Part 6 – Happy Teachers Day – 5 September 2014 (Friday)

September 5, 2014

On April 13, 2012, I took a trip down memory lane. I was invited as the Guest Of Honor for Anderson Secondary School’s 42nd Speech Day and Prize Giving Ceremony It felt so good to return back to my alma mater. While driving to the school, I had goosebumps all over my body. I felt […]

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Part 5 – Happy Teachers Day – 5 September 2014 (Friday)

September 5, 2014

Have you ever felt so crushed in your spirit that your entire being just shut down? You wanted to cry but the pain was so deep that it could not reach the tear ducts? I had such an experience many years ago. More specifically, I was 11 at that point in time and it happened […]

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Part 4 – Happy Teachers Day – 5 September 2014 (Friday)

September 5, 2014

Have you been strongly condemned before? More importantly, have you allowed negative words to take root in your heart and let it affect your self esteem and become an emotional burden in your life? I’m sure you have. Many people carry these condemnations – whether from external sources or within themselves – as baggages throughout […]

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Part 3 – Happy Teachers Day – 5 September 2014 (Friday)

September 5, 2014

If you are a school librarian and you are passionate about reading, the sweetest words from your students are probably, “Teacher, can I have the key to the library? “We are having a lesson break and we like to spend our time in it?” In 1972, as a student of Anderson Secondary School, I frequently […]

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Part 2 – Happy Teachers Day – 5 September 2014 (Friday)

September 5, 2014

I am very much the product of the lessons from all my teachers. As I reflected on the teachers that have shaped and moulded me at different points in my life, I can’t help but feel a deep sense of gratefulness. Without them, I am nothing. The teachers who taught us in schools gave us […]

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Part 1 – Happy Teachers’ Day – 5 September 2014 (Friday)

September 5, 2014

The Chinese has a saying, 一日为师，终生为父. What it means is that “Once you are my teacher, I owe you a debt of gratefulness throughout my life in the same way as I do to my parents.” Teachers holds one of the most important keys to shape our destiny. They gave us a foundation to make […]

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Branding With Love

August 29, 2014

I’m sure you’ve hard of the saying by Albert Einstein, “Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” In other words, if you keep traveling on the same branding journey, you will reach the same destination. To reach a different destination, you need to change your journey. My branding journey […]

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Everything Is Negotiable

August 29, 2014

Training one of my favourite skills, Negotiation. Changing participants’ mindset. Role playing a real-life case. And providing a comprehensive diagnostic and evaluation checklist. I’m excited to be given the honour and opportunity to share a skill that I have been learning and fine tuning for more than 30 years. To be successful, you cannot do without having negotiation skill […]

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Are You Ready For The Future?

August 27, 2014

“I look to the future because that’s where I’m going to spend the rest of my life.” (George Burns, 1983) While it is important to predict the future, it may be a tough call. The landscape will be shaped by imponderables such as new discoveries, black swans, and technological disruptions. How the future unfolds will […]

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May You Gallop All The Way To Success

August 25, 2014

I love horses and all the wonderful virtues that they stand for. They represent positive values that should be a part of our life. First, when I think of horses, I think of passion, energy, and spirit. I see a magnificent being standing tall and proud with heads lifted high. I am drawn to the […]

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