No Work-Life Balance - Nearly 90% of Sinkie Workers Digging Own Graves

Survey of 650 workers & 135 employers:

• nearly 9 in 10 said they are working beyond their official hours (don't fool themselves, what's their earnings/hr?)
• Heavy workload & unreasonable deadlines
• 70% choose to complete unfinished work in office
• 30% chose to bring work home
• 45% indicated that company pays lip service to work-life balance with policies in place just for show
• 42% indicated they chose not to use company’s work-life balance initiatives for fear of receiving inferior performance review

Digging own graves in terms of health & relationships. Price being paid is high in other areas of life. That's why i keep hammering the point that the gdp up up up which the current ruling regime like to boast is pointless.

I have already written about dire state of the workforce & its working culture:

• 98% of S'pore Workers Are 'Bochup' aka Disengaged in 2010
• 'Zombie' Workers - Plenty of Them In S'pore
• Higher Share of Sinkies Likely to Leave Current Job Within 2 Years

Many sinkies(i have also experience it) are suffering from time poverty & a sense of emptiness in their lives. Many turn to buy buy buy therapy for a purchase to give them happiness(which doesn't last long) & end up being buried in clutter that they again have to slog at work to pay for renting storage space - a vicious cycle.

A vicious cycle that is dooming S'pore that i've written on last month - Shrink, Shrink, Shrink - Result of Grow GDP at All Costs Like Cancer

Time to smell the flowers? Now many sinkies barely find time to smell the coffee.

Cardboard Bicycle - Savior from Bike Thefts

Ridiculous is the first thought that pop into some people's mind when they are first introduced to a bicycle made of cardboard.

A sheet of paper is so thin that it tears so easily. Bunch many sheets together & is tough to tear then. Cardboard which is a form of paper has already been used to package more fragile items inside them. So to me i'm open to the concept of cardboard bicycle.

To me its greatest appeal is the price. Being so affordable at US$20 it makes for an awesome commmuting bicycle with no worries about theft.

• Waterproof
• Fireproof
• Recycled materials
• US$20
• Tires are puncture proof (made of reconstituted rubber from old car tires)
• Tires do not need inflating & can last for 10 years
• Brake mechanism, wheel & pedal bearings made of recycled substances
• A car timing belt is used instead of a chain
• ~ 9 kg

Imagine at US$20, it is an awesome investment to buy one & cycle around the neighboorhood. Why bother paying $ for public transport & vehicle petrol for a neighboorhood trip to those blood sucking big corpserations?

Today is damn hot & i see threads in message board lamenting about the crazy heat today. Do we still need more greenhouse gases from fossil fuel vehicles to make it even hotter?

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Things In Excess Become Their Opposite

Expanding on what Timothy Ferriss(bold is mine) about the horrible mutations when things are in excess:
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Pacifists --> Militants
Freedom fighers --> Tyrants
Blessings --> Curses
Help --> Hindrance
More --> Less
People's Action Party --> Pro Alien Party

Too much, too many & too often of what you want becomes what you don't want.
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I used to dub the current ruling party as Pay And Pay (name says it) before switching to what netizens call it Pro Alien Party (name says it again).

Whether is Pay And Pay or Pro Alien Party, their commonality is sucking $$$ from Consumers(note i no longer use Citizens).

Great Southern Land - 1 of My Fav. Childhood Music

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1 of my favorite childhood music. When Amazon.com came online i finally got chance to buy the soundtrack(after bursting of dot com bubble) just to get the track. That was before youtube appear & made this music video sharing possible to the masses.

I first hear it in school in early 90s. Back then i'm still learning english & didn't grasp the words but the music is nice. Can't really remember but i think someone chose to play the movie Young Einstein on video cassette recorder. Great Southern Land is one of the music in it.

Years later when it was on tv, i taped the movie. At times just to listen to the music i would play-rewind the closing credits of the movie. It was then i got to know the name of the song.

After Amazon, youtube & now wikipedia on the scene i then discovered that the Australian comedy movie is a hit in Australia though is not overseas. I like the movie though.

In fact the song/music is so damn nice that Tourism Board of Australia used it as promotion.