March 12, 2010
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Well, I’m as surprised as you!
It was my friends that told me first that I was featured on The Star Newspaper R.AGE Featured Blogger’s section.
At first I thought it was a prank. Well it was my birthday 2 days ago, I guess people can play pranks.
Then throughout the day I got friends buzzing me on MSN and Twitter saying that, “Hey, I saw you on newspaper!”
It was until WillyCW (visit his blog here) sent a Twitpic of the newspaper clipping.
Oh my!
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March 7, 2010
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I was talking with my friends about change. Apparently, change seems to be quite a controversial topic, in some cases. No matter if it’s a change of place, a change of environment, perhaps a change of career or relationship status, there is always one element something that is taken into consideration:
Time.
Apparently, a change is waste of time. Not the time for the process of changing itself, but the time spent on the activity before the change.
It is as if that if you made a change, whatever that you have done before is just wasted down the drain and the change is “not worth it”.
Or is that really the case?
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February 22, 2010
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We’ve talked about maximizing your strengths on the previous post, now what do we do with your weaknesses?
We all have our bad times. Or perhaps some of us are already born with the certain disadvantages that put us a notch below the others. But actually, who is it that is there to determine what is normal or success? And how do we weight ourselves, is it from your heart, or is it from how others see you?
After watching this talk by Aimee Mullins on TEDs, I guess she gave us a very simple but powerful answer.
“It is not so much about overcoming adversity as it is opening ourselves to it, embracing it. Grappling with it. Maybe even dancing with it. Perhaps as we see adversity as something natural, consistent and useful, we’re less burdened by the presence of it. “
Dancing with adversity, making it your partner. Now that’s some new idea that we all can use.
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