As I was growing up, the term adrenaline became popular. Or at least I became more aware of it in writings and shows. “When the adrenaline starts kicking in…” was one of the phrase that I remember. Nowadays, there are more variety of hormones that has ‘become’ mainstream. One of it is the dopamine. Dopamine…
A review of my journey in Productivity After reading, watching and trying all those systems, schemes or hacks, I can generalize that working smart generates result faster, but to have even any result, you have to work hard too. Analogically if you have a supercar, you still have to press the pedal to move, and…
Apparently the news in my home country, in respect to public transport, is that the government and some companies, is planning to introduce an autonomous self-driving bus. Needless to say, this caught people’s attention. But it is still in trial, and it is not clear when the technology will be mature enough to be in…
Life is an exam, or not. All my life, or at least my early years of life, I have been prepping for exams very year. In Malaysia there is the primary school exams (UPSR) that determines whether you can go to a boarding school with better facilities and reputed more experienced teachers. There you prepare…
Recently I went on a short holiday to a short distance away place, which is Wales. To be more exact, the Snowdonia area in Wales. I must admit it was better than I expected; I’ve seen videos and people telling how beautiful the places are in Wales, but visiting it myself is another whole level….
I won’t quite agree to that as money is needed to pay your rent and bills, and also to get the groceries so money is the subsistence or substance needed for life. So no money almost equals to no life, is how I look at it. But then recently I found this podcast, which told…
I’ve just finished reading the first book from the Wheel of Time and it was a disappointment. I went to read the reviews to find a confirmation bias, and sure enough when I filtered the one star reviews, I found some that agreed my view, that the book was too bogged down in details. There…
I’ve been visiting a few National Trust in the North West of England, which is basically sites around the area of Greater Manchester/Cheshire/Lancashire. I went to Lyme, Quarry Bank and recently Dunham Massey. Quarry Bank The place was, and is, a cotton mill. It still works and produces mill, although I assume it is not…
My daughter was doing her homework when she asked, “What is adjective again?”. I know what adjectives are but I struggled to explain. “Is it the one with -ly at the end?” she asked again. I know those are adverbs, things that describe verbs. “I know about nouns, I know about verbs, but I don’t…
I’ve been doing work recently and felt that the time allocated to me has been too short. It felt like there was not enough time to read all the background material and produce a result from it. But since the work was required soon, I changed my mindset and just set on producing a document,…
