Creative Problem-Solving

Everyone has problems. It’s either big problems or small problems. If they could be resolved or controlled, it’s no problem. If not, they become big problems and people do funny or irrational acts.  

There are many ways to problem solving. If none works, maybe you can try drinking away your problems as Psychology Professor Andrew Jarosz from Mississippi State University has done research that focuses on attention and its relation to problem solving and creativity. 

His conclusion?

The drunks are better off in creative problem-solving. However, there is a ‘key’ to using this method. Find and read about his research.

ThE MERDEKA GENERATION

If you belong to this group, congratulations!
Goodies and benefits are coming to you if you wait.
As usual and like in the past, all goodies must wait as “they” only act after official announcement. Not before as “they” don’t like new plans and policies to leak.

  

I believe our “Big Bro” will stop giving out such benefits after he joins this club before he hands over the baton to the next leader. This MERDEKA generation (those born in the 1950s) was making a lot of noise when the PIONEER generation package was announced some years ago. So now they finally get it too.

The later generations might be getting their packages soon. They would be called the “TAN GU-GU” (等久久) Generation.   

Towards a Zero Waste Nation: Possible?

This concept looks nice on paper but can we really achieve it? Not unless people here change their consumption habits and alter their lifestyles to follow 5R disciplines.
Big Bro said we should be grateful to live in a cosmopolitan city. In reality, it’s a city with a ‘rojak’ population with people so diverse in background, culture and a different mindset of its own. To make everyone think and behave alike is akin to making the female pig climb a tree. Just look at our ‘return your tray campaigns’ at our hawker centers and public eating places. After more than 30 years of efforts and yearly campaigning, little progress has been made. It’s still a messy sight everywhere.  

To make this work, law and legislations must be implemented with enforcement to make consumers pay for what they dispose as wastes. It shouldn’t be a common flat-rate for waste disposal for all households.

Unless & until consumers are made to feel the pain, there would be no gain towards a zero waste nation. It’s just another campaign for the year & to just look good on paper.

Three Fastest Ways to get Rich

1.    Depends on your Luck (靠运气)

This is by far the easiest way to get rich. Just continue to buy lottery and hope for luck to come to your doorsteps. Keep dreaming.

2.    Use your strong Backup (靠山)

When your strong backup likes you, you’re already a winner. Everything would be planned for you and any obstacles would be cleared for your path to get rich and successful. Start looking for one.

3. Use your Connections (靠关系)

You don’t depend on one backup but many acquaintances to link you to the path of success. However, you have to spend time, money and resources to nurture the right connections. Choose your connections carefully. If you use the wrong connection, it’d lead you to your downfall. So keep checking.

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4. Unleash your own Strengths (靠自己)

When you don’t have any of the above three, the only way left is to depend on yourself. It’s not working harder, but smarter than anybody else. Keep on working, my friend.

Happy Lunar New Year!

Wishing all my friends and fans a very good year ahead and a very Happy & Prosperous Lunar New Year.