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…
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…
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’m not a hater. I do not loathe having had a corporate job. I don’t intend to turn everyone against the idea of a corporate job, which many define as a pointless pursuit of nothing and little reward. In fact, I might return to one myself sooner or later—but definitely with a clearer vision of why I am there.
Many of us were brought up with the framewor…
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 write a lot about the past here on this blog. My readers ask, why not focus on the present and the future instead of zooming in on what’s happened in the past?
Undoubtedly, being present in the moment of now is paramount to enjoying our lives, and also for the future to take shape. Indulging in the past and what is bygone serves no value added purpose. Nonethele…
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…
I’ve been struggling for a while about my blog. I was a bit lost in my writing. I wasn’t sure if I should follow all these “tips for writing to become the most read blog”. My vision for the blog blurred. But all this confusion, has led me to a new page – literally.
First off, I hope you like the new design of my website. But if you don’t, well, hmm… too bad…
Writing is not easy; especially the sort of writing that magically loops up unrelated words into eloquent phrases to conjure up images in the brains of readers. I’d like to think I have a sophisticated lexicon. Yet, when it comes to powerful expressions, I am usually at loss for the proper vocabulary. With the presupposed inability to write in the way I woul…
Noch Noch is born and raised in Hong Kong and Australia. She has also studied / worked / lived in the US, France, UK, Japan, The Netherlands, and has travelled to more than 40 countries. Noch Noch loves travelling and her curiosity in foreign cultures and languages has led her to enjoy her life as an international executive for the last 7 years in the banking & finance industry. However, she was forced to take time off work in 2011 due to her illnesses and now spends her time in recovery, cooking, practising Chinese calligraphy, reading and writing – in short, learning to take care of herself and letting out the residual work stress.
