My Memoirs - in God We Do Best

By Kim Hin David HO

The book concludes with my life achievements, then discusses my expanded work experience, my published articles, my published books and citations of my articles.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
• Release date: Aug 26, 2021
• ISBN: 9781543766912

Kim Hin David HO

Dr HO Kim Hin / David is Honorary Professor in Development Economics & Land Economy, awarded by the UK public university, the University of Hertfordshire. He retired end-May 2019 as Professor (Associate) (Tenured) from the National University of Singapore. Professor HO spent the last thirty-one years across several sectors, which include the military, oil refining, aerospace engineering, public housing, resettlement, land acquisition, land reclamation, real estate investment , development and international real estate investing. He spent six years in the real estate career as part of the executive management group of Singapore Technologies at Pidemco Land Limited, and as part of the senior management team of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation’s GIC Real Estate Private Limited. Seventeen years are spent in the National University of Singapore at the then School of Building and Estate Management, the Department of Real Estate, School of Design and Environment, where his research expertise is in two areas. First is international real estate in the area of risk-return behavior behind international real estate investing in direct and indirect real estate. Secondly, is urban and public policy analysis involving real estate, sea transport, public housing, land and land use. Schooled in development economics and in land economy at the University of Cambridge, England, he has effectively extended these disciplines to examine his two expertise areas. Apart from being well versed in econometrics, his quantitative interests include real estate demand and supply, investment and finance, artificial intelligent modeling in real estate and system dynamics modeling for real estate market analysis and public policy analysis. He is the Member of the Royal Economics Society (U.K.), Academic Member of the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (U.S.), Fellow of the American Real Estate Society (U.S.), member of the American Economic Association (U.S.) and member of the Economic Society of Singapore and the Singapore Institute of Management. He holds the degrees of Master of Philosophy (1st Class Honors with Distinction), Honorary Doctor of Letters and the Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge, U.K. He has published widely in top international journals and conferences, in chapters of international academic book publishers. Dr Ho has written 11 major books (including this book), undertaken many consultancies and funded research projects. He has written a total of about 275 published works (with 91 in peer reviewed, reputable international journals). He is an editorial board member of the Journal of Economics & Public Finance, Real Estate Economics journal, Journal of Property Research, Journal of Property Investment & Finance, Journal of Real Estate Finance & Economics, the Property Management journal and the International Journal of Strategic Property Management. He has published widely in conferences, Finance, chapters of international academic book publishers, undertaken many consultancies and funded research projects. He is an immediate past Governor of the St Gabriel's Foundation that oversees nine schools in Singapore; and a District Judge equivalent member of the Valuation Review Board, Ministry of Finance, Singapore, and the Singapore Courts.

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My Memoirs -

In God We Do Best

HO, Kim Hin / David

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Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam

CONTENTS

Foreword

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Chapter 1 My Memoirs - We Do Best in God Faith, Hope, Charity & Love

Chapter 2 My Family, A Very Important Part of My Life

Chapter 3 My Life Peers

Chapter 4 My Modest Life Achievements

Chapter 5 Wrapping Up

Foreword

Life is not a bed of Roses yet "I may not have everything I want but I have all that I need.

I wake up with some aches and pains, but I am thankful I have awaked up.

My life may not be perfect, but I am blessed (by the Infinitely Almighty God The Holy Trinity) beyond measure".

(Divine Inspirations and Prayers;

my Dear Friend Francis ANG,

November 2020)

This book highlights the findings, contributions and recommendations made on several crucial issues, concerning my memoirs and with the consistent theme that ‘We Do Best In God’

Happy reading.

Yours sincerely,

Professor (Dr) Kim Hin David HO

Singapore

August 2021.

Acknowledgements

The Author wish to extend his most sincere appreciation to his Ho siblings which include the following:

1. Eleanor Ho Swit Lan

2. Professor (Dr) Kim Hin David Ho

3. Margaret Ho Swit Moy

4. Monica Ho Swit Lin

5. Andrew Ho Kian Hin &

6. Edward Ho Hon Hin.

We are indeed grateful to our late parents for bringing us into this world, and for bringing us up with strong moral fiber, courage and the devoted faith in the Infinitely Almighty God The Holy Trinity; in whom the Infinitely Almighty God The Father, the Infinitely Almighty God The Son Jesus Christ and the Infinitely Almighty God The Holy Spirit so reside, so reign and rule.

Our parents include the following:

1. Dr Michael Ho Lian Kee (deceased in 1984) &

2. Veronica Ho-Loh Mei Leng (deceased in 2006).

ALLELUIA.

About the Author

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Dr Kim Hin David HO is Honorary (Full) Professor in Development Economics & Land Economy, awarded by the UK public university, the University of Hertfordshire. He retired end-May 2019 from the School of Design and Environment (Tenured Staff) from the National University of Singapore. Professor HO spent the last thirty-one years across several sectors, which include the military, oil refining, aerospace engineering, public housing, resettlement, land acquisition, land reclamation, real estate investment and development, international real estate investing. He spent six years in the real estate career as part of the executive management group of Singapore Technologies Ltd at Pidemco Land Limited, and as part of the senior management team of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation’s GIC Real Estate Private Limited. Seventeen years are spent in the National University of Singapore at the then School of Building and Estate Management, the Department of Real Estate, School of Design and Environment, where his research expertise is in two areas. First is international real estate in the risk-return behavior behind international real estate investing in direct and indirect real estate. Secondly, is urban and public policy analysis involving real estate, sea transport, public housing, land and land use. Schooled in development economics and in land economy at the University of Cambridge, England, he has effectively extended these disciplines to examine his two expertise areas. Apart from being well versed in econometrics, his quantitative interests include real estate demand and supply, investment and finance, artificial intelligent modeling in real estate and system dynamics modeling for real estate market analysis and public policy analysis. He is the Member of the Royal Economics Society (U.K.), Academic Member of the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (U.S.), Fellow of the American Real Estate Society (U.S.), member of the American Economic Association (U.S.) and member of the Economic Society of Singapore and the Singapore Institute of Management. He holds the degrees of Master of Philosophy (1st Class Honors with Distinction), Honorary Doctor of Letters and the Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge, U.K. He has published widely in top international journals and conferences, in chapters of international academic book publishers. Professor HO has written 14 major books (including this book), undertaken many consultancies and funded research projects. He has written a total of about 275 published works (with 91 in peer reviewed, reputable international journals). He is an editorial board member of the Journal of Economics & Public Finance, Real Estate Economics journal, Journal of Property Research, Journal of Property Investment & Finance, Journal of Real Estate Finance & Economics, the Property Management journal and the International Journal of Strategic Property Management. He has published widely in conferences, Finance, chapters of international academic book publishers, undertaken many consultancies and funded research projects. He is an immediate past Governor of the St Gabriel’s Foundation that oversees nine schools in Singapore; and a District Judge equivalent member of the Valuation Review Board, Ministry of Finance, Singapore, and the Singapore Courts.

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Chapter 1

My Memoirs - We Do Best in God Faith, Hope, Charity & Love

Chapter 1 is concerned with faith, hope, charity, and love, traditionally called theological virtues, are central to Christian Roman Catholicism. This chapter renews faith, hope, charity, and love in the context of the many contemporary challenges in many unique ways. It is an ecumenical collection of papers, equally divided between Catholic and Protestant positions, that seek to radically renew the classical doctrine of faith, hope, and love, and argues for their essential connection to the praxis of justice. I believe it contains eight different approaches, each represented by a distinguished theologian and addressing different aspects of the issues and followed by insightful and critical responses. It does not merely seek to renew the theological virtues but to also reconstruct them in the demanding context of justice and the contemporary world, nor is it simply a treatise on justice but a theoretical and practical reflection on justice as vital expressions of faith in God, hope in God, and love of God.

A non-dogmatic and non-ideological approach, it accommodates both conservative and liberal positions, and avoids the separation of the theological virtues from the demands of the contemporary world as well as the separation of justice talk from the theological context of faith, hope, and love. It seeks above all to renew, not merely repeat, the classical doctrine of faith, hope, and love in the contemporary context of the urgency of justice, and to do so ecumenically, comprehensively, and from a variety of perspectives and aspects.

The Theological virtues

The Theological virtues are the virtues associated in Christian theology and philosophy and with salvation resulting from the grace of God.[¹] Virtues are traits or qualities which dispose one to conduct oneself in a morally good manner. Traditionally they have been named Faith, Hope, and Charity (Love), and can trace their importance in Christian theology to Paul the Apostle in 1 Corinthians 13, who also pointed out that the greatest of these is love.

The Roman Catholic philosopher St Thomas Aquinas explains that these virtues are called theological virtues because they have God for their object, both in so far as by them, we are properly directed to Him, and because they are infused into our souls by God alone, as also, finally, because we come to know of them only by Divine revelation in the Sacred Scriptures.[²]

From 1 Corinthians 13

The first mention in Christian literature of the three theological virtues is