I never had an affinity with dogs. As a child, I was terrified of them. As a teenager, I was intrigued by and often quite taken with them. However, at no point in my journey was I ever a dog’s favourite human. They say dogs are attracted to energy, especially calm, assertive ones, where mine…
My team used to appear in the office erratically. With the lockdowns mandated by the recent pandemic, it’s quickly becoming apparent that the practice gave us a marked advantage. The habit of working from home is not one that comes easily to most people. The need to socialise, the convenience of walking up to a…
This story was first written for and published on HR Digital Today. I often used to say that my team, by the sheer nature of their work as human resource generalists in a startup, were stuck with the unenviable job scope of an “internal customer service officer”. Being lean, we didn’t have the luxury of having…
People often balk when I say the company doesn’t pay for my travel despite me going on business trips – and it’s true, I often end up paying for my own accommodation on top of the company’s assigned hotels, and on occasion I’ve even flown overseas to do work on my own money as well.
There is often no destination, or should I say, for the most part, we have destinations that are constantly on the move. I’m beginning to the feel the full force of journey frustration. One too many times in the past few months, I’ve run myself repeatedly into dead-ends of poor progress, which in turn leads…
One year ago, if anyone asked me, “Hey, why don’t you do university overseas?” I used my standard answer on them. No lah, why travel overseas? Singapore is good enough. My family is all here, 我始终放不下 (I can’t let go). And it’s so expensive to travel overseas! If you tell me go for 3-6 months,…
It’s been quite a while since I last did a year in review. Didn’t do one in 2014 crossing over to 2015 because that was one monster of a year to talk about, but I feel like 2015’s been enough of a blessing that I can do one. 🙂
If there is one thing I am unequivocally proud of, it would be, without doubt, the women in my heritage. I come from a family of incredibly strong women – women who both held day jobs and ran the household. 女人一手顶天下; the women held up the sky with just one hand. All of them were…
There must come a point in time when you are tried to the full extent of your resources and you realize you still have to give more. For a good number of my ventures thus far, there were no reasons to say that I gave it my all. I think, to some extent, I even…
예술위해 포기한 게 많도록, 세상에게 주는 예술을 그 정도 아름답죠. Your soul shines in your art. The time, skills and attitude you take towards your art may just be the same ones you adopt in life. Your art is as beautiful as all that you have given to it.
