Introduction

To my son and daughter,
Life is so unpredictable that I do not know how long I can be with you to guide you along in your Life. As a father, I hope I will be there to advice you when you faces the challenges in Life that we all must go through. This blog holds my philosophy in Life shaped through my on experiences. You have just started your own journey which I am sure will be a great one. I hope to leave you a little gift to help you along when I am no longer around.

Friday, March 12, 2010

Quotable Quotes: "Businessmen, do more good by creating jobs and wealth through investment, 'not by being Santa Claus" - Carlos Slim on charity

Carlos Slim, the Mexican tycoon who in 2009 became the richest man in the world overtaking Bill Gates, US with USD53.5b fortune.

Interesting to hear this from somebody who through his 2 foundations, has invested some US$10 billion in health, education, justice and sports projects in Mexico and Latin America. This reminds of an old Chinese proverbs that says “Give a man a fish and you fee him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”

Quotatable Quotes: "The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge" - Bertrand Russell

I can’t remember already how I was introduced to this great author whose words helped shaped my life over the course of the last 20 over years. This quote has somewhat became my motto in life.

Monday, March 1, 2010

Fengshui & Christianity

What is the link between Fengshui & Christianity?

Had a very interesting conversation with a Christian colleague the other day on the topic of Fengshui. So happen that our company, an international firm is to move our office to a location next month and our top management had engaged a fengshui master to ensure that we had the right seating arrangement to ensure “prosperity” for the firm!

This colleague friend of mine made a very interesting comment that “only people who have no confidence had to rely on the “unknown” for faith”. I would not fault her on this statement as the effectiveness of fengshui cannot be proven with our knowledge of science. However, I couldn’t help wondering why as a Christian she herself so willingly put her faith in a “belief” that also cannot be proven by science! In fact, my understanding has been that science has repeatedly contradicted some of the facts regarding their beliefs.