'If' by Rudyard Kipling

Good Times with Great Mates 

Roland Teo ('V' sign) and Tom Gan

 If - Rudyard Kipling 

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming you

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowances for their doubt too.

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting or being lied about, don't deal in lies or being hated, don't give way to hating and yet, don't look too good or look too wise.

If you can dream and not make dreams your master

If you can think and not make thoughts your aim

If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two imposters just the same

If you can hear the truth being spoken twisted by the knaves to make a trap for fools or watch the things you made your life for, broken.

and stood up and built them up with worn out tools

If you can make one heap of all your winnings and risk it on one turn of pitch and toss,and start again at your beginnings, and never breathe a word about your loss

If you could force your heart, nerve and sinew. To serve your turn long after they are gone and so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the will which says to them 'hold on'

If you can talk with crowds,and keep your virtue or walk with kings nor lose the common touch

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you

If all men count with you but not too much

If you can fill the unforgiving minute with 40 seconds of distance run

Yours is the earth and everything that is in it !

and which is more, "You'll be a Man, my Son". 

Walk In Cold Storage Chamber - QRA Brand

 

My company has proudly delivered and commissioned the Walk In Cold Storage Chamber to a global MNC in Singapore. The above Cold Room Walk In Chamber can control temperatures from 5 - 10 C for extremely long durations of times (months) without any issues.

There is internal lighting for easy access of the technical specialists and the chamber is cooled using a recirculating chiller from the outside. We can provide accessories like ramp and stainless steel racks inside for the proper sorting and moving of their samples  seamlessly.

Safety wise, there is an urgent call out button linked to audio and blinking light to alert for any issue. Additionally, there is an door override function from inside so that there is no possibility that anyone will be trapped inside the cold chamber for any time longer than necessary.

For further information, please contact 

E : mark@qra.com.sg

or visit :

https://www.qra.com.sg

for more details. 

QRA Oven for Curing

 

Last year, QRA started providing Ovens from Bench Top sized to Stand Alone sizes for the purposes of drying all kinds of products from food additives, to pharmaceuticals and biotech products.

QRA's name is getting more renowned with each passing year.

Happy 2026

 

              With Darian, a very good friend of our son Andrew. 

This is the first day of 2026. As a young elder person (elder I would categorise at 70), so I have only few more meaningful years left.

My parents left in me a spirit to contribute to society at large, and apart from the usual one off small donations here and there, I feel this year will be a very significant year for me both professionally and personally.

I must make use of the little precious time to be the best version of myself to my loved pnes and friends.

Have a meaningful and successful 2026 readers !

Lets get to 500, 000 views by end 2026 beginning 2027 ! 

 

300,000 views in December 2025 Thank You !

 

I am filled with much humility and joy to announce that we have garnered over 300, 000 views in the 17 years since I started writing my blog. I wish to humbly say thank you to all who visited this blog and penned their comments, I am just a small business owner and this is one way to express my ongoing feelings about life, some current events (non political and religious) as a means to documents my views and thinking in the various life stages.

I may have some earlier views which may reflect how I felt about certain things at that point in time, but over the decades (1 decade and 7 years later), my thinking has matured a lot, as well as my assumption of the certainty of many things has also been weakened. Sometimes, it is best not to make predictions without proper analysis. If I get the outcome right, its most times due to sheer luck and after some deeper analysis with experts. If I get the outcome wrong, well then I put the result to user experience, which can be called upon in the future when similar scenarios crop up. 

When I first started, I recall we had about 200 views a month. Today, we easily get over 1000 views per day on certain weekends. I aspire to get around 30, 000 views per month in the near future,so that means 1000 views per day. Which is not so difficult nowadays. 

I never knew my little blog could be of interest to other people, many of whom are linked purely by wanting to know how the other half of the world lives.

Bachelor of Information Technology. Any company needs a motivated IT executive ? 3 prior internships 2 in Singapore 1 in Australia

 

This is the proudest moment for us parents. Our younger son, Andrew, graduated from the Queensland University of Technology recently on 9th Dec 2025 with a Bachelor of Information Technology. 

Andrew is a hardworking young man of 28 and he is at present looking for an IT or Computer CyberSecurity job in Singapore or Thailand.

If you are looking for a hungry, hardworking young IT executive with a decent CV and 3 previous internships, please drop me an email. 

Email :  (a) r1828mark@gmail.com

             (b) mark@qra.com.sg

 

A proud day for the Abisheganaden family

 

Yesterday 9th Dec 2025 was a proud day for our son Andrew Hao Jie. He graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Information Technology from the Queensland University of Technology or QUT. We are very proud and honored to tell all our readers and followers this represents a milestone for us. 

My wife and I flew in specially for his graduation and we then had a slap up lunch and dinner together with a good friend from Korea (thanks Quon for coming !). 

Life is made for these special unforgettable moments, which mould us. As a proud parent my wish for him now is to land a job, find a nice person and settle down, either in Australia or Singapore.

Our part in supporting him will always be here, that is our promise. 

One key takeaway from this wonderful experience is this. Like I have stated numerous times in my earlier post. There are many steps to success, perceived or real, which one needs or must do to 'get there'.

1. Be used to being uncomfortable daily and for the long run. This is the only way you will grow. 

2. Every small victory, savour it and smell the roses. Then move on. The road is long and upwards.

3. Be present in good and bad times. Show up. Give no excuses

4. Try your level best. The rest ? Leave it to God.

5. Don't sweat the small stuff. They will always be there. In 5 months or 5 years its just a bump in your road.

6. Never underestimate the threats to you. Always manage the small problems lest they grow into unmanageable fires.

7. Be stoic in tough times. Tough times mould character. Only the toughest survive let alone thrive. We have no other choice. 

One life one path one vision many goals. 

Carpe Diem