The Little Book Box by NLB
The Little Book Box is a book subscription service by the NLB targeted at young readers aged four to nine, offering a broad range of genres. It’s a carefully curated selection by the librarians suitable for children’s interests aimed at nurturing their love for reading. Read more about it here.
Although targeted at children, I’m very interested in the program and opted to subscribe to support this NLB initiative.
Death
One day—some day—in the future, this will be my home. I’ll be given the role of a corpse. I’ll be lying still under the ground and I’ll have a tombstone with my name engraved on it.
Until then, I’m quite optimistic that I still have approximately 40 years or so of life left in me. How will I use the remaining years of my life? What would I have done? Who would I have become when I am 84?
Keep Creating
I burst into tears when I reached the part in the talk where Elizabeth Gilbert uttered those words in the above quote. I was re-watching some talks on TED and one of them is Gilbert’s Success, failure and the drive to keep creating. I love her book Big Magic (my book notes).
For Gilbert, her home has always been writing. She says:
Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself. So that might be creativity, it might be family, it might be invention, adventure, faith, service, it might be raising corgis, […]
Jurong Bird Park Singapore
The last time I visited the Jurong Bird Park was about 10 years ago. Last week, I visited it again and this time with my friend and former colleague, Eunis. We spent the whole day exploring the bird park starting at about 10 AM through to around 5 PM. I was knackered by the time I was home but utterly satisfied.
3-day Work Week
Today, on this Friday, I ended the chapter on my conventional work-life. My initial plan was to enter into early retirement to play full-time—to focus on my personal projects and interests. My employer, though, has a better idea and because of that, I will be entering into an interesting phase of redesigned work where I get to do both: play and work.
Important Questions
–Tim Ferriss always seems to ask the best questions: What would this look like if it were easy? How will you know if you don’t experiment? What would less be like? The one that hit me the hardest, when I was maybe 25, was “What do you do with your money?” The answer was “Nothing, really.” OK, so why try so hard to earn lots more of it?
The passage above I stole from Ryan Holiday in his blog post "33 Things I Stole From People Smarter Than Me on the Way to 33."
