What do I want to do if I have one more day to live?

What Do I want to do If I  Have One More Day to Live?

I am not talking about investment today. One end stage renal failure patient asked me " Do you feel my pain Dr Goh? " Yes, we are too busy sometimes and tend to forget what people think most relevant to them in life!

I am a nephrologist, what I hope to achieve is to prolong end stage renal failure patients' lives. I start them on dialysis because I know that will be the best way to prolong thier lives. But occasionally I forget to ask what actually patients want when they are old and frail.

One of my patients told me, he didn't want dialysis, he was old enough ( he was 76 years old) to make a informed decision. What he wanted was to spend the rest of his life with his children and grandchildren. He didn't want to waste the precious remaining time he had to do fistula or even finding a dialysis centre.

" Dr Goh HK, I spent half of life making money, but when you know you have an illness, I think money is nothing. What I want to do is just spending time with my family."

I am not sure about whether it is worthwhile sacrificing your time ( =life?) making tones of money. Maybe one day you would ask yourself, " What do I want to do if I have one more day to live?"

Wave of Inflation!

Wave of Inflation!

Yes, I have no choice but to tll you that the next wave of inflation is on its way! No matter you like it or not, you have to save now for the future and watch your wallet and bank account, you might be spend more than what you earn in the next few months or even years to come!!

I like to always tell my wife to cut cost in our daily expenditure, you might think all these are tiny money and you will be suprised that by saving a few dollars a day, you actually can save thousand of dollars in a few months! I will give a few tips here,

1) Prepare your own breakfast! Yes, just wake up a few minutes earlier every morning and prepare simple breakfast. Fastfood value meals no matter how cheap they are will be still more expensive that what you prepare!

2) Drink coffee not latte or cappuccino. I don't think I understand what is the difference between these two types of coffee but I certainly know one is much more expensive than the other!

3) Try to avoid using your credit cards, they make you overspend and you will think twice before buying if you use your cash inside your wallet!!

4) Take public transport rather than self drive. Yes, you can save a lot of money if you practice this in Malaysia or Singapore. Take Rapid Penang/KL if possible!Better still if you sell your CAR!!

5) Watch your ASTRO rather than watching movies in cinema. No point subscribing to ASTRO/STAR HUB every month and only sit in front of your TV one hour a month.

Hope these tips help!!

Most Expensive Cities in Asia Pacific

Most Expensive Cities in Asia Pacific

If you think that inflation causes pressure in your daily life and living cost is creeping up daily, you are certainly experiencing the same feeling like most others in the World.

We all anticipate that commodity prices will go up further this year and likely Malaysian inflation rate will hit the record high of 3% to 3.5% and our neighbour Singapore's inflation is likely to hit 2-3% this year as well.

If you think you are not making enough money to live in Malaysia, I must tell you that Malaysian cities like Kuala Lumpur or even Penang are the least expensive cities to live in Asia!!

According to CityMayors.com,Tokyo and Osaka are the region's most expensive cities! And KL ceratinly falls out of 100 most expensive cities in Asia!!

Happy Chinese New Year!

Happy Chinese New Year!

Yes, hope all of you will get whatever you wish in the year of Rabbit. It is always never too late to invest! Learn how to invest now so that you will grow in future!

Wishing all of you a happy and prosperous new year!!

Happy New Year 2008!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

So... what you have achieved so far in 2007? Have you got everything you want in 2007?? Make a resolution today and write down your plan today!!

You can achieve what you want if you focus all your efforts!!

Happy New Year 2008!!

Merdeka Day- Are we getting better?

Recently I read about an interview with our opposition leader Mr Lim Kit Siang conducted by 'The Sun' about his view on Malaysia. He mentioned an important point about Malaysia, he said even after 50 years of independence, races in Malaysia are not becoming more Malaysian but rather more Chinese , more Malay and more Indian.


He also brought up an interesting fact, when we were free from British colonization in 1957, Malaysia was the second richest country in Asia after Japan. Look at what we have become today, not only we are far behind Japan, even Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong have overtaken us.

In a normal economy scenario, I think workers should be paid according to their productivity, however, this is not the case in Malaysia. We are too dependent on cheap labour and we are no longer the country of choice for many civilized countries we used to be long ago due to this privilege.

We have to emphasize more on human capital development. More should be done to keep our country best brains to work for Malaysia and not our neighbour!

It is my hope that our leaders can look far ahead how to shape this country. Individual interest and favourism should be abandoned. Leaders come and go but this country remains forever, together we can build a great nation for our children!

' Happy Merdeka Day' - Take away your skin colour, your religion and your culture , we are Malaysians and we can stand tall in the World if we work together!