Health or Wealth - if you choose

 Health Vs Weath - which you need to value ?

Apart from work, this week is a Health learning week for me, where I 

spoke with 4 pax about health related topics:

1. A 98yo healthy and fit man who discovered that he had a tumour in his liver; operable as his health is good. The Senior Doctor who attended to him, tried to find out his secret of keeping fit and alert.

2. A retiring Senior, for some reasons, who chose not to utilize his company health screening packages for many years.

3. Another Senior who took his health screening, found out that his Cholesterol LDL exceeded borderline limit. Earlier he thought his was better than my LDL result. Lol that he may retire earlier than 69yo! (64 + 5).

4. This younger chap shared his Skill Future 2-day Fitness, below:

https://www.myskillsfuture.gov.sg/content/portal/en/training-exchange/course-directory/course-detail.html?courseReferenceNumber=TGS-2023020428

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