Reading is the way to grow your knowledge. There is really no short cut.
However, being human, we always want the easy way out:

1. to go through work, learning as fast as we can; 
2. to take the shortest road to realise your dream;
3. to grow our wealth in the shortest way like taking short courses which you can pay thousands of dollars.
4. many of us are interested to know how to go fishing and reap an abundant catch in the shortest possible way;
5. the shortest way to get the best result;
6. in short, it is the greed of human nature to have wants within the shortest possible time and this has largely led to grave consequences and the fallacy of men. However, it has also resulted in the development of  twitter and instagram to give instant result and action.

 In life, there is no such thing as instant gratification with the minimum effort. This is in fact the weaknesses of mankind. 

Because of such human weakness, there are many scammers out there to entice people to fall play to their plots.
Example of such scams are like the Genevie Gold, the Exit strategy and Rebuilding America marketed by Infinity treasures Pte Ltd structured by Steve Wright of  Project Kudo where hundreds of investors never get  to see their capital returns not to mention about the interests promised.
These are all overseas investments where makes it even more difficult for investors in Singapore to trace.

In life, we have to learn to be contented with what we have.
Life would be easier when we don't compare and contrast but treasure all that God has given us.

Books more helpful than luxury cars

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SHAHRIL SHAIK ABDULLAH

PUBLISHED: 4:15 AM, SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

I refer to the report “Less privileged children get driven around in luxury cars” (Sept 28).

The event may have been based on sincerity and the best intentions, but as poet TS Eliot said: “Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.”

We cannot ignore the unintended repercussions this event may trigger, particularly on the children’s psyche and the dent made on the families’ dignity. I fail to see how driving children around in luxury cars will help bring them out of their impoverished state. On the contrary, there may be two plausible consequences in the making.

One is to reinforce the myth that there is no class or social divide in our society, or that the gap has been narrowed. The other is to give the children a warped and one-dimensional idea of success, based on hedonistic values in the pursuit of a materialistic, extravagant lifestyle.

If the organisers and those compassionate drivers genuinely want to help the kids, the better way to contribute is to buy books and help them build a library in their homes.

Providing the underprivileged with the opportunity to access the cultural capital of books and reading is the best way to break the cycle of poverty.

A truly compassionate society is one where the privileged class actively joins in the struggle of the underprivileged for self-empowerment and economic independence, and not by taking them for a ride.