Don't Sweat The Small Stuff

"After the big C, you just don't sweat the small stuff."

This came out from Samantha Jones in Sex In The City, who, although was the most sexually promiscuous out of the 4 girls featured in the series, I admired her courageous attitude when she faced the challenge of breast cancer head-on, played with her looks by wearing outrageous wigs or hats during her chemotherapy.


Revisiting the TV series reminded me that we should always appreciate being alive, keep our emotions like anger and dissatisfaction in proper perspective, and cherish other people as the unique miracles they are.

We should force ourselves to be thankful that we can 1) smell - if not roses - whatever is sitting in front of our noses. 2) Make sure our ears are for listening, not for hearing and 3) always taste the food we eat before we swallow.

No Matter If You're Black or White?

Nintendo Wii will have a bit of a makeover and a face lift from pearly white to shiny black.

This black console is being released in Japan as of 1st August but there isn’t a release date for the rest of the world.

It will be sold on the shelves for ¥25,000 and that is when you need to throw away your white accessories, as you will be needing a Black Wii Mote with a rubber jacket for ¥3,800; a Black Nunchuk for ¥1,800; and a Black Classic Controller Pro for ¥2,000 to go alongside the new buddy.

Will you itch for a switch?

It Never Rain But It Pours

When troubles come, they often seem to come all at once or at any rate, no sooner has one problem been dealt with then another appears.

As Shakespeare put it in Hamlet, "When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions."

I realised this saying probably isn't just superstition when I came across Stephen Covey's Habit 3 "First Thing First". Giving it some thoughts, troubles come in three could literally be true, say if you are struggling to deal with one thing, then usually trivial difficulties can actually, not apparently be felt like big ones.

To take an everyday example, say in the middle of a domestic crisis you are more likely to forget to pay an important bill than you normally would. Thus you soon find that you are dealing with several problems at once.

According to Stephen Covey, he explains that most of us are driven by the concept of urgency, whereas we really ought to reorganise the way we spend our time based on the concept of importance - not urgency.

1. Important and Urgent (crises, deadline-driven)
2. Important, Not Urgent (preparation, prevention, planning)
3. Urgent, Not Important (interruptions, many pressing matters)
4. Not Urgent, Not Important (trivia, time wasters)

So, step back a little, don't let any crisis fool you. First thing first.

Popeye, you are wrong!

At my youth days, I was told the iron in spinach would make me strong, the notion propagated by Popeye the sailor-man.

I read somewhere online today that because scientists failed to sufficiently remove clinging soil in the labs, iron levels appeared unusually high in certain vegetables like spinach!

Which basically translated to "Spinach does not actually contain as exorbitant amount of iron as Popeye expected."

Now, tell me what to believe and what not!

May be I should stick with steak, just like Popeye's hamburger-eating friend Wimpy; or eat only orchids just like his other animal friend - at least he could tell the future!