- May be the near-US$100 per barrel oil is a good prompt for us to stop driving all these SUVs?
- Okay, we aren't imagining it. It IS getting warmer.
- Inflation's back? OMG, they are stealing our money!!
- I wish I get something actually handwritten in the mail (yes please, my snail-mail box).
- Please, don't let them have cellphone access on planes!
- Okay, when is the last time you had un-processed food?
- How do I GET checks in the mail rather me being the one who send out them all the time?
- How do I get the time to read all these books I want to read?
- Can we all : good, evil & every shades in between, back off, chill out and enjoy a few weeks off please?
- Can we NOT use real trees to hold up the lights? Trees look a lot more magnificent when they are ALIVE.
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"It's so great to wake up in the morning knowing that your life is not
so bad after all, you have a wonderful family, some great friends, a
roof over your head, and meals three times a day. What more can an
ordinary person ask for?"
This is an excerpt from Sri Dj's Dec 25 entry in her blog "Oreo Delight". It's the most positive piece that I have seen in a long long time.
She went on to say :
"I look forward to 2008. I look forward to exciting new things that I'm
going to do, wonderful new lives that are going to be born, great
people I am going to meet, and amazing new locations I am going to be."
In this day and age - to be able to think that with all the passion in your heart - how about that?
Read her full entry here
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It's two days before Christmas and the year is almost over. Things finally slow down at work last Friday. Folks started hanging about and talking about their holiday plans. This is a good time of the year, when friends and colleagues take a break to connect with each other again. That reminds me of the other group of people that I have been connecting with throughout the year - you.
You - someone nice enough to take time out of your day to take a see what crazy thoughts I have. I want to tell you how much I appreciate your attention and I'd like to wish the best to you and yours in the Holiday Season. Most of you are from Japan, United States and Hong Kong, and some of you are from Singapore, Canada, the Netherlands, India, Pakistan, Taiwan and Spain. I travel once every two months to Singapore and Tokyo for work. I grew up in Hong Kong and Canada and I studied in the States. I used to sell in Taiwan, and southern Spain (Andalucia) is the most fascinating place I have ever visited to date. Netherlands, India and Pakistan people, I hope to visit you one day.
About 45% of you are returning visitors which is really something, but I am glad that my blog is reaching out to the 55% who are new visitors as well. I hope more of you will check back in every once in a while. Seventeen percent of you are certainly checking in on a regular basis. Will you please leave me a comment or two, just so I get to know you better?
Thirty two percent of you are using Macs. Everyone's welcome of course but just so you know, I am a Mac geek too. I am happy to chat with anyone about Macs.
A full 53% of you are using Firefox - on Windows or Macs. I used to use Firefox and I absolutely loved it. I have recently migrated over to Flock though, which seems to integrate better with how I use the Internet.
Folks, again, I'd like to wish you ALL the ABSOLUTE BEST in this Holiday Season. If you can spare an extra minute, nothing will make me happier than if you leave a comment here.
Take care of yourselves!!
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The last time I flew back from Tokyo, I was on a newly refitted Cathay Pacific flight. It was a Boeing 747 with part of the business class on the "upper deck" but as opposed to having two seats on each side of the aisle, they now have one on each side at a slanted angle (the New Business Class). This configuration allows a flat bed plus a lot more privacy for the passengers.
I was pleasantly surprised by the privacy offered and noted also that we each have a huge LCD TV to ourselves. I enthusiastically flipped through the flight magazine to see what movies I can "try" on this big screen. Unfortunately after take off, the passengers were notified that the audio visual system had a malfunction and after three to four reboots, it was pronounced dead for the rest of the flight. There were several apologetic public announcements, and then the captain made an announcement himself.
He explained what the problem was and that rectifying the situation was beyond the possibilities they can entertain while in flight. He asked that the passengers don't hold it against the crew. Further more, he suggested. ".. may be it's a good time to revive the old fashioned stuff : read a book, talk to each other."
Taking the temporary demise of digital isolation as an opportunity to re-experience human interaction? Since when do we have to be reminded of what makes us human?
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I have experimented with a few too many time management schemes. I have done Stephen Covey’s “First Things First”. I have tried GTD (of course), and PoIC (“Pile of Index Cards”). Like some of you, I have several Filofaxes, I have used “Remember the Milk”, I have used an implementation of GTD on Gmail, GTD implementation on Moleskines, I have a few Palms, I have even used a Psion (it’s still in perfect working order). None seems to cater perfectly to my lifestyle.
Not that my lifestyle is anything out of the ordinary. I am a company man type who spends an inordinate amount of time on the Internet. I manage people regionally and I find myself constantly traveling between Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo. So do most people I meet.
This is what I do now. I keep a Filofax with the latest planner filling from Franklin Covey plus a stack of index cards, hipster-PDA style. With the Filofax, I do my weekly review, where I center myself to the values I hold dear and make sure I work towards the roles that contributes the most to them. I also use my Filofax to track my appointments, events and to act as a reservoir for all my notes. I used my “hipster-PDA” for GTD. This way I have a lightweight and convenient contraption that helps me manage all my tasks – work or personal. Since the Franklin Covey system has little “satellite notebooks” whose pages can be ripped out and filed back into the Filofax, I can now travel with just a notebook and my hipster-PDA. It’s fast and convenient, never runs out of batteries and all I need is to pull out a pen. I can management my bewildering jungle of tasks but yet, I can make sure that I remain centered via the Covey system.
(Afternote : I am trying "I want Sandy" at the moment.)
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