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10 days or so ago, I was nominated for the 7 links challenge by my dear blogsophere friend, Justin Mazza. Somehow, my wordpress wasn’t set up properly and I didn’t get a pingback. Or perhaps I did and I just didn’t notice. Sick to my bones with the migraine and flu for the last 2 weeks, it wasn’t until I went through my bookmarked sites an…

I cringed at these things my friends said to me these few years. For those of you who don’t really get us, I’ve decided to let you know  10 things not to say to a depressed person from my own experience.And be forewarned, for if you ever dare to even start uttering the below to me, I will hang you by your legs upside down, skin you alive and then deep fry you before …

Despite having worked for 7 years in an industry where numbers are used everyday, I must confess I’m not very good with numbers. Some friends used to joke that they should start selling shares in the company when I first joined, for how can someone who can’t do 1+1 without a calculator be a manager there?!

Well, somehow I managed. But yes, the company’s sh…

Since I’ve been living in China for a while, many overseas friends are curious as to how is business done in China. I recount this story I heard:

An international organization was issuing tenders for a construction project, and every country was invited to bid. Every country had to do a presentation and explain the fees and charges for the project. …

Have you ever written a letter to yourself? More accurately, have you tried to write a letter to yourself, except to a you who were only 16 years old?

A friend told me of the book “Letter to My 16-year-old” a year ago when I was in the midst of my worst times. This book is an aggregation of famous personalities’ letters to themselves when they were 16 years old…

I’m a worry wart. I worry about everything and anything. I justify the worries by saying that there are risks and they need to be calculated in order to be mitigated.

Our world is quite confusing, I find.

When I was working, our in-house training taught us to focus on finding risks and mitigating them, especially during the financial crisis. We had all these f…

I was surprised as I turned on my computer this morning. I muddled through some emails, and then opened the Tiny Buddha page where one of my posts was published recently. 25 comments! I had not expected that. Reading through others’ stories, I suddenly realized, I’m not so alone! I had always thought I was “weird” with having the w…

I was getting stressed out about not having written and posted another article for nearly a week. Nor had I gone through my to-do list and ticked things off. Then I got an email from a fellow blogger having befriended each other over cyber space, telling me that he just posted my rambles on his site (thanks again!). It was a timely enlightenment to remind myself t…

I was stumbling through the world wide web one evening, and came across Benny’s article on reviewing the year (Benny is the owner of a very uplifting and inspirational website called Get Busy Living). It reminded me of the performance reviews I used to do att work: listing out our achievements, accomplished targets, improved aspects… in hope to get a h…

Had a conversation with Cara this afternoon. She champions a project, “Talking about suicide – because it’s not a taboo.” I was sharing my experience with her, and also sparked off some inspiration for this post. Indeed, just yesterday with my shrink, we discussed my friend’s suicide earlier this year and how I fe…