This month will be the month I find out if I'll have a salary increment. I told the future missus that if I didn't get one, I'll be looking for another job. I don't know if I will though. I enjoy what I'm doing, and it doesn't take up too much of my time (overtime's... Continue Reading →
70% of us think about starting our own business
I recently read in a book that "out of a 100 people, 70 will want to start a business, 15 will actually do so in the next few years, and only 5 will succeed on the first try." (from the book bounce! by Barry Moltz) I hadn't realised that so many people were actually thinking... Continue Reading →
Changing Jobs for More Money
"Leaving for money" is, according to an article in the Harvard Business Review on career moves, called "Managing Yourself: Five Ways to Bungle a Job Change", one of the major mistakes people make when deciding between jobs. Though not too extraordinary a finding in itself (surely you have heard people say, "it's not all about... Continue Reading →
On Writing What I Want
I have a habit of regularly asking myself what I want in life. I’d write it down and put it away, only returning to it when the next time I thought about writing it came about. I find Google docs very useful for this exercise, but I digress. It suddenly occurred to me that I... Continue Reading →
Rediscovering the Joy of Running
Taking the unfamiliar route today, I felt a familiar tingling feeling on my skin: goosebumps! Whenever goosebumps appear on my runs, they are almost always accompanied by a surge in energy and enthusiasm, and this time it was no different. I picked up my pace and ran like I hadn't run in ages: I had... Continue Reading →
Getting a Job During a Recession
A program on the BBC about a week back talked about getting a job during a recession. "Graduates," they said, "who got jobs during recessions were likely to be paid less than their peers who got jobs during times of prosperity." I am, unfortunately, one of them. Graduating at the end of 2008, I went... Continue Reading →
Achieving Bliss in a Striving World
“Life,” he told me, “ought to be filled with always striving for something. It keeps life interesting.” Intuitively I felt that he was right in some way. It reminded me of the concept of “flow”, where you’re so engaged in an activity that is just beyond your comfort level that you lose all sense of... Continue Reading →
Getting Old
Yesterday I had a meeting with one of my best friends since secondary school, Wilson, whom had only recently returned from his four-year degree course in New Zealand. We met at Heartland Mall's Xin Wang HK Cafe, a very decent place for relatively low-cost, almost restaurant-quality food, and the ambience was good (Wilson managed to... Continue Reading →
The Engagement Announcement
"What do I say??" I asked her in desperation. I looked across the table and there they were, looking quite indifferent to the food with which I had hoped would help bribe my way to an easy "yes." I was here today, at the Peach Blossoms restaurant in the Marina Mandarin hotel, to ask for... Continue Reading →
Our Second Anniversary in Malacca
Just came back from a trip from Malacca with the fiancee, a trip sorta arranged around our second anniversary. I really enjoyed myself, and so did she. Went shopping, watched a movie at the theatre (and half of one on my lappy). Ate lots -- and I mean lots of pretty decent food. Happy anniversary... Continue Reading →
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