One area of my book that I plan to expand and develop on is feedback.
I think getting feedback is important but it can be a double-edged sword depending on a few aspects.
1) How the feedback is asked
2) How the feedback is given
3) How the feedback is processed by the recipient

Those are some of the areas I will look into.

Exciting news from one niece to another niece, but on a different subject.
My lovely 14-year old (13.76 years to be exact) niece Cameron in Canada has graduated from the Elementary Grades and will start high school this September. In a few weeks’ time, she will also graduate from the Raymond school after 6 years of weekly Skype lessons.
I am confident that she is an excellent and outstanding graduate from both schools. I am (and the world) expecting great things from her :>

My adult niece told me over the weekend together with her husband via Skype that she is pregnant and their baby is due in Dec.
Congratulations to Vivian and Jeremy:>
By X’mas, they will become proud parents for the first time. I will become a proud great uncle for the second time as my nephew (her brother) has a 14-month old son (my great nephew).

I watched it last night in 3D. My rating is 7/10.
Let me start with pros. The special effects are good and so is the moral of the story.
The youngest actor is adorable but the adults are not as outstanding.
Lastly, I thought the dialogues can be wittier (perhaps they can make the dinosaurs talk as well :>)

A friend of mine who knows that I love frogs sent me this link from a major UK newspaper The Telegraph featuring a Reinwardt’s flying frog, photographed in East Java, Indonesia. In the picture, the frog is ready to give a devastating kick. Such a cool picture. Check it out :>

YES – Through a combination of my “passionate” hard-sell and extremely generous support from friends and family, I am down to 9 copies from my target of 300 copies. When I mentioned publicly that I would tone down drastically my personal effort of selling my book (and let them alone) individually, some people pointed out to me that it might be considered as a marginal case of “harassment”.

What I mean is the ability to separate different elements from a single entity and treat them individually if needed. For example, if your friend’s action offended you, by putting a “mental/psychological separation” between the offensive act and the person, you may find yourself easier to forgive him/her and move on.

A friend of mine at the receiving end of coaching told me that she found it helpful by simply hearing herself out in a coaching session. She added that sometimes when she starts to explain herself to the coach, then she realizes that it does not make sense even to herself. Furthermore, the additional benefit of having the coach as the sounding board providing an objective framework is definitely beneficial.

A friend of mine told me that he read my book while he was waiting at the US immigration line for almost 3 hours. It was very “fortunate” that he had my book in his carry-on luggage!

I actually have suggested in multiple occasions to various people that my book would be a perfect travel companion for trips, long and short. I am glad that someone did listen to me. In addition, I have received some positive (and fair) feedback from him.

A point of clarification is quite needed as some people misunderstood me when I told them that I am going through a metamorphosis. They thought I was turning into a gigantic bug like the fiction by Franz Kafka,
There are 2 meanings of the word Metamorphosis.
The first one is a term used in zoology referring to the process of transformation of an insect or amphibian from an immature form to an adult form in two or more distinct stages.
The second meaning is a change of the form or nature of a thing or person into a completely different one. I thought it was clear to everyone that I was referring to the second meaning. I was referred as a “social butterfly” before, but I am actually not an insect!