Today supposed to go KTV with Weide, but due to the nice weather I took my parents to Garden By The Bay. It is a nice place, a little bit like Botanical Gardens but less natural. A nice peaceful feeling to be close to agriculture, and took a few photos for mum. Then, took them for dinner at Lau Pat Sat, thats where I met Weide. After that, went to stroll along Singapore River with him. Perhaps someday shall go in Avalon.

Interesting chat with him. I made him come to wushu every tue, and shall try to persuade the Ace Team to come as well to increase popularity of Eunos wushu. Well, when everywhere else is dying down, bedok has revived, thats cool! shall take it to a new level, eunos! haha. DQ is definitely interested, shall make him stay too. Alot of life philosophy could be derived from wushu principles. 

Anyway, so was chatting with him about life ba I guess, updating each other. Strange, met him in sec 1, as classmate, its funny how I befriended a guai-lan-kia last time, and was not very close, but eventually came into wushu, came into church, then now in city harvest, and we live a different kind of life. When we get together, its like a new lesson every meeting. Sadly, he remembered more words from me than I from him. Today we were chatting about the world today.

Definitely, there would be a higher being. From the Jurassic era, there are carnivores, but the herbivores has shells and spikes to defend themselves. Fishes, as much as they are easily eaten, they produce a lot of eggs, and vice versa, those dangerous animals have limited population. Grasses too, grow back easily after swept cleaned by locusts. Everything seems to have a balance, except humans.

So one theory I heard, is that whoever on top are growing too, started off with physical conflicts, then into this generations of deceptions and laws, and to technology next. So definitely, if there were to be a second coming, He would most likely be sitting with the confused people and the blinded people.

Well, sometimes we wonder why the income disparity, it is probably due to culture. Certain culture saves a lot, while others spend on luxuries and expresses their happiness through celebrations. Thus, the disparity starts. Then, is the resources, the richer gets better teachers, educations, connections, facilities, and the poor gets under-qualified volunteers. Then, for a nation to grow, the citizens got to "pia", got to strive harder. This encourages competition to have breakthroughs. Every winner has a loser, but society advances. If we were to be a welfare state, we wouldnt have much inventions and achievements, because of our lazy nature. So, disparity is sure to exist for society to advance. Without advancement, society could really be boring.

Then, government cant tax the rich to give to the poor, because that will turn off the rich to come to singapore and spend, by spending, they increase consumer spending, gdp goes up, they helped economy, they give survival to goods and service providers, they invest in new businesses.

Oh speaking of investing, a friend was thinking how to utilize his 5k savings, (because leaving in bank is devalue-ing, due to high inflation rate and pathetic interest rate) after researching, I think its hard. Unless physical investment like gold, because at least the value goes along with the "value" of that physical asset instead of money, which is virtual and easily manipulated. To invest into companies without IPO, have to have lawyers, and agreements, and deal directly with founder, will require large amount of money. This amount can only play stocks, which then will require time, which he doesnt have. So, why not start a small entrepreneur  blogshop, pasar malam, carts? or even a couple of month trial of a small cafe? Or can even realize another friend's dream of turning the card game into a marketable game. Hmm....  But I strongly lean on small cafe, so mum could help, and could publicize her cooking skills, and can have a start her 30 years or so career.