Life At Slow-Mo

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Month: January 2011

  • The Artist

    I sometimes watch “Miami Ink” or “LA Ink” on TLC. Although I don’t have tattoos, I cannot help admiring the artists’ skills. They are capable of creating not just a simple black and white tattoos, like the ones you can get cheaply on the beach, but a true work of…

  • When In Doubt

    “To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.” Stanislaw Leszczynski Selected Polish king 1704-1709, 1733-1734 (1677 – 1766) We always have doubt when we first travel to a strange place. I remember the first time me and several friends going to a certain destination in Bandung relying entirely on…

  • How To Handle Rumors

    What would you do if you heard that a rumour about you has been spreading? What would you do if you heard that 100 people have heard the rumor? What if 1.000 people heard it? 1.000.000 people? 10.000.000 people? A continent’s worth of people? Just recently a rumor has been…

  • To Know or Not To Know Your Passion

    For the past months my wife followed the Masterchef US on Star World, and I tagged along whenever I wasn’t too busy with something else. It was a reality show about a group of amateur cooks competing for the title “Masterchef.” It was a wow-ing show for us because it…

  • Beautiful Place of Work

    During one of today’s sessions in our management meeting, we discussed how difficult it was to find the right candidate for a job opening. Some vacancy gets a mob of applicants, while some others attract nobody. But at the end of the day, both kind of vacancies return the same…