The movie Marley and Me, starring Owen Wilson (John) and Jennifer Aniston (Jenny) can relate to people. It’s about a couple who started out with a very naughty and mischievous puppy who later have 3 kids and move 2 houses. Part of the story line shows us Marley, the Labrador, from a puppy, all the [...]
Wise people would advise us to keep our dreams to ourselves or risk giving it up altogether. Recently I read a book that teaches a person how to achieve our vocation in life.
According to the author, each of us is born with a life vocation- a sort of mission in life that we need to [...]
The friends that we choose tend to tell a lot about us. And the fact that they have a strong influence on our outlook in the world. Because your choice of friends can have such profound influence on you, it is even more important that you select your friends carefully.
When you first know someone and [...]
Nowadays, stories of old ladies who were cheated out of their life savings appeared in the local newspapers quite often. Two Sundays ago, The Star ran a detailed article on stories of these people who got cheated which is a good read- The Bomoh Strikes Again and again, and again.
There are many things we can [...]
Know that the more that you are capable of the deepest low, the more you can rise up and can turn a direct opposite. Most of the time people who became successful motivation speakers had suffered from the depths of despair and experienced failures. They found ways to bounce back and rose to become the [...]
Years ago, I spotted daily inspirational quote that uses the pictures of scenery done in calendar style. As you begin each day, you can flip on the day- like April 1 or May 31- each day have its own page- complete with a nice quote and a picture that invoke peace when you look at it. [...]
“He’s late…..AGAIN!”
As you stood there at the appointment meeting place, your friend is nowhere to be seen even after 10 minutes. Angry…and even nasty thoughts raced through your mind in the split of a few minutes:
Why is he always late? Doesn’t he have any respect for my time?
He knows I HATE people who are not [...]
This post is written as part of a Group Writing Project: 2009 in Review organized by Daniel Scocco of DailyBlogTips.Com. It’s also a great time to reflect as the year is coming to an end.
1. We can only be truly happy if we live in accordance to our core/true values.
When I realized I [...]
When I was younger, I used to spend hours just chatting on Yahoo or MSN chats with my friends. We could only do it at home because my previous company has banned the access to all the chatting software and social networking sites. That’s why the employees are much more productive and focused- but I must [...]
We are all expected to be able to multitask. Otherwise, how do one expect to complete so many things at once? Sometimes, we feel that there may not even be enough hours in a day.
But are we more productive if we were to multitask or do one task/job at a time?
In this post, I want to [...]
