Winning this world

I watched a mandarin TV series that depict the founding of Ming dynasty. The founding emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang, was someone who knows how to employ people according to their natural talents. It seems that this ability makes people feel appreciated and could attracts people to your side.
From this TV series, I also noticed that winning [...]

Dark Knight and White Knight

Here is news from Reuters.com, the new Batman movie, “The Dark Knight,” raked in $66.4 million in its opening day to set the single-day box office record, according to its distributor Warner Bros. That’s a testimony to how good the latest batman movie is. While many people applaud the performance of [...]

Han Xin and Yuen Qi: Two Similar Civil Servants in Different Time

The story of Han xin catches my attention. This guy practiced “taking small insults for greater purpose” in his early life as a nobody. He took insult such as crawling in between legs of a bully who is bigger and stronger. But, that incident was the best thing that happened to him, because it spur him [...]

Selling Hope: How Christianity Can Win Over Atheist

In our daily life, we are struggling with uncertainties and anxieties. Some people are facing financial difficulties, strained relationship with our loved ones, office politics that hinder our career, retrenchment, demotion, etc etc. All this cause stress and emotional pressure to our lives. As Nassim Nicholas Taleb (NNT) cleverly pointed out in his best-selling book, [...]

Girls – Thou Shall Obey (Without Thinking)

Based on over 20 years of personal observation, women are compelled to obey by Power / Authority. If you have worked long enough, I’m sure that you had encountered a female colleague who was following the procedures word by word regardless of situation. I’m not saying this is wrong, but I’m a true believer in “desperate situation [...]

How to handle discouragement

This lesson taken from God’s Answer to Life’s Difficult Question by Rick Warren.
Discouragement is the world deadliest disease, because of three factors. First, it is universal. Everyone experience discouragement at one stage of their lives. Second, it is recurring. Third, it is highly contagious. Someone with negative feelings easily affect others.
Main bible passage: Nehemiah 4
People get [...]

The truth about working for government / statutory boards

Based on my experience working for a stat board, I will try to list down few points that would describe working for government, regardless of divisions / departments

General responsibilities of an executive level
· Lots of writing papers. These papers usually approval papers, which described certain proposals of project and directed to senior management for [...]

Humiliation for a bigger purpose

I have posted a shout-out in my friendster that “a great man able to take humiliation for a bigger purpose.” This statement originated from ancient chinese phrase, which basically mean that we shouldn’t be easily provoked. Unfortunately, I heard that somebody attacked this statement by saying that :

“greatness has nothing to do with humiliation”
The statement is [...]