Failure, Criticism and Rejection...No Fear!

Just read a typical career related article today...but I think there's something in here that is quite applicable in both professional and personal life for me to remember.


Here's the essence:

Fear is the enemy of self-confidence and success and it often shows itself as procrastination. Most people fear failure, criticism and rejection and it’s only normal as we all want to feel good about ourselves.
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It’s sad but true that failure, criticism and rejection are the feelings you must experience to become a personal and professional success, but by beating procrastination by facing your fears you will help yourself create the life and career you want and deserve.

Ref. to full article: Careers: Is Yours Being Damaged By Fear?

64.......I Remember.....

Although I was still a weeee tiny kiddo when the incident happened, but I can still remember the impact it had on the people in HK and I can still remember the march that I participated in....

I seldom do a political blog post, in fact this is probably my first. Nonetheless I think the "八x八"事件 (8 x8 Incident) is truly 'more than' deserving to be remembered by us and to be recorded in the history books! Today being the 20th anniversay of the event, I would like to commemorate the event by writing a blog post about it and sharing some related sites and articles:

• Hong Kong: SC group censored 64 special feature
  A very very very interesting article and discussion about how an article that talks about the "8x8" incident has been left out of publication. A very interesting read (contains both orig Chinese and English translation). It is indeed extremely sad to see such 'limitation of freedom' is still as strong as ever....20 years later...
• The official HK 6420 website @ here
• Unrelated, I just stumbled upon it while researching for the topic...list of words censored by Chinese govt @ here (interesting!)
  

I quote:

6月4日 凌晨2時許，大批戒嚴軍 隊包圍了天安門廣場，學生和民眾被趕到人民英雄紀念碑。當日早上和下午，軍隊繼續在城內向聚集的民 眾開鎗，傷亡人數無法估計。

Anatomy of Lego Minifig, Gummy Bear and Balloon Animal

As I only have time to do a mini post tonight, I went back to the look at the list of things I wanted to blog.....and here's something short and fun!

(According to my Delicious bookmark) So one day in mid Oct last year, I strike upon this article on Gizmodo. Yes the anatomy of Lego Minifig, Gummy Bear and Balloon Animal (doggie)! The original image can be found by looking at the comments left at the end of the article. But let me just say this is like a 'wow' (yet somewhat freaky) artwork! (hmm...I'll probably try not to think about this when I eat a gummy bear next time! : \)

The article is located here:
The Anatomy of a Lego Minifig Is as Fascinating as It Is Spooky

An Amazing Tunnel Light Show

Life (more correctly Work) has been super super busy over the last few weeks (and over the next few weeks too : ( )! So just haven't had the energy and time to unwind myself on the www... and hence my previous article on Spent (which was already a while back too)!!!

Anyway back in Feb., I read this Gizmodo article one day. If you haven't read / seen the video yet, I highly recommend it because it's just such an amazement!!! As the article said..."it's the cloest you'll ever get to Light Speed"!!! @.@ (Now I would really love to visit Washington D.C.!)

Tunnel with 40,000 LEDs Is the Closest You'll Ever Get to Light Speed

Enjoy! : )

2 Pieces of News on the wonderful world of computing!!!

To be honest, even though I am a software developer, I have to say I am still kind of ignorant about the history and the background to the industry. But I am trying to expand my knowledge (esp now that I'm working in the industry) hehe reading more news about the web, technology and the computing world.

In particular I came across 2 piece of news articles this week which definitely deserve to be mentioned in my blog!!!

News #1: Web inventor gets Queen's honour
In particular being a web developer how can I NOT KNOW about the person who invented the wonderful world of WWW!!!! : O (Otherwise I wouldn't even have a job right now!! hehe) Yeah...I'm ashamed of myself!!! ><" Admittedly thanks to Sir Tim Berners-Lee for inventing the web....yeah I was attracted by the 'dot com' hype during the 90s....and hence eventually studied the programming in varsity and working now as a web developer!!! So congratulations to Sir Tim Berners-Lee for receiving the Order of Merit!!! Yeah he deserves it!!!!! : ) See the CNN Article: Web inventor gets Queen's honour


News #2: 1 Billion PCs in use by end of 2008
So by 2008, the population of PCs in the world will reach a record of 1 billion!!! Although it has taken 27 years to reach 1 billion, but it is predicted that it will only take 5 years to reach the next billion!!!!! "Ging ah"!!! See the article 1 Billion PCs in use by end of 2008.

2007 Top 100 Most Influential People By Times

For those of you who don't know, each year the Time magazine list out the top 100 most influential people in each category of discipline. I happened to stumble up on the 2007 one while researching for my Toastie (toastmaster speech). So here's the results:

http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/time100/

Enjoy! : ) See if you agree or not!