I picked up on Danah’s post commenting on Clay Shirky’s post on ‘A Rant about women’,
It’s tempting to imagine that women could be forceful and self-confident without being arrogant or jerky, but that’s a false hope, because it’s other people who get to decide when they think you’re a jerk, and trying [...]
Here is a Chinese story,
There were two brothers who lived on the 80th floor of a building.
They went out together for a party without noticing there’s no lift service on the day. The brothers were very frustrated when they realised that they were kind of doomed, but they decided [...]
Someone made me happy today, and I thought I was happier and I defined that as (1+x%)happy. And then I was asked ‘can you be more than 1 happy?’
Got me thinking,
Happiness is a 1/0 thing.
Imagine you are a happy person, you make someone happy, and that someone makes someone else happy, [...]
‘The water of the valley stream is always flowing. It races on, not pausing for even an instant. Its sound, to me, is the sound of time.
The water of time glistens on the riverbed of the universe. Though theirs is a much slower flow, Human beings and all things that have life flow. Thought [...]
About a year ago I wrote this post, A few words from the Wisemen on how to survive and be sane in a corporate world. A year from then I learnt a lot, not just from work, but from meeting different people, realising it’s important to just be and discovered that we all possess [...]
Okay Staples tagged me on this meme on the five things that keep me in check, so get ready for my reflective post!
My five things:
1. Talking to friends and family – I need to *share* my life, whether it’s something ups or downs, news just random ephiphanies. My friends make me happy [...]
A bunch of Hong Kong Lego fanatics have created miniature Olympics village with Lego,
As the world watches the Beijing Games, enthusiasts from Hong Kong have unveiled their own Olympics — built entirely from Lego.
More than 300,000 Lego bricks and 4,500 Lego people were used to create the display, by the Hong Kong [...]
A good friend of mine sent me a link to MJ’s Photo essay on Phone Sex Operators, and asked for my thought on this. At first I thought it was a prank – as the thumbnails of the photos seemed to be a bit revealing, especially when he posted that on my facebook, where [...]
Spend your every minute as if it’s your last one.
You think that’s a cliche until someone you care might be leaving you for good.
Dave kindly spotted Kate Reider’s story,
I read a very sad story today about a young, female singer-songwriter from my hometown. Her name is Katie Reider. She developed a [...]
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