My Mind Map of Gina Ford's Baby Feed Schedule for 2 to 4 months old Infant

Another application of Mind Map.

I was fortunate to be given the opportunity to draw Gina Ford's schedule of feeds for babies of 2-4 months into a mind map so that one could easily follow the  feeding, napping, "pooping" and bath routine graphically.

I must add that Gina Ford proposed feeds schedule acted as an invaluable guide. The above 24-hour mind map had been modified to suit the baby's needs.

The mind map shows quite visually, a long interval of inactivity whereby the tired parents or nannies could have a peaceful night's sleep most of the time. I believe any parents taking care of their a baby would really appreciate this routine. Good luck.

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My Mind Map on Prof Nitin Pangarkar's Talk on "Achieving Cost Effective and Service Excellence" on Friday, 6 Oct 2006

I was attracted to this IPAM organised talk by Prof Nitin Pangarkar on "Achieving Cost Effective and Service Excellence" and decided to mind map the talk.

Basically, he was giving an interesting overview of what he has written in a book on the recipe for success in the public and private sectors. One of the examples he had studied into is Singapore Airlines, SIA for short. It is a well known fact that SIA is one of a few airlines in the world that is profitable, year after year. The factors are clearly stated in the mind map. Enjoy please.

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My Mind Map on Tony Buzan's "Laws of Mind Mapping".

I just love this Mind Map. It was one of the earliest Mind Map that I drew in accordance to the "Guiding Principles" that Tony and his brother Barry Buzan wrote in their "The MindMap Book". A must-read book for any person wishing to discover the secrets of mindmapping. The book is simple to read. The principles found in the book would provide essential guidance to anyone wishing to apply brain-friendly techniques that would enhance their love to mind map. Part of the secret of continuing to mind map is to motivate your brain of its immense capacity to absorb information.

I have used this mindmap guiding principles for more than 15 years. It has worked well for me in bringing a comprehensive understanding of how the brain works. Knowing how the brain functions will help many people to effectively optimise the immense latent potential/capacity of the brain.

This is done through the technique of mind mapping. Many people may not be convinced of how this could be realised. But, once you are suitably coached by an accredited mind map trainer, I strongly believe, your motivation will be so strong that it is difficult for you to be otherwise. Please do not hesitate to share/email me (lcblcb1@gmail.com) some of your thoughts on this matter.

Together, we could convince Education Ministers around the world to encourage their teachers and educationalists, to use mindmapping as one of the most effective teaching and learning tools. For a start, educationalists/trainers could use it to introduce a topic at the start of the lesson and then summarise the lessons learnt at the end of the class. I have been using it with lots of successes. The students love it! In future updates, I will include encouraging quotes from students who have been through my courses. They served as sources of "food" for my brain. Haha.

By the way, I revised the above Mind Map on 11 Feb 2001 to include the image of Albert Einstein as I always remembered what he said that "imagination is more powerful than knowledge". It is important to learn how to imagine even though you feel that it is not the best thing you like to do. Just by trying to imagine would help one in developing/enhancing their creativity quotient (CQ). Imagination is the foundation of creativity.

A memorable occasion:
I once had an opportunity to explain the above mind map to a group of educationalists, teachers and administrative staff from Wuhan Institute of Technology (WIT), China in 2009. They eagerly learned the principles of mind mapping and whatever examples and applications that I could teach them. The feedback that I received led me to believe that there is certainly quite a high demand of people wanting to know more about the use and how to apply mind mapping in China.

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My Mind Map on a Secondary 1 or 2 Math Function: 'Exponential and Logarithmic' on 12 June 2006

I was approached by my colleague, Ms Esther Chin Mee Yan for help in developing a mind map as a training aid for polytechnic students.

She did a wonderful job of providing me with the teaching materials as well as a summary of the gist of what she teaches her students.

The result of her hard work has provided me with lots of inspiration to help her mind mapped this topic on Exponential and Logarithmic Functions. 

The mind map provided a holistic view for anyone hoping to have a firm grasp of this topic and and do well in the exams.

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My Mind Map on Tony Buzan's "Developing Family Genius" Learning Tapes on 20 Oct 2005

This A4-size mind map summary of Tony's "Developing Family Genius" is definitely a must-see and must-do mind map for all mind mappers. It combines nearly 4 hours of recording by the inventor on how the Brain Functions, Memory, Speed Reading and How to Study in a Brain-friendly Manner.

I find it hard to duplicate the above material on an equivalent A4-size space, using any of today's mindmapping software! There are many essential features that needs to be incorporated into each software before it can come close to mirroring the uniqueness of a hand drawn mind map. I would be pleased if anyone could share an equivalent of the above drawn using a computerised mind map software.

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My Mind Map on Michael J. Gelb's Book on "Present Yourself" on Thursday, 20 October 2005..

This mind map on Michael J. Gelb's book was one of the pre-requisites for the Advanced Learning Strategies Course conducted by the Buzan Centres.

I drew it just before I left for Palm Beach, Florida where the course was conducted in October 2005. Little did I know that I was also flying head on to meet one of the few Category 5 Hurricanes (Hurricane Wilma) that developed just before I left Singapore.
My family was certainly worried about the Hurricane. But I took the chance of going as all my arrangements have been made and there was a chance that I would arrive in Palm Beach before the Hurricane arrive. To cut the story short, Hurricane Wilma came during the course, knocked out all electricity, etc.... and I managed to survive the wrath of a Category 5 hurricane. What a Von Restorff!

The mind map provides a good summary of the various issues that one needs to focus on when one is trying to make an impact during a speech or presentation. It may help one who is keen to learn these techniques from the master, Michael Gelb, himself.

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My Mind Map on Kenny Yap's 9 Fish Approach Towards Total Business Sustainability / Survival.

I was fortunate to attend a total defence day event at the Singapore Discovery Centre on Wednesday, 10 July 2002. The highlight of the event happened to be a GOH talk by Mr Kenny Yap, the MD of Qian Hu Corporation Ltd. aka "Kenny the Fish".

Mr Kenny Yap, aka Kenny the Fish, certainly had a way of relating some principles of how he learn to survive the business world by studying some of the hardy features of 9 fishes, namely:
1) Arapaima - One of the biggest freshwater fish in the world. As in business, try to be a big fish like the Arapaima so that you would not be eaten up by others.
2) Cardinal Tetra - If you are small, try to swim in groups as the chances of survival as a group is higher. In business, think about merger, collaboration and acquisition.
3) Goldfish - Eat as much as possible during the warm weather where food is plentiful. Thus during a business downturn, ensure that you have sufficient reserves available to sustain yourself instead for folding up.
4) Guppy - Learn the survival skills of the Guppy. These are ornamental fishes that can be found in almost any drain or jungle stream.
5) Siamese Fighting Fish (Betta Fish) - Have the fighting spirit of the Betta Fish in protecting its territory. Fight for your market share.
6) Arowana (Dragon Fish) - Survive to a ripe old age like the Dragon Fish whose ancestors are believed to have lived during the age of the dinosaurs. Ensure that your business has a succession plan. This is often overlooked in business. This is also critical for any organisation as well as government-in-power.
7) Lou Han Fish (Flower Horn Fish) - Extend your network by adopting the features of the Lou Han Fish with their lively and friendly approaches to customers.
8) Rainbow Fish - Do not forget to reflect on life like the colour on the Rainbow Fish without which, may prove meaningless in doing business.
9) High Fin Loach Fish - Finally, to survive and sustain in this competitive world of ours, learn to create niches for your business as the Loach Fish does in nature. The fish learns to eat whatever that is left on the bed by evolving or adapting its mouth so that it can eat / suck up directly from the bottom of the bed without much effort.

Each of these fishes has certain UNIQUE strengths that one can learn from so as to help one survive this competitive world of ours. Please enjoy Kenny-the-Fish's speech, one of the shortest, yet most impactful speeches that I have ever come across.

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My Mind Map on Philip Kee's Speech on His Six Years of Consulting Experience in China to the Institute of Management Consultants

Preparing a speech in linear form was always a difficult task for me. However, after learning mind mapping, I always depended on it to help me draft the speech. 

The above mind mapped speech was made for my good friend Mr Philip Kee, Chairman of Luke Philips Consultants, who was invited to give a speech to members of the Institute of Management Consultants on his vast experiences, insights and lessons that could be learnt when doing business in China. He told me what he wanted to talk and I did the colourful mind mapped speech in just over a 2-hour lunch break that we had in Bukit Timah Plaza.

I was totally amazed and glad that I was able to help him mind mapped his speech. Philip told me that he successfully managed to present his talk from the above mind map without minimum reference to any notes. 

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My Mind Map on Dr Spencer Johnson's Book on "Who Moved My Cheese?" on 19 April 2001

Well, anyone who have read Dr Spencer Johnson's book on "Who Moved My Cheese?" would loved this simple mindmap that I have drawn minutes after reading this excellent book.

It concisely explains in simple language the situation before and after a change and the intervals between changes (denoted by the cheese being moved). The book explains that changes happens and how one should monitor and anticipate the impending changes so as to adapt to the new environment when it happens.

Dr Johnson also very cleverly explains why we should conquer our FEARS and get ready to face up to the inevitable changes to our environment even before it happens again. Only this time, one should be ready and should join in and enjoy the changes as part of an ongoing process in society.

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My Mind Map on Prof Robert S Kaplan's Lecture on "Balance Score Card" on September 11th, 2001 in Suntec City Auditorium Singapore



How could I forget this wonderful creation!

The Mind Map is a summary of Professor Robert S Kaplan's lecture on 'Balance Scorecard' lecture at Suntec City Auditorium. It was created coincidentally on 11th Sep 2001! (911).

I remembered that I was very tired after making this mind map that I fell asleep in front of my TV only to be awoken by the images of two planes smashing themselves into the then Twin Towers of New York. 

I actually arrived late for the event. Fortunately, there was a tea reception before the lecture and I quickly took the opportunity to find a seat and occupied my time in drawing the central image as well as the Professor's portrait. I then felt very comfortable to wait for the lecture to commence.

Luckily for me, Professor Kaplan was an excellent teacher as the mind map grew and transformed into one of my finest pieces of creation. I quickly noticed that mind maps that are balanced and easily read provides me with a very quick indicator of how good the speakers are in relation to their speed of delivery, clarity in explanation and excellent organisation of the content. In other words, they are Masters or Gurus in the area of their expertise.

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My Mind Map on Bill Handley's "Speed Maths and Speed Fun in Learning" at Nanyang Primary School, Singapore on 12 and 14 Mar 2001

One day, my younger daughter came back with a notice that her school was organising a workshop for parents and students at the cost of $20 per person per 3hr-session on 12 and 14 March 2001. The workshop was conducted by Mr Bill Handley from Australia, who founded Learning Unlimited Australia in 1979. 

I was excited about this workshop after reading a brief description about what Bill intended to cover in speed learning and speed maths techniques in two 3hr-session. I immediately signed up for both sessions with my daughter. As usual, I quickly set up a simple central image and sat down quietly in the front row, listening attentively for his key words and watching him carefully as he illustrates examples after examples of "Speed in Learning" and "Speed Maths". The combined result of the two sessions was the mind map above.

This mind map ranks as one of my favourites as I never fail to amaze those who attend my courses how I recorded the proceedings of the Speed Learning and Speed Maths workshop religiously onto only one page. I really felt very satisfied that my mind map turned out quite balanced and readable for those viewers who wants to understand what went on in the two workshops.

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My Mind Map on Andrew Matthews on "Follow Your Heart" at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on 24-25 May 2001

Attending the 2001 National Achiever's Congress at the Singapore Indoor Stadium was probably one of the exciting moments of my life. Here I was, listening to seven prominent inspirational speakers speaking over 2 days, determined to mind map their message on one sheet of paper as I have always done for all seminars that I had attended ever since I saw the potential of mind maps and how it can empower our brains to do the "impossible".
Many had came up to me to say that "It is not possible", "It is too difficult", "I always run out of space", "My mind map does not look like a mind map (cos' it is untidy).....and the list goes on. 
Thus, having done the above mind map while Andrew Matthew lectures and draws his cartoons at the same time.....I think,... could only make people wonder whether I really did it on the spot or did I do it only at the end of the day.
If anyone has seen Andrew giving the lecture, would know that he collects his drawings after his lectures. So it is almost impossible for me to remember what was drawn if I had not drawn it on the spot before he covers it up. Please enjoy the drawings as I mimicked Andrew during his lecture on "Follow Your Heart - Finding the Purpose in Your Life and Work - Have More Time, Friends, Health and Happiness". 

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My Mind Map on David Copperfield's Magic Show in Singapore Indoor Stadium on 1 July 2001

I was rather amused when someone asked me whether I did the above Mind Map during the show. Of course not! I was busy closely observing from my front line seats with my son and trying to figure out how one of the world's greatest illusionists, David Copperfield, was doing his illusions right in front of our eyes! It is really a great show that I could not possibly forget it that easily. I was thus determined to remember that night that I was kept wondering how David managed to perform his illusions. So that very night, I drew the above Mind Map. 

Till today, I could easily relate the entire magical night performance that I attended together with my son, Zhiguang. I believe, through my pictures, you, the viewer could also easily relate what went on that night.

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My Mind Map on Prof Gerard J. Puccio's (Buffalo State University) "Creativity and Creative Problem Solving" Workshop

Ever since I started mind mapping, I probably have saved tons of paper. How? Instead of several pages of notes that I would normally make when attending a whole-day seminar, I now record it on just one sheet of paper. It was with that mindset of being eco-friendly as well as to challenge myself to do the "impossible" of taking notes in colour and at one sitting, that I managed to produce the above creation of a 3-hour lecture by Professor Gerard J Puccio on 12 Jan 2001 in Ngee Ann Polytechnic. It was a privilege to attend this excellent presentation of using Creative Problem Solving as a technique in this complex world of ours. The Divergent-Convergent thinking process among other things taught during the workshop left a deep impression in my mind.

Fast forward to Dec 2012 an excellent video presentation "Creativity as a Life Skill" by Prof Gerard Puccio in which he talked about how we should be "deliberately creative" in this fast changing world of ours in order to innovate faster. Individuals and organisation who does not know how to promote creativity would be the eventual losers.  

Fast forward to 16 March 2013, The Straits Times, page D6
An article on Why Study? by the Dean of NUS faculty of Law, Simon Chesterman where he mentioned that to survive, to do well in this globalised world , one needs to be creative, to think laterally, to be passionate about things because they are part of your identity rather than part of your career plan. Because today's students cannot know what is going to be important to their career. A good example of this is the late Steve Jobs. Professor Chesterman further elaborated that it was "calligraphy" that Steve was passionate about, 10 years before he designed the first Macintosh. Back then, he thought it had no hope of any practical applications. Thus Professor Chesterman said that it will not always be possible to predict what subjects will be important. But if you find something about which you are passionate, if it is part of your identity, you may find a way to make it important.

What Professor Chesterman says does ring a little bell for me. I am glad he wrote that article where he elaborated on why students considering a university education should ask themselves whom they want to be, not what they want to be.

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My Mind Map on Preetam Rai's Google Internet Workshop

How to Surf the Internet with Google is definitely one of my favourite Mind Maps. I drew this map while attending an hour workshop that was conducted by Ngee Ann's Educational Technology Specialist or Internet Guru, Mr Preetam Rai, on 21 March 2007.

The workshop was full of tips and tricks of how to surf the Internet quickly and meaningfully. I have mind mapped it in such a way that anyone who is able to read a mind map would be able to glean some of the best googling techniques that Preetam always seem to know. Ask him if you have the opportunity to meet this pleasant and very humble young man. Of course, he can be found in the Internet. Happy reading.

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Andy Chiong's Mind Map

Background Story
As part of Ngee Ann Polytechnic's outreach activities, I gave a Mind Mapping workshop to a group of secondary school students on 5 Nov 2004. Andy Chiong was one of the student leaders studying Quality Management and Engineering in Ngee Ann Polytechnic who was helping out with the event management. I remembered him as a hardworking and very humble student. As I was teaching to a  group of students about mind mapping, he was quietly sitting at a corner mind mapping the entire proceedings of the workshop in real-time. When he showed me his colourful and detailed mind map after the workshop, I was certainly extremely happy. The mind map was certainly an excellent recording of the  what I taught during the workshop. 

I wish him well in that, he has really empowered his brain to think radiantly. Not many in the world is able to have that kind of mindset.

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Tony Buzan and My Mind Maps by Lim Choon Boo

INTRODUCTION
I started this post with the aim of having all my mind maps housed under just one post. But after trying various layouts, I decided, it would be best to create another blog just to house all the mind maps that I drew during Tony's lectures. It will be a collection of mind maps that are directly linked to Tony's work, while the other blogs would showcase other mind maps that I drew.

Please click this LINK to be transported to"Tony Buzan and My Mind Map" Blog for my collection of Mind Maps on Tony Buzan courses and lectures

[ LINK to testimonials and recommendations of professionals whom I have the privelege of working with ]

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Revision on Materials Engineering using a Mind Map

It is my usual practice to do a revision using mind maps that are drawn in real-time after completing my lectures on a few topics (Copper, Aluminium and Polymer) with my students. The quick summary of the material I covered enabled them to have an overview of what they have been taught and to help them in their revision of this notoriously boring module (especially, if the student does not have any interests in memorising the properties of materials).

Above two revision mind maps are essentially the same. Each is done for a different class. It is tiring, however, I find it interesting as it allows me the flexibility of going through the subject at a pace suitable for the class. Hope it helps you to see the power of performing real-time mind mapping. You could literally feel the whole class "eye-balls" were following each stroke of the branches connected, each key word written and every diagram drawn. It is a challenge that I find exciting to share with my students.

Some of you may think, it is difficult. However, through proper training, one can overcome these obstacles and eventually be a captivating presenter using mind maps. Enjoy please.

The week beginning 2 December 2012 saw myself completing another two revision mind maps covering Chapters 2, 3 and 4 of Engineering Materials topics for my first year engineering students.

I needed two white boards as shown above to cover about 70-80% of the revision materials in those three chapters within the time constraint of about 1.5hrs. It was considered quite an achievement as I believe it helped the students consolidate what they have learnt during the past seven weeks before their common test on Monday, 10 Dec 2012. I foresaw the need for two medium-sized white boards when I saw the large amount of materials that need to be discussed, otherwise, a large-sized white board as shown below would suffice. It is one of the BIGGEST MIND MAP that I have ever drawn in real time. Enjoy.

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My Mind Map on a Primary 4 Science Topic on Plants

MIND MAP OVERVIEW OF SIX PAGES OF A PRIMARY FOUR SCIENCE NOTES ON PLANTS

One day on returning home from office after a long day in April 2000, I tumbled across a set of my daughter's primary 4 notes on plants. Well it was full of notes and pictures of the different parts of the plants. For each part of the plant there were further sub-divisions.

I suddenly felt that I could do better in organising that set of notes as I just wanted to show my daughter how much better it is if the notes were organised in this way. I managed to complete the task within 2 hours and presented it to her. The FUN and LEARNING elements of the mind map was that it was full of COLOUR and, KEY WORDS (LEAVES, FRUITS, FLOWERS and ROOTS) and provided an overview of the 6-pages of a black and white type written set of science notes that the school gave to each student. I believe, it provided an interesting corridor for my child to look at things in a HOLISTIC manner and INTEREST her in science that no other methods was able to do in 2000. The mind map above could be improved by adding other KEYWORDS such as SEEDS, STEMS and BUDS, etc.

I was proud of my work and during the course of my career shared it with many people who was delighted with the summary.

Writing this blog at this point of time made me wonder and reflect on how to further interest the current batch of primary, secondary and polytechnic students to take the study of science more seriously. I shall further pen my thoughts on this in view of the development of IT and mind maps software in recent times. How can we make it even more brain-friendly that even the UNINTERESTED are drawn towards LEARNING science in a very gentle and gradual manner. It is something that I always challenge myself. I hope I would be able to write something about it later.

AFTERNOTE:
I am proud that this post gained the highest number of page views among all the mind maps that I have posted since 2011. It is viewed many times over that of my second most viewed mind map.

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My Mind Map on Jack Neo's "I Not Stupid" Movie on 17 Feb 2002

Yes, the mind map below is on the movie "I Not Stupid" (Chinese: 小孩不笨; pinyin: Xiǎohái Bù Bèn) which I watched with my wife on the 2nd day of Chinese New Year. Of course it was not done in real-time as many of my friends and mind mappers wanted to know. Reason being that I was really having a great time laughing at all the jokes that made Jack Neo, the Director and Producer of the film famous, that, I had no time to record it live. Furthermore, the theatre was too dark also for me to draw his and Terry Khoo's portraits.

Till today, I could still feel and laugh at the jokes just by reading the key words from the mind map. I created it immediately after watch the show as what Jack did in the movie was really brilliant and creative. Some of the interesting points that I enjoyed are:

EM3 STREAM
He highlighted the stigma of being an EM3 Stream Student . This, together with other feedbacks, probably, led to refinement/ restructuring of SINGAPORE's very successful ABILITY-DRIVEN EDUCATION [CLICK HERE], that were announced by Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, the then Minister for Education, at the MOE Work Plan Seminar on 28 Sep 2006. EM3 students are streamed into a subject-based banding system that "provides enriching learning experiences for high-ability students at the primary school level and to allow for greater integration between Gifted Education Programme (GEP) students with others" [CLICK HERE]. 

THE INTERNET
The long reaches of the Internet,

NUTS
The No U-Turn Syndrome (NUTS) 

INSTITUTE OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION (ITE)
ITE used to stand for "It's The End" - Jack managed to creatively unveil how students or even some parents do not want their children to go to ITE. Actually, ITE, The Institute of Technical Education, should in my opinion thank him for bringing more publicity for the great work that ITE has provided to many of Singapore's students who went through that education route. The few days of free newspaper publicity really gave ITE a chance to showcase their achievements of some of their students who went on to obtain PhDs. FAST FORWARD.....ITE has reformed itself to a world-class institution of technical education winning the prestigious Singapore Quality Award (SQA) in the process.

OTHER GOVT POLICIES
Issues on some government policies etc.... are examples of some of Singapore's social and political coffee-shop-talk prior to 2002.

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My Mind Map on "What is Going On in the Universe" by Prof S Jocelyn Bell Burnell at the Singapore Science Centre on 26 Feb 2009

My interests in the Universe mushroomed since I was 12 years old, when I started to realise that our Solar System and Milky Way Galaxy in our Universe could possibly be equivalent to that of a water molecule in our mighty ocean. Thus, when Dr Pang from the Singapore Science Centre together with the British Council Singapore invited members of the public to the talk on "What is Going on in the Universe" by Prof S Jocelyn Bell Burnell on 26 Feb 2009, I quickly jumped and accepted it.

I was not disappointed listening about Dark Matter and Dark Energy and about the surprising discovery that the Universe is further expanding instead of contracting as most people believed. I was surprised to know that Professor Burnell was the first person to discover the first radio pulsars as a postgraduate student and that 2009 was also the International Year of Astronomy.

This mind map posted here is dedicated to Professor Burnell's excellent presentation of what is really happening in our universe. It brought me up to date regarding some of the matters that was of interest to me, but did not have the time to pursue in our hectic lifestyle.
I am glad I came for this excellent presentation.

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My Mind Map on "Google, iPhone, What's Next" Lecture by Prof Yong LIAN, NUS Provost's Chair Professor on 22 Sep 2011 at the Engineering Auditorium

I was quite excited when I received an invitation from the Engineering Alumni Singapore for which I was a member, to attend the prestigious bi-annual Engineering Lecture on "Google, iPhone, What's Next" that was delivered by Professor Yong LIAN (Synopsis and his CV are given below). It was hosted by the Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore at the Engineering Auditorium on 22 Sep 2011 at 7pm-8pm.

Naturally, I was all ready to mind map the talk in real-time on my iPad2. Needless to say, the talk was really interesting and excellently presented by Prof YongLIAN.

Above is an enlarged image of the mind map I did on Prof Yong LIAN's lecture. [If you need the full image of the mind mapped lecture that I did, please send me an email request (lcblcb1@gmail.com). I would be pleased to let you have a copy of the mind map that was done using my iMindMap software on my iPad2 which I just bought in Jun 2011]. I was pleased that I was able to mind map the lecture in real-time without bringing my bunch of coloured pens/markers as all the colours can be found in the software. 

For more information regarding the synopsis of the talk and speaker, please click here

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My Mind Map on Sun Tzu's Art of War (孙子兵法) (Sun Zi Bing Fa) by Khoo Kheng Hor in Civil Service College on Sat, 3rd July 1999

I came across two YouTube clip Sun Tzu's Art of War (孙子兵法) by this guru of the AOW and how he applied it to present day situations.

http://youtu.be/fg1-60JZaSY and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1vWxN3KL6E. Interested viewers may like to take see the master at work.  

SUMMARY of MIND MAP "ART of WAR" LECTURE BY MR KHOO KHENG-HOR

This mind map on Sun Zi's (or Sun Tzu) Art of War (孙子兵法) remains as one of my all time favourites. It was graciously autographed by Mr Khoo Kheng-Hor, the MD of Stirling Consultants & Management Pte Ltd and the Sun Zi Guru, after he delivered the course in Civil Service College on Sat. 3rd July 1999. I was really fortunate to have attended his wonderful and interesting course. I have always recommended all my friends who happen to be see my mind map or were given one, to attend Mr Khoo's Sun Zi's courses.

The course is full of examples of how to apply Sun Zi's Art of War at work and at home. It was even more memorable as I did not have time to prepare the central image unlike mind maps that I drew during courses that I attended. Thus, having to prepare the central image on the spot and being able to mind map his course beautifully was indeed a Von Restorff! Also, using my precious mind map, I was also able to explain some of the interesting elements of the Art of War to others. I could still recall the same joy I had enjoyed listening to his talk on that Saturday morning in Civil Service College. I have indeed been "Suntzunize" by Mr Khoo Kheng-Hor. Thank you Mr Khoo for the excellent and succinct presentation.

Afternote: I spotted a video clip on YouTube, http://youtu.be/fg1-60JZaSY . Interested viewers may like to take see the master at work.

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