Last weekend I watched an old news program (or recording) about robot hosting a national event, co-hosting with human MCs. The interviewer asked the MC if he would feel threatened, if robots will replace his job in near future. He said, he still thinks robots are still lack of human emotions. Machine starts to replace human work like ordering machine. Like in fast food chain like MacDonald’s or even bubble tea Koi. So humans can focus on higher quality tasks. […]
Year: 2018
It’s new year again
Late late..! I’m late in writing this week blog post due to holiday mood is striking me. We just had a Lunar New Year celebration last week and it completely turned off my brain for many things. Interesting event happened to me was when I flew back to Singapore from my hometown. (Yes, holiday is over). I found out a movie which I haven’t watched and wanted to watch – Pokemon: Pikachu I choose you (ポケットモンスター キミにきめた). I missed out […]
Global citizen
I have two very interesting encounter this week from my recent travels On my way back to Singapore from Haneda airport. I met a Japanese grandma who travels with her grandchild. She can converse in Japanese but doesn’t seem to be able to read Japanese anymore, and she has difficulties to read and fill in the immigration form. She asked me in Japanese how to fill in the form. She’s Bolivian. Another one is during my Grab hitch ride to […]
The lessons from traveling alone
Have you ever travelled alone? Or often travel alone either for leisure or business. For me, I don’t usually travel alone for both cases. Well, flying alone to other place is normal to me, but usually I’ll meet someone at the destination and going travel together. When you’re traveling with your friends in those foreign land, it’s very comforting to always have someone to converse with in language you are comfortable to speak. In cases of the place of destination […]
Shed the tears, and stand up
I’m not sure if I had shared this before or not, but I saw this in my note book again recently. My sensei said, there is a life lesson related to a kanji word 泣く (read: naku) meaning to cry. That when you remove the tears, you’ll get 立つ (read: tatsu) meaning to stand. So I think sometimes you just need to stop crying and stand, hey
A lesson from 7 years ago
Every morning Facebook pushed a notification about what happened few years ago – aka Memories. And I usually will scroll all the way down, to find the oldest memory of that day. Today is one of the memorable one. A lesson from a friend If you like public attention and to be under the limelight, then leadership is not your thing. You should consider to become celebrity instead. A leader leads and does many things behind the scene, so that […]
The art of taking a break
My friend often told me that I tend to arrange things back to back. And as a result, quite often I was rushing from one place. I feel accomplished when I finished all my errands. And I think it’s somehow addictive to me. Until recently, I easily fell sick due to pack activities. Or rather, my mind was quite tense maintaining all the details for the errands. And when you fell sick, your physical strength drops so, it will make […]
Looking back and connecting the dots
Third weekend since new year just passed, I think I kind of used to the rhythm of this year plan. This week I had an interesting conversation with two people about what’s next for them. One of them is new to the workforce, while the other one is not. The young cub told us his dilemma about finding a permanent job. Both of us shared our journey back then, about moving forward and be selfish for our growth. I told […]