Blog Posts on life stories

How To Build A Team by The Freudian Slip on May 26, 2012I am always asked whenever I am invited to speak in a leadership training or seminar how does one make a group cohesive. Team-building is always a tricky and tedious process and one which does not happen in a day or two. Of course, team-building exer...

Me As A Monster Based On My Facebook Profile by The Freudian Slip on May 17, 2012Infographics are fun to do and there is a particular website that can actually help you create infographics. Infographics is a fun way of showing information. It converts your text info to a more appealing and sometimes easy to understand picture or...

Why stay? by You Want to Be Rich on Apr 14, 2012A chance encounter. I talked to someone today and was surprised to find out she is a lawyer in Germany. But like most professionals in Canada, who face the bar of credential recognition and what it stands for – further studies, time and expense –...

Finding your inner fashion by You Want to Be Rich on Apr 9, 2012Seeing with the mind’s eye gowns of the most beautiful fabric – and doodling and spinning outrageous stories – were my favorite pastimes when I was a young girl. I would draw upon pages – reams – of paper, that I was sure I would be a fashi...

Interesting Infographics Comparing Eastern and Western Medicine by You Want to Be Rich on Feb 12, 2012Last year, when we were still going to Dr. Tan Ci Shou, renowned practitioner of Eastern medicine, I wrote a post on East versus West: Alternative Medicine. In our story, the West ultimately won, and hubby underwent pacemaker implantation.  But hone...

Lessons from a Portuguese Woman by You Want to Be Rich on Feb 1, 2012She was in coveralls, smudged by soot from head to toe. She had been cleaning the fireplace of one of the apartment she owns.  She did not look the part at that time – but I was looking at one of the more financially savvy immigrant septuagenarian...

Within the Wealth Circle by You Want to Be Rich on Jan 14, 2012In October 2011, Bo Sanchez launched another initiative aimed at helping those financially motivated to become wealthier, and he called it Wealth Circle. Of course I could not resist being part of it.  Turned out, not everyone could get in because t...

Life Summed Up in Boxes by You Want to Be Rich on Jan 8, 2012How could we accumulate so much in just a few years? I asked myself this as I was surrounded by boxes, and choices. What should I give up?  I wore this during our anniversary, and this during that party, and this was given to me by a favorite friend...

New Year, New Life by You Want to Be Rich on Jan 4, 2012  Literally.  Because we took it a notch.  Er, notches. Family and I – we just moved to Canada.  A country an ocean away, separated from us by 13 hours of flight time. A country of rugged beauty, incessant rains, warm winters (8 degrees is...

The Best of 2011 by The Freudian Slip on Dec 28, 20112011 is a year of firsts. Allow me to recall the many personal highlights of 2011 which for me will become one of those memorable years. 1) Working on a cruise ship - I began working aboard the Voyager of the Seas last December 2010 and the entire...