Happy New Year! The beginning of the new year is a common time to make new goals for the year ahead. First, let’s take a look at my goals from 2011 and evaluate how I did:
Archive for the tag 'health'
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The Dangers of Cubicle Living
I put up a guest post on Budgeting in the Fun Stuff about “The Dangers of Cubicle Living“. In my post, I talk about the dangers of letting stress build up, poor exercise and eating habits, and other things that can get us into trouble during our cubicle life. How can we make it better? [...]
5 Comments Kevin on Sep 29th 2011
Filed under Growing Your Wealth,Healthy Living,Miscellaneous,Opinion,Philosophy
Future Imperfect: How to Prepare for an Uncertain Future
Sometimes I look back on the changes of the first half of the 20th century, and I try to put myself in the shoes of someone growing up in that time and imagine what it must have been like to experience life in that period. I think back to 100 years ago, which is really [...]
36 Comments Kevin on May 9th 2011
Filed under Book Reviews,Healthy Living,Miscellaneous,Opinion,Philosophy
Falling Prey to Temptation: Self Control in an Age of Excess
For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. ~Friedrich Nietzsche The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours – it is an amazing journey [...]
49 Comments Kevin on Jan 13th 2011
This week I celebrate freedom: 我考完试! I’ve finished my exams, and my evenings are wide open once again. I’m not completely satisfied, because I realized that I studied a bit too much of one area and not enough of another when doing the test, and our oral group completely got our asses kicked by the [...]
32 Comments Kevin on Dec 5th 2010
I suppose that everyone has already heard of Google’s automated cars that can drive themselves, with minimal human intervention? It might already be old news, but I find this very, very cool. I am amazed every time I sit in a car that I am basically in command of a dangerous 4000 pound piece of [...]
32 Comments Kevin on Nov 21st 2010
Last weekend, I went on a trip with my girlfriend to a B&B out in the countryside over the Halloween weekend to celebrate our 6th anniversary together. The B&B was located on a hill amongst the mountains, with a nice view of the country side. It snowed gently over the night, and we woke up [...]
19 Comments Kevin on Nov 8th 2010
