I scribe ; this is one of the things which define me.

Lovely Lunch Hosted by Gurdeep at SSC Jade Phoenix Chinese Restaurant

From Left : Gurdeep Singh, Faisal Alsagoff, Yong Wee Loon, Alan Symons,Tom Gan

Tomorrow I will officially join the Senior Citizen's Club. Although I am not looking forward  to watching and experiencing my body wither first hand, I believe, I can mitigate and lessen the deterioration of my body and mind by doing the following :

a) Have a regular exercise regimen of at least 5 days a week of either brisk walking, cycling, karate and some running. I have been rather tardy of late, and I want to remind myself never to let slip the aerobic exercise till the forseeable future.

b) Playing lots of mental games, such as Sudoku, Chess, mental mathematics and daily arithmetic (such as calculating the costs of purchases from the petrol station, foodstalls and the 7 -11.

c) Having as wide a circle of family and friends whom I can interact with 

d) Doing meaningful activities such as volunteerism, leadership in clubs and even mentorship to undergraduates.

e) Reading, writing, playing music as well as learning new languages while travelling.

Writing is one such passion which has withstood the test of time. Testament to this, is the fact that this blog has been around for 14 years plus and with views of coming to 150,000 it is still going strong. I am amazed people care to read what I have to put up in cyberspace, as I hardly am the greatest observer of geopolitics, sports. I only manage a small business and try to make as many trips overseas for business and leisure, to widen my perspective of the world. 

On that note, I am truly thankful to my maker for me making this far. 

While I am actively running my business, I am planning to slowly extricate myself from the day to day activities and move into business development, most probably in a foreign country as this will be the new 'target' for my SME in the next year or two.

I am very blessed and grateful I still have the good health, the mental faculties, the family and friend support and the financial knowhow to continue what I am doing - at least for the forseeable future.  I have to thank my wonderful and supportive wife who has been my greatest critic and bellweather for many things on a day to day basis.  

So,moving into the 60s is not such a scary proposition after all.