Inspiring, woman! Jenn

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Her Blog: Smile Your Heart

"It's all about hard work"

25th Sep. 2010(SAT) Jakarta Post
Good read in the morning when we have breakfast on SAT., but i was hopeless in Bali.....doing less than in HK, though it was my rest week..
Despite the god barking to us, we prefer to be back.....

任志剛 motto

A important milestone day for me, i was being offer for a promotion today with an unexpected bonus. Feeling great but the feeling was not as the same when i get my first time bonus back to 8 years ago.
Which reminds me i watched a program last night form TVB in regards of 任志剛 after he retired and how he feels the year of 2009! Worth to watch! He quoted one sentence to describe what he should positioned himself for the coming challenge " 從高處立, 就平處坐, 向寬處行" i found it is very meaningful.

You've got to find what you love

Stanford Report, June 14, 2005'
You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is theclosest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.The first story is about connecting the dots.I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly thatI should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decidedat the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected babyboy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had nevergraduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday goto college.And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were beingspent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help mefigure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It waspretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn'tinterest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walkthe 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following mycuriosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, wasbeautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I dec ided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. Ilearned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It wasbeautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would havenever had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I hadnever dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might n ot have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course itwas impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in yourfuture. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.My second story is about love and loss.I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grownfrom just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier,and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was verytalented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a fallingout. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it wasdevastating.I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was beingpassed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about runningaway from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had beenrejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful wasreplaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife.Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turnof events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have awonderful family together.I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hitsyou in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And thatis as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is greatwork. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know whenyou find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.My third story is about death.When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression onme, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what Iam about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the bi g choices in life. Because almost everything — all externalexpectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that youare going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreaswas. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctoradvised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say yourgoodbyes.I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put aneedle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscopethe doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit morecertainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let thenoise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know whatyou truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow namedStewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktoppublishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: itwas idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and Iwas your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were soadventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have alwayswished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.Thank you all very much.

Face book

Facebook has Revolutionized College Life and now it is out for the Rest of the
World
NEW YORK, Aug. 12 /PRNewswire/ --

Facebook revolutionized the way college students communicate with each other since its creation in 2004, but it has also become a tool for people who are no longer students. Facebook officials
claim that more than half its 35 million active users are not college students, and that by the end of this year less than 30 percent of Facebook users will sport college IDs.
(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070812/NYSU001 )
For the cover package featured in the August 20-27 double issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, August 13), Mark Zuckerberg, the 23-year-old Harvard dropout who started the site, recently met with Senior Editor Steven Levy and explained that Facebook is (1) not a social-networking site but a "utility," a tool to facilitate the information flow between users and their compatriots, family members and professional connections; (2) not just for college students, and (3) a world-changing idea of unlimited potential. But the nub of his vision revolves around a concept he calls the "social graph."
As Zuckerberg describes it, the social graph is a mathematical construct that maps the real-life connections between every human on the planet. Each of us is a node radiating links to the people we know. "We don't own the social graph," he says. "The social graph is this thing that exists in the world, and it always has and it always will. It's really most natural for people to communicate through it, because it's with the people around you, friends and business connections or whatever. What [Facebook] needed to do was construct as accurate of a model as possible of the way the social graph looks in the world. So once Facebook knows who you care about, you can upload a photo album and we can send it to all those people automatically."
Newsweek reports that 1 million people a week are flocking to Facebook. And the international push is only beginning. Zuckerberg told Levy that Facebook is the top Web site in Canada, and that the geographic network with the most Facebookers is London. While the site is now available only in English, Zuckerberg says that versions in other languages will appear soon, making his goal of having Facebook become the center of online life, appear possible. But the question remains, can Facebook be as much a presence in the life of graduates and geezers as it is to college students? Zuckerberg can't see why not. "Adults still communicate with the people they're connected with."
Despite the need to communicate, Facebook may not be the perfect networking tool for many non-students just yet. At this point, much of the grammar of the site (as well as much of the first wave of applications) are still tilted toward student life. David Rodnitzky, 35, a San Francisco marketing executive, was having a fine time on Facebook until he installed a widget called "My Questions." Unbeknownst to him, it sent out a query to people on his friend list, specifically: "Do you kiss on the first date?"
"Here I was, asking some of my company's venture capitalists, along with some of my guy friends, if they kiss on the first date," says Rodnitzky. "Probably not the best way to interact." Nor is it clear whether grown-ups embrace the new SuperPoke third-party application: instead of a mere poke (the equivalent of saying "hey you" online) you can bite, slap, bump, spank, lick, grope or head-butt friends, acquaintances and, uh, business colleagues.
Zuckerberg and his team feel certain that the Facebook idea will trump all these concerns. He's built a superhigh-IQ engineering team at the Palo Alto, Calif., Facebook headquarters. "Absolutely yes," says Facebook's COO, Owen Van Natta, to the question of whether it will change the world of 30-, 40- and 50- year-olds the way it has on campus. He then amends the question to conform to
the company's new unofficial, and weirdly defensive, motto: it's not just students. "Facebook did not change college life, but it changed the lives of the early adopters ... many of whom were in college. We're entering a phase where every single day we have more people over 25 entering Facebook than any other demographic. So, absolutely, yes."
The cover package also includes the debate over why people love and hate Facebook. Correspondent Kurt Soller who has been a member since his last year in high school says he loves Facebook because the site has allowed him the freedom to build new relationships while still remaining in touch with old friends. On the opposite side of the love/ hate debate, Correspondent Sarah Kliff writes that although she understands the value of Facebook, she hates it. Kliff writes that the constant monitoring and updating takes up too much time that can be spent on more important things and it forces users to obsess over "dull details" rather than focus on connecting with others.

After The Race Is Done

LifeSport Coaching offers 10 steps to get back on the right track
Published on Thursday, Aug 9, 2007 at 02:41 PM.
An Ironman is a major athletic goal with a long period of sustained training and quite an exciting race week leading up to the big event.Even seasoned athletes learn something from each race they complete and continually improve their training, racing and mental skills. When you are starting back training and building volume this year, use the experience you gained last season to build an even better program.
Here are some skills you can adopt that will help you turn your race experiences into education and future success:* Review and re-cap your biggest events soon after they are completed, so that details are still clear in your mind, but wait a few days to let the overwhelming emotional feelings subside. When things go well, we feel on top of the world and that we can do no wrong. Conversely, when things do not go as planned, we feel we must overhaul our whole lives. Give yourself time to process and accept what happened before you review.* Once you are ready for reflection, honestly acknowledge how your race went. Write down both the things you did well and the things you would do better, and include both physical and mental aspects to your race, noting pre-race emotions and race day self talk. How you felt in the days leading up to the race and how you performed your taper are some of things you can ask yourself. Sometimes when we compare what we had planned with what actually happened we are surprised by the differences.* While looking at your list of aspects to the race, note any changes you might make for a more productive result. This exercise can be one of the greatest ways to improve as an athlete, and improving is one of the enduring challenges of sport. You can also gain perspective and advice from coaches and friends you trust to build this into a powerful learning tool for the future. * Make a game plan right away for improving your program and review it frequently in the coming season. Turn your race review into next season's goals. If you lost time in the water because you couldn't see where you are going, you need to work on your sighting skills for this season. Specifically, you need sighting drills, open water swimming, and extra coaching in this area.* While acknowledging disappointment is necessary, do not to dwell on the negative. Accept and move on. Also don't discredit your whole race for one or two mistakes. Perhaps you weren't able to hold pace on the run, but don't overlook the way that you prepared for the race. Perhaps you exited the water in great position, or held your desired output on the bike. The Ironman is a major event with many races within the race, both physical and mental. It can take several tries to get it right. * Make some observations on the way your whole season went. Even if you feel disappointed about what you achieved overall, there were in fact things you did right that you can strive to repeat in the future. Things to look for include the frequency of races, the duration of long training rides and runs, your nutrition plan, and your race tapers. The length of the season is also important. Emotional and physical stamina are important factors in season planning. .* From your reflection of your season and your races, you can start thinking and planning towards your upcoming seasons goals. This is the exciting part for most athletes and coaches, as new goals will be created and last season's success will be replicated. * Keep things in perspective. Many athletes are too hard on themselves in their efforts to reach their goals today. Look at how far you have come as an athlete and give yourself a pat on the back for what you have achieved already. * Be aware of factors that are entirely out of your control, like weather, draft marshals and other competitors' actions. Developing mental fortitude in the face of obstacles and challenges is one of your greatest racing tools. * Adopt a curiosity about racing and keep a lighthearted attitude about it all. Remember that failures are the greatest opportunities of all for learning. Look at everything as a learning experience, not a reflection of your self-worth. This will in turn make the journey exciting and continually fresh as you increase your sport knowledge. Success is the ability to learn from your failures.You have an opportunity to be great every time you train and every time you race. What can you do today to be a better athlete than last year? Reflection and analysis of key races is one way to turn experiences into tools for success. By following the above steps you will start visualizing yourself in 2007 or 2008, racing and executing the goals you have set out for yourself.