ADVICES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
Dr David Sing Kong Yuen
Written: 15 Feb 2025.
16 May 2024. Orchard Link roadside garden. 10am.
Coffee at Toast Box Shaw House with Ms M.
My friend whom I shall call Miss M is an excellent story teller of people she encounters in her professional work. She enthralled me with interesting stories of high and under achievers over coffee in this relatively quiet cafe at Shaw House. One such story is the engineering recruitment lady who earned over S$200,000 per year. The median income is probably S$48,000 annually.
This yellow
butterfly, seen by me as I walked from the Orchard MRT Station to Toast Box, typifies the Type "A" personality - the Go-Getter
person who works very hard and gets results as evident in his or her
high earnings e.g. S$200,000 income per year for the engineering
recruitment lady.
This Common Grass Yellow is rarely seen
perched on the leaf for more than 3 seconds. It flutters from one
flower to another as if it has no time to waste. Hence, it is rare to
capture a photo of it sipping honey and permitting me time to squat
to its eye level to take a sharp image.
"Type A"
personalities are like this butterfly. No time to waste on eating,
drinking and sleeping as there is so much to do and so little time to
achieve.
A 24-hour day is insufficient. It is best to take time to take care of your health.
This includes a Mediterranean type of diet, daily exercise of 5,000
steps of walking and 30 minutes of moderate vigorous activity and
sufficient sleep with naps for the older person.
Failure to
take care of your health will manifest from your late 40s in getting
heart diseases, stroke and diabetes. Or looking aged early.
GO-GETTER - very energetic, determined. Someone who is very energetic, determined to be successful and able to deal with new or difficult situations easily.
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UPDATE:
https://2010vets.blogspot.com/2024/05/5876-photography-tips.html
SINGAPORE - 15 MAY 2024: Orchard Boulevard MRT subway Station garden. The Common Grass Yellow (Eurema hecabe) sips nectar from the small orange and yellow Lantana camara flowers.
What is a Go-Getter?
GO-GETTER
- very energetic, determined. Someone
who is very energetic, determined to be successful and able to deal
with new or difficult situations easily.
This Common Grass yellow butterfly, seen by me as I walked from the Orchard MRT Station to Toast Box to have coffee with Ms M, typifies the Type "A" personality - the Go-Getter person who works very hard and gets results as evident in his or her high earnings.
It fluttered from one
Lantana flower to another as it had no time "to stop and smell the roses". It might just perch on the leaf for less than 3 seconds.
Hence, I had to be quick to capture a photo of it sipping honey. I squatted to its eye level, pointed my camera and captured this attractive sharp image.
"Type A" personalities are like this butterfly. Such people do not waste time on slow eating, drinking and sleeping as there is so much to do and so little time to achieve.
I met Ms M as a veterinarian treating her beloved aged sick cross-bred whom she would not euthanase till the very end.
Her boss shook his head when we met. He would have life support terminated if his doctor had declared his Dad as "brain-dead".
Ms M had a heart of gold filled with love. Her 16-year-old was not just a dog. He was with her through her life’s ups and downs.
Today, 15 FEB 2025, this photo taken on 15 MAY 2024, reminded me that this yellow butterfly personify Ms M whose livelihood depend on her closing sales.
Ms M is a conversationalist. As the coffee aroma wafted to my nose, she enthralled me with stories of her diverse behaviour of personalities she encountered during sales.
Her stories were the flying carpet that carried me to the realm of her prospects successes and failures in earning a livelihood and in surviving day to day.
She had closed sales with me.
Perhaps, my answer to her go-getting success is her condo in prime location and her top of the range of luxury car.
As yellow butterflies and lantana flowers appeared recently, I recalled my coffee story with Ms M on 15 May 2024.
Ms M had narrated a story of a lady recruitment agent for engineers earning over S$200,000 a year.“I can’t believe a recruitment agent can earn so much,” I said.
Ms M replied: “She knocked on doors of all corporations asking if they need engineers. She worked long hours and over weekends. She was much focused. She made sacrifices of family time.”
I learnt much about the struggles of earning a livelihood from Ms M.
As a vet, my patients are four-legged animals with a diverse range of afflictions. They don’t converse with me.
In conclusion, I wrote this story dedicated to Ms M. I thank Ms M for conversations that made coffee time with her passed in the wink of an eye.
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UPDATE:
https://2010vets.blogspot.com/2024/05/5876-photography-tips.html
On this 15 MAY 2024, I was at the Orchard Boulevard MRT subway Station garden on the way to meet Ms M and saw this Common Grass Yellow (Eurema hecabe) sipping nectar from the small orange and yellow Lantana camara flowers. I got a good photo.
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