Balance of Life

Life consist of Family, Friends, Work and Self.

In order to be a balanced person (happiest person), a strike between all the above-mentioned 4 factors must be taken into consideration.

Family is where u belong, also the nucleus of the society. Without a family, you are nothing, if you cannot have one because of various reason, make one, adopt, join a good lawful one. Give your parents a massage, your children hugs, your siblings food. Your spouse love.
Friends are what you cannot do without in the outside world as it is harsh, cruel to us and unforgiving sometimes. So make sure you care about your friends. But be firm and learn to say no when needed to. As the Lao Tsu saying goes, the misbehaved ones are our unmentioned mentors in life, the behaved ones shows a good example to the misbehaved ones.

Work is something everyone has to do, unless he/she cannot work at all. Since it takes up almost half of our lives, make sure you get the one destined for you. As there is definitely a job for everyone, just that most are still mismatched. A simple checklist to determine whether is the job you are having a good one for you, ask yourself are you eager to go to work everyday? Are you always smiling while working?

In order to make all these happen, you are the most important factor. Life is definitely worth living and exciting unless you are in Third World countries or. If you don’t know what life have in store for you tomorrow, don’t you think that itself is exciting? And of course, be mindful of all your actions and constantly think of how you could improve your thinking and how to be smiling in all sorts of situations imaginable.

Less meat is better?

Somehow, the word of eating less meat will greatly contribute to the decrease of global warming which is so true have been spreading around. But the pursuing of a bourgeois lifestyle is still deeply etched in the mind of most people in the world, so what can really be done to correct this unhealthy mindset of self first, earth last?

Let’s return to the food chain, although we are at the top of the food chain or just below vampires, we are the only species having the choices of remaining an omnivore or a herbivore. Isn’t this fact fascinating? But it requires strict discipline to become a vegetarian as no vegetable taste better than meat. Which hedonist doesn’t love meat?

At least cut down on the amount of meat one can have. Too much meat cause obesity and unless you are a bodybuilder, one shouldn’t need that much meat. Domestic growing of livestocks will cause a reduction of our flora, their german gas, or fart is also an amazing contributing factor to global warming, fart can be really dangerous.

If reincarnation really does exist, I do not want to take the chance of eating too much meat or poultry in case I became someone’s next meal. It would be better to take the winning side of the good and be healthy at the same time too.

After all, we are talking about lives here, neither anyone of you deserve to be food for someone or vice versa. So just start by reducing the intake of meat, very soon, it will become a habit.

One of the roads to undertake to become wealthy is to spend smartly

Ways to save money

Supermart vs small Minimart
For supermart, as we all know, there are the manager, supervisor, shareholders and many service staff. Most of their pay would come from the extra costs added to the items sold. whereas in a minimart, the owner, usually also the supervisor and cashier all in one will handle everything thus greatly reducing the prices of the goods. Although the variety of products range much greatly in a supermart, do try as much as possible purchase from the minimart, unless there is something u needed not found in a minimart, then by all means, march forth to your nearest ever-profit-hungry supermarket.

Foodcourt vs Fastfood vs Hawker Centre

The answer is clear Hawker centre equates to better priced food and more mouth watering varieties.

Shopping

Who doesn’t like to shop in our current world of consumerism?

Window Shopping vs street shopping vs online shopping

The same theory applies to the supermart analogy.

Definitely window shopping saves u the most money, but when buying is necessary, let’s see which is the most smartest.
In a normal manufacturer to shop process, the cost of a pair of Bose Quiet Comfort 3 headphones cost around $600+ SGD in any retailers in Singapore. However, an ebay seller would usually sell it at the price nearest to the manufacturer/company which is about $350+ USD + $30 shipping cost from the US which totals to around just $400+ SGD. Then there are certified merchants at Amazon which are on top of their low prices, they are extremely trustworthy as well. Singpost@USA is currently tied in with certified companies in US like Amazon to provide shipping to us locals. This is a way Singpost can increase its profits while saving a bit of money for us as well. Online shopping just require a debit card but caveat emptor, the buyer shall be responsible for any risks they undertake. But as for me, I am fully aware of the risks for the sake of saving money. Again but, but try not to be hooked to online shopping and overspend.

A last but, if we were all to buy online, sooner, many local shops may close down and that would be deemed unpatriotic. Who cares anyway. Its everyone for himself or herself. So happy shopping.

The significance of 3

The trinity, the 3 largest factions in the world, the romance of the 3 kingdoms, the 3 stooges, the 3 top insurance companies in Singapore, the 3 major local banks in Singapore, the 3 telecom companies, the 3 major religions and the 3 future superpowers set to dominate the world. what else starts with 3? 3 little pigs? Playstation, Xbox and Nintendo? Why is 3 just so common yet so powerful in this world?

So what does this have to do with the future? Perhaps we can deduce the future simple on the number 3. From history and even early literature it was also discovered that the main players of WWII are USA, Japan and Germany, The 3 ruling gods of Olympus, Zeus, Poseidon and Hades. Perhaps the same can applies to our daily life. A person can only be complete with his 3 group of families. Spouse, parents and children. 3 material possessions, 3 stages of life, Childhood, adulthood and old age.

Perhaps from all these, we should try to implement 3 into our lives in areas where we are unable to make any important decisions. If we were to really introduce the power of 3 into our lives, I believe that our lives were to be smooth sailing (ending part)

Not forgetting PS3, Xbox360 and Wii, but Wii seemed to be one breaking out of the trinity cycle…

3 played an important factor in maintaining peace and power. A simple logic would be if there are 3 superpowers in the world and any 1 were to attack the other, the 3rd superpower would take advantage of the situation. Therefore, 3 is an important factor to keep power in check. The same goes for the modernized world, there are always 3 organisations set to keep things competitively and power in check.

Shall we continue do what we are currently doing? How about to be unwealthy so that others can survive more easily.

In a world of capitalism and materialism, the poor gets poorer faster and the rich, well, we know.
So we have to help them, but why? Many of us are hoarding our monies and trying to get to the top and earn more money. But can we bring our monies to our grave? Or personal belongings like cars and houses 6 feet underground too?

Perhaps you have just bought the latest and a very expensive mobile phone and raring to use and admire it all the times, but after a few weeks, you would have treat it like any other old belongings. So in other words, just buy what you really need. After all, we are all borrowers of life to our planet and can never return anything to it. But you may think, why shouldn’t we live as hedonists as we are wired to? Well, some of our hedonistic pleasures may be harmful to our planet and possibly, inhabitable to our future generations.

We want to be joyful and happy and free of sorrow and money can’t buy us happiness as you may heard of it countless time. True it may buy you almost anything you desire but how about using it to buy a meal for the impoverished child and make a difference not only to your consciousness, but also to her stomach even for a day. Please visit http://www.thehungersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=1 if you have the time even for a glance. Prove your worth as a worthy humane human being. Its better to overreact and laugh out later rather than not doing anything and despair for the rest of your life. (Taken from MGS Portable) We have no wish to hear another news of children dying of hunger while some of us are complaining their food on the table are not sumptuous enough.

But again, you may retort that you are penniless. So in order to retort your next excuse, I shall give some advice on shopping. Try ebay, many of the goods there especially clothings and electronic accessories (PSP accessories) are just a staggering fraction of the prices seen in your local shops. But remember to add up the shipping charges and always ask yourself whether you REALLY need the items you WANT to purchase. Anyway, here is a site where not only cheap swimwear and nice accessories are available, you can also do a part of your bit for the environment by buying from the site too. Note that I am in no ways affiliated to any of the sites I am promoting. After you get the shipment, remember to keep the envelope and the plastic bags for recycling later. If you are going to do your bit for the world, might as well do it all the way as the Chinese saying goes, accompany the Buddha all the way to the west.

But in the end, you may want to ask witfm, what’s in it for me? You will find the answers in many years later, or a few months for some of you. So make a difference, be different, differentiate yourself from the masses, and know what is really to be different and the true inner you that you may not have found out. But can you really do it, that’s another different question for another day……

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