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When I was really little, I never really understood the Chinese Lunar New Year except for some things. Just like when I first joined the corporate world I never really understood it - like how some people behave, how pretentious they can be, etc. but when you don't know it, you may enjoy it just like magic. Once you watched how they broke the magician's code, there is no more magic left. So does that mean that ignorance is bliss? What were the things that I remembered vividly and how were they different from now? Why are people less excited and in fact many are travelling and going away during the CNY holiday period?  Make Babies For a start, life was simple back in the good old days. That is why they are called the good old days. They were good. Those were the days where the government need not tell you unlike now after giving you lots of incentives still hope that we can have more babies. Those days there were kampung, dimly lit kampung and there were not much ac...

Japan's Sony Corp is to cut 10,000 jobs or 6 per cent of its workforce having been in the red for some four years. A strong yen, competition from giants like Apple and Korea's Samsung played a big part too. TV makers have been exceptionally hard hit with Sony, Panasonic and Sharp expecting to have lost a combined $17 billion in the fiscal year just ended. I am sure many of you will remember the Sony Trinitron Television sets of the time. It was down to this genius Akio Morita who founded Sony. Among other things, they gave us the Walkman. Pure genius, long before Sim Wong Hoo gave us the Nomad Jukebox, the Zen or Apple's iPod. Today, most unfortunately, Sony has to tell 10,000 people to walk, man. How the times have changed. Why is it that the world has never been able to avoid wastage and trouble by over-producing, over-consuming and then the sudden cut-back resulting in job losses?  Depending if you have protection or the goodwill of the company, s...

The Good Old Days You will always go back to the old days hence the words "the good old days". It does not mean the present is bad, just the the old days were always better maybe simply because life was more simple and values, priorities, demands and lifestyle were different. That is why people collect antiques, remake old movies and redo old songs as retro or simply just listen to old songs in its original version. When you are young you look forward to be older but when you got old you wish to be younger. Ah, irony of life. The good old days will never return but you can go back to the good old days. How? By visiting places, attending events and meeting people of that era. I have been doing exactly that for some time now visiting places of the past,  attending some events and meeting people. Not just meeting people but also connecting them. Inevitably, some of the most memorable times had to be in school. I have written previous articles on that which you can find ...