The “F” and “P” factors for a ‘happy or successful’ Life ( 幸福和成功 - 因素 )

The F and P - Happy Life 1

The “F” and “P” factors for a ‘happy or successful’ Life

( 幸福和成功 - 因素 )

Dr Sam Man Keong ( 岑文强 )

Email: [email protected] Mobile: +65 9674 0515

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Highlights

• About the Speaker – Dr Sam Man Keong

• What is Happiness?

• What is Success?

• The basic 5Fs for a Happy Life.

• The basic 5Ps for Success.

• Another 3Fs to remember for Life.

• Lessons from my Parents.


Highlights

• Lessons from some “leaders” in Asia.– Myanmar - Ms Aung San Suu Kyi– Malaysia – Mr Chin Peng– Singapore – Emeritus Professor Lee Seng Lip

• My Journey with SIET [website: www.siet.org.sg ]– 1980 – 2000– 2005…

• My Reflection.


About the Speaker – Dr Sam Man Keong ( 岑文强 )


About the Speaker – Dr Sam Man Keong ( 岑文强 )

• Primary : Chinese School (1958 – 1963)

• Secondary : English School (Remove Class 1D 2C 3B 4A 5A)(1964 – 1969)

• Civil Engineering : Singapore Poly (1971 – 1974) Melbourne U (1982 – 1983) NUS/NTU

• RMIT University : Statistics

• CIAE : Timber

• A Lifelong Learner for more than 40 years.

• Chartered Engineer (UK/Ireland/Australia)

• Chartered Builder (UK)• Chartered Mathematician

(UK)• Chartered Scientist (UK)• Chartered

Environmentalist (UK)• Chartered Quality

Professional (UK)


Important Dates/Milestones….

• 1963 : Completed Primary Six.• 1969 : Completed Cambridge SC/GCE(0)/MCE• 1971 : Completed Cambridge HSC by Self –

Study/Came to Singapore – studied in SP.• 1977 : Completed SOE Exam by Self – Study.• 1982 : Completed CEI Part 2 (Structural) by

Self-Study; Studied in Melbourne, Australia.• 1991 : Achieved First CEng from UK.• 2002 : Taught at Unitech, Papua New Guinea.


What is Happiness ( 幸福 )?

• Happiness is a state of mind or feeling characterized by contentment, love, satisfaction, pleasure, or joy.

• living a good life .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_good_life


A smiling 95-year-old man fromPichilemu, Chile.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pichilemu

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile


Source : ZB – 7 April 2013


Source : ZB- 24 March 2013


Gardening at Unitech, PNG - 2002


What is Success (成功 ) ?

• Success may refer to:– a level of social status– achievement of a goal– the opposite of failure

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_status

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure


What is Success ( 成功 ) ?

Graduation – Unitech - 2003


Source : ZB – 26 Sept 2013 : SUCCESS


Source : ZB – 26 Sept 2013 – From Failure to SUCCESS


The basic 5Fs for a Happy Life.

• Friends ( 朋友 )

• Fitness (Health)( 健康 )

• Fun ( 乐趣 )

• Family ( 家庭 )

• Finance (Money)( 金钱 )


SP – ‘Young’ Badminton Team – 2010 : Exercise Friends + Fitness + Fun


Sam- Family - 2013


The basic 5Ps for Success

• Persistence ( 坚持 )

• Perseverance ( 毅力 ; 恒心 )

• Patience ( 忍耐 ; 耐性 )

• Passionate ( 热情 )

• Pardon ( 赦免 ; 饶恕 ; 宽恕 )


Chengal Tree – One of the most durable Timbers : PATIENCE (耐性 ) – it takes ‘Time’….


Source: ZB- 26 Sept 2013 : Passion (热情 )


Hillary – Pardon ( 宽恕 )


Another 3Fs to remember for Life

• Forget ( 忘记 ; 忘掉 )

• Forgive ( 原谅 ; 宽恕 ; 饶恕 )

• Faith ( 信仰 ; 信心 ; 信任 ) Hope ( 希望 ; 期望 )


Lessons from my Parents

• Great Depression (1929 – 1939)

• World World II (1 Sept 1939 – 2 Sept 1945; 6 years, 1 Day)

• Two very different perspectives in life….Happy vs Unhappy!!

Sam Chan Wah (1904 – 1998) – caught by the Japanese soldiers to re-build Johor Bridge during WW2…survived..

Teo Ah Moi (1919 – 2002) – lost 2 brothers during WW2; found one in 1970.


Lessons from some “leaders” in Asia.

• Myanmar - Ms Aung San Suu Kyi

• Malaysia – Mr Chin Peng ( 陳平 )

• Singapore – Emeritus Professor Lee Seng Lip


Myanmar (Burma) - Ms Aung San Suu Kyi

• Born : 19 June 1945 (age 68)Rangoon, British Burma(now Yangon)

• Father : Aung San• Mother : Khin Kyi • Education:

– University of Delhi– St Hugh's College, Oxford– SOAS, University of

London Aung San Suu Kyi at the age of six.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_rule_in_Burma

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aung_San

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aung_San

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khin_Kyi




A family portrait, with Aung San Suu Kyi (in white) as a toddler, taken in 1947, shortly before her father's assassination.


Myanmar (Burma)- Ms Aung San Suu Kyi

• a Burmese opposition politician and chairperson of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Burma.

• Myanmar’s democracy icon.


Myanmar (Burma) - Ms Aung San Suu Kyi

• Awards:– 1990 : Sakharov Prize ;

Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize – 1991: Nobel Peace Prize .

• 20 July 1989: Placed under house arrest in Rangoon under martial law – Aung San Suu Kyi has been

placed under house arrest for 15 of the past 21 years, on numerous occasions, since she began her political career.

• 13 November 2010: Released from house arrest.


Aung San Suu Kyi meets with US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in Yangon (1 December 2011)


Aung San Suu Kyi arrives to give a speech to the supporters during the 2012 by-election campaign at her constituency Kawhmu township, Myanmar on 22 March 2012.


Malaysia – Mr Chin Peng ( 陳平 )

• Born : 21 October, 1924Setiawan, Perak, British Malaya

• Died : 16 September, 2013Bangkok, Thailand

• Malayan political activist and guerilla leader.

• 1940 : admitted to the Malayan Communist Party as a candidate member.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perak

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Malaya

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangkok

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thailand

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayan_Communist_Party

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayan_Communist_Party



• December 1941: Communists’ offer of help accepted; joins the fight against the Japanese.

• After WWII, Chin Peng continued his armed struggle for Independence, but this time, he fought against the British because he wanted Malaya to be free from colonial rule. He renamed his outfit, the Malayan Races Liberation Army (MRLA).

• His ideology was to have an equal society with the wealth redistributed among the people equally, through the labour movement, under communism.



• 1948: Three planters killed at Sungei Siput; Emergency declared; MCP declared illegal.

• December 28, 1955: Baling Talks held with David Marshall and Tunku Abdul Rahman, unsuccessful because of surrender terms.

• December 2, 1989: A peace treaty is signed between the communists, Thailand and Malaysia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baling_Talks


Chin Peng, centre, at the Baling peace talks in Malaya, 1956, which came to nothing.


Source : ZB – 24 September 2013


Singapore – Emeritus Professor Lee Seng Lip – 88 Years in 2013

• Born : March 21, 1925.• Academic: BSCE,

MapuaIT (Manila)(1950); MSE (U of Michigan)(1951); PhD(U of California, Berkeley)(1953)

• Professional: CEng, FICE, FASCE, FIES, PEng.


Singapore – Emeritus Professor Lee Seng Lip

• 1955 : Joined the Department of Civil Engineering at Northwestern University, USA.

• 1969 : Joined as Professor and Chairman of Division of Structural Engineering & Mechanics , Asia Institute of Technology, Bangkok.

• 1975 : Joined University of Singapore as Professor and Head of the Department of Civil Engineering.

• 1989 : Conferred an Emeritus Professorship.


Singapore – Emeritus Professor Lee Seng Lip – My teacher in 1985

• Prof Lee taught ‘Plastic Analysis of Structures’ when I was a MSc student in NUS in 1985.

• “I’m proudest of the fact that I’ve educated many engineers, who have contributed to the infrastructural development in Singapore and South-east Asia.” [Source : The Straits Times, Monday, September 23, 2013.]


My Journey with SIET : 1980

1980 : Sam Man Keong, Initiator/First Honorary Secretary of SIET


My Journey with SIET : 1980 - 1989

• 1980 : SIET was established.

• 1982 : SIET Professional Exams.

• 1986 : ‘Technicians’ to ‘Technologists’.

• 1988 : Full Member of Singapore Professional Centre.

• 1989 : SIET – Graduate Diploma in Management for Technology (GDMT)



• 1990 : MOU with TAM. [website: www.tam.com.my ]

• 1995 : MOU with ASTT of BC, Canada. [website: www.asttbc.org ]

• 1996 : MOU with IPET, South Africa. [website: www.ipet.co.za ]


My Journey with SIET : Rebirth of SIET in 2005

4 Past Presidents of SIET


My Journey with SIET : From SOE – UK to SPE - UK

First joined as StudSE in 1972 Registered as PEng(UK) in 1978



• Honorary Secretary (2005/2006; 2006/2007; 2007/2008; 2011/2012; 2012/2013)

• President (2008/2009; 2009/2010; 2010/2011)



• 2009 : SIET Certification Scheme introduced (CertEA; CertET; CertTS)

• 2010 : SIET revised Professional Examinations

• 2013 : MOU with the Institution of Engineering Designers (IED), UK. [Professional Registration: EngTech; IEng; CEng]

Established : 1945; Royal Charter: 2012

Website: www.ied.org.uk ]

http://www.ied.org.uk/


My Reflection – Dr Sam Man Keong ( 岑文强 )


Dare to….

• Dream ( 敢于梦想 )

• Do ( 敢于做 )

• Accept Responsibilities ( 敢于承担责任 )

• Accept Consequences ( 敢于接受后果 )

• Accept Failures ( 敢于接受失败 )

• Change ( 勇于变革 )

• Put down ( 敢于放下 )

The “F” and “P” factors for a ‘happy or successful’ Life ( 幸福和成功 - 因素 )

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