The price of being different
I recently read a local comic book entitled The Resident Tourist. It is an ongoing autobiography of Troy Chin who is also the artist behind the series of books. Troy studied in US and pursued ...
Career
Various grouses about working life
Keeping in line with God’s plans
I read a Bible verse just two days ago which literally made me stop in my tracks. It says, “In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps” (Prov. 16:9). ...
Realising a dream
It is amazing how time flies. It is already March and soon the first quarter of the year will be over. I am taking stock of the year in such a minuscule way because 2011 ...
Thinking Deep Thoughts
Lately I have been developing an uncanny tendency to think about how the world works. Perhaps a result of becoming obsessive with work. I can’t help but subconsciously wonder why things are the way they ...
Banking on social media
Nope this post isn’t about how great social media is and why you should definitely include it in your marketing strategy. That’s for the twenty page report that I am currently writing right now. And it ...
The bloggers behind the blog
Yesterday, our organisation had an appreciation lunch for external partners whom we have worked with for the year. Our team invited the bloggers who have been faithfully contributing to our website FOC (save for the ...
Of two different worlds
I have a colleague who remains an enigma to me. She first caught my attention with her long flowy hair, tall slim build and make-up that accentuated her features in a very attractive way . ...
Faith is Trusting the unprovable
Out of sheer frustration, I am re-examining my purpose in life. When life starts going out of orbit, it has a tendency to make people go into soul searching mode. And somehow that always brings ...
Life sucks
Work has been draining the life out of me. I have never quite been so unhappy at work for as long as I remembered. Perhaps it is the general feeling of incompetence and the constant ...
Understanding the other person
I attended a supervisory management course today on effective communication, goal setting, delegation, motivation, performance appraisal and coaching. The material centers around the DISC psychometric profiling of ourselves and the people around us. We were taught the ...