As I learn about defending using Tai Ji, a child taught me about her defense mechanism. We were eating ice-cream, and suddenly, she waved a spoon of ice-cream in the air and said:
“This is where my dad is…” and moving her spoon to the left,
“This is where my mum is…” and imagined feeding each of [...]
My work requires me to anticipate on a daily basis - more commonly known as “risk management” in the industry. It’s a nice sounding term but it cracks the brain, literally. We need to come up with scenarios, however unlikely, so that we have a system in place which is robust enough to deal with [...]
This website has been undergoing some identity crisis lately. Well, the website can’t actually undergo identity crisis, but somehow, it’s easier to write when referring myself as a third party.
Anyway, as much as I want to “think and grow”, I’ve been reminded that “thinking” itself might be counter-productive to growing. As The Power [...]
After becoming a student for years, a few friends asked me to teach Tai Ji. I rejected profusely, citing some lame excuses e.g. not ready, not good enough, do not want to mislead etc. Of course, being friends, they have the normal comeback for each of my excuses. I think the fact that I’m not [...]
Buying a ticket home. It’s suppose to be easy, it’s suppose to be painless. But when you combine school holidays, Sundays and rainy days, you’ve got yourself a perfect storm.
I am an employee. I have a fixed salary every month, for as long as I work with the company. I get some holidays which I can take anytime of the year. Of course, “anytime” is normally controlled by someone else, commonly known as “the boss”. I can “request” anytime, but it’s never “anytime”… Anyway, [...]