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Saturday, January 24, 2009

What To Do In Turbulent Times


Keep life simple

- Keep fit, eat enough and sleep well

Work
- If you have a job, excel & do alittle more such that not having you in the Company is your boss's losses
- If you are not employed then be your own boss; how about setting up a Job Exchange (JEx). There are millions who complain about their jobs. Help them find the ideal job for a fee. In short, be entrepreneurial
- If you just loss your job, stop complaining. Do what you always wanted to do but was unable because you were working... be it travel, helping at the hospice, learning to cook, picking up guitar lessons, bungee-jumping... just do it

Family
- Keep the relationship warm and encourage each other; when was the last time you (& your family) camp by the sea and enjoy the breeze or walk the nature reserve (other than army training!)

Friends
- Do not just sms & email; a call or visit will revitalize the friendship and keep opportunities flowing

Love
- Care & share; don't be a parasite by taking and never giving. You will be a pest and can never receive the best

Money
- If you don't have money, never despair. Go find it; money don't grow on trees but if you care to slow down alittle, think deeper you will see that opportunities are indeed all around you

Education
- Education is not about paper chase; we learn as we grow/age. It is about securing a least resistance path towards success with peace of mind. A frustrated scholar is not an educated person as his mind is filled with "bull in a china shop"

Blame
- Don't blame the whole world except yourself for any setback. Blaming don't translate into solution; identify the problem and cause and make rectification; you will always find solutions if you know the cause

World Order
- If its everyone's problem, then its universal equality; you are not alone! Someday, daylight will shine and darkness cleared. We all live for a purpose be it sad or glad; lets live happily and healthily... you have a choice

Fear Not
- Do your best & leave the rest. Tomorrow will come but live your best today. In GOD we trust.
(if you don't belief in GOD, belief in yourself - your future lies in your hands)

Whether you are rich or poor, keep your life simple.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Organ Transplants - To Pay Or Not To Pay

To pay for organ transplant, especially to live donors, is sensitive and there will never be an absolute solution acceptable to all.

However, a 'win-win' solution can be achieved without Man playing the role of God.

I am against organ trading per se but if a sufferer can find a willing and matching donor for a fee without coercion and undue influence, the consummation as such could result in less suffering for both parties; the sick regains his health while the donor receive economic assistance. To those who are adamantly against 'paid' donors, please do empathize with the sufferers - the pain is suffered by both, the patients and their caregivers. The brutal outcome, at times, is that the caregiver dies before the patient due to stress overload, age, commitment financial demands and a host of other issues combined.

Let us not assume that the donor is always a poor person; he could be someone who is altruistic, sincere and willing! The aid that he receive goes towards covering his medical costs for a deed well-done. Why should he be made to suffer financially when he helps a fellow man?

On a similar issue, where organs are harvested from a decease under HOTA, it is commendable if the deceased family do receive some form of financial assistance too. The money can go towards paying for his funeral/burial expenses and to provide for his living family members just as an insurance policy does.

Payment as such is not compulsory but for those recipients who are willing and financially-able, it will lighten the load the deceased family going forward. The money received is not a reward but contributes towards the costs for the living; the living need to live.

Most importantly, if the donor is a condemned man and waiting out his last breathe, his intention to donate his kidneys (I guess the only salvageable organs are kidneys) to save someone is admirable and beyond doubt.

However, to eliminate even an iota of doubt, only one of the kidneys should/can be donated to a named person/patient in lieu of some form of payment.

The other kidney must go the the long national waiting list of patients who enjoys an added chance of benefiting from this alternative source. This will hopefully put to rest all those who doubts the donor sincerity and that he 'auctioned' of both his kidneys to the two highest bidders.

I am in no position to discuss the advantages of patients who can afford to pay but I do like to see some balance of chances for those in the national waiting list.

Perhaps, we can even out the tough and rough road for those patients-in-waiting.

We can't avoid totally the "Pay" part of this equation; either you pay for medical fees, pay for dialysis, pay whilst suffering, pay others to secure a matching, working condition replacement ...
but if an acceptable solution is available, it will allow the sufferer and the caregiver a less demanding living condition.

Friday, January 16, 2009

Be Happy & Healthy or immerse and wallow in self-pity

When its tough, its tough but it won't last
Like night, it shall pass

Bad news, worse news
They affect all and they do not uniquely affect you alone
Universal problems, nature shall take its course
Time is the best friend

All wounds shall heal
All hurts shall pass

Boom or bust
Prosperity or gloom
Feast or famine
Keep life simple & live simply

When the heart is light, life is easier
Keep fit, remain healthy... health is wealth

I can't say "don't worry" ... you can be concerned but not depress
But, I can say "be happy" ... you change the 'blues' into 'pink' of health
Chase the blues away and keep the pink in bay
You have a choice -

Be Happy & Healthy or immerse and wallow in self-pity

Life's Reality Can't Be Pawned

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