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 →
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 →
Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author of the bestselling book Flow, writes in his follow-up book Finding Flow that being happy alone does not mean we have a good quality of life; rather, he says that it is what we do -- not how happy we are -- that determines the quality. I do not agree --... Continue Reading →
Love thy neighbour as thyself, was a thought he repeated to himself several times, hoping to contain envious feelings he was losing control over. Why, he thought, does he always get the good things in life? What has he done to deserve it? The object of envy, he knew, did deserve his success. But it's... Continue Reading →
Though he looked Chinese and spoke somewhat like a Singaporean, he wasn't from around here. He had been, in fact, living in Australia most his life. "You know," he told me, "I realised that the people here on the MRT all look so glum. I mean, that's their problem? What I don't understand, is why... Continue Reading →
I would just like to share with you this passage I came across in a fantastic book I'm currently reading, called Winning - The Psychology of Competition, by Stuart H. Walker: Provocation and intimidation may effectively neutralise some competitors. Evoking guilt feelings may be more effective with others. Some of your competitors are saying, like... Continue Reading →
I came across an article called Why Career Planning is Time Wasted. It takes an interesting look at our abilities in predicting our future wants. This article introduces this term called "Miswanting", used to describe how we may wrongly predict what we want in the future. It occurred to me that this not only applied... Continue Reading →
I stand on the outside looking in, watching them enjoying themselves. I pretend to be indifferent, though inside I'm burning to be called in, to be asked to join in the fun. Suddenly a voice shouts out for me to join them. Unprepared, I smile to them but politely decline. Why I decline, I cannot... Continue Reading →
Odd as it may seem, studying appears to be a pretty good socialising activity, bringing people together in much the same way serving in the army brings people together: through shared pain and traumatic experiences.
I have always found the concept of "classroom participation" quite irritating, not least because of my introverted nature. Classroom participation has been something I have had to deal with since my Polytechnic days, though it was never really enforced in Singapore. In Australia, marks are given after every session, and you actually get to know... Continue Reading →
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