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The Time Dimension of Love 2008-04-21 09:23:46 He looked over at her and sighed.
Must she do that? he thought to himself, shaking his head slightly in disapproval. Maybe, he thought, she isn’t quite the right person for me.
He stood up from his chair, and walked over to her. He reached for her hand, and brining it up to his mouth, lightly [...] Read more:Dimension
On Goodness 2008-04-19 02:28:30 I have been fascinated with “goodness” from a young age.
My younger days: 5 - 13 years
My younger days (pre- to early-teens) were concerned with how goodness was necessary to ensure one didn’t go to hell. I remember taking a boat ride through “hell” at the now defunct Haw Par Villa — a Buddhist/Toaist/Chinese-based themepark [...] Read more:Goodness
Money and Happiness 2008-04-07 18:13:22 Money brings to me its own intrinsic reward. For as far as I can remember, I’ve always liked accumulating money. I hated spending it, most of the time. I liked money for its own sake, and would often ask myself before major purposes: would I rather have the money, or would I have whatever it [...] Read more:Money
Employment 2008-04-04 19:02:27 I’m finally employed! With a little over a year passing since I contemplating (and announcing to the world my contemplating) working while studying, I’m relieved that I have finally made good on my word that I’d find work here.
And, I actually got two job offers within the space of a day!
I know, to many [...]
The Age of Turbulence 2008-04-03 00:44:58 I name this post after the book I’m currently reading, The Age of Turbulence
, by Alan Greenspan. I honestly didn’t quite know who Greenspan was before reading this book. I knew he had something to do with the American economy, and was the chairman or head of some government agency or something. But I wasn’t [...]
What is Love? 2008-03-31 19:27:16 I was writing in my journal when I, quite without thinking, wrote this line:
What else is love but the continued acceptance of a person despite the person’s flaws?
Though it’s not the perfect definition of love, I thought it was pretty good. And if you love me, you’d agree, wouldn’t you?
Compound Interest 2008-03-30 11:19:35 A dollar earns a dollar,
Which, in turn, earns another;
Like the love I have for you,
Growing with perpetuity — forever. Read more:Interest
Seven Days 2008-03-26 23:01:25 “It took seven days to reach you, did it not?” she said, referring to the document she had sent him the last time.
“No, it took nine days. The average is about there anyways,” he replied.
“I remember it took seven.”
“No, it took nine,” he said again, this time with a hint of irritation.
She looked at him [...] Read more:Seven
The 80/20 Principle 2008-03-24 18:00:19 The 80/20 principle says that 80% of our profits come from 20% of our customers.
In customer-relationship management or CRM, that leads us to believe that we should therefore concentrate our resources on those 20%.
But what happens in the long run if you dedicate more and more resources to the top 20%?
You get fewer customers overall, [...] Read more:Principle
Coffee 2008-03-21 23:37:18 I love my coffee. Read more:Coffee
Remove Virtumonde from Windows XP 2008-04-24 20:38:11 I was infected by the Virtumonde virus/trojan about a week ago. According to the F-Secure website Virtumonde
runs hidden from the user and displays pop-up advertisements. The adware connects to a server and queries for advertisements to display. The adware actively prevents removal by using several different techniques.
In my case whenever I opened Internet Explorer a [...] Read more:Windows
Remove Virtumonde.gen from Windows XP 2008-04-24 20:38:11 I was infected by the Virtumonde virus/trojan about a week ago. According to the F-Secure website Virtumonde
runs hidden from the user and displays pop-up advertisements. The adware connects to a server and queries for advertisements to display. The adware actively prevents removal by using several different techniques.
In my case, whenever I opened Internet Explorer a [...] Read more:Windows
Holding Hands 2008-04-27 11:00:43 Though not a believer in soul-mates,
you are closer to one that I’d ever
get without my resorting to blasphemy.
I remember the first time I held your hand.
I was expecting sparks; a skip in the beat
of my heart; a shiver down my spine;
But when I held your hand (and you didn’t
let go like you did the first [...] Read more:Hands
The Art of Happiness 2008-05-03 01:31:25 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 one [...]
A Second Chance 2008-05-14 09:41:58 I received the results of one of my mid-semester just the other day. I got a little above what I had expected — which was not much — and was more relieved than anything else; but even with the sense of relieve, I was feeling at the same time a little disappointed.
The gambler in [...] Read more:Second
Eat That Frog 2008-05-19 18:32:02 About a couple of months ago I submitted an application for a job doing fund-raising via the phone. This not only surprised me, but surprised some of my close friends and family too. I don’t know how many of you know me well enough to know I hate telephones, but I do.
It wasn’t always [...]
Complementary Love 2008-05-22 18:52:57 When it comes to love — though it may be hard to tell the difference — seek not one who compliments you, but one who complements you. Read more:Complementary
How Smart People Can Be So Stupid 2008-05-27 20:03:11 I’m currently reading a book called Why Smart
People Can Be So Stupid
, edited by Robert J. Sternberg. The book, as the title suggests, is a compilation of essays written by various authors on some of the sub-optimal behaviours that otherwise “smart” people engage in.
The first essay in the book that I read, called [...]
Sensitivity Analysis 2008-06-12 09:24:10 I’m currently taking a unit called decision making, and in it we get quite into the nitty-gritty of this thing called sensitivity analysis. Sensitivity
analysis is, in a nutshell, the study on how sensitive an output is to variations of input. For example, is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration really needed for genius? [...] Read more:Analysis
Learning about what really matters 2008-06-13 21:35:28 I will like to follow up a little on my last post on sensitivity analysis. Writing on sensitivity analysis wasn’t quite my aim in writing that piece; I was actually hoping to get down on paper (or screen) something I’ve long felt but didn’t quite express before: the tug-of-war between striving for achievement and going [...] Read more:Learning
, matters
Learning about what really matters 2008-06-13 21:35:28 I would like to follow up a little on my previous post on sensitivity analysis. Writing on sensitivity analysis wasn’t quite my aim in writing that piece; I was actually hoping to get down on paper (or screen) something I’ve long felt but didn’t quite express before: the tug-of-war between striving for achievement and going [...] Read more:Learning
, matters
How Smart People Can Be So Stupid 2008-05-27 20:03:11 I’m currently reading a book called Why Smart
People Can Be So Stupid
, edited by Robert J. Sternberg. The book, as the title suggests, is a compilation of essays written by various authors on some of the sub-optimal behaviours that otherwise “smart” people engage in.
The first essay in the book that I read, called [...]
The Intellectual Businessman 2008-06-17 04:31:39 Businessmen, or businesspeople, are generally not considered the intellectual kind. You don’t have to go far to find a person who holds the belief that “to succeed in business, you don’t have to be really smart”.
I had never really thought about this until recently, when it was mentioned during one of the training sessions for [...] Read more:Intellectual
, Businessman
Firefox Download Day 2008-06-18 00:24:24 Today’s the FirefoxDownload
Day! Get your copy of Firefox 3 now and help set a new Guinness record!
Best one for me 2008-06-23 11:00:43 As much as I wish I could tell you that you are the best girl in the world — or the prettiest; the most sexy; the most understanding; the funniest; or the kindest one — I can’t.
What I can tell you though, is that you are the best girl for me, and nothing will ever [...]
Speaking up in class 2008-06-21 23:49:17 I wish I did that more; speaking up in class
.
Unfortunately, the opportunity for that has gone, and my marks have been locked in.
Now, I’m facing an almost insurmountable hurdle in the final examinations to get the grade I so desire.
If I work hard now, will it happen?
But then again, should it happen? [...] Read more:Speaking
Does Jesus Really Save? 2008-06-20 21:23:38 Imagine that you are going through one of the hardest times of your life. Your performance at work is much to be desired, and your relationship with your loved ones appear to be going down the drain. You turn to drinking to ease your troubles, but this habit only serves to make things worse.
One day, [...] Read more:Jesus
Writing for a living 2008-07-03 20:46:56 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 much [...]
Awareness Test 2008-07-02 00:59:25 A fantastic little video that everyone should check out. Read more:Awareness
Feeling like a Retiree 2008-07-01 22:44:25 I’ve been back in Singapore for about half a week now, and I must say that I feel absolutely like a retiree — but one that hasn’t got much of a clue what to do.
During the exams itself, there was much to do: which is just about anything that doesn’t involve studying. Now that [...] Read more:Feeling
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