Belonging needs. Muacks~~

Because I’m either in the library, the spot, the lab or cafe looking at management or marketing, i try to apply what i have read to understand my behaviors and others.
Motivational theories say that people are more likely to feel more satisfied and hence, happy when their belonging needs are fulfill. The way I [...]

Jon Favreau

Only 27 and he is already working in the white house as the director of speechwriting. Remember Obama’s excellent speeches throughout his campaign and his touching speech in inauguration? Obama’s speeches are catchy and powerful. He always uses a simple character or narrative to convey sophisticated ideas so that ordinary people can relate and [...]

lone

We live on the basis that every encounters lead to separations.

We force ourselves to be lone animals.

In the end, we develop ways to create virtual closeness.

To keep in touch…without touching.
Creating romance via phones, getting married with your online pals, spending more time in expanding your ‘friends’ in facebook but none in your face-to-face relationships…
I wonder [...]

Never meant to be alone

By Haruki Murakami,
(Conversation between librarian, Oshima, and a 15 yr old runaway boy)
” in ancient times people weren’t simply male or female, but one of the three types: male/female or female/female. In other words each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangement and never really gave [...]

Untold Stories

** Half-fiction. Combining what I read with incidents that I encountered, this is the story that I want to tell.
Names were made up and characters were conflated.

My apartment overlooked Melbourne skyline. At 3am, when the lights were shining on the empty street, when the traffic lights continued to operate in [...]

Good Weekend (Wisdom)

WE’re brought up in a culture that tells us, “you are what you do.” When people say, “Tell me about yourself”, we immediately talk about career, as if that is a complete and perfect definition of who and what we are. In many parts of the East this is not the case. Someone will say, [...]

Letting go

sunset at airport
photo by street 45

There is a pane of glass in Singapore’s Changi International airport. It divides the travelers from the people who are left behind. It is so transparent, clear and polished that sometimes, if you cropped away the image of those guards standing at the departure gates, you may feel like there [...]

Higher risk, higher return??

My sister cries hard these days.

She is having an exam.

She feels she is not ready for it.

The stress is too much for her to bear.

They say that when you put yourself out there, you expect return.
As finance calls it, ‘higher risk equals higher return’. That’s human nature.

Does effort naturally equal success?

I think perfection is not [...]

PETRONAS “Our children are colourblind”

To breathe

I am a drug addict.
My hair brushes on the soft pillow that reminds me of my childhood fantasy of living in a cotton candy world.
Shutting myself in complete darkness, I drug myself every night with the familiar scent of dry detergent mixed with the lemon taste of my body shampoo. Protected under my blanket and [...]