Sat we met early to do the cards, surprisingly YQ was early, so we did her card last min at the time span when she went to buy bbt. Well Lin love the vid and the card yk made, sacrificing her sleep. Its a great feeling where we can all eat together, except that we missed out DQ. Looking at the laughter, I really feel like a family, like for the first time, its like a huge family thanksgiving dinner, 10 ppl dining together.

These days I have that "family guy" feel again, where I start wondering how would life be with spouse and kids, how do I train up my child, how would I response to his/her actions, would my kid enjoy the moment, and then all the same thing goes over and over, like what if it turns out the other way,  what if i bring up an ungrateful kid, burden to society, etc etc.

Hmm, well I revised Contem Issues, really dont wish to disappoint my tutors, who were graceful and hopeful of me, every session I talked to them I feel as if I would burst out to tears. Is like how a child would feel so guilty of betraying their expectations. Sigh.

So throughout the Sentosa Marine Life Park trip, Ive been running the notes in my head, about how Ageing is not homogeneous, because everyone has different motivation, needs, desire, work choices and wealth. There are the Discerning, Grafting, Assisted and Dependent. 

The first is where they have financial security, probably enjoying demographic dividend, where they have lesser young dependent due to low fertility in new generation and lesser older dependent due to high mortality in older generations, thus more people in workforce comes more productivity and disposable income and spending power. Many of their needs were not met by the business sector.

The second is where they are old before they are rich, the hardworking group where they would spend on external leisure but within their means, or value for money. These are probably leisure as time, to have a break from their working life.

The third is where they are in poorer health but wealthy thus needs care products or tech innovations to have independence.

Lastly, its the poor wealth and poor health people who are dependent on people, where people stereotyped as a burden to society. They needed tech innovations to assist their Instrumental/Activities of Daily Living and improve their workplace environment for them to be integrated in.

These phenomenon however is universal, as society shift through the Demographic Transition.

Before the transition, society is balanced in a sense the population is direct proportionate to the economy. Positive checks are when famine and war disease causes more infant mortality thus increased birth rate but low wages. Preventive checks is where the depressive wages causes delay in marriage due to instability of survival and increase in prostitution and so leads to low fertility rates.

Then comes the stage 1 where Mortality decreases as society comes with better hygiene and technology advancement. Then stage 2 is where Fertility Transition, of decreasing Birth Rate due to increase women literacy and job opportunities, as well as convenience of birth control. Finally comes stage 3 of population ageing as there results in a sudden increase in dependency ratio because of rectangularization of ageing and also due to low replacement level ratio (no. children needed for a female to give birth to another female). Here, population do not stop growing unlike the population equilibrium before the transition.

Thus ageing is unprecedented, pervasive, enduring and irreversible and have profound implication on all facets of society. It would impact the Law for pension and other income security or healthcare problems, and manpower for labour and consumption.