Making a Difference, when it comes to ...

snow in front of school last month

Coming Back Home
I've recently went for a Harvard Business School Asia Conference.
Know what's interesting? Apart from all the hype of China and India becoming the next big thing of the 21st century, The ecconomists and businessmen are really interested in the whole Asia as a whole. They see a rise of Asians reciding/studying abroad, returning back to their home country to make a difference. They predict that Vietnam will be the next big thing after China and India. Backed by Vietnamese Americans, Vietnam is growing.

Regardless of some expert opinion that the rest they are not interested in the rest of the South East Asian Region for now because most of them "shot themselves on the foot" during the 1990's, I realised that I saw a lot of Asians or even people of Asian decends wanting to either go back to their country of origin or contribute to their nation's economy in anyway they can. We even had quite a number of Singaporean leaders as part of the panel for a few of the discussions. I guess my question is, what happened to Malaysia? Why are we so quite? Why aren't we making a difference like the rest of our neighbouring countries? Thank god for Jimmy Choo. I can't think of anybody (big personality) else who would like to contribute back to our society.


Personal Social Responsibility
I'm still attracting certain characteristics of people.
Even though I never did volunteer in school for it, I'm somehow caught once in awhile, in an unofficial role of mentoring people older/younger than me. More of the former than the latter. I don't know why. My patience and tolerance to just listen and refrain from giving advice till asked has increased tremendously. Even though I am busy/have limited time to spare at the time. Blame it on my guilty conscience if I ignore people in need. Or what I've been joking lately as my PSR.

Taking Notes
I don't know how to take notes like a normal person anymore. Normal conventional note taking makes it hard for me to figure the correct structure for it, especially when you hear people talking from all different angles. Besides, after having to read too many things, notes will just make you feel sleepier. realised that the only notes that I know how to jot nowadays are in the form of mind-mapping. Sometimes I get too colourful (literally) with my notes. Here's a sample of my mind map during a team meeting. Like it? :D