When one door closes, another door of opportunity opens.
While I was still suffered from distress and sadness over being dumped and rejection, without notice this right person quietly appeared at the doorstep of my heart. If I were not opened up and fenced off everyone, I might have missed out the opportunity to a whole new person, a whole new life and a whole new world.
Tonight is the 8th and 6th anniversary of our steady relationship and marriage. Sometime I wonder who I will be, what kind of lifestyle I will be living and what sort of things that I will be experiencing if I have not met my wife.
A lovely person that is full of love, she teaches this shallow man to see the world with new spectrum of vision. Expanding his horizon and fill up his life with hope and purpose. Sharing, experimenting and experiencing new things together with this boring man with colors, music and dance.
Sometimes I wonder who would I be? Perhaps an emotionless blue collar technician that only knows how to deal with machines? Perhaps a “Char-Koay-Teow” guy somewhere at
Petaling street?
One should not be too emotionally soaked up and shun away the new coming opportunity.
While someone robs away your faith and love, you should be grateful that she is giving you the chance to explore a whole new world and whole new life.
Friday, 7 September 2007
Saturday, 18 August 2007
...FULL OF SHORT-CHANGING
From the moment the spring session starts, lives on the mother earth covered by the melting snows come about to grow and blossom. Each plantation tries to grow as tall as possible with its branches stretch wide enough, fighting to absorb all the sunlight it requires; and its root reaches as deep and wide into the earth to suck up the nutrients in the soil.
At the North Pole, Polar bears wake up with a flatten belly from at least 3 months of hibernation; their hunger and dehydration coupled with the super-sensitive sensing capability; lead them to look for the nearest food source to replenish their energy. With its weakened body and some cubs depending on them, the bears must look for the nearest target before they become the food source to the others.
On the African land, the end of the raining season signifies the beginning of the mating session. Male animals have to sharpen their skills to track for mating partners; or sometimes even have to sharpen their fighting skills before coming to courtship with the female species. The right to mate rests upon the social status of the beast, one has to short change the others.
After a successful courtship, together with million of other siblings the sperm must fight each other to reach and search for entry into the egg. Only one in a million will have the chance to survive. It is all encrypted into our DNA that one is a born winner. But one must short change the others. There is never friend but all foes. One must fight for its own right to survive without mercy or care on others.
In the adulthood of a human being, one learns about his “human rights to short change others”. For the sake of planting and harvesting crops for undisturbed food supply, one learns to fight and conquer others for occupation of land. For the sake of taking revenge on ones hatreds, campaigns and propagandas on human superiority were opted in the World War II to wipe out the other race entirely. For the sake of having cheap and stable crude oil supply, one framed an anti-terrorism war to which sacrifices on lives of own countrymen and thousand other innocents would be chosen. For the sake of racial superiority and personal ego, special economic schemes and quota systems were created to shun other races out from competition; and consequently draining talents and weakening the country. For the sake of own greed, one would to take advantages on job position; short changing the computer bag passed by a friend to you with his old one.
Short changing is all about the economic theory that “one person’s loss is another person’s gain”. The world should look at things from a different angle. Only when there is giving that one will receive. Only when we respect others that others will respect us. We should acknowledge that we are all different and unique. The earth and its resources are all ours. Trees grow but their branches will never undercut each others. Animals all live within their boundaries without crossing over to the others. Mankind could learn and depend on each other, inheriting the good values and sharing on fruits of achievement. Love and protect environment, respect nature as it will take care of us.
At the North Pole, Polar bears wake up with a flatten belly from at least 3 months of hibernation; their hunger and dehydration coupled with the super-sensitive sensing capability; lead them to look for the nearest food source to replenish their energy. With its weakened body and some cubs depending on them, the bears must look for the nearest target before they become the food source to the others.
On the African land, the end of the raining season signifies the beginning of the mating session. Male animals have to sharpen their skills to track for mating partners; or sometimes even have to sharpen their fighting skills before coming to courtship with the female species. The right to mate rests upon the social status of the beast, one has to short change the others.
After a successful courtship, together with million of other siblings the sperm must fight each other to reach and search for entry into the egg. Only one in a million will have the chance to survive. It is all encrypted into our DNA that one is a born winner. But one must short change the others. There is never friend but all foes. One must fight for its own right to survive without mercy or care on others.
In the adulthood of a human being, one learns about his “human rights to short change others”. For the sake of planting and harvesting crops for undisturbed food supply, one learns to fight and conquer others for occupation of land. For the sake of taking revenge on ones hatreds, campaigns and propagandas on human superiority were opted in the World War II to wipe out the other race entirely. For the sake of having cheap and stable crude oil supply, one framed an anti-terrorism war to which sacrifices on lives of own countrymen and thousand other innocents would be chosen. For the sake of racial superiority and personal ego, special economic schemes and quota systems were created to shun other races out from competition; and consequently draining talents and weakening the country. For the sake of own greed, one would to take advantages on job position; short changing the computer bag passed by a friend to you with his old one.
Short changing is all about the economic theory that “one person’s loss is another person’s gain”. The world should look at things from a different angle. Only when there is giving that one will receive. Only when we respect others that others will respect us. We should acknowledge that we are all different and unique. The earth and its resources are all ours. Trees grow but their branches will never undercut each others. Animals all live within their boundaries without crossing over to the others. Mankind could learn and depend on each other, inheriting the good values and sharing on fruits of achievement. Love and protect environment, respect nature as it will take care of us.
Monday, 16 July 2007
... A HIGHWAY, YOU COULD RIDE IT ALL NIGHT LONG
Travelling along the highways in Malaysia could be an interesting one, if not a dangerous one.
Life is wonderful that you could enjoy the scenic view along the highway, cruising through smoothly when you set your car on auto-cruise. All you have to do is to hold on to your steering wheel; let your leg relax at the side of the accelerator panel; without the fear of being captured on the “candid camera” set under the bridges or hiding in the bushes.
Life is cool when you have your Ray-Ban on, and feel as if you were as smart and nice-looking as (but most probably taller than) Tom Cruise; while having your voluptuous, beautiful and attractive companion by your side in your car. At times, you may come across the parade of beetles collection cars; all with its own distinct colours, accessories; and of course sometimes cute drivers too. If your luck is good, you may come across the parade of Harley Davidson motorbikes; all with old, ugly and rugged drivers but young, pretty and sexy pillion riders.
Life is crazy on the highway as well, that cruising at 120 km/h is considered slow. Your smooth cruising mood could be spoilt when a 600cc car flashes you from behind unexpectedly with pressuring high speed that is approaching you in no time. The best is that he proves to you that his 600cc car can over take a 2-litre car in split seconds. It has proven that 20 years of cars making is a success for our national car. Surely Malaysia boleh!
Life is exciting, on the other hand, as the highway could be the perfect place for men to show off their muscles and strengths (not their own, I mean their vehicle). Some Honda or BMW drivers might think he or she is the F1 drivers, extending the Sepang circuit to the North-South Highway. Raging with extreme high speed that they push their vehicle to the limit (180 to 220 km/h), coming right after you from behind flashing their headlight from 1 or 2 KM away. By the time you signal and move into the slow lane to give way to them, their vehicles might have overtaken you, not even giving you the time to see their car model or number plate.
Life is slow and steady, on the contrary, at least for some drivers while taking their own sweet time driving at 60 to 80 km/h. These people might have mistakenly thought that they are on the trunk road; some might be colour blind that they can’t differentiate the green-coloured highway signage from blue-coloured trunk road signage. Or some maybe reminiscing those good old days when they were travelling with their brand new Sunny twenty odd years ago, which is not supposed to be on the road again.
Life is like a circus whereby many drivers will try to impress you with their own distinctive skills and tricks. Some will demonstrate to you their acrobatic skills whereby their could zip-zag in between lanes without have to wait for cars in front to give way. Some will demonstrate to you their superb handling skills that they could beat the bend at a high speed of 220km/h. Others will be the physics professors that prove to you that straight line is shorter than a curve and they will just drive straight even the road is winding.
Life is about continuously learning, above all, from the best martial art grandmasters - teaching you about body movement or, from the higher level ones, to sense the Chi of drivers who unexpectedly change lanes without signalling. Or, let some Star Wars Master Yoda’s disciples sharpen your skills so that you are able to react to those who don’t care how far your car is distanced from theirs.
Life is wonderful that you could enjoy the scenic view along the highway, cruising through smoothly when you set your car on auto-cruise. All you have to do is to hold on to your steering wheel; let your leg relax at the side of the accelerator panel; without the fear of being captured on the “candid camera” set under the bridges or hiding in the bushes.
Life is cool when you have your Ray-Ban on, and feel as if you were as smart and nice-looking as (but most probably taller than) Tom Cruise; while having your voluptuous, beautiful and attractive companion by your side in your car. At times, you may come across the parade of beetles collection cars; all with its own distinct colours, accessories; and of course sometimes cute drivers too. If your luck is good, you may come across the parade of Harley Davidson motorbikes; all with old, ugly and rugged drivers but young, pretty and sexy pillion riders.
Life is crazy on the highway as well, that cruising at 120 km/h is considered slow. Your smooth cruising mood could be spoilt when a 600cc car flashes you from behind unexpectedly with pressuring high speed that is approaching you in no time. The best is that he proves to you that his 600cc car can over take a 2-litre car in split seconds. It has proven that 20 years of cars making is a success for our national car. Surely Malaysia boleh!
Life is exciting, on the other hand, as the highway could be the perfect place for men to show off their muscles and strengths (not their own, I mean their vehicle). Some Honda or BMW drivers might think he or she is the F1 drivers, extending the Sepang circuit to the North-South Highway. Raging with extreme high speed that they push their vehicle to the limit (180 to 220 km/h), coming right after you from behind flashing their headlight from 1 or 2 KM away. By the time you signal and move into the slow lane to give way to them, their vehicles might have overtaken you, not even giving you the time to see their car model or number plate.
Life is slow and steady, on the contrary, at least for some drivers while taking their own sweet time driving at 60 to 80 km/h. These people might have mistakenly thought that they are on the trunk road; some might be colour blind that they can’t differentiate the green-coloured highway signage from blue-coloured trunk road signage. Or some maybe reminiscing those good old days when they were travelling with their brand new Sunny twenty odd years ago, which is not supposed to be on the road again.
Life is like a circus whereby many drivers will try to impress you with their own distinctive skills and tricks. Some will demonstrate to you their acrobatic skills whereby their could zip-zag in between lanes without have to wait for cars in front to give way. Some will demonstrate to you their superb handling skills that they could beat the bend at a high speed of 220km/h. Others will be the physics professors that prove to you that straight line is shorter than a curve and they will just drive straight even the road is winding.
Life is about continuously learning, above all, from the best martial art grandmasters - teaching you about body movement or, from the higher level ones, to sense the Chi of drivers who unexpectedly change lanes without signalling. Or, let some Star Wars Master Yoda’s disciples sharpen your skills so that you are able to react to those who don’t care how far your car is distanced from theirs.
Tuesday, 26 June 2007
....A SLOW DAY IN THE MEETING ROOM
Life is like a rock. Sitting still and firmly on your chair.
Have you ever experienced "a full 9 to 7 day sitting down at your spot; waiting for your turn for presentation" kind of meeting? The interesting part is that minutes before your mind is full of mental rehearsal of what you want to say; and programming yourself on not to repeat the same mistakes those presenters made before you. Minutes later after the presentation, your mind is out there, yes I mean far far away from the board room, wandering about the things you want to enjoy, the food you want to eat later.
Life is miserable minutes before the meeting, thinking about tricks on impressing the bosses; anticipating and countering those unexpected questions. Most importantly, demand respect from your co-workers or peers... I am smarter! :-p
Life is, on the other hand, free and easy after the presentation (provided you are not bombarded by the board members), wandering about the seven wonders of the world; floating in your own virtual world if you have wi-fi available at the board room. I am free! :-}
Life is, in fact, what you think it is. Still & confined; or slick and freed. What you think will come around, what you think will be materialised.
Life is wonderful, especially when you have a cup of brewed coffee in your hand. Smooth & tasty!
Have you ever experienced "a full 9 to 7 day sitting down at your spot; waiting for your turn for presentation" kind of meeting? The interesting part is that minutes before your mind is full of mental rehearsal of what you want to say; and programming yourself on not to repeat the same mistakes those presenters made before you. Minutes later after the presentation, your mind is out there, yes I mean far far away from the board room, wandering about the things you want to enjoy, the food you want to eat later.
Life is miserable minutes before the meeting, thinking about tricks on impressing the bosses; anticipating and countering those unexpected questions. Most importantly, demand respect from your co-workers or peers... I am smarter! :-p
Life is, on the other hand, free and easy after the presentation (provided you are not bombarded by the board members), wandering about the seven wonders of the world; floating in your own virtual world if you have wi-fi available at the board room. I am free! :-}
Life is, in fact, what you think it is. Still & confined; or slick and freed. What you think will come around, what you think will be materialised.
Life is wonderful, especially when you have a cup of brewed coffee in your hand. Smooth & tasty!
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