Remember that making mistakes is part of learning.
Failure occurs when we quit or stop trying.
Perseverance is the key to success. After thousands of efforts to make the electric light bulb, Thomas Edison said, “I haven’t failed, I’ve identified 10,000 ways that it doesn’t work.” Mario Lemieux, Helen Keller, Abraham Lincoln, Marie Curie and an [...]

Caroline Levchuck, Yahoo! HotJobs, Yahoo! HotJobs
In a nation of overachievers, hard work is a virtue. If you work hard, you’ll achieve your goals. If you work even harder, you’ll achieve even more. Right?
Perhaps not. There are, in fact, several downsides to working too hard. Being the office workaholic can cost you coveted promotions, hurt your [...]

Just before I got to sleep last night (Algeria time, +0100GMT), there was a newsflash on the TV that reported that someone was taken by emergency services to hospital from Michael Jackson’s home in L.A. There were concerns that it does not bode well for Michael. I was woken up almost 3 hours later by [...]

How many of us have at any point in time stained our shirts or blouses whilst we were eating or have had an accidental ink stain that we cannot remove using commercial stain removers? Or if you are keen to “go green”, then it may be worth considering some more environmentally-friendly alternatives like these that [...]

Have you ever wonder how would recruiter scan your CVs before hitting the “send” key?
Look at it this way. You have 15 or 20 seconds to get his/her’s attention using email. During the scan of time, you must convince the recipient to

open your email
read your message
not delete your email

Do it wrong and no matter how [...]

I love exploring.
Recently, I was on a company trip to HCM (Ho Chih Min City) in Vietnam when I took it to some extreme. Being a young and hip man, I went to the in-house disco with some of my colleagues on the first night. It was kind of disappointing but we decided to return [...]

You’ve tried multiple diets in the past and nothing ever seems to work. Perhaps you manage to stick to a rigid diet for a few days, but you crack before the week is out. Maybe you get into good habits, but somehow let them slide again. You know to avoid some of the common dieting [...]

Singapore has always been known as a garden city by the clever use of flora and fauna by the National Parks in the blueprint of city development on this small island. And because of that, it is a common sight to see our roads dotted with trees of sorts and sidewalk adorned by flowers that [...]

SYNOPSIS
“Angels & Demons” is based on the bestselling mystery-thriller novel written by Dan Brown revolving around the quest of fictional Harvard University symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) to uncover the mysteries of a secret society known as the “Illuminati”. The Illuminati stems from the ancient brotherhood that was driven by the church underground as a [...]

“Your resume is the first point of contact with a prospective employer; so make sure it gives a good first impression”
Do you know that a typical executive job advertisement in Saturday’s The Straits Times Recruit page can easily attract an average of more than eighty applications? How would you like to stand out among the [...]