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alvlim1982
Real Name: Alvin Lim
Member Since: 2nd April 2009
A simple guy who loves to dream big and has a lot of passions (technology, anime, manga, drawing, digital art, reading, etc).
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Malaysians habit of attending wedding dinner late
Ok, this is a rant post. I’ve been attending a lot of wedding dinners lately. And all of them started late. The time stated was 7pm, and I am always on time. But the actual dinner would not start until 8pm…and my record was 10pm !! Why? Because most of the guests would only arrive [...]
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3 months ago.
Nobody is too stupid to do something
Came across an article by Seth Godin the other day. It’s a very good one. He said that in this world, there is nobody who is too stupid to do something. It’s just a lame excuse for laziness. And I agree! Some of us always say things like “I’m too stupid to learn how to [...]
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3 months and a week ago.
Want to reject an offer? Do it nicely
There are times when we’ve been offered jobs that we don’t really like. Or, sometimes, there are better job offers out there. So we’ll have to figure out a way to reject these offers. This also applies to job interviews. If you are not interested in taking up the offer or attending the...
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4 months ago.
On petty companies and their verbal threats
This blog used to be a job and career blog. Well, it still is, at times. As I was reading back some of the older comments, I realized that there are actually quite a number of small companies which resort to scare tactics. Heck, even some medium-sized companies do that. I was a victim too. [...]
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4 months and a week ago.
Spoon-feeding mentality
It’s been 7 or 8 years since I started working. During my junior days, I have worked under quite a number of seniors and I was fortunate enough that most of them were very good seniors. If there are things I don’t know or don’t understand, they would point me to the right direction.
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5 months ago.
Everyone can make a difference, not just Steve Jobs
The recent resignation of Steve Jobs did not come as a surprise to most people. Hate him or love him, you cannot deny the amount of contributions he has made towards our world. iPhone, Mac, iPad, iPod, iCloud, Pixar….. there are just so many things that he invented that have changed our life. Yes, he...
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5 months ago.
Counter-offer, to take or not to take?
Sometimes when we resigned from our job, our bosses will try to counter-offer us. They will try to match the salary that you will get in the new job. But the question here is – should you take the counter-offer, or should you leave the job like what you’ve planned? It depends on your reason [...]
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5 months and 2 weeks ago.
Always try to be on the other side
Some people love to assume. They assume that the products they come out with will appeal to their target customers. They assume they can fully understand the pain and sufferings experienced by the less fortunate people. They assume other people’s work is simple and theirs is not. They assume the...
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5 months and 3 weeks ago.
Good health is the most asset in the world
Recently, I realized that no matter how ambitious or how many big dreams you have, it doesn’t matter if you don’t have a good and healthy body. I have so many things in my TODO list. I even took 1 day off last week to try and finish something off. But I didn’t. My neck [...]
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5 months and 4 weeks ago.
Respect others who are in worse condition as you are
People love to complain and people tend not to appreciate the things they have until it’s gone. These 2 traits of ours are very damaging and yet they exist in more than 50% of the general population. But what most people don’t do, is to try to look at things from another perspective. When we [...]
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6 months and 2 weeks ago.
Indecisiveness
There are a lot of indecisive people in this world, myself included. But there will be times when being indecisive is not really a good option. It could be opportunities that only come once…. or it could be a final chance given by a loved one. If at that critical moment in time, you are [...]
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7 months and a week ago.
Chasing after the trend
Few months ago, Apple launched its famous iPad 2 in Asia. Thousands of people queued up overnight in order to get their hands (first!) on the cool, slick and fun iPad 2. But while this device is without a doubt a very cool and fun device, it has also become the device which shows to [...]
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7 months and 2 weeks ago.
Support from family and friends is very important in life
No matter how much one tries to be independent, one can never live alone without family and friends. This applies to everyone from a genius like Einstein to an ordinary person with an ordinary 9-5 job. And this is particularly important when one is trying to embark on something, big and small. It could be...
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7 months and 3 weeks ago.
Be honest during interview
A close friend of mine recently left his job after 3 months. He has valid reasons for leaving. He told me about those reasons and I personally feel those are pretty good reasons. Yet, he decided to remain as secretive as possible since he did not want people to ask. I find this to be [...]
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8 months and a week ago.
Don’t just say what you want, you need to work for it
When you ask someone what do they want to be, or what do they want to do….you tend to get a wide range of answers ranging from “I want to be rich” to “I want to change job!” But when you check with the same person again 6 months down the road, more than 50% [...]
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8 months and 3 weeks ago.
Your new year resolutions should be like KPI
If you’re working for someone else, you most likely have a predefined KPI list, agreed by both your boss and yourself. In case you’re not sure, KPI is sort of like a goal which you need to fulfill in order to evaluate your overall performance. So if you managed to hit all KPIs, your performance...
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8 months and 4 weeks ago.
Can’t get out from a job?
An article on how to try and get unstuck from a job that you hate.
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9 months and a week ago.
Act, don’t just talk
Most people have dreams and love to talk about them. But how many of them actually act on those dreams? Or in other words, how many actually take the initiatives to work towards those goals? Not many. It’s definitely easier to talk all we want….about how big our dreams are and how close we are...
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9 months and 2 weeks ago.
Don’t limit yourself when looking for job
Everyone wants to get a dream job which pays well, has good benefits, good working environment, located in a good and convenient location, etc. Ideally…yea, those are the things that we tend to look at whenever we want to apply for a job. Freedom of choice right? We, the job applicants, have the...
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9 months and 3 weeks ago.
We are really nothing at all
A lot of us want to be someone special in this world, but the fact is, we are really nothing at all.
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10 months and 2 weeks ago.
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