Battlefield

My body turned into a battlefield in the last few days.  There is a major war between the bacteria and white blood cells.  As the result, I have to suffered the burn (high fever) and pain (severe headache). 

Hemmm… if only I can get them out to fight else where.

Surviving the Web

Being involved in 3 global projects on top of my current role, having to stay connected with friends, colleagues all over the world, I need instant and in-time information, systems and tools to stay ‘alive’ and Stay Relevant in the Net World today.

Here are the list of frequently used online tools ‘favorited’ in my IE… and the list is getting longer!

TOOLS

• Google (www.google.com) which includes GMail, Calender, currency converter, weather, news feeds….  and the latest, Google Wave… nice.
• Yahoo (www.yahoo.com) similar to Google.. wonder why on earth did I use both.
• Google Map (http://map.google.com) a great tool to get the directions from where I were to where I will be going  (when my GPS refuse to cooperate), as well as calculate the distant for mileage claims.
• Time and Date (www.timeanddate.com) great tool to check the time of person I will be holding conference call with.
• Country Code (www.countrycodes.com) for International Dialing to conferences.
• Currency Converter (www.xe.com) a must for frequent traveler.
• ConstantContact (www.constantcontact.com) fantastic tool for online polling/survey, marketing event / campaign management tool. 
• Survey Monkey (www.surveymonkey.com) another polling tool. Yeap, it is monkey… I actually double checked it when I first heard it.
• Wiki (www.wikipedia.org) quick info on things I have no idea what it was before.
• Dictionary (http://dictionary.reference.com) love this site for spell checks and getting alternative words.  This site is my companion whenever I am writing.
• Plus (www.plus.com.my) Malaysia toll charges from toll gate to toll gate.  As I uses a pre-paid toll card system, I do not get physical receipts and here’s where I can get the actual toll fee information from here for expenses claim.
• Malaysia Airline (http://www.malaysiaairlines.com) flights booking.
• FireFly (www.fireflyz.com.my) none frill flights booking.
• AirAsia (www.airasia.com) none frill flights booking.

Daily News Updates

• Bloomberg (www.bloomberg.com)
• CNN (www.cnn.com)
• Reuters (www.reuters.com)
• Business Time (www.btimes.com.my) Malaysia businesses & markets updates 
• The Star Online (http://thestar.com.my),
• New Strait Times Online  (http://www.nst.com.my),

Weekly Reading List: 

• Harvard Business Publishing (http://harvardbusiness.org),
• The McKinsey Quarterly (www.mckinseyquarterly.com),
• ReadWriteWeb (www.readwriteweb.com) world top web technology
• nGenera (www.ngenera.com)
• Times (www.times.com)
• Fortune (www.fortune.com)
• The Edge (www.theedgemalaysia.com) another Malaysia business, market and political updates
• BusinessWeek (www.businessweek.com) global market summaries.

Networking & Fun: 

• Twitter (www.twitter.com) gets news feeds on the go.
• Facebook (www.facebook.com) to stay connected with people I know only!
• LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com) stay connected professionally
• Friendster (www.friendster.com) hemm… what’s my ID and password again for this?
• Second Life (http://secondlife.com) still contemplating if I want to create my second life here.
• WordPress (www.wordpress.com) to pen my thoughts, growth, and sometime ‘deterioration’ too.
• YouTube (www.youtube.com)  just for fun…

Hobbies & Others

• Taste (www.taste.com.au) beautiful site for recipes, and links to other recipes sites too.
• Amazon (www.amazon.com) I know they start selling other stuff already lah… but this is where I get reviews of new books
• CNETAsia (www.cnetasia.com) reviews, comparisons before making decision on tech product purchase.
• Google Image (http://images.google.com)  love this site and this is where I pick up photos, images, clip arts for my PowerPoint Presentations and blog.

The lists goes on and on and on, inclidng links to The Organizations’ intranet and website, banks, government departments, traveling info… and gets up-dated as I discover more effective sites.

Did I mentioned the number of applications loaded into my BB (BlackBerry) to survive on the go?   Sometimes, I wonder if I am LOST in the Web.

Lost

Facebook, MySpace, Second Life, LinkedIn, Xing, NetLog, Twitter, FriendFeed, Yahoo, Google, Hotmail, Podcast, flickr, Blog, WordPress, YouTube, RSS, Digg, Delicious… with hundreds of feeds, thousands of applications… new games, movies, music, messages and news streaming into our life by the second.  We are living in a very exciting age with so many choices and so much we can do vie the world of net… 

… Sometimes we do not realized how lost we are.

As the final Curtain falls…

I was introduced to a very unique pub by a friend who was in her 50s about a year ago. I don’t like visiting pubs, for the cigarette smoke chokes me, loud noise drowns my, and crowd suffocates me.  But I was surprised to find myself attracted to this particular pub.

Located in a middle to high-income neighbourhood, authentic Titanic Pub is run by a family of 3; father and his two sons.  What drawn me to the pub was the good live music played by old timers, songs of the 70s & 80s, and most patrons were mostly 50s and above… Friends and family gathers at the end of the each week and embrace themselves with music of their youth years, tapping their feet with the rhythm, while some waltz down the dance floor.

It was a beautiful sight to behold as one journey through the last stage of life… as one seat back, allowing the music brings us back to sweet memories of pass… and accompany us through as the final curtain falls…

 

‘iPhone & BlackBerry are Root of all evil’

It is getting common that we work from home, stay up late or wake up early for virtual meetings as part of our work-life today.  How many of us are already been participating in conference call while driving on the road?  Answering emails while one hand on the wheel, not mentioning where the pair of eyes are focusing?  What about being in the plane where pilots are having Laptops, Devices in the Cockpit? It’s already happening.

While more stuff are added into phones to make them smarter, keep us connected all the time, either for work vie BlackBerry or fun with  iPhone (and other devices are not lacking behind), our mind are constantly focusing something… but it take self-discipline to focus on the right thing at the right time.

Our forefather used to say, ’Money is the root of all evil’ (which we know that is not the case*).. very soon, we will make famous the phase ‘iPhone and BlackBerry are the root of all evil’.

* …rather a case of  human hearts…

Knowledge is POTENTIAL Power

For years we have been lead to believe that ‘Knowledge is Power’.

That is why some fresh-graduates particularly with Masters, MBA, Doctorate without working experiences make ridiculous demand from potential employers  for they have the piece of paper that certified the acquisitions of their knowledge.

The big question is… does one know how to use and organize knowledge to meet his/her end goal in mind once the knowledge is acquired.  Does one know when to use it at the right time, the right place for the right purpose.

I agree with what Napoleon Hill says in Think and Grow Rich, ‘Knowlege will not attract money unless it is organized and intelligently directed through practical plans of actions to the definate end of accumulation of money.’ 

While educations does develop our mind to acquire wide spread of knowledge, it takes something deeper within us to appreciate and capitalized it.

In conclusions… ‘Knowledge is POTENTIAL Power’.

Love

It take Courage to love and Trust to be loved…

If only we have more courage & trust.. this world will be a different place.

Black or White

 

 

 

 

 

 

Life can be beautiful… depending on which perspective we choose to view it.

Sometimes… we make tough decisions others can’t comprehend.. we walk through path others avoid, we take up challenges others let go…

Ken Block Top Gear

Love this gymkhana and the cinematology output… combinations of two best of its field… beautiful & blood pumping.

Ideal Suitor…

I got a Sexy Beautiful baby earlier this year…. totally in love with it, cherished every moment I had with it.  But little did I realized it short lived me and sadly, I have to let it go.

Few weeks ago, I got a new fellow (in photo)… I was not very certain if it suits me better… but under the advise of my buddy who knows my needs well, I go for it anyway.

After few weeks with it, I grew to be very fond of it, and finds that it is the best choice for me… the full qwerty keypad suits me better than touch screen for a impatient and on-the-go person like me…  and its functions suits my needs much better.

I also decided not to persue another sweety I wanted initially, the iPhone 3G… it is a sleek beauty I decided not to have.. coz it is not the best for me.

I suppose life’s like that… sometime the ‘ideal suitor’ turn out to be not the best companion for us.