I broke up with my VC boyfriend.He told me that he wasn’t in the right place to have a relationship when the hours and workloads are getting crazier and crazier. I can’t give up as I’m getting so close and I have a lot of people to prove wrong. Wrong timing? I read an article…
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How to handle breakup with mindfulness
It hurts when you love someone but you have to let them go. It’s like a sharp blaze cutting through your flesh, it bleeds. I was so angry when he told me he was not in the right position for a relationship, and that he doesn’t want to drag me down and hurt me more.…
Lesson from a Key Lime Pies Business
There is one episode of ‘The Profit’ that touched me deeply. It shed new light about what a business is and what it means being an entrepreneur. What happen in the episode The story starts with an award winning key lime pies business that was struggling to sustain its business. Marcus Lemonis came in with…
How to live for experience in your 20s
What happen when you are in your 20s? Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook. Evan Spiegel founded Snap Chat. There are only a small percentage of Gen-Y with the kind of ’30 under 30’ greatness. In our 20s, most of us just left college and enter the real world with mounted excitement to do great stuff. If…
7 Days of Coffees
Sometimes I think I am happy to stay in coffee industry forever. Coffee makes things okay even on the shittiest days; and people that surround me makes me feel homey all the time. The process of grinding and tamping coffee beans, watching the flow of double ristretto, steaming milk and giving my best shot in…
Love Actually
There are so many listicles circulated on the web telling you 5 signs, 10 signs, and even 20 signs of being in love. Everyone has their own unique interpretation of love according to different contexts and life experiences. There are signs that you are happily in love, and there are also signs that some people…
Things You Should Know About Luckiness
‘I feel lucky to have someone like you,’ said the guy I dated. ‘We are lucky to have the opportunity,’ said a business owner experiencing rapid growth. ‘No, we prepared ourselves so that we are ready when the opportunity came,’ the business partner countered. Do you feel lucky for anything in life? Why? The SerenA…
Writing about ‘The Rewrite’
I was pleasantly surprised by a rom-com called ‘The Rewrite’ recently. It is about a one-hit-wonder screen writer (Hugh Grant) getting stuck in his writing career and ended up in an out-of-nowhere university to lecture screen writing. He wrote an Oscar winning script ‘Paradise Misplaced’ to put his 5-year-old son to sleep every night. Later…
The One Thing You need to do to Move Forward in 2015
You might think that the affair of reflection and goal setting at the end of the year is such a cliché; but you can’t stay on the same spot and not moving for the next 365 days — we owe ourselves the obligation to learn and grow constantly. Having goals doesn’t necessarily contribute to success, but it…
Life Audit – 10 things I Learn Following My Heart
I love coffee. So much so that I abandoned my well-paid corporate job and took a dive into a F&B start up company, feeling certain that this is the best decision that I’ve ever made in my life. Looking back at the past 12 months being a full time coffee lover, it is time to…
Backpacking – why you should do it NOW
There has been research which proves that money can buy happiness through experience, and one of the most common experiences that people seek for is travelling. What is in your mind before you start a journey? How do you mentally and physically prepare for an unknown adventure? What do you seek for out of your…
Work or love? You Don’t Need to be His/Her No.1
I recently wrote an article about things that I have learned dating my entrepreneur boyfriend. While the article was shared by many entrepreneurs and their partners who feel that it explain their situation; it also sparked interesting debate among readers who think that my boyfriend is a douche due to one thing I learned – ‘You will…