Menu

Monday, April 30, 2018

5. Finding Mr. Right


I prefer someone average and kind, to someone smart and evil.

I prefer Batman to Joker. 

Someone who has emotional intelligence.
Someone who can handle difficult situation with ease.
Someone who can teach me life lessons.
Someone who can protect me from life thorns.
Someone who can stand up tall when I fall in desperation.

Someone who stays true and honourable, even when life seems so hard to handle. 

Someone whom I know for certain, that he will not conquer the world, nor go berserk at the world, just to make it a better place for him.

That kind of fame is really unnecessary.




Synopsis FOREWORD BY PATRICK LENCIONI, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE FIVE DYSFUNCTIONS OF A TEAM.

Emotional Intelligence 2.0 is a book with a single purpose—increasing your EQ. Here’s what people are saying about it:

Emotional Intelligence 2.0 succinctly explains how to deal with emotions creatively and employ our intelligence in a beneficial way.”
—THE DALAI LAMA

“A fast read with compelling anecdotes and good context in which to understand and improve.”
—NEWSWEEK

“Gives abundant, practical findings and insights with emphasis on how to develop EQ.”
—STEPHEN R. COVEY

“This book can drastically change the way you think about success…read it twice.”
—PATRICK LENCIONI

In today's fast-paced world of competitive workplaces and turbulent economic conditions, each of us is searching for effective tools that can help us to manage, adapt, and strike out ahead of the pack.

By now, emotional intelligence (EQ) needs little introduction—it’s no secret that EQ is critical to your success. But knowing what EQ is and knowing how to use it to improve your life are two very different things.

Emotional Intelligence 2.0 delivers a step-by-step program for increasing your EQ via four, core EQ skills that enable you to achieve your fullest potential:
  1. Self-Awareness
  2. Self-Management
  3. Social Awareness
  4. Relationship Management

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
-- Abraham Lincoln

I still prefer Iron Man to Mandarin though... How can he be so sexy?



Book Recommendation:
  • Travis Bradberry - Emotional Intelligence 2.0

Monday, April 23, 2018

4. Life of A Secret Admirer

Have you ever wondered becoming a secret admirer?


     


Loving someone is lucky. Loving someone, yet never have the courage to say it, is too unfortunate. Knowing that someone cares about you, without knowing who that person is, feels suffocating inside.

Next, you know what to do. Do it now.


Lyric

Can't Take My Eyes Off You
Singer: Valli Frankie

You're just too good to be true
Can't take my eyes off of you.
You'd be like heaven to touch
I wanna hold you so much.
At long last love has arrived
And I thank God I'm alive.
You're just too good to be true
Can't take my eyes off of you.

Pardon the way that I stare:
There's nothing else to compare.
The sight of you leaves me weak
There are no words left to speak.
But if you feel like I feel
Please let me know that it's real
You're just too good to be true
Can't take my eyes off of you.

I love you, baby!
And if it's quite alright
I need you, baby
To warm a lonely night.
I love you, baby
Trust in me when I say.
Oh, pretty baby
Don't bring me down, I pray.
Oh, pretty baby
Now that I found you, stay.

And let me love you, baby
Let me love you.

You're just too good to be true
Can't take my eyes off of you.
You'd be like Heaven to touch
I wanna hold you so much.
At long last love has arrived

And I thank God I'm alive.
You're just too good to be true
Can't take my eyes off of you.

I love you, baby!
And if it's quite alright
I need you, baby
To warm a lonely night.
I love you, baby
Trust in me when I say.

Oh, pretty baby
Don't bring me down, I pray.
Oh, pretty baby
Now that I found you, stay.
Oh, pretty baby
Trust in me when I say.
I need you, baby!
Well won't you come stay
Oh. pretty baby.
Now that I found you, stay.
And let me love you, baby.
Let me love you.


Song Recommendation:
  • Valli Frankie - Can't Take My Eyes Off You

Monday, April 16, 2018

3. To Blame Or Not To Blame

Synopsis

Based on the events surrounding the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.

Genres Crime, Drama
Director Robert Dornhelm
Starring Hayden Panettiere, Marcia Gay Harden,
Vincent Riotta

I am not sure that Amanda Knox is guilty. I guess the Italian police was just too frustrated to investigate everything. Maybe I'd think twice before I go to Italy. I felt like transforming myself to Batman so I can ... you know ... go there, and reopen the case.

Anyway, would you set Amanda Knox free? Also, would you set Doyle (the good abductor) free? I mean, Doyle was saving the kid's life. Surely, the kid's mother was Patrick's good friend. Patrick felt what a mother would feel losing her only daughter.

Very pondering lessons for my kids.

   

Try streaming "The Tree of Forgiveness" by John Prine to hear his crazy requisitions before he can forgive you. Interesting fellow. He also looks like Asian here...





Movie Recommendation:
  • Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy (2011)

Monday, April 9, 2018

2. Say You're Sorry

           


I read once in an article, that psychologist confirms that your enemy will never apologise to you.

Melinda Leigh - Say You're Sorry
In a new series from Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh, former prosecutor Morgan Dane faces the most personal—and deadly—case of her lifetime.

After the devastating loss of her husband in Iraq, Morgan Dane returns to Scarlet Falls, seeking the comfort of her hometown. Now, surrounded by family, she’s finally found peace and a promising career opportunity—until her babysitter is killed and her neighbor asks her to defend his son, Nick, who stands accused of the murder.

Tessa was the ultimate girl next door, and the community is outraged by her death. But Morgan has known Nick for years and can’t believe he’s guilty, despite the damning evidence stacked against him. She asks her friend Lance Kruger, an ex-cop turned private eye, for help. Taking on the town, the police, and a zealous DA, Morgan and Lance plunge into the investigation, determined to find the real killer. But as they uncover secrets that rock the community, they become targets for the madman hiding in plain sight.

Reviews
“Another winner from Melinda Leigh! SAY YOU’RE SORRY showcases Leigh’s talent for blending mystery, romance and nail-biting suspense.” –New York Times bestselling author Laura Griffin

Stop swearing, you are wasting your energy for someone that doesn't deserve your time. Stop feeling sorry for yourself, because nobody is you and you are not everybody else. Most of all, stop hoping.

Why, you may ask. Because they are too embarrassed, that they will not even admit it to themselves.


On the contrary, when you are in the wrong, don't forget to say sorry, because they might be one hazardous person, like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Or, they might get clumsy... I don't know, you know,... try to mend things nicely by ... unintentionally killing you? Karma plays the card here, you see...


Book Recommendation:
  • Melinda Leigh - Say You’re Sorry

Monday, April 2, 2018

1. I’m Addicted Like It’s Wrong


I'm Addicted Like It's Wrong -- Dawin

I know, addiction is a serious thing. It involves tremendous effort to recover from it. Now, Dawin is addicted to something, but it was not supposed to be wrong. He is just too kind and feel guilty about something he does.

It's wrong, but feels so right.

For months, I’ve watched her. I know she’s off-limits, but she’s so sweet, so innocent… and so sexy that she haunts my dreams. Maggie doesn’t belong in this world, this seedy underbelly of the city. But there she is, my Angel with her wide eyes behind her nerdy glasses. So, when she needs help, I’m the only one who can protect her.

It didn’t even take a single kiss for me to fall in love with her. I know I shouldn’t—a man like me doesn’t deserve an Angel. I’ll hurt her, break her… ruin her. Still, I can’t help myself.

-- Lauren Landish
Lauren Landish is different. She knows that it is wrong, but she feels right doing it. It means a very wrong thing is going on here. Just wrong... wrong... wrong. shshst.. Don't feel, you're not supposed to feel. Stop it. It's wrong.



Book Recommendation:
  • Lauren Landish - Dirty Deeds