Category: 55 Weeks

In my first post on buying goods directly from China, we explored Lazada and AliExpress, both of which are English online platforms. Next, let’s have a look at shopping at Taobao, all in Chinese! Fear not though, this post...

e-commerce is now a mainstay. I bet many of us have experienced it in the form of online shopping. Some of us might have even ventured into buying direct from China. The good thing about shopping online is that the marketplace...

I was out of the public hospital on Tuesday, September 26th, after being there for 4 days. My hospital stay was shorter than originally suggested. Why? And how? My emergency medical condition of breathlessness had stabilized and...

And so I checked myself in to the Accidents & Emergency (A&E) department at the public hospital on Friday night. I had to, for a relapse of shortness of breath had hit early that morning. My sleep had been interrupted...

My chest felt congested; my breathing shallow. The nose seemed stuck. Never before have I felt tired after climbing up the steps of the overhead bridge. It wasn’t that I was panting or anything, but there was certainly...

I don’t know about you, but looking for good food deals is something I’d do from time to time. And I do have more than one neat online reservation app up my sleeve for this 🙂 Though strictly speaking, booking apps...

A couple of days ago, I had a nice Sunday lunch out at an eatery found and booked via an online dining reservation app. This was what I ate… That’s a neat piece of rib eye roast beef, accompanied by corn kernel,...

With this opening line, I just demonstrated what being kiasu is! Did you get that? Hot on the heels of post #8, in which I talked about my penchant for creating #MarkHWords and ended by saying “I’ll be back with more works...

In the past weeks, I had written much about the hype around what motivational speakers preach and how it can mess with you getting ahead. Yes, this can hurt your pursuit of success. This turned out to be a rather long article,...

This is the second part of my take on guru hype and why it can lead to failure rather than success. In Part 1, published last week, I talked about the myths of two much-hyped ideas: success visualization and the 10000-hour rule....

I knew it! It’s not that I know more than those self-development and motivational gurus. Or that I’m a guru myself. (Ok, maybe I’d be a thought leader someday… who knows?) But I’m keenly aware of...