Sunday, October 9, 2011
Steve Jobs 1955-2011
“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, so every one should be really excellent,”. “Life is brief and then you die, you know? This is what we’ve chosen to do with our life. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.”
Steve Jobs prescription for doing business right
Prescription for doing business right: Forget Wall Street. Forget your stock price and even your bottom line. Focus on what business is all about: making a better mousetrap. Build cool products and the world will come. Hire passionate, driven people and they will find a way. Take risks. Make mistakes. Aim high. Put yourself on the line — not in the per-share targets you set, but in the ambitious products you promise — over and over again — to your customers. Do your job and do it well, and the bottom line, the stock price, and everything else will take care of itself.
On what customers want
"If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, they would have told me 'a faster horse'." - Henry Ford
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Fit Flops
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Friday, August 19, 2011
Anika turns 6
August 19, 2011: Anika turned six today. I just realized how time flies by so fast. My baby has grown-up so fast. No matter how fast it may have been, I can be happy by the fact that I didn't miss most of it. I've been there with Anika all these years and I intend to be there always. I love her so much and wish only the best for her.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Friday, August 5, 2011
Bought 3 tubes of Head tennis balls
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Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Quotes from Great Leaders
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." - Benjamin Franklin
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence." - George Washington
"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor." - Vince Lombardi
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." - Dwight Eisenhower
"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination." - Nelson Mandela
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character." - Albert Einstein
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." - Henry Ford
"To reach a port, we must sail- sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift." - Franklin Roosevelt
"If a man does his best, what else is there?" - George S. Patton
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." - Albert Schweitzer
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." - Harry S. Truman
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence." - George Washington
"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor." - Vince Lombardi
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." - Dwight Eisenhower
"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination." - Nelson Mandela
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character." - Albert Einstein
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." - Henry Ford
"To reach a port, we must sail- sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift." - Franklin Roosevelt
"If a man does his best, what else is there?" - George S. Patton
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." - Albert Schweitzer
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." - Harry S. Truman
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Friday, July 22, 2011
Satchel Paige quotes
"Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter."
"I use my single windup, my double windup, my triple windup, my hesitation windup, my no windup. I also use my step-n-pitch-it, my submariner, my sidearmer and my bat dodger. Man's got to do what he's got to do."
"My feet ain't got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller's got big feet, soon the feet start looking big."
"Ain’t no man can avoid being born average, but there ain’t no man got to be common."
"Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines."
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching."
"You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them."
"My pitching philosophy is simple; you gotta keep the ball off the fat part of the bat."
RUN! by Dean Karnazes
Love this book. Funny, lots of lessons, inspiring, and gotta work to get that body. :)
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Insights on dealing with people
"Build relationships first, do business second."
"Success starts with good people."
"Success starts with good people."
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Get After It
"Not everyone who chased the zebra caught it, but he who caught it, chased it."
- South African proverb
- South African proverb
Dean Karnazes quotes
"I'm not a special guy. I am not gifted. Never, however, do I take shortcuts. There is no path of least resistance in my training. What I do equates to hard manual labor, disciplined grunt work. Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself. You might be able to fool some people, but you can never fool yourself. Your toughest critic is the one you face every morning in the mirror."
"If you're passionate and driven, you can accomplish things."
"When situations seem thorny and convoluted beyond reconciliation, the weight of the complexities blurs the simple reality that there is really only one fundamental decision to be made: Stop or continue."
from Dean's book RUN!
"If you're passionate and driven, you can accomplish things."
"When situations seem thorny and convoluted beyond reconciliation, the weight of the complexities blurs the simple reality that there is really only one fundamental decision to be made: Stop or continue."
from Dean's book RUN!
Monday, July 18, 2011
Life Insights
1. It doesn't matter how fast you're going if you're moving in the wrong direction.
2. Even if you're inches away from the finish, never take success for granted.
3. Regardless of how distant your dreams may seem, every second counts.
4. Never, under any circumstances, argue with a tired woman. She is always right.
* Dean Karnazes from his book RUN!
2. Even if you're inches away from the finish, never take success for granted.
3. Regardless of how distant your dreams may seem, every second counts.
4. Never, under any circumstances, argue with a tired woman. She is always right.
* Dean Karnazes from his book RUN!
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Africa
"Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must move faster than the lion or it will not survive. Every morning a lion wakes up and it knows it must move faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve. It doesn't matter if you are the lion or the gazelle, when the sun comes up in Africa you better be moving." - Maurice Greene
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Saturday, July 16, 2011
Lotsa Heart
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Thursday, July 14, 2011
Opportunity
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity for growth." - Einstein
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Bowling
My score today: 135 146 89. Disappointing 3rd game :( My lowest score in my limited bowling experience.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Monday, July 4, 2011
Eagnas starting clamp
I received my Eagnas PP-600 by mail last Saturday (02 July) and am raring to use it.Here below I post the operating procedure. This was taken from the Eagnas website.
1) Used as starting clamp to hold the string from inside the frame.
2) Used as starting clamp for holding the string from outside the frame for 50-50 string pattern.
3) Used for patching or tensioning strings by using a discarded piece of string to extend it to the string gripper.
3.1) patching:
- Place the short string into the jaws.- Thread a discarded piece of string through the outside hole on the left and pull the string through the corresponding hole at the right.
- Place this string into the string gripper of the Eagnas stringing machine.
Friday, July 1, 2011
Moving on
"You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore." - Christopher Columbus
I've made a momentous decision to lead another team. The new team will be very challenging as it is a new domain. I always believe that there is opportunity in everything. From this new team I believe I'll learn more and it may help me to progress in my career.
I hope my current Europe MS Team learned something during my tenure. I hope they realized how much of their interest I have put ahead of myself. I hope that I made a difference.
I've made a momentous decision to lead another team. The new team will be very challenging as it is a new domain. I always believe that there is opportunity in everything. From this new team I believe I'll learn more and it may help me to progress in my career.
I hope my current Europe MS Team learned something during my tenure. I hope they realized how much of their interest I have put ahead of myself. I hope that I made a difference.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Packed trains
CCK to Jurong is packed around 8:40AM. Obvoiusly, 6-min intervals is not enough between 8:30AM to 9:30AM. SMRT has to adjust peak hour duration as traffic volume has been like this for a while now.
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Wimbledon 2011 Semis- Nole vs Tsonga
This match is for Novak Djokovic to lose. He deserves to reach the finals (even win it) and become world number 1. Nole (as Novak is known) improve mentally and physically. This time he just has to focus on his game and play patiently.
Hello World!
Though not my first blog I just thought that this will be "the"blog. I've been trying to find a place to put in my thoughts about anything and everything. Well gotta start somewhere...
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