Atas Sunday breakfast and some nagging.

Too early. What? Woke up at 7am today, a Sunday morning. Too early. Yawn.

I tried to go back to sleep but it is a state of "I am tired and want to sleep but not tired enough to really fall asleep now". I don't know if you know what I am talking about but it is frustrating.

Anyway, I woke up early to have breakfast with my family. We went to town for breakfast and to celebrate Father's Day.

Here are a few photos of my breakfast today:

Broccoli, cauliflower, waffle, hashbrown, soon kueh, carrot cake and baked beans.

Porridge with peanuts, spring onion and shallots.

Fruit yogurt from Germany.

A bit different from the usual stuff you would expect me to blog about, I guess. Atas or not? Surprise!

I gave my dad a big red packet, the second one this year. First one was for his birthday earlier in the year. I gave my mom a big red packet for Mother's Day too. However, no matter how big the red packets are, they will never be enough for all that they have given me.

I also gave my dad a bit (or it could have felt like a lot to him) of nagging about being prudent with money. Personal finance is not one of his strengths. Well, I like to think that I nag because I care. That was what my mom used to tell me when I was a boy. Mom's fault. LOL.

OK, I am going to try going back to sleep. Yawn.

Enjoy your Sunday!

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Invest X Congress: Closing thoughts and photos.

My opinion? I think I could have done better.

After my maiden attempt, I feel that I am a better blogger than I am a public speaker. I think there were many things that I missed out on delivering but I guess it worked out in the end because I went overtime even though I truncated my presentation.


Courtesy of Song Stonecold. Read his guest blog: here.

However, I take comfort in the fact that my blog is available for reading twenty four seven. So, if anyone in the audience would like to follow up on what I said during my segment at the event, they could do so anytime they like. Remember though, I am only talking to myself here in my blog. Also, don't take what I say as the gospel truth.

If I offended anyone at the event, please accept my apologies. Sometimes, jokes have a way of being misunderstood, especially when we cannot read the facial expressions of the speaker. My fault. I mean how could you have read my facial expressions? Oh, a very big "sorry" to the video guy. I waved him away and hit his camera on the way in. Lucky the video cam wasn't damaged. -.-"

If I disappointed anyone, I crave your indulgence. I promise to try to do better in future (if I do actually do something like this again). To people who sent me photos of male Korean actors imagining I look like them, I am afraid I won't be able to do better. Plastic surgery is painful in more ways than one. -.-"

A big "thank you" to everyone who turned up at the event and also a big "thank you" to everyone who could not attend but gave me encouragement anyway. I appreciate the kindness.

Also, the organisers passed me a bag of books which they said a reader wanted to give to me:

I don't know who you are but thank you for the kind gesture. I really appreciate it. Now, to brush up on my Chinese. I only got a B3 for my "O" Level Chinese. -.-"

The journey towards financial freedom is made less dreary when we have good company. :)

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