Questions

If I sighed and felt frustrated when the next job role was revealed to be the same as the current, then it's time to change job, right?

Where did we go wrong with the elder son?

Why is there no one willing to share their perception of me?

Third child, to have or not to have?

Should I re-embrace my natural empathy talent and start helping others again?

Let it go?

Fit of fat?

Little monsters, having no respect whatsoever for weekend, i.e. do not show respect by sleeping in till late morning/noon, woke me up seven early eight early (real early) in the morning.

So there I was, sitting in the bed, thinking whether I should go run since I missed my still-not-very-regular evening run yesterday, when wifey said to go out for breakfast.

Hmm... fit or fat?

Hands down fat of course! =P

Honestly, I am worried about the November run, I am just not in the shape as it is, and I am running out of time.

But those roti canai were good. =P

Level up

Since I am a self-critical person, I have to measure up to my own standard. That's why I don't praise myself much, but often joke about my weakness or silliness.

Okay, maybe that's just me being crazy... =P

Anyway, today, I am giving myself a +1 to my optimisation skill. Yes, a real useful skill instead of those 'slacker point', 'dungeon master', et cetera.

It was a long stretch of experiment doing one case after another with some real time analysis, I got home late but very pleased and satisfied with what I achieved today.

I met the target specification and exceeded it with a good healthy margin. Truth is I was really surprised how well it turned out I thought it was too good to be true.

So I reran the same configuration to double check, and as my usual paranoid self, I also ran some boundary configurations for sanity check, and to cover all bases.

Will of course do my due diligence of performing a further complete validation before I present my findings, but I am mightily excited. This is going to set new standard. ^_^

I am giving myself a pat on the back. =)

心的频道：蓝旗队（续）

初稿于二零一四年六月十日。

请先看前篇

唉，那些狼叫声… -_-

人的个性，有时就是这么决定了

不明白为何他们要那样？

因为我觉得那样的行为很贱

所以我就那么决定了

我绝不要那样！

所以我就刻意不去看，不去睬

哼，不是全部男生都是没有自律、荷尔蒙过盛的猪头

去！有点尊严好不好？

要看就是女生看我！

那时的我还真是有点臭屁

有点自以为是

和不认为自己丑的

呵呵～ 

呃… 

年轻就是不知天高地厚

脸皮特别厚的嘛…

（羞）

也许开始只是扮酷

但习惯成自然

我就那样毁了自己的雷达

现在可以很坦然的说

把自己搞到有点不正常，嘿嘿 =P

是认识了前任女朋友（现任老婆仔）后才慢慢被她调回正常的

也是认识了她才开始认为自己丑的

她是这样告诉我的嘞

她讲，我就信了

反正认为我丑仍和我在一起就应该是我的内在美的原因了吧？

那才重要嘛，呵呵！

是的，那时开始

我自认我是丑的

因为已成了个性

所以我是没什么去注意周围的女人的

前任女朋友（现任老婆仔）觉得我不正常

所以一同外出拍拖时她是雷达

发现美女她会叫我看的嘞！

恋爱时的情趣吧？

也好啦，让她先过滤，免得伤我眼睛

哈哈！

（自己都觉得这样讲很过分，人家也是妈妈生的啊…）

心的频道 |系列|

  

生活点滴：无发多亮

今天午餐后回程时谈起本能强项的话题。

有关本能强项话题的来源，请看昨天写的文章（英文的）。

话说到我测验出来的本能强项，几乎都是与工程师无关，便带点笑的说我应该转行了。

应该找份可以发挥我的强项的工作嘛…

我说辅导员或和平主义代言人哪样的呱？

他们说：“和尚！”

不用讲都知道然后我们就开始搞笑了咯… =P

我说是齁，我光头是有原因的！

突然又有人杀出要有法号，开始给提议。

我说有的叫「无念」，我叫「无发」。

然后想想「很光」好像也不错，有人接说「很亮」。

最后有人说有位歌手叫「多亮」。不错嘛。

我问法号可以四个字的吗？他们说可以，所以嘞…

当当当当！

「无发多亮」，呵呵！ =P

晚间和老婆仔分享这趣事时，她说我做不到。

“你能够戒色咩？”

“…”

你这样讲就赢了咯… =P

自认朋友的，若有看昨天的文章，有劳您费少许时间分享你对我的强项的见解。助人为快乐之本，功德无量，善哉善哉。 ^_^

生活点滴 |系列|

What's your strength?

Do you know your strength?

My usual answer to that is "I can lift 20kg!" =P

Jokes aside, I know my weaknesses a lot better than I know my strengths. And I suppose this has just been proven right yesterday after I got my results from Strengths Finder 2.0.

Did that because manager is coming to town and he wants us to go through our strengths (natural talents really, see below) together so he can utilise us better.

Before I proceed, if you know me well enough, I am mightily curious what you perceived as my top five strengths? If it's not too much trouble, kindly inform me through your preferred communication mean: comment, private message, verbal face to face, et cetera. All welcome and much much MUCH appreciated.

Please do that before you continue, at least write them down first so you don't get influenced by the following content.

Okay, I think this is a good time to clarify some terms based on Strengths Finder (which really helps us find our talents, to be develop into strengths). =)

Talent = core personality trait, a natural way of thinking, feeling, or behaving

Investment = time spent practicing, developing your skills, and building your knowledge base

Strength = Talent x Investment. The ability to consistently provide near-perfect performance

Example, on a scale of 1 to 5:

Person 1 - born with gene to have large biceps (talent = 5), but does not exercise those muscles regularly (investment = 1), the biceps size (strength) would be 5 x 1 = 5

Person 2 - born with gene to have medium biceps (talent = 2), exercises and workout regularly (investment = 5), the biceps size (strength) would be 2 x 5 = 10

Person 3 - born with gene to have large biceps (talent = 5), exercises and workout regularly (investment = 5), the biceps size (strength) would be 5 x 5 = 25, huge indeed!

That's the idea behind Strengths Finder, to identify our talents and develop them into strengths. Literally playing to our strength, for that's where we can truly shine.

Alrighty...

If I had to come up with my top five talents/strengths based on self-perception, these are what I think they are:
- attention to details
- analytical
- discipline
- responsible
- perseverance

Since this entry is long enough as it is, think I will stop here and share the Strengths Finder results in another entry. This will give me some time to digest the results and get over my shock and denial. =P

Please do tell me what you perceived as my top five strengths, thank you!

Run Log (June & July 2014)

21 June 2014, Saturday.

Slightly more than a month later than I initially planned, but I finally got my lazy arse out and started my training again for this year's Penang Bridge International Marathon. slacker point +1

Given the last run in December, I went out thinking I would kaput after 2km, and was pleasantly surprised I managed 4.03km nonstop in 32 minutes.

Did a variation of the Straits Quay route, basically I skipped the main road part and only ran from Island Plaza onwards, towards Straits Quay, turned back at Tesco, and stopped at Island Plaza.

Have to rebuild my endurance first, then maybe I will think about improving my speed. =)

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29 June 2014, Sunday.

Initially planned to run at least once in the weekday, but the haze situation was horrible so that didn't happen.

Had to drop my running plan yesterday as wifey suddenly decided to eat out, oh well.

So I went running today instead, it has been gloomy the whole day with occasional rain, and of course it had to rain rather heavily while I was running. Bummer.

At least it didn't last long so I wasn't too wet.

Did the Straits Quay route, not sure if Nike+ went bonkers last week or this week, there seemed to be a variation of about 500m between last run and this.

Meh, it says I ran 4.52km in 33 minutes. Ended not as strong as I like, but not too bad either.

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15 July 2014, Tuesday.

Didn't run for two weeks since the last run, like to blame the haze but it's probably because of laziness. =P

Did the Straits Quay route today, stopped after 3.58km, took me 26 minutes to run that distance.

Didn't really have a distance planned but thought I could at least do 4km. Ended weak today, really need to be more disciplined about this.

On a somewhat related note, it's worrying that I no longer have a waist but the beginning of a spare tyre, the abdominal muscles have decided to show their unity. All for one and one for all!

>_<

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26 July 2014, Saturday.

Haze situation has been really bad. The heavy downpour yesterday night cleared it off somewhat, while still not the clean and clear air, it's a lot better comparing to the last two weeks.

So I when running, the Straits Quay's route.

Went out with the intention to disregard speed today and to only focus on distance. In fact, instead of my usual counting steps mantra, I repeated "get the distance" over and over today.

But I only did 4.29km, and that took me 29 minutes according to Nike+. I am not sure if Nike+ app was working correctly, or perhaps it was the GPS, I seriously don't think I ran that fast.

Ended okay, but lost the determination to run more after one lap. Oh well.

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In this series: |May 2013| |June 2013| |Duracell bunny, not| |Hazy dazy| |July 2013| |August 2013| |September 2013| |October to December 2013|