I had an epiphany while I was crouching in the jungle in the middle of the night. I don’t know why these flashes of inspiration always come to be at the most awkward times, like when I’m drenched by monsoon showers and covered in camouflage cream, but they just do. My epiphany was this: Maybe […]
So I stumbled upon this article earlier this week: I Want To Travel For The Rest of My Life – featuring travel bloggers who’ve managed to successfully accomplish a life of full time travelling. The benefits of a life of travel are pretty obvious (duh), as Sab from justonewayticket.com writes: Every day was a new
I’ve always had a problem with shoes: No pair of shoes lasts me for more than eight months. No, really. I’m a shoe-serial killer, and I strike fear into the hearts of shoes everywhere. Take this pair of work shoes I bought recently. I purchased them eight months ago because they were on sale (at
Just thought I’d drop a quick post to commemorate 1,000 subscribers to cheerfulegg! We’ve grown from a motley crew of 100 back in Feb this year to 1,000 today, in just 9 short months. If you’re not in the cool club yet, come join us at http://eepurl.com/v9vTz. Woot woot!
I used to think that dieting was for chumps. That was before I got way fatter than I expected (Damn you, mee goreng!) It really sucked to feel pudgy, so I embarked on my 4th LifeTest: To lose 5 kilograms. And after 13 long weeks, I’ve succeeded. I’ve gone from 70kg down to 65kg, and
So last week, I attended a talk by Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen, who shared this story: Back in the day, Christensen used to work with the Boston Consulting Group. Now as you know, consultants pretty much live and die by their presentations. Christensen’s team had a critical presentation to a client coming up on
So last week, I came across a picture of freelance writer/fitness blogger Maria Kang wearing a sports bra, baring her abs, kneeling behind her three children and under the caption of “What’s Your Excuse?” That picture got Maria way more attention than a she bargained for. Yahoo Shine reported that the photo went viral and racked up more
There are so many things to hate about traveling. Let’s start with the flight: You walk through Business Class, feeling incredibly jealous at the smug dudes holding their champagne and their copies of the Wall Street Journal. And then you pull back the curtain to Economy Class, and it’s like a war in there. People
I’m really embarrassed about this, but here goes: Hi, my name is Lionel and I’m terrible at Mandarin. No, really. I’ve had endless tuition sessions as a kid, I took my AO-level Chinese exam twice, but when people talk to me in Mandarin today, I still end up looking like this: So when the girlfriend
