national anthem, in easy chunks

Underlined syllables are sustained, which requires a bit of challenge in the first verse:

Mari kita Rakyat Singapura Sama-sama Menuju bahagia

Cita-cita kita
Yang mulia
Berjaya Singapura

Marilah kita bersatu
Dengan semangat yang baru
Semua kita berseru
Majulah Singapura
Majulah Singapura

6-color thinking hats

There are too many keywords about the 6 colors. I won’t try to memmorize the details. Instead, I will use my own keywords, which are a small subset of the original keywords. I won’t bother to capture the so-called “most important” keywords becasue importance is personal.

• red — (gut) feelings; intuition; controlled release of emotion (“Thinking” is always somewhat controlled.)
• blue — control; unemotional; skeptical regardless positive and negative
• black — caution; discernment; downsides; negative realism without emotion
• yellow — positive perspective based on logic+intuition; hope; benefits
• green — creative; possibilities, unconstrained; alternatives

• White (white paper) — factual; unbiased; evidence/data/information; unemotional

— which hats do I need to remind myself to wear? 1) yellow 2) blue

— which hats are too often misunderstood by me and actually matters?

black — My negative thinking is overpowering.

yellow — hard to get right.

next Ikea trip: bring..

• — this one trip
• return one more blue shopping bag
• ask how to dismantle the globe lamp before moving home
• — recurring items
• bring return items (eg )+ receipt
• bring shopping bag
• bring membership card
• laptop? beware of weight. The more big items, the harder to use the laptop.

risks remain high but am calmer #bedbug,covid

— defining example: SG covid19 — After circuit breaker, even though infection risk is not much lower than before, SG healthcare system is significantly stronger in terms of tracing capacity etc. See

Similar to bedbug strategy, some failure (above 0.001%) is inevitable so we must actively prepare, fine tune our prevention strategy. bedbug+covid: marginal benefit/cost #pragmatic compares both.

— case: bedbug — the risk remains very very high esp. in terms of suffering, but now I have a more robust mentality, a far better sense of probability of marginal ROI.

See bedbug heuristics:where, how many,spreading speed,weekly check

— case: tech churn — risk of disruptive changes will remain high, but now I have the insight of WallSt contract market, and I have found java/c++ rather stable. See https://bintanvictor.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=30897&action=edit

movies@home

• 战狼

• 寒战

• 大鱼海棠

##Q for Cigna counsellors

• Q: wife bought too many drinks for kids… shall i hide them?
• Q: How to make my son realize his current suffering is logical consequences not consequences created by parents.
• Q: My son is immature. Some friends tell me “Don’t use the word immature, esp. in front of him” but I feel it’s the reality.

Ascent of money #pdf

Click to access Ferguson,_Niall_-_The_Ascent_of_Money__A_Financial_History_of_the_World_(Penguin_Press__2008).pdf

##[16] good thing I don’t care about …#sentenceStub

(Sentence completion…)

• Good thing I don’t care about boy’s benchmark performance
• Good thing I don’t care about wife’s education credentials and earning
• Good thing I don’t care about my father’s wealth
• Good thing I don’t care about status symbols like car, job title,,,

Bad thing I didn’t care about property investment

13 keys to the white house

Designed to predict popular votes (not electoral college vote), the author gives equal weight to his 13 keys.

There are two economic keys, two charisma keys, two foreign-policy keys…

[v=vague criteria, subject to interpretation. A key weakness of this system.]

1. After the midterm election, the incumbent party holds more seats in the U.S. House of Representatives than it did after the preceding midterm election. (FALSE)
   • .. but the mid term also include 1/3 of the senate seats?
2. The incumbent-party nominee gets at least two-thirds of the vote on the first ballot at the nominating convention. (TRUE)
3. The incumbent-party candidate is the sitting president. This is a question only once in the president’s 8 years.
4. There is no third-party or independent candidacy that wins at least 5% of the vote. (TRUE)
5. The economy is not in recession during the campaign. (FALSE)
6. Real (constant-dollar) per capita economic growth during the term equals or exceeds mean growth for the preceding two terms. (FALSE)
7. [v] The administration achieves a major policy change during the term(TRUE)
8. [v] There has been no major social unrest during the term, sufficient to cause deep concerns about the unraveling of society. (FALSE)
9. [v] no scandal hitting the president. (FALSE)
10. [v] There has been no military or foreign policy failure during the term, substantial enough that it appears to undermine America’s national interests significantly or threaten its standing in the world. (TRUE)
11. [v] There has been a military or foreign policy success during the term substantial enough to advance America’s national interests or improve its standing in the world. (FALSE)
12. [v] The incumbent-party candidate is charismatic or is a national hero. (FALSE)
13. [v] The challenger is not charismatic and is not a national hero. (TRUE)

## unnoticed #1 concern in/of…

• returning an Optional.java from a method — it is the risk of returning null
• notepad++on iview11 — it is the danger of closing notepad++ and losing uncommitted changes
• dev-till-70 — it is physical health, according to Jenny, Sudhir and grandpa
• ffree for our mere mortals — it’s passive income rather than windfall.
• frustration with boy — it’s pattern recognition in word problems, no arithmetic, not science, not English, not renzi, not Chinese compo
• biggest macronutrient — starch, not sugar, not fat
• bmi — availability, temptation, esp. wrong-time temptation. See temptation=#1(short-term)challenge4weight watcher and fullness^availability: hunger