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Blog entries by Geordie
Most people wear skinny jeans, a skinny tee and nice suede shoes, in where I live. They can also wear shorts, singlets and slippers.
I don't like them all - I like a baseball hat, a comfortable T-shirt that's clean, track pants or baggy jeans, hooded sweatshirt when it's cold, and sneakers...
It is also troublesome to have two ASDs being close together, and becoming either best of friends and worst of enemies. Because the more they know each other, through their common problems and struggles, the more they can also potentially hurt each other.
An ASD, whom I shall not name, did...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiMRyd06N6E
I got to know AspiesCentral, through Ian's emai.
Dreams do indeed come true!
Just believe.
And I'm glad the Newcastle United logo is indeed that Geordie in Singapore - me.
Living through at least seven similar forums, I'd seen no other...
I speak in whatever accents I can 'find', so long as I master it.
Depending on the person, I speak in different accents. Not dialects - I do not really have the opportunity to really stay in any given place loooong enough to learn different regional variants of languages. Just accents.
I'm...
Something that baffles me:
Why my parents decided to move to Malaysia?
They claim that they were priced out of the property market - that's true - but why can't they be content living in at least a home?
Don't they remember moving here, because of a lack of employment and education...
I have three pet topics: race, religion and sex.
Too bad, I can't talk about race openly in my home country, because my race happens to be a drop in the ocean of other races in the region I'm in. I also can't talk about religion, because there are different religions my ethnic group...
I just made a casual observation amongst my friends and I found one jarring similarity: what your parents do affect us more than what we think we can do.
I know an accountant whose son, having no other interests other than music, choosing accountancy as his career path.
I also know someone...
I think I have to tell life as it is.
I have to admit, if I bring too much money, I will feel a little scared when I don't carry them... I just have those vibes for no reason.
I also have to admit, I am becoming more of a miser...
Btw I just thought of Singapore's 5 million lottery...
How can I avoid saying the same things, over and over and over again? I am just curious why do I seem to repeat the same ideas...
When autistic people are diagnosed with DSM-V, media will most likely focus on autistic people and deprive autistic individuals of hope and justice. Once labeled or even identified for possible autism-like behavior, autistic people will lose the passion to do the best they can, and just live in...
There is a Facebook comment saying I'm too retarded.
If I've got nothing except dedication to my tasks, what else can I be, other than, well, looking stupid?
It's even a compliment in hyphy-speak
1. Black and yellow, Malay version: Too bland, too boring, no creativity
2. Accident: Alcohol ruins lives. Don't drink and drive. But if you want to live fast and die young, please do whatever you can in a controlled and mature manner.
3. Board Games: Play, play and play. Don't stop. Keep on...
How can I live forever?
I thought of a few things on the bus:
(1) Perhaps we can suggest this to 'school students' in three ways -
Get into the workforce early, and tell ourselves, it's the one and only chance
Get into some place where we'll find ourselves -
Or get into some...
I don't know much about autism until I had 3 experiences in my life, that changed me.
Number 1 would be me volunteering in Pathlight School, an autism school, when I was in Grade 9/freshman in high school. I was doing administrative jobs. I was doing odd jobs that no one wanted to do. The...
Someone asked me do I look good in black and white.
If I bleed black and white, do I need to bother whether black and white looks good on me? I'm my own self and I look best in black and white!
(1) So a CEO needs to be someone who 'can'.
Thing is, where are the right opportunities and what can people do?
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/07/what_makes_a_great_ceo.html
(2) How can people make ideas work, for lesser time and effort with more impact?
(3) How can we be better while...
Why do you think something or some organization needs reform, when the foundations alone are already unsound?
The advice I got for job hunting:
Never release your resume online, for insurance companies are the only ones that bother to send them out.
Apply for jobs early, always, but make your application relevant.
Success is not determined by talent, intelligence or even effort.
It's more of an opportunity to make the fullest use of opportunities given.
Oh, the bitter irony of reality.
The ripest moment for me to do autism work is within the short timespan from high school graduation in November 2009 to mid-July 2010. 9 whole months of focused study on autism. And I thought just because... I used to say, well, a lot of stupid things...