I have faced rejections countless times throughout my life. Eg, the time I was rejected from being a main player in my school’s basketball team and was assigned to be a reserve player or the time I was rejected in a job application at a “dream” company and many more…

Ever since I was young, I always thought that the “right path” to leading a “stable and financially secure” life is to study hard in school, graduate from a good university and find a good job that pays well. However, after witnessing a personal event in early 2022, watching some…

It’s easy to set a goal and then find myself losing motivation and passion for it a few weeks later. This has happened to me for a few times. For example, there was a time I set a goal for myself to pick up crocheting 🧶. I went online to…

This year, Chinese New Year falls on the 1st February. Here is an early post. Happy Chinese New Year of the Tiger! According to the Chinese tradition, every new year is represented by a zodiac animal. There are a total of twelve zodiac animals, as seen in the diagram below. The Rat is the first animal followed…

One day during my one week break from work, I felt really restless at home and I googled online “How do people become rich?”. This Google search led me to a few YouTube videos and eventually I discovered this book through an online forum where someone commented that this book…

When you arrive, trees shed leaves of joy. They have been anticipating your arrival for months. Now, they can finally peel their adornments off and get rid of all the leaves that have been weighing them down for the past year. …

Very often, I struggle to pick the right words off the vocabulary buffet table to explain my thoughts or ideas. Most times, I end up with a plate of words, messily stringed together, that does little to persuade my listeners of my viewpoint. This weekend, I spent a few hours…

Even though the name of my Medium account is “LiveRunGrow”, I have actually never published anything related to running. Unknown to many, Running is actually one of my biggest hobby to date. And today’s article will be all about running and my thoughts on it. (1) My running “history” I have been running on…

Inspired by a tech talk given at work — Recently, one of my colleague at work gave a presentation about creating chrome extensions. Although I have used many Chrome extensions before, I have never tried making one myself. …