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A Roof for Living, a Roof for Freedom (September 8, 2026) When I was young, I was deeply influenced by my parents, who taught me the importance of wealth management for a decent life in Hong Kong. My mother always said it was essential to own at least two properties no matter where I eventually settled — one to live in, and the other to generate stable rental income. To this day, property investment remains a cornerstone of my assets. For many Asians, this mindset is almost instinctive: a roof over your head is security, but a second roof is freedom. I currently own several properties. Before I moved into my present home at Old Peak Road — the Feng Shui property that has brought me prosperity and wealth — I lived in Happy Valley, in an apartment facing the racecourse (pictures attached). That too was considered excellent Feng Shui. Today it provides me with steady monthly rental income. Over the years I have come to see property not merely as bricks and mortar, but as a form of quiet compounding that requires patience more than brilliance. The Happy Valley flat has weathered market cycles, interest-rate swings, and changing tenant preferences, yet it continues to pay its own way and then some. The current residence, chosen as much for its energy as for its location, has given me something rarer: a sense that the place itself is aligned with the life I want to live. Living well and investing well do not have to be separate projects.I still keep the rule my mother taught me: one home to live in, and at least one more that pays its way. That simple distinction has shaped every property I have bought. In Hong Kong where land is extremely scarce and ownership is bound up with the idea of a secure life, her advice has lasted longer than almost anything else I was told.

2026, day 238 Good morning from Asia. ‘U.S. Squeezes Iran but Avoids Targeting Its Biggest Lifeline: China’ (WSJ); ‘China defends cooperation with Iran, warns against disrupting it’ (BBG); ‘China warns US it could retaliate over Iran sanctions’ (FT); ‘Rubio tells allies U.S. shifting from strikes to sanctions on Iran’ (Axios); ‘U.S. Said to Be Returning Diplomats to Middle East Embassies’ (NYT); ‘Iran, Oman say discussed Hormuz temporary corridor, mine-clearing’ (AFP); ‘Iran says Hormuz remains closed despite Oman route deal’ (AJ); ‘New Tanker Strike in Hormuz as Iran Vows Retaliation for U.S. Economic Offensive’ (WSJ); ‘Iran is running out of money. Can Trump’s ‘economic D-Day’ force a deal?’ (Gulf News); ‘Analysis: Iraq may show how US can squeeze Iran’s trade partners’ (Reuters); ‘US envoy Barrack hails dissolution of Kurdish-led force in Syria’ (AFP); ‘Jordan’s Beijing pivot: what it really means for Israeli security’ (Ynet); ‘In rare warning, Board of Peace tells Israel to limit Gaza fire to ‘genuine’ threats’ (ToI); ‘Trump sends Saudi nuclear deal to Congress but says Riyadh must recognize Israel’ (JPost); ‘’Not going to sacrifice my life.’ Russia mobilisation fears grow’ (AJ); ‘Putin will soon order a full mobilisation. This may be his Afghan war moment’ (Telegraph); ‘CIA director travels to Moscow for secret talks’ (Telegraph) - “US tells Ukraine to halt air strikes on Russian capital as John Ratcliffe flies in on military plane”; ‘Vatican envoy, in Moscow, says Ukraine war must end urgently’ (AFP); ‘UK to warn citizens to stock up on food amid threat from climate crisis and hostile states’ (Guardian); ‘The Civil defence planning accelerated over threat from Russia’ (Telegraph); ‘Sweden revives frozen Russian assets row’ (Euractiv); ‘Trump's Arctic saber-rattling boosts Iceland's pro-EU campaign’ (Politico) - “Icelanders vote on Saturday in a referendum on resuming membership talks with the EU”; ‘Iceland could join EU by 2028, says enlargement chief’ (Euractiv); ‘Burnham faces Chagos showdown at UN’ (Telegraph); ‘Canadians are fighting for their sovereignty. Americans don’t even realize they’re in a war’ (Globe & Mail); ‘Trump Threatens to Rename Lake Ontario as Spat With Canada Escalates’ (WSJ); In geoeconomics, ‘Canada hits back with tariffs of up to 50% on US goods as trade war escalates’ (Euronews); ‘In the face of tough new tariffs, Carney doubles down on government spending’ (National Post) - “Canada needs icebreakers and electricity, but where's the plan to keep industry from fleeing?”; ‘U.S.-Canada Tariff War Jolts Korean Supply Chains’ (Business Korea); ‘US grain farmers face worst crisis in decades as Iran war sends costs spiralling’ (FT); ‘US robot curbs lay bare industry's dependence on Chinese parts’ (Nikkei Asia); ‘Nigel Farage wants to scrap GDPR for the U.K.’ (Politico); ‘Burnham mulls insolvency law shake-up to help bring utilities under public control’ (Guardian); In politics, ‘Judge issues setback to Trump administration plans to restrict mail-in ballots’ (WaPo) - “The ruling is not the final word in a fast-moving legal fight over the administration’s efforts to change voting rules before the midterms”; ‘Muslim Brotherhood networks embedded into Canadian politics, schools, report says’ (JPost); ‘Japan's PM. I'm so lonely I befriended a cockroach’ (Telegraph); ‘No immunity: how Xi’s anti-corruption fighters are zeroing in on fresh targets’ (SCMP); In markets, ‘Hong Kong’s property, financial markets face test under cross-border anti-corruption law’ (SCMP); ‘Asia's rising wealth to propel finance industry past US: report’ (Nikkei Asia); ‘Six months into Iran war, almost half of global oil flows from war zones’ (Reuters); ‘Short Squeeze in US Long Bonds Shows ‘Bessent Put’ at Work’ (BBG)

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For years, I believed a higher salary automatically meant a better life. More money. A bigger house. A nicer car. More vacations. More freedom. That was the formula. Work harder. Earn more. Upgrade your life. Simple. Then I actually lived it. I had the job with more responsibility, more pressure, more expectations, and a bigger paycheck. From the outside, it looked like success. People assumed I was doing well because the numbers on paper said I was. But what they didn't see was how exhausted I felt. I would wake up already stressed about the day ahead. My mind never switched off. Work followed me home. Even when I wasn't working, I was thinking about work. Sunday stopped feeling like a day of rest. It became a countdown to Monday. Every notification felt urgent. Every problem felt like it belonged to me. The money was better. My quality of life wasn't. Now my situation is different. The salary is lower than what many people would consider impressive. I don't have a job title that turns heads. But when I finish work, I can actually leave work behind. I can sit with family and be present. I can spend time with friends without checking emails every few minutes. I can enjoy a quiet evening without feeling guilty for not being productive. I laugh more. I sleep better. I feel lighter. And that's when I started questioning something most people never stop to think about: What if the goal isn't to make the most money possible? What if the goal is to build the best life possible? Because money absolutely matters. Anyone pretending it doesn't is being dishonest. Money pays bills. Money creates opportunities. Money provides security. Money can reduce a lot of stress. But after a certain point, every extra dollar seems to come with a question: What am I giving up in exchange for this? More income? Or more anxiety? A bigger house? Or less time at home? A higher salary? Or a life spent constantly recovering from work? That's the part nobody talks about. I still want financial freedom. I still want to own a home. I still want to earn more. But I no longer believe that chasing the highest possible income is automatically the smartest decision. Sometimes the most expensive thing you can lose is your peace of mind. So I'm curious: What's a decision you made in real life? Did you choose more money and more pressure? Or less money and more peace? And looking back now, would you make the same choice again?

Great essay from Sam Harris on the “last time” for everything (from Waking Up App) — transcribed by @bot Many here might not think highly of him any more, but he’s a clear thinker on many subjects — even if you don’t agree on politics. **Transcript — The Last Time (Sam Harris)** [0:00] I'd like you to take a moment to think about all the things in this life that you will experience for the last time. Of course, there will come a day when you will die and then everything will have been done for the last time. [0:15] But long before you die, you will cease to have certain experiences, experiences that you surely take for granted now. If you're a parent, when is the last time you will pick up your child, or tuck her into bed, or read her a story? [0:36] Our youngest daughter still says, aminals instead of animals. And though I'm a stickler for words, I am not correcting her. Each one of those is priceless. Now thinking in this way lends a poignancy to everything, even to things that you don't like. Again, let's say you're a new parent and you're getting woken up several times a night by your baby. That's brutal, but there will be a last time. And knowing that can change your experience in the moment. There's something sweet even about this experience. It's possible that you will miss this. We do everything a finite number of times, and yet we tend to take even beautiful moments for granted. And the rest of the time we're just trying to get through stuff. You're just trying to get to the end of whatever experience you're having. tim urban, who writes this wonderful blog titled @WaitButWhy, often touches this topic. He actually publishes a poster which represents 90 years of life in weeks. Each line has 52 squares, and there are 90 lines on a single page. And the scale is frankly a little alarming to contemplate. Each week is a significant piece of 90 years, and you can put your finger on the current week in your life. You can see where you are, and then of course you realize you have no assurance of how many weeks you have left. Assuming that you have 90 years, certainly 90 good years, is generally not a safe assumption. What you can know, however, is that each time you do something, pleasant or unpleasant, that is one last time you will do it. And there will come a time when you will have done something the final time. And you will rarely know when that is. For instance, I used to love to ski, and I now haven't skied in well over a decade. Will I ever ski again? I have no idea. But I can assure you that the last time I took off my skis, I was not even dimly aware of the possibility that it might be the last time, right? That I might live for many, many more years, and yet this stood a good chance of being the last time I would ever ski. When is the last time you swam in the ocean or went camping? When is the last time you took a walk just to take a walk? As you go about your day today, consider, everything you're doing is like this. Everything represents a finite opportunity to savor your life. On some level, everything is precious, and if it doesn't seem that way, I think you'll find that paying more attention can make it seem that way. Attention really is your true source of wealth, even more than time, right? Because you can waste time being distracted. So this is just to urge you to take a little more care. When you meet someone for the first time and you shake their hand, pay a little more attention. When you thank somebody for something, mean it a little more. Connect with your life. And mindfulness is the tool that allows you to do that, because the only alternative is to be lost in thought And every time you notice that you're lost, that you're distracted by a thought about the past or the future, and you come back, you are training your mind. And it may feel like an effort at first, but eventually it's like continually waking up from a dream. And ask yourself, how much effort does that take?

🍰 BrownDust2 | Lydia’s Birthday 🎉 Happy Birthday to Lydia, the rookie spearman of the new mercenary group! 🎉 “You came at the perfect time! Could you take a look at my journal? See? I wrote ‘Best Day of My Life’ in huge letters right here! Until last year, I was such a fool that I spent my birthday training without even realizing what day it was... But this year, I circled it on the calendar and waited for today! Thanks to your trust, I managed to finish my training with this old wooden spear... And more than anything, I’m being congratulated by someone very precious to me. I’m so, so happy! Thank you!” #HappyBirthday# #Lydia#