Wilson Ng started helping the family business since 9 years old. Since then, he had dreamt to be a successful entrepreneur, one who starts great businesses  ( he has started 7) from scratch with insight, guts and initiative. He keeps his focus on growing the business by creating value-- not on politics, or wasteful distractions. He brings the same focus to community service, teaching, life and family.

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	Friday, October 29, 2004

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional  I got note a few days ago that I was recognized again as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for 2005.  I'm really happy on this.  For the last of my 20 years, I have been working on technology, and talking/working/writing about how it is used for business.  In fact, I built my businesses ( see sidebar) with the slogan, "Translating Technology to Business Strength", and talking about how technology and managing  merge has always been my passion.  It is great not only to be recognized, but being so recognized do make me a little bit more credible, as well as of course, getting advanced goodies and technical information from Microsoft is always appreciated. This year, other than delivering speeches, and writing articles in newspapers, I will have an additional channel to pursue this evangelization,  this blog, which I will try to update at least 4 or 5 times a week.  To know where I'm coming from, you might want to check out WHY BLOG?  and also ABOUT ME, here.  I will also appreciate if you can WRITE ME on suggestions on what to cover, or some questions on using technology in business. 9:59:29 AM     comment []   trackback []

Knowing Where its Coming From   ( tidbits) Here are some light materials after a week of heavy business and tech stuff... I was going over the October issue of Reader's Digest and noted with interest about  where the word "rule of thumb" came from.  It says that it actually came from an old English law that prohibits a husband from beating his wife with anything thicker than the thumb.... I threw it for discussion on an online social network called Ecademy, and a good friend, Englishman Jim Wade, refuted that the English really practiced it.  He pointed me out to a web site that showed that it was really an urban myth... but there WAS actually a medieval Welsh law that says you can beat your wife, but the stick should not be thicker than the middle finger, and no longer than a forearm, and no more than 3 blows, and never to the head.   Strictly, it should have been called the rule of the middle finger.  At any rate, it makes good reading, and you may want to check it out......   Aren't we glad we are more civilized now??? At any rate, it got me interested in certain terminologies, and did some readings.  Do you know that Bootleg CDs, which is what we in the industry call illegally transported or produced CDs actually refers to the original practice of someone carrying liquor in his boots to conceal it.  It was said that in the late 1800s and early 1900s, most whisky were illegaly consumed or transported using this "bootleg" plan. If you've been called cynical, you may also want to know the Cynis was a minor Socratic school founded by Antisthenes (c. 445-365 BCE), a follower of Socrates. The Cynics believed that living a virtuous life, which they also identified with living according to nature, is necessary and sufficient for attaining happiness. They disdained conventional values, such as wealth and social status, which they thought were opposed to living according to nature. 9:42:53 AM     comment []   trackback []

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