2015 Review

Jan - Rainie was born!
Feb - Free from HDB loan!
Mar -
Apr - First business trip to Beijing & Shenzhen. First Trip to Czech Republic, Prague. Joined TI as part time coach
May - First business trip to Delhi
Jun - First TI coaching assignment in Malaysia
Jul -
Aug - Crashed and completed Cebu 703. Family Retreat at Sunway lagoon
Sep -
Oct - Conducted highly successful APJ partner conference. Awesome Family holiday in Sydney
Nov - First visit to Orlando and Miami. Completed Swim Expo Asia 8.35km swim. First Business trip to Taiwan
Dec - First trip to Tokyo with Ryan and Shan. Completed my 14th StanChart Marathon.


The not so nice stuff about 2015:

• Bike crash at Cebu 703
• First time spending my birthday away from the whole family - felt really bad and lonely
• Spending too much time away from home, resulting in Ryan telling me to go "home" (to the swimming pool) during bed time

Key events for in 2016:

• Co-investment in the swim school in Malaysia 
• Taking over SG Swim school local operations as a part timer
• Spending more time in Japan and China to grow the channel business more rapidly
• Busselton 703
• Phuket 703

Reviewing my 2015 checklist:

• Pick up new skills (Any of interest) - Pretty good mileage with this, turning the swimming skills into business opportunity!
• Family vacation travels - Australia trip with the family was awesome. The Sunway lagoon retreat could have been better if I wasn't injured, but it was nonetheless a good getaway for the whole family.
• Complete 2 x 70.3 - Completed only 1. Given the busy schedule that I was running for my day job and TI part time coaching and training, there wasn't any possibility to squeeze an additional race anyway. To compensate, will do two in 2016 to get ready for a full IM in 2017
• IPPT Gold again (Done!!)
• Career Progression - New role (Done!!)
• Write up long term Sales consultancy business plan - Had some interesting ideas about this when I was giving some counseling to Dennis. Instead of running the Sales consultancy business alone, it may be more worthwhile and substantial to be able to pull in our network of successful Sales people to exponentially widen the sales credentials of the entire team (which can be on project-basis), instead of just building up my own sales skills over 10+ years. This will be a long term project though. KIV while I build up the sports business.
• Improve stock portfolio - this is where I actually fluffed up. Even though I can better understand and read the markets. It is after going through the lessons and subsequently applying the skills myself, then it was evident that my interest isn't really in trading. Stocks was just an investment vehicle for me to find an avenue to possibly grow my money. Looking at 2016, the opportunity to invest in the sports business, and another opportunity to invest in Bro's VC business, I may start to divest my cash positions from stocks and just use purely CPF SRS and possibly CPFIS for stock investment. 

StanChart 42km Race Report
Totally forgot about writing this, as the results was awful
Think I took around 5.27 to complete

I guess the preparations for this year was worse than last year. Only managed to clock roughly a 10km run just within the month before the run.
Was deliberately going slow for the first half of the run since I did not train, so probably going slow and keeping my legs for the second half will work better for me, but I could only last till around 23km before I started walking for the rest of the race.
Wasn't planning on going sub-5, so I really took it easy again and just targeted to complete the run without injuries.
Live to fight another day.