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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	Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Modern Day Magicians  (On Life ) I am one of probably thousands of parents who are enjoying the latest Harry Potter book, The Half Blood Prince with their children.  We took turns reading, and discussing various aspects of the book.  The story continues to spin its magic.  I particularly liked great quotes which came out of J.K. Rowling's masterful pen.  First is the quote of Albus Dumbledore - ' naturally, I make mistakes, like the next man.  IN fact, being, forgive me - rather clever than most men, my mistakes tend to be corresponding huger.'  This is an insight.  The more intelligent and deep a person is, the less mistakes he will make, but some of his mistakes can actually also be more bizarre and stupid than dumb people can ever make.  To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin, which is also one of my favorite quotes expressing the same thing, ' the most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine." The other gem was discussed by the teacher during apparition class.  This is what he announced. 'Always remember the 3Ds when apparating.  These are  destination. determination. deliberation.   Step 1. Fix your mind firmly upon the desired destination.   Step 2.  Focus your determination to occupy the visualized space.  Let your yearning to enter it flood from your mind to every particle of your body.   Step 3.  Move with deliberation.   This is not only a formula for learning apparition, but apparently a formula for getting things done, and accomplishing success.   The last thing I want to share was a feeling I had ever since Book 1 or Book2.  How could these kids treat learning magic with such unseriousness.  Isn't it obvious that at almost every turn, their very success and oftentimes, their very lives depend on their mastering the magic, and yet they treat it with such abandon?  How could anybody, when presented an opportunity to learn magic, fail to make full use of it?   Eventually, however, I started to think -- it is not only them that had the opportunity to learn magic and did not make full use of it.  We all have the opportunity,even everyday to learn some skills or new technology that when properly applied is the difference between success and failure, or between happiness and despair.  We have in our hands, more power and more wisdom than the most powerful wizards to communicate, to learn, and to do modern day magic.     We have it all within us, and it is all around us, everyday of the week.  Are we making full use of it?  Do we, with all the technology and computing power we have, stupidly wish for antique tricks and incantations?  Do we still fail to make it to become better and happier?   What do old wizards and witches have that we don't?         8:01:23 PM     comment []   trackback []

The Death of the PC is Greatly Exaggerated   (techdrivenlife) For the last few years, rumors and reports have circulated about the imminent death of the general purpose personal computer, as other devices were introduced.  These range from the network computer, to TIVOs, to mp3 players, to game stations, and the personal digital assistant and the tablets.  For sure, there are now more people with cell phones than personal computers, even if cell phones come almost 10 years after. However, the growth of the PC seems to continue to be robust, and according to IDC, worldwide shipments of personal computers rose 16.6 percent in the second quarter as surging international demand and price wars drove shipments to their highest quarterly growth rate in nearly five years. Market leader Dell Inc. distanced itself from No. 2 PC maker Hewlett-Packard Co. by posting 23.7 percent growth in the second quarter compared with 16.3 percent for HP. The top 5 computer makers in terms of market share were Dell ( 19.3%), HP ( 15.6%), Lenovo/IBM ( 7.6 %), Acer ( 4.4%), and Fujitsu/Siemens ( 3.7%).  Gartner reported slightly different figures as it reported that worldwide PC shipments totaled 48.9 million units in the second quarter of 2005, a 14.8 percent increase from the same period last year. The market growth in the US, Europe/ Middle East/Africa, Asia-Pacific and Latin America were all in double figures. Whichever you look at it, it seems like the PC's death is still years away to come.     1:20:07 PM     comment []   trackback []

Comparison of Major Blogging Platforms  ( techdrivenlife) I'd like to thank my friend Michael Jones, who pointed me to a USC Online Journalism article that provides a strong summary of the major blog tools, including a handy features chart. Incidentally, I came across a forum where somebody was asking if it is possible to 'RSS' enable a website.  Here is one utility and site that probably might do the job. And talking about Really Simple Syndication, you will probably be able to see in most websites having RSS feeds that you are given a choice between RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0 or Atom feeds. Here is a link that will inform you what is the difference between RSS and Atom.   1:19:18 PM     comment []   trackback []

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