I walked around my neighborhood on Tuesday and noticed colorful drawing of flower, rainbow, heart, and house on the pedestrian path with big letters “Stay Home, Spread Love, Stay Healthy” by the neighbor’s girls. It put a smile on my face. Even in the midst of Covid-19, there are simple joy and beauty everywhere. I …
Category Archives: Joy
B-day Celebration
I booked the flight to Arkansas months ago to celebrate my birthday and complete one of my bucket list to visit all US states yet Covid-19 made me cancel the trip/ vacation. The silver lining are (1) because of Covid-19, airline waived the charge of cancellation (1 year credit allowance) or change of booking and …
Work from Home
Working from home for 2 weeks now. I appreciate the technology and teamwork that enable this, more importantly, the trust behind that people will do the right thing. I think ‘trust’ is what makes a brand, company, country great*. I’m fortunately living in a neighborhood, on the front facing the main road so looking outside …
Reflection
We had a global all-hands town hall meeting. In the meeting, COO shared 3 numbers (3—4880—0) and asked everybody to guess what they mean. The answer was ‘in 3 weeks, we’ve moved 4880 to work from home (due to Covid-19), and 0 production issue. WoW, what an achievement and collaboration across-functions! COO then played a …
Smart Kindness
I am a supporter of Children International. Recently I sponsored 2 new girls in Philippine and Zambia. When I received the welcome pack, it included not only their pictures and profile info but also a card and a stamp-exempt return envelope asking me to answer a few questions to introduce myself. It took me only …
Our Choice
Schools are closed, events are cancelled, and people’s conversation is often around covid-19. It is uncertain, it may be scary, yet we always have the choice to be happy, hopeful, creative, considerate, helpful, grateful…
Be, Breath & Give Thanks
A lighter attendance to yoga class due to covid-19, the instructor shared with us her mantra ‘Be, Breath & Give Thanks’. I love it and it lights up this uncertain time. Being present in our practice or whatever we do, breath and appreciate what we have/ who we are. Crisis (worst time) often brings the …
Normalcy
With covid-19, many schools are closed and certain products are in short supply (I can understand for mask, sanitizer yet I’m surprised to see empty shelf of toilet paper, grocery). I don’t know what will happen next yet I try to live as normal life as possible, go to work, yoga, toastmaster…Worry doesn’t change the …
A Special Weekend!
I planned to attend the social enterprise conference at Harvard, due to the covid-19, the event was cancelled at the last minute. I was surprised yet glad to have the extra time to do class/ homework and enjoy a special Women’s Day… My roommate and I planned to have a farewell lunch with the departing …
Be Present
I’ve been practicing yoga consistently since October ’19 yet this week seems to be the first time that I can be ‘fully’ present in class, not only physically but also mentally without thinking about other things or planning for work, etc. Physical strength, breath, and flexibility all improved over the past few months yet it …