Question for Today: The Best Time in My Life?

I told you guys I would post something about my transforming experience from Google Reader to Flipboard + Instapaper in my last blog, well, before that, I would just answer a question flashing over my head  two minutes ago when I just finished doing my laundry(it was raining cats and dogs in the afternoon, so...long story), anyway, here it is:

• What is the Best Time in My Life?

Ummm, I enjoy spending every seconds with my parents, hanging out with my girlfriend, reading books or Google Reader now Flipboard + Instapaper, while above are all just 'behaviors', what I am really asking myself is 'What was the specific Time Slots/Duration I enjoyed living in the most?', the answer did not take me a lot of time to think through: July to September, 2011, right, when I was in India. Let me just make it straightforward:

• I had a well paid job, which can afford me to rent a bunk in the urban area, buy groceries(lots if junk food), have dinner with friends in some 'luxury' restaurants(compared with you-know-what-I-am-referring-to restaurants in India) from time to time, travel every week or bimonthly with redundant money for souvenirs(Kamasutra, my favourite one, for example).

• I got an awesome roommate, Max, who is tri-lingeual (regret now only learnt some lame dancing move from him, instead of some provocative French(which I am learning by myself right now from apps) or German(which I really have some interest but don't know how to start) ), and also a open mind 'white trash' addicted to Chinese culture and business a little(I still owe him a internship, and don't know how to make up since I am in Singapore right now), most worth mentioning is, I really learnt a lot of great personalities and codes of conduct for reference.Miss his smile (in straight way).

• Got to know lots of multi-cultural friends, who inculcated me with impressive 'Alcohol' and 'Bar' cultures.

• Got a lot of chances going to dozens of awesome places, although got a little tired by endless travel agenda, so started enjoying reading alone sometimes in the end of those few days.

• Tried some great food, while almost always order the same 'safe' thing.

OK, that's pretty much I can explain why that was my best time so far, then I realize now what make me a happier person:

1. Being economically independence.
2. A roommate who can  curse in different languages. 
3. Friends from different backgrounds.
4. Alcohol and pop(Punjabi) Dancing. (I dont want to show off  as a drinker, I was lame actually, Cola usually took over 75 percent of my glass).
5. Travel, only when in good condition and when that place was really interesting, otherwise, I prefer spend my time sitting in sofa with books and chips.
6. Food, don't be too spicy and don't look strange please.

You see, that's also a way to discover myself, now I understand myself better, try it out by yourself, see what you really like in your life.

To be continued, next blog will be Google Reader and Flipboard + Instapaper, I promise, unless there is some strange idea strikes again.

And I got a 25 free space from Dropbox, would like to talk about this promotion in the future blogs since I am quite curious how much does 1GB space cost in the server side...

A Flash of Idea about Blogging

I used to get a little pissed off (or, jealous in girlish language) when I saw some cool daddies recording their babies crawling on the floor, laughing or even farting (whatever a baby does, it seems Qute..) by their cameras.

'Where was my father then? Couldn't he just sacrifice a little bit, buy himself a  may-be fancy but totally worth-it video camera to record his own cute baby crawling and farting?!', lucky you little bombardiers, especially nowadays you can use your smart phone to shoot almost every scenes of the baby, it's just unfair ok? I was even cuter when I was a baby, but instead of some precious tapes, what I can get right now is just some faded pictures.

Ok, that's just a trick to throw out a minnow to catch a whale, you really think I will be jealous of those babies?Well, maybe a little...

Then I asked myself, 'Ricky, what have you done to leave the 30-years-older-you something to laugh your ass off since you were able to take notes by your own?' This tricky question really triggered my mind to call up 'what I have done these years to record my own life'? Well, here it is:

• I have a Picasa account, which including dozen's G's of pictures.
• I have some social network accounts where I put some lame posts all the time.
• I have a Blog, yes, the one I am writing in right now, which sometimes I may forget the password...

Then I found out that, a farting baby video will be much more fun by several orders of magnitude, such a genuinely tragic sort of story.

We are nothing but creatures crawling on the earthy, trying to discover ourselves and understand the world, we are all like babies,  more or less, trying to learn things everyday, trying to crawling as much as possible in order to stand up one day. 

I cannot stand the fact that I am losing my memories and my own path of the time I am living in right now any more. So, here is my #list#(I just want to finish this blog as soon as possible, I have tons of homework, that's true),

• Blog at least once a week in the rest of my life, try hard to think about what I have done this week, what I have learnt this week, whose personality impresses me this week. etc.
• Stay away from social networks, except for marketing understanding.
• Don't let any articles stay in my Instapaper over three days, finish reading it before you forget why you saved it.
• Reading one book in one time, don't try to be a multi-task hero, you are not!!
• learn things scientifically! You know what I mean, Ricky.
• In the following year, I want to be more expert in Web Design, IOS development, Excel, that's all.
• Be more professional in an English speaking working environment, practice more in Email and phone talking slills.

TO BE CONTINUED....My next blog will be why I am transforming my reading tool from Google Reader to Flipboard, and I will cover my user experience on Prezi, my understanding of 'Business Model Canvas', my learning process of 'Be a better Email-er' and 'A better phone-talker' after that, hope I will not be overwhelming at that time.

It's Not Just Food

Imagine hundreds of millions of people discussing one #topic# on Twitter, you may say it must be a heavyweight event like, ‘London Olympic’ or ‘Syria Chaos’, well, you need not to blame yourself, even the most powerful brainstorm cannot figure out the right answer - It’s just a TV show talking about, food. The 7-episode Chinese documentary, ‘A Bite of China’, surpasses all the other TV programs aired in prime time. The hit of the ‘food documentary’ even stirred up a boom in the online shopping industry: millions of orders generated as soon as a new food material emerged in the latest episode. "Drooling mouths, wet eyes!" such comments have been identified by the majority. But…why?

Instead of focusing only on the preparation process in the kitchen, the ‘Bite’ series offers a unique insight into the geographical, cultural and historical dimensions of people’s stories about their ‘experiences’ with food. There is no dramatical story or exaggerated expression, it simply originates from the cultural life through which people who are suffering with industralized fast food realize the relationship between human and nature.

Associated with China's recent PR campaign: investing heavily to produce a national advertisement to be broadcast in Times Square, New York, you may safely draw the conclusion that there is nothing more suitable than ‘food’ to deliver the civilization continuity of a nation as the comprehension of the relationship between food and people expresses the wisdom and taste aesthetic produced by Chinese laboring people through thousands of years. So when we want to put an answer to the mystery of this ‘Bite’ of success, we may just say: Well, it’s not just food.

A great E-Learning Module by NUS- how to make an attractive presentation

I am currently academically addicted to an E-Learning module offered by NUS, which gives a lot of really constructive tips to help you perform better in a presentation! Here is some notes I've learned and would like to share with you guys. Oh, right, I'd better post the link of the module first FYI: http://emodule.nus.edu.sg/presentation-skills/part1/.


1.Characteristics of an Effective presentation?
For me, it's Humorous+Easy to Understand+Right length+Visually attractive, the module also lists some great points like: Relaxing for speaker and audience+ Relevant to the audience and, Punctual, which has been left out for a long time.


2.Presentation Styles
2.1 Impromptu, for guys like Steve Jobs.
2.2 Memorised, for all the entertainers and celebrities.
2.3 Manuscript, for the CCP dumbs.
2.4 Extemporaneous, for folks like you and me.


3.Presentation Components 
In conclusion, a A+ presentation is to Structure the Contents in the right way with a number of Rhetorical devices.


4. Identify topic and objectives
Nothing new in this part.


5.Analyse your audience
Always be conscious about the motivation of the audiences, that means, why whey come here and what can the benefit from YOU.
Generally, what the audiences need is to GAIN knowledge and experience from a expert, and save time and energy,avoid failure and embarrassment, awkwardness, eventually, become happy and influential.


It's an interesting course, and get something urgent now, but will update this blog soon.