In case you're wondering where http://edonn.com has gone, well, it has now moved to https://donn.wordpress.com! The move is permanent, so you might want to update your links. All the previous permalinks to my writings will still work, however. Why the move? Well, let's just say I have other plans for edonn.com.
Unemployment
I stumbled across this rather cute picture over at unemploymentality.com. It's the truth behind the picture that makes it just oh-so-funny.
A penny for your thoughts
"A penny for your thoughts," I said. "Hmm," I thought out loud, "if I had a penny every time I said that..." I paused to think through all the times I used this oft-used phrase. "I think I'd have two cents."
Saucony Singapore Passion Run
Update: My Saucony Passion Run: I have run the run! Read all about it here! I thought I might highlight to all runners (or otherwise) out there that the Singapore PAssion run is coming up on the 24th of May. My sis had actually brought this up to my attention, and I figured that if... Continue Reading →
On Happiness
A passage I thought especially enlightening from the book The Art of Happiness, authored by Howard C. Cutler with the Dalai Lama: [H]appiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events. Success may result in a temporary feeling of elation, or tragedy may send us into a period of depression, but... Continue Reading →
Invisible Strings of Association
I'm currently reading the book The 11th Element by Robert Allen. 15 pages into the book and I hit a paragraph where the author lists some far-fetched claims of occasions that I may have had experience with the "11th element": You've tapped in "the invisible network" yourself. Haven't there been times when you knew something... Continue Reading →
The Speeding Car
As the ridiculously speeding car zoomed past me, clipped the car beside me and spun out of control, I couldn't help but wonder to myself, "how cool is that?" And I smiled to myself.
In Singapore!
I'm back in Singapore for good! Hmm. Not sure what else is there to say about that. Heh.
Writing for a living
I was just thinking how nice it would be to write for a living -- not fiction works, for that's not something I'm either good at nor really passionate about, but non-fiction, self-improvement, finance literature, of which I am rather passionate about and am pretty interested in. The problem here of course is that as... Continue Reading →
Awareness Test
A fantastic little video that everyone should check out.