The Chinese has this knack of playing on both sides of the field. I mean, there are always reasonable responses to support actions for and against something. For that matters, probably all ancient cultures with lots of ‘pearls of wisdom’ do this as well. Basically, on any given topic under discussion, the sage can never be wrong!
Essentially, both sides of the coin can be correct!
Happy 2005!
A brand new year, and a time for new resolutions – as usual. Seeing that most of such plans doesn’t often come to fruition, perhaps it’s time to adopt the KISS – Keep It Simple, Stupid – approach?
“If better is possible, then good is not enough.”
A friend sent me this. It’s fairly religion-neutral and not affiliated with any faith in particular. Sometimes, it is necessary to ask ourselves some tough questions, just to shake ourselves out of the comfort zone. After all, if you don’t care enough about the present state of the world in the first place, the questions hold no meaning.
The past weekend was a long-weekend in Singapore, because of two ethnic holidays in succession: Deepavali (Hindu) and Hari Raya Puasa (Islam).
I decided to catch up on some exercise by rollerblading at East Coast Park. This is a long stretch of beach with a fairly long bike track (about 20km 1-way) hugging the coastline. Here is a couple of observations I made while on the move.
I hope that I don’t get into the habit of doing this, but I simply could not resist re-posting a story I received by email today, as it touches on the main issues I have been discussing with a friend recently: Focus on Problems vs. Focus on Solutions.
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