What are you?

2008-09-05T04:47:00.002+08:00

Many youth who start out using the computer nowadays inevitably grap an e-mail address from hotmail, or less commonly, from gmail and yahoo mail. I don't know why hotmail is the preferred platform. I still don't know. I can only speculate that that's where the action is, what with the immense popularity of MSN Chat.

But your choice of an e-mail address name, or for that matter your second, has become a subject of study by some professors in Germany's University of Leipzig's Psychology Department. This study suggests that your choice of e-mail name reveals something about your personality. Well, nothing wrong with that. Youth are always eager to put their own unique stamp in the community they are in, and that often is in the form of a unique and unforgettable e-mail address name, such as 'devilmaycare', 'morningrose' or some similar name.

Human Resource people warn, however, that if you have such unconventional monikers, you'd want to be careful that you do not put it down as your contact e-mail address when you apply for a job. It says that employers generally want 'consistency in the people they hire'. So an e-mail with an unusual name may prejudice your search for that perfect job.

Rudder of Life

2008-09-01T09:18:00.000+08:00

Rudder of Life was started to blog about living, working and studying in today's society. It is particularly targeted at youth as these are the people I am often interacting with.

In my line of work, I constantly come across people who either do not have a sense of direction in their lives, or who face problems of one sort or another not related to their mental and academic ability. I often feel sad when I meet these people, who can be helped, but may not know who to turn to.

I also come across people who do not, cannot or will not think of tomorrow. This is almost suicidal in the cat-chase-mouse kind of society that we often live in today. To survive, you must either ensure that you are the cat, or if circumstances would have it, a quick or clever mouse (or both). But what if you are neither?

This blogs also contains my own experiences growing up, and like today's youth, learn from the hits and misses in life. I have not always been successful, or right in my choices the first time around, but I have learnt to accept and live through those choices, and, thank God, have seen wrong decisions turn out right in the end.

Plus there is good plain advice out there, whether on the internet or the world wide experience of people who have 'been there, done that' who can drop us pearls of wisdom, which we ignore to our own peril.

This blog does not aim to be prescriptive, nor does it claim to know everything nor right in all things, but I hope this blog will be a help to some people sometime somewhere.