Many months ago I was searching for articles on affirmation. I wanted to learn more on the science of affirmation and specifically why do people not affirm or recognise people in the workplace. In fact studies and scores of surveys have shown that one of the fundamental reasons why people leave the workplace is not so much because of the work itself, but because of the boss or supervisor that...
A couple of days back I got an email saying that my hosting site had not been renewed and that my account will be suspended. I didn’t bother to react. When my site finally closed all of a sudden I started to panic. Having restored it back in just a mere 24 hours thought me something really important. I miss writing my thoughts! While waiting for my site to come back up, I went through some...
Note : This is one of those entries where I did write about it but for some reason never got it published. It went missing for sometime but one fine day, I found this in my Day One Journal. This definitely is one of my favourite posts. It takes place just a little over a month after my US trip when I meet Polly for the first time. Glad to have captured it for memories and safekeeping – the...
The following is an article which I wrote for my local parish newsletter a few weeks ago, reflecting on the new evangelisation talk that was given to the participants in my young adults ministry. It has been said that G.K Chesterton once responded to a Times editorial team who asked the question ‘What is wrong with the world today?’ with 2 simple sentences. “Dear Sirs, I am”. There was nothing...
It’s funny how in the declaration of the United States, among all the essential basic guarantee of human rights an individual has, it was happiness that is the only want which needs to be pursued. Not liberty, not life, but happiness, as it was clearly epitomized in the movie – The Pursuit of Happyness. I was in Bangkok over the weekend with my cousin when he brought up the topic of happiness. He...