Saturday, January 15, 2011

I'm back

I read an article posted on "The Star" titled "Go East, Young Man" today. It inspired me a lot, the context is about current situation of world economy, which describing the shifting of economy dominance from west to east. I can't agree more than what he wrote. My gut tells me he must have been sharing more than this in the past. Then I found another article titled "Up close and personal with Tan Sri Lin See-Yan" about his personal life. The interesting part is he trained himself to sleep 3 to 4 hours and to spend same amount of time finish a book!!! Some of his quotes drew my attention:

“One of my best experiences is dealing with housewives. There was a run on sugar and these housewives were hoarding them. I had to explain why they don’t have to. But the moment they left, they went off to buy more sugar. We do not understand the mentality of the people and the effect our policies have on them. This is my biggest criticism of government today. They never consult those their policies would most effect. We tend to take people for granted.”

Doesn't seems like our government aware of this. Fuel price is still hiking in multiple periods.

“Just having an interest is not enough. Interest dies after a while. So in all that we do, there must be passion and confidence in your ability and discipline.

Yeah, this is the good one. I think procrastination drives me away from my passion and consistency in achieving things.

“Now that I have the time, they don’t. That’s what economics taught me. You live within constraints, or you will be a complainer all the time. It is a choice you make or a choice made for you. You can always quit and do something else.”

It's time for me to make a change now!