Green Lungs at Kuala Lumpur International Airport

Hanoi - Perfume Pagoda Sampan Ride

Psst any job which allows working from home?

I was in an office lift. Suddenly a lady in his late 20s ran into the lift trying to greet another male colleague. I overheard the lady trying to ask the male colleague any openings in his area or other department. Her criteria must allowed her to work from home. She said she wants flexibility and she has been looking around in company advertisement for such position.

I tried not to be bothered since I was eavesdropping. However, at the back of my mind, I was wondering if this lady seeking a job which is out of passion or out of her own interest. I was furthered ticked when she mentioned that she didn't want to come to office at all if possible or spend 2 days a week. She may be a married woman with kids at home, but the way she put the criteria was like looking for a job tailored for her. Irregardless if she has passion or able to contribute for the potential job.

I wonder why I often heard the quality of some current employees are really bad. The employee maybe don't have that drive and passion with the things they do!

3D Movie glasses - I owned one.

I actually one 3D glasses from Australia. When I went for a 3D movie in Malaysia, I will try to tell the ticket seller that I want to opt from renting their classes which they charged 5RM each time!

However, they refused to let me opt for my own glass saying it may not be compatible. Therefore, I decided to check if what they said it's true. The conclusion was, they were right. Its like this, in OZ they used Real 3D technology while in Malaysia they used Dolby 3D Digital. Therefore you need to use specific glasses which catered to respective technology! So which means I have no choice to use my recycle glasses but have to rent it everytime la.

Listen to your heart !

Well not so much of your heart like what the group Roxette sang. But more of listen to your sound! What does this mean? I learned from my conflict management class, controlling your own emotions are critical in order to able to listen with empathy. Once you lose your control or emotions, communications may breakdown. Eventually, you won't achieve win win.

One way to measure your emotions are actually to listen to your own voice, tone or sound. A friend shared with me last night he learned from listening to sound, while in my practical course book, it's our tone. Eventually both has the same objective. When you blurt our the word or voice from your mouth. Do a sanity check, how does it sounds like. If you sense anger, then you know your communications may not work as smoothly. You need to listen and make yourself aware before you can have a productive communication!

The secret for the Fountain of Youth! Revealed Here!!!

Most people wants to be youthful these days. They want to be slim, slender, full of hair, younger looking and etc etc. Businesses for botox, plastic surgeries, hair growth and etc etc, are doing extraordinary well in time for the generation of capitalism.

However, last term in my studying, there were documented research of how to achieve the results from the fountain of youth. To my surprise it's pretty simple. Here's the secret ...shhhh

First, you need to have an active brain till you grow old. Active brain helps brain to continue to maintain it's brain health. Basically, if you don't use it you lose it!

Secondly, you need to have an active physical body. In another word, exercise, exercise and exercise! This will help all part of you body to be active and maintaining your stamina and strength till you grow old.

Lastly, free of diseases! So you need to watch what you eat, drink or sniff! Everything you do, do it moderately and not indulging. Choose what you eat and for me I would think cut down on meat and more vegies/fruits.

So this is it! The secret of fountain of youth! Try it yourself today :)))

I don't wanna work!

I went for lunch with a Singaporean colleague who used to be a manager. Currently she lives and work in Malaysia office. We were updating our own well being at work. Then we talked about the quality of worker in Malaysia. She told me it's rather bad. Overall, she noted the people are not very proactive. When they were told about their wrong doing, the next few days, they will slap the manager with a resignation. Very emotionally saying, "I don't want to work for you!".

I was trying to understand is this the only place we have such issue. Apparently, in Singapore there are as well but the people are more proactive in their work. Also, she commented the Generation Y these days are really spoiled and cannot be reprimanded. They will became emotional very easily.

I guess, the world has change today. The Generation X parents are making money and doing well in their careers. They give everything to their children in their parenting style. I assume, when the Gen X parents being permissive, they will raise children who will has less empathy and could not think for others. If this continue, I foresee companies will have an uphill tasks to educate and retrain these Gen Y kids!