I ran across this comment while reading the news about the Allen Iverson going to Memphis Grizzlies. It was posted by numba333. I guess this answers any questions whether AI will fit into the Memphis Grizzlies system and whether this revives his career, etc. hehe
Without further due, here is the comment:
Mayo dribbles up the court, looking for his shot…..STOLEN by Allen Iverson. What the heck? Mayo is guarding AI. Iverson looking for his shot. Can’t get it off. Randolph screaming for the ball. STRIPPED by Gay!!!! Gay goes up for the shot. BLOCKED by Randolph. Randolph for layup, misses, rebound, misses, rebound, misses, rebound, misses, rebound….Mayo leaps takes the ball away, dribbles it out, doubleteamed by Gay and AI. Nets just standing around watching in disbelief.
Marc Gasol is drinking a Gatorade…..this is embarassing……
While talking to a friend today, I visited Google Maps, a function within Google that I used to use back when I was in US daily. I had stopped using it in Mongolia because there really is not much to show for… But guess what I found?!
Mongolia IS on the Map!
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia map on Google
I could not believe it, but I am very happy about this. Finding places is always a pain, especially for tourists, foreigners, and Mongolians like me who don’t always know where everything is located. The thing is… in Mongolia, people don’t use street names. No one knows street names here. Everyone goes by places… as in where something is located next to some place that people know. Often, those places don’t even exist anymore, but the name remained.
In any case, the Google Maps has the names of places on the map. How cool is that?
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“It’s all about people and relationships”
It’s not just “who you know” or “who knows you”. It’s more like “who is a fan of you”. The more people are excited about you, believe in you, and genuinely want to help you succeed, the more likely you are going to succeed. And, you can foster this by hanging around with the right people, being helpful and respectful to others, and just simply adding more value to other people’s lives.
The above is just a summary of some of the leading or my personal favorite thoughts in the same subject matter:
- Zig Ziglar always says that “you can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” As the years pass, I feel that I am finally starting to really understand this concept, but I would say that I probably do still have some ways to go to fully understand and to live this concept day in and day out.
- My friend and mentor David Nemelka who I am very thankful to have met said to me once “the only way to be really successful in this world is to add enough value in other people’s lives.”
- “People do business with people.” Your customers do not really care about your products or services. They are looking to fill their needs. And, they would rather do this with someone they like.
- A wise internet marketer (I don’t exactly recall who) also said that “if you had 1000 passionate fans, you would be wildly successful no matter what you were doing”
Lately, my mission has been to meet with people and to learn more about how I can add value to other people’s lives.
I think the concept that “it’s the giver who gets the most” applies here. People who give to others actually feel better and live more happily, but they also get back more in return and not necessarily from the people they have helped. Dacher Keltner talked about this on the DishyMix show with Susan Bratton. It is a great two-podcast series you should most definitely listen!
So, this is my mantra for what is remaining of this month (a few hours of August) and probably the next month or two. Please share with me your thoughts and ideas on this. Thanks!
Posted
on August 31, 2009, 17:43,
by Mergen,
under
Mergen.
Posted
on August 7, 2009, 18:33,
by Mergen,
under
Mongolia.
ULAANBAATAR, MONGOLIA – Starting tonight at 24:00 clock, Peace Avenue will be closed in portions for construction from West 4-way intersection (baruun durvun zam) to East 4-way intersection (zuun durvun zam). The purpose of the construction project is to expand Peace Avenue and to add underground pedestrian crossing in an area near a hospital named “Iontsei”.
The first part of the project will involve section of Peace Avenue from West 4-way to State Department store and will take roughly 15 days to complete. The section of the road from Mongolian State University of Education to the Wrestlers Palace is expected to take 28 days to complete.
FYI: Peace Avenue is the main road connecting Ulaanbaatar and is the longest stretch of road in the city. It runs West to East.
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Posted
on August 7, 2009, 17:53,
by Mergen,
under
Монгол.
Нийслэлд өнөөдрөөс автозам засвар, шинэчлэлийн ажил эхэлж байна. Энхтайваны өргөн чөлөөний замын өргөтгөл шинэчлэлийн ажил хийхтэй холбогдуулан замыг хэсэгчлэн хааж нийтийн тээврийн vйлчилгээний чиглэлvvдийн хөдөлгөөнд өөрчлөлт оруулахаар болжээ. Өнөөдөр 24.00 цагаас эхлэн төв зам хэсэгчлэн хаагдах бөгөөд эл хугацаанд Баруун дөрвөн замаас Зvvн дөрвөн замын хооронд автозамын өргөтгөл шинэчлэл хийх, “Ионсей” эмнэлгийн ард явган зорчигч гарах нvхэн гарц хийх зэрэг барилга угсралтын ажил хийгдэх аж. Эхний ээлжинд Баруун дөрвөн замаас Их дэлгvvр хvртэлх замыг 15 хоног, Багшийн дээдээс Бөхийн өргөө хvртэлх замыг 28 хоногийн турш бvрэн хаах юм. Зам засварын ажлыг гvйцэтгэхэд зарцуулах хөрөнгийг энэ оны улсын төсөвт гурав орчин тэрбум төгрөгөөр баталсан байна. Нийслэлийн баруун хэсгийн замыг “КТК”, “Төгс зам”, зvvн хэсгийг “Ялгуусан”, “Өргөн говь” компаниуд хариуцан ажиллах бөгөөд Нийслэлийн автозамын газрын лаборатори, Мэргэжлийн хяналтын газрын хяналтын дор зам засварын ажлыг гvйцэтгэх аж. Засварын ажлаар дээрх хэсгийн замд тэгш байдлыг хангасан асфальтан бетоноор тэгшилгээний vе хийгээд зогсохгvй борооны ус зайлуулах далд шугам барих нь vр дvнтэй бvтээн байгуулалт болно гэж vзжээ.
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To NY Times: On August 3, 2009, you published a story about Genghis Khan’s 131-foot statue in Mongolia. The story was written by a journalist named Dan Levin and was well written overall. The only real issue is that your journalist had the audacity to end his post with something along the lines of Genghis Khan and Hitler being the same thing!!
This is totally unacceptable.
First, Chinggis Khaan, the correct spelling for Genghis Khan, is Mongolia’s beloved hero and the founding father of our nation. He is beloved and respected above anything else in Mongolia. To us, he is like Abraham Lincoln, God, and Chuck Norris put together. All jokes aside, your journalist and your post is no laughing matter.
This is how your post ended:
“Mongolian tradition respects our grand ancestors’ names,” she said. “To really honor him, it’s much better to use his name on only premium merchandise.”
Other Mongolians skew a bit more toward realpolitik in their devotion to Genghis Khan, even if they are happy to drink to his memory.
“He was a cruel man but he led our country to greatness,” said Toguldur Munkochir, 25, a bank teller unwinding at the Chinggis Khaan bar later that night. “If you look at Lincoln, Hitler and Julius Caesar, it’s kind of the same thing.”
99.99999% of Mongolians do not feel the same way as this guy “Toguldur”. Chinggis Khaan is NOT the same thing as Hitler.
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On Wednesday July 29, 2009, Tim Cope gave a presentation at Cafe Amsterdam in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on his horseback trekking adventure across the steppes and grasslands of Mongolia to Hungary. Tim spoke of the challenges and issues he faced while traveling during zud (extreme cold winter) and deserts (up to 50C high) from Mongolia through Kazakhtsan, Russia, and Ukraine on the way to Hungary following in the footsteps of Chinggis Khaan, the correct spelling of Genghis Khan.
Here are some highlights of interesting notes and things of which he spoke.
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Posted
on July 30, 2009, 09:59,
by Mergen,
under
Productivity.
Today, I requested a new feature for Gmail. This is the ability to strip or remove email attachments.
Doing so could prevent our inboxes from filling up or using heavy percentage of inbox capacity. This could also be beneficial in freeing up Google servers.
Probably many of used to do the same in Outlook to manage our inbox size under control. I used to strip out attachments in my emails to keep my mail size down. Why not do the same in Gmail?
Maybe I am just being nostalgic or stuck in the past with my habits. I am nowhere close to my full usage, but I do frequently get emails as large as 10-20MB.
How does everyone feel about this?
If you agree with my thoughts, please feel free to visit the new Google groups which I just created to request the feature from Google Labs.
* Group name: Remove email attachments
* Group home page: http://groups.google.com/group/remove-email-attachments
HAPPY SUNDAY!!
Posted
on July 27, 2009, 12:25,
by Mergen,
under
Mongolia.
Lately, it has been raining nearly every day here in Mongolia. And, it has been pouring.
Throughout history, Mongolians are known to have worshiped the eternal blue sky during times of the great Chinggis Khaan (often known as Genghis Khan) and before/after that. Maybe we have maddened the skies, but it has been opened as it’s just been pouring.
The rains of July 17, 2009
This rain was highly destructive. 29 people died from the ensuing floods. Eleven were from Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia. More than 130 families have been displaced from their homes as their gers (traditional Mongolian yurts) were washed away in the floods.
This was a very sad day, but I hope we, Mongolians, will learn from this. I hope we will learn to respect our mother nature and re-learn and re-live at least some of our past traditions. I hope we will not be cutting down trees so much. If we do, at least plant trees for every tree cut. It seems that the international industry wide practice that is used in the lumber and wood industry worldwide is to plant two baby trees per every tree cut. I hope that we will not be throwing all of our trash everywhere. I hope that we will respect our waters and rivers and do our best to keep them clean and running freely. I hope that we will not be building our gers and homes in the flood plains or near the river basin.
There also was another damage that I should mention: the collapsed bridge in Zaisan.
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