A Defence Executive Officer working in the SAF fainted and died after completing a run on a treadmill. Relatively fit and health concious people have been known to die during workouts.
Sad and frustrating especially if you exercise regularly. What’s gone wrong? What can we do to prevent it from happening.
To avoid gym death, exercise more frequently using shorter routines. Each routine should not cross your 80% threshold.
So what’s one threshold? There are no devices or technology that can to measure tis automatically. But you can sense this for yourself very easily. Your threshold is point after which you see “stars”. You need to stop to rest instead of moving to the next exercise station without hardly losing a beat.
You can set limits to a particular workstation by testing your threshold at every point.
If you have a pulse meter, measure your heartbeat peak and recovery rate. Use this metric to limit any form of workout anywhere and anytime.
Anybody for gym kakis?
Regular gym-ming is the most effective and safest way to achieve good health. It is not boring if you are training with discipline and purpose. You can see results within a week. No expensive supplements or workout program required.
What is regular? Find a routine that you can accomodate at least on alternate days. Better still fit a daily routine.
Best still fit your daily work routine to your workout. Choose a gym that incorporates a sauna, massage chair, reading/TV room and internet broadband.
Immersing yourself in health and beauty. . Is there more to a beautiful life?
Dear Wong Kong Thean,
Thanks, I appreciate your gymn tips. I do work out sometimes in the gymn at the Chinese Swimming Club but I feel that local fellas tend to be very rough when using equipments and also not very conscious about throwing their wet towels about the place and the BO.
However, recently, I bought myself a bench and some free weights and do my routine at home. I feel more relax and comfortable. At 61, I am still very much into chinese martial arts and still do a few rounds of “free sparring” at a younger friend’s place.
You are right again, sometimes when I read about healthy guys just passing out cold and dead. It really is quite frightening! I am likely to be one such candidate! My doc told me to take it real easy.
Thanks again for the tips,regards
Edwin Chen
We lose bone mass with age. So best to try avoid impact exercises and sparring. “Internal injury” to the bone could cause a lot of long term pain through arthiritis, joint disorders etc.
Non-impact martial arts like tai-chi and qicong is good.
If you do weights, try to make sure that you do at least the same amount or more in cardiovasculars like cross-trainers or aerobics. Muscle building stresses your pumping system which only cardos help to build. Try not to blow a fuse.
With age, fitness depends on cardiovasculars. Weights is the opposite. It is taking risks for beauty.
Having said this I do weights too. If I die, I want to die beautifully. I don’t want to go looking like a jello in a box.
Dear Wong KT,
Thanks again for the advice. I do a little TaiChi and GiGong too for health reasons. But my industrious practicing buddies have since left me and now I am “shadowing” along by myself.
In fact, those buddies of mine are quite good at it, one has crossed over to Perth to open a school and have also written a book on the subject of “QiGong” and one other experimented with Thai style kick boxing (Muay Tai) in Bangkok. This younger chap has won a few tournaments and have since returned home and started giving lessons to locals.
I don’t take part in martial arts contests or demonstrations anymore and I don’t do heavy bench presses (anything over 150lbs)too. Just enough to tone up,yes I like to die in a beautiful shape!
It is nice chatting with you, lets meet someday. No not to spar!!
Regards,stay healthy!
Edwin Chen
Hi KT
To me, the reason why I go to the gym, it’s more of keeping fit and maintaining my weight.
I make it a point to be at the gym by 7am daily before I start work. I would normally just do about half an hour, be it at the cross trainer or the treadmill.
Some time when I don’t feel like doing anything, I will just do some stretching exercise or go for a steam bath.
I feel especially refresh after that. Also, my advice for those with knee pain, go for regular exercise, it will help. :)
Cheers and stay fit !
Susan
Hi Susan,
Excellent discipline. You are in great shape literally. Hint: Hang on to top of the ski sticks on the crosstrainer. Many women don’t do this. They double your workout for the same time. Adds aerobics to your arms and keep the flabs out without weight-building muscles.
Tell us about your gym. I would like to compile a review of “Which Gym” in Singapore. Golf tour is a very important dimension of the game. Perphaps we can organize the equivalent gym/spa/healthclub tour later.
Body pains? Have you also tried regular foot reflex. Stimulate the right point and increase blood flow there just like exercise. Heat pads too. Same theory – increase blood flow regularly to target.
Hi KT, Edwin and Sue. I exercise regularly too. I am also careful about what I eat. Its important to exercise to keep fit but we must also eat well and right to remain healthy.
I have started reading a book called SuperFoods by Steven G. Pratt and Kathy Matthews. Its very interesting and I am now more aware of the types of food to eat that gives me the maximum benefits. There are also recipes on how to get the best out of the food.
I have always loved eating fruits and vegetables and this book tells us which fruits and vegetables are better than the others.
Especially, when cancer, diabetes and heart problems are on the rise, the book also tells us what food are good for the heart, diabetes and what food contain antioxidants.
Check it out and together with your workouts, you will live a long and healthy life.
Warmest Regards
Caroline Gee
Hi Caroline,
The book is very good. But the basics are simple.
Execution is commonsense.
Be lazy and stingy. Tell yourself not to cook anything that requires more than microwave to heat. Refuse to eat out. And don’t read cook books. Back to nature.
Whip up meals with greens, fruits, nuts and cereals. You can have a balanced diet without processed foods, meat and elaborate cooking with spices. Yes, salads without cream. The upside is that you can eat as much as you can.
Switch desserts to fruit salads. Infinite permutations. Sour fruits combined with raisins for exotic tastes.
Drink a lot of water and soups. It is nature’s detox program and is still the best. Commercial detox is dangerous. The chemical cleaning leaves your immune system vulnerable.
If there’s only one thing you will do, then just don’t snack between meals. You are 50% done.
Hi KT. I fully agree with you. If you want to snack, then have a couple of walnuts or almond. Roasted not fried.
I make cream of pumpkin or brocolli soup but I do not put cream in my soup. Taste just as good.
Yes, you can have delicious food without too much salt and oil. Just use lots of spices, lemon or lime juice and lots of fresh tomatoes yum yum.
Use sago as a natural thickener if you like to skate on your soups. Lots of fun. Bubble soup.
Excercise keep us fit n healthy.But as one age,our internal organs start to deteriorate,no amt of excercises can reverse that.Hence you hv suppose to be healthy individuals just drop dead while excercising as they might hv heart problems which they dont know,all those heavy jogging is taxing on the heart.
As one age its better to take it easy,dont tax the joints further.Go for walks,swim,yoga,mild dancing,cycle,tai chi,gigong.Also dont be weekend warrior (only do excercise on weekend) once a week it can do more harm as one doctor put it.Unless it mild workout.
Heavy jogging? Equivalent to running or jogging more than an hour? Or perhaps persistent jogging constantly over the week over long distance. I wont really agree that heavy jogging is taxing on the heart. Much depends on your physical endurance. Heart problem is a thing that will surface sooner or later even if you are healthy, fit and do only light exercise. These days there are readily available heart monitoring devices in the market where you can buy and monitor your heartbeat.
Cycling is a form of good exercise and also oppotunity for interaction to get to know each other better and strengthen ties. SHC’s cycling activity is divided into 3 parts, apertiser, main course and dessert. A chit chat session before main cycling and ends with a dinner cum another chit chat session.
The number seen at recent sessions had increased steadily. Its not just the leaders’ efforts but most importanly, the efforts put in by all those who were present.
Come rain or shine, we are always there for “U” on the 3rd Sat of every month at East Coast Park unless we decide otherwise.
Hi Chee,
Its internal but may not be the deterioration of organs. New research has shown that its internal fat that is highly associated with an increased risk of heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and some kinds of cancer.
One theory is that visceral fat may release more inflammatory molecules that trigger these diseases than other types of fat. Researchers are still investigating the exact reason why deep belly fat is so hazardous to one’s health.
You can pay to CT or MRI but all you need is a tape measure. People most at risk are men with waistlines bigger than 40 inches and women with waists bigger than 35 inches.
Lipo does not work. You can sumo and still be healthy. Its what deep inside that counts.
Notes : what to do?
– Stress increases Visceral Fat
– Exercise Better than Dieting.
– First Fat to be Lost During Exercise.
There is an experimental operation which removes a flap of deep abdominal fat called the omentum. More about this when studies are available.
Meanwhile the best advice is “if you eat a lot, exercise a lot.” And if you have to bet, bet that you currently overeat and underexercise.
Hi YK,
I am also an endurance sportsman in my youth. They are the greatest risk group as oppose to, say, sprinters. The latter group normally gives up power sports when they age. It is the endurance people that never say die.
It is mind over matter. In training, we are always pushing beyond the pain barrier. OK when you are younger. But when you are like an old rubber band, the next stretch to the limit may be one stretch closer to snap.
The key is one’s threshold. You can do anything as long as you stay below 80% of your limit and remain resilient physically. In fact, the more exercise sessions that you have, the better shape you’ll be in provided you observe the limits. (Note: this is the best way to reduce the dangerous viscereal fat but don’t go to snap)
The problem with climbing mountains and distance jogging and cycling is that they normally set one physical target for all. But the peak may be a walk in the park for some and “see stars” for others.
The best thing to do is to have a flexi journey distance so that all can end at the same end party point. The fitter ones start further and the less nearer. To each his own.
We live in a strange world. Often, the haves worry over their health, work out a sweat in the gym with expensive equipment that gives yr exact readings of this & that. They watch their diet religiously but still die relatively earlier deaths.
My affable butty Mat exercises daily for a living btwn 5 a.m. to abt 9 a.m. He looks no more than 40 and outruns many school representatives at x-country meets. You might only guess his age of 67 when he opens his mouth to greet you with his few dangling teeth.
Mat is an estate sweeper and the only tools he works with are the measly long broomstick & the dustpan. He gobbles up everythg that’s laid on the table – ghee, fat & all. He cares not of GST increase so long as his morning tea isnt decreased.
So, change yr job, save money on gynm membership and live longer. Be anothet happy Mat.
Hi Tim,
Good for Mat.
You never told us if he is fat or thin. Perphaps he is doing what the Nobel prize candidates are guessing right now. Nature or circumstances may have made him superfit. From viscereal fat point of view, he may have always been a real mean fitting machine from a lifetime of doing what he has been doing right.
The rest of us may not be so lucky. From a life of indiscriminate indulgence, we will have to fight to claw ourselves back to good health. It may take a little more than a cleaning job at 5 am.
If his health comes from a life of deprivation, I wonder if he thinks a longer life is good fortune. And if we have a choice would we rather walk his road or live the same and hope that we can cheat some time back.
Hi KT, Mat is thin, almost a beanpole but he’s fit and can stand the cold of north pole.
He used to be a civil servant and had seen as many places as some of us do.
He does find his life meaningful, making friends with the well-meaning and the fools. I dont know whether he’s deprived in life but I can see the deep pride in him each time he combs the void decks wif his brooms. No doubt he enjoys every moment of his life and doesnt cheat time or men..
I think we should have a balance in life. Some people enjoy the simple pleasures in life. Some people go for expensive holidays and others prefer to backpack.
Some people eat in fine restaurants and others like their neighbourhoold kopi tiam.
Whatever it is. Health is Wealth.
Thanks Tim for sharing your story about Mat with us. I suppose he doesnt miss what he doesnt have. I think that whether you are a cleaner or a banker, you must have pride in your job and I think Mat is one good example of doing a good job and enjoying it, regardless of the status.
Hi all,
On the same note, a friend i know in the SAF, who is only about 46 years old, and without any vices, just died peacefully in his sleep, without any apparent medical problem.
Sad to say he left behind a wife, and 2 young kids in their early teens. However he died peacefully, without having to endure any kind or medical problems, only think is that he did not report to work when he was supposed to. Could it be work stress related problem, to face another grinding day ?
So it does seem by making our life, expectations simpler it may be easier for our body and mind to last a lot longer ?
So it give it all the laughs, happiness, sharing with others and the simple cheers you get every time you attend an SHC event.
It does wonders to destress, detox, and rejuvenate your body and mind, from the heavy stress of work, marriage bliss or blitz ,or whatever you are doing too routinely.
So cheers to SHC, and lets us all learn how to be more carefree, easy going, and help each other to just enjoy the free breeze and cheerss as it is meant to be, at least during these wonderful SHC moments.
Cheers
Hi KT
The gym I frequent is nothing fancy like the California Fitness. The place where I worked has a gym and it’s convenient since it’s within the same building. Yes, you need alot of self discipline. When I wake up feeling lousy or lethagic, I usually would feel much better after working out.
KT, thanks for the advice. I do use the ski sticks on the cross-trainer. It helps me to balance (some time when I am falling asleep as I tend to close my eyes for a few seconds when I start off). .. he.he.. I usually go for the aerobic mode, as it has different mode of speed and instructions to follow. I go to the gym on weekdays only and had my workout at home – while doing housework. It’s actually better than working out in the gym. :)
KT / Caroline, thanks for sharing above tips on how to eat wisely and on health issues. It’s good that we can share these with the rest of the SHCians.
Let’s be happy, take it easy, relax and stay healthy always.
Cheers,
A word of caution to those who are exercising everyday.
If you feel that you have fever or nausea or feeling dizzy or not feeling OK – “DO NOT ATTEMPT TO EXERCISE”.
Seek your doctor’s advise first or get cure before doing your regular exercise.
Our body is condition to withstand stress, workouts and pressures, provided our mind is clear from troubles or signs of sickness or illness.
Many of deceased only know best to themselves at the point of exercise to death or stress to death (which many of the Japaneese died of such problem sometime in the Year 1990. They just passed out suddenly).
I would say swimming is a good exercise if you are trying to keep fit. Look at our MM Lee, he is still strong at his age.
Well remember members, in anything you do – “DON’T OVER DO IT”
Regards
Patrick Yeo
Commercial gyms are expensive. There are excellent gyms in Singapore.
My favorites are SAFRA or NUS Gild house. Most clubs would also offer good gyms.
I prefer lifestyle gyms. They have available facilties at hand (not necessary operated by the gym/club) like sauna, massage chairs, library/reading rooms, AV room, F&B, internet and shops.
The acid test for lifestyle gym is that you can literally spend your whole day there going home only to sleep. The NUS Gild house gym at Suntec is a good example. You have the additional benefit of location; and of frequent exhibitions and seminars to KLKK.
Body makes the clothes. Otherwise, all you have is a jello in a sack. And that’s why you have models and supermodels.
What a life! And a chance to show off the contours of your newly sculptured body and fashionwear to beautiful people in your walkabout.
Are you “Fit to Live” a beautiful life.
Dear Wong KT,
Would appreciate your views on training in an air-cond environment as compared to open spaces.
Regards,
Edwin Chen
The NUSS leased California Fitness gym at suntec is too awesome for me.
I derive greater pleasure mingling with the uncles – i myself am 1 – and aunties at neighbourhood fitness parks using those durable standard equipment. Together, we help to repair bars which have become warped and fasten screws which are abt to come off.
The camaraderie is great as we catch up with each other not on what property to chase but how our lives we shd properly pace.
No wonder Jones and his wife Jonah hv come to join us in our routine work-out.
Tim is absolutely correct.
Many parks today have have wonderful open air workout equipment and a safe jog/riding track. West Coast park has one of the best and newest. There is a section where you ride/jog by the sea. Great if you are not particular about heat and sun damage to skin.
Any unhealthy building is bad. But gymming in air-con will prevent accidents and falls in outdoor activities. There’s also a question of degree. With a gym in a unhealthy buildings, you risk a flu at worst. You can still complain to the managment.
Parks are great. But if you are working out on the streets in an urban setting then it is another. You are exposed to pollution and car exhaust which is worse than smoking. With outdoor accidents, you can risk significantly more. You can sue the other guy in a wheelchair but is any compensation enough? So there’s a trade-off.
My final take is that if you live in Singapore, you cannot avoid unhealthy buildings anyway eg at home, in shops and at work. So it is better to build a natural resistance to your environment. (Actually, a typical Singaporean has built very strong resistance to sick buildings. If you can survive in a office which is often the worst offender, you can easily survive a club. The science of relative density.)
How to fight it unless you want to live back to nature in the wilderness. So “if you can’t fight ’em, join ’em”.
KT, pleased that you too support the inexpensive exercise rigours of simple folks like me and my butties.
We love the fresh cool air of the mornings and wont be so nutty as to taunt the mid-day sun.
Chances of accidents and falls in outdoor activities are as high as those happening in a cosy exclusive gym. Ultimately, it depends on the individual. If he runs with his hands then he’s as likely to fall on a treadmill as in a stadium . As such, my group and I wont complain or sue people for compensation but rather spend the time taking precautions and looking out for each other. That’s how a caring community is built, I think.
The world is already messy enough; our exercise shd not only benefit our bodies and give us the good-look contours but more importantly, to also calm & hone our minds and make us more forgiving.
I like yr parting adage but not in its entirety tho. Why think of fight when all are most welcome to join us ?
Hi Tim,
Actually, we are on separate pages and each is right in different ways.
In this thread, we are talking about the best and safest ways to EXERCISE. The risks we talk about are the risks you may encounter doing the same thing in the same place from alternate days to as much as few times a day continuously. The risks becomes a significant statistic and a mathematical probability.
But this not the same as an activity as oppose to an exercise routine. An activity which takes place once a month in different settings has a one-off probability curve and a random chance scenario. This is not significant mathematically from event to event because the boundary conditions are different. To worry about the risk on an activity is like worrying about the end of the world. If you worry about this class of risks you will never fly for fear that the plane will fall out from the sky.
So all outdoor activities are great and fun. They can be recommended unreservedly. We all have to walk on the wild side once in a while. Go4it.
Hahaha, KT, you worried me with your cautions & warnings abt fallings, accidents, sueing for compensations when I had no worry doing my exercise regime in parks.
Now that you hv stopped worrying, I hv no worries at all to begin with.
Happy exercising !
Dear Wong KT,
Talking about fights, with my lousy temper, I am pretty adapt at it! I love a good fight and have been boxing since my school days at SAS. Never mind smashing noses beyond the ring!
Correct me if I am wrong, I was told that the number of TB cases has gone up in Singapore as compared to almost none in the past. Also, people with bronchial, asthma and other breathing problems too. And recently, the sudden deaths of seemingly healthy people?
Is poor maintenance of air-conds a contributory factor?
Regards,
Edwin Chen
Wow, Edwin, you too a fighter huh?
You probably belong to the times of Lau Kim Liat, Natahar Bava if you had played rugby, otherwise we cd hv given each other a tickle & a kiss during those scrums…….and I am quite adEpt at it too.
But of cos, at our age and having seen all, gone & returned, what’s there to fight for other than for more &better ideas on making SHC a truly great place to be in.
Hi Edwin,
On average, buildings have become healthier with time as a result of more stringent regulations, greater awareness, better trained maintenance crews and technology.
So I don’t think that air-con systems are a primary source of increase risk to air bourne disease. It takes a really tough virus to survive a cycle through a building system’s piping to infect you on the other end. It’s like you or me walking round the world without a mishap. Most likely it is close proximity transmission. Besides if enough virus is incubated in several generations of virus to infect someone on the other side, it will not only infect one. It will infect many at the same time. On balance, the circumstantial evidence says “No”.
If there is poison in the air it is all probably man-made pollutants. It will be worse when we increase our refining capacity. Then there is now burning in Sumatra. Everytime, you put a new tiget in the tank, you breathe in another new additive. Our lungs are challenged on a daily basis with new and exotic substances.
We can run but we cannot hide so long as we are here in the open. Under the circumstances you are better indoors breathing filtered air. Unless we are taking time out in Ozland and Kiwi, it is the best option.
Hi Edwin,
On air pollutant and fresh air, do you want to know how safe is our everyday petrol fumes?
Let me just quote
“Lead additives were replaced by new gasoline mixtures, some with a higher content of the carcinogen benzene and by the additive MTBE (methyl tertiary butyl ether). In addition to its antiknock properties, MTBE is also an oxygenate—an oxygen-containing compound intended to reduce emissions of carbon monoxide and ozone-forming compounds. MTBE use in the United States increased greatly after 1990 to meet mandates to reduce carbon monoxide and ozone air pollution. However, data soon demonstrated that oxygenates are not very effective in reducing ozone. Moreover, MTBE, which is highly soluble in water, has been found to have contaminated drinking water supplies. In animals, MTBE causes cancer, and even at very low concentrations MTBE affects the taste of water. As of 2001, a number of states were acting to ban MTBE and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had urged a substantial reduction in its use.
MMT (methyl cyclopentadienyl manganese tricarbonyl), another organometallic antiknock additive, has been widely used in Canada since 1978. Levels of manganese in urban air in Canada have increased as a consequence. Similar to lead, manganese is highly neurotoxic at high levels of exposure, but the effects of the long-term low-level exposures that would result from widespread use in gasoline are incompletely understood. In 1996, Canada banned MMT, but lifted its ban in 1998 after a challenge to its risk assessment. The EPA effectively prevented the introduction of MMT in the United States from the late 1970s through the mid-1990s, but it was overruled by the U.S. courts in 1995. As of 2000, MMT is used in less than 1 percent of U.S. gasoline; the automobile industry opposes its use because it could damage vehicle engines and emissions control systems.”
Walking and cycling is good if we all agree not to drive. But mankind “die, die also must drive”. And we get what we pray for. So back to the question. I don’t want to know. If I do, I will probably migrate. If I stay, I will stay inside the car and inside the house behind the air-con filter.
Hi all,
we have heard enough cases of “fit” pple just die for no apparent reasons. its quite ironical that some times, a person may actually live longer if not for exercising.
i have now taken a more philosophical approach to keeping healthfy thro exercising and eating healthily. current research appear to point to a genetic cause of death. basically, it suggest that each of us is “programmed” to die at a certain time when the cell wd be triggered to “malfunction” regardless of your health status. so, some cells may just mutate to give rise to various diseases/conditions and cause the body to malfunction. eg include cancer, asthma, heart disease,etc.
exercising and eating well are just a form of consoling our concerns and anxiety/fear of being afflicted by diseases. i am sure we all know of pple who really harm their bodies thro smoking, drinking, not exercising and yet live to a ripe old age or not afflicted by serious diseases. so, i think the moral of this posting is to “live and let live” , “don’t worry, be happy”, as studies have also shown a strong correlation btw disease and stress which can cause the body systems to malfunction.
having said the above, we shd exercise for fun of it and regard it as part of our daily activities of living and socialising.
good health and cheers to all! Henry
Born, live, die……..if one is prepared to accept this as a certainty, then there’s no expectancy, no fear, no worry and one lives his life totally relaxed & hang loose. In itself, this is an exercise.
Sheng eu he huan? Si eu he han? What’s there to rejoice in living? What’s there to regret in death? The fella up there plans it all for you.
In my final analysis, I’ll be a happy man if I owe no one an apology, obligation or favour, can sleep easily soundly without a bad dream and wake up early to start another day’s learning from the chirpy birds who are carefree, carry no baggage and leave the world’s woes to fall in place themselves.
And the best form of my exercises is to let my brain work on thots like these.
Dear Wong KT,
I thank you for the input, I could not speak for the others, but most certainly we should be appreciative of the fact that you stand out as one who do lots of research and reading to provide this thread with material of substance worthy of a good read.
In all honesty, I should recommend you be included on the honour roll of the Institute of Automotive Technology, you really did your homework on the ill effects of fossil fuel burning! Thanks.
In a dense and crowded little island like ours, are we not happily putting a noose around our necks by increasing roadways for more vehicles to be registered and ply?
Regards,
Edwin Chen
Thanks Edwin,
Any engineer/entrepreneurs here?
Let’s invent a transparent face mask with a solar cell fan. Keep cool and breath fresh, clean, ionised air. A polaroid version keeps out ultra violet damage to face. Our scented oil coated filters range deliver the full Aromatherapy benefits anytime, anywhere. Little monitor window for communication and TV. No more air borne disease. No more fume poisoning. No more rush-hour BO. Safe outdoor activities …..Thousands of permutations.
Make “MoonMask” a fashion statement like ball masks or spectacles. Make trillions selling consumable filters to the world. Gillette move aside.
Hee-hee…
Dear Wong KT,
You are most welcome, I believe in affording appreciation when such is due.
Jokes aside, I came across an ad in a trade magazine at the Taiwanese trade office sometime ago, they were calling for inventors/entrepreneurs, if you will, to submit their inventions or proto-types for their research and testing. If the inventions are found to be commercially viable some deal could be worked out. Read of similar ads?
Regards,
Edwin Chen
Hi Edwin,
Gimme contact. Where do I flog my Moonmask.
Funds is not the problem. Plenty here in Singapore to buy into anything with a rubber stamp; even unbelievably dumb ideas. (yours truly not counting)
The difficulty is to have highly skilled boutique prototyping engineering shops to turnout prototypes for the market. The types that you would find in abundance in Korea, Taiwan and China is all but absent in Singapore. All my engineering peers in Singapore are in project/financing not design/build. They won’t even repair their own toilets.
Anyone else with produt ideas or invention looking for direct investment and participation? If so, we can start another thread.
I digress. Back to topic.
ST reports today that a promising 17 year old triathelete dies after race. Even a well conditioned sportsman can risk snapping when they work beyond the limit in the adrenalin rush of a race. Mind over matter even till death.
What more if you are older and less conditioned than a competitive sportsman. The 80% rule is good. Work regularly and more often but do not take it the full way.
Dear Wong KT,
I’ve some inventions which I’d like to meet up with you and your group to discuss further. In fact, I’ve got some lecturers who took up my project but didn’t complete it due to one of the project leaders leaving them and the whole thing was in limbo. Glad to hear that I might have another chance to see my invention reviving again (if it’s feasible).
I’ll be away tomorrow till Fri, so do keep me posted of your next meet via my office email: lisa.ong@tmesystems.com.sg
Thanks & regards, Lisa