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Can it ever be too late to change your career?

by nsoonhui | Jan 11, 2020 | Announcements, Book Review

If you are rapidly approaching 40 ( like me) and you feel that your career is heading towards a dead valley and you wonder whether you can still start another one, read this book. If you feel that 10 year old your kid is slow in picking piano and he has no hope of...

When ( not why) bad things happen to good people

by nsoonhui | Oct 5, 2019 | Announcements, Book Review

Since young, we are often taught that we need to do good, because God/divine nature/karma will punish those who don’t. And what goes around comes around, you reap what you sow. But in real life, things are always a little messy. Since when the good guy finishes...

Deep Work– a review

by nsoonhui | May 18, 2019 | Announcements, Book Review

How long can you concentrate? According to a research, an average human being can only hold the attention for up to 8 seconds in 2013, even shorter than a goldfish. With this kind of attention span, it’s very hard to get any creative work done. So that’s...

Tiger Mom as I have experienced it

by nsoonhui | May 6, 2019 | Announcements, Book Review, Uncategorized

As a father to two kids ( 2.5 years old and half year old), I read the book “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom” will great interest. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, by Amy Chua This is a perfectly controversial book with very polarizing opinions on both sides....

特别狠心特别爱–犹太虎妈的教育

by nsoonhui | Apr 20, 2019 | Announcements, Book Review

身为两个女儿的爸爸，读完了犹太裔女子沙拉的两本书，《特别狠心特别爱》和《特别狠心特别爱2：赢在家风》，心中的感动久久散之不去。特别狠心特别爱特别狠心特别爱2 对沙拉来说，要怎么教育孩子呢? 第一：延迟满足身处在这个丰衣足食的时代，很多孩子都被宠坏惯了。相对于我们父辈的那一带，现代人的物质生活无疑丰富许多：只有额外超胖的孩子，没有挨饿的孩子；在城市里，几乎也不存在着没钱买不起新衣的家庭。做父母的更是省吃俭用，要给孩子最好的。君不见小学生也几乎每人智能手机一架。...

The Sarawak Report take on 1MDB story

by nsoonhui | Oct 27, 2018 | Announcements, Book Review

Tom Wright and Bradley Hope from Wall Street Journal are not the only ones who have ample to say about 1MDB giga-scandal. Clare Rewcastle Brown of Sarawak Report also has her angle, and she says it all in her book, The Sarawak Report: The Inside Story of the...