January 2012
11 posts
“To be noticed is to be loved.”
– Ali Smith, “There but for The”
Subtlety Fail
Me: Did you know one of the other (management trainees) has left the company?
Boss: Are you going to quit?
Me: (pause) Not yet.
December 2011
9 posts
“生命的意义不在于得到多少，而在付出多少。”
– Memories of Matsuko (2006)
I work for a company with a mission,
which would make it a great company to work for, if it actually truly believed in what it promises.
On the first day of training, it was fostered in us that the company’s first responsibility is to our customers and people who use our products. Then, employees. Later, the community. And finally, last of which would be the shareholders.
Over the past two weeks, 50% of the marketing team has...
November 2011
2 posts
“The world belongs to us who dance with reckless abandon”
– Zac Gorman, “The World is Not Yours”
October 2011
10 posts
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk”
– Mark Zuckerberg
Transparency
Hello feelings, it’s been a long time.
So, 3 comments in the past 7 days about how people can never figure out what I’m thinking in various contexts. I had no idea I was that opaque. I’m no psychiatrist, but I guess it comes with nature, friends passing on when I was younger, and that broken heart I had to nurse myself out of three years ago.
I’ve always liked to keep my...
“Screw every person who tells you to remember your boundaries”
– Singapore Writer’s Festival 2011
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round...”
– Steve Jobs (1997)
yufood →
A food journal to record my “yes” spots, because life is too short to waste on crappy food.
September 2011
4 posts
August 2011
5 posts
July 2011
9 posts
“This is a song about someone I used to really like, but I don’t like them...”
– Adele introducing her song, “One and Only”
“Someone might be your blood relative, but it didn’t mean you had to love...”
– David Sedaris, “Naked”