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A slave to social media?

Posted on December 26, 2020July 19, 2024 by chefswifediary

The explosion of social media has always been a hot discussion among professionals, in terms of opportunities and impacts it can potentially bring. No doubt, the current pandemic has encouraged even more social media usage as a mean of communicating with others from home. The word ‘use‘ is not to be underestimated. In fact, communicating…

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Landscape Capture

Posted on June 23, 2020July 10, 2024 by chefswifediary

“Ô, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.” – Roman Payne Photo by chefswifediary

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Landscape Capture

Posted on June 1, 2020July 10, 2024 by chefswifediary

Lake rippled just as cloud splattered, the sun has just made everything better. Photo by chefswifediary

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Nature Capture

Posted on May 23, 2020July 10, 2024 by chefswifediary

Photo by chefswifediary “If you plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better.” – Ben Vereen

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Landscape Capture

Posted on May 12, 2020July 10, 2024 by chefswifediary

I’m always trying to find the beauty within each capture. Photo by chefswifediary

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I can go a distance.

Posted on April 18, 2020July 12, 2024 by chefswifediary

Just a couple of hours ago, The Independent UK published that Captain Tom Moore has raised more than £21M in donations for NHS – how extraordinary! For his 100th birthday, the Second World War veteran pledged to complete 100 lengths of walk in his garden, and he accomplished it. Initially aimed at only a thousand…

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The book that hooks.

Posted on April 14, 2020 by chefswifediary

At 24, by chance I joined a local national entrepreneurship competition aired on television. There was neither encouragement nor supporters. People I knew thought I was going to make a fool of myself. I went to the bookstore, bought myself this book, and read it over the week just before the competition. Indeed, Jack Welch…

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The world we are living in.

Posted on April 13, 2020November 18, 2021 by chefswifediary

Do you know that the chinese characters 先生, Mister came from 先 as in ‘First‘ and 生 as in ‘Born‘: First Born? Whereas 夫人, Madam came from 夫 as in ‘Husband‘ and 人 ‘People‘ (Ben Whately). In other words, ‘people owned by the husband.’ For generations in Chinese culture, male is always the first, being…

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Lake Capture

Posted on April 9, 2020July 10, 2024 by chefswifediary

“If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.” ― Michel de Montaigne. Photo by chefswifediary

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Nature Capture

Posted on April 4, 2020July 10, 2024 by chefswifediary

How fortunate we are to witness such beauty? Amidst difficult times, be thankful that we’re still living. Photo by chefswifediary

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