Why worry?
from my observations of people around me, i can't help but wonder why ppl like to burden themselves with so much worry.. i know i'm different from them but y is tat so? this is not to say that i dun have worries.. of cos everybody have some serious things to worry abt.. but it's just i feel that i definitely have much less from wat i can compare with some others
truly speaking, i'm someone who definitely dislikes trouble.. in other words it simply means LAZY haha.. i'm always a last-minute person and i dun like to plan anythings ahead in time especially if there's too many uncertainties to consider for tat kind of planning. i like to take things as it comes.. so even if there's a need to worry it'll only come when something wrong arises haha.. a very good example is related to why i choose to take bus each time i go back home.. many ppl have asked me why i never ever book a plane ticket to fly back home.. it's not abt the price since the price ends up to be abt the same comparing a bus ticket in SGD and the airasia price.. the answer is b'cos i have to plan and book EARLY!! something i can't do or rather i'm too lazy to do haha
i've heard from somewhere tat 90% of our worries never actually happen in reality.. so wat's the point in building up our stress and wrinkles, and wasting our mental and physical effort and especially time in worrying? getting all stress up for no valid reason is just wat we gonna get from doin so in the end.
of cos life is not a bed of roses and there're definitely things tat we need to 'worry' about as failure to do so can lead to catasthrophic consequences (wow this sounds so chim haha).. so i guess the most important thing is to be able to differentiate between things tat we need to 'worry' abt n wat not to. too many ppl these days like to overly-excessively-worry over minor minor stuff.. simply said this is called kiasu n kiasee haha
to do this of cos it's not easy.. we have to know ourself well and wat are our priorities.. i think some ppl are putting too many things to their list.. well cut the list down la unless u prefer to get a heart attack sometime too soon.. don't always so greedy wanna 'pau ka liau'.. understand the fact tat anything can happen in this world and we can never prepare enough so just accept the unwanted things if they do come up.. how r u gonna survive if u walk around keep looking up always thinking tat something might fall from the sky.. i tell u, in the end u only fall into longkang.. worse still if u start trying to spin ur head 360 degrees all the time to keep a look out everywhere.. in less than 5 minutes u'll be on the floor already with a broken neck
pardon me if i'm too care-free but i really do prefer to have a more peaceful and longer life span.. and one step towards tat is by starting to let go of unnecessary worries from your daily life. do notice tat u can wear a smile more often when u have less worries.. be at peace with your mind n soul
truly speaking, i'm someone who definitely dislikes trouble.. in other words it simply means LAZY haha.. i'm always a last-minute person and i dun like to plan anythings ahead in time especially if there's too many uncertainties to consider for tat kind of planning. i like to take things as it comes.. so even if there's a need to worry it'll only come when something wrong arises haha.. a very good example is related to why i choose to take bus each time i go back home.. many ppl have asked me why i never ever book a plane ticket to fly back home.. it's not abt the price since the price ends up to be abt the same comparing a bus ticket in SGD and the airasia price.. the answer is b'cos i have to plan and book EARLY!! something i can't do or rather i'm too lazy to do haha
i've heard from somewhere tat 90% of our worries never actually happen in reality.. so wat's the point in building up our stress and wrinkles, and wasting our mental and physical effort and especially time in worrying? getting all stress up for no valid reason is just wat we gonna get from doin so in the end.
of cos life is not a bed of roses and there're definitely things tat we need to 'worry' about as failure to do so can lead to catasthrophic consequences (wow this sounds so chim haha).. so i guess the most important thing is to be able to differentiate between things tat we need to 'worry' abt n wat not to. too many ppl these days like to overly-excessively-worry over minor minor stuff.. simply said this is called kiasu n kiasee haha
to do this of cos it's not easy.. we have to know ourself well and wat are our priorities.. i think some ppl are putting too many things to their list.. well cut the list down la unless u prefer to get a heart attack sometime too soon.. don't always so greedy wanna 'pau ka liau'.. understand the fact tat anything can happen in this world and we can never prepare enough so just accept the unwanted things if they do come up.. how r u gonna survive if u walk around keep looking up always thinking tat something might fall from the sky.. i tell u, in the end u only fall into longkang.. worse still if u start trying to spin ur head 360 degrees all the time to keep a look out everywhere.. in less than 5 minutes u'll be on the floor already with a broken neck
pardon me if i'm too care-free but i really do prefer to have a more peaceful and longer life span.. and one step towards tat is by starting to let go of unnecessary worries from your daily life. do notice tat u can wear a smile more often when u have less worries.. be at peace with your mind n soul
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Reunion
wat do you think is the most important thing about CNY? for me it couldn't be anything other than simply: Reunion.
u know, i really like those meaningful advertisement that they have in m'sia tv when it comes to such celebrations like cny, merdeka, and hari raya. it really serves as a meaningful reminder to us the modern ppl nowadays about values, culture, and tradition. i guess everyone needs such reminders from time to time as they get caught up in chasing things here n there, working like robots each day.
just to mention some new ones this year.. there was one abt this guy who keeps telling his mum 'ma, i bo eng ah' each time she calls until just the moment when he almost got hit by a bus/lorry(forgot haha).. another one was abt a kid who was at school and the class was asked to draw a picture about reunion dinner.. well this kid was just lost and couldn't draw anything.. reason is: he was an orphan.. and so that ended with a phrase "pls go home for reunion if u can" because some ppl may never even have the chance to do so
i dunno if they have such advertisements in sg or elsewhere, but this trend of such advertisement started in m'sia a few years back n i guess it really made a very big impact that they decided to continue doing it as some of those advertisement were awarded the best advertisements of the year.
since i came to sg.. i actually skipped my first 2 years of cny by not going home.. well i remember some frens scolded me n called me crazy back then.. they were right i guess, but ever since then i've always made it an effort to go home for cny.. even if i had to endure a 20-hour bus ride like i did last year.. nothing beats being home to where ur family, relatives and old frens are.
btw, ang pows are still a great add-on haha :)
u know, i really like those meaningful advertisement that they have in m'sia tv when it comes to such celebrations like cny, merdeka, and hari raya. it really serves as a meaningful reminder to us the modern ppl nowadays about values, culture, and tradition. i guess everyone needs such reminders from time to time as they get caught up in chasing things here n there, working like robots each day.
just to mention some new ones this year.. there was one abt this guy who keeps telling his mum 'ma, i bo eng ah' each time she calls until just the moment when he almost got hit by a bus/lorry(forgot haha).. another one was abt a kid who was at school and the class was asked to draw a picture about reunion dinner.. well this kid was just lost and couldn't draw anything.. reason is: he was an orphan.. and so that ended with a phrase "pls go home for reunion if u can" because some ppl may never even have the chance to do so
i dunno if they have such advertisements in sg or elsewhere, but this trend of such advertisement started in m'sia a few years back n i guess it really made a very big impact that they decided to continue doing it as some of those advertisement were awarded the best advertisements of the year.
since i came to sg.. i actually skipped my first 2 years of cny by not going home.. well i remember some frens scolded me n called me crazy back then.. they were right i guess, but ever since then i've always made it an effort to go home for cny.. even if i had to endure a 20-hour bus ride like i did last year.. nothing beats being home to where ur family, relatives and old frens are.
btw, ang pows are still a great add-on haha :)
Sunday, February 03, 2008
Reaching the crossroad
it's been a month since my final semester started n now finally it's chinese new year so it's time to go home :)
realised not long ago tat it's already coming of the next Rat year which means 2 cycles of the zodiac calendar has passed for me - 24 years already, shld be happy or sad?
anyway now to some serious thoughts.. being in my final sem means it's now time again reaching a crossroad and gotta make decisions.. BIG one indeed as i embark into another phase of life - the working life. this is one decision tat i've avoided so many times before by choosing to further my studies but i know tat right now, there's no more avoiding and it's really time for me to face it.. some may say i can still further my studies to masters or phd but pls.. really i've put those way out of my choices as i have no interest in research work.
in preparation for getting a job, as usual we have those workshops for resume writing, interview skills, and bla bla bla.. and also career fairs. from these workshops, one thing i learned and hated is tat we have to learn to be actors and many things are just so fake.. we have to present only the good part of ourselves (or fake it), hide our true intentions so we're well packaged and look good, and it's all about selling ourself as the best compared to the rest. sometimes i feel we humans are just so pathetic, we know tat there is loads of bullshit out there but still we prefer to have it b'cos it sounds good compared to the hard truths. we all know tat being human is to be imperfect but yet we always look for the perfect person or more likely the person tat can package themselves 'perfectly'. the only summary tat i can make of this is tat "we have to play the game if we want to be part of it"- which means to get the job.
anyway putting tat aside, the main motivation behind this post is b'cos i'm still indecisive of choosing my path in this soon reaching crossroad. like the famous poem 'The road not taken" written by robert frost, lieing before me is two paths - one clear and seemingly the correct path while the other, the one less traveled. a simple solution tat i thought of was to first take the clear path and decide later if i wish to diverge into the path less traveled. but i do bear in mind tat once i set foot on one path n the longer and further i traveled, the lesser and harder is the chance for me to diverge. this is due to the human tendency to stay in their comfort zone and even more so for someone like me, a person well-known for his laziness and care-free attitude.
in light of this issue, i'm currently also reading a book titled 'the monk who sold his ferrari'.. quite a famous book actually. i didn't expect this post to get so long before i even started talking abt this book so i guess i'll save it for another post. need to get some slp before i start packing up and go home tomorrow :)
Wishing everyone a Happy and Prosperous Chinese New Year!!
Gong Xi Fa Cai!!
May you be well and happy always.
realised not long ago tat it's already coming of the next Rat year which means 2 cycles of the zodiac calendar has passed for me - 24 years already, shld be happy or sad?
anyway now to some serious thoughts.. being in my final sem means it's now time again reaching a crossroad and gotta make decisions.. BIG one indeed as i embark into another phase of life - the working life. this is one decision tat i've avoided so many times before by choosing to further my studies but i know tat right now, there's no more avoiding and it's really time for me to face it.. some may say i can still further my studies to masters or phd but pls.. really i've put those way out of my choices as i have no interest in research work.
in preparation for getting a job, as usual we have those workshops for resume writing, interview skills, and bla bla bla.. and also career fairs. from these workshops, one thing i learned and hated is tat we have to learn to be actors and many things are just so fake.. we have to present only the good part of ourselves (or fake it), hide our true intentions so we're well packaged and look good, and it's all about selling ourself as the best compared to the rest. sometimes i feel we humans are just so pathetic, we know tat there is loads of bullshit out there but still we prefer to have it b'cos it sounds good compared to the hard truths. we all know tat being human is to be imperfect but yet we always look for the perfect person or more likely the person tat can package themselves 'perfectly'. the only summary tat i can make of this is tat "we have to play the game if we want to be part of it"- which means to get the job.
anyway putting tat aside, the main motivation behind this post is b'cos i'm still indecisive of choosing my path in this soon reaching crossroad. like the famous poem 'The road not taken" written by robert frost, lieing before me is two paths - one clear and seemingly the correct path while the other, the one less traveled. a simple solution tat i thought of was to first take the clear path and decide later if i wish to diverge into the path less traveled. but i do bear in mind tat once i set foot on one path n the longer and further i traveled, the lesser and harder is the chance for me to diverge. this is due to the human tendency to stay in their comfort zone and even more so for someone like me, a person well-known for his laziness and care-free attitude.
in light of this issue, i'm currently also reading a book titled 'the monk who sold his ferrari'.. quite a famous book actually. i didn't expect this post to get so long before i even started talking abt this book so i guess i'll save it for another post. need to get some slp before i start packing up and go home tomorrow :)
Wishing everyone a Happy and Prosperous Chinese New Year!!
Gong Xi Fa Cai!!
May you be well and happy always.
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