Last weekend, I have quietly celebrated the 2-year anniversary of not having a single drop of alcohol in my blood stream. I even faked drinking that glass of champagne on stage, during my friend’s wedding when I was the emcee and my sister’s wedding in Hong Kong and in Singapore. Of the many questions I have received over [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Reflection'
Alcohol And I – A Story Of Our 2 Years Of Separation, Thus Far
January 25th, 2010 13 Comments
Tags: alcohol · teetotaler
Is Liking What We Get A Resignation To Life Or The Key To Contentment?
January 17th, 2010 16 Comments
My favorite writer Doris Lessing once wrote: We learn to like what we get. Seven simple words so accurately describe our current state of affair, in so many different dimensions. But yet when I shared this revelation with a friend, her immediate response was: That’s called resignation to life. Such is the beauty of literature. [...]
Tags: workplace
New Theme This Year: Be Committed And Do It NOW
January 3rd, 2010 9 Comments
Happy 2010! How did you celebrate the New Year Eve? Initially, Cynthia and I wanted to celebrate the countdown in a Spanish way: to eat twelve grapes, one on each chime of the clock. Alas! At the checkout counter of a grocery store, a few days before the New Year Eve, Cynthia asked if we [...]
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A Recollection – How Years Have Vanished!
October 4th, 2009 11 Comments
Yep. That little kid you see in the photo is me. I have got the confirmation this morning and I will get to that in just a moment. Like many entries I write, this one started with a concept, a consolidation of ideas for the past few days. I have got my thoughts linked and [...]
Tags: Old photos from dad
A Spiritual Reflection – What Karen Armstrong’s Case For God Really Means To Me?
September 29th, 2009 12 Comments
This post is irregular in two ways. One, I am often – if not always – happy with what I publish here. Technically speaking, there is nothing wrong with the book summary I wrote on a Sunday morning, 7am to be exact. But the more I read that post, the more disconnected I feel. I [...]
Tags: Karen Armstrong · Religion
32 Weeks Have Passed And I Now Have My To-do List
August 13th, 2009 9 Comments
Recently, I read an entry from one of my friend’s private blog. It is kind of private because I promise her long time ago that I wouldn’t make a link into her site. She said, six months have passed and she still doesn’t know what she wants to do. And she has another six months to [...]
Tags: Association of Bloggers (Singapore) · einsteinium · my to-do list · periodic table
Into the Valley of Selegie
May 5th, 2009 2 Comments
A few good friends of mine commented that I have come to a full circle when I told them that (1) I’ve moved to a “new” office that isn’t new and (2) year 2000 I worked at the same building for the same employer. The difference is: I was a consultant to them back then and am [...]
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A New Theme for the New Year – Follow It Through!
January 12th, 2009 16 Comments
Following my annual tradition in determining a new theme for a new year – pretty much like how a Pope is chosen – a few ideas have been going round my head for days and I have been waiting for an answer [from above]. As though I saw fumata bianca raising up from my ears, [...]
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In Search for Styles – Of Photography, Oil Painting, Music Creation, and Writing
January 9th, 2009 5 Comments
What’s wrong with this picture? I will tell you in a moment.
Recently, I have become serious on photography. As I put a pause on the sound of the shutter (too many photos to be processed), I reflect upon my different channels in expressing art. Amazed by the similarities and differences, I have been working on [...]
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What a Fruitful Year that Ends with a Bang: My Sister’s Wedding
December 31st, 2008 24 Comments
Out of over 7,000 photos taken with my barely 2 months old camera, if I could pick one picture as my Nikon moment, this is it. Friends of mine perhaps rarely see this look of mine that is ecstatically happy. And indeed I was and more, overwhelmed with emotion. I passed my camera to my [...]
Tags: my sister's wedding