The Last Kampong
Life is all about timing. Graduate at the wrong time and you could find it hard to get a job or the industry with your expertise has crashed. Ditto for the stock market, for somebody to make, someone else must have lost. Even so when buying a property. Your best may sometimes just not be enough. Being good is also sometimes not enough. Being first or last can also be due to timing. Being first in the queue for the latest mobile phone is your own doing or undoing. If you get one that explodes first then you have had it. There are other firsts and lasts that are beyond your control. If we criticise the younger generation now, there are some truths about it but had we been born at their time, would we not end up the same? Being the first Emperor and the Last Emperor is drastically different. The last emperor ended up as a gardener. No, an assistant gardener. As the PSLE results are released, I hope all parents take note there is always hope. The system requires us to g...