In two weeks, I've been presented the following options by my parents:

• Sell flat, move out and rent HDB flat
• Move out and stay in rented place
• Stay till 35 years old and buy new flat as a single
• Stay until I get married and move out
• Stay behind & inherit flat
• Stay back with parents until god-knows-when

Forgive me if I'm feeling confused now.

My heart is set on moving out and staying on my own, that's for sure.

2. Hostility
The essence of joke is making fun of someone or something but its end result will not even make the joke seem hostile at all.

3. Realism
You're in fact juxtaposing the reasonable next to the unreasonable. Joke needs to start off in a serious casual way as something that people can relate to and is real.

4. Emotion
Build up anticipation & tension in a story with pauses & questions.

5. Exaggeration
2nd part of the joke shd be exaggerated as far as you can, yet still believable

6. Surprise
Give the audience an unexpected ending to blow them away

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Open a Gmail account dedicated to feeds.
Use RSS-to-email service Blogtrottr
Set up filters for email subjects from subscribed blogs to skip Inbox yet never sent to Spam. Label as eg. reader/tech/blogname
Enable filter import/export in Gmail Labs feature
Use ReadTwit for twitter messages streams converted into RSS feeds
Go iPod-> Settings-> Mail,Contacts,Calendar-> fetch New Data -> turn on PUSH and choose Manual for Fetch
Enable Advanced IMAP Controls to hide "location" labels such as Trash/Spam/Buzz; check "Show in Imap" for All Mail

To me, the main advantage is u can mark/sync articles as read or unread, and archive those articles u like

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- write down objectives that will appease this discomfort
- list out daily actions to reach goal
- hone & change actions to lead to end result

Fear is caused by you anticipating something that is about to happen or at least should be prepared for. Out-prepare fear by:

- define precisely what you fear
- outline steps to extinguish fear
- act to kill fear
- have faith you will be able to accomplish activities
- realize that as you continue to visualize situations & experience failure, you're experiencing failure before you experience failure

Hurt serves as a signal that you expect someone to keep their word, and they didn't; or they did something that feels as if you have lost trust in them. Curb hurt by:

- do not act harshly or immediately. Ask if you really lost anything. Likely, you've miscontrued your expectations. Adjust your expectations
- communicate to person involved. Don't use the word "you". Try this "I feel as if I've been let down because I expected x to occur. Am I wrong to expect this?"
- hedge your emotional risk by diversifying your emotions. ALL of your emotions shouldn't be tied to your expectations of ONE person. Let your emotional expectations be contingent upon YOURSELF,
instead of others; you'll feel empowered & less likely to feel hurt if they don't pan out

Anger is rooted in the primitive, survival part of your brain. Defuse anger by:

- before reacting, ask: "What other possibilities could have driven this pre-set rule I hold dear to be broken?"
- ask firstly: "Going forward, what can I learn from this experience?" And secondly: "In the long run, does this person have my best interest in mind - they just merely slipped up through lack of
understanding?"

Frustration stems from feeling overwhelmed through a set of actions failing to translate into success. Strangle frustration by:

- explore your thoughts & explicitly define goal not achieved
- leverage frustration to map out new goal-attaining actions cum strategies
- leech knowledge & insights from mentor who's experienced the goal you're pursuing
- pursue goal. Remeasure results. No progress? Redraft strategy, and pursue goal again

Disappointment sends a signal you've been let down. You know your anticipated goal probably isn't going to happen. Time for recalibration. Dump disappointment by:

- map out from this experience what critical lessons you've learned, what skills you've developed, how are you equipped for your next venture/goal?
- list out pros & cons of each decision made. Weigh the costs & opportunity costs of sticking to a decision
- create a new goal you can accomplish within 3 months. Make it agile & lean

Guilt tells us some standard has been violated. The pain we expect to feel drive us to make sound decisions. Grill guilt by:

- lower your standards. Perhaps they are too high
- realize that your standard has not been met. Write out that standard & define it clearly to understand it better
- outline action you took that violated this standard
- write out future actions now that you understand your standard more clearly
- commit that you will not violate this standard

Inadequacy sends the signal that you, driven by an irrational standard, feel unworthy. You may not have the talents & skills to accomplish a goal. You need more information, experience, help from
others, talents or strategies. Eradicate inadequacy by:

- write down exactly what skills, experience, knowledge, talents or strategies are preventing you from reaching your goals
- structure how you plan to fill the gap
- be signalled that you have room to improve
- find a person that has been in your shoes before. Leverage their knowledge & skills to get to next level

Overwhelmed denotes you are driven to indifference and you need to re-evaluate life's true purpose by sifting through distractions. Overcome being overwhelmed by:

- outline one critical goal in your career field, your personal life and an overall goal
- identify which goal is critical for you to not feel overwhelmed and set it up to be accomplished in 3 months
- outline action steps, listed in priority
- immediately tackle first item today
- focus on elements you actually can control. Don't fall into trap of controlling systematic rish; diversify & control firm-specific risk

Loneliness. When we are disconnected from people, we are disconnected from life. It signals that you really value people & you feel the need to connect. Slay loneliness by:

- outline type of connection you need - business, friend, intimate
- make a commitment to go out & meet people
- get a dog to cultivate habit of focusing on others rather than self

Life is about emotions, and if you react emotionally, things can get ugly. Fast. Gain a focused mindset through action steps stated above when approaching your life, career & goals.

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Do not do more than that one small action because, if you do, you're setting up an expectation for yourself to keep doing more each day instead of celebrating the success you've had

If you persist at taking small steps, your resistance will begin to slip away, and you'll soon see real progress

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- Free ubiquitous wifi for all my Internet devices. On my iTouch, I had fun listening to tuneWiki with lyrics, exploring funky stations in Yahoo! Music, updating feeds etc. Even took a stroll around
the terminal in regale, piped in into reliable over-the-air songs. On my netbook, I could access the Interwebs and download torrents anytime, anywhere. It is rather swift for websites but torrenting
will practise your patience.

- Quietness. That is, if you can avoid the touristy groups that gather around to take pics, or the hormonally charged teens pretending to study while texting all the way. In all, the intermittent
announcements are soothingly calm and patrons generally sit around in despondence (reading or pondering about life). Everyone gets to do their own thang.

- Food is abundant here. A well-equipped foodcourt, coffeeshops in the modern form of Yakun Toast & Wang Cafe, supermarket snacks, each-a-cup

- Toilets are everywhere. Signages to them are clear & well-lit. The loos are kept impeccably clean. With serviettes & tp aplenty. I gotta feeling that the cleaning personnel really care about the
hygiene. Plus, water coolers are available outside of each restroom. Sensor based, no less.

- The lighting is in fact natural. Through transparent roofs that let in sunlight. It is bright enough to read periodicals, yet not too glaring to watch movies on netbook. Natural light allows for
your body rhythm to circulate normally hence improving health.

- The transportation cannot be more convenient. I'm pleasantly delighted by the fact that the spacious subway is accessibly connected to T3, almost seamlessly. The train waits patiently in the station
for some minutes before moving off. Buses are not many, but they do connect you to the City & Eastern towns.

- You can sleep on the floor if you like. Because that's what stranded & weary travellers do. No rude stares from the public. Nobody to tell you off. Speak on your mobile as loud as you like. It's not
exactly a library. Seats are abundant. The place is big.

- The surrounding air-con cannot be discounted for upping the comfort level of body. It does not leave you freezing cold, it is not too weak either. In fact, it is comfortably right.

- The people around keeps one morally sound. Safe in the knowledge that airport security & information counters are present visibly, and everyone's actions are vetted. In public, a certain level of
decorum applies, and it counters reprehensible behaviours. This, you can count on.

- It is open 24 hours every day, public holidays included. The terminal itself, the public bus & train services, no more moaning & groaning over CNY closure or less shops open during the festive
period. For eternity.

I'm sure there are other benefits that are left out. Pls feel free to add on.

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Step 2
In the middle of a sheet of paper, write the goal or change to be implemented.

Step 3
Title the bottom half “Driving Forces.” Title the top half “Restraining Forces.”

Step 4
Brainstorm a list of driving and restraining forces and place them in the appropriate space.

Step 5
Once the driving and restraining forces have been identified, ask and answer the following questions.
How significant is each force?
Which forces, if altered, would produce rapid change?
What skills and/or information is needed to manage the forces?

Step 6
Create a responsive course of action that follows one of three strategies:
Strengthens driving forces
Weakens restraining forces
Creates new driving forces
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Ambiguity effect — the avoidance of options for which missing information makes the probability seem "unknown".

Anchoring effect — the tendency to rely too heavily, or "anchor," on a past reference or on one trait or piece of information when making decisions.

Attentional bias — neglect of relevant data when making judgments of a correlation or association.

Authority bias — the tendency to value an ambiguous stimulus (e.g., an art performance) according to the opinion of someone who is seen as an authority on the topic.

Availability heuristic — estimating what is more likely by what is more available in memory, which is biased toward vivid, unusual, or emotionally charged examples.

Availability cascade — a self-reinforcing process in which a collective belief gains more and more plausibility through its increasing repetition in public discourse (or "repeat something long enough
and it will become true").

Belief bias — an effect where someone's evaluation of the logical strength of an argument is biased by the believability of the conclusion.

Clustering illusion — the tendency to see patterns where actually none exist.

Capability bias — The tendency to believe that the closer average performance is to a target, the tighter the distribution of the data set.

Conjunction fallacy — the tendency to assume that specific conditions are more probable than general ones.

Disposition effect — the tendency to sell assets that have increased in value but hold assets that have decreased in value.

Gambler's fallacy — the tendency to think that future probabilities are altered by past events, when in reality they are unchanged. Results from an erroneous conceptualization of the Law of large
numbers. For example, "I've flipped heads with this coin five times consecutively, so the chance of tails coming out on the sixth flip is much greater than heads."

Hawthorne effect — the tendency of people to perform or perceive differently when they know that they are being observed.

Hindsight bias — sometimes called the "I-knew-it-all-along" effect, the inclination to see past events as being predictable.

Illusory correlation — beliefs that inaccurately suppose a relationship between a certain type of action and an effect.

Ludic fallacy — the analysis of chance-related problems according to the belief that the unstructured randomness found in life resembles the structured randomness found in games, ignoring the
non-gaussian distribution of many real-world results.

Neglect of prior base rates effect — the tendency to neglect known odds when reevaluating odds in light of weak evidence.

Observer-expectancy effect — when a researcher expects a given result and therefore unconsciously manipulates an experiment or misinterprets data in order to find it.

Optimism bias — the systematic tendency to be over-optimistic about the outcome of planned actions.

Overconfidence effect — excessive confidence in one's own answers to questions. For example, for certain types of question, answers that people rate as "99% certain" turn out to be wrong 40% of the
time.

Positive outcome bias — a tendency in prediction to overestimate the probability of good things happening to them.

Pareidolia — a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) is perceived as significant, e.g., seeing images of animals or faces in clouds, the man in the moon, and hearing hidden messages on
records played in reverse.

Primacy effect — the tendency to weigh initial events more than subsequent events.

Recency effect — the tendency to weigh recent events more than earlier events.

Disregard of regression toward the mean — the tendency to expect extreme performance to continue.

Selection bias — a distortion of evidence or data that arises from the way that the data are collected.

Stereotyping — expecting a member of a group to have certain characteristics without having actual information about that individual.

Subadditivity effect — the tendency to judge probability of the whole to be less than the probabilities of the parts.

Subjective validation — perception that something is true if a subject's belief demands it to be true. Also assigns perceived connections between coincidences.

Telescoping effect — the effect that recent events appear to have occurred more remotely and remote events appear to have occurred more recently.

Texas sharpshooter fallacy — the fallacy of selecting or adjusting a hypothesis after the data is collected, making it impossible to test the hypothesis fairly. Refers to the concept of firing shots
at a barn door, drawing a circle around the best group, and declaring that to be the target.
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Richardson
His sneezing fits may have caused minor tsunamis, but guy's got potential. Judging by his smarts and slightly odd behaviour reminiscent of geniuses of past, his choice to utilize two desktop screens
from start of employment now turns out to be a winning advantage as he manages to glean more info from the Internets than others.

Ya Ting
Sporting Japanese fashion style & a sweet smile, she puts the sass in MarCom assassin, wowing hearts with her charming demeanor. Props to her for making workspace supercomfy from Day 2 @work, leading
to MD praising her for it.

Eben
This silent one (as compared to Phau) has several tricks up his sleeve. Following the departure of Mingyu, he has steadily climbed further up the career ladder. With Phau's stunning lessons day in day
out, it will not be long before he will turn manager and churn out supergood results.

Wilson
Rockin' the waves of GH1, and donning a trendy bluetooth headset, this exec looks set to charm the pants off all fellow colleagues. Knowing that he only need to perform better than the average worker
to ascend, Wilson's collected front belies a champion of megalomaniac ambition.

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Actor-observer bias — the tendency for explanations of other individuals' behaviors to overemphasize the influence of their personality and underemphasize the influence of their situation. However,
this is coupled with the opposite tendency for the self in that explanations for our own behaviors overemphasize the influence of our situation and underemphasize the influence of our own personality.

Egocentric bias — occurs when people claim more responsibility for themselves for the results of a joint action than an outside observer would.

Forer effect (aka Barnum Effect) — the tendency to give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personality that supposedly are tailored specifically for them, but are in fact vague and general
enough to apply to a wide range of people. For example, horoscopes.

False consensus effect — the tendency for people to overestimate the degree to which others agree with them.

Fundamental attribution error — the tendency for people to over-emphasize personality-based explanations for behaviors observed in others while under-emphasizing the role and power of situational
influences on the same behavior.

Halo effect — the tendency for a person's positive or negative traits to "spill over" from one area of their personality to another in others' perceptions of them.

Herd instinct — Common tendency to adopt the opinions and follow the behaviors of the majority to feel safer and to avoid conflict.

Illusion of asymmetric insight — people perceive their knowledge of their peers to surpass their peers' knowledge of them.

Illusion of transparency — people overestimate others' ability to know them, and they also overestimate their ability to know others.

Illusory superiority — overestimating one's desirable qualities, and underestimating undesirable qualities, relative to other people.

Ingroup bias — the tendency for people to give preferential treatment to others they perceive to be members of their own groups.

Just-world phenomenon — the tendency for people to believe that the world is just and therefore people "get what they deserve."

Notational bias — a form of cultural bias in which a notation induces the appearance of a nonexistent natural law.

Outgroup homogeneity bias — individuals see members of their own group as being relatively more varied than members of other groups.

Projection bias — the tendency to unconsciously assume that others share the same or similar thoughts, beliefs, values, or positions.

Self-serving bias — the tendency to claim more responsibility for successes than failures. It may also manifest itself as a tendency for people to evaluate ambiguous information in a way beneficial to
their interests

Self-fulfilling prophecy — the tendency to engage in behaviors that elicit results which will (consciously or not) confirm existing attitudes.

System justification — the tendency to defend and bolster the status quo. Existing social, economic, and political arrangements tend to be preferred, and alternatives disparaged sometimes even at the
expense of individual and collective self-interest.

Trait ascription bias — the tendency for people to view themselves as relatively variable in terms of personality, behavior and mood while viewing others as much more predictable.

Ultimate attribution error — Similar to the fundamental attribution error, in this error a person is likely to make an internal attribution to an entire group instead of the individuals within the
group.

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