Randy Pausch - ‘The Last Lecture’ Interview Part 1
By Jacklyn | July 31, 2008
Real life lessons from Randy Pausch who knew he will die soon. These 3 interview-videos may change your perspective in your life. Its a well-spent 25 minutes for me..
April 2008 interview of Diane Sawyer with Randy Pausch. Pausch delivered the inspirational speech called “The Last Lecture” which rapidly became popular and inspired anyone who listened.
8:14 mins
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Randy Pausch - The Last Lecture Interview Part 2
By Jacklyn | July 31, 2008
8:30 mins
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Randy Pausch - The Last Lecture Interview Part 3
By Jacklyn | July 31, 2008
7:40 mins
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Randy Pausch’s ‘Last Lecture’
By Jacklyn | July 30, 2008
Charles Osgood takes a look at the life of Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch, who became such a famous inspiration after his “Last Lecture” appeared on YouTube and inspired millions around the world.
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4 Keys to Good Health
By Jacklyn | July 28, 2008
Still in the air of joyous celebrating mood for our Food Safety Excellence Award, I like to share one of my post I wrote for my Nutritional Immunology health blog here. May you enjoy getting all these health tips and start taking actions to lead a healthy, wealthy and happy life.
1. Stable Emotion ~ “Don’t worry, be happy!” Do you know that everytime when we are very angry or stressed, our body will secret a hormone call corticosteroid which will suppress our immune system? Long term anxiety and restlessness will cause our immunity to fall rapidly and unable to work optimally. As we’ve discussed how our immune system can protect us and keep us healthy, now I think getting angry or stressed is too high a price to pay, don’t you agree?
2. Exercise ~ The benefits of exercise has been emphasized over and over again. Do not overlook how light and moderate exercise can help us too. Regular deep breathing and after-dinner walks not only keep our fitness, it keeps us in calm and joyous mood as well.
3. Quality Sleep and Rest ~ Everyone needs sleep. It is during sleep that our body cells can repair and rejuvenate themselves. Quality sleep does not mean sleeping for long hours. Have you experience feeling even more tired and zombie after sleeping for too long? Quality sleep is going into deep sleep without disturbance. Adult that sleep about 7-8 hours is more than good enough.
4. Healthy Diet ~ Many people has their own definitions when comes to healthy diet. To some, healthy diet means taking a lot of vitamin and mineral pills. To some, healthy diet means boiling some soups with animal parts or some expensive parts of rare species.. According to Nutritional-Immunology, healthy diet means nutrients deriving from the plant sources. In fact, we use the below 6 criteria to determine if the food is a safe source of nutrition:
(1) Plant source - Plants are high in antioxidants and phytonutrients which are very beneficial to our immune system. On the other hand, animal sources contain fats, hormones, cholesterol, animal protein and viruses which can be very harmful to us.
(2) Healthy Plants - Not all natural plants are healthy. Some plants have medicinal properties, some are very toxic and some are additive which we cannot use them in big quantities and long term.
(3) Wholesome Plants - Wholesome means not going through chemical processing.
(4) Varieties & Quantity - Choosing a variety of plant foods is also crucial for there is no particular plant that can accommodate all of our nutritional needs. Scientists say that we must consume at least 10 different types of plant foods daily for an adequate supply of nutrients.
(5) Power Nutrients - Power nutrients like phytochemicals, antioxidants and polysaccharides are essential in our diet to boost, strengthen and balance our immune system.
(6) Functional Foods that can help our immune system to repair any damage cells in our body.
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E.Excel International Recognized For Food Safety Excellence Award
By Jacklyn | July 27, 2008
Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) of Singapore published this year’s Food Safety Excellence Award recipient list last Friday 18th July 2008 on Singapore’s The Straits Times. For E.Excel International, this is definitely worth our celebration because our Singapore Manufacturing Plant, Extra Excellence Manufacturing (S) Pte Ltd, is awarded the Bronze Award! AVA Food Safety Excellence Bronze Award is awarded to “Food factories with “A” grading for consecutive 5 years.
The Food Safety Excellence Award recognizes excellence in food hygiene, sanitation and processing under the Food Factory Grading Scheme by Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) of Singapore. This annual award presentation honors companies that have consistently maintained high standards of food safety.
Being conferred this honor spurs E.Excel International to continuously employ highly qualified researchers and cutting-edge technology to assure consumers of nutritious products of the highest safety standards. E.Excel International thanks all E.Excellers around the world for our untiring devotion in championing the company’s noble mission to see more people gain good health through the teaching of Nutritional Immunology.
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How You Say Things Matters
By Jacklyn | July 20, 2008
A former colleague used to feel irritated whenever her supervisor went up to her with an assignment, saying: “I want you to do this for me.”
I raised her hackles because she herself always approached others politely, with a “please”, “could you” or “would you”. Someone marching up to her with an “I want” order, made worse by the “for me” tack-on, did not sit well with her, even if she reported to that person.
Indeed, how we say something is often much more important than what we say. In my ex-colleague’s case, her supervisor’s favourite demand left her feeling as if she had to drop everything else to see to each new task, and wondering why she was being spoken to like an indentured servant.
Is your approach high-handed?
When we tell our co-workers “Do this” and “Do that”, the message we communicate is that we think they are so free, and their other jobs so unimportant, that we needn’t bother with the courtesy of asking if we may trouble them to do more, or to ask if they can cope with another task on their plates.
Ultimately, the job must be given, but the process of giving it can be made more pleasant by taking a polite approach, never assuming that she can do it, and being open to reshuffling duties a little to free up some space on her schedule for the new task.
Only for very routine assignments when staff regularly come in expecting to be given work for the day, can you afford to say more plainly:”Okay, A does this hob, B takes this one, and C will do this other thing.”
Are you downplaying others’ responsibilities?
Possibly worse than giving orders is downplaying the difficulty of a colleague’s job. “But it’s only one little change”, “Why can’t you just…” and “It’s not that hard to do, right?” are among the lines we thoughtlessly drop when asking someone to take on something new, or amend what they’ve already done.
As one designer memorably (and bitterly) quipped to co-workers who were asking for “just one little” alteration to a graphic: “Of course it’s easy to do it because you’re only using your mouth.”
Something that looks simple to you may involve a fair deal of trouble for the person executing it. Even if it is easy-peasy, your colleague could have completed that job and moved on to something else. Making “just one little change” can throw off his schedule and flow of thought.
Avoid words like “only”, “just”, and “All I’m asking…” Instead, acknowledge that they are busy, and apologise if you are interrupting another bit of work. It doesn’t change the fact that you are asking them to do more, but it does help that they know that you know it isn’t necessarily easy.
Watch your words
In sum, always ask nicely; never be presumptuous. Don’t order people about unless you’re a military commander, in which case you would be a fool to try to tack like: “Very sorry to trouble you, man, but would you mind terribly if you took a shot at the target now, before it shoots us first?”
Don’t downplay others’ jobs. It creates resentment as they will assume that you ask them to do things because you think they have a lot of spare time on their hands.
Article in courtesy of Adele Ong
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