In the IT world, we have software/applications which come freely aka Open Source stuff. And then we have the evil side which will charge money for everything you intend to get. The war between these 2 monsters have been ongoing for ages now and it’s also quite a funny topic to talk about at times. [...]
Categories: Business,Career
Tagged: assess, Business, goal, people, plan, position, progress
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- July 17, 2009 – 9:30 am
- Author:
- By Alvin Lim
Many people associate success with hard work. Our parents have told us so. Our relatives have told us so. And even our teachers have told us so. But how true is that? In a way, it’s true that in order to be successful, one needs to work harder than usual. However, the meaning of the [...]
Categories: Life,Motivational
Tagged: advice, ambition, dream, focus, goal, job, Life, motivational, Office Life, routine, success
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- May 1, 2009 – 10:27 am
- Author:
- By Alvin Lim
Today, my company informed my team that a change is needed. The management folks intend to move us from one department to another department – from Java technology to Microsoft technology. This is because there’s no project in the pipeline for the Java team but there are few big projects for the Microsoft team. Thus [...]
Categories: Career
Tagged: boss, Business, Career, change, company, dream, Employee, goal, IT, job, management, objective, opinion, people, plan, retrench, technology, tip
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- February 21, 2009 – 10:18 am
- Author:
- By Alvin Lim
Time flies and we’re already in the middle of January 2009. Things have been going so far so good for me…though a little busy particularly at work. Well, that doesn’t stop me from coming up with a lot of plans for 2009 since I’ve promised myself to make 2009 a much better year than 2008 [...]
Categories: Life,My World
Tagged: 2009, ambition, dream, goal, Life, Personal, plan, resolution
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- January 18, 2009 – 10:04 am
- Author:
- By Alvin Lim
Do you think that all great achievements happened because they have been planned to happen? I don’t. I believe most of them have been planned but there are also some which have not been planned at all. Pretty much like an accidental achievement. For example, during my school years, I participated in a lot of [...]
Categories: Life,Motivational
Tagged: ambition, dream, goal, great, Life, people, plan, planning, success, things
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- January 9, 2009 – 8:55 am
- Author:
- By Alvin Lim