I did it, I joined a race overseas. Well technically my first was Vietnam Mountain Marathon last year (or was it two years ago now?) And this time I joined a race in Warsaw. By accident. After visiting Germany for work, I’m going to be in Warsaw for a week for another work meeting. My colleague who went with me to Germany told me about the race, so after some thoughts and push from other running buddies, I decided to […]
To do it or not to do it
My mind was racing between option A or option B, and occasionally spawned to option C, D, etc. Which one I should go, which one I should do? Each has its own story. Then I heard faint voice, if you don’t do it, will you regret it? It was my heart’s voice. And most of the times, the answer is yes. So I will proceed to avoid regret. To go to Heidelberg Castle, there are 300+ steps to the top. […]
The greener grass on the other side
This week in my Japanese class we were practicing about asking permission to be absent from work. And one of my classmates was saying how about if we want to request for more days to rest. Our sensei replied that human always wants something which they don’t have. Because you’re so busy now, so you want to have more breaks. But when you have long break, you will be quite likely wanting to go to work. Right? What’s your biggest […]
Nobody’s perfect
One of my classmates was making a sentence about bad habit and she mentioned about her team leader that always call for unnecessary last minute meeting and give unreasonable deadline. I think it’s not uncommon to be in her situation. Do you have similar experience? Back then during my junior days, I usually would just take it by myself, and as a result, I was stress as it’s build up. Then lately I decided to speak up more and discuss […]
To compare and to evaluate fairly
This week story is inspired by the conversation in my office. About choosing a plug-in A or B. Globally, we are using plug-in A, however the feedback from one of the users, A is not great and we should move to B because when he worked with B, it’s better overall. I shared the risk of switching to B that the templates we are using has been deeply integrated with plug-in A. And when there is a new upgrades to […]
Asking “how to” instead “why” usually will trigger better thought process
“Hey K, why is this like that?” Or “why so and so treats me in that manner?” is one of the common example of many questions asked to me by colleagues and friends. “why” can give you the answer of the cause, when you ask it to the right person. But most of the times, we take the liberty assuming that the person we ask will have some share or some say to it hence we expected some explanation. But […]
To detach from our routine has its own good
There is old saying that practice makes perfect and build a routine to be better at something. But have you ever feel that you feel hopeless or trapped within the routine? What happened to recently is I trapped in routine of working. I was determined to get things done, and as a result, I was working morning full time and still have some night calls. And the amount of night calls are becoming more and more. I suddenly felt helpless […]
Learning through experiencing it or doing it
There are two important lessons I received since last week. My dad always tells us, if you don’t experience it, good way or bad way, you won’t learn or remember it. For example, my brother in his younger days, he didn’t listen that to come down from a motor bike, do it from the left side because there is exhaust on the right and it’s hot. Yet he still came down from the right and as a result he had […]