society
Remember Room to Read?
It’s been a while since the subject on Room to Read came up. Now there’s a quick way you can get involved. Simply vote for the project “6000 Girls’ Scholarship in the Developing World“, and if it gets to at least top 25, American Express will sponsor quite a sum into the project! Click here [...]
Wrong place at the wrong time
When I wrote about standing at the wrong place at the wrong time, I didn’t realise that there could be a further reason. I think it follows the bikini logic, where less is more.
When going shopping with my wife, I always find that I’m standing in the wrong place at the wrong time. Maybe, it’s [...]
Human slave, technology king
Deadlines. Bad project management. Bad combination. This is the time when you start to wonder why things don’t work the way they’re suppose to work, and a lot of the times, you realise that history finds its way to invade the present rather than stay in the past, just like our QWERTY keyboard.
So what happens [...]
Buy books to create a better world
I’ve just ordered my first book from BetterWorld.com. It aims to meet the Triple Bottom Line - social impact, environmental impact and economic impact. It also uses carbonfree shipping. It’s not actually carbon free as the book still has to travel the distances and the vehicles that carry it still has to emit those carbon [...]
Questions
Questions. They’re easily recognisable. It’s when a kid asks why the sky is blue, or why can’t I have that ice-cream. It’s when a tourist asks how to get to Chinatown, or when a girl asks a passer-by where are we (because guys will never ask for directions).
And then there are those that reside in [...]
Words
What’s your favourite word? Does any one word ignite a particular emotion from you? Does any one word stir you on? Makes you want to get up? Or do you just hate a particular word? I seldom have such passion for words. I prefer actions. Although actions do speak louder than words, sometimes, a [...]
Never force your opponent 100%
In push hands, one of my teacher’s favourite quote is to tell us not to push your partner into oblivion.
Push 70% and leave 30% for yourself (逼人七分，留三分给自己）
I’ve unconsciously recorded this in my mind, only to realise I like the quote because I used it in my teaching as well!
The reason he gave? If you push [...]
My Heroes
Ever wished to be a Hero? A hero like Superman? Spiderman?
You don’t have to have superpowers to be a Hero.
That’s one of the quote from a TV series titled “Heroes”. The TV series is about a group of people with special powers. Some of these people think about the amount of good they can do [...]
A compassionate teacher always loses
Compassion has a bad name in the competitive world. It means losing. It means you’re not up to standard. It means you’re not promoted. It means you don’t know how to play the game. But sometimes, in order to learn, a teacher has to show you what not to learn. And that is when he [...]
Finding a charity that speaks to you
I never realised I was looking, until I found it, only to realise that I have been looking for it all along.
I have been looking for a way to give something back to the society, be it through work, business, or a charitable organisation. I’ve finally stumbled across something which speaks to me on a [...]
