If you’re going to do anything interesting in the world, criticism is an unavoidable fact. You’ll be criticized, because you’ll make mistakes, because some will be jealous, because people have opinions about anything interesting, because people want to help you, because some want to drag down those doing anything different.
Relationship Lessons from the Longest Study on Happiness
What keeps us happy and healthy as we go through life? In this TED Talk, Psychiatrist Robert Waldinger, 4th director of the longest study on Happiness (it started in 1938 and is still ongoing!) talks about 3 major lessons they learned from the 10,000 information points they have gathered all those years. About 60 of … Continue reading Relationship Lessons from the Longest Study on Happiness
The Husband’s Manifesto
I wrote The Boyfriend's Manifesto some years back. This is its followup. It took some time to write this because I honestly felt I'm not an expert at being a husband. A lot of people have been at this longer and have gone through much more. But I also can't deny that I've learned several … Continue reading The Husband’s Manifesto
Chora Makra: A Contemplation on Emptiness
Those translations do not capture the beauty of the original Greek. In the Greek version, the distant country/ the malayong lupain is Chora Makra. Chora Makra means the ‘the Great Emptiness’. The son did not just go to a ‘distant country’, he went to a place of seeming no return. We have a similar word in Filipino to describe someone who has separated himself from the rest of the world and acts as if he has nothing to lose: NAGWALA. Nagwala ang anak.
Of Changes and Rebirth
I have been born and reborn in so many ways the past years that sometimes, I look at myself and realise I do not recognise this person anymore. If you asked me in 2000, if I knew in 20 years that I would be in Singapore, with my wife and 2 kids, I’d laugh at … Continue reading Of Changes and Rebirth
PrayersWrappedInQuotes 2020 Edition
Last month I ran a marathon. I prepared for it a whole year because I knew it was going to be difficult for me. I’m not a marathon guy. I was not even a runner back in High School or University, nor an athlete. Before this, the longest I ran was 21k in a half-marathon last … Continue reading PrayersWrappedInQuotes 2020 Edition
Lessons from Running a Marathon
So I ran the #StandardCharteredMarathon2019 (#SCSM2019) last weekend. It’s one of the activities you do to stay healthy, challenge yourself, and maintain integrity. What lessons did I learn when I ran the marathon? 1. Find your pace. This is actually one of the first lessons I learned when I started running c/o my coach. You have to find your … Continue reading Lessons from Running a Marathon
#i’llridewithyou
In the hours that followed the Sydney siege this week, Rachael Jacobs spotted a Muslim woman on the train who was quietly removing her veil or hijab. On her facebook page she wrote, "I ran after her at the train station. I said 'put it back on. I'll walk with u'. She started to cry … Continue reading #i’llridewithyou
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