Look is not Everything

You guys must think that I am crazy to like this guy. But tell you, he really touched me with his latest single 你不爱我-康康. From the look you can see he is not my type, not handsome, hot nor sexy... haha... But his song touched me. Its a really simple song too, nothing great like Jay Chou. Somehow maybe the effort he put in that song... the feeling's soo strong... full with emotion. Everything you do with effort will always pay off. Compared to F4, got the look (Not really also.. al ugly...) but their songs are like.. Hmphm... haha.. You know I know...
I even thought that song can fight with Jay... Haha... But of course Jay wont loose la =P

From this new liking, I truely understand one thing. Look isnt everything. Sometimes, it might even be NOTHING. Its the talent & personality someone possess that make him glow and special. Kang Kang is not handsome...haha.. Its a known fact, thats why i didnt use the word MIGHT look ugly... haha... He is not handsome but its the way he carries himself makes everyone like him. Truely like him. For such guy, you wont like him blindly cause he dont have a nice face for you to love blindly... haha...
With that disadvantage, he MUST have something special for people to like him - His individuality, his humor, his sincerity and his tenaciousness in completing a task (you can see from the show Zhou Ri 8 Dian Dang hosted by him, NONO & Jacky).

I think he is the very first celebrity I dont like cause of his look. I mean totally IGNORE his look and simply like him for his talent and humor. ~ Gamabte Kang Kang.. = ) ~
So guys and girls outside, if you think you are not pretty or handsome DONT FEEEL SAD!!!
No one's perfect. If you loose at the look, gain points from your BRAIN, personality or any talent you have. Dont think LOOK IS EVERYTING, cause ITS NOT!! =)


Kang Kang
ManDy

Should I or Should I Not?

I am so in a dilemma whether should I get the stuff-S. Haha...

1st item - Biotherm Anti Rides Line Peel
How did it come about? I went to Fenwicks with Heidi, and she saw this product. The really friendly counter gave us each a sample to test it. Boy I regreted taking it home, cause after trying out, YOU WANT IT!!! The moisturizer I am using is not strong enough for this winter, not oily enough. And this product has this function too - WRINKLE CORRECTOR. Its never too early to start to keep yourself looking good... Hahha... Thats what Doctor Chiang said too...
After applying it, you wont feel the oilyness of it.. and yet it keep your skin moisturize, soft & smooth...
Here comes the problem.. £28 = rm180?
Thats the greatest problem I believe....
What should I do? I need advice friends... Espeically from Adeline...Lolz...

2nd item - Stilla Foundation (dont really know... lol)
Everyone's starting to put on make up... Everyone but ME.... makes me feeel so outdated.. haha.. As Heidi's a makeup freak... haha.. she loves buying cosmetics... I am sort of influenced by her... Or maybe everyone around me, ex-classmates, movies..etc. What ever that is, the bottom line is I think I should starting learning how to apply makeup.
Stilla has really cute packaging. And that foudation (accordin to expert Heidi) is really good, fine and smooth. But the problem is.. £18 = rm150?

I think when I really start applying makeup, the things I need most is - Eyeliner, Mascara, Foundation and maybe concealer. And of course lip gloss (which i got alot liao... enough).

SO how... SHOULD I GET BOTH?????? or only one between that 2???????

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Went for Harry Potter And the Goblet of Fire with Heidi.
Boy I had a rough time going out... haha... First I was incredibly late (although she was late too). When I was walking out to the bus stop, the bus just drove off. Second I forgotten to bring my debit card out!! No money how to go gai gai... Gotta run back home to grab the card then run out again. This time, the bus was on the way towards the stop. RUN AGAIN... Darn tiring.

WHen I arrived at The Gates, she wasnt there yet (later than me=P) so I decided to go grab my brother's stuff first. Went to the Comic store in Chinatown & it was packed (first time). There was a CS (Counter Strike) Competition going on, so all guys were there gathering. I thought that game was so history, always hear the guys in school talkin abou it.
THen went to the Chinese store to grab Taufu Fa for Dan. The uncle told me no one eats Taufu Fa during winter... I was like.. HAR? He then introduced me Instant Taufu Fa. Just add water & sugar andn there you are... You own TAUFU FA.

Heidi then met up with me in front of the cinema. Its my first time seeing the cinema's PACKED. Watching movies isnt a huge thing to the British, they prefer to buy dvds and keep it as a collection. If I am them, I would do that too, cause a ticket cause you £6. WHile a Dvd cause you about £20. You wont loose much buying it back home & watch it countless times... haha... Not like Malaysia, a ticket cost you RM10 but a dvd cause you RM120.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is a big hit in the UK. All tickets were sold out, we only managed to grab the 6pm session.

As it was only 3.30pm, we decided to have some window shopping & had our dinner before the movie starts. Wento USC, saw some great stuff - bags, blouses, skirts but we didnt get any of those... Waiting for the Winter sale * wee*
Then The Body Shop and got a facial blotter, then BOOTS to check up some cosmectic stuff (Heidi).
Later we went to Accessorize. MAN, ITS EMBARRASSSSINGG!!!! I totally forgotten that they dont accept solo cards & thats the only thing I have!!!! I gotta get Heidi to pay on my behalf >,<. At that very moment, everyone;s looking at you... JUST IMGAINE HOW BAD THE SITUATION WAS!!!!!! By the way, Accessorize is selling pet's clothes which are soooo adorable... But pricely too, £10 cheapest. I might get one of the really pretty cute collar for Fifi. As Malaysia's too hot to have her wearing clothes, getting accessories for her will be enough. Christmas's coming and they are selling earring of Santa, Christmas tree & rain deer with LIGHTS ON!! haha.. So you can wear those earring with the lights on, this way you will loook like a tree? haha... I saw a frying egg pan with the LOVE shape!! I WAS SOOOOO CLOSE of buying it cause its soo cute... A love shape eggie... haha.... But I didnt... Might get that if its on sale... haha... After that we went for Burger King then Fenwick on the way to the cinema. Heidi & I decided to get the Stilla foundation when we got our wages. Packaging is so important. It makes the products so cute that you just want to have it, regardless of the price... haha... For the very firs time, Odeon is PACKED. We got to even queue up to enter the cinema. Cinemas in UK is free sitting so you got to grab your seats early for such situation. FOr normal time the cinema is just 30% full. Compared to Malaysia's GSC, Odeon really neeed to SAO PEI... Maybe only London Odeon which always held Premiere can fight.. haha...

The show was good but not great. The book is always better, much more excitement. But the director's just being practical I guess, filming the whole book would take about 3 hours to end it.
For those who havent read the book, I would recomand you to first watch the movie then go for the book. From the movie, you can always get whats written in the book, but from the book, there are so much things you cant find from the movie. Besides, reading gives you much room to imagine things, make things more fun and of course YOUR WAY. You can imagine the actors to be as handsome as you want, the girls as pretty as you like or as ugly as you like... haha...
I personally fantasize Igor Karkaroff (Pedja Bjelac (II)) to be REALLY HOT, but in the movie he turns out to be really yukky...

Michael Gambon playing the new Professor Albus Dumbledore is really disappointing. He is way too energetic to be Professor Dumbledore. The foremore Professor was much calmer & looked much wiser. This one looked just like a stupid crazy overwhelmed Professor.

Daniel Radcliffe, Harry Potter. He really grown up compared to the previous movies. ANd he does have a body(The scene he tried to crack the egg in the prefect bathroom).. haha.. Although it isnt those manly type, but I can see potential in him.. haha...
He looks so gentleman... Like a real Englishman... haha...

Emma Watson, Hermione Granger. She's getting prettier and more lady like compared to the past where she look like a GIRL. Hehe...

Rupert Grint, Ron Weasley. TO be honest I think he can be a hot dude in the future... haha... Still young... haha.. got lots of room to be improve...haha...

Katie Leung, Cho Chang. I think she's really cute and pretty. She should have got the dance with Harry!!! But what ever... her partner died at the end.. lol...

Robert Pattinson, Cedric Diggory. I think he's cute, but not the SUPER CUTE type like Justin Timberlake... haah... Too bad he died... haha...

Overall, its a good movie. Especially in the first task, the graphic were excellent. They make it so real. Just that I personally think that, they should also film the other participants tackling their task. It might make Harry not so in the spot light, but it sort of balance things out. Centralizing the main character too much might bring abit negative effects to the overall show.

Its end of another week, everything's about the same, typical routine, work, sleeeep, eat... online.. etc..

Anything HUGE happen this week? Eric went for the court hearing, and he was found guilty of some charges (dont really know). He is now suspended to drive in the UK for 1 year & a penalty of £150. Not too bad considering cheating the police. Its a pretty major offence when you are involved in the police.
So now Eric is just staying at home, going to casino , going out (dont know where) etc... Basically being someone uselesssss.
I am really frustrated with Eric's bratty behaviour. Now his girlfriend, Cecilla's gone back to Hong Kong, there's no one to clean his dirty dishes or just wrapped all the takeaways and bin it. I think he still dont see the situation the way I see. Cause he is still leaving all the craps on the table expecting SOMEONE to clean it up for him. NO WAY DUDE>>> GET A LIFE>>>

We are now entering winter & the weather is awful. Awful as in ITS FREAKING COLD OUTSIDE!!! ANd the damn house's central heating aint working well. Its as if we didnt on the heater & the house is like a fridge, a huge fridge. To show you how cold it is, even when we talk in the kitchen, there is smoke coming out from our mouth & breathing... I am so not exaggerating.
Thats why we didnt on the heating (No point), instead we have our own individual heater. This way, we can save on the gas bill and pay on the electricity bill and still get warm. (Gas is much expensive than electricity)

Waking up in the morning would be the worse. Leaving your warm comfy duvet is sooo torturing. THe minute you open the duvet, immediately you can feeel the cold air. I am starting to wear my winter jacket with scarf. And I dont carry any hand bags, instead I use sling over bags, this way my hands are freee to be kept warm in the pockets ^^.

Its Friday today, and before going home I went to the Heaton's Morrison to grab some food stuff. Bought some ready meal for lunch to work and some for Dan to have before going to work too. I am getting really bored with sandwiches & pasta. I mean really BORED ~. I felt like throwing up whenever I finish a sandwich or pasta. Thats why I bought Indian ready meal. Its something Asian. I think I really missss Malaysia food, where Char Kuey Teow is so common but definately an 'EXTICNTED' or maybe didnt even exist... haha...

Those bag of foood were REALLLY HEAVY... My hands were so near to be frozen and its going to break. Waited for the bus for about 15 minutes. Finally when the bus arrived, its quite packed and I got to stand >,<. Actually..... THERE WAS A SEAT BUT I DIDNT SEEEE THAT!!!!! ANd the guy next to it is prettty cute. He was loooking at me with that weird face, "Hello there's a seat, why dont you take it?" It was reallllly humilating... cause everyone's lookin me that way -_-". With that much of heavy bags on hand, normal people would immediately grabbed that seat... but not me... hiah...

Oh yah, something huge did happen, but its not about the house or the family. Its about others.
1) Our 'beloved' new neighbour's house was burgled. To make things worse, one of the mate's car was burgled too... The GPRS kit was stolen... haha... Looks like their faith is much worse than us.. lol... And we all think its really stupid and weird for a civilan to on a GPRS. YOu aint any taxi driver or going round the world, why do you need a GPRS System which cost you £400. Not to mention the car isnt any major luxury car. All you need is just a MAP. A good map will cause you only £10. It wasnt the first time his car was being 'attacked' at the very same side of the door... haha...

2) A Malaysian guy student commit suiside by jumping from the 8th floor from one of the buildings in Newcastle University. I was really shocked to hear that from the uncle who works as a technician there. They are still investigating the case whether is he being push off or he did it himself. Wonder what drive him there & having such courage to just JUMP OFF. It take so much guts to end your life. Why dont use that guts to face your problem? Humans can be so foolish at that very moment and regret at the next moment.

Thats all for the week.

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Greatful

I was so touched watching today's Extream Makeover Home Edition. This week its about a really special family, a family which consist of a pair of deaf parents, a deaf, blind & retard in terms of movements young son. The only one that is normal in the family is their eldest 14 year old son.
He had to make sure everything goes right for the family, he takes extra extra care for his little brother. As a 14 year old kid, its such a big burden on his shoulder that he has to carry out RIGHT. I sort of can understand how he feels like. Cause I think I am a bit protective when it comes to my family members. You want the best for them, you dont want them to get hurt. Worrying about them around the clock. Especially when you have a family where everyone has their own problem, blind, deaf...
He is a really special kid, a very strong one. Thats why the Team gave the family a USD50k cheque to help them support the family and at the same time give the son a chance to visit Australia, a place he visited years ago & was dying to go back again.
He deserves that kind of reward.

The Makeover Team decided to give them a NEW house within 7 days. During that 7 days, the family would have a week vacation in the finest hotel in the States (I cant remember the name). Its the place where the parents spent their 1st lunch after the marriage. It was too expensive for them to spend their honeymoon there, thats why they can only afford the lunch inspite of months and months of savings.

I think it was the youngest son touched me most. The team wanted to give the best for the youngest son. To do that, they got to feel what he feels then only they will know whats the best for him. They blind fold themselves & had a class designed for them to really feeel what he feels, the see what his world is like.
Watching that part makes my heart sour. Tears were so near to rolling down my cheeks.
I cant imagine my life being like his. He couldnt see what we see, he couldnt see how beautiful the world is, how fantastic things can be. All he has is just a dark, pitch black world. Without any light and color. He cant do things normal kids do. He cant play soccer, he cant go cycling, he cant climb the trees. He missed all the fun being a normal kid.
The saddest thing is he cant see his parents face, his brother face.
Its the feeling of helpless that struck me most. You wanted to do so many things, but you just cant do it. You just cant.
WHen you grow older, you will feel so helpless that you might even think that you are just a burden to your family.

Everything is so hard for these people, what have they done wrong to have such life? They have no choice to be born that way.
For Christians, they would surely say, God have his reason doing this. Its easy to say, but its so tough to really accpet that explaination & be STRONG.
For Buddhism, the would say its the circle of life. It reflects what you have done in the past.
No matter what the religion says, the only thing that is true is YOU GOT TO ACCEPT IT & live with it. Dont give up in yourself.
Supports from the surrounding is so important to them. Letting them know that they are not alone, and everyone loves them. Let them know they arent useless trash to the community. Maybe the wouldnt have much contribution to the community, but every little thing counts.
There's is chinese saying something like this, Big man do big things, little man do little things. Everyone just do things according to their ability. It might be small to normal people, but it means alot to those less fortunate.
Accept those less fortunate, cause they are part of the world & they are the people who make you feeel more greatful than anyone else.

So folks, be greatful with what you have. You might think what you have is SHIT, but its something really important & priceless to others. Dont take your eyes, hands, hearing, ability to talk, ability to think, laugh, smile, cry for granted. You wont know someday you might just loss it, just instantly...
Be more considerate...

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Stanford Report, June 14, 2005

'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says

This is the text of the Commencement address, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation - the Macintosh - a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me – I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Thank you all very much.

This is the text dad email me to read. After reading it, I do have some comments about the speeech he gave.

What he said is true. No doubt, doing things you love is really important as when you have passion for your work, you tend to do better, do the best out of it. But that concept isn’t really that ideal for the real world.
In this REAL and realistic world, sometimes you don’t have the choice to follow what your heart wants you to be. There are so many more factors that you need to take count.
Living for your dream can be a disaster to someone. Not everyone is as lucky as Steve Jobs to do what he loves what he likes.
For example, if someone wants to be an artist, paint whole day with little income. Cause that’s what he likes. But can you afford to pay for your family's expenses by your interest? Just because it’s your passion for art? The answer is obviously NO. Not everyone can be a successful artist, selling thousand and thousands of pounds for just a piece of art. I am not saying NO ONE was successful doing that, but the percentage is so small that not everyone is able to take that risk.

For me, being realistic much important and it the number 1 thing in your heart, then only it comes to your passion. But sometimes, passion coming first can be quite a important step towards a great and successful life. For example, everyone thinks that being a doctor will bring you great fortune. Well, I think thats true, cause at least till now I havent see a doctor that is dead shit poor. That means its practical cause MONEY plays a really important role in life. So that idea is a real & realistic idea.
Here comes the problem, you dont have any passion for your job, your patient. Then this career will just bring HELL to you. Being a doctor, passion plays a really important role. Being a doctor, you need to have the passion for your patient to be on-call, being awake middle of the night to save lifes. Without passion, how can you live such life? How are you going to be able to have a hectic & stressful life as a doctor?
In this case, passion comes first then being practical.
So it means, vary situation got to have vary kind of mind set. But the most important thing is TRUST & LISTEN TO THE INNER YOU and then think using your BRAIN. Dont follow your heart blindly and get yourself into trouble.
The saying of Just Follow Your Heart will only appear in the movies, in Neverland, in places where you have basically nothing to worry about. This happens mostly in the rich people family isnt it? Cause the rich kids has nothing to worry about cause there are tonns of money (which they think will never finsih) for them to spend. Without that worry, life is basically 'Great' for them, therefore they have the abilty the power to just 'Follow their heart'.

About the second story about Mr. Jobs being sacked from his own company and got him into another path to create a new company gives some idea about life too.
Life is just so unpredictable. Anything can just happen. Have anyone ever dream of US's World Trade Center would be attacked? The US's Military Headquaters Pentagon being attacked? Malaysia having tsunami & earthquake? Everything is in the hands of God. What can humans do is work things out whatever happens to you.
No one would expect someone who dropped out from a good college to be a multimillioon dollar companie's CEO?
Do not loose hope might be the right thing. Even when you've become bankcrupt, or even jailed, thats not the end of the world, unless you give up yourself. There will always a path in front of you. All you need to do is to go FIND it yourself. The process might be hard and tough. But when you found it & looked back at the journey you've been through, the obstacles you've encountered, its worth it. At that time, you wouldnt feel the pain you've go through, cause its all over & its those obstacles that changed & toughen the new you.

I personally felt that when I attended the QTB Camp in form 5. During the jungle tracking time, I felt like dying... I felt like turning back. But there isnt any way for you to turn back. There is only one way ahead taht is to continue the journey. During the whole journey there were so many obstacles needed to encounter. Do you have a choice to say no? NO. I encountered it & reached home safely.
After all that, thinknig back makes me understand the concept of life better. Life is a journey where there are many obstacles waiting for you to encounter. You learn from the obstacles, the failures, the pain then adapt yourself into it and make yourself sucessful from it.
Whats the bottom line? Dont loose hope. Everything has a cure for it. All you need is to be patient and alert of the oppourtunities around you.

From the third story, Live life as if you are going to die tomorrow.
I truely understand that concept in the QTB Camp. All this while I always thought that I am not afraid to die. Not until I nearly died. At that very moment, I just realised there are so many things in this world that I havent experience. Too many. I wouldnt be satisfied to die at such a young age.
I am not saying this because I am still young and lots to see. It goes same to the adults. The world is just a big place where no one will ever ever ever experience EVERY SINGLE LITTLE THING. If you are not a materialistic person but a sentimental person, its the same too.
You dont want to see the world, but you want to see your children growing up, going to school, entering adolescent, getting married, having your first grandchild etc.
There is so much more to do in life.
Live life as if you re going to die tomorrow. This is true to some extend. They were saying, “Ya, in that case, spend all your money on something since you will be dying soon”. That my friend is WRONG. It then comes to your senses too. Think before acting.
Not everything needs to be like what the saying goes.
Everything needs to go through your BRAIN, because we aren’t living in a fantasy world, where everything goes according to your liking.



The bottomline is, LIFE ISNT THAT NICE. Everything can happen, just believe in your heart, and then think... Think best for yourself, not others, cause life is too short to live up to others expectiation. And of course never ever loose hope. Try your best & there will always be a way for you. The way might be not the way you LOVE or expected, but it is still a path, a path you can walk and learn the best out of it.

I think this is the longest post i ever posted, and i LOVE it.. hehe...