Financial life after Cancer

Dear all,  Last Monday, it was to my dismal to learn that my aunt had passed away in the early morning during my work with my consultant. My aunt had been the one who fostered me when my parents were working since I was 3 months old. I only went home at the age of 5 and visited them for a short holiday once a while when I was in my school days. We continued to gather during the Chinese New Year and the Christmas Seasons. I had been busy with all the work and to recuperate from my thyroid cancer treatment so my connections with my relatives were not the strongest last year. Made worse by my stress at work. Last November, during my Radioactive Iodine medication which requires me to be isolated from the senior citizens, my eight aunt died (yes, my dad came from a very big family in the mid 40s.) So I had lost two aunts in a span of seven months. It was a big blow for me, much worse for my dad. He would take the news worse than me as he spend more time with both his sisters.  My d...

 Dear all,   I went to the inclusive career fair held at Raffles Place Wework Office on 21 Jun 2025.  While the career fair was held for LGBTQ in mind, I registered to go to the fair with the intentions to find out if there are any job opportunities for people with conditions such as cancer survivors, cancer patients or people who need special care (i.e. dialysis).   I went in with an open mind not knowing what to expect. I waited patiently at 9.50am and was surprised to see many people waiting patiently for the registration for the events. There was security check and the security personnel were very pleasant and professional in their job. I waited patiently for my turn for the registration. The organizer was very efficient in the registration.   I was surprised to see many of the famous companies in the fair such as Apple, Citi group, Air BnB, Property Guru and Stan Chart. There was even a company called The Standard, a boutique hotel just started op...

Dear all,  The world seems to be going mad with the riots plus mad actions from Donald Trump and the crisis in the middle east.  The world seems to be in panic. There will be some gloating from the people who wanted to see the end of America domination. USA is a global partner in trading and most of us will have some investment in US. If they are going down, it will affect everyone even the Chinese.  While we are concern, we do not panic. Like what i always said, we should always invest in good or bad time. Do not allocate the fund based on what you think the market condition will be in the next few months or years. Go on dollar cost averaging on a constant manner. If you are investing at least $1,000 a month, continue to do so. You may want to increase it along the way when you have a bit of extra fund. Personally I would invest at least $1,000 per month into the income funds that I am investing on. If I do have a little more, I will put in more without compromising my d...

Dear all,  With the tariff war looming to a strange ending, most of my investment managed to recover and grow for the month of May.  It is almost mid month when I finally get the confirmation of dividend of Multi-Sector Income fund May 2025 Dividend Received Multi-Sector Income Fund - $521.75 US Income and Growth Fund - $527.32 SYFE Pimco Fund - $68.24 Trust Income Fund - $5.20 Total Dividend Received - $1,122.51 There is a slight increase of $0.45 dividend earning. This is a surprise considered that I invested over $1,000 into SYFE Pimco Fund. I did a check with the SYFE administrative. I was told that I invested after the dividend was declared and calculated hence, my investment was not taken into consideration when the dividend is calculated. May 2025 Investment  Total Investment amount  made for May 2025 - $1,220  I had invested $1,220 into SYFE Pimco Fund to continue my strategy to reduce my reliance on Multi-Sector Income Fund and US Income and Growth Fund...