The Huai Seng Principle

This is a little rule-of-thumb that I have named in honour of my old friend from secondary school, Dr Loh Huai Seng. It may sound rather trivial and contrived, inane, but hear me out.

Basically, folding a piece of paper once (or twice) can save it from being crumpled or creased. In school I oftened rolled my art paper or drawing paper to prevent it from being creased. And Huai Seng would fold his paper in half.

I didn't fold my piece of paper because I didn't want it creased. However the rolled up paper often got squashed by books etc. I ended up with a paper creased many times over instead of Huai Seng's piece which just had a single neat crease down the middle. (He's a great artist by the way).

At the simplest level it applies to paper, which I think of each time i carry pieces of paper around. A few days ago, buying some wrapping paper for a friend's present I was reminded of this again when I saw wrapping paper sold in large folded squares rather than rolls.

Casting wider, you may extrapolate or philosiphise about this to apply to life in general or different situations. I leave you to make your own interpretations.

And of course heartiest congratulations to him and his wife, Anne, for their newborn girl delivered last night!
:)