We had a busy Saturday yesterday as we drove out in the morning to Orchard for baby and personal errands. It was tough even with the confinement nanny coming along with us. The preparation of baby stuff we need to bring along, timing of the baby feed right before we head out and having to find a place to feed the baby outside.
And simple things can seem so much more difficult to do when you have a baby in tow. We were so tired by the time we returned home in the afternoon even though we only went out for a few hours. It’s going to take us a lot more practice to get the hang of this but we have to keep trying. Anyway, we just stayed at home today since we already went out yesterday.
The baby was fussing a lot more this weekend too, which meant the feeds in the day didn’t go well. The night feeds are better now that the confinement nanny is using bottle feeding with newborn teat. But she is also running down the excess breastmilk stored in the fridge faster because the baby is feeding more now.
Another problem to solve if my wife wants to start heading out. Don’t think she’s going to like being holed up at home just taking care of the baby much longer. We can’t imagine going through this without the support infrastructure we have put in place. But it seems like there continue to be points of improvement to be made.
Anyway, just a quick note on our investments so we don’t just keep talking about baby stuff. In 2015, we subscribed to $3,000 of the Oxley MTN 5%b20191105 (SGX:BJFZ) corporate bonds. It’s a small investment in a riskier corporate bond and the 5% pa interest payments have served us well. These corporate bonds have since been redeemed on 5 Nov 2019 and we have received our capital back along with the last interest payment then.
We will continue to keep a look out for high yielding corporate bonds issuance to invest in. Just like the Astrea V private equity bonds back in Jun 2019. As long as the interest rate pa is above 3.50%, we can consider it. And we might start investing larger sums of money in them since the bonds component of our investment portfolio seems a bit low.