The incredible class reunion after leaving school 35 years.

After I left UATS in 1976 for 35 years, we hold a class reunion, not my sec 4 class but my neighbor class $4-4, I was in E4-2.

I met Lee Song at Bugis after many years, which I lost contact with him. We used to stayed in the neighborhood area. He asked me to come to his home for the class reunion, which his class E4-4 had been holding every year.

My class class E4-2 had since stopped holding class reunions for many years.

At Lee Song home which he invited the lion dance troupe to his home to perform.

I met back some of the classmates where we  where split into different classes  from  sec 2 going into sec 3 - arts, metalwork, electronic & woodwork class etc.

I was in the arts class, I was not qualified to go into the technical classes by one points. Because I never passed up  2 technical projects for evaluations to the teacher.

I reached there around 1pm started our dailogues in his room around at 2, some brought their wives there one brought his mistress. Many of them hair growing white.

Mike is my classmate since 1967 still in contact, came around 3pm something and brought his swedish wife and his son around 1 year old.

Maybe Xiang Yun the mediacorp actress is our  classmate it is possible that 3 us were in the same school or class?

We adjourned and dailogued outside the house. Lee Song kept bringing food - crackers which he specially brought from M'sia, abalones and beer to treat us.

Later the brother of Henry Tan our schoolmate who invented the thumbdrive and other patents came, I had a brief dailogue with him and  called it a day.

What an incredible karmic  & mystical reunion after 35 years, for our classmates from different classes  to come together again.

Actress Xiang Yun of Mediacorp

http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Xiang_Yun

 Xiang Yun was the first batch of artistes at  the then Singapore Broadcasting Corp. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiang_Yun

We got something in common, I heard that she help out her mom's drinks stall at certain primary school where I used to studied there.

She and me were born in the the same year and same day but not the same month.

I used to go to Macpherson CC almost every night, where she stayed just across the road,  and the coffee stall at Circuit Road, where I used to have dialogues with my friends every night and watch TV there.

I had emailed her, on and off she did replied me on numerous occasions. There were possibility  we were classmates.

I seen her 2 times, she was interviewing a person, when I was performing in the National Day Parade and another time I saw her at Bugis I want to approach her, but somehow never had the courage to.

I saw many artistes came and gone at Mediacorp.  Against all odds she still around, she must have some special qualities that enable let her stay in a not so easy industry for so long.

I wonder what are the secrets of her success, she was one of the earliest pioneer in Singapore film industry after 27 years she still consistently featured in many shows and received many awards.

I asked her which she replied in chinese; living a life silently, low key, struggle for life, and having a meaningful and wonderful life with others.

One of this day will we the have the karma to meet the 3rd time? If so she will be the second earliest schoolmates still in contact? One of primary one classmate Mike, we were still in contact.

In conversations with Radio Producer Ning Na of 988 online radio

The above 2 photos were from Ning Na.

Got a call from Ning Na, and went down to the 988 online, studio to meetup with her a few days later.

The conversations started after Ning Na of 988 internet radio, completed interviewing 2 persons and they had left.

Ning Na briefly introduced me to her audiences at 10.30am.

Later she played some music.

We started our conversation on managing finances, investments and health etc.

She asked out for  a biz meeting

I requested some photos from her to put in my blog, which she forwarded a few photos to me.

I took a photo of her and left at 11am, after our interview on and offline.
http://www.facebook.com/NingNa988

Presently she with WeChat

How the Nobel Prizes influence the success and happiness of the Swedish people

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/country_profiles/1021823.stmhttp://www.sweden.se/eng/Home/Education/Research/Facts/The-Nobel-Prize/

Highly successful people usually started early in their life in their chosen field of endeavors. They are likely to have a influential figure as their models of success. The persons are likely to be their close relatives.

Bill Gates father is a banker. Warren Buffret father is a remisier. Maradona grandfather gave him a football as a present at his one year old birthday. Michel Platini's father built a football field model for him to practice his freekicks.

With the highly prestigious Nobel Prizes given to the carefully selected winners from around the world in 6 categories ( Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Peace awarded in Norway and Sweden) Each prize is worth US $1.5 million and there might be joint winners.

Children  look for role models to follow. With the regular broadcasting of the Nobel Prizes ceremony and the winners flying every year to collect their prizes in Sweden, which in turn inspire the many Swedish children to set aim to achieve the Nobel Prizes.

It not surprise that Sweden with a such a small population of only 9 million people able to produce many giants like Ikea, Volve & Scania etc http://swedishstartups.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=2024928%3ATopic%3A9565

Sweden produced many major inventions: http://www.sverigeturism.se/smorgasbord/smorgasbord/industry/inventions/ 

A person may invent something, it take a innovator like Henry Ford or Steve Job to improve on it and make it a best seller.

Should Singapore incentivise more factory make building materials?

Constructions entail noise pollutions and the requirement of technical manpower.

With dwindling birthrate and parents not so encouraging their children to go into the industry.

Will more incentives need to encourage the innovations and usage of factory make building materials?

What types of incentives need to overcome the future shortages of manpower? Which Singapore could face severe manpower crunch for the industries in the future.

Having been in the manufacturing industries for the better part of working life.

Factory make building materials could lower the cost and increase the efficiency of the buildings.

Any other suggestions?

http://www.ehow.com/facts_7552888_innovation-construction-technology.html




http://www.cif.org/innovation.php

Submitting my handsfree, one leg marathon cycling feat to the Guinness Book of World Record

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Coast_Park

http://bicyclestunts.blogspot.com/2008/03/bicycle-stunts.html


In my younger days, I had cycled an inexpensive normal bicycle up and down East Coast Cycling Track up and down using only one leg and handsfree, from end to end 12 km in around 45 minutes, in  training seen by many people. And it was done with people cycling up and down the cycling track, which I am able to avoid knocking onto them. Using a single speed, fixed gear bike.

Hope that one of these days, I can find some officials to video record and verify it, to submit it to the Guinness Book of World Records.http://awesomefeat-henry.blogspot.com/2007/02/marathon-one-leg-handfree-cycling-feats.html

It will be against great odds if I am able to gain entry into Guinness Book of World Records?

Should Singapore set up the equivalents of Nobel Prizes to encourage innovations and inventions?

http://www.sverigeturism.se/smorgasbord/smorgasbord/industry/inventions/
http://www.si.se/English/Navigation/Current-projects2/Swedish-Innovations2/Swedish-Innovations/
Given the huge incentives and prestige of the Nobel Prizes which greatly enhanced the incentives to risk , innovates and invent. It will generate massive ideas and later leads to success?

At the present moment, Singapore is facing yet another recesssion.

In the earlier days, Singapore succeed due to low cost in manufacturing.

Now China and India have a huge, cheap and well educated workforce. It is difficult for Singapore to compete with them in regards to cheap manufacturing costs and labour.

As of the present moment, Singapore is heavily dependent on cheap foreign labour. This will further may create more social unrest, widen income gap and give Singapore a cheap image.

Scandinavia countries have some of the highest standard of living in the world. Should our country learn from them?

Their population is small but developed many innovations and inventions;
have world class companies like Ikea, Lego , Nokis & Volvo etc.
They depend little on cheap foreign labours and casinos.

Why can't Singapore set/follow good examples?

Singapore has $200 billions reserves.

Singapore can set up multi-million dollar prizes equivalents of Nobel prizes.

Honour and reward innovations and inventions more often, so that many more good ideas and patents can be produced to drive the economy.

This will also strengthen Culture and bring out the best of local talents.

It is able to pump huge amount of money into building more private schools with state of the art technology and research facilities as well as sports (sea, land, hard, soft) complex to draw more high value students from all over the world.

Kallang River Park has huge empty plots which can be used to build many new facilities.




Building a 88 stories high tech building or innovations and research near the MRT along the Kallang River

The building to be build to house multi functional facilities like  National Research Centre, activities for arts, music and cultures facilities & library.

Last a minister wrote to my wife getting a PR, asking ideas for community bonding which i replied it on her behalf.

Important consideration for community bonding is easy access, so that they can drop by conveniently.

The 88 stories to have residential, hotel, office and shops house in the same building to provide all in one amenities?

With ten stories of underground facilities like carparks, securities equipments and facilties etc?

With renewable and green energy building. Beside it the Kallang River can generate renewable energy

The $1.5 billion stadium beside it will draw huge tourists because it is the only one in the world to showcase Singapore innovations with the 88 stories building, with it award winning state of art technology and massive seasport facilties.

Building a high tech sports school, to training sports man and invite top coaches around the world to come

We can also pump huge amount of money to employ more teachers. Build more private and local schools. Build schools with new educational systems, cutting edge research and facilities to draw top innovative staff as well as true foreign talent.

Start a tourism research centre,
study how to draw higher spending tourists and make them staying longer.
Invest billions of dollars in training tourism staff as well as upgrading tourist spots.

Create more Eco-friendly solutions that help, can influence other countries and heal mother earth.

Build facilities that emphasis on healthy living. Research on how to live longer and healthier instead of building more hospitals and focusing on curing diseases which will create and manifest more diseases.

Reduce dependency on casino gradually.
Casino creates social problems such as broken families, loan sharks, gangsters, suicides, chickens running around etc.,

Cheap labour produces negative effects as well.

By doing so, Singapore will set a good example for the world to follow, help heal the planet, bring in positive vibrations, generate income and revamp it's economy as well.