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The Autumn Wind
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I never call myself a volunteer for Aspies. The features of today's economy is, people literally work for free in a sophisticated manner, for the good of humanity, outside their work or maybe school time.
I feel that we're expounding on one of the most underdeveloped sector of the economy -...
From Dan Ariety's book on Irrationality, I read that Duke basketball ticketholders value their tickets against the Tar Heels at US$3,000. Those who don't get the tickets value the tickets at US$100.
This is why ownership looks alluring. Governments do encourage home ownership, car ownership...
Consider this:
Some Harvard-trained physicians, as Dan Ariety wrote, quit medical cancer research (their original passionate interest) to get into Wall Street as investment bankers. They gained influence, they gained money, but lost their dreams.
Kevin Federline, a former backup dancer...
Even as a fervent supporter of the government (or because I am such), I am not happy with these developments in Singapore:
1. Some interest-based groups discriminates against Aspies and other PSEs - through outright banning, and even people who worked in Autism groups also look down on those...
I was accused as being a clone of an unpopular member of Singapore Bronies Society. What's more, someone who sucks others' asses, just to get reinstated and to be credible. Good riddance. Nonsense!
The moderators seem to have a certain level of prejudice or preferences for different people...
I hope to work as an accountant for a few years, before quitting my job after a while - this means, a long while after I get the Australian citizenship - and I hope to go back to school and do a graduate degree - be it in social work, sociology, or even mathematics.
Here are the list of...
I have a personal identity crisis going on, and I want to seek help.
(1) Nation
Recently, in my local Brony society, there are new guidelines issued by a practicing lawyer (himself in charge of the society), and they are, in theory, not enforced:
The thing is, some of us can't conform...
I support the PAP (the Singapore ruling party). I love the PAP. I even think, and still think, PAP are the only party that will uphold the interests of all Singaporeans, even though news and Internet sources suggest otherwise. It's not because of my MP or Ms Phua, or even Sir Harry Lee...
The thought of social workers or psychologists needing to get a master's degree, and this is the norm for Singapore... It's a boiling feeling of resentment.
If we look at Ireland, this academic requirements kind of pisses me off. We invest in so much education to yield so much stress, even...
?Smelling good, and looking like 10 million bucks? ? Kevin Federline
It?s good to be fresh. I want to look rich, but well, these days, frugality means chic.
Hence, I read a book ?Frugillionaire? by Francine Jay, and I screamed for joy. What follows is some ideas to think about:
In...
I got out of conscription because of a combination of depression and autism, and both me and my father decided not to appeal this decision. Those with autism are eligible to serve as a clerk. I wanted to be a clerk, however, I don't think I can be of much use to the army or police.
I deny...
As Harvard, MIT and Stanford, three of the best universities in the world as ranked in US News, begin to offer online courses, as do Yale University and University of California-Berkeley, I hear murmurings of 'the days of the brick and mortar university is over'.
Also, using those tools...
According to Oshiotse and O?Leary?s work, ?Corning creates Inclusive Culture to Drive Technology and Performance?, it states that a new sort of diversity is seen in 14 areas, including military experience, work style, parent, function, lifestyle and personality.
Indeed, I think Aspies Central...
From what I read on Daft's book New Era of Management, awareness of certain biases can help managers make more enlightened choices:
1. First impressions. They could make a disproportionate emphasis on initial comments or incomplete data to use as anchors in decision making. I think I am prone...
Fong Fei Fei is one of the few Mandopop, or rather, pop singers, that I listen to.
Fong Fei Fei was the Dolly Parton of Mandarin pop, or Mandopop. Or maybe I can express it this way, in my mother's era, she was as famous as Dolly Parton and Whitney Houston (who died a month after her)...
This is the latest and the last song by the late singer Fong Fei Fei:
Wanna Fly With You
A song dedicated to Ms Fong's husband
Lyrics by He Qi Hong
Translated by mowen
Time has passed, through your face
Passing through meanders through times
Little tears like the Morning Star at...
I looked up for a management guru - himself a 40-year veteran in business training and a management consultant - and he gave me the not-quite-helpful-but-really-thought-provoking advice:
"Quit accounting if you can, and do marketing".
I myself am a student doing accounting and finance in...
I have bought every piece of clothes I really, really love, in physical stores. I'll wear them, like, forever and ever so long as they're awesome.
But things will change, I'll explore buying from online stores in near future.
I can't buy from Singaporean stores anymore. I always go to the...
However, allow me to qualify my statements, as quoted above.
If I don't feel ready to financially support first love, in case anything happens, I won't perform the sexual act.
I do my best to attend classes on dating and marriage, in case I need them.
I won't force my way around women...
I always intended to form an all-inclusive autism community in Singapore, where Auties and Aspies work together for the greater good. I don't mind if High-Functioning Auties or Aspies oppose to it, because after all, look at it, why do we have autism spectrum disorder? ASD is about people...