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Koffee Hardknocks
(New page since 4th August 98. This time, it's about life.)

Why this name for the page? Happened today, this afternoon, 4 Aug 98. In the MTR, on my way to the client's office. Had an inspiration when reading up this book, "Dare to Fail", written by author, Billi P. S. Lim, from Malaysia. The idea is to put up a quote a day, maybe every two days. To ponder it over espresso or latte during quiet moments. About failures, mistakes and overcoming them. Quoted 5 days a week.

Very badly, we all need the courage to fail, get beaten, try again, try again, try again, face adversities, keep our chins up, and come out stronger, smarter and more resilient. Ready for more good ol' fashioned challenges. That is, forget being "Kiasu" (fear of failing), "Kia See" (fear of dying), and "Kia Bo" (fear of the wife). (We Singaporeans know about these terrible 3Ks affliction).  If you see this book anywhere, GET it.

(Next weekly update from 15 Dec 98)

8 December 98

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there. (Elizabeth Clarke Dunn)

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself,  but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. (Robert F. Kennedy)

5 December 98

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty. (Walter Scott)

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution. (Francis Bacon)

4 December 98

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take--choose the bolder. (W. J. Slim)

In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest. (Livy)

3 December 98

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach. (William Ellery Channing)

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.  (Henry Ford II)

2 December 98

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fibre. (Frank Crane)

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret. (Henri-Frédéric Amiel)

1 December 98

Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in. (Katherine Mansfield)

Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting. (Arthur Brisbane)

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