Muji laptio                                       – $40

3. Pen Collection
Waterman                                      $120

Mont blanc.                                   $200

4. Shoes Collection


Golf sports SPORTS
  – 2 Nike (white rubber and white leather)
  – 2 addidas (green rubber and white leather)
  – 2 Foot joy  ( 1 white leather and 1 white red)
  – 1 Crocs ( 1 green)
  – 1 katana (1 leather)
  – 1 Puma (1 orange)

OFFICE AND EVERYDAY
   – 2 Black leather (bata and vince paul)
   – 2 brown leather (aldo and POA)
   – 1 New Balance
   – 3 Suede ( brown, blue, red)
   – 2 running ( Newton and zoot)
   – 1 walking suede (pedro)
   – 2 d and c brown and black office

5. Belt Collection
   – 1 brown levis
   – 2 H and M leather
   – 1 Uniqlo
   – 1 black OG leather
   – 1 black Goldlion leather

   – 2 rip curl (white and gray)

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 Priorities

I put in my FB personal note to target 5 point plan for this year.

1. Think and cultivate the habit of selling more ideas to people.
2. Think and cultivate the habit of selling more solutions to problems, no matter how trivial they are.
3. Learn and experience life more by going out of the comfort zone.
4. Buy useful items and ditch useless ones.
5. Buy more assets and invest in them. Stop buying ‘liabilities’…