I believe personal health is great wealth. My father lived to be almost 97; just short one month. He lived well and died well. Therefore, I have taken the view that good health is more valuable than great wealth; so that I, too, get to try and finish well like him.

Nonetheless, now that we are all observing and concurrently living within a three generational reality and environment, we have become aware of real material differences amongst ourselves (whether by health or wealth); especially as they become more visible through status artefacts to others.

Therefore recently, when a friend we met in Vietnam commented and enquired of me where such obvious and visible inter-generational wealth of ‘many Cina or Melayu Baru’ came from; I really had no good answers.