Words of Wisdom 01 (May 08 - Oct 08)

[kennynah]

dear san :

we singapore is rightfully termed as a small red dot...quite insignificant to the world's economic eco system really..to think we matter that much is to over emphasize our ego.

better stay friends with everyone and be the inconspicuous neighbour who stays out of the limelight but quietly accumulate wealth and buy that nassim hill mansion without inviting too much attention...

no one likes loud and obnoxious neighbours...we have not been very friendly in our last 4 decades as a neighbour. no one owes us anything...not even water...

last time, i hear friends, saying...should china decide to spit altogether on us, we would be relegated to becoming the next atlantis...the lost tribe no need to use any armouries.

my dear W:

yes, we r not trying to dwell too much on politics issues, however i feel that - e younger generations r 'too small picture' to cope w our dailies, they might not be awareful of how singapore (e spaces) has evolved - anthropologically.

on e above phrase: some history facts, i am sure u know abt them, our ties that are intrinsically linked to our neighbour on sand-air-water-bridge issues, ie. e contentious plan was to build a bridge to replace a causeway bet. e 2 countries was eventually aborted.

1. on e recent developments of singapore w e IRs,
2. msia has announced its plans on e iskandar development region, and
3. our water treaty expiring in 2012;

@ e right time, would there might be a possibility of igniting fuels and more deals again??
(mmm ... your wisdom roots lor)

[millionairemind]

[IF]

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!


--Rudyard Kipling

[helios]

dear K: so, i see u got a mansion in nassim hill (than in sentosa cove) & sing Bread If

If a picture paints a thousand words,
Then why can't I paint you?
The words will never show the you I've come to know.
If a face could launch a thousand ships,
Then where am I to go?
There's no one home but you,
You're all that's left me too.
And when my love for life is running dry,
You come and pour yourself on me.

If a man could be two places at one time,
I'd be with you.
Tomorrow and today, beside you all the way.
If the world should stop revolving spinning slowly down to die,
I'd spend the end with you.
And when the world was through,
Then one by one the stars would all go out,
Then you and I would simply fly away

[winston]

Lao Tzu:

If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled.

If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are.

When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

[helios]

wisdom begins in wonder - socrates

[kennynah]

the world is my oyster.....and i savour it .. ha

[helios]

i extracted from The Wisdom Paradox, ie. a book given by my friend, i haven't finished reading it even till today (as it is v technical on e brain lobes, functionality, medical terms etc). i bookmarked this chapter: e price of wisdom - a poet wrote this:

My Mind to me a kingdom is,
Such present joys therein I find,
That it excels all other bliss,
That earth affords or grows by kind.

further extracts:

We all hate cliches, often forgetting that what makes them cliches is that they r grounded in truth. "The past is e best predictor of e future" is a well-worn cliche; it contains a huge dose of truth in history, in economics, in politics, and it is true in e lives of our brains and thus of our minds.

When we said of our ability to "see through things" that does not come by itself as an epiphany of maturity or as an entitlement of old age => it's e condesnsation of mental activities across years and decades of life ... e scope & quality of one's mental lifetime will shape e quality of its final stages; "hence, wisdom begins in wonder", said socrates.

- 1st message: our journey through life is through e life of our minds. A life of e mind rich in experiences, faced w mental challenges frequently, diversely, and unabashed by them, rewards us w a generous cognitive tools (this'll shield us against e effects of brain decay).

- 2nd message: take full advantage of mental autopilot, regardless of one's age, one must continue to test e mind and strive for new mental challenges ...

[millionairemind]

Words of Wisdom from the greatest stock operator of all times (imo)..

Jesse Livermore

"Wall Street never changes. The pockets change, the suckers change, the stocks change,
but Wall Street never changes because human nature never changes."

"I know from experience that nobody can give me a tip or series of tips that will make money
for me than my own judgement."

“Profits always take care of themselves but losses never do."

"If a stock doesn't act right don't touch it; because, being unable to tell precisely what is wrong,
you cannot tell which way it is going. No diagnosis, no prognosis. No prognosis, no profit."

"There is only one side to the stock market;....not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side. "
It took me longer to get that general principle fixed firmly in my mind than it did most of the
more technical phases of the game of stock market speculation."

[pepper]

Lyrics from one of my favourite artistes, Sting - Fragile:

If blood will flow
when flesh and steel are one
Drying in the colour
of the evening sun

Tomorrow's rain will
wash the stains away
But something in our minds
will always stay

Perhaps this final act was meant
To clinch a lifetime's argument
That nothing comes from violence
and nothing ever could

For all those born
beneath an angry star
Lest we forget how
Fragile we are

On and on
the rain will fall
Like tears from a star
like tears from a star
On and on
the rain will say
How fragile we are
how fragile we are

[kennynah]

welcome pepper