In recent taxi trip to airport, I met a chatty taxi driver. Sometimes I do want to just enjoy the ride, but there are times I don’t mind to chat. Started by normal question like whether I’m going for holiday because I have 24” luggage but it’s not that heavy. I said it’s a work trip just that I don’t have smaller luggage and it’s too much for cabin sized luggage. Next question about where I’m working came up, I […]
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Fail to plan is plan to fail
I heard this phrase before, but I didn’t really feel the impact until I’ve been in the situation of “no plan” Back then I usually like to plan ahead to the smallest detail and I.must.follow.it. If I didn’t tick 10 out of 10 items in my list, I feel that I fail. I was down and stress because of it. I used to set my daily steps goal to be 10,000 steps. However these days I find it so hard […]
Don’t sweat small setbacks
When you are starting something new, usually there are many “accidents”. And when you are having a few in a row, it is kind of not encouraging. Am I at the right path? Or should i just go back to where I was before? I’m trying to change my boys’ diet to raw, and now they are in transition from kibbles to wet food. Since 6 months ago, they were on few types of kibbles for ard 4 months. Now […]
Finding a buddy
Lesson learned this week is When the journey is long or uncertain, it is more bearable with buddy. I’m not a fan of running long distance. Maybe I had said it many times, I’ll say it again. However, I like it and yet I hate it. The serenity of running alone or listening to all the thoughts that came up during the run, is a very personal moment. I used to listen to music when I jog, but these days, […]
First time for something
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. […]
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 […]