Never stand begging
“Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.” -Miguel de Cervantes
Work & Productivity
Winner of Malaysia for category of Easy Recipes at Gourmand Cookbook Awards 2018
Good news all around! My cookbook, One-Pot Wonders, is the Winner of Malaysia Gourmand Cookbook Awards 2018 under the category of ‘Easy Recipes’. Next, this title will compete with all winners in other countries. If we win, our book will be the Best in the World cookbook for this category. It’s also featured in Jelita’s magazine last …
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Intuition
Most of us have spent a lifetime ignoring—or even suppressing—our intuition… It is not infallible, but neither is our reason. – Michael Hyatt
Why bother painting anymore?
Bosie: I really don’t know why people bother painting portraits anymore. You can get a much better likeness with a photograph.. Robbie: But a photograph is just one moment in time, one gesture, one turn of the head. . Wilde: Yes, portraits are not likenesses Mr. Gray. Painters show the soul of the subject, the …
Introduction to WordPress & Coding
I believe in continued education and realise the value of being self-sufficient instead relying on people around us (no matter how much skilful they are in comparison). So my little cousin (who has ambitions to be a programmer) and I took a short four hours WordPress/basic programming class with David Wang. Here’s a list of …
Live gently
“Every day, your body requires energy to survive, to think, to do well, to be happy. You don’t get infinite energy. One way to replenish energy is to sleep. The other way is to eat well and exercise. But another way to replenish energy is to live a gentle life. As gently as possible. Which …
Learning Japanese from a lazy egg
Doings things gives me adrenaline rush, which in turns makes me want to do more – it’s almost like a drug. But time is always a limiting factor; so even my leisure time has turned productive (?!). What do I do on Instagram? Learn Japanese from Gudetama, my favourite lazy egg. What I’ve learned: yaruki …
How I plan to write recipes
“A tenet of journalism is that “the reader knows nothing”. As tenets go, it’s not flattering, but a technical writer can never forget it. You can’t assume that your readers know what you assume everybody knows, or that they still remember what was once explained to them. The principle of scientific and technical writing applies …
Why it is important to think & plan
A few ideas flooded my mind as I’m sitting down thinking and planning. “Sharpen Your Saw” – Steven Covey “An unexamined life is not worth living” – Socrates “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail” *** In retrospect, I’ve lost many hours of unnecessary labour because I didn’t put serious thoughts …
Have you done much?
If people don’t love or hate your work, you just haven’t done all that much – Tinker Hatfield