Girl With No Face

It's been quite awhile since I last updated this blog. Anyway, I have been busy the past few weeks and barely had the chance to share my thoughts. Anyway, here is sad story about a girl with no face story .

This is one of the most heart-wrenching stories I ever come across. It must be difficult for the child and more so for the parents to endure such challenges in life.
I guess for the rest of us out there, we ought to be thankful for our health and our wellness.

Stop complain about what we don’t have and know that there are many people much less fortunate than us who has to struggle with every minute of their life.

Year Of The Tiger - Wish List And Resolution

Time sure pass quickly. It’s the dawn of new year, the year of the Tiger. Last Saturday morning while on my way to the nearby hawker center to get my pack breakfast, a mini tower erected in the open pathway between shops caught my attention. Dozens of curious onlookers stop by to look at the mini tower.

Some of the onlookers were giggling and some had serious emotions while others were expressionless.
I went over to take a look and realize that there was poster attached to the mini tower. It has descriptions of the twelve Chinese zodiac prediction for year 2010.

My eyes rolled and attention quickly transpired and fix on the dragon sign, heck I am not sure why I zoom and focused on the dragon, probably a normal reflex out of curiosity due to the fact that I am born in the year of the dragon. Well, I have to admit that it's quite interesting to read what's being forecast for all the zodiac signs in the year of the Tiger.

The predictions for each zodiac signs are neatly organized by months. Well, it seems that dragons are in for a good year even though there are some dos and don't advice for some of the months ahead. I am not the kind who believed in these predictions but admittedly it feels good when good things are predicted. One of the not so good prediction is health though.

The way I see it, regardless of how accurate or how close the zodiac signs comes to predict about your future, our health is something that we ourselves need to be fully responsible for. We just simply can't leave our health to fate.

What's my wish list and resoluton for the year of the Tiger? Well I must admit plenty of them, a long list which I doubt I could achieved. Nevertheless that's what goals are for isn't it? As the saying goes, achieving the goals you have set for is important but not the end to all means, rather it is the path you took to achieve the goal along the way which helps you to grow and mature in thoughts and knowledge.

My number one priority is to ensure that I continue to stay fit by leading a healthy lifestyle. I wish good health and protection for both myself as well as for my loved ones. Money can't buy health, and without health the tons of cash you have won't buy you happiness.

Last but not least, here's an Ayurvedic proverb which I come across that I like to share with everyone. It goes like this: 'If you take proper healthy diet, then you have no need for medicine. If you stuff yourself with unhealthy diet than any medicine you take is useless'.

Till then, wishing everyone a happy and prosperous year of the Tiger. Cheers!

Woman Age Look Like Their Mother

A friend of mine once shared a joke on how it's possible for a man to easily figure out accurately or picture what his girlfriend might look like in years to come when she has aged and becomes old. Well, the answer it seems lies simply by just looking at her mum. If her mum is fat then there is a high probability that the girlfriend might be likewise in years to come. If her mum has wrinkles then it is quite probable daughter would suffer same skin condition eventually.

Apparently science has caught up with such jokes. Report release by medical researchers in California indicates most aging woman would increasingly resemble their mother in terms of physical outlook as they aged. Although the medical findings do not explain the root cause of such observations nevertheless this is not really surprising given the fact that woman inherit genetic traits from their parents.

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Facts of life

Despite the economic and financial woes, Singaporeans are on the general happy going lucky lots. Just couple of days ago, throngs of people were rushing to buy small cars when the COE prices fell to all time low of just two dollars only. Never mind about bad forecast of negative growth next year. Never mind about banks and financial institutions defaulting on bonds investment returns and repayment, never mind about potential retrenchment and etc. Now with the government taking the lead to encourage companies to first explore ways to cut cost before going for the headcount reduction or workforce management, the general public sentiments is further assured and encouraged to keep up with the usual spending habits. So it seems like not all is gloom so to speak, well at least before we enter 2009.

Singaporean loves to eat, go to any popular makan places or restaurants, you will see people continue to spend and eat like no one business. Of course there are those who has been impacted by the economy slowdown, some may have lost their jobs, some might be feeling the tight financial squeeze, some who has lost their life time savings due to unfortunate turn of events with regards to investment in Lehman Brothers, the DBS and Morgan Stanley high notes. Whatever the situations, we could either indulge in self pity blame ourselves for the predicament we are in or face the fact squarely and know that we cant change the past so get on with our life and move on. I am a novice investor, to date my investment in AIA Global Resources Fund, AIA Emerging Market Funds and Prudential has all go into the negative return territory. I am likely to suffer 50% lost on all my investments, well at least in paper. Nothing much I can do about it though. I could continue to vent my anger and blame all those lousy fund managers who sold me these investment packages but what purpose does it serves? There’s nothing they could do either.

The recession is here to stay for a long time. In such times of economic and world financial turbulent uncertainties, there are only two paths we could take. Well the first path is to go with the flow and thus allow the difficulties to affect our family and us or to stand up to the adversity and do what is needed to prosper in such times. The choice is obvious, do what is necessary to live through such difficult times and emerge stronger in or continue to dream of ways to get around the problems. The choice is yours. Only you know the best path to take. Forget about those stupid financial planners who are now probably hiding in their foxholes. Brains wash yourself if necessary and if need be to avoid indulging in self-pity and to avoid blaming everyone else but yourself for your predicament.

As we approach year 2009, is time again to give a thought to our new resolutions.
Here are some tips to help us achieve our resolutions.

Make your goals realistic and achievable and breakdown big goals into sub goals which is achievable in months or weeks.
Put your list in writing and review it regularly.
Don't be reluctant to change or modify it.
Planning is not optional. After making your list, decide exactly how and when you intend to get there. Write down the timeline for each milestones and hurdles you need to clear in order to achieve your plans.
Cross off each item as you achieve it.
If you live long enough, repeat.