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I do some of my best thinking on long drives.

A few years back, while I was doing a slow 4 hours drive, it suddenly hit me that the highway is so much like life. So many parallels, and so many lessons we can learn from them. The ideas hit me fast and furious until I had to stop the car and start writing them down.

Since then, many times when I’m on the road I come across a new parallel, a new lesson, a new idea. I have jotted down my thoughts over the years intending to publish them into a book one day, even had a major publishers who was interested to help me. I’m still thinking about it, everything in its time. I guess I really just want to share the ideas and lessons for the benefit of all, and the author stuff can take a backseat.

In my work, I’ve founded and exited tech startups. Some successful, some not so successful. I’m learning. Now I mainly focus my work on tech business strategy and business acceleration for both MNCs and startups alike. Good thing is, I advise and work with a few Fortune 500 companies that keeps the petrol in the tank while I plough (sometimes admittedly idealistic) at helping more tech startups, but more in an advisory/mentoring role instead of operational. In all my craziness busy-ness, this blog has become very special to me. It’s here that I take time to slow down and think about life and where it’s headed. To see transient things in their real context of co-sojourners, separation, and even death (I like to call it my MAJOR exit strategy :p).

It’s here that I am constantly reminded life is so much more than just career, business, and making money.

It’s here that I found you, a co-sojourner on the highway of life whom I hope will be around till the end of the journey, wherever that leads us.

WELCOME ONBOARD!

Although some of the posts you see here are not exactly lessons of life from the highway in a direct sense, I always try to make my posts related to the highway. As this is the only personal blog I actively maintain for now, you’ll see that sometimes I come across something that grips me and I can’t help but blog about it here even though it may not be entirely related to the theme of this blog.

13 Comments

  • sarzi
    June 23, 2007 at 12:18 pm

    I have many posts about life in my early blogging days. I have a particular post, in fact, which is titled “Lessons from the Highway of Life”. Yes, we are indeed co-sojourners.

    Hi Sarzi my co-sojourner, thanks for dropping by! It’s my pleasure to have you visit. Wow.. I must go read your post on the “Lessons from the Highway of Life”!

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  • denise67
    June 24, 2007 at 2:24 pm

    Hi there,
    Thanks for taking your precious time to visit my posts and have your comments there.
    I love speeding. But in a safety manners. I do think a lot along the highway with the music on. Sometimes I like sentimental but sometime I like hot music. Me too, have a wishful thought that may be someday, I could publish my story into a book. This idea still on now and then, but…anyway, I will work hard on it. You too,okay?

    thanks and we’ll both work hard :) Left my comments on your blog.

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  • Blue Heavens
    July 9, 2007 at 9:05 am

    Hi!

    Thanks for stopping by! You’ve some pretty cool posts over here too!

    Wayne

    thanks for dropping over with your comments too :D

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  • Andy
    October 5, 2007 at 9:00 pm

    Thanks for dropping by and your comments! Lets travel well and adventurously on the Highway of life! :) Drive safely too! :)

    Thanks Andy :) ‘adventurous’ and ’safe’ don’t always go hand in hand yeah?

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  • Peace
    December 20, 2007 at 12:57 am

    Life is equivalent to the highway if you are rich. The faster you drive the more shiok you feel. But that is dangerous, but people love thrill. Life is merely walking beside the highway, on the pathway or pavement for the less fortunate. They have to catch up with the race otherwise. Don’t drive too fast, if you drive too fast, the road-builder think yr life is too good.

    Haiz, just my views about life. We all have different views, depending on yr own personal experiences.

    Interesting viewpoints. Cheers : )

    Hi Peace :) Thanks for dropping your insightful comments. Indeed, I perfectly understand what you mean!!
    But do you notice sometimes in a traffic jam, it’s the overtaking lane that moves the slowest? Food for thought :p

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  • Peace
    December 20, 2007 at 2:20 am

    Haha, that’s why this world is make perfect with different mixture of people. I have not drove on the highway for years. So that is why we have to visit blogs to see the highways. :) Cheaper too. So be sure to give us the best food here.

    hehe… food I can’t serve on the highway lah… but you can come join us for a Slingers’ game where’s there’s lotsa food and drinks!

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  • Ken Chee
    April 13, 2008 at 1:54 am

    Found you here. :) Time to catch up after 3 years.

    Hi there Ken :) Nice to hear from you, indeed an overdue catchup is much needed!

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  • Benn
    April 30, 2008 at 1:27 am

    Yoh! very well written…
    Heard from you too around our Legends club time, luckily someone found blog for you to unleash otherwise U ll go “gila” with such a long story stuck in your mind for so long :-) Let publish it to benefit other too…

    LOL… you still remember sia!

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  • zola
    June 27, 2008 at 5:52 pm

    I am Zola, editor of http://www.elitechoice.org/. Here I have a small thing to share with you. At elitechoice, I am running a series of Elite Blogger i.e. http://www.elitechoice.org/category/elite-blogger/. The Eliteblogger series aims to capture 125 EliteBlogs (http://www.elitechoice.org/2007-round-up-top-125-elite-blogs/) along with top 100 blogs ranked at technorati and other worthy names residing at blogosphere. We over at EliteChoice love your blog CNET Asia and am interested in featuring you onto my series with a running interview. Looking forward to hear from you soon.
    Best regards
    Zola marquis
    http://www.elitechoice.org/

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  • Sham
    July 7, 2008 at 8:06 am

    ill comment here directly instead of your Ping-Highway analogy post.

    I just discovered this blog cuz its on the Top 10 (as of 7/7/2008) and I really think that your blog as well as mine is similar in the sense that we are moving. Maybe our destinations are different, but we are moving nonetheless.

    I shall copy your RSS to my reader, I hope you update more frequently than I do. *chuckles*

    all the best,
    Sham

    Dear Sham, thanks for your nice comment and adding the RSS :) hahaha… good one – this is quite a ’seasonal blog’ heh

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  • Spydr
    November 25, 2008 at 5:08 pm

    Quite like-minded, I must admit.
    Interesting viewpoints, good expressions.
    C0-sojourner – how true we but journey thru our lives that are so mysteriously intertwined even though most of us are but strangers….

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  • swee kin
    April 20, 2009 at 11:38 am

    Hi Nic,

    Thanks for leaving the note on my blog :) Are you still playing music?

    hey yeah I am. What about you?

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