Get Rich Quick
Note: This article does not encourage you to engage in the activities mentioned below, but to warn you against them. Many of us at one point in time thought about get rich quick schemes. Being desperate for money, being sick…
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Time Management Part II
In part II of this series we talk about other points which you can take note of in order to further improve your time management. Arrange Your Time Well There are tasks which needs to wait and let it run…
Time Management Part I
We may be all born differently in terms of family background, social status, capabilities, interests, health, etc. But one thing we all have in common, is that we have 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days…
Work Based On Probability, Not Luck Nor Fate
In this world, almost nothing is 100% guaranteed. There are cases of people who live healthily yet die young, of students who studied hard yet a sickness during the examinations prevented them from getting good grades, of hard workers getting…
Random Chit Chat 24032022
I am a team leader in a public service organisation. In an organisation where efficiency is not the priority, sometimes ridiculous decisions are made. My subordinates complained to me that the management often made stupid decisions which resulted in a…
Random Chit Chat 09032022
In this world, there are many dirty and disgusting things which the rich and powerful play. But many times there are no solid evidences we can lay out as to what they did. Even if there are, their overwhelming wealth…
Consistently Putting In The Effort And Yielding Results
Many people started off with many endeavours, be it doing Youtube videos, writing articles, trading in the stock market, saving money, going to the gym weekly etc. These are all good endeavours, and many people certainly may have results in…
Interview Techniques
I was helping someone preparing for her job interviews recently, and shared with her my experience. Just for background, I went through numerous job interviews in the past, many of which I failed, and quite a number of which I…
Why People Love To Play Games
Games are addictive. We could do whatever we wanted in games without any consequences, whether it is killing other people in an Massive Multi Player Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG), hijacking a car and killing people in Grand Theft Auto…
Lying Flat
Lying flat, or 躺平 in Chinese, is a recent trend that started in China and had grown in influence. From China it expanded out to more and more places, with many young people choosing to ‘lie flat’. In simple terms,…
Children Are Not Our Investments
In Chinese there is a saying called 養兒防老, which basically means raising a child (a son, specifically) defends against old age. In traditional Chinese culture, and perhaps in many other culture as well, the sons are the ones who will…
Inheritance Should Not Be Given After You Are Dead
Many people aim to leave behind as large an inheritance as possible for their children upon their death. The logic is very simple. After they die, the wealth (or whatever money and assets they owned) they pass on to their…