the personal blog of C.K.Koay
Irrelevant and self-serving snippets of my personal life.
The first time I meditated, the soothing voice on the app instructed me to picture myself sitting beside a road, watching my thoughts zip by like passing cars.
Seemed simple enough.
Continue reading “The first time I meditated”
Gaming is serious business. It’s now worth at least five times more than the movie and music industries combined.
I’ve loved playing computer games for as long as I can remember. It probably started in a dingy, cigarette-smoke-filled arcade on the upper floor of Federal Bowl in the early eighties. Bored out of my mind while my father and his colleagues enjoyed their bowling downstairs, I would plot my escape from those mundane evenings—one twenty-sen coin at a time—into the pixelated worlds of Pac-Man, Galaga and Space Invaders.
Continue reading “Life is a Game”
There I was, peacefully enjoying my Saturday morning coffee when my eyes landed on the Chinese New Year decorations still stubbornly clinging to my house.
Continue reading “On Permanent Display”
I have a slightly obsessive relationship with background music while working. I like to match beats to brainwaves.
Continue reading “Working Soundtrack”
It was supposed to be a casual meet up but we ended up poisoning each other.
Last Sunday, three friends (me included) wandered into a digital mall in PJ, armed with credit cards and lethal doses of persuasive skills. You see, when marketing folks shop together, we don’t just encourage each other– we deploy the same psychological tactics we typically reserve for work.
Continue reading “FOMO Friendly Fire”
“The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”
I wish I could claim that nugget of wisdom as my own, but unfortunately, some Harvard Business School professor beat me to it decades ago.
Continue reading “Saying “No” and getting what you want”