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Post by zuolun on Nov 9, 2013 11:41:31 GMT 7
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Post by oldman on Nov 9, 2013 15:12:58 GMT 7
Damn good video. Thanks for the link, zuolun. Moved it here so that it is easier to find in the future.
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Post by zuolun on Nov 9, 2013 17:07:41 GMT 7
Damn good video. Thanks for the link, zuolun. Moved it here so that it is easier to find in the future. oldman, Based on your feedbacks, it seems that you really appreciate my postings (with obsolete and current news links).
Some of my posts need patience to read, especially those with cross-reference and certain video clips posted also require extremely long hours to finish watching.
I'm glad that you enjoy reading and watching them, as much as I do. 
The worst thing in a forum is 对牛弹琴 = To play the lute to a cow.
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Post by oldman on Nov 10, 2013 5:35:22 GMT 7
Zuolun, I feel that the power of the forum lies in the creation of a collective database of information. Not my database alone but the databases from all of us. This way, I too learn in the process and I hope that everyone also learns from each other.
In a blog format, the information is usually mine alone and it got boring after a while. Facebook is more like chit chat and really does not create much more value apart from this chit chat.
You may have gathered that I have difficulty understanding Mandarin and hence, I have not commented on these threads. But I am sure others may find these useful. Yes, one of my regrets in life is not learning Mandarin.
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Post by candy188 on Nov 10, 2013 8:41:31 GMT 7
You may have gathered that I have difficulty understanding Mandarin and hence, I have not commented on these threads. But I am sure others may find these useful. Yes, one of my regrets in life is Not learning Mandarin. Hi oldman, admit that learning Mandarin is not an easy task, I am still learning till today.  
My dad with P3 education & became a hawker at the tender age of 13, had an incredible vocabulary of Mandarin that surpass my O level Chinese (as I elected Poly pathway).
He picked up Business English in his 60s  & can read simple English though the conversational English sounds weird. 
Maybe fellow forumers could do oldman a favour by briefly translate the essence of the Chinese articles to English. 
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Post by oldman on Nov 10, 2013 8:51:12 GMT 7
I feel that I am wired for numbers but not for languages. I have to struggle very hard to try to learn a language while reading annual reports with all the numbers is a walk in the park. This is why I have decided not to pursue learning Mandarin and instead, focus on what I love doing ... numbers and business. Yes, I was born a Malaysian (am now a Singaporean) and this is why I did not study Mandarin as a child. I can still make simple conversations in Malay but this is as best as my language skills allow. |
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Post by zuolun on Nov 10, 2013 13:03:57 GMT 7
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Post by candy188 on Nov 10, 2013 18:25:16 GMT 7
I feel that I am wired for numbers but not for languages. I have to struggle very hard to try to learn a language while reading annual reports with all the numbers is a walk in the park. This is why I have decided not to pursue learning Mandarin and instead, ==> focus on what I love doing ... numbers and business.Yes, I was born a Malaysian (am now a Singaporean) and this is why I did not study Mandarin as a child. I can still make simple conversations in Malay but this is as best as my language skills allow.
James Bender, in his book How to Talk Well (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1994), illustrates how it benefits to everyone when we mutually help each other.
He relates a story of a farmer who grew award-winning corn. Each year he entered his best corn in the regional fair where it won a blue ribbon.  One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him to learn about how he grew blue-ribbon corn year after year. The reporter discovered something interesting. He learned that the farmer actually shared his best seed corn with his neighbors."How can you afford to share your best seeds with your neighbors when they are entering corn in competition against yours each year?" the reporter asked.
"Why sir," said the farmer, "didn't you know? The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbors grow inferior corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors grow good corn."
 It's a simple and important principle. His corn cannot improve unless his neighbor's corn also improves. He cannot succeed simply by watching out for Number One. He succeeds best by helping his neighbors succeed. That's mutualism. And I am aware that it goes for me, too. Do I want to succeed? Then I must HELP Others to succeed.
 ~~ Do I want to live in peace and harmony? Then I need to help my neighbors also live in peace, and the very peace they experience will add to my own. ~~~ Do I want to live meaningfully and well? Then I should help to enrich the lives of others, for my own happiness and well-being is bound up in the lives I touch. ~~~~ In other words, if I want to grow good corn, I need to help my neighbors grow good corn. Call it mutualism. Call it a principle of success. Call it a law of life. None of us truly wins until WE ALL WIN.www.agiftofinspiration.com.au/stories/personalgrowth/Growing%20Good%20Corn.shtml |
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Post by zuolun on Dec 9, 2014 13:38:38 GMT 7
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Post by zuolun on Oct 21, 2015 6:58:13 GMT 7
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& can read simple English though the conversational English sounds weird. 
