Category Archives: Life

Robin’s Nest and Robin Babies Outside my Front Door

Posted on September 5, 2017 by stenoodie

Back in May of this year, I had the pleasure to witness a robin’s nest come to life with robin eggs and babies that grew up and later flew away. I had only seen robin eggs and robin babies in … Continue reading →

Posted in Life | Tagged baby robin's wings, bird watching, finding a robin's nest, Hungry baby robins, Markham, mother nature's babies, Nesting robin on a porch lamp, red American robin nest near my home, robin babies, robin feeding worm to babies, robin nest above my front door, robin sitting on her nest, robin's nest, robins, robins in Markham, watching a robin nest family, watching the robins grow up | 5 Comments

REAL NEAT BLOG AWARD

Posted on July 16, 2017 by stenoodie

Thank you Maiu for nominating me and thank you to Dear Kitty for creating this award. This is the first blog award I’ve received and it’s a pleasure to connect with other fellow bloggers in this cyber community. 🙂 I happily … Continue reading →

Posted in Life | Tagged blog awards, blogger community, bloggers, Real Neat Blog Award | 8 Comments

Year in Review: 2016

Posted on December 31, 2016 by stenoodie

Hello, December 31, 2016. This is going to be a summary of my year in 2016: 2016 started off rocky and looked bleak and uncomfortable. (I remember at the time looking forward to the end of the year already because … Continue reading →

Posted in Life | Tagged adventures in 2016, lessons in 2016, memories of 2016, what 2016 looked like for me, what I learned in 2016, Year in review 2016 stenoodie | 19 Comments

My Network Marketing Journey

Posted on December 23, 2016 by stenoodie

Written in July 2016: I’ve been thinking and brainstorming about how to go about writing this. This is a very personal post and reflects my own experience and perspective of what I went through in the last two and a half … Continue reading →

Posted in Learning, Life | Tagged blind sheep mentality, deceptive practices, direct selling, disclaimer, experiences of being a distributor, experiences of being a distributor in a network marketing company, false promises, first hand experience of being in a MLM, GenYTO, genyto team, good and bad parts about network marketing, life after MLM, MLM failure rate, MLM success rate, mu30, network marketing experiences, network marketing failures, opinion piece, people will forget what you said people will never forget how you made them feel, Pro and cons of network marketing, product brokerage, Toronto 6 initiative team, Toronto genyto network marketing team, Toronto MLM schemes, Toronto network marketing, Toronto team, what is shop.com Toronto direct selling team | 37 Comments

Paid to blog

Posted on October 14, 2016 by stenoodie

To be honest, I’m not sure how long this will last because it just sounds too good to be true. I’m counting my blessings today and thanking Buddha for where this journey is going to take me because I got … Continue reading →

Posted in Life, New Experiences | Tagged eating around Toronto, experience writer, food experiences, honest reviews, paid to blog, Toronto food bloggers, yay me | 19 Comments

Home (after one month in Asia) – 2016

Posted on October 13, 2016 by stenoodie

A little more than 3 years ago, I arrived home with a similar desire to blog about my thoughts after being away for a month. That was also when the idea of this blog was born into life and thus, we … Continue reading →

Posted in Life | 11 Comments

Blog nerd

Posted on September 5, 2016 by stenoodie

Most of you know that I’m a ‘blog nerd’ for blogging every single day — publishing a new post every single day. I’ve been doing so for pretty much 2-3 years (so far the newest record is blogging daily for 137 … Continue reading →

Posted in Life | Tagged blogging every single day, Happy Labour Day | Leave a comment

Thoughts you have when you wake up from a herd mentality

Posted on August 30, 2016 by stenoodie

It’s only after waking up when you realize how stupid these quotes sound when you share it for the sake of being an “entrepreneur”. In my opinion, a real “entrepreneur” doesn’t actually call him or herself an entrepreneur. Someone who … Continue reading →

Posted in Learning, Life | Tagged deceptions about network marketing, don't be fooled, internet marketer, lies, network marketing companies, network marketing scams, what your upline tells you is false, you're a distributor not an entrpreneur, you're not a real entrepreneur | 3 Comments

Social Conformity (without realizing it)

Posted on August 14, 2016 by stenoodie

Watch this video: Yikes. This was what I conformed to doing in the past 2.5 years and I didn’t even realize it until lately. I’m waking up. I really am.

Posted in Learning, Life | Tagged Asch conformity experiments, brainwashing, cult thinking, following others without thinking, herd mentality, It's human nature to follow others without thinking, network marketing social conformity, not wanting to feel left out, Social conformity, social psychology | 3 Comments

Treetop Trekking in Stouffville with the Mon Sheong Youth Group!

Posted on July 1, 2016 by stenoodie

Last weekend, 20 of us at the Mon Sheong Youth Group gathered together at the Stouffville location of the original Treetop Trekking adventure park to go treetop trekking together! I really enjoy treetop trekking and had been treetop trekking two previous … Continue reading →