sun的联想

the sun rises, the sun sets. indeed, often we may forget abt the (many) “sun” is there. this probably reflects the busyness of our lives day in day out.

(original creator unknown)

经常说,“静下来……”,静下来听一听、静下来看一看、静下来想一想,静 appears to be forgotten too in our busyness. but 静一静 allows us to open up another perspective – the ‘pause/slower’ lens – to our lives. life is short and very critically, 无常。 在无常世界中,静让我们把握那一刻,更清晰地思考 (esp. matter that feels important but not thought through in all busyness).

找回静,让静和太阳陪伴在一呼一吸之中。

话说回来,太阳一出会发生什么事呢?(: #random

not a drama review

recently watched the JTBC legal drama “Law School” cos i was told there’s certain similarity with me and prof. yang 🤔

Upcoming JTBC Legal Drama “Law School” Unveils The Characters’ Cool Charisma In Main Poster
(source: https://www.soompi.com/article/1458493wpp/upcoming-jtbc-legal-drama-law-school-unveils-the-characters-cool-charisma-in-main-poster)

a good 16-episode K-drama with unexpected twists in between episodes, although some viewers may also ask is this a CSI drama or law school drama. after finishing the series, i think intellectually and charismatically i’m no match for prof yang. so seeing even a hint of ‘prof yang’ in me is really a compliment hahaha 😆

once upon a lunch break

“why did mr zuri make us present 3 times this morning?” asked bruce.

“yah lor, i thought just one time during physics class is enough. after-all we are showcasing our understanding of connecting sciences right,” said dick.

“mr zuri says our project combined knowledge from physics, chemistry and biology. therefore we need to present three times,” fumed selina.

“heng ah we only combined 3 subjects! if we were to include history, music and language arts, that means we need to present 6 times!” exclaimed bruce.

“let’s be clever next time, we’ll just combine two subjects!” giggled selina.

“steady lah!”

“set.”

… and the bell rang and lunch break’s over at gotham city holy trinity school.

“Children eating food” by maliraza is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

on branding …

it’s always good to step out our (limited) context and learn from beyond. the zoom webinar video “Are You Building a Brand or a Bland?” has 3 expert-practitioners in the field sharing their experiences.

and some ideas that caught my attention:

  • “a brand is important becos it builds long last relationship with your customers … and also employees”
  • brand is a sum of perception”
  • Richie’s strategy to building brands from 0:30:53-0:33:24
  • [0:37:29] “we want people to realise that the power of change is actually in their hands and that’s really kind of emotional and inspiring thing”
  • [0:44:26] “how did you end up where you are today(, Richie)?” … “…by mistakes”

of cos, a next/related question could be “what is/are the relationship(s) between the phenomenon of branding and the phenomenon of teaching CL?” (:

on writing …

was watching an episode of NIE Education Launchpad (thanks rab for introducing this newly launched site to me), and this was what Dr. Anitha Devi Pillai said in chapter 3:


“Every single writer I know, has this mantra. It’s mine too. Write and revise. Write and revise. Revision is such an important part of writing. You never get it right in the first draft you know. It is a draft. It’s just a draft. You write, you think about it, walk away from the text, come back to it, revise it.”