All that Glitters

 The family went to Tanaka Gold some time back at Ginza for some initial due diligence. 1000g cost 6.8m yen which is much higher than google result at 6.1m yen. 500g was almost 50% but still there is a small premium. The weight below is even worse.

There is a need to figure out these discrepancies. There is a need to buy a safe too! The goal is to get 1500g over time at around 10m yen.

Things to figure out:

1. Why the huge discrepancy, to track it over time, does it fall to say 5% instead of current over 10%. Need some excel warrior to help.

2. Does the price differ at various locations in Japan. To call hotline and ask.

3. Can we bring the gold out of Japan. To call hotline and ask.

4. What you do do with the personal information (eg my number card). To call hotline and ask.

5. Background of the company - need desktop research.

For the future with QE Infinity. We should buy some physical gold!

Mee Pok

Yesterday we cooked mee pok to satisfy our craving. Most Singapore food can be found: Ba Kut Teh, Chilli Crab, Chicken Rice and even Prawn Noodle. But Mee Pok has been super tough.

So we decided to cook ourselves. This will be the first of many! It was a bit too salty because we got the balachan wrong. We will want to perfect this dish.

Ingredient list

1. Liver
2. Marinated mince pork
3. Marinated mushroom
4. Satsumage
5. Dried small prawn
6. Small negi
7. Lettuce
8. Noodle
9. Wanton
10. Awabi

Sauces
1. Dark soy sauce
2. Goma oil
3. Ketchup
4. Fish oil
5. Balachan
6. Knorr cube - for soup

Mee pok base
1. 2 tsp dark soy sauce
2. 2 tsp fish oil
3. Ketchip
4. Balachan

Lessons learnt: need to buy new drainers. Marinated stuff for 12 hours. Create soup pot with satsumage (replacement for fishball). Till the next try!

Sunday - Mother's Day

Didnt go for the run but did more exercise. Weight at 75kg.

Wife cooked good coroke today. Had a craving for mee pok. Need to find it in Tokyo!

Need to wake up early tomorrow!

Sat, 5th weekend of lockdown.

Walkabout today, good outing but did not achieve much. Bought a book on Rolex watch. Always fascinating.

Need to brainstorm w CCC and SK about Bloomberg for individuals. This will actually be quite an important task.

Lockdown fatigue is getting to everyone. This is the 5th weekend of lockdown and the first after the extension.

Wed 2 x Mindfulness

Joined Mindfulmess today.

Play D&D with boy and spent some quality time.

Exercise on Runtastic also, more than 10 exercises now.

Need to work hard tomorrow. Practise speaking.

Need to Break Out

To think carefully before talking, give the audience the key message and build gravitas. This could be the most impt skill to pick up in the next two years. Learn to be more perspectively honest.

Before the Flood and Bertrand Russell

Watched Before the Flood for the second time without realizing I have already watched the full movie once. But got a better understanding and resolved to eat less beef. Climate change could really be the biggest issue of our time.

Got to know about Bertrand Russell. GKS biography mentioned this British philosopher who is good at logic, math and arguments. Too difficult to understand for now.

Start of a good weekend

Managed a few accomplishment this weekend. Hope to continue this momentum and improve.

1. Did a zoom chat with classmates from Primary School. This was something that was not done before leaving Singapore. Finally managed to do it in a different form but satisfying form. 8 schoolmates joined for 1.5 hours. Had a good chat, picked up on everyone's lives. Good to have done it. A bit coming to full circle because I managed to do it for Primary School, Sec 1-2 and army. Needless to say, Sec 3-4 and JC (two most frequently met groups). Japan schoolmates have also met frequently. So this gathering with primary schoolmates really meant something.

2. We also celebrated a good birthday. 13 years on. It was good. Played more D&D (see map above) and exercised a bit more. Tomorrow we will be going to Costco again to stock up. This is a good chance to list the things to do:

i) study 1-2 stock names, this is impt.
ii) read the newspapers
iii) prepare for Monday

Bonus action will be to keep reading the Nausica series. Cheers!