Some questions worth thinking about.

These days I just feel quite drained. While I know it isn't a good idea, I have been doing OT over the weekends. I have not been writing my blog for a long time now but today, I have a chance to.

I did some toilet reading and there were a list of questions in a book that I thought were quite interesting.

Here is my attempt at answering them. 

1. How did a setback or unfortunate event turn out to be a positive learning experience for you?

Being at DM was a real shit show. But through it, I learnt a lot about the business world. 

2. What is one way your life is better now than it was three to five years ago?

I feel more aligned to my work. It seems to be closer to what I was meant to be doing.

3. What is one experience of yours that few others share?

I had a chance to explore my career options more than most people I know. I have tried many things including getting to live and work in NZ before.

4. What energizes me?

I am excited see the ideas in my head become reality.

5. What exhausts you?

Meetings. Especially the corporate politics kind.

6. When was the last time you were deeply sad about something?

When Grandma died. 

7. When was the last time you were truly happy?

It is a small thing, but I was happy to see the 3D model of my ghost toy get printed. Brought a smile to my face. 

8. What's the one thing you wish people would ask you about? What would you tell them? 

If it is something I know and it would benefit the other person, I would just tell them. No particular subject.

9. What's the one thing you wish people would never ask you about again, and why?

I feel uncomfortable around discussions about why I am single. Why? Because I do not know if there is anything I can do about it and I doubt I am even articulating what I truly feel inside.

10. What does Monday mean to you?

Back to work. Sometimes a bit too soon. Soldier on anyway. Be grateful you at least don't hate what you do.

11. When is the last time you said yes when you really wished you had said no?

I should not have volunteered to join a recent work meeting.

12. When is the last time you said no when you really wished you had said yes?  

Regret it till this day. I was afraid to meet my Principal about a journal story I wrote. I think she could have helped me become a better author.

13. What would you do if you had an extra million dollars?

I would probably use it to offset my renovation costs.

14. If you had one superpower, what would it be?

To say the right thing at the right time always.

15. If you had a full month to learn something new, what would you learn?

How to make action figures.

16. What is something that you didn't learn of figure out for a very long time?

How to read an analog clock.

17. What is one of the worst decisions you've ever made?

 To buy a property in Malaysia.

18. What is one of the best, most brilliant decisions you've ever made?

 Actively use mind-mapping in my daily work.

19. When did you succeed at something because you Just. Never. Gave. Up?

I reached the summit of Mt. Kinabalu when I was in lower secondary. I just refused to quit. Even if I crawled to the top, I was going to reach it.

20. What is something you would do differently if you had the chance to do it all over again?

I would tone down my candor in certain work situations and not be so blunt. I would have approached things more diplomatically if I had better EQ then. 

21. When were you treated unfairly or cheated out of something?

I think I am always being discounted as less due to my height.  

22. Is there a time where you had to overcome a disadvantage that you were born with or into?

Being short is something I had to live with every damn day. I think of how different my life would be if I were just a bit taller.

23. What's a way in which you can't help but show off? Or are there a few ways you do this?

I am happy to share anything that I have experienced or learnt if it would help the other person. I suppose that is why I teach. 

24. What is a big lifetime goal of yours that people close to you know about?

I don't have any. 

25. What secret or wild dream or ambition do you have that almost nobody knows about?

Can't think of any.

26. When did you back out of something or leave something? Why did you do it? Are you glad you did it?

I left my previous job because I felt I was going nowhere with it. Dammit I am glad I left all that BS!

27. Would you rather have 10 percent more income or four extra weeks off every year?

Show me the money!!!

28. When did your life suddenly change in a big way? How did it change?

When I left Singapore to live and work in NZ for 5 years. I got a chance to live on my own for the first time. 

29. When did you try something for the first time? What was it?

I started teaching for the first time last year.

30.  In one sentence, how would your friends, family, or colleagues describe you?

Doesn't say what you always want to hear but you can count on him when it matters.