Smart Living - How Conservative are You?

Q1

You are preparing for an evening of relaxation and conversation with a few good friends. What do you expect to see on your dining table?

	Home-cooked food.
	A catered buffet.
	Fast food — like pizza — delivered to your doorstep.
	Fine dining at an exclusive restaurant.
	Fusion or noveau French, Italian, Japanese or Chinese cuisine, etc.

Q2

After months of hard work, you have finally decided to take a holiday in the country/region of your choice. What activity will you enjoy the most while on holiday?

	Taking photographs of famous monuments.
	Mingling with locals and trying local food.
	Visiting the museum and learning about the local history.
	Shopping for souvenirs.
	Relaxing on the beach.

Q3

Your birthday is best spent:

	Celebrating simply at home with family and a few good friends.
	Celebrating with significant other.
	Going on holiday.
	Sleeping/working.
	Holding a birthday bash at an exclusive party venue.

Q4

You would like to re-decorate your parents' home. However, your parents don't have any strong opinions about the colour scheme. Instead, they trust you to make a suitable decision. You decide to paint the walls:

	Pastels such as light blue, light yellow, lavender or pale pink.
	White (or cream).
	Solid colours such as blue, red, green, or yellow.
	Earth tones such as grey or brown.
	Black.

Q5

If you become a politician one day, how would you prefer the press to describe you?

	Serious and respectable, your integrity is without question.
	You're a progressive leader and your peers look up to you
	Assertive and good at speaking, you attract the most admirers.
	Passionate and willing to stand up for your views, even when they might be unpopular.
	A maverick. You frequently shock or surprise those around you.

Q6

You are tired of the way you look and decide to hire an image consultant to give you a makeover. Your ideal new image will:

	Turn you from a boring, drab-looking person to a smart, professional-looking one.
	Be the same as the present you, but with better clothes and a new hairstyle.
	Help you to hide your age.
	Take years off your age.
	Transform you from an ordinary plain Jane/John to a sexy, attractive person who turns heads effortlessly.

Q7

An important festival (in your culture) is coming up. How do you prepare for it?

	Do everything exactly the way your parents taught you.
	Try your best to follow traditional ways of celebration, but you have no objections to taking shortcuts (buying cookies instead of making them, etc.)
	Try to follow traditional ways of celebration, but also find new ways to commemorate the occasion.
	Make a few token gestures.
	Go on holiday to avoid the chaos.

Q8

To you, 'traditional Asian values' are:

	Essential for our society to function properly.
	A good idea.
	More of a general guide than anything else.
	Hidebound, sexist, classist, and elitist.
	Irrelevant to the 21st century.

Q9

You would prefer to hang this item on the wall of your living room:

	A nice painting or a piece of Chinese calligraphy.
	Photographs of your family.
	I don't usually hang stuff on my walls.
	A kimono, a piece of tapestry or other forms of chic Asian art.
	Installation art, pop art, or artsy-looking prints/photographs

Q10

Sometimes, it is necessary to restore old historical monuments to give them a new lease of life. In that respect, what do you think of the restoration of the Cathy building?

	It's important to retain this important part of our historical heritage.
	Why was the restoration necessary anyway? If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
	It makes a nice shopping centre.
	It obeys the letter but not the spirit of the restoration of historical buildings.
	A dramatic and bold interpretation.