Tag: Personal Development
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Reflections #1: Facing Things One by One
Source: Dzo from Unsplash My baby daughter clings to my leg. Bored, she looks up to me, looking for my attention. I stared down, fingers still on the keyboard, and I lifted her up. She gave me a wry smile, seemingly satisfied that she got my attention. I held her…
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Crossing the Gap by C.J.Koch (Book Review)
I am not a big fiction reader. When I picked up “Crossing the Gap” by C.J.Koch, I was helping out at a Swinburne University event where I relived my youthful student days. The Book Club was having a book giveaway, donating books to anyone who wanted to take them on.…
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How Doing Nothing Helped Me to Do Things Better
If you like this content, consider subscribing to the website, or follow my LinkedIn and Medium. You know that feeling when you try to work, but your mind goes brrrrrrr…. I had that in the past few months. A lot of noise. A lot of unwanted distractions. And my mind goes brrrrr. 40…
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Tim Denning Whoop My A*s With His Writing. Now, I Want To Improve
If you like this content, consider subscribing to the website, or follow my LinkedIn and Medium. I write like a madman. Like Mad Max racing down the desert, all roided up, screaming “Valhalla”. I have an unhealthy habit. I get too technical with my writing. Sometimes, my wife looks at me and says…
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“I Learned How to Fire Guns and Make Bombs in School” – A Reflection on Growing Up in Peace Times
If you like this content, consider subscribing to the website, or follow my LinkedIn and Medium. We sat down quietly in the back seat, listening to our taxi driver. “Yes, Killing Fields. My uncle and auntie’s families were killed.” “We all had to fight a civil war for 4 to 5 years. Officers…
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A Quiet Moment In Bed in the Afternoon
If you like this content, consider subscribing to the website, or follow my LinkedIn and Medium. I had an epiphany in bed with my wife at 3 pm. Never have I felt so at peace. And I felt like I was the luckiest person in the world. I would describe it as a…
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In the World of Stroke, We are All Equal
If you like this content, consider subscribing to the website, or follow my LinkedIn and Medium. Mr. Lim gestured and smiled to my father. His lips closed tight on one side while he laughs with my father. My father, holding on to his disabled right hand with his left, chuckles together too. Chandra,…
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A Traffic Light with 15 Seconds Left, and A Car Racing Towards It
If you like this content, consider subscribing to the website, or follow my LinkedIn and Medium. The act of a driver coming to a traffic light with 15 seconds left says a lot about how he or she approaches life. Some look at it, and speed up, hoping to beat the timer and…
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We Can Always Visit Anytime
If you like this content, consider subscribing to the website, or follow my LinkedIn and Medium. “We Can Always Visit Anytime. We are Nearby” But we don’t. How many times have we heard this and say to our relatives and friends? The reality is that we think that we can always talk, care…
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What We Can Learn About Love from Tarahumara’s Running
If you like this content, consider subscribing to the website, or follow my LinkedIn and Medium. To be honest, I don’t recall whether I have done something purely because I loved it. Whenever I do something, I always think about how this will further my career or myself or what kind of monetary…
Slice of P.I.E 