In my work, the above saying is not accurate.
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It is more accurate in this manner.
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“Give a man a fish and you start feeding him forever. Teach a man to fish and he will feed himself for a lifetime.”
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Year 2018 resolution
Today is 31 st December, end of 2017. Last few years were without new year resolution because with kids, parents’ time were essentially kids’. So, getting back to new year resolution. I will have at least few this 2018.
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Health
- I will start jogging, and participate at least in two 10 km run.
- I will shed my weight from > 70 kg to 65 kg.
- I will learn a new language, hopefully c++
Career
- Biz start-up for the family, with annual turnover of >sgd 50,000
- Improve skills, get an additional degree / certificate
- Improve on other skills, e.g. stats, people networking, and biz devo
- Get noticed
Family
- Children educational and fun exposure improvement
- Get together and networking with family and friends
- Improve family health
- Participate in family activities, with lots of sharing events and pics with family and friends
- visit our parents more often and allow kids to get to know them better
Education
- Got BSc, MSc and a PhD – how about an MBA? Else, invest the money on the children instead.
- Learn new skills, e.g. martial arts.
- Contribute to the nation by participating in pro bono tuition for kids.
- Write more often of useful entries to educate myself and hopefully the material will be of use to others too.
Getting half of the aims above will be good. Most important is health, family and career.
Challenging questions from job interviews
Here are the list I got from somewhere (can’t remember where).
- How do you resolve interpersonal disputes?
- How do you break difficult news? – problem, process/outcome, and remedies (if any)
- Good and bad things about you by colleagues?
- Why should we hire you? -competent, honest, savvy (solve or escalate problems), generous, teach what i know.
- How do you manage pressure? – conducive environment, happy place, home / recharge place, vacation
- Are you good for this position?
- Why should i hire an overqualified / underqualified person?
- What can you bring to this company?
Political sciences and economics share similarity
Both deals with scarce resources to drive at achieving goals.
Selected university ranking in Singapore & Malaysia
The list is just selected few of the universities in the region, namely Singapore and Malaysia. The reason is because I wanted to enroll in a post-grad course and I wanted to compare the ranking plus education cost before making a decision. Note that Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore is above the list.
| university | world rank (webometrics) | country |
| natl university of singapore (nus) | 53 | singapore |
| universiti teknologi malaysia | 587 | malaysia |
| universiti sains malaysia (usm) | 637 | malaysia |
| universiti putra malaysia (upm) | 681 | malaysia |
| universiti kebangsaan malaysia | 767 | malaysia |
| singapore management university (smu) | 902 | singapore |
| universiti tenaga nasional (uniten) | 1400 | malaysia |
| intl islamic university of malaysia | 1422 | malaysia |
| universiti malaysia perlis | 1566 | malaysia |
| universiti utara malaysia | 1665 | malaysia |
| universiti tun hussein onn malaysia | 1740 | malaysia |
| university of nottingham malaysia | 1901 | malaysia |
| universiti malaysia pahang | 1903 | malaysia |
| universiti malaysia sabah | 1996 | malaysia |
| universiti malaysia sarawak | 2190 | malaysia |
| singapore mit alliance for research & technology | 2524 | singapore |
| singapore polytechnic (sp) | 3109 | singapore |
| open university malaysia (oum) | 3777 | malaysia |
| singapore institute of management | 4412 | singapore |
| duke-nus graduate medical school singapore | 4844 | singapore |
| james cook university singapore | 5313 | singapore |
| management development institute of singapore | 6669 | singapore |
| kaplan singapore | 7189 | singapore |
| psb academy singapore | 11336 | singapore |
| curtin university singapore | 12955 | singapore |
| singapore institute of technology | singapore |
Starting 40 days 40 nights
Today is 17th day. It was not easy the first week. It was slightly better the second week. Now comes the third week.
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That is a 23-more-days challenge to go. Things that helped is jogging. 3 km every two days for 20 min.
Tap in the forehead gesture
It is my way to say “love/miss you”.
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Probably I don’t express myself well in this aspect, I would either kiss (my children) or gently tap (with two fingers, e.g. index and middle; for friends) on the forehead.
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Today, I missed many good people. Sobs. Wish them all the best.
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Of all the billions of people, we managed to share our lives together. A friend said, it is “fate”.
