Category: Blog Posts
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35/365: From oden to simmered daikon, part 2
So the bucket list item was changed to making authentic simmered daikon The pursuit of this bucket list item then revealed a personality flaw that probably explains for many of my failures in life – I left too much to chance, experimentation, and last minute winging it What I did was quickly reference a recipe…
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34/365: From oden to simmered daikon, part 1
I love how an intellectual approach to ticking off items from the bucket list really helped me to hone in on what really interests me, as well as what has been preventing me from ticking the items off earlier in my life. Case in point, I wanted to tackle a so called easy one: cook…
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31/365: On gathering and maintaining friends
Was pondering the point about the intentionality of social gatherings once again – how social gatherings without intention feel like a waste of time, make you feel drained and tired whereas those with intention feel meaningful and restorative. I think this intentionality applies to investing and maintaining friendships as well. And I don’t mean the…
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30/365: What’s the reason for my blogging?
I just felt like blogging today. The reason? I needed to remind myself of lessons learnt – lessons that I might forget because I might only need to use them in 5 to 10 years time.. I really wish there was a way for me to classify and organise the lessons I learn in life…
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29/365: Finite resources in life
The 5 Assets of Genius are your mental focus, your physical energy, your personal willpower, your original talent and your daily time. These primary assets are at their highest early in the morning. That’s why you want to start your day well and perform your most important pursuits during your most valuable hours instead of…
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28/365: Picking up the pieces
This has been a long, habit breaking hiatus. But to be positive, I learnt quite a bit about myself from it: I clearly didn’t prioritise blogging and writing about my thoughts – hence when more urgent (but unfulfilling) tasks came about like house renovation, holiday planning etc, blogging fell on the back burner. Holidays also…
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27/365: On taking responsibility for your life
Imagine: you go to engineering school, because that’s what your parents desire – but it is not what you want. Working at cross-purposes to your own wishes, you find yourself unmotivated, and failing. You will struggle to concentrate and discipline yourself, but it will not work. Your soul will reject the tyranny of your will…
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26/365: On snowboarding
Blogging has been slow because I’ve been working the slopes on Hirafu =) I don’t exactly know how I feel about snowboarding. For one, it’s a really expensive sport when you stack it up to other types of sport and travel. Also, at a certain level of competency, you start wondering what’s next.. everything feels…
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25/365: On authenticity
You can use words to manipulate the world into delivering what you want. … To conduct life like this is to become possessed by some ill-formed desire, and then to craft speech and action in a manner that appears likely, rationally, to bring about that end. … Someone living a life-lie is attempting to manipulate…
Frank Chen 