Category Archives: Life

When you’re making decent money, don’t let money infuse you the fear of losing money. For now you have so much more to lose. But you didn’t realize you might not deserve that much money at the first place. People often times undermine the market condition and pure luck, and highly correlate the money they [...]

Nhớ ngủ sớm nghe chưa con. Nhớ ăn uống cho đầy đủ đó đừng có bỏ ăn sáng. Trời ơi làm chi mà làm quá sức vậy ta đã nói là đừng có cố quá mà. Có muốn mua đồ ăn gì đem qua không ta mua trước cho Nhớ đừng có quên passport đó nhe. Tác giả: Mẹ

Đi trên đường thấy nhiều người dân lao động buôn bán cực khổ giữa trưa nắng kiếm sống, mình thấy mủi lòng tội nghiệp họ. Nhưng mình lại quên mất có một đối tượng khác đáng tội nghiệp hơn: cậu ấm cô chiêu chưa đi làm, chưa hiểu được giá trị của đồng tiền mà [...]

Observe what people say.  You’ll be amazed by what they really meant by their tone, their emotion, their body. And what they meant often are completely different from what their actually words convey. Funny thing is, in most cases people do this with complete unawareness.

Some random thoughts coming up here and there:   —- Health and relationships are the 2 most important things that can keep you happy. Unlike skillsets or knowledge, where you start from zero and start putting efforts to build it up, health and relationship you sort of natraully get it over time through life and [...]

“Đời Không Đơn Giản”. Graduated from NUS. Organized Gathering Talents. Joined Viki. Continued TeamReflect. Traveled to Thailand. Surprised Mom on her birthday. Called home more often. Learnt about humility and being honest. Fixed our relationship. Took up Yoga. Prayed.

Sometimes we focus too much on the optimization on how to work more efficiently, rather than the work itself. We feel insecure about not working fast enough, and spent most time thinking about how to work faster. But in fact we should be willing to at least put in sheer hours to get the work [...]

1. Trust, but verify You need to trust people, but that doesn’t mean they’re right all the time. 2. Be honest People appreciate you being honest, as long as you show genuine intention. Even if it hurts them. If you’re working with the right people, they’ll respect you for that. 3. Don’t take people for [...]

…worked for an electronics company for 10 years. Then AT&T Motorola for another 15 years. Rose to Senior Technical Manager. Got laid off when company scaled down. Been driving taxi for 11 years. Raised 3 kids, all university educated. 2 got married and moved out. 1 entering NUS. “You seemed financially alright to me, uncle. [...]