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Health is the general condition of a person in all aspects. It is the state of complete physical, mental and social well-being with the absence of disease or infirmity.

Staying in the pink of health is extremely important. Without health, a person cannot work, which leads to lost of income, thus food will be a problem at the end of the day should one day all the savings be used up.

Being ill is nothing positive and with lots of negativity. In fact when a business owner falls ill, depending on the scale of the business, if the business is a multi-national company, any small little details will affect the company reputation, risk of share prices dropping and showing signs of weakness for a competitor to attempt to take over the position.

When health is not good, one should take sufficient time to rest and recover so as not to let it spread or cause people around them to worry which will in turn affect their jobs and morale at work implicating healthy individuals to fall sick.

In the case of a disease or infirmity, when one face such a situation, the patient is having difficulty with his own health while his immediate family members will be suffering too thus when one fall sick, it is not a simple affair but is a family affair already and that is what bonds a family together.

Regardless of you being rich or poor, doing big or small business, health is the first and foremost important element you need to take into consideration to ensure profit in the business.

Money cannot buy health so take good care of your own health as well as your family members’ health.Health is wealth, with a healthy body, nothing can be done.

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Ownership is having legal rights of procession; proprietorship. It is to have the exclusive rights and control over property.

It involves multiple rights, from title to intellectual property, distribution rights, translation, print, copy, duplication, recording, transmission in whole or in part in any retrieval system or in any other permission related to the use of a product or property.

Having ownership of a proprietorship is akin to winning and having a money tree bearing fruits of money and increasing the owner’s wealth with deeper pockets.

Example: Having a great story, can be translated into a book, animation, video, drama series and movie or be converted into other mediums of products for instance bookmarks, gifts, clothes, or any other product which can be sold for money.

The world is our limit, as long as we the owners put on our thinking cap, wealth, money and riches will find their own way and crawl onto the owners if you know how to market and generate profits from your own products, knowledge of expertise which is exclusively only available to you yourself only.

There are thousands of ways to get rich, have you found your own method to make it big? Going from rags to riches is a simple but uphill task which is not easy without proper guidance.

Are you having any exclusive knowledge, product or information or idea that could propel you forward towards getting rich? Do you have great ideas but yet are clueless on how to market your ideas nor have any strategy to safeguard your intellectual property to prevent other people from stealing it away from you?

If that is the situation you are in, speak to me and I might be able to offer some advice to you upon request.

Getting rich and be successful is not a lonely journey, in fact you will need business partners and companions who will assist you on the voyage to your destination. It is up to you to decide if you want to win alone or win as a team so as to celebrate success together and share the happiness at the top rather than being alone with no one else by your side to share your joy and happiness.

It is simple but it is not easy. Speak to somebody whom you can trust for advice. See you at the top.

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Repentance is the thought and action to correct a wrong and seek forgiveness from a person who is wronged. Often in religion, it is labeled as a sin and we look for ways to ask for forgiveness from the other party.

With different religious practice and belief, the way which religious believers ask for forgiveness also varies. At individual level, people ask for forgiveness directly from the person and are recommended and most effective and beneficial to individual mental and spiritual well being.

As for religious practice, there was a news article which talks about Pop Benedict XVI breaking the silence on child-sex abuse which was dismiss by victims who wants actions instead of remarks. While I was reading that news article, I remembered the informational show on Channel News Asia that showed how a Christian believer go on a holiday to walk and get a feel of what God went through in Israel the birth place of Jesus Christ and talked about how he was crucified.

The reason for crucified by the other religious leaders was partly due to the fact that he failed to respect other religions who did not at any point of time provoke him nor his religion at all and there he is going into a Muslim and Jewish religious nation and trying to spread his own belief and faith disrupting other people’s belief.

I’m not sure if it’s right or wrong, but one must be responsible for their personal mistakes which he did, and I respect him for that. Than going back to the news article, the phrase which states “must repent for sins and recognize mistakes” and when I think of the actual practice currently, it isn’t doing what they are saying. When a confession is made, believers were told that by welcoming God into their lives, their sins will be washed away and seek enlightenment.

I will agree partially as enlightenment that part, is same with all respective religion but when it comes to washing the sins away, that is neither practical nor realistic at all. Instead it is misleading people into thinking that they can continue to do bad things and yet ask for forgiveness, its identical to saying oh Law and Justice, I believe in law and will not commit the crime of robbing/kidnapping a person again, please pardon me of my wrong doings, don’t sentence me to jail please.

That to me sounds so wrong. What I understand of religion is whereby we should help one another, and not by expecting other people to carry the mistakes and be pardon without taking responsibility of our own actions. Perhaps it is precisely this misleading or misunderstanding of the true intention of God which caused the Pope sex scandal to keep on surfacing.

I do believe in religion but the moral, ethics and individual responsibilities still holds regardless of what we believe in, be accountable for our own actions.

Religion is what holds us to our own beliefs; it is like a moral light house guiding our way from dangerous costal shores.

So no matter what you believe in, make sure you are doing the right thing and be responsible for your own actions.

What kind of relationship do you want to have? Positive or negative relationship with people around you, are you going to force your way in and get killed in the process or approach with caution and respect for your competitors?

Think of the consequences before doing anything.

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Unity is to be undivided or unbroken completeness. It is the state of being completed as a whole, combining parts into one with the absence of diversity without and having a common goal or focus.

Together as a whole, in quantity, it translates to quality in terms of strength and a force not to be reckon with. Following the updates of Thailand demonstration that has lasted for the past month, it has come to the attention that even military is helpless against the united group of demonstrators.

While the politicians wanted to capture the red shirt leaders, the red shirt demonstrators successful defended their leaders and even assisted in their escape.

Military going up against the civilians might sounds a strange because one side is fully armed for combat while the other party isn’t, but with time and news reports, it have proved that without weapons, and sheer numbers, military can be push over when people come in numbers as reported in news.

It is the cooperation of all individual demonstrators of the red shirts which made the demonstration successful and cause the military helpless plus tourism in Thailand suffered millions losses in terms of revenue. That is a classic example of unity, and power that represents the people, civilians are the boss of the politicians.

Looking at the model of the boss or employment, while it’s true that we work for money, and our boss are paying us income in return for service, the biggest boss which refers to the politicians and governments of every nation still have to listen to their bigger boss who are paying them their income in the form of taxes, which is ordinary civilians.

Upset the real boss, and politicians will have a tough time clearing up the mess. The real power lies in the people, not the politicians, as they are still serving the people.

Politics and government is a people business, the rich politicians have to listen to their real boss the civilians and their requests else they will be forced to leave their post, especially when votes and elections are being made.

Communication and listening to what our clients wants and needs are important if we want to be rich and successful and at the same time earning the respect of our real boss.

Ironic but true.

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Music is the expression of ideas and emotions using rhythm, melody, harmony, tones and the use of sounds. It is produced by either instruments or living creatures.

It is a form of communication especially useful when a person is lonely or calls for help. Music in different tempos and rhythms are only understood by people within the music industry for their secret communication channel.

It expresses not only the feelings and emotions of either an individual or a group of people, it also brings across the ideas which have fused together with music to another person who understood the language.

While portable music devices and music are downloaded every second and shared over the internet, did anybody question if they themselves the listeners or audience is just listening to music for the seek of keeping up with the trend or is it what they really like?

Looking back, from the age of just radio, to walkman, disc-man, FM receivers, MP3, iPod, mobile phones with storage capabilities for music to palm tops MP4s and subsequently 3G phones which replaced all of the previous products in the market, music has come a long way and transformed in the mediums of how it is being played.

Business evolved, money and profits are made in the process, business owners and clients get rich and poor in the process respectively as both sides are happy with the end results it produces.

Music was once what we listen for relaxation, but as I look around the people in public transport, people are more and more reliant on music as a getaway channel to de-stress. So much so that they are always dependable music, listening if not blasting music into their ears, some which can even, be heard at the end of a single MRT cabin on the other side.

It is a luxury, for relaxation, but over dependence on music will become addictive and trick audience to believe that they themselves are in a tricked believe world of their own. Music accordingly to their own preference, is a reflection of the freedom, and boundaries which each individual seek.

Night clubs, pubs are just a temporary getaway place to relax, but with the portability of audio devices, people over relax themselves to the extent they no longer think correctly, and is showing signs of health complications such as mild deafness, grumpy emotions, inability to control their anger, reluctance to speak and communicate except to smooth themselves in the retreat of blasting music to their ears, jamming up the mind, making themselves in a condition less desirable.

Night clubs is a great place to relax, as it is a once a week, a month kind of places for people to distress, but with the increase stress at work, and at home, patrons are visiting such night spots frequently.

Is it a testimonial of false deception, temporary de-stress and put yourself into danger with intoxication of drinks, drugs and sex; one-night-stands, flings or just for sweet revenge to get back at your partner who is a playboy?

Whatever music you’re listening to right now, ask yourself if it is doing you good or putting you within an arms length from danger itself?

Is music helping you get rich or poor? Why not consider profiting from music instead of listening to music meant for the masses?

The secrets to get rich is to know what you want and need, and not to follow other people’s direction and help business owners fulfill their needs and desire for profit at the expense of your putting yourself in danger at arms length.

Music is be meant to be enjoyed and appreciated but not as a hideout or temporary getaway.

It should not be used as a mean of escaping from reality by blasting music to our ears to trick ourselves that we are happy as long as there is music. It is deceiving and will only do more harm than good.

It is not to be used as a escape from problems, instead, it should be used to help us face the reality as the phrase said: “Be prepared to face the music”.

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Friends are people who we are attached to with feelings of affection with friendly relations.

Friends come and go as we grow and age. The fact is that the older we get, we should have come across more friends as compared to previous when we were young, but why is it on the contrary that we were much happier as a child playing with our friends.

Looking at our present self, as adults, is there any body whom you can really consider friends? People who share your both your worries and joy plus the special moments of laughter together.

As a child, we have limited friends, but it is those limited friends but are quality friends whom we can share our joy, happiness and worries bonding together easily without worries for backstabbing, credit stealers, spies or trickery. It is such a pure decent and simple friendship as a child.

Adults literally and technically have less than a handful of people considered to be friends. Who do you speak do when you are lonely at night and cannot sleep? Is there someone who comes to you mind that you want to speak to but is worried if your privacy may be compromised if you share it with your friend who works and have common friends as you?

As we grow, the purpose and desire eventually exceeds our basic need for friendship, thus closing door to communication, and with peer pressure, society pressure for survival, we lose contacts with people whom we once were closed to and become acquaintance.

While I was typing this post, than realized that it is possible to still have friends whom we can trust but only on condition that both parties absolutely have no common friends, thus in this situation, it wil purely be a heart to heart talk, without worries that secrets will be spilled and passed around eventually becoming the gossip topic of the work place or conversion topic among your friends.

Thinking back, as a teenager, it was when I started to understand friends, and starting to know quality friends. Either gender will do, just so as long as he/she is there to companionship, to play, to talk, and go out together.

When I was twelve years old, I got to know a friend in a tuition center with Chinese Development Assistant Council Program at Hong Wen Primary and few months later we met again in the same secondary school and in the same class. It was than at that moment, we both became instant friends at first sight, no questions asked. That best friend relationship lasted only a year plus before it subsides into close friend status.

Soon after another classmate became my best friend, in the same group of friends in the class due to same topic and recreation club but it wasn’t long before being replaced by another person as we both travelled back home on Mass Rapid Train together back after school. While we may share different interest and subjects, but at least we share something in common, the heart to accompany each other in silence without talking. That was when I understand true friendship. Be it happiness or sad, as long as somebody is there for you, no speech, it’s the thought and presence that matters most.

After secondary school, we each went our separate paths, but still remain as close friends despite no longer having any common topic. When I got into polytechnic, it was when I really got to know and make friends with females, on much closer terms as compared to secondary school whereby I do not speak to females other than school work related.

Thankfully I had a good wonderful first year with Republic Poly in Tanglin Campus in both terms with different but wonderful classmates which remind me of my primary school days. Happy without worries or having to worry about no common topic as we all shared the same thing in mind, how to spend the day in class acting intelligent and hardworking but in fact we are just playing games, watching videos online which was fun.

Sharing games, nice videos, food topics and even on how to penalize each other in presentation so as to score high marks for ourselves, but nothing personally, all those penalizing of each other surface and stays only within the classroom, in particular only during presentation time at the question and answer fifth presentation which compromises of five groups followed by sixth presentation (model presentation) by the facilitator.

During poly days, I got to know a person from Friendster in year 2005, and it wasn’t long before I found another true friend who I can speak my mind out, only that this time, that person was a she as compared to previous three times he among the secondary group of friends.

Text messaging each other deep in the night when we had difficulty sleeping if not just wanting somebody to talk to. Thus I would just cycle over and chat before returning back home to sleep. That did not last long either, it spread over two years plus, but technically counting the number of days, its less than a month, but what makes it so memorable was the connection and trust with secrets. Not long after, due to education parted ways. Gap widens like in earlier years in school.

Thinking back, have we ever had any trusted friends as adults to speak to? Seriously at present moment, I cannot think of any. As we each pursue our own dreams, vision, work or education, spreading our wings, walking closer towards the path of loneness and pretending to be friendly to each other to climb higher.

Like-wise in business, at work, while we all desire to find real friends, but in fact it is running away further beyond our reach at the expense of money for survival just to fill our stomach. Adults have little to near zero true friends. Most of the people befriend each other just for a hidden agenda to climb and gain support from colleagues for pay rise and nothing more than it.

Where can I find my next true friend? Or will it forever just be a dream only? Perhaps. .. Another lonely night with nobody to talk to.

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Restrain is to hold back, suppress, keep back, limit or to keep something in control. It is this restrain in the form of protection which parents provide to children which greatly suppress and limits the creativity entrepreneurship of children while they are still in the growing.

Children are creativity and can be either a dreamer or visionary depending on the kind of protection restrain which parents provide to their kids.

Poor parents trying their best to meet ends needs will suppress their kids’ dreams, advice and persuade their children to be practical and avoid falling in their mistakes so as to converse and save money for a rainy day thus kids bought up in such a protected environment will naturally be poor.

Poor children were never encouraged to do something on their own, and instead encouraged to follow orders, advices and value experiences from their elders and seniors, living in people’s shadow through out their lives. It is like putting a collar on the neck of their children, while they might think it is for their own good, but in fact it is doing their children and themselves a de-service instead and adding on to their problems and worries as their children grows up.

The poor are getting poorer because children are asking their parents for money, dependent on their parents like a unlimited cash machine thus they are poor.

Rich parents on the other hand will encourage and push their children into the open, let their children make as much mistakes as possible during their childhood and growing years so as to let them learn how to be independent and depend on their own.

Only when mistakes are made by individuals, than will it be appreciated when a senior or elder shares the similar experiences which value adds onto the mistakes, enabling children to grow up smarter, wiser and being street-smart instead of just purely academically smart.

Compare and identify the differences in how the rich and the poor protect their children.

The rich only share their experiences and advices when they meet problems which enrich their learning curves, while the poor teach everything and restrict their self learning, and that is a fatal mistake made by parents globally.

It is easier to control a loose child than to control a loose adult who has the same intelligence and physical strength with parents who are on the losing end. Instead of letting their learn only in adulthood where the mistakes could cost thousands to millions in terms of failed or wrong investment decisions, why not let their growing children learn from mistakes, at least the learning cost is cheap and within parents ability such as form few dollars to just hundreds of dollars for toys, food etc.

If you want the best for your children as they are growing up, than let them learn to stand on their on without assistance, like how babies learn to stand and walk on two legs in just months.

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Secrets are meant to be private and confidential, information, communication not mean to be known by competitors or by anybody outside the selected circle.

In “Water Colours Part 3 of 3” it showcased the last series of the wonders of marine life. It started with a new twist of colour introduction, fluorescent colour in the dark.

Under the elusive depths, where light is not within reach, creatures living in those depths also share the same language which marine animals in the shallow coral reef area uses, fluorescent light glowing from their skin, bones eyes etc.

Even more surprisingly was a shark card on record to be follow glowing with fluorescent light in the deep ocean with half a kilometer in depth.

To be able to glow in the dark is a colour language which being used in the marine life and are not limited to marine animals but also corals.

In different setting under different brightness and darkness, marine animals use colours to communicate. Other than colours, they also use touch and sounds for communication.

Beyond the fluorescent abilities, there are the UV rays of vision which only selected species of fishes and in particular smaller size of fishes and rays will have to be able to communicate. UV rays colour filters were used when recording the small coral reef fishes duck dive into the corals at the same time.

At that moment, all species of fishes recorded on camera were spotted to unanimously spot to have UV light flashing for a second before diving into the corals. That was a sign of danger when predators are approaching.

While I learn not as much knowledge from the previous two series, this last series tells me something about secrets, it is exclusive and only known to insiders within the circle sharing the common language, outsiders will never learn the secrets.

When I think and cross reference it to the super rich, its absolutely true, as the language they use at the top of the social class, is simple conversation language which poor people may already know, but it just gets more complex while super rich really uses simple communication tools. One of which I read from a book was casual chat in just one to two sentence that will seal the deal.

Another language which the super rich uses, I believe is network with cooperation for mutual benefit short, mid and long term in a single action which justifies why they are super rich, one single action reaping dual results as compared to the poor who benefit only once from that action.

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Brew is the process of preparing a drink, brewing is often used and association with beer, undergoing the process of steeping, boiling, fermenting of malt and hops.

While there are a wide variety of beers all over the world, the core components of the beer is consistent, which consist of barely, yeast, hops and water. The same components under different conditions will produce different results.

Likewise in business, we may all have being taught and read from the same books, but our ideas plus experiences will result in different business ideas which translates into unique businesses with application put in place to produce either a product or service if not both of which.

Business involves many steps similar to brewing a beer, no matter what you are brewing either from the back of your home, garage, kitchen, workshops, laboratories, or even large scale beer brewing plants, the end results are still the same, beer.

The difference within the similarity is only the core components which go into the transformation process. Like how barely becomes malt and how sugar becomes alcohol, similar on how a idea converts into a business execution for profits.

While the process is troublesome from the third party point of view, but once you understand how it works, you will understand the basic principles in the process to start your business right from your home with a simple starter kit.

Business can take flight anywhere and everywhere, as long as you have the basic components required and know the proper steps to implement and have a successful brew first before you try adding in your own conditions to brew your own unique beer like a new business product.

Passion is all that it takes.

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Developed is the status given to countries with high gross domestic product GPD per capita which refers to nations with high development according to some criteria.

A developed country has other means of measurement industrialization has a part contributing the economy boosting the financial status and capability of individual countries. The other measure associated with developed nation will be the human development index which combines the economic, nation, life expectancy and other measures factored in.

Being a developed country has got its pros and cons. Pros is more beneficial towards the nation, politicians, businesses and government, and  cons is more towards the poor, majority of employees who cannot benefit in any way regardless of the country being under developed, developing or developed nation.

Poor is not a good thing, and it certainly isn’t good to be poor in a developing if not developed nation. In such a developed country, there will be intense competition for business and profits. The most inflated assets becomes overpriced will be a home.

Home is the shelter which everybody needs and thus either you are rich or poor, you cannot avoid not buying it. The only difference is that the rich can afford with the inflated pricing but not the poor.

The more competition the country has, the higher the inflation is. Just look at Hong Kong, Russia, ask them how small is their home is, sixty to seventy meters are the size which average income earners can afford to buy.

Singapore is heading towards a near developed national but we are still holding onto the developing nation status. Just look at the way the homes are built in the past versus currently and the trend of the homes versus the price.

There is not doubt, homes are highly inflated, while they remains the same price, the square meters are dropping by at least thirty percent and more. Just couple of years back, the norm of purchasing a home, the standard size should be at least a thousand square meters, but over the past two to three years, kitchens, living room, rooms, and even washroom get downsized, but the price still remains the same giving a false impression that there is not any inflation.

All these are just decoys, sales gimmicks which all businesses employ to trick those gullible people.

There was a news article which I read some time back which made me laughed. That article was about a block of apartments of six to seven hundred square meters of size being sold at a much higher price tag for the same amount with a home for at least a thousand square meters of size in the same area. The irony is those small homes get snap up much faster than homes which a bigger size despite it being more expensive!!

An example will be in the past comparison of an old three room apartment built in the 1980s versus the ones which has the same size of a current four room apartment built in the after the millennium. Just look at the newly built versus the older generation apartments, compare the windows, put your thumb against the windows from your vehicle or when you happen to pass by in public transport.

Older apartment’s windows can cover around the size of our thumb while the newer generation of apartments, their windows are smaller than our thumb, to me, newly built apartments are like pigeon holes for birds to live, not us, but funny thing is, we have no choice but to move in since there isn’t any other choice left, neither was I in control of wanting to move or not.

When I read that article, I was wondering if adults are smart or are the developers smarter but since I’m already as of a adult age, I know I am definitely not going to be among those intelligent adults buying a expensive apartment with lesser space just because of the sales hyped up buzz of thanks to the media which created a sales frenzy.

If you understand what I mean, spread news of this blog post to your beloved family and friends, help them save money and prevent those developers from ripping our money off our wallets just because they don’t know that they are suffering a loss on each purchase of flat yet they are smiling and thank you the property agents who are in fact making their clients poorer.

I don’t know how smart we ourselves are, but if you want to help yourself, your friends and family save money, than tell them about the trend of property size are descending while price is ascending thus price inflation on all apartments.

Spread the word to save money. Don’t rush into buying homes if they are just building smaller homes and jetting up the prices. Practice delay-gratification, it will help you save hell lots of money. Trust me on this.

There was once when a blocks of flats in a are of Singapore that was not popular in the launch couple of years back, with only less than ten occupants which made that area looked like a ghost town, which made developers to relook at their layout, design before new apartments were built soon after with numerous other strategies to push for the sales of the unsold apartments which was featured in the newspapers.

The moral of the story and lesson learnt, do not rush into buying homes, if you don’t like it, don’t buy it that will force developers to rethink and relook at their product (apartments) which they are selling.

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