His name is Sean Stephenson. He is a motivational speaker, published author, self-help guru and presently a doctoral degree candidate. One of his specialties is to help people overcome their limiting beliefs.

Sean Stephenson has a television show called “Three Foot Giant” premiering on 15 November. His mission is to rid the world of insecurities and self-sabotage.

If you are interested to find out more about Sean Stephenson and his “Three Foot Giant” show, click here to visit his Blog.

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Back in 1997, there were seven countries, including Singapore, came together to sign a declaration for the WORLD KINDNESS MOVEMENT. Its mission is to inspire individuals towards greater kindness. Its aim is to inpsire spontaneous acts of kindness to make life more pleasant for everybody.

It is important to look beyond the boundaries of gender, race and creed. The one common thing that bonds human beings to live together in peace is KINDNESS. So, please be kind to your family, friends and yourself.

Besides World Kindness Day, today is also a variable bonus payout day for my company. Like I had mentioned in my earlier Blog posts, Friday the 13th is a lucky day in my eyes. Today is a special and good day, let us treasure Friday the 13th and be kind to each other.

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“This Is It” movie is actually a compilation of rehearsals, interviews and backstage footage of Michael Jackson as he prepared for his series of sold-out shows in London. But too bad, he passed away suddenly just a few days before the concert would take place.

Michael Jackson was full of energy and flushed with enthusiasm throughout the rehearsals. Although he was thin, Michael Jackson looked fit and healthy whether or not he was on or off stage. It’s definitely hard to imagine such a healthy-looking person would die suddenly. Life is really unpredictable!

You can tell that Michael Jackson was very professional and serious about his performance. He knew his songs and dance steps very well. He also got himself involved in a lot of things such as telling the music director when to slow down with his music, telling the electric guitarist when to shine her skill, telling his co-singer when to look towards the audience and so on.

Michael Jackson was a perfectionist and he was in control of the rehearsals to make sure that everybody know what they were supposed to do in order to make the concert a success. However, Michael Jackson never knew that this was a tour he never got to begin.

After seeing the movie, I must say Michael Jackson was a real superstar, a talented artiste and a borned performer. He was the real King of POP of our time.

I often feel that Michael Jackson had a kind look in his face and I believe he was a kind-hearted person in real life despite all those negative news that were against him during his prime. Anyway, everything is history. This Is It.

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Just like last year, my family and I had made a booking at the Ellenborough Market Cafe of Swissotel Merchant Court hotel a few days ago. We opted for the lunch buffet last year. However, Ellenborough Market Cafe is offering dinner buffet only this time around.

We arrived at the Swissotel Merchant Court hotel 15 minutes before the crab buffet started at 6:30pm yesterday and the cafe was already packed with diners.

Crab Buffet :

The spread of food is just like last year and it includes Chilli Crab, Indian Curry Crab, Tom Yam Crab, Sri Lankan Black Pepper Crab, Nonya Crab Popiah, Abalone Porridge, Shark Fin Soup, Soya Sauce Crayfish, Flower Crab and so on. It also includes the yummy yummy Durian Pengat.

Besides enjoying the good food, it makes us even happier is that HSBC credit card holder is entitled to enjoy the offer of “one dines for free with every three paying adult diners”. So nice

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The best option is to switch it over to a self-hosted web hosting that requires a monthly subscription so that you could do whatever that you want on your Blog or website. Of course, the things that you do on your website have to be something that is done right morally, legally and ethically.

One of the most outstanding web hosting services as recommended by online experts is BlueHost. In fact, BlueHost is well-known for its ease of use for hosting WordPress Blog. Furthermore, you get your own domain free when you sign up for the BlueHost service.

Bluehost offers installation script called Fantastico Installer. This is a good service that enables you to install quickly and easily wide verity of scripts, content management systems, blog and forum platforms. WordPress is the most popular and easy-to-use Blogging platform and it is among those scripts available for easy installation via Fantastico Installer with BlueHost.

However, the downside of using Fantastico is that it does not provide the latest WordPress version. Good news is that BlueHost has included another installer that is similar to Fantastico. This installer is called SimpleScripts that allows you to install scripts or the latest WordPress version on your website or Blog within minutes.

Here is a web hosting tutorial that shows you how to sign up for a BlueHost account :

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After searching the web for information, I came to know that this kind of cool stuff is called green screen effect.  It is a type of chroma key which is a technique used in video, film and still photography. The purpose is to replace a portion of an image with a new image such as a coloured background with a different setting.

I think the creator of the video clip has brilliantly utilised the green screen effect to bring out the attention-grabbing and cool laptop effect to his/her audiences. I’m sure you will be amazed by this person’s creativity.

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I find that the inspiring and motivating quotes were created with words of wisdom. The lines are full of philosophy. Here is an example :

When you keep saying you are busy,
then you are never free.

When you keep saying you have no time,
then you will never have the time.

When you keep saying that you will do it tomorrow,
then your tomorrow will never come.

~ Pravs J.

Does it sound familiar to you in our daily life? Do you have friends or family who often tell you that they are busy and have no time for you? Do you put things off till tomorrow when you can actually finish it by today?

If yes, you are in fact hearing all kinds of excuses from the people around you and this is the thing that the quote is trying to tell you. So, why do you want to be a procrastinator? Hmm…..Things to ponder.

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I did not use the corporate PowerPoint template again until recently when my colleague from the procurement department told me that the American vendor would be dropping by to pay us a visit. I was invited to sit in and was told to highlight the list of issues that I had compiled in the past few weeks to the visitors.

Everybody knew that I had a list of issues that were sent through email. We would also be using it for discussion but nobody told me how I should go about using the information to show it to the visitors, ie. the American vendor.

Then, I told myself that it would be more effective if I could export the information from my lengthy email to a PowerPoint template. What I could do is to summarise the long sentences into point forms; to insert relevant pictures to aid the audiences in visualising the issues better; to show some figures so that they could understand how the fallout rate is like, etc.

I remember I started to work on the PowerPoint slides in the afternoon of a Thursday. Then, I continued to work on it at night after I went for a walking exercise with my friend in the evening. Next morning, I spent about 45 minutes in writing the opening, contents and closing for my presentation.

At 10am, I went into the meeting room and started my presentation to a group of 6 people, including our management personnel, Quality staff and the American vendor comprises of a Vice President of Engineering and a Manager of Sales.

Guess what? At the end of the presentation, both the Sales Manager and Engineering VP thanked me sincerely and repeatedly for what I had presented to them. They had even requested me to send a copy of my presentation material to them so that they can show it to their people about the mistakes that they had made.

This is my first presentation and I’m glad that it is a well-received one. It gives me a lot of encouragement and boosts up my confidence to another level. I would also like to thank the American vendor for their generosity in giving thanks to me.

I think the technical training that I had conducted earlier in February this year has indeed helped me a lot in doing my presentation well. I gained the experience from there and I just needed to do the process again even without rehearsing.

This shows that you just need to start somewhere when learning new things and you will be alright when you take off.

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After that, I did not conduct anymore training because we were getting busy in the second half of the year. In other words, it seems like most companies would put the emphasis on getting people to conduct training or sending staff to attend training when there are not much activities going on

Perhaps, this is the only way to keep everybody busy as well as to upgrade the skill levels during the global economic downturn. I feel that this is beneficial to both the trainers and trainees.

Reason being that the trainees would be ready to apply what they have learnt to use it on their job when the world economy picks up. On the other hand, the trainers would be given an opportunity to conduct the training and pass on the knowledge to the fellow co-workers.

As a trainer, I feel that I have indeed learnt a lot of things through the process of preparing for the training session. Although I did feel pressurised and stressful at times, I find that the feeling was good after the training was conducted.

It gave me a lot of satisfaction and fulfilment for being able to deliver and teach a group of people. It was a good start and I hope to conduct more trainings whenever I’m given the opportunities in the future.

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I’m not sure how many people would share the same sentiment as me. I guess there might be a lot of people would feel the Monday Blues at the beginning of a brand-new week and they would call it a blessing if it is a holiday

I took out the Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) book which I had left off at Chapter 6 before going to Thailand. I continued reading it after I came back and spent the whole morning reading it. The NLP book has 12 chapters altogether and I have finished 10 today. Hmm…I think my reading is progressing well and I should be able to finish reading the whole book by this week.

I stopped at chapter 10 and kept the NLP book before going out for lunch with my family. Initially, my nephew wanted to have lunch at the Swensen’s restaurant but changed to Seoul Gardens later because my niece said that she wanted to eat Korean-style Barbecue Buffet.

Korean-style BBQ Buffet at Seoul Gardens Restaurant :

I think it was quite fun by dumping the raw foods such as seasoned chicken meat, prawns, fish and so on onto the BBQ grilling plate and let them sizzled for a while. Alternatively, we dumped the vegetables, black fungus, mussels, cuttlefish, fishballs, prawns, etc. into the pot filled with Chinese herbal soup.

That was how I spent my public holiday in-lieu of Deepavali and I have had an enjoyable day today

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