https://www.blogged.my https://www.blogged.my Malaysia's Blogging Community http://www.blogged.my/images/bloggedmybutton.gif https://www.blogged.my/ https://www.blogged.my/ping-905383-meeting-my-father.html Sat, 21 Nov 2015 23:10:00 +08 I finally met my dad. I last saw him when I was 18. It s been 25 years. I stopped talking to him when I was 11 and my knowing of him stopped there, when I was a child. Now as an adult, he re connected with to me on Facebook. My sister had dinner with him, and he and I finally met again, sat down and... https://www.blogged.my/ping-905383-meeting-my-father.html https://www.blogged.my/ping-905382-what-would-i-say-to-my-father-today-.html Fri, 20 Mar 2015 16:45:00 +08 Laura Day in her book, Welcome to your Crisis, says When a loss occurs we continue the unfinished business of mourning all the losses that we have experienced in our lifetime. We are never capable of digesting an experience completely, and every reminder or even reinjury gives us the opportunity to... https://www.blogged.my/ping-905382-what-would-i-say-to-my-father-today-.html https://www.blogged.my/ping-905381-the-pink-ribbon.html Mon, 25 Nov 2013 19:27:00 +08 My friend has cancer. This is not just any friend, mind you. She s one of those friends who is like family, the sort who understands me more than a family member would. The kind of friend who knows my deepest fears, my dreams, someone to whom I freely admit my failings, my faults, my guilt and... https://www.blogged.my/ping-905381-the-pink-ribbon.html https://www.blogged.my/ping-905380-friendships-you-gotta-be-real.html Mon, 16 Sep 2013 23:38:00 +08 Friendship is a strange thing. It can be smooth sailing, rocky, soothing, draining all with the same person. It is not that the friendship changes actually, it could be that you may know only one facet of a person. Then as you spend more time hanging out, other aspects of their personality begin to... https://www.blogged.my/ping-905380-friendships-you-gotta-be-real.html https://www.blogged.my/ping-905379-a-new-day.html Fri, 26 Jul 2013 22:14:00 +08 So Dec 21st, 2012, the dreaded doomsday, has come and gone. We all woke up on the morning of Dec 22nd, 2012 and I can look back and laugh at the absurdity of my post in Oct 2010. And where does this leave us Apart from the realization that we should all take doomsday predictions with a pinch of salt, I am... https://www.blogged.my/ping-905379-a-new-day.html https://www.blogged.my/ping-905378-networking-i-prefer-to-call-it-connection.html Sat, 27 Aug 2011 00:04:00 +08 Networking I used to shudder at this word. You could say paedophile , and I d have the same reaction. Ask any introvert, and they ll know exactly what I mean. We introverts feel energized from being alone with our thoughts, having long daily conversations with ourselves in our minds. We analyse,... https://www.blogged.my/ping-905378-networking-i-prefer-to-call-it-connection.html https://www.blogged.my/ping-905377-hello-are-you-here-with-me-.html Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:59:00 +08 quot The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking it is, you never look down. quot Sean StewartUntil you have faced your greatest personal challenges, you will never fully understand the truth of this quote. For we are all mostly living in the past. How many of us are so fully present in... https://www.blogged.my/ping-905377-hello-are-you-here-with-me-.html https://www.blogged.my/ping-905376-hearing-voices-in-my-head-and-the-fear-of-ghosts.html Sun, 23 Jan 2011 20:50:00 +08 I dare say that ever since we became more liberal in our beliefs, and turned more atheistic, or believed in so many different permutations of religion and philosophical ways of living, I find it hard not to believe in many things I read about. Such as higher planes of consciousness, spirits and holy... https://www.blogged.my/ping-905376-hearing-voices-in-my-head-and-the-fear-of-ghosts.html https://www.blogged.my/ping-905375-the-answer.html Sat, 01 Jan 2011 22:13:00 +08 This is it. The search for the meaning of life, it s over. You can stop looking. I ll tell you why you re here, why I m here, why your parents and your horrible boss is here. To evolve. Two words, it s as simple as that. This is what we were all put here to do. This is our grand blue print of... https://www.blogged.my/ping-905375-the-answer.html https://www.blogged.my/ping-905374-peace-of-mind-it-starts-with-the-cushion.html Sun, 12 Dec 2010 23:28:00 +08 Having peace of mind is the greatest thing you can do for yourself and others, because this is the state when you are most open to others and to the world at large, both in heart and mind. It is when you are most ready to give, to share, to listen and empathise, when you hold nothing back because you are... https://www.blogged.my/ping-905374-peace-of-mind-it-starts-with-the-cushion.html https://www.blogged.my/ping-905373-the-end-of-days.html Sun, 24 Oct 2010 13:24:00 +08 It was sometime in the first quarter of 2009. A friend sat in front of me, in the Starbucks outlet of the Sunway Pyramid shopping mall and told me, with total conviction, that she believed 2012 would mark the end of humanity. She didn t say the end of the world, because the universe is going to go on, as... https://www.blogged.my/ping-905373-the-end-of-days.html https://www.blogged.my/ping-905372-is-diversity-do-able-.html Wed, 13 Oct 2010 23:04:00 +08 We talk of embracing diversity, but we articulate it better than we do it. I work in a multi national company, reporting to a US manager who leads an international team of multi racial talents. In the course of my job I have dealt with team members in Shanghai, Costa Rica, India and the US. Our internal... https://www.blogged.my/ping-905372-is-diversity-do-able-.html https://www.blogged.my/ping-905371-what-color-is-happiness-.html Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:44:00 +08 What color is happiness What is its texture Does it have a scent Where do you feel happiness, on your body, in your heart, in your mind How do you make it happen and how can you make it stay There is no single answer to all of the above. Happiness just means different things to different people. All... https://www.blogged.my/ping-905371-what-color-is-happiness-.html https://www.blogged.my/ping-905370-when-the-heart-is-brokenh.html Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:04:00 +08 Two months almost three considering my last post was on June 6th is a long time to be away. There has been a lot going on, many changes on many levels, both professionally and personally. Now I am back a changed person. I have been challenged, heart wise, work wise, health wise. At one point I was... https://www.blogged.my/ping-905370-when-the-heart-is-brokenh.html https://www.blogged.my/ping-905369-the-malays-roared-and-i-had-been-oblivious.html Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:07:00 +08 I had never wanted to turn this into a politics dissecting blog, but as they say, it 039 s easier on the ego to criticize others than to clean your own backyard. And then they also say to cut one 039 s nose to spite one 039 s face. I have been really impatient about the way UMNO is running the country. I personally... https://www.blogged.my/ping-905369-the-malays-roared-and-i-had-been-oblivious.html https://www.blogged.my/ping-905368-the-phases-of-maturity.html Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:56:00 +08 I ve been reading about maturity these days and thought I 039 d share some interesting findings. For the purposes of this post, I am referring to emotional or mental maturity whenever I mention maturity . Physical maturity is a given, you start ageing the moment you are born. But emotional maturity can... https://www.blogged.my/ping-905368-the-phases-of-maturity.html https://www.blogged.my/ping-905367-love-let-it-start-with-yourself.html Sat, 22 May 2010 23:03:00 +08 We are all looking for love, are we not Love is the way to ultimate happiness, so claim the chart topping songs. When you find your soul mate, your life is complete, book authors write. Loneliness is a big no no, medical reports show. It leads to depression, increased suicide rates, shorter life spans due... https://www.blogged.my/ping-905367-love-let-it-start-with-yourself.html https://www.blogged.my/ping-905366-a-reverse-world-if-straight-were-the-new-gay-.html Thu, 06 May 2010 15:21:00 +08 Picture this. You are born into a different world, an alternate reality. Everyone in this world still looks the same, but there is a new universal law at play. In this world, sex with the opposite gender is forbidden, taboo and in some parts of the world punishable with the death sentence, no trial and no... https://www.blogged.my/ping-905366-a-reverse-world-if-straight-were-the-new-gay-.html https://www.blogged.my/ping-905365-bare-naked-yoga.html Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:19:00 +08 Naked yoga, it seems, is fast catching on in the West. Although mostly popular with gay men, co ed classes are also being offered in some studios, where women join the class alongside the guys both parties not necessarily gay . Nude yoga is all about shedding inhibitions, they say, being comfortable in... https://www.blogged.my/ping-905365-bare-naked-yoga.html https://www.blogged.my/ping-905364-singledom-when-we-become-me.html Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:58:00 +08 Having someone to love anchors you. It s like a tree, with its branches swaying this way and that in the storm and wind, but always knowing where its roots are, and it knows that these roots will hold it firm no matter what the weather is like above ground. Being in a relationship is like that, especially... https://www.blogged.my/ping-905364-singledom-when-we-become-me.html