I have always loved and appreciated travelling, regardless if it is the nearest country or a place two continents away. This appreciation is one that I started acquiring when growing up with an uncle (Indonesian-born). My father died in a tragic accident when I was just three years old, and my mother was working on [...]
We tend to seek all the easy answers to the world’s pain and suffering. We always complain in the
papers, raise our points in the board room, trade points of view over the dinner table. What we don’t do enough, in my opinion, is act. Although we may have the best interests in mind when we [...]
Unlike most of my peers, I knew what I wanted long before I stepped into college. I was going to study a degree in Accounting or Finance and work toward having an MBA, perhaps with a few professional stints in between. But halfway through my program—in what seemed like my hundredth class in Accounting—I realized [...]
Like many young adults, I went into college with much of my life already planned out for me. A lot of us follow goals and expectations that are not our own, make choices forced upon us by other people’s ambitions, and realize we are going nowhere and inevitably lose our drive. It certainly was the [...]