Since today is the last day of the year 2009, I’ll take this opportunity to reflect on my 2009 – the best and the worst. 2009 has been quite an uneventful year for me, if compared to 2008 where a lot of things happened. But well, 2009 is not too good a year for me [...]
Categories: Life,Personal
Tagged: 2009, bad, family, good, Life, Personal, year
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- December 31, 2009 – 11:39 am
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- By Alvin Lim
Few days ago, I posted a comment in Low Yat forum. A person with around 3 years of working experience as an IT programmer was asking about the salary range for someone at his level. Should it be around 3k-4k or 4.5k or more? The question received quite a number of mixed responses. My reply [...]
Categories: Career,The World
Tagged: 2008, 2009, bonus, Career, fall, increment, IT, job, Money, salary, technology
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- April 2, 2009 – 8:37 am
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- By Alvin Lim
In 2009, there will be a lot of people with negative thinking. Morale will be at record low. People will begin to feel hopeless as their world comes crumbling down due to retrenchments and bankruptcy. But is it really that hopeless? Maybe it is, but we shouldn’t let that bring us down and ruin our [...]
Categories: Business,Career,Life
Tagged: 2009, advice, Business, economy, finance, hope, job, Life, Money, motivational, objective, people, preparation, retrench, thinking
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- March 16, 2009 – 8:55 am
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- By Alvin Lim
Hey guys, I’ll be going away for about a week and will only be back to PJ on 1st of February 2009. I will be without internet access as my hometown’s internet line has been canceled. I’m moving away from my Kluang hometown. This will be a very busy Chinese New Year to me….and I [...]
Categories: General
Tagged: 2009, article, blog, Chinese, festival, IT, new year, people, post
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- January 24, 2009 – 2:20 am
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- By Alvin Lim
2009 is said to be a very bad year for everyone, even though the fortune tellers (or feng shui masters) are saying otherwise. I do believe that whenever there are bad news, there will always be good news as well. Same goes to opportunities vs problems. Whenever there are a lot of problems, there will [...]
Categories: Business,Career,Health,Life,Management,Technology World,The World
Tagged: 2009, Business, Career, economy, finance, Health, investing, job, management, prediction, technology, world
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- January 19, 2009 – 10:00 am
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- By Alvin Lim