The Walkabout

“You’ve gotta make your own kind of music
Sing your own special song
Make your own kind of music
Even if nobody else sings along.”
- Mama Cass Elliot
Inspiration from LOST
All this week, we are featuring posts that are inspired by the TV Show LOST. The final Season of LOST premieres on February 2nd.
Make Your Own Kind of Music
Today, [...]

Lynette Scavo: Hey! Mary-Alice, are you okay?
Mary Alice Young: Yes, thank you. I’m fine.
Lynette: No, you’re not. I can tell. Please, tell me what’s wrong. Let me save you.
Mary Alice: You can’t.
Lynette: Why not?
Mary Alice: Sweety, we can’t prevent what we can’t predict!
Lynette: Isn’t there anything I could do?
Mary Alice: Yes. You can enjoy this [...]

Less is More
Simplicity is a vital aspect of life that is often overlooked. Many believe that complex means more, and therefore better. The truth is quite to the contrary.
In design, simplicity is a key component of a rich user experience and robust function. This has been further explored at Complit Design. Less is more in [...]

Real Heroes Go The Extra Mile
Over a decade ago when I was in Form Two, Ezra (my desk-mate) wrote a small list of attributes that make one a Real Hero. One of these things was that a real hero goes the extra mile.
This weekend, I met this lady who at one time, was the housekeeper [...]

Inspired Reading
This comeback post has been inspired by  a blog post by a friend  on Purpose, and by a Goals Report by Brian Tracy that I recently read.

Peter’s Walkabout
On March 10 2009, Peter’s Walkabout was launched. From the very first post, we sought to identify, share and benefit from whatever lessons life throws at us [...]

IDEAS WORTH SHARING
Every once in a while, we all experience something so wonderful that it becomes really hard not to share.
Well, for a while, I have been reading a most wonderful document. Yeah, it is really short (only 23 pages). It’s quite a deep piece, trust you me.
It is a report by Foundation for Entrepreneurial [...]

Critical Thinking is a vital part of development and cognition. Every action is predicated on one’s thought process, it’s therefore imperative that the thinking itself be healthy and forward-looking.

Critical Thinking: Tools For Taking Charge Of Your Professional And Personal Life, was published in 2002 by the Financial Times Prentice Hall. It’s written by Richard Paul [...]

“The expected is just what keeps us steady, standing, still
The expected is just the beginning
The unexpected is what changes our lives.”
- Meredith Grey (in Grey’s Anatomy Season 3 Episode 13)
Have you ever had very great expectations, only to have them nipped in the bud at the eleventh hour? Have you ever had something you highly [...]

“It was the end of something.
It was the beginning, of everything.”
-Nokia N Series (The Fourth Screen) TV ad

I once read somewhere that every sundown is a challenge. It marks the end of yet another day. The end of something.
Unfortunately, that is all we see sometimes. We fail to realize that the end of any day [...]

The year was 1996. I was in High School. All was not well. I had quite many problems and was nearly depressed. I’ll spare you the poignant details, let’s just say it was really bad at the time.
But then I shared. And a friend wrote me the note below, that did wonders and totally changed [...]