Pearl's Blog

By Monitor Lizard Last updated: Fri Jul 4, 2008 5:33am PDT
  • Old Pals

    By Monitor Lizard, on Fri Jul 4, 2008 5:33am PDT

    Its strange when you connect with old pals. Especially if you do so after...like a decade...or so. You have this image of the person and you anticipate that they would be the same as before. You may meet the same person...but the intervening years and their unique experiences change them. I... Read More »

  • Contentment

    By Monitor Lizard, on Thu Jul 3, 2008 2:13am PDT

    I am content. I am employed in a job I wanted to do and have my little family with me, by my side, supporting my decisions. And as luck would have it, I also have a sweet boss who understands the need for a work-life balance - particularly necessary for women with kids and families. I wanted to go... Read More »

  • Contentment

    By Monitor Lizard, on Wed Jul 2, 2008 11:21pm PDT

    I am content. I am employed in a job I wanted to do and have my little family with me, by my side, supporting my decisions. And as luck would have it, I also have a sweet boss who understands the need for a work-life balance - particularly necessary for women with kids and families. I wanted to go... Read More »

  • How to manage teams

    By Monitor Lizard, on Wed Jul 2, 2008 9:22pm PDT

    Influencing people I think managing people is more difficult than anything else in this world. One can scale great heights through determination and self-belief, but if one has the ability to take others along with them - that's real achievement. But how do you win people over? I know there are scores of self-help books that tell you all about how to influence people and make them buy into your ideas, but when you actually try it, does it really work? Read More »

  • Order out of chaos: the single-point agenda of all religions

    By Monitor Lizard, on Tue Jul 1, 2008 2:17am PDT

    Where have all the messiah's gone? If God spoke to Jesus and Mohammed nearly 2000 years ago, why has he stopped talking to man now? While some may argue that there are no 'true' saints or saviours in our times and that God would only communicate with someone who was a highly evolved human being, I still find it hard to believe that after all the development that the world has seen in the last 2000 years, there is not even a handful of really great humans who have evolved to the level of Jesus and Mohammed! Read More »

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I love reading and writing. I have just started blogging, though, because I am concerned about my privacy. I would really dislike getting responses from rude people. I like peace and harmony in my surroundings and prefer polite people.