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…
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,…
If there is no path, make one. You are not a tree; if you’re not happy, move! These all seem to have the same theme, which is where there is a will, there is a way. Oops, there goes another proverb. I guess the explanation is a bit redundant, as the proverb is quite explanatory….
One of the top management guys I used to work with, passed away recently. I am not too familiar with him personally but I had some brief encounters during work, and he seemed like a nice guy. Loud and friendly, so he seemed approachable. And in most of the times I dealt with him, he…
I like the feature in iCloud photos, where it reminds what happened on this day, year(s) ago. It showed some cute photos of your loved ones, or a trip you have forgotten about. It also reminded where you were a few years ago, not only in the literal sense, but also figuratively. For example it…
This is a question series where I list down questions that I have now or things that I am still in the midst of understanding. The reason is mostly personal so that when I read it in the future (where I hopefully understand all the complexity), I will look back and be grateful for how…
I am quite a proponent of believeing in your own self, thinking that anyone can do whatever they want, if they put enough effor into it. Practice vs talent. Despite the title of this post, I still believe so. The problem I think is that when you believe you can do everything, you start to…
My eldest daughter was teaching her younger sister to read and was explaining it phoenitically. If you don’t know what phonics is, it is pronouncing the letters the way it sounds, not the way it is pronounced. Yeah my explanation sucks. For example you pronounce the letter ‘s’ not ‘ass’, but instead ‘ssss..’ as in…
