Saying you are rich without saying so

That is how you do it. Just live in a landed home. You can't tell people when asked where you live that it is a secret right?

The Autumn signal

I have used them to tell me the change in seasons for my friends living in the northern temperate zone for several years now. I also used to have some from Indiana signaling to me early the seasonal changes from the plantings in her backyard but ever since her old computer broke down I haven't heard from her as often.

Vile Singapore Public Hospitals

Kudos to TTSH for not participating in this duplicity. NUH, SGH and CGH are led by vile hospital administrators. This is going to cost the PAP support, and what for? It is just stupid politics.

I was talking to an old friend whose kids are all doctors and serving in rural areas. Former Singaporeans we have lost, good ones. What we have at home running those three hospitals, I wish they get the boot.

Chen Show Mao: A Scrubby Sunday Story

Saw this first thing in the morning. What I heartening post! We are spoiled until we don't want to be. Many of us are like that. We will come together and do the right thing but not during normal complacent times. May we never lose this in ourselves.

See Chen Show Mao's post.

Trade War: Only needs to sign off

At his last woodstock for capitalism Warren Buffett declared he was confident there would not be a trade war between the US and China. I think it time for him to get ready to eat those words. The craziness of Trump must have appalled the wise man.

Who should I quote? More than a few of his cabinet secretaries have called him a moron or idiot.

Beyond the shadow of a doubt he is reckless and stupid. That was what I came away feeling after just reading the Prologue of Bob Woodward's book, "FEAR".

Trump claims himself a Christian. Now if you go to the Bible he will checked every single test of what a fool is. Full marks!

Time for US leaders to put country before president. You all have sworn an oath to do that. Alas there are some mad advisers especially in trade. There are sucker losers who do not know they are cutting their noses to spite their face to stand behind this buffoon.

Sister cradling sister

Found this picture in Sunday Times yesterday. Shared it with a couple of friends telling them that it reminded me of those times when our elder daughter would sometime cradle her younger infant sister.

She has never bullied her younger sister but have always protected and looked out for her. They are young adults now.

The Financial Crisis 10 years later

Ten years ago we were living in Dubai and the kids were still young. Today they have become young adults. Ten years ago the world changed for many and this morning I spent some time taking it in with the stuff PBS is putting out to do a stock take of then and now.

I sent the two articles to the family.

Link to the first article: ‘We Have Families Watering Down Soup’: Inside One City America Has Left Behind

and the second story: How Struggling Dayton, Ohio Reveals the Chasm Among American Cities

It's an American story because I think I have seen this before in their history. But they are so bad at knowing where and how they got to be, so they are repeating history. Also structure breeds behavior, in that sense it could not be helped.