Thursday, June 25. 2009The quickest personality test
Imagine your name appearing in Twitter's trending topics. Based on So which one are ya? Tuesday, June 16. 2009Skewed Question of the Day: Who's more sensitive when it comes to response?A colleague was telling another colleague to respond fast on a client's e-mail. The reason given was, "Well, because she's a woman. Women take it hard if no one responds." I gaped at him. I mean, really. As if guys don't feel bad if no one responds to their queries. If that was true, why do my male family members, buddies, colleagues and clients hop up and down when I Skewed question, that's what it is :P Monday, June 15. 2009How Chinese Are You?
Got this on my e-mail today sent by a Chinese friend. It really had me laughing as I can identify myself or some other Chinese person in the statements below. Read them all, you'll have a blast. If you are not Chinese but can identify with the list, you are officially yellow on the inside. Give yourself a pat on the back! Please check the list to see how Chinese you or your friends There are at least 29 ways to know if you're Chinese. You will laugh at 1. You unwrap gifts very carefully, so you can save and reuse the wrapping (and especially those ribbons). Guilty as charged. 2. When there is a sale on toilet paper, you buy 3. You keep a Thermos of hot water available at all 4. You save grocery bags, tin foil, and tin 5. You hate to waste food: (a) Even if you're totally (b) You have Tupperware in 6. You don't own 7. You have a collection of miniature shampoo bottles 8. You wipe your plate and utensils or wash them 9. You own a rice cooker and a slow cooker. I don't own either but I've been contemplating on getting them 10. You wash your rice at least 2-3 times before 11. You fight (literally) over who pays the dinner bill. Eh? 12. You have a teacup with a cover on it. Aiyor, these ppl really got spycam lar 13. If you're under age 20, you own a really 14. You're a wok user. Nope, but my folks are. 15. You only make long distance calls after 7pm. Bingo. 16. You prefer 17. You never call your parents just to say, ' Hi. 18. If you don't live at home, when your parents 19. Your parents tell you to boil herbs and stay 20. You e-mail your Chinese friends at work, even 21. You always cook too much. My folks used to do that. 22. You eat every last grain of rice in your bowl, but 23. You starve yourself before going to an ' All 24. You know someone who can get you a good deal on 25. You own your own meat cleaver and sharpen it 26. Your toothpaste tubes are all squeezed 27. You call a sausage a hotdog. Isn't it though? 28. You wrap with napkins all the knives, spoons 29. You never forget to take with you all the Now that you have read the lot, are they mostly true? Saturday, June 13. 2009Perennial Acquaintances![]() I'm sure you've met people who are nice, friendly, as interested to get to know about you as you are about them. They have many friends and seem to know everyone who's anyone from different industries, age, sexuality, creed and background. They are unassuming and make great conversationalists who can talk about any topic under the sun. They are not judgmental and no one is too good or too bad to be their friend. And most importantly, they do not make friends to further their cause or business. They just like people without any ulterior motives or agenda. Sounds like the ultimate perfect friendster, eh? Until you realize that such friends come with certain limitations. They forget what you have told them and what they have told you. They still remember important stuff, of course. What you do, your phone number, important dates, your close friends, your hobbies. It's probably safely contained in their rolodex - how else can they keep track of so many friends? But for the life of them, they can't recall that the trivial news that they have shared to you and may share that bit to you over and over again. Secondly, you can't get closer to them after a certain stage. The friendship has breath but not much depth. It becomes frustrating if you want to get to know them better and hang out more but they are perfectly contented to remain just slightly better than acquaintances. And yet their friendship base keeps growing exponentially. These people find much pleasure in collecting friends that I call them the friend collectors. Reading Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point just confirms my 'findings'. He also calls them friend collectors but has another name for them - Connectors. They have a valuable place in society because they can connect the right people together and make things happen. When you are in a technological field, chances are, you'll never meet people from a niche theatrical arena. But Connectors who know all sorts of people would. Now, normally folks would not dispense much effort in increasing the number of acquaintances and prefer to put in more effort in cultivating close friendships. Connectors, however, get a high from getting to know a new acquaintance to put into their rolodex so that they can cultivate the friendship - at an arm's length, of course. That is normal when it comes to Connectors. We know it takes a lot of resources to maintain deep friendships. Connectors just spread their attention fairly (give or take) to their large brood of friends. You may never hope to have a Connector for a best buddy but you can never have a more accepting person to have great conversations with whenever they can spare the time. Tuesday, June 9. 200910 Things a Typical Malaysian Traveller Will Never Say
And finally... 10. Cable internet sucks. I love Streamyx! It's so fast, so efficient, so WAH!!
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