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Reconnect with Family Today

Posted in People, personal stories, tagged on December 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Merry Christmas everyone. Hope all of you are spending time with loved ones. I’m fortunate enough to be spending Christmas with my extended family up at Snoqualmie Pass, watching snow falling while warm in front of a fire. I’ll be up on the slopes later today. Tonight, we’ll be enjoying a big Christmas feast for [...]

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Anglo-EU (American) Translation Guide

Posted in People, travel, tagged , , on November 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Having worked with the British most of my career, I could have used this translation guide a lot sooner. The confusion across the channel is just the same across the Atlantic. In conclusion, it seems that  I’ve been always overly optimistic working with the British (haha).

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Remembering 9/11

Posted in People, Politics, tagged on September 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »

I’m about to board a flight to London from SeaTac Airport. Ten years ago today, I was living and working in London when a staff member told me that a terrorist had flown a plane into a building in New York City. I brushed it off as misinformation or a possible accident as I was [...]

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Enjoy the Surprise Upgrades in Your Life

Posted in People, self-improvement, travel, tagged , , on August 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

As a frequent traveler, I’ve gotten free airline upgrades from time to time. If you travel enough, an upgrade can make the time on the airplane much, much better. Anyway, who doesn’t feel good when they get something nice unexpectedly? Several times, however, I was already so tired and grumpy that an upgrade just didn’t [...]

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Diversity Spice of Life

Posted in People, tagged , , on July 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

As I’ve written many times, I have a great love for different cultures and foods. In Seattle, I’m lucky to have a group of friends who share the same passion. I encourage you to start your own group.

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Unlikely of Friends in the Unlikeliest of Situations

Posted in People, travel, Uncategorized, tagged , on May 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Twenty-six years ago (1985), I showed up in Seoul as a naive Korean-American student looking to find my roots. The problem was that I had very little Korean language skills and even less cultural perspective. At the time, a 6′ 4″ bald white man befriended me and took me under his wing. No one stuck out [...]

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Cannot Do Good in this World Without Doing Some Evil

Posted in business, entrepreneur, lifehacks, People, tagged , on March 31, 2011 | 2 Comments »

A friend today said that you can’t do good in this world without doing some evil. So true. If you want to really positively affect the world, you need to be live in the world, which inevitably means making some mistakes. Passion will lead to greatness and positive impact, but it also will definitely push [...]

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Appreciate Random Sadness as much as Happiness

Posted in lifehacks, People, tagged , , , on January 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Life is meant to be an ebb and flow of experiences and emotions. It is not meant to be one continuous ride of happiness. How utterly boring would that be? Some people complain non-stop about being sad and unhappy, and chase “happiness” at all costs. These are truly imbalanced lives. In my life, I’ve been [...]

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Reaching Goals by Compromising

Posted in business, management, People, tagged , , , on December 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

To be an effective person in business and in life, people need to understand how to move different scenarios toward their objective. In many cases, this means “losing” the argument for the sake of ”achieving” the overall goal. Easier said than done.  For example, if you want to close a deal in negotiations, you will have to inevitably give in some areas in [...]

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Soft-Shell Turtle Soup, Carls Jr & World travel

Posted in People, society, travel, tagged , on October 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

It’s layover in Taipei International Airport, after 12 hours in the air from Seattle. Everything’s just a little too familiar. Instinctively, I made my way to the connecting “C” gates through yet another security check point. I have about 45 minutes to kill before the business center opens at 6am when I will check my [...]

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