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Sunday, 28 October 2012

Happy day #11


Before you rush to eat that chocolate

I am always attracted to the beautiful packaging and wrapper of the chocolate boxes. I am not a great fan of chocolate therefore I can take my own sweet time to appreciate the packaging. And often I found some beautiful symbols and lately I found out that they are called Adinkra Symbols.

More than just pretty designs, Adinkra symbols are taken from traditional West African culture, each with its own special meaning. Their evocative symbols convey traditional wisdom, aspects of life or the environment. So look out for those interesting symbols before rushing to the chocolate. Here is a guide to the meaning behind some of the symbols.



 

Saturday, 27 October 2012

Happy day #10



Believe the unbelievable
Even it was more than 3 years since I watch this Susan Boyle video but every time I get the same inspiration and the same strong emotional connection with the moment. I love the face on Simon starting from the doubtful face to the fabulous “oh my God” face. Everyone doubted Susan and think she is going to be the joke of the day but the minute she starts singing……oh my God…..she surprised everyone and turns up to be the talk of the town/world.

I felt that this moment teaches us a lot. Believe the unbelievable, don’t judge others by the look and most importantly we can be very happy when we see others being successful. It brings us a lot of joy to watch Susan conquer the “judgment” and win the battle.

So enjoy the video and you too can conquer the obstacle that you are facing. Be brave be strong be happy.

Friday, 26 October 2012

Happy day #9


Scarcity may not be a bad thing
We are consistently fighting for resources and complaining about it. Have we ever take a moment and think that scarcity may not be a bad thing. It focuses us to push ourselves to think out of the box and come out with innovative ideas and new ways of doing our day to day chores. It takes no special talent but your willingness to try out new ways. Everyone can do it. Don’t believe it?
 
Read the attached story on Chocolate chip cookies.
Before there were chocolate chip cookies, it was either sugar or complete chocolate. This all changed in the year 1930 when a woman by the name Ruth Graves Wakefield was baking. The story goes that she was attempting to make chocolate cookies, but was running low on baker’s chocolate so instead added broken pieces of semi-sweet chocolate from Nestlé, expecting the chocolate to mix in the batter.
To her surprise, and cookie lovers around the world’s joy, the chocolate did not mix and large chunks of semi-sweet chocolate were stuck in the baked cookies making the cookie we know today! Graves sold her recipe to Nestlé in exchange for a life time supply of chocolate chips, and if you look on the back of Nestlé’s chocolate chip cookie box the recipe is still there! (Source : www.omg-facts.com)

Thursday, 31 May 2012

Happy day #8

There is a saying that you can't be happy if you are not in your best. I would like to agree to it. If you are still not convince watch this video.

Thursday, 24 May 2012

Happy day #7

Sharing one of my happy song by Rusell Watson. I just feel so good everytime listening to it. All the trouble just dissolved in the water.

Tuesday, 22 May 2012

Happy day #6

Today I would like to discuss about luck and happiness. This is going to be the chicken and egg story as I asked myself which one comes first? To have luck therefore you are happy or because you are happy therefore you bring luck?
For me, I would like to think that it is happiness that brings me luck. I felt that I am a lucky people as I am grateful of what I have and my surrounding. And I would like to describe happiness and luck like a boomerang. The principles of what you give away will find the proper way to comes back to you. Give or share your happiness and luck with others and magically it will make you happy and luck will comes back to you. I can’t explain why and how it happened but I can only say this is my personal experience.  
But luck is like money, everyone will automatically pay attention to if someone said they can help to improve anyone's luck. So are you ready for some tips?
I read this magazine today and by the way it is a Feng Shui magazine. It said that if you want more good luck turn clockwise for three rounds. And if you want to get rid of bad luck then you have to turn anti-clockwise for three rounds. That's not too difficult and I think it is worth giving it a try.
Haha! Are you trying already? Ok I believe my good luck is on my way as sharing this luck tips with all.
Have a happy and a lucky day !

Thursday, 17 May 2012

Happy day #5

Today I give myself a little learning space and take myself to seminar about innovation and the future technology. It is a good opportunity to meet up with many interesting people and they shared a lot of insights about the new ideas and ways to innovate.

What catches my attention most is the way we connect with each other and the way we keep connected. With all the new technology and gadgets we are connected anytime anywhere 24/7. The world is literally smaller, nearer and even reachable in many ways. Take Singapore for example, it is one of the countries with the highest penetration or take-up rate for mobile phone and internet access. Almost everyone has a phone, not just a traditional phone but many are holding smart phone. And we are in this era where we will feel very uneasy even emptiness if our mobile phone is not with us.

With me playing the devil’s advocate, I asked myself – now that we are so connected, contactable and reachable, are we now happier?

I believe many could not answer this question in a straight forward way because we can be far apart but near enough to talk or even see each other from miles away. And at the same time we are near but yet so far. Many families spend their weekend so called “together” but what actually happened was father is watching movies from computer, mother is learning cooking recipes from YouTube and kids are busy with Facebook, Twitter and other social media. It is a very common scene during family dinner gathering and everyone is busy with their phone and we called this new scene – “together loneliness”

Is this the price of modernization? While we improve our living standards, physical infrastructure, education and economic let us constantly remind ourselves to give a soft touch to the effect of this modernization. Whatever you are doing now, put it down and give your love one a bear hug and tell them you love them. That’s the secret of happiness.