“The days are long but the years are short,”
On parenthood and knowing what’s important. 
Ben Casnocha’s Six Habits of Highly Effective Mentees
Ben Casnocha is the right guy to ask if want to know how to find mentors. When running a software startup in Silicon Valley at the age of 14, it pays to get great advice. Here Ben shares a list of tips he’s found useful in how to be the kind of person who mentors will want to share wisdom to – Scott Young
Eric Feng’s The Public Speaking Blog
One of the most driven and successful young person I know. Yes, I even wrote about him before.
Eric touched on an aspect in a subject of my interest – humour in public speaking. This is something Singaporean speakers severely lack. I need a lot of help myself. (Being lame is not counted, orgay? Saying lame jokes to an audience is a huge risk.)
I heard about this world champion toastmaster who was able to make the audience laugh 49 times in a ridiculous limited time (forgot how long, probably between 7 – 60 mins).
Eric says:
“When you are able to make your audience laugh…
They like you more.
They learn faster.
They remember you… for all the right reasons,”
And guess what? Humour can be learnt! It’s good news for us. Ha.
Sidenote: See that little yellow book there? I’m gonna be receiving an autographed copy of it soon. *grins* And no, Eric did not pay me a penny/in kind for writing this. I simply enjoyed reading his blog!
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It’ll teach you something, it’ll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever. Check out the part where Annie describle her buying of a $4.99 radio from the supermart. It’s quite a perspective.
Joss Sticks – Diary of Private O’Level Maths Tutor In Singapore
Miss Loi is a full-time private tutor in Singapore specializing in O-Level Maths. Her life’s calling is to eradicate the terrifying LMBFH Syndrome off the face of this planet. For over 17 years she has been a savior to countless students… visit site to find out what LMBFH means. You’d be laughing.
Time Management – Stevepavlina.com
The best personal development blog I know and it’s one of my daily staples on Bloglines. Steve presents his thoughts on action and time management.
“I was able to earn two college degrees in only three semesters, largely by applying a variety of time management techniques, some of them to the extreme. I took the same classes in 1.5 years that other students took over a 4-year period, but I was able to compress them into a much shorter period of time by taking about triple the normal courseload. However, I don’t consider this to be an extraordinary achievement. I think someone else who studied time management as much as I did could achieve similar results. The sad truth is that most people are so incredibly bad at managing their time that rock-bottom personal productivity is simply accepted as normal. So anyone who can consistently invest 80% of their time each day in intelligent, productive activities is going to look like an overachiever by comparison. The average college student in particular is probably operating at only 20-30% of their capacity, and I’m referring to their social life in addition to academics. Most people are completely unaware of just how poor they are at time management until some “overachiever” enters their lives and makes them look bad by comparison.”
One of the more memorable tips from this article:
If we guys can read for 5-10 mins while shaving every morning (putting the article on the mirror), we will be able to read about 100/150 articles more per year!
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