Another Chinese New Year away from home yet it’s filled with love and joy from friends, food, and family (relatives)… Shared Chinese New Year’s Eve dinner with a Chinese and Korean friends. Making dumpling is the tradition for people in NE China and fish is a main course for Korean. We had both plus beef …
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What is My Style?
I had 2019 review with my boss. He was very pleased with my performance and complimented on my proactiveness, ability to work with people, and follow-through to get things done/ deliver results. In terms of growth area, he pointed out that I can process lots of and complex info yet I don’t seem to have …
Relax and Enjoy
I am learning Spanish and practicing the conversation with a friend. I was um, ah…stuttered to find words. He smiled and said ‘breath…you need to relax and enjoy Spanish’ What? it’s easy for him to say that as a native speaker…Then I realized that he is right. I want to learn Spanish because I like …
Write it Down. Do it Now!
I’m listening to Making it All Work, same author of Getting Things Done (GTD). One key principle is to ‘write idea/ to-do down when it arises if it’ll take more than 2 minutes. If it’s under 2 minutes, do it immediately’. Many books emphasize ‘taking action’, e.g. 5 Second Rule (which proves very effective for …
Are We Ready?
I’ve spent the past few weeks with my boss and BI lead ‘digging data and tweaking the model’ to prepare for an experiment. Data analysis was messy and time-consuming. Meanwhile, we heard from team: some want to push the change forward faster, other question our ‘collaboration’ because they haven’t heard anything (though we had presented …
Incredible
A friend asked ‘why the tea leafs in my tea is so big?’ , I thought ‘what do you mean?’ (in my mind: haven’t you seen a tea leaf?); I looked at my glass and realized…in America, people usually drink from tea bag which is made of tiny pieces/ shredded leaf. Many people never see …
Election
Today is Taiwan presidential election. Like any election result, some people are happy, others are not. The identity, relationship with China, and global politics/ competition of influence made things complicated, muddled with policies and performance. Whether people like the result or think it’s fair, to have the choice to vote and freedom of expression is …
Nice Hand-Writing
My colleague asked me to write a card for another colleague because I have ‘nice hand-writing’. I was surprised to hear that/ never thought of it. I appreciate the compliment and realize 2 things: (1) we often take granted how much ‘good things, talents’ we have or have done, (2) compliment goes a long way …
Finding the Positive Everywhere
As I was preparing for the Toastmaster speech to focus on the positive, I thought of my trip in Guatemala… For the ‘no-show’ of 4:30AM pickup of Tikal tour while I got up 3ish and stand at street corner waiting for 45min… For the 2hr ‘sardine can’ ride to a small village that took less …
Smily
I got a squeezing ball (see image) from my yoga studio. What a simple and smart idea! The ‘Smily’ makes you happy by simply looking at it. Bonus: squeeze, throw, or play with the hair to have some fun!