This is a pretty heavy topic. But I am sure some of you can handle. Once in a while, some trusted friends of mine would confide in me the situations they faced – at work, in relationship, or life in general – and hope to hear my perspective. I love listening to stories and answering questions. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Reflection'
Summer Blog Episode 3 – My Table In My Primary School
June 22nd, 2010 No Comments
My memory of my primary school life has been fuzzy. Of the few fragments that I remember, there were those wooden tables that we used at school, unlike perhaps the fine furniture students use today. The surface though smooth, was uneven. You could trace the texture of the wood and you could see the little [...]
Tags: Bob the Bot™ · summer blog 2010
“When I Was 18″ – A Spanish Homework
May 19th, 2010 19 Comments
“When I Was 18″ - that was the topic of our Spanish homework. In fact, our teacher Natalia left the age to be open. It could well be when I was 16, when I was 24, when I was 30, when I was … OK, let’s stop here. I mean, when I was 16, my life [...]
Tags: Spanish class · Spanish homework
Alcohol And I – A Story Of Our 2 Years Of Separation, Thus Far
January 25th, 2010 13 Comments
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 [...]
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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