Useful post when I become a Dad

Just finish reading a post from DumbLittleMan and find this article particularly useful when I become one(a dad in the future). It’d be great to come back to this(if i’m still blogging) to remind myself of what needs to be done when I get really frustrated with my kids. I certainly hope I can be a cool loving dad in the future without using any punishment.

Here are some advice from DLM

• Have a plan before hand
• Learn the skill
• Take a deep breathe
• Walk away
• Seek first to understand
• Laugh it out

Check out the full article here.

Sean Kingston - Beautiful Girl

I heard this song over BBC radio on my MacBook and fell in love with it. Recommend this song to all my dear friends out there. Anyone know where to get the mp3?

Pavarotti is dead

The world’s most famous tenor is dead. It is quite surprising for me as its like I just saw him on TVs. Life is so fragile so let us appreciate what is given to us even more. The funeral service of opera singer Luciano Pavarotti is to take place in his home town in northern Italy. Click here for full report.

Borders Discount Till 20 Sept

Check out the offer here.

Borders Voucher 5-7 Sept Only

Borders voucher at 20% off for teachers and students from 3-7 Sept only. Click here for more details.

Business2.0 closes

I am saddened by the news of it. It is only recently that get to lay my hands on this super informative magazine of the latest trend in IT industry. Especially their weekly session on disruptive technology is such a great treat to read! For the entire report click here.

EnI photos

Check out the pictures I took with Xiu Zhen. She make me look so good in the photo and also MP Teo Ser Luck and Darryl David. Of cos there are many many entrepreneurs worth mentioning especially Annie Yap from GMP for remembering me after so long. Special thanks to Neo, Xiu Juan, Ridzuan, Steven, Cherry, Sze Yong, Zhou Jing and Yuan Mang for making this event such a success. Check out other photos here. You can also read the post of it here.

Firearm in Orchard

Heard this radio news that a NSF was caught in Orchard with Sar21 and live rounds. This is a perfect example of when emotional part of the brain override the rational part as written in my previous post on Practical Intelligence.

For me, I really pity the guy for he is just 1 month away from ORD! His future is gone just in a day. This really give me a wakeup call on how 1 day can change a person totally. On on part I hope that the judge can be lenient on him but on the other hand, it really freak me out to know someone in orchard is carrying a weapon.

Interesting articles to read

Here’s some of the interesting articles I find it worth reading

1. Blogs will change your business
2. Mentally ill suffering neglect
3. How six sigma changes Starwood
4. World is getting flatter with new high speed line
5. Google becoming VCs?
6. Radical Collaboration by IBM
7. Desktop takes centerstage again

30 apps for Mac you should have

Thanks choon for giving me a link of 30 useful apps for mac user. This list is definitely helpful to a newbie like me to explore the capabilities of what I can do with it now. Check out @ link.

Windows apps on Mac

Everyone check this out. I am simply blown away by this product called vmware. So glad I’m a mac user now and there’s no reason not to be one. Here is also a report by BusinessWeek about the product. Seems like its the latest darling in town.

Comex at Suntec

People say when one bad thing happen, others will follow. After my incident with IOM, I head down to Comex. Using the blue ocean strategy approach, I try to position myself earlier there for any bargain for my MacBook. Stupid people, good luck tomorrow if you’re going.

This is a list of what I bought.

• Screen protector
• Ventilation balls
• Keyboard protector
• Dicota sleeve bag
• 1Gb Ram

These items really burn a hole in my pocket. More things to come after i go back and maybe I shouldn’t have laugh so early….

• Having difficulty putting on the screen protector. Lots of bubble on my screen now.
• Ventilation balls come with 2 less velcro sticker. How to put the balls up!!!
• Spent 1 hr trying to unscrew the ram part without any success
• Had to rush for the deadline for the submission of business plan with only 1 hour left.

Suddenly this saying pop up my mind: There’s no failure, only experience. *Trying very hard to convince myself*

What a day (feat. IOM aka Indian Old Man)

I can’t help but find it a hectic day. Not to mention that god aint helping me either. Its been more than two months since I went back to Johor for my haircut. The moment I enter I find it very strange to have so much crowd in the early noon in City Square. Only from my hairstylist in Reds did I know that it’s Malaysia National Day. Such coincidence! Too bad that I did not wear read and white stripe or else I will get a free haircut. After the normal shopping and meal at Kim Gary, I head back to Singapore. Great! Safely there safely back.

In the train, I was 3 seat away from a grandma with the 2 seat between us empty. Some station later, an old Indian man board the train and hesitate a moment before choosing to sit beside me. Within ten seconds, he open his leg big big and ask me impolitely to give some space to his balls.

If you were me, what will you do?
a) argue with him
b) communicate with him in Mandarin in a funny way
c) politely tell him he’s in the wrong too
d) question what he had said
e) give in to him

I think I’m not smart enough and choose a instead. Shiitake! I cross the line but he also cross his. So what’s the matter. He still dare to say my parents never teach me to respect people. Yes my parents taught but in MY dictionary you have to earn it. What do you have done for Singapore in the first place for me to respect? After I calm down, I have formulate a 6 step solution to counter such incident from happening Again.

Step 1: Politely ask for his name (this is to shock him) and intro yourself as a student studying psychology.
Step 2: Question him out of the 2 seat, why he wanted to choose to sit beside me? And to do that, he is already opening a door for confrontation. So why he want to do that? Is it because I’m young and easier to take advantage of?
Step 3: Since his balls is so big why not take the next empty seat too?
Step 4: Tell him that there is no truth but only your truth, his truth and my truth. The truth is we have cross each other line.
Step 5: Tell him this is a public transport and we have to give and take for the people around us. Or he can choose to stand and other people will be glad to take it.
Step 6: If he taunt you for being quiet, kindly inform him that arguing in public is really stupid and you choose to be the clever one.

This is my 6 step solution to counter any such incident in train. Hopefully this will be helpful to anyone facing this situation in future. And I think that guy will throw up blood after I ask so many question that is so difficult to answer. Shiitake, how come I got so many ideas only after that. I must train myself to be more adaptable in such situation.

I’m not trying to be racist but from what I have encounter, most of such incident happen with old Indian guy. Anyone care to explain? I welcome incident with Chinese old man. Feel free to add comment to it.

ps: sorry Hong Sheng, never thought that this will happen to me.