It’s All In The Planning!

A simple tip for your resume is to highlight all your achievements while keeping your mediocre results away. Remember that a resume is like your two or three-page sales pitch. You need to keep it informative, impressive and make sure it sends out the impact that it rightfully deserves. Simply said, all you need to [...]

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Fortunes on the chess board can be turned around 180° by just one careless mistake. AS chess players, it is useful to remind ourselves that we are never infallible. Murphy’s Law always applies: anything that can go wrong will go wrong. That’s why chess is an interesting game. If everyone plays perfect chess, there isn’t [...]

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Fung Shui master Tony Chan Chun-chuen has for the first time publicly offered to settle late tycoon Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum’s inheritance out of court with rival Chinachem. “I will respect the court’s decision,” Chan said outside the High Court after a probate hearing yesterday. “Of course, if this matter can be settled out of [...]

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First impression (as they always say) lasts. When you are invited for an interview, you are given the first 5 minutes to work your magic and impress the interviewer. But in an event like a job fair, you are only given at least 30 seconds to impress and get the attention of the recruiter. So, [...]

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EVERY time I show this picture around, I always get asked about this person. He’s sullen, seemingly unfriendly and suspicious of everything and everyone around him. Surely not a chess player? But of course, he is. That’s Gata Kamsky – formerly from the Soviet Union but now a naturalised US citizen; previously a challenger to [...]

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Conventional thinking tells us that the way to get ahead in our career is to work hard at our job. If you are a conscientious worker and you show competence in the work you do, career success will surely come your way. It may not be very true any more. Experts are now telling us [...]

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I wouldn’t recommend you to do this but in Florida, a man had himself videotaped jumping off a causeway bridge. No, it wasn’t any attempt to escape from the gloomy economy crisis in the United States but just to get himself a little more attention for his resume. Police there said that the man, Christopher [...]

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I don’t know whether or not you know anything about feng shui but a popular belief is that each sign of the Chinese zodiac has its own secret friends or allies. For example, if your Chinese zodiac sign is a Rabbit, then your secret friends are those whose signs are either the Tiger or the [...]

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If you are subscribed to Discovery Channel (unlike yours truly), you’ll be able to see that your oh-god-what-am-I-doing-here job is not that bad, after all. Dirty Jobs pays tribute to the men and women who take on the many jobs that we take for granted. With an engaging host, the series informs and educates through [...]

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SINGAPORE, Feb 10 – Contracts made before marriage regarding a couple’s assets, maintenance and the custody and care of children will be considered by the courts in a divorce but not automatically upheld, Singapore’s highest court said yesterday. The Court of Appeal’s landmark decision means that while a prenuptial agreement will not be enforced automatically, [...]

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