#255 living and air pollution

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Artist Angela Palmer has given us concrete understanding on what air-pollution is about.
She observes that people living in Linfen, China which is the most polluted place in the world exudes life though poor. By contrast to having the cleanest air on earth, the [...]

#237 earning power

Can one’s earning power reflect how capable a person is in management of a corporation? Is one’s earning the gauge of his capability in running for offices in politics?
Recently theonlinecitizen.com posted that the Singapore Prime Minister gets $2.7 million per annum, topping the list of being the highest paid politician in the world — the US President, [...]

#231

Since Barak Obama became the first black president in the US, interestingly the color black and people are featured more in news and magazines in the US and elsewhere.
The blacks seem to hold their heads high and unafraid of the word ‘black’. In the past, this word was derogatory and offensive but today, there was [...]

#207 who do you trust?

Having money is a problem these days. Putting money in the bank is no consolation either.
You lose your hard earned cash when a financial institution collapsed. I was told you could file for misrepresentation — that the profile of products bought did not suit the personality of one. How does this work?
The high turnover of officers serving you in [...]

#183 life

Life’s a merry-go-round –
yesterday, an encouragement to have fewer babies
as the world population was exploding
today, more babies needed as baby boomers disappearing;
the young wise-up – no time for babies?
Stress and strains…a lacking?
…
In life, what goes up must come down –
that’s cyclical!
…
Life’s a competition?
Perhaps to a young 20-something,
 X and Y generation?

#134 marketing eros

These days, you can make money virtually in everything and in every field and aspects of life — even teaching one how to fall in love (eros) between opposite sexes and how to maintain that relationship! Yikes!
Have we become robots?
It appears many Singaporeans are good at rehashing from books or that heard but on things of emotions or life? [...]

#122

Is working mother a blessing or a bane for a woman?
Is raising a child not a full-time job for a mother? Why the need to enter the workplace?
Is this the result of having better education? Receiving an education means that the woman’s self-worth is enhanced if she enters the workplace?
Yesterday, the generation born before World War II were [...]

#60

Yesteryears, a man and woman married for life — divorce was frown upon; live in one location for a life time; and held on a job all one’s life.
Today, it is not unusual to change jobs, spouses or homes every few years –

jobs: for better prospects and better money;
spouses: together for a few years and decided to call [...]

#55

Yesterday, we throw away worn out and tattered old jeans because the jeans have a hole in the knee.
Today, many will spend a fortune on the latest fashion — jeans with a hole in the knee! Wear worn out jeans to be hip!

#45 buying happiness

I heard on the radio that ‘money can buy happiness’ and then read…
Elizabeth Dunn, a psychologist, at the University of British Columbia made a survey on 630(?) American volunteers. They were asked to rate their general happiness, report on annual income and detail their monthly spending including bills, gifts for themselves and others…to charity. It [...]