Earlier this month—in the first week of November—I went to the rural Pyapon in Myanmar to visit my sponsored child. The trip, organized by World Vision Malaysia, was one of the most amazing and fulfilling experiences of my life.

I found this talk —resonating so much with me—by His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the Central Park, New York City, on August 15, 1999. I’d like to share below an excerpt from the transcript (emphasis mine): […]

I recently completed a 1.5-year Postgraduate Diploma in Management program. It has been an intensive 12 months of studying and business reading. With six A's and two B's in my bag, I'm glad it's over. This is actually an MBA program and I was supposed to complete a dissertation to earn the MBA but I decided to drop. With my results and track record, my professor had advised against dropping, but I stuck to my decision. I can now get back to more interesting stuff such as foreign languages (again—yay!)

I'm currently reading SERVICE DESIGN: From Insight to Implementation by Andy Polaine, Lavrans Løvlie, and Ben Reason (ISBN: 9781933820330). I borrowed it from the public library in Singapore. The book piqued my interest because a big part of my job as a regional platform manager deals with process improvement and program management.

Ever since I moved to Singapore, I have decided not to buy books but instead to use its awesome public library services. National Library in Singapore is so good there's almost no reason to buy books, except well, this time. For Bob and his James Bowen.

I came to know about Bob the ginger tomcat about two weeks ago. I don't know what took me so long but it was when I saw a video of him and the street musician on my newsfeed that Bob caught my attention. I decided there and then I will buy his book to show my support.