Life is All About Choices

Life is all about choices, When we cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. We ourselves choose how we react to situations. We choose how people affect our mood. We choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's our choice how we live our life.

Adapted from Life Is All About Choices

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Recently, I had to make a lot of choices or rather, I have been thinking a lot these days about my life in the future. This is not the first time I thought about it.

I have been watching the series - Heroes. In the series, people make important choices and some of them are struggling between choices because their decision will change the world. Yeah, "Save the cheerleader, save the world!"

I leave the last episode till next Thursday as I will be away for event for the next 2 days. Grand Finale konon.

Back to my topic about "My Future"... it is about my career, my life and also my needs and my goal. Let me briefly tell you what is my thought.

Long Term Goal
I want to run my own business. This has always been my dream since college years

Short Term Goal
- Do well in my current job. Sing as much as I can
- Earn as much as I can and save them
- Get a girlfriend?
- Be famous?

Something like that... but not exactly (of course I cant tell you in detail, my blog is being read by many people...*grin*)

No One is Above the Law...

Yeah Right?!

KUALA LUMPUR: The Government's policy from the start has been not to intervene in the use of the Internet by people, including bloggers, who are free to use cyberspace to do "proper things", said Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.

However, the Umno vice-president said that if irresponsible bloggers go overboard in their Internet postings, the Government would be forced to step in.

"If they go overboard and insult, slander and break the laws, they will not get away scot-free. No one is above the law.

Adapted from http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2007/7/27/technology/20070727113315&sec=technology

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Are you sure no one is above the law?

Traffic Police do not dare to issue summons to Big Shots. Is that supposed to justify the sentence "No one is above the law"?

It is a point to ponder....

So Now We Know...

最近还真的忙透了。。。一波未停，一波又来。。。咳，真的没办法。不喜欢paperwork也还得去完成它。

这也好啦～忙，就代表公司业绩好；也能够让我学习及认识更多的人咯！下个星期起，就真的不可开交。Event接event，几乎每个星期都有１－２项活动。

忙工作之外呢，我还有忙别的。。。我最近看了两部电影 － ＜Transformers＞和＜男儿本色＞。这两部都非常好看，两部我都看半夜场。。。

下个post我再update你们更多的消息吧～

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I was shocked when I read the news over TheStar Online this morning.

KUALA LUMPUR: The police have been duped into paying RM5mil for imitation spare parts for their patrol cars and police vehicles.

Tan Sri Musa Hassan,“We want to know how long these activities (cheating) have been going on and if any police officer or personnel is involved.”

Adapted from http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/7/22/nation/18358351&sec=nation

Yeah, thanks for finally realizing that you have been duped for such big amount of money for car repairs and such! Isn't this silly?

Another article that shows the late-discovery of Malaysian Gov is the water bottle issue. Most of us have heard about the danger of reusing water bottle that may cause sickness and such long ago. I've heard of it since my primary school time (which is about 10 years ago) and only now that our MOH warn people that such act is dangerous.

People that don't know might thought, "Wow~! This is a great discovery" or "Wah, government is giving us good warning"... bla bla bla...

Why is our government so slow? Perhaps we do not have enough funding to make such research or discovery? Fund part, I'm sure you know where it went to (yeah, we got cheated for fake parts *giggles*). Read articles in Internet and you will find plenty of research reports about the water bottle thingy and for some reason, I think our researchers do not read the Internet.

It took them long enough to find out the reason why MAS is losing money too. There are simple too many parties that is leeching money out from their (MAS) pocket... Muahaha... So much for a National Airline Service! They (MAS) were also duped! Muahaha....

Oh yeah, why they wanna use the word 'duped'?

According to http://www.dictionary.com/... Dupe means "a person who is easily deceived or fooled; gull. "

Does that mean our police force is a organization that is easily deceived or fooled? I wonder...

Sure or Not?

One minute, we are worried about whether we have anough money to feed ourselves and the next minute, we are worried if the news we heard / read is real or... not.

KUALA LUMPUR: With immediate effect, the price of rice will revert to what it was before the increase on July 1.

Adapted from: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/7/10/nation/18257395&sec=nation

So now what? No price increase for rice... Good! Bravo! This was by far the most delightful news everyone heard last week. But, will the decision last for long? Let's hope we will not see another headline that says price of rice will increase... blah blah blah...

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My colleagues and I went for a dinner at Le Meridien last Thursday.

That is the first time I tasted Evian (Another ever-wonderful water, after Perrier). It tasted better than Perrier (at least it doesn't taste like soda water).

picture courtesy of alibaba.com

It was quite a busy week but I managed to overcome it. There was an event last Thursday where we need to do setup on the day before. In which I missed the "premiere" of the song that I wrote. Many friends of mine called me and ask if I will be there for the "premiere". I told them the bad news and they were quite... disappointed.

Nevermind, I guess I can't ditch my job and attend the "premiere".

Friday was the dinner, Thank You Dinner, for 2 big events that we organized. We had such fun and as usual, I cracked plenty of jokes and everyone laughed their arse off... Haha... Then they had Karaoke session. That was the first time I rejected a Karaoke offer! Well, the reason is because I had promised my friend to go for a movie, Transformer.

Saturday was rather a busy day as I was helping in an event in the morning. Despite sleeping at 4.30am in the morning (after the midnight show), I woke up at 8.30am, took a shower then head straight to the event venue. I was a bit blur then but after a packet of fried rice and some water, I felt fresh again! After the event, I came back home straight away and slept for 3 hours!

Today, Sunday, was rather a un-productive one... I woke up at 7.45am to wash my clothes and socks. Then played a game of DoTA with my landlord and I took a 2-hour nap... Haha... Woke up, took my shower and head to Ikano Power Centre, The Curve and Cineleisure... Just to relax a while cos I really have nothing to do... Had my dinner at Ikano and came back...

I just finshed a game of DoTA earlier before I start posting...

Well, tomorrow is going to be another hectic day... What a start for the week uh?

Price and Rice...

I read The Star that day and I saw this tag line - "The price of rice is up again – this time by 10%. This is the second time the rice price was increased this year. The last round was in April."
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/7/5/nation/18219558&sec=nation

So, price increase for rice twice in 6 months? That is outrageous. I still wonder if we can still afford to eat normal white rice as fragrant rice and other rice will cost... even more expensive!

Like any other people will say: "What also increase, only salary never increase..." I beg to differ the statement and to rephrase it as, "Our salary increase very much slower than other things..."

See, all of us get increment working for someone else... it's a matter of whether the increment is enough to cope or is fast enough to catch up with the price increase in raw materials and such.

Then there is this article about being more caring, says our PM.

"Be a caring society. Do not think twice about doing charity for the poor, regardless of their race and creed. Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi made this plea to all Malaysians to help the Government wipe out poverty in the country."
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/7/5/nation/18222934&sec=nation

Alright! Allow the price increase of raw material and food to happen and then ask us to give / contribute to the charity?

Robert Kiyosaki once said, "Only give / contribute to the charity if you have extra money"

The golden question is, "How on earth can we have extra money, when everything that we need to buy, is so expensive?" And who will care for us if we have no money to buy things that we need?

Help the government to wipe out poverty in the country? Haha... stop using tax payers' money to build big buildings, offices. Instead, give it to the poor, give them food, clothes, education so that they can be independent in the future.

If the government is gonna use the money to build... some big gov building / offices and spend money on landscaping and decorative to a place where no one want to go (e.g. Putrajaya...), they might as well use the money, to "wipe out" poverty!

That is what I think... I do not know what i the government's plan in financing or whatsoever. In a layman's way of thinking, there is for sure a better place / avenue to spend this money.

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Rhythm of Love

Bad News: I didnt manage to translate my previous post into English...
Good News: My first ever lyric is being used in a singing competition...

Rhythm of Love, that is the theme song for the singing competition that is currently ongoing in INTI International University College. It is a competition that involves a lot of people, internal and external.

As mentioned in my previous posts, I was invited to be the judge for the competition, both Audition and Final. Unfortunately, I have event setup the day of the Finals and therefore, I have to (sadly) reject the offer.

However, the committee also asked me to write the lyric of the theme song for them. I was struggling for a while when I first heard the music. It sounded like a motivational song so I asked the committee what they have in mind. They told me the same thing.

So it took me 4 days to listen to the song and 4 days to finished the lyric writing.
Day 1 to 4 - Listen to the song
Day 5 to 6 - Writes the lyric
Day 7 to 8 - Proofreading and modification

It may looked like a simple process but the amount of 'energy' used is unpredictable! Haha... choice of words, the matching of the syllabus and such really made me mad.

Well, now that I have experience (yeah right...) in lyric writing, I might try to come up with more lyrics with a condition. Someone must provide me with the music first.

I shall post the lyric here once the competition is over.

到底是"喜欢"，还是"爱"？

I read this article years before. Recently, I thought of shring it with my blog readers who can understand Mandarin. I will try to translate to English tonight.

人世间有种情感叫“喜欢”，另一种叫“爱”

爱是他在的时候，眼睛里只有他一人；他不在的时候，一切都带有他的影子。

喜欢是在深夜看书时突然想起他，想象他现在做什么，心里漾起一阵轻飘飘的温暖，却从不主动给他打电话。几分钟后，注意力又重新被书中的情节吸引!

爱是在寂寞的夜里，思念如潮水般涌来，手里捧着书却怎么也看不进去，心里惦记着他此时是否还在加班，吃没吃晚饭，是不是如自己想着他一般想着自己

喜欢是和他讨论问题争的面红耳赤，各不相让，在他面前像个刺猬一样从不认输，但在心里却早已暗暗佩服他的见地他的才华。

爱是希望他和自己步调一致，和自己心灵相通，他无心说的一句玩笑话也能让自己顷刻情绪低落甚至眼泪汪汪。在他面前，自己是从不设防的。

喜欢是出门在外给他发个短信，告诉他这边的天气很好，然后把手机关掉，独自在异地疯玩一个星期，晒成一个黑人后突然出现在他面前吓他一跳。

爱是无论到哪都希望有他陪伴。可以站在海边给他打手机，让他听听海浪的声音；也可以因为在异乡的街道上看到一个酷似他的背影而愣在原地久久不动。

喜欢是他出差前简单的道一声“一路平安”，看着他离去的背影，心中有一点不舍，却什么也不说，只是默默等待他归来的消息.

爱是他临出差前千叮咛万嘱咐，往他的背包里塞满衣服和食物，在车站要等到火车开走才肯离开。并且在他走后的日子里天天心神不定，一遍遍的祈祷他能够平安归来。

喜欢是在受伤的时候，不想让他看到自己脆弱的一面，在他面前把眼泪悄悄抹掉，转过头依然是一副快乐坚强的模样。

爱是在受委屈的时候，爬在他的胸前痛哭，没有伪装没有顾虑，把所有的烦恼统统告诉他，并渴望从他的怀抱中得到安慰。

喜欢是看到他和另一个女孩牵手走过，心里有一点点疼，但很快会冲着朝阳重新扬起笑脸。

爱是输不起的游戏，付出全部只后，留下的可能仅仅是刻在心底的一道伤痕

喜欢一个人是想要他是自己的，所以，可以喜欢很多人，想要很多人都是自己的。

爱是明明离不开他，却要不得不放弃他，因为他要的幸福，也许我给不了。不敢霸占他，希望看他找到幸福，即使那份幸福不是跟我分享的。

喜欢是，希望寂寞的时候，无聊的时候，伤感的时候，找个人说说话。

爱是，在任何时候都想跟他分享，快乐的时候甚至希望把所有快乐都给了他。

喜欢是，在很久很久没联络的时候，接到他的电话，然后笑着听他说话。

爱是，在几天没有联络的时候，着急得的打电话给他，然后忍住眼泪笑一笑。

喜欢，只有在一起的时候，才惦记着对方。

爱，是哪怕是在一起，每一秒钟也都在思念思念他。

喜欢一个人，在一起的时候会很开心

爱一个人，在一起的时候，会莫名的失落

喜欢一个人，在一起的时候永远是欢乐

爱一个人，你会常常流泪

喜欢一个人，当你想起他，你会微微一笑

爱一个人，当你想起他，你会对着天空发呆

喜欢一个人，你要得只是今天

爱一个人，你期望的是永远

喜欢一个人，是看到了他的优点

爱一个人，是包容了他的缺点

当你不想再爱一个人,你要闭上眼睛并忍着泪水

当你不想再喜欢一个人,你只要掩住双耳!

喜欢，是一种心情
爱，是一种感情
喜欢，是一种直觉
爱，是一种感觉
喜欢，可以停止
爱，没有休止

喜欢一个人，特别自然
爱一个人，特别坦然
喜欢一个人，有时候盼和他在一起
爱一个人，有时候怕和他在一起

喜欢一个人，不停的和他争执
爱一个人，不停的为他付出
喜欢一个人，希望他可以随时找到自己
爱一个人，希望可以随时找到他

喜欢你，却不一定爱你
爱你，就一定很喜欢你