I have been experiencing some sort of "Mind Blasting" experience since I was about 10 if my memories serve me well. It is something like a nuclear reaction that happened in my mind where knowledge creates more knowledge and information creates more information. It is happening more often as I grew older (nowadays it is at least once per day). Might be due to the increase amount of data I am fed with as well as the ever increasing database of knowledge and information in my brain. Data seems to be the trigger to this reaction that I can't really control. It is like I will just go into processing mode when my brain is idle or doing some mundane thinking.
Won't say that it is a bad thing. I am able to gain great deal of information and knowledge about many things, sometimes I can almost "predict" things. But while I am experiencing this "Blasting" I am rather closed to the world around me and often end up ignoring (then annoying) a few people who tries to communicate with me.
I hope this doesn't make me a freak. =)
If anyone wants to know, Chinese New Year is about the only festival I celebrate through the entire year. With all the publicity and reminders from my family, it is almost impossible to forget since there is no need to remember it at all (which is totally unlike my own birthday which there is always a 95% chance that I treat it like any other day). =)
Chinese New Year is a festival celebrated by all Chinese around the world regardless of their religion, which is unlike many of the other festivals such as Hari Raya and Christmas. Maybe which is why it is my favourite time of the year; a time where people and family are truely important and 'God' takes a secondary role.
CE introduced me this cool online application a couple of days ago. It takes the words from your blog feeds and turn it into a word cloud; with the words that appear more in my blog larger in the word cloud.
If you are interested (especially for the bloggers), you may create your own word cloud here! =)
I will update the cloud again when there are more posts... =p
I have heard many people claimed that they are stressed. But sometimes I just don't understand why. Even now when I am trying my best to slack, I am pretty sure that I have more things on my hands and mind then they have.
During my stay in hall, some people seemed to be so stressed over school stuff and sometimes I wonder, if school stuff is already so stressful, how are these people going to face the realities of life?
Sometimes, I feel that the main cause of stress is the lack of personal competence. Lack of proper time management, lack of the required skills to get work done, lack of EQ to handle stress, lack of understanding of own abilities by taking up more then what you can handle and lack of judgment (spending extra effort to fix mistakes you made) are usually cause of stress in most people.
Raymond asked me a couple of months ago about how to identify good and capable people. I gave him a somewhat generic answer, but maybe this time I can let him know for sure how to find one. I feel that people who always appears to be stressed and overworked generally lacked personal competence, and the really capable people are usually very composed and at times appears unaffected by their work or responsibilities, or worse enjoy the feeling of stress.
However, most people are still disillusioned by those people who always seemed to be busy and under a lot of stress all the time as being capable and competence. Well, that's good, because it certainly helps me to keep competition off the right fishes in my 'head-hunting' business. =)
So next time if anyone ask me how to reduce work-related stress, my answer would be to advice them to improve their personal competence.
Last Monday, HF cooked Tang Yuan for me. It was her first time cooking it, so I was there to guide her a little.
Small and simple gestures make me happy. It is the thought that counts. I guess I finally found the type of life which I am looking for a long long time. =)
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