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Since quitting my last
full-time job from Awana Genting Highlands in Jan 2001, I
have been keeping myself very busy getting involved with friends in
businesses here and there. On a free-lance basis, I
continue to go back to Genting Highlands to help conduct
some training programs. I also maintain a busy schedule for
exercises playing tennis during weekdays and golf on weekends. Mentally, I
am sharp
and alert, physically, I think I am healthier than the days
in Awana Genting Highlands.
Astonishingly, I begin
to find life more pleasurable than the days when work
dictated everything. Truly, the sense of freedom is the
biggest thing that I am enjoying right now. No doubt, I
still work, but I treat work as a hobby or a pastime. I continue to enjoy meeting people in work,
conducting training, reading and researching on subjects
that I enjoy doing etc, but strangely, it is the feeling
of being free to manage my own time that is probably
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(pic above: photo taken in one of the Bangkok
temples) |
I enjoy training, something I
was trained for from young and have the knack for it somehow. I
enjoy exchanging of thoughts, probing issues, sharing knowledge
and experience with participants of my training programs and
friends. I take challenges, handle difficult situations, analyze
issues and learn new skills and knowledge. If I had been on a
full-time job like before, such involvement would have given me
tremendous stress because I am the kind of person who would not
relax or take leave unless I have got all the work done. But work is
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Friends who have not met me
for long time expressed surprise when they saw me, commented
that I have not aged. I guess there is some truth in the comment
as many of my friends made the same remark. But hey, I am only doing
the very ordinary things that most people do, nothing very
different. If indeed I have done something right that has helped
me retain that 'healthy' look, it could have been the
simple lifestyle that I live that has contributed to the look, I
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picture above: participants of my KT workshop |
Friends are important in life.
Researches have shown that those who socialize more in fact live
longer, and happier than those who rarely socialize. Over the
years, I have indeed discovered this truth and have thus
conscientiously made new friends. A personal blog was created to
network with friends, I also maintain constant contact with
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My interests in training has
inspired me into doing more reading and researching in fields
that are of relevance to my training. The life experience that I
have gone through continues to contribute to program
development. Besides Kepner Tregoe's workshop on 'problem
solving and decision making', I have also developed two other
training programs:
1) Retirement Preparation; 2) Stress
Management. I am offering such programs to companies which may
find them useful to their employees.
But interests are many, whilst
training nourishes my mind, golf and tennis nourish my body. I
also enjoy travel and reading, which often give me new
vibrations to help shape my thought in philosophy.
In the coming months, I plan
to research into Feng Shui, the knowledge which has profoundly
influenced the decisions of many great entrepreneurs,
architectural designers, scholars, politicians etc.. The itch
for this new knowledge came recently and I am quite sure I am
going to enjoy this new pursuit of mine.
I shall continue to update
this website and hope to improve its content in the process. I
offer to share some of my life experiences to all my friends
and I shall be most delighted if I can get comments and feedback
from time to time.
(pic above: With son Shin in
Germany)
Cheers.
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