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February 12, 2009
by Dedy Sofyan
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Time Management

randy-pausch

The most common excuse that you probably hear or even say a lot is “I haven’t got time…” Isn’t it? :)
“I haven’t got time for… this… and that…”
“I wished that I had more time…”

Time is your most valuable resource that you cannot buy back. We should manage our time even better than we manage our finances.

Randy Pausch’s Time Management presentation

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5784740380335567758

76min video (at video.google.com) [Note: total filesize 177MB]

[click here for the HTML version]

Please go to the late Prof. Pausch’s homepage and watch his other presentations.
For those of you, whom haven’t heard about Prof. Randy Pausch… he was made famous for his “Last Lecture”: “Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”

Hmmm, I must go do something else… I’ll get back to this subject later… enjoy the lecture in the mean time. :)

January 26, 2009
by Dedy Sofyan
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Call your relatives in China this CNY and ask for a “Red Pouch”

What do you think about this “Three” advertisement (shown on the right): appropriate or not?

Calling your relatives in China to demand “Spring Festival Money Gift” (压岁钱) (also known as 红包 “Angpao” among Chinese living in Indonesia)…

IMHO, it is inappropriate for you to phone a relative to demand it.

“Yashuiqian”, the real Angpao

The so-called “Angpao”, according to our tradition, is given from a married couple to a child, whom is usually of younger age. The original name for “angpao” in traditional Chinese is “Yashuiqian”, which literally translated as “Money to keep you stay young”. Usually given from older generation to the younger generation, to keep them stay young and have a long life.

So… is it polite for a younger person to call and ask for “angpao” to his/her elder? Of course NOT.

So… marketer, designer, or advertiser, or whomever, please do some research first before printing those BIG BANNER and place them on the streets. =) It will save you from the embarrassment.

“Happy Chinese New Year!”
“Gong Xi Fa Cai!” 恭喜发财!