I was taking a 2 week break from work during the children school holiday. I was grateful that we're able to spend time with our extended families. I was enjoying the break that I even forgot to look at my portfolio and updated my blog ... :-). I learnt that the greatest blessings a man can have is not fame, fortune or long live, BUT a loving God and loving families. It was sad to read how successful men and women ended their own life, eventhough they seemed to have everything according to the worldly standard.   So here is the portfolio update for both May and June. Excluding the monthly fresh fund contributions, the portfolio performance remain flat for 2018. May was a bumper dividends month with $1,446.41 received. I received another $817.51 of dividends in June, which brought the total YTD dividends to $4,393.77, 9% lower compared ......