Collaboration Consumption

As a marketer, the title caught my attention, as a sociology student, the content of this video blew my mind. It is amazing how technology has changed our way of life, while many are born with it, second nature to them. We have become, like what the speaker said, from being passive consumers to creators. [...]

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What is in your hand?

This is the message that I got out of the message by Rick Warren. I am not an accident. What is in my hand? – Identity, Influence, Income. Ask yourself – Are you living or are you merely just existing?

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TED.com – Jim Toomey

Always love watching inspiring presentation on TED.com. This topic speaks of my current interest – creatures under the sea. I’m going diving!!! For the past 13 years, Jim Toomey has been writing and drawing the daily comic strip Sherman’s Lagoon, about a daffy family of ocean dwellers.

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Teach every child about food

I begin to understand the importance of home cooked food when I go over for babysitting. I saw the effort involved in getting a nutrition meal to a child. Singapore may not be facing as serious a problem with obesity as the big countries like the US and the European countries because we are smaller. [...]

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How to Live before you die

As we step into the 2nd month of 2010, there are mixed feelings, whether it’s too fast or slow, whether things will happen sooner or later. Question marks upon question marks. All I can do is to quote Steve Jobs in his speech: “….don’t settle.” This is something that has been on my mind, and [...]

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Tribes are what matter now

Wow…This Talk amazed me. Seth Godin argues the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived a human social unit from the distant past: tribes. Founded on shared ideas and values, tribes give ordinary people the power to lead and make big change. He urges us to do so. This sounds really familiar – Tribe. Tribes [...]

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Al Gore on Worsened Climate Crisis

Al Gore presents updated slides from around the globe to make the case that worrying climate trends are even worse than scientists predicted, and to make clear his stance on “clean coal.” Global warming is a scary truth.

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Pursue the best in ourselves

Coach wanted his players to be victors in life and not just on the court, so he treated them as an extended family and emphasized that winning was more than scoring. Indeed, most of his inspiring theories were born from conversations with his father, as a boy on their farm in Indiana. One that sums [...]

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TED.com: Great Design is Serious

It’s been a while since I posted something that is inspires. I can’t say that this presentation inspires me, but it’s the journey that the speaker went through that taught me something. This was what she said towards the end of the presentation, which I thought makes a whole lot of sense to me. Paula [...]

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Photography connects us

David Griffin has one of the world’s true dream jobs: He’s the director of photography for National Geographic magazine. He works with photo editors and photographers to set the visual direction of the magazine — which in turn raises the bar for photographers around the world. Griffin offers an intriguing look into the magazine’s creative [...]

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Billy Graham: Technology, faith and human shortcomings

Before I leave for Port Dickson, I thought I should post this video by Billy Graham. Sets me thinking…

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