Enthusiasm

Enthusiasm comes from an ancient greek word En-Theos which means inspired by or possessed by God. Let it be said of you, as you shine your light in dark places!

helicopter crash

Hip hop - dub FX

Jogging

Recently i have found a nice jogging route around the neighborhood. Is approximately 6km (Google map distance calculator) which covers some beautiful site, like the Chinese garden, park and tracks. The ideal time for this route is 5pm-6pm before the peak hour, as it would be hard to get through the crowd when passing by the MRT stations. The route starts from a neighborhood jogging track, which leads to the park connector, then the main road into the Chinese garden. Along the way, there are residents fishing on the pond, visitors taking photograph, or jogger enjoying the evening sun. There are a few water points, and toilets which is ideal for spending longer time on the route for a marathon training. There are a bridges and slopes for many other forms of training as well.

Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. It makes it feel needed. ~ Charles Schulz, Peanuts

Brush stroke

Give attention, not more time

Attention is a scarce resource, perhaps one of the most limited one. Attention unlike time, could not be earned nor stored for the future. Each day, we have very limited amount in those conscious moment. We could spend it during work, driving a car, playing games or have a conversation with someone. We are doing trade off whenever we choose to spend it on something more valued by us. As much as technology has helped us do more, our amount of attention has not increased.

In my opinion, giving someone our attention takes center stage when it comes to building any relationship. It speaks loudly the value we place in the relationship. It is becoming less evident in our daily conversation. Interruption, rapid changing of topics, speaking before knowing the facts are some symptoms of inattentiveness.

Spending more time not necessarily enhance relationship, it could be averse if we look at it as the only means. One do not need to look far to proof this point when getting together means playing "angry bird" separately. Hence the fundamental building block is the wanting to give attention, to give time its noble place.

Soap

This is a piece of Soap. Let me know where there is soap of similar type which could be hanged. This item brings back loads of memories from childhood.

Learning about logic

"My problem with life is not that it is rational, nor that it is irrational...but that it is almost rational"

- G K Chesterton

Arguments consist of premisses and conclusion advanced on the basis of the premisses.

Argument is valid if the conclusion follows from the premisses

A proof is not the same as a valid argument.

这就是功夫！

Recognizing the maker

Capturing the beauty of the conversion of the water into wine, the poet Alexander Pope said, "The conscious water saw its Master and blushed." That sublime description could be reworked to explain our daily experiences, in principle more so for a broken body to mend at the command of its maker.

Dempsey

3 Months working in Dempsey hill.

Everyday was like a dream

I know i am a step closer to

the purpose for

being here

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Body language

You say more than you think

By Janine Driver

This book is one of the best in the market now which talks about mastering the art of reading body language. I have read a few and found that this latest addition published last year gives an practical approach, at the same time demystify many myths around this topic.

The writer, will guide you through her 7 days program to impart skills she used everyday to stay alive during her fifteen years career as a body language expert with the ATF.

One of my favorite topic was the principle of baselining, where she points out that assigning meaning at first impression could lead to potential error in effective body reading. For example, if some one has the natural tendency to touch his or her nose a lot (maybe because they went from wearing glasses to contacts) one can't assume the person is lying. Hence no one gesture should be interpreted in isolation. The baseline could be seen as a "starting point", which have to be obtained in the start of an interaction in order to differentiate any change in behavior. The author share guiding principles to confirm the accuracy of those changes in order to make an accurate judgement.

Unlike other body language books, this one doesn't not give you a list of chart to measure people with. It goes against the common myth that gesture is universal. Large portion of the book covers how we should construct unique individual yardstick for every one we interact with.

The book also covers practical exercises such as, Belly button rule, Naughty bits, Power gesture, Right side rule etc. that will help you achieve confidence and become an expert in human relationship.

Read this book.

Chinese Garden

This is where i jog in the evening.

诗情画意

An approach to Interior Design

Time Space Journal; Interior Design

When looking at a poster, a logo, or painting, our attention is focused within a location; space art. When enjoying a piece of music, it takes up a period of time. To re-live this moment of enjoyment, a similar period of time has to be committed; time art.

Spatial planning is a combination of both space and time art. When one walks around to experience a spatial quality, he experiences these elements with the aid of time. Adjectives such as far/near or crowded/spacious, take on their meaning with the passing of time.

Therefore, when designing spaces, users experiences in the many dimensions of time need to be taken into consideration. When we ignore it, spaces are treated with a single dimension - the present.

Spatial experiences are not stagnant. The experience of any space is the result of one’s encounters and attachments in the past. This past influences our interpretation of proximal cues, thereby contributing to the meaning we assign to spaces.

Similar to how one documents his thoughts in a journal, space designing is a process of equal function. I believe that people assign meaning to spaces and it is the designer’s role to understand and create meaningful spatial experiences through systematic consultations with user(s).

I believe the role of a designer is similar to that of a midwife. Individuals know what is ideal based on their experiences, and hence designers facilitate (with knowledge of building code and aesthetic) in the birth from imagination to reality through a series of consolidation and understanding of the "meaning of spaces" assigned by the user.If there is any possibility is creating healing spaces, these identified meaning is critical and essential building block in creating quality environment which has characteristic rooted in user(s) past.

Discouragement

I suppose there are 2 form of discouragement we need to be aware of. The first is simply in the environment where it bring out the weakness in us. These are the moment where the situation exposes our weakness and inadequacy, making it undesirable to proceed. The next form is subtle, focusing on the reward or intention of actions. And you already might notice the difference between these two; First one being the things we wish to avoid where the other the very driven intention of action.

I can do it, if i stop trusting in myself

City Hall

This is one of my favorite place to do reflections.

Airport

Moleskine notebook. I was at the airport looking out to the gallery of Terminal 2

Staying Curious

It was 1950, Albert Einstein made a remarkable statement in a speech during the international congress of surgeons in Ohio. To the physicians he said "Specialization in almost all branches of human endeavor has, to be sure, resulted in unprecedented achievements- however, at the expense of narrowing the individual’s field of vision. Thus it is hard nowadays to find anyone to repair, properly, a garment, a piece of furniture, let alone a watch"

We are all paying a social cost when schools produce graduates who are skilled only because of economic agenda. When courses are erected to satisfy cooperation and industry who needed specific skills to operate "machines". The difference in education levels only dictate the level of complexity of operating such machines, and nothing else.

In order to be human, individuals ought to constantly look wide and broad to find beauty in the diverse. To make sense of the relationship which Kant talked about in finding the causality of the universe in order to truly appreciate what we think we know. To be curious, and find all means to remain that way.

The truth is this. What we perceive as wide and broad perspective will become the narrow, not due to negligence, but progression. We then continue the process till we no longer recognize the boundaries of each field of knowledge; because they wasn't there in the first place.

Lion

The thing about rat race is that, even if you win, you are still a rat.

Run with Lions instead, even if you die, you remain a lion.