I got a friend who was very proud of his home.He stayed in a zinc house at Tampines during his childhood (Top photo ). After he got married, he moved into a HDB 4- room flat ( Second photo) . Five years later, he moved into HDB Executive flat (Third photo).
Now he was staying in a private condominium (Bottom photo).
I think my friend was in line with the theme of my blog: Continuous Improvement in his home.
4 comments:
Surely your friend is practising Kaisen (continuous improvement), but for such improvement one must have deep pockets (money) to upgrade from his former zinc house to the present condominium. A poor chap having to make ends meet could hardly maintain his present dwelling let alone upgrade it to a condominium. This is a hard reality of life.
Dear Zen,
Thanks for your comment. Yes, I will consider finiacial gain as part of CI.
Regards
Peh Seng Ket
When we talk on continuous improvement, effort and innovative ideas are the major contributory factors. Improvement made possible from money obtained through gambling, speculations, profits, inheritance and the likes do not fall under the category of kaizen. Let take for example a very rich man who has all the money to upgrade his assets or even buy new ones. All he needs is to issue more cheques. Do we classify his action as one of continuous improvement or kaizen?
I quite a agree that when a person make effort to improve himself through education, effort, job promotion and subsequently accumulated enough saving to acquire better homes - we call them as personal achievements, and could not possibly term them as CI or kaizen, which has more relevance in a working place or at the factory floor, where it involves employees thinking out continuous improvement ideas on the jobs or working environment, resulting in cutting down cost and production time for their companies. In short, CI by employees helps the companies to survive and make profits which in turn enables the workers getting bigger pay packets and bonuses.
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