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Notes on numerology, fitness and the people you meet

Practical writing on filing who you meet and why Habitus Mind is built the way it is, by its founder, Yap Pat Yih, in Malaysia.

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How To Remember People You Meet

How to remember people you meet: encode at the moment, write it down within the hour.

August 29, 2026 8 min read

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Fitness11 min

How Many Calories in Nasi Lemak? 400 to 900 kcal, Built Item by Item

A plate of nasi lemak is roughly 400 to 900 kcal, and the rice and the side decide where yours…
Risograph-style illustration of two trains from different lines stopped facing each other at one platform, with an empty bench between them, at a station in Kuala Lumpur at dusk

Networking10 min

How to Ask for an Introduction, and How to Make One on WhatsApp (Samples)

Ask privately, name one person and one reason, and add two or three lines the introducer can…
Painted illustration of a bathroom scale on a terrazzo floor with pairs of rubber slippers in a half ring in front of it, seen from above

Fitness13 min

Weight Loss Challenge With Friends: How to Keep Score Fairly

Agree the rules before day one: score percent of starting weight, not kilograms, and compare week…
Illustration of a tear-off calendar and twelve coloured month tabs on a wooden desk beside a glass of tea, seen from above

Numerology14 min

Personal Month Number: How to Calculate It, and Why Three Methods Disagree

Your personal month number is your personal year plus the calendar month, reduced to one digit.
Illustration of a hand holding a phone beside name cards and a lanyard on a cocktail table after an evening business event in Kuala Lumpur

Networking11 min

Follow-Up Message After Meeting Someone: 7 Samples in English, Malay and Chinese

What to say in the first message after meeting someone: four parts in under 50 words, sent on…
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Fitness11 min

How Much Protein Do You Need a Day? The Malaysian Number, on a Malaysian Plate

Malaysia's own recommendation is 1 gram of protein per kilogram of body weight a day.
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Numerology12 min

Numerology Compatibility: Add, Subtract or Look Up? What a 合盘 Actually Does

Numerology compatibility is worked out three ways from the same two birth dates: add the life path…
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Networking10 min

How To Reconnect With a Work Contact After Months of Silence

A contact you haven't spoken to in a year is dormant, not lost.
A blank glass bathroom scale on worn terrazzo tiles in a Malaysian home corridor, early morning light through louvre windows falling across the floor.

Fitness11 min

How To Find Your Maintenance Calories From Your Own Log (And How Long It Really Takes)

A calculator estimates a population; your log measures you. How to find your maintenance calories…
Two wooden trays, each divided into a three-by-three grid, on a white marble kopitiam table. The left tray holds only three pieces of kuih, the right tray eight, with a cup of kopi-O below them.

Numerology8 min

Lo Shu Grid vs 九宫 (Nine Palaces): Same Shape, Different Numbers

The Lo Shu grid counts the digits of your birth date. This method's nine palaces count twelve…
Six ways of tracking food laid out on dark slate: a kitchen scale, a phone scanning a barcode, a notebook and pen, a plate of rice and egg, a bathroom scale and a phone showing one typed line.

Fitness11 min

The Best Ways To Track Calories: 6 Methods Compared

Six ways to track calories, compared on two tests: does the number mean anything, and are you still…
Two crimson ember numerals, 1 and 5, standing on dark wet stone, with a single gold 11 forming out of their merged flame above them, beside the characters 卓越 in brush calligraphy.

Numerology8 min

Master Numbers 11, 22 and 33: Why Yours Changes Every Year

Two Western conventions disagree on who has a master number. In this method the birth chart never…
Nine glowing crimson numerals, 1 to 9, arranged around a ring that lies flat like an orbit seen at a low angle, with the 4 burning gold, beside the characters 流年 in brush calligraphy.

Numerology10 min

How to Calculate Your Personal Year Number

Your personal year is the digital root of your birth month, your birth day and the current year.
Glowing numerals 7, 3, 1 and 7 folding down an inverted triangle into 1 and 8, then into a single blazing gold 9, beside the characters 合道 in brush calligraphy.

Numerology8 min

Numbers Aren't Good or Bad: 合道 and the Inverted Triangle

Every number in an inverted-triangle chart has two expressions, and 合道 decides which one shows.
The numerals 2, 1, 1 and 4 carved into dark stone, folding upward into 3 and 5, and then into a single 8 at the apex; only the apex is lit.

Numerology8 min

What Your Life Path Number Leaves Out

Your life path number is one digit from a fold that also produces a day master, twelve two-digit…
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Networking8 min

How To Keep Track Of People You Meet

How to keep track of people you meet: one record per person, context captured within the hour, and…
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Networking9 min

How To Follow Up After a Networking Event

How to follow up after a networking event: send within 24 hours, reference one specific thing they…
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Networking9 min

Building a Networking Follow-Up System That Survives a Busy Week

A good networking follow-up system doesn't stop you missing days.
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Business Cards9 min

What To Do With All Those Business Cards You Collect

What to do with business cards after an event: process them the same night.
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Personal CRM8 min

Personal CRM vs Your Phone's Contacts App

A contacts app stores identifiers so a call connects. A personal CRM stores context so you remember…
Cartoon illustration of an abandoned contact spreadsheet showing frequent activity followed by a long period of inactivity.

Personal CRM8 min

Personal CRM vs Spreadsheet vs Notion Template

Is a spreadsheet good enough for managing contacts? On features, yes — it beats most apps.
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Personal CRM7 min

Do You Actually Need a Personal CRM? A Five-Question Test

Do I need a personal CRM? Five questions that will disqualify most people who ask.
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Personal CRM8 min

CRM For Individuals, Not Sales Teams

Is there a CRM for individuals rather than sales teams? Yes. Here's why sales CRMs fail for…
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Personal CRM9 min

What Is a Personal CRM? A Plain-English Definition

A personal CRM is external memory for your relationships — who someone is, what matters to them…
Six ways of storing business cards laid out on a desk: a drawer, a binder, a phone, a laptop and two loose stacks

Business Cards12 min

How To Organize Business Cards: 6 Methods Compared

How to organize business cards, six methods scored on two tests: can you still place the person…
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Business Cards8 min

How To Digitize Business Cards (And Why Most Methods Fail)

How to digitize business cards, measured on my own system: 7 taps, 5 extracted fields, 15-20…