Pray...
I pray that ...
- I have enough to eat, a proper place to sleep and a little excess amount of money to keep; I found a job, a HDB and a POSB account.
- I am safe, have sufficient income and savings to start a family, provides for the family, live in a fairly stable and healthy environment; I found myself on an island called Singapore, found insubstantial income but with high Purchasing Power Parity (PPP), manages to start a family and live in a HDB within a clean, healthy and humble surroundings.
- I long for belongings; Life was a low-strung struggle, enough to eat, sufficient to go round, adequate rest and spent time enjoying peers support and company, with little to nil, or friendly, competition.
- I seek mobility and found progress and mutual respect; the more I give, the more I get.
My prayers were answered and I have lived half my lifespan!
In my next half or quarter life expectancy, there is a consistent need to find income, a roof over the head, the ability to be mobile,both socially and physically, and a yet to be realized DREAM. Its trying!
Living is getting expensive; costs - food, housing, transport, utilities, taxes - have gone up, real income has gone down, stagnated or evaporated!
I pray
- I remain able, capable and healthy; that the 'Power' and all 'Power-To-Be' will spare a thought for me when formulating policies that affect me - the man in the street. Whether the Gini coefficient is 0 or 4.2 has little effect on me as I enter my winter years but I still need to live humbly and in harmony and to die with dignity.
- For the better or worse, I am Singaporean; I shall live and die here - my Motherland. To my fellow Singaporeans, if you can't make the place any better, please do not make it worse. Spare a thought for our fellowmen, the less able and less fortunate and make living lighter, livelier and easier.
Society will always have the Good, the Bad & the Ugly; the Able, the Less able and the Dis-able. Care and share with one another. We come (born) naked and shall return (die) with nothingness.
Friday, May 20, 2011
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Budget Life
It's getting costlier to be alive and breathing...
Cost of living is rising; out pacing income at most times.
Medical cost is rising faster as the population ages, newer technologies are adopted, more tests are readily available but not necessarily relevant.
The best defense against medical cost is to exercise and remains healthy; preventive medicine and early detection also reduces costs.
A newly acquainted doctor gave me this; "The... patient should be made to understand that he or she must
take charge of his own life. Don't take your body
to the doctor as if he were a repair shop - Quentin
Regestein"
Non-reliance on medicine and/or food supplements will diffuse the 'dependency' syndrome.
Interestingly, you have heard of 'budget hotel', 'budget travel', 'budget meals' but why isn't there a 'budget hospital'?
Guess, when it comes to a life threatening situation or sickness, you want the best; whether you can or cannot afford it (becomes secondary).
The priority must be to live healthily, eats well and have enough rest rather than live 'budgetly' - budget travel, budget holidays, budget meals!
Relax; live like a King, live like there is no tomorrows...
Our role on Planet Earth is to enjoy and experience every facets of life.
It is a total failure to live like a church mouse and to have a luxurious sendoff.
It is great to be rich but if you leave behind plenty without a chance to spend a dime, the money is NOT yours; at best, you have lived, but to most, you lived stupidly!
Live within your means, live healthily and happily.
Relax, whats yours shall be yours, whatever isn't shall never be!
Cost of living is rising; out pacing income at most times.
Medical cost is rising faster as the population ages, newer technologies are adopted, more tests are readily available but not necessarily relevant.
The best defense against medical cost is to exercise and remains healthy; preventive medicine and early detection also reduces costs.
A newly acquainted doctor gave me this; "The... patient should be made to understand that he or she must
take charge of his own life. Don't take your body
to the doctor as if he were a repair shop - Quentin
Regestein"
Non-reliance on medicine and/or food supplements will diffuse the 'dependency' syndrome.
Interestingly, you have heard of 'budget hotel', 'budget travel', 'budget meals' but why isn't there a 'budget hospital'?
Guess, when it comes to a life threatening situation or sickness, you want the best; whether you can or cannot afford it (becomes secondary).
The priority must be to live healthily, eats well and have enough rest rather than live 'budgetly' - budget travel, budget holidays, budget meals!
Relax; live like a King, live like there is no tomorrows...
Our role on Planet Earth is to enjoy and experience every facets of life.
It is a total failure to live like a church mouse and to have a luxurious sendoff.
It is great to be rich but if you leave behind plenty without a chance to spend a dime, the money is NOT yours; at best, you have lived, but to most, you lived stupidly!
Live within your means, live healthily and happily.
Relax, whats yours shall be yours, whatever isn't shall never be!
Sunday, May 8, 2011
The Road To Success
Only 1/9th of the iceberg is seen above water because of the density of pure ice...
Gastric, ulcer, cancer - a mild treatable illness, if left untreated, may manifest into serious terminal illness.
The Long March "长征" that Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai led eventually returned to haunt Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek and sent him packing to Taiwan.
The Imperial Japanese Navy sank the battleship HMS Prince of Wales and battlecruiser HMS Repulse in WW2. The British were very confident that their impregnable fortress, Singapore, will not fall.
Manny Pacquiao, the tiny boxer from the Philippines, was an unknown and unrated boxer when he started. Boxing was a career crafted out of poverty, necessity and hunger.
Originators, discoverers, conquerers - start small & start somewhere
If you don't try, you are guaranteed of failure; only those who dares have a chance to succeed
General Patton advanced farther, captured more enemy prisoners, and liberated more territory in less time than any other army in military history.
Nobody is a born winner or loser
The trophy is always there for you
Circumstances and environment may favor you but inaction will decimate Providence
Is Providence yours to make or does Providence decides your end journey? I choose the former
The road(s) to success(es) is(are) paved with blessings and abundance
Do you DARE??!!
Gastric, ulcer, cancer - a mild treatable illness, if left untreated, may manifest into serious terminal illness.
The Long March "长征" that Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai led eventually returned to haunt Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek and sent him packing to Taiwan.
The Imperial Japanese Navy sank the battleship HMS Prince of Wales and battlecruiser HMS Repulse in WW2. The British were very confident that their impregnable fortress, Singapore, will not fall.
Manny Pacquiao, the tiny boxer from the Philippines, was an unknown and unrated boxer when he started. Boxing was a career crafted out of poverty, necessity and hunger.
Originators, discoverers, conquerers - start small & start somewhere
If you don't try, you are guaranteed of failure; only those who dares have a chance to succeed
General Patton advanced farther, captured more enemy prisoners, and liberated more territory in less time than any other army in military history.
Nobody is a born winner or loser
The trophy is always there for you
Circumstances and environment may favor you but inaction will decimate Providence
Is Providence yours to make or does Providence decides your end journey? I choose the former
The road(s) to success(es) is(are) paved with blessings and abundance
Do you DARE??!!
Thursday, April 28, 2011
The Politics Of Living
Do you really need to live life base on others expectation...
The strong and mighty must look after the weak
The able must lead and care for the less-able
The powerful and the power-to-be is as powerless as when they are alone
The mighty, but aged, lion is powerless when surrounded by hyenas
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a 'necessary' fight to secure an advance post; a war which pitched the Americans against mighty Japanese Imperial Army
Prior to the Japanese invasion, nobody would have thought that these 'tiny Japanese men' could have wrought so much damage to the 'huge' Chinese and make them walked on their knees
History is filled with inspirations and surprises; just as lives will be filled with surprises
If you submit to defeat, you can't look back and blame the world
You reap what you sow
Winner takes all
In any class election, when you choose someone to lead and represent you, you sign a blank cheque
Choose wisely, choose smartly
I can accept that Equality is a dream
I will make my dream a Reality
But, 'Defeat' & "Fear' will never appear in my dictionary
I came alone and I shall return Alone gloriously; I have almost zero expectation
My life, my journey
The strong and mighty must look after the weak
The able must lead and care for the less-able
The powerful and the power-to-be is as powerless as when they are alone
The mighty, but aged, lion is powerless when surrounded by hyenas
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a 'necessary' fight to secure an advance post; a war which pitched the Americans against mighty Japanese Imperial Army
Prior to the Japanese invasion, nobody would have thought that these 'tiny Japanese men' could have wrought so much damage to the 'huge' Chinese and make them walked on their knees
History is filled with inspirations and surprises; just as lives will be filled with surprises
If you submit to defeat, you can't look back and blame the world
You reap what you sow
Winner takes all
In any class election, when you choose someone to lead and represent you, you sign a blank cheque
Choose wisely, choose smartly
| “When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have” | |
I can accept that Equality is a dream
I will make my dream a Reality
But, 'Defeat' & "Fear' will never appear in my dictionary
I came alone and I shall return Alone gloriously; I have almost zero expectation
My life, my journey
Sunday, April 24, 2011
I Always Win
The trophy is always mine and only I can disown it ...
Open your eyes, open your heart
It make things possible
Contest your inner self and move the envelop... alittle at a time
You will conquer and overcome the perceived difficulties over time
A successful person moves ahead, count his blessings, take what comes, meander his way out of difficulties and arrives at his predisposed goal
A person who starts with doubts, ends in agony and losses his orientation; such battles were lost before starting
Give yourself a/the chance that nobody will
Give yourself a break before you breakdown
A promise remains a promise until delivered
Life is about ATTITUDE
Open your eyes, open your heart
It make things possible
Contest your inner self and move the envelop... alittle at a time
You will conquer and overcome the perceived difficulties over time
A successful person moves ahead, count his blessings, take what comes, meander his way out of difficulties and arrives at his predisposed goal
A person who starts with doubts, ends in agony and losses his orientation; such battles were lost before starting
Give yourself a/the chance that nobody will
Give yourself a break before you breakdown
A promise remains a promise until delivered
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change
- Barbara de Angelis
Life is about ATTITUDE
Friday, April 22, 2011
Anxieties
Anxious for results, differing expectations, timing differences or simply 'out-of-luck'...
When you are born, your parents were anxious that you should 'grow up quickly' instead of enjoying your babyhood aka their parenthood
When you are 10, its all about schooling and grades whilst your parents worried about gearing for the house, car and other material acquisition
As puberty arrives, they worry about the birds and bees, the wrong company you potentially may get into, the modern day addictions like internet... these being the passing route of growing up; it the natural order of growing up
At 20s and 30s, everyone joins in the 'Worry Game'! You worried about career as your parents too. Money becomes part of the worry or/as in 'lack of it'...
40 is the golden age for the successful; its a 'hockey stick' jump! You come of age and success beacons and shines like the lighthouse guiding the aircraft carrier over narrow straits, the 'haves' and the 'have-nots' still trying but not knowing where is the end game
Hitting 50, its your turn to worry
You takeover the worrying issues that once bogged down your parents; health, harmony, money, a place in society, the imminent parting of dear ones... and take on new ones
Break the 'Anxiety' chain
Whether you are poor or rich, we live through lives with many expectations and challenges
The lesser your expectations, the lesser the setbacks, the lesser you need to worry
Do your best and leave the rest
Do not worry yourself to the grave
Take whatever comes; you need only one meal a day to survive and excel
The rest are bonus
Man Proposes, GOD Disposes
When you are born, your parents were anxious that you should 'grow up quickly' instead of enjoying your babyhood aka their parenthood
When you are 10, its all about schooling and grades whilst your parents worried about gearing for the house, car and other material acquisition
As puberty arrives, they worry about the birds and bees, the wrong company you potentially may get into, the modern day addictions like internet... these being the passing route of growing up; it the natural order of growing up
At 20s and 30s, everyone joins in the 'Worry Game'! You worried about career as your parents too. Money becomes part of the worry or/as in 'lack of it'...
40 is the golden age for the successful; its a 'hockey stick' jump! You come of age and success beacons and shines like the lighthouse guiding the aircraft carrier over narrow straits, the 'haves' and the 'have-nots' still trying but not knowing where is the end game
Hitting 50, its your turn to worry
You takeover the worrying issues that once bogged down your parents; health, harmony, money, a place in society, the imminent parting of dear ones... and take on new ones
Break the 'Anxiety' chain
Whether you are poor or rich, we live through lives with many expectations and challenges
The lesser your expectations, the lesser the setbacks, the lesser you need to worry
Do your best and leave the rest
Do not worry yourself to the grave
Take whatever comes; you need only one meal a day to survive and excel
The rest are bonus
Man Proposes, GOD Disposes
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Gold and Gold-wannabes
All that glistens is not gold, but gold will lead the change and charge...
The financial crisis, the dollar weakness, massive debts
The collapse of the West; Portugal, Italy, Iceland, Greece, Spain...
Small and smaller banks collapsed like flies dropping dead in flights
Big banks that are 'too big to fail' were rescued at taxpayers expense
What confidence and faith can the World at large depend on?
Who can the World relies on for leadership and avoid financial disharmony and collapsed?
Who rates the rating agencies that grade others?
China is the poor nation with more than 3trillion dollars in reserves
USA is the rich nation deep in debts
Europe rich is supporting her decadent, dependent fellow-countrymen
Aboveall, the World is flooded with liquidity and hot money
Is money the answer; if yes, whose money is worth their value on paper?
GOLD
When all else fails, GOLD will shine
Watch a new era unfolds...
Inflation will fan prices of properties, commodities and the general class of assets when real value of money losses its shine
Only social disharmony and disturbances can, and will, cure the ills of inflation; the political-will to tame inflation is lacking.
A short-term sharp spike in prices will create gapping spread between the Rich and Poor, the 'Haves' and the 'Have-nots'.
A hungry man is an angry man
A hungry, riotous crowd will forcefully shift prices sharply higher, then lowered after the chaotic hiatus
Gold triumphs in chaos
When PEACE returns, prices will collapsed to more earthly level
Ride the cycles...
The financial crisis, the dollar weakness, massive debts
The collapse of the West; Portugal, Italy, Iceland, Greece, Spain...
Small and smaller banks collapsed like flies dropping dead in flights
Big banks that are 'too big to fail' were rescued at taxpayers expense
What confidence and faith can the World at large depend on?
Who can the World relies on for leadership and avoid financial disharmony and collapsed?
Who rates the rating agencies that grade others?
China is the poor nation with more than 3trillion dollars in reserves
USA is the rich nation deep in debts
Europe rich is supporting her decadent, dependent fellow-countrymen
Aboveall, the World is flooded with liquidity and hot money
Is money the answer; if yes, whose money is worth their value on paper?
GOLD
When all else fails, GOLD will shine
Watch a new era unfolds...
Inflation will fan prices of properties, commodities and the general class of assets when real value of money losses its shine
Only social disharmony and disturbances can, and will, cure the ills of inflation; the political-will to tame inflation is lacking.
A short-term sharp spike in prices will create gapping spread between the Rich and Poor, the 'Haves' and the 'Have-nots'.
A hungry man is an angry man
A hungry, riotous crowd will forcefully shift prices sharply higher, then lowered after the chaotic hiatus
Gold triumphs in chaos
When PEACE returns, prices will collapsed to more earthly level
Ride the cycles...
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Sick
Falling sick is not a crime neither does anyone ask for it...
When you fall sick, pray, and ask if, its curable
If it is, complete the treatment and take your medicines
If its not but containable, take your medicines and go into damage control
Change your lifestyle and adopt changes to minimize deterioration
Most importantly, do not slide into your cocoon and avoid the World at large nor engage in self-denial
Seek cures in alternate medicine if mainstream fails
Most people don't die from their sicknesses; they worry themselves to the graves
If all else fails, there is still HOPEs...
It is expensive seeking treatment可以死不能生病
But, no man will die because he is poor
Its best to remain fit and healthy...but, alas! sometimes its Sophie's choice
When you are sick, get back to basics; sunshine, water, rest, air, exercise and diet
Worrying is poison to the mind, medicines act as antidotes
Live as normally as possible - a stress-less state
In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible - Cicero
When you fall sick, pray, and ask if, its curable
If it is, complete the treatment and take your medicines
If its not but containable, take your medicines and go into damage control
Change your lifestyle and adopt changes to minimize deterioration
Most importantly, do not slide into your cocoon and avoid the World at large nor engage in self-denial
Seek cures in alternate medicine if mainstream fails
Most people don't die from their sicknesses; they worry themselves to the graves
If all else fails, there is still HOPEs...
It is expensive seeking treatment可以死不能生病
But, no man will die because he is poor
Its best to remain fit and healthy...but, alas! sometimes its Sophie's choice
When you are sick, get back to basics; sunshine, water, rest, air, exercise and diet
Worrying is poison to the mind, medicines act as antidotes
Live as normally as possible - a stress-less state
In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible - Cicero
Friday, April 8, 2011
Days Of My Life
Some days are made longer than others...
Sunday is shortest; with sleep-in, siesta and laze
Monday is just as short; starts early, coffee breaks, gossips, lunch, review last week's work and planning this week's work
Tuesday is work day; start working, take a break, finishes last week's work... this week has yet to start
Wednesday is really a working day
Thursday is spent thinking of how to finish up this week's work and also planning a 'stowaway' for the weekend
Omigosh, TGIF; its Friday again! Finish up what was started on Wednesday, early beers, break for the weekend
Saturday is HOLIDAY, rest well, play hard...
The week repeats itself
Its Tough Getting Started... why complain when you only need to work one day in a week? Happy working...
Work to Live, do not live to work
Sunday is shortest; with sleep-in, siesta and laze
Monday is just as short; starts early, coffee breaks, gossips, lunch, review last week's work and planning this week's work
Tuesday is work day; start working, take a break, finishes last week's work... this week has yet to start
Wednesday is really a working day
Thursday is spent thinking of how to finish up this week's work and also planning a 'stowaway' for the weekend
Omigosh, TGIF; its Friday again! Finish up what was started on Wednesday, early beers, break for the weekend
Saturday is HOLIDAY, rest well, play hard...
The week repeats itself
Its Tough Getting Started... why complain when you only need to work one day in a week? Happy working...
Work to Live, do not live to work
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Rewards and its attendant ill-effects
In the World of the Blind, the one-eye man is the King...
Who determines whose life?
When you don't pay, underpay or overpay the employee, the result is equally disastrous ...
- don't pay : nothing gets done
- underpay : something get done but incomplete
- overpay : nothing gets done because time is spent protecting his own turf, cooking excuses and shifting responsibilities to others 少做少错，没做不会错
The is a limit to rewarding materially for good work or a job done well
Money alone is ineffective as too much (rewarding luxuriously) of it brews complacency, 'I know best' attitude, thoughts of being indispensable, devious schemes to keep others (and other ideas) out... the ills are not dissimilar to the Emperor without clothes; "worship the Paymaster and kill the disquiet challenges"
Excuses take the place of reasons
Inaction replaces initiatives
Ring-fencing and power grab breed contempts
Is money the one and only motivator? No...
- Ask Gandhi, Lech Walesa, Sun ZhongSun, Ho ChiMin...
- Ask Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Zhang ChengFei, Li YanHng...
You may be born poor but don't stay poor
Entrepreneurs are born but few manifest into successes
Leaders are born but few make it to great respectable stature
钱不是万能；没钱万万不能。
Work with passion
Die for a cause
Eat to live and NOT live to eat
When you force/make the World to eat out of your hand
Beware!
Someday, your hands will be bitten
Who determines whose life?
When you don't pay, underpay or overpay the employee, the result is equally disastrous ...
- don't pay : nothing gets done
- underpay : something get done but incomplete
- overpay : nothing gets done because time is spent protecting his own turf, cooking excuses and shifting responsibilities to others 少做少错，没做不会错
The is a limit to rewarding materially for good work or a job done well
Money alone is ineffective as too much (rewarding luxuriously) of it brews complacency, 'I know best' attitude, thoughts of being indispensable, devious schemes to keep others (and other ideas) out... the ills are not dissimilar to the Emperor without clothes; "worship the Paymaster and kill the disquiet challenges"
Excuses take the place of reasons
Inaction replaces initiatives
Ring-fencing and power grab breed contempts
Is money the one and only motivator? No...
- Ask Gandhi, Lech Walesa, Sun ZhongSun, Ho ChiMin...
- Ask Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Zhang ChengFei, Li YanHng...
You may be born poor but don't stay poor
Entrepreneurs are born but few manifest into successes
Leaders are born but few make it to great respectable stature
钱不是万能；没钱万万不能。
Work with passion
Die for a cause
Eat to live and NOT live to eat
When you force/make the World to eat out of your hand
Beware!
Someday, your hands will be bitten
Thursday, March 31, 2011
My Life Made Simple
I eat to live, not live to eat...
We are born different, made differently and have different paths in our journey
Our roles are so different yet we will cross each other's paths one time or another
Nonetheless, nothing will be too dissimilar nor homogeneous
Your Truth is not my Truth and my truth is not your Truth. Water gives life but not form - Bruce Lee
The bondage that we have and carry will lessen as we give up humanly desires and belongings
When the Mind is clear, the Soul is enlightened
You will see clearer and attain inner peace when you give, forgive and deliver without motives nor asked
Motherly love is saintly
When Mother Earth roars and pours, misery abounds
Death is the Leveller - rich, poor, emperor or pauper, young, old, powerful or lame
From dusts to dusts
Like water, our Providence has no definite paths nor form
I like to be alone but loneliness is fearsome
I want to give up materialism but I fear hunger
I want to retreat and reside within my Beliefs/Religion away from humanly distractions but ... alas! Life is so simple yet complex
I am the Simplex - a simple person with simple wishes and earthly needs but caught in a complex world order
Live & Let Live
We are born different, made differently and have different paths in our journey
Our roles are so different yet we will cross each other's paths one time or another
Nonetheless, nothing will be too dissimilar nor homogeneous
Your Truth is not my Truth and my truth is not your Truth. Water gives life but not form - Bruce Lee
The bondage that we have and carry will lessen as we give up humanly desires and belongings
When the Mind is clear, the Soul is enlightened
You will see clearer and attain inner peace when you give, forgive and deliver without motives nor asked
Motherly love is saintly
When Mother Earth roars and pours, misery abounds
Death is the Leveller - rich, poor, emperor or pauper, young, old, powerful or lame
From dusts to dusts
Like water, our Providence has no definite paths nor form
I like to be alone but loneliness is fearsome
I want to give up materialism but I fear hunger
I want to retreat and reside within my Beliefs/Religion away from humanly distractions but ... alas! Life is so simple yet complex
I am the Simplex - a simple person with simple wishes and earthly needs but caught in a complex world order
Live & Let Live
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