#psychology

A few weeks back, I listened to a lovely, fairly short talk by academic Arthur Brooks on the worrying, baneful effects of social media and smartphones on young (and not so young) minds. Talking on a very

I was scrolling on Hive today and came across the account of this guy who used to clown and hate on smaller accounts on Hive, how was friends with another big whale that share the same attitude as him,

This will be a weekly Sunday hangout between friends, where everyone else is also invited to join in on the conversations. A Sunday party for Hive users to interact and just talk crap about whatever happens

Perhaps, it is time to purge and really start anew, to make room for something better. As I am writing this, I am also waiting my laptop to be completely purged so that it is ready to be sold. My old laptop

We are presently experiencing the highest connectivity in human history. The instant we press the button on our devices, we can share our ideas with millions of people, become part of worldwide communities,

kill my dreams is to ask too many people what they think about them. Not everyone can see the potential of what you are still building, because each person interprets your possibility from their own limits.

Leaving Undeparted The leaves of trees, they come and go, Arrive in Spring and then fall away. In between the whitened ends of years, They bring fresh hopes that will not stay. Rains will fall and winds

There was a lot of renovation going on at Danny's restaurant last week, causing me a lot of stress. Which is fine, predictable. It got me back to one of my all time favorite albums, "The Dream is

I never met my grandfather on my father's side, as he died well before I was born. However, back in Malaysia he worked as a postmaster, a post office manager in their Malaccan town, and during Japanese

The question of life's meaning accompanies us from the moment we become self-aware. It does not appear all at once, nor is it solved by a formula; rather, it weaves through our days, hides in small gestures,

We Talk Friday (WTF) This is a semi-regular series that I will run on Fridays to hold discussions on a current topic from the week gone. The aim is to keep them light and conversational, though some might

Some of the biggest life lessons will always revolve around money and health, and I think this is because health and money are two biggest definitive factors that contributes to how well a person can live

It is worth paying attention... Sometimes you know something isn't right in a relationship long before “something” happens. Not because there is an exact rule that says yes up to here and no from here.

In the last month, I did a lot of changes within the company administration. I worked on my excel files in a way that allows the administrator to save 5h per week. Yes, it's that much. I was amazed. Especially

For my birthday I got tickets to see Jimmy Carr perform his latest stand-up routine. Carr's style and humour is not to everyone's taste, since he tends to do a lot of one-liner comedy, but it is incredibly

I've been getting a comment from a particular account on my Hive posts, and most of the time I just tend to ignore the comments, and even though I get to ignore the comments it still didn't stop the person

I have a meeting this morning in the city and sitting in an almost empty café in a shopping centre, waiting. While I have been here, there have been several app delivery people come and go, picking up

Working with my brain than against it. It has been a while since I have been a nocturnal. By the time the clock hits 11 PM, I am usually too tired to even open my laptop. These past two days have been

Motivation and inspiration are two things that people find difficult to achieve, but ironically it's something that people who are very creative finds very easy. For example, inspiration is the idea to

Do you trust yourself? It seems like such a silly question, doesn't it? Why wouldn't you trust yourself when we each believe that we are the ones who no ourselves the best. Yet consistently, we are found