Too Mind On Two Minds

It's quite contrary to mention this..

I suppose your wife doesn't understand you when you urge to buy that brand new Aston Martin. It wasn't a revenge on her constant impulse buying habit. You want to drive that new car. You want to feel the happiness of having a second wife. You just don't friggin mind even when she said you're out of mind.



But then again..

If happiness is all we want, then why go for sad movies? And if security is what we need, shouldn't we avoid driving a fast car?

I reckon we don't really mind having a life without happiness and security after all. I know I can read your mind. Okay, not women's - I still don't know what they want.

Halo Bluff-alo

During my younger days, I used to cheat on exams to please my parents to practice the fine art of cheating. The main challenge wasn't on the exam questions - it's basically on how you cheat. Let's face it, no brain in this world work like a sponge on the night before exam.

Here's the top 5 crazy methods.

1 The Magic Pen Method
2 The Coke Bottle Method
3 Write on Fingernail Method
4 Masking Tape Method
5 Mechanical Pencil Notes

Good luck!

Eating and Vomiting Inspiration

I'm currently facing two challenges - to find a concrete purpose in life (which I think everyone seldom spare a single minute on it) and to find a way to remove blocks that prevents me from feeling inspired. I can probably sum both into one, relates all as a life challenge. I can just google for motivational quotes - but those inspirational words will only last for a minute or two.



The fact that I acknowledged them as challenges instead of problems gives me a whole new enthusiastic breath. I keep them in my to-do list instead of to-avoid list. No doubt I still desperately need consistent mental stimulus to fix them.

Thinking of doing merely put me nowhere. Finding an answer for those questions could be my purpose in life after all.

Happy Moo Year!

No matter who you are, where you from and what you do, I would like wish everyone a very Happy New Year, Happy Chinese New Year and Happy Compliment Day!!!

In short, happy holidays! teehee

Shut Up I Am Dreaming

It's been more than a month since I left my blog behind. I was less expecting my blog traffic to grow, which surprisingly it did.

In pursue for a better salary, my new job has brought my blogging activity to a temporary halt. Sad, but I still have a dream to catch car loan to settle.



Whenever I stare at bathroom mirrors and office windows, I often think out loud. What's my dream again? It just appeared to be cloudy until I make it clear.



I'm not unmindful that life should be spent wisely. I will certainly fill mine with colorful and meaningful things as I remind myself while facing the sudden reflection of my dream.

A new year is on the way, so I hope to dream my life and live my dream.

Naive Like A Child

Sometimes it's really hard to diminish the feeling of fear.

Whenever I need to initiate an action, I'll take some time to think about it. Eventually I will lose my motivation in carrying out that action. Probably it's due to the amount of time I killed while considering the act. Besides, it means more time for me to craft out ideas to reject and build fear out of it.



Almost instant, I enjoyed the feeling of relief after I decline to act. This is basically mounting my fear instead of my courage to proceed. The relief I got was like a reward for not taking the action. So the more I refrain myself from doing it, the more reward I will claim, and the more actions I will try to avoid in the future.

I can hear the small voice telling me to stop behaving like a child, who afraid of everything. But one thing though, if I behave like a child, I will probably just go ahead without thinking much.



Somehow I believe this relates to Occam's razor which suggested as few assumptions as possible to be made in any phenomenon, and eliminating those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory.

Before we confuse ourself with that Occam's phrase, just do it like what Nike says.

Thank You For Arguing

A week ago, my brother facebooked me a link of an old movie.



Thank you for smoking was the movie title. The story was about a guy with speaking talent, spins argument to defend the cigarette industry in the most difficult situations. Difficult in a sense like a lawyer defending a murderer in a prosecution.

The movie was so great, I watched it THRICE. No joke, I experienced a paradigm shift while this movie further strengthen my tenet.

What happen when you're wrong? That's the beauty of argument. If you argue correctly, you'll never wrong! - one of my favorite phrases from the movie.

I wasn't being taught much on the art of argument, or the language of rhetoric itself. I just never thought everyone is potential to win an argument using profound logic. Now I have a sudden urge to win an argument on things I believe it's right. But first, I need to make my statement sounds really convincing though.



The emphasis is mostly on the construction of argument, which is normally based on logical structures. An example would be, "If Nick's acting is good, then the movie will be nice, but the movie isn’t nice, so his acting isn’t good."

It can go more complicated as more logical relationship holds between several statements involved. For an example,

"We need to argue for a change to happen. For the people who are making a change for the better deserve a standing ovation. If arguing for change didn't gain us respect, then we should not argue. But if there's no argument, there will be no changes. If there's no changes, no one will deserve a standing ovation."

Before we slap ourself with an answer of yes or no, argue does not mean quarrel. We can enhance awareness and grow trust, which eventually influence the rest. The decision as whether to accept or reject the idea, should points back to each individual to decide. In other words, everyone has the full power to make a decision - whether good or bad.

Just don't try to argue with me. That's all. (You heard that, bro?)

Procrastinating Myself From Procrastination

Recently I was telling myself to avoid procrastination. It's darn freaking hard to stop procrastinate over important tasks, which includes feeding my hamster.

If I failed to do so, I can see my to-do list grows like a pregnant hamster. Experts would advise me to break them into smaller steps and set an hour or two to solve each of them. It's like reading a book slowly by pages rather than chapters.

They said hang a carrot in front of a donkey will keep it moving forward. As for me, the best bait would be an episode of Heroes.


For my girlfriend, maybe a tulip will do.

But then again, I shall not procrastinate my thought of shutting off my thought of procrastinate.

By that time I succeed, my hamster already went to heaven.

Thinking of Cursing

Anyone who accidentally attract negative events in their daily life, will normally curse. You know, the usual reaction on a bad surprise.



If something turned out different than what we expected, we cursed without intention. Whilst most of us considered it as a bad manner, I seriously believe it will attract bad luck. Remember law of attraction? Unless you having thoughts about good things while you cursing over bad incident.

Why can't we just accept the bad apples with open heart, as they already happened in the first place? Let those words remain as thoughts. It could be a way to appreciate life, although no one knows who started this whole phenomenon of cursing.



Don't read my lips, I swear I didn't curse.

An Answer to A Question Is A Question

My post title sounded a little bit confusing though I have no intention in doing so nor injecting elements from Confucius.

In many cases, like recently, one of my colleagues put me in confusion as he tried to explain some business processes to me. I thought I understood but I didn't. I started to question for more answers to clear my doubts.

However I found that the more questions I threw in, the more confused I became.


I heart question mark?

Deep down in mind, I questioned myself why I couldn't get it right. Why the processes was difficult to understand? Why did he confuse me with conflicting statements? I questioned the entire process once again, which got him to answer hell more questions pertaining to my level of understanding instead.

The real life story above is one of many similar cases whereby my mind was blocked with questions that led me to nowhere.

I've found an answer. It was from a guy named Noah St. John. According to him, our brain always respond to a question - by searching for an answer based on the question itself.

So, the simple answer to a difficult question tends to be a positive question itself. Let me get this right - I need to ask questions in a positive manner to make myself to believe anything is clear and easy to understand. When my brain behaved in such manner, I started to link things together to form ideas which will then solve the questions I asked earlier.

In many situations, we asked..

Why do I always have bad luck?
Instead of - Why am I so lucky?


Why I have so little?
Instead of - Why I have so much?


Why am I so poor?
Instead of - Why am I so rich?


Why are the exams so difficult?
Instead of - Why do I feel so confident in my exams?


Why all the bad things happen when I less expected?
Instead of - Why I always at the right place at the right time?

Go ahead and ask yourself on those positive questions. For sure, the answers will surface one by one.

Last but not least, I still have one more question in mind.

Why doesn't this blog post sound confusing?

The Secret of Garbage Truck

Since the day one I watched the movie "The Secret", I started to read a lot of stories on the subject of "Law of Attraction". I have come to a conclusion whereby the excitement of manifesting thoughts into reality is merely like waiting for my food order without paying the bill.

After I read a mail from my friend, I found out that the story on the law of attraction has taken another twist. Here's the story.

One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his breaks, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches! The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us.

My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean, he was really friendly. So I asked, 'Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined our car and sent us to the hospital!' This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, 'The Law of Garbage Truck'.



He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on you. Don't take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Don't take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home, or on the streets. The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day.

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That was a really interesting illustration of how to distracting oneself from bad karma. The world will become a better place if most people failed to influence each other with their negative thoughts.

After all, if my food does arrive but doesn't taste good, they probably need a larger bin.

Separated At First, Together At Last

If my previous post mentioned I love the song because of its video, this time around I love the song because it was my favorite song (indeed a very lame reason). And of course, thanks to the wonderful work of WongFu. I was very much touched by their creative juice in putting people and emotion together.



I reckon the love story was based on a result of a long distance relationship. No one cares whether it does actually lasted for real (as long as the couple really love each other). Distance certainly not a barrier as already shown in this video. What the guy did was simply imagine his partner to be at his side whenever he goes (so he did act a little crazy as he took his own photos). The same goes to the girl (photographing herself was a crazy repeat act). But this weird behavior will only occur when a couple is madly in love.

Mad and crazy.

Geez, I'm Yours?

First, the awesomeness of an amateur choreography in the above video made me fell in love with Jason Mraz's song. Second, it certainly inspires me with some great new ideas for my future wedding video. Of course, it utters something else as well.

Okay, here's my thought after watching the video for like 16 times. It was actually 269 times.

1. Pink is the new black
The guy in the video uses pink iPod. I assume it's pretty normal to see a guy wearing pink shirt. But it contradicts my belief that no men would choose pink gadgets. He could stand a higher chance showing off the sensitive side of him. Or we can assume that evil dude steal it from his sister. Or worst, he is pertaining to color blindness. Or maybe I've been thinking too much here.

2. Wedding video is an advertisement
I believe it was a Raisin Bran advertisement that looks like a wedding video. Otherwise, it could be a wedding video that looks like a Raisin Bran advertisement. Whatever it is, two birds were killed in the process. On the other hand, it was a stone significant milestone achievement on a different style of videography, which eventually scores the video maker tons of money in return. In other words, they are actually promoting themselves and Wong Fu's work to their family and friends.. and you of course.

3. Creativity attracts copycats
Indeed no one likes to reinvent the wheel. So people just love re-using creative ideas as their own ideas. Similarly like this, that and this. No doubt copying is bad, but modifying and improving it into a better one is definitely a good idea. In this case, many said Wong Fu's team borrowed ideas from the 'Bad day' mv (as shown below). Anyway, does it matter if it's better?



They looked almost the same. No? Isn't it obvious how they do everything the same way? Personally, I really like the crossword scene. Though the guy was a little unnatural when acting, both ended up really great. No? Say yes.

Not A Worry In The World

As I was busy chasing dreams like most people, something I haven’t paid attention to at all was - the number 2012. Referring to a year, it means four years from now. Most beings were horribly aware that our planet would come to an end soon and even came up with a precise date - 21st of December 2012. I could foresee some couples getting married on that day.

With the recent supportive facts like the mad earthquakes in China and crazy cyclone in Burma killing lives of the innocence, it does scare the shit out of me and almost makes me a believer. But hey, previously I heard someone from somewhere said the world would surely explode on 6th of June 2006. At last everyone survives and watching TV in their comfort home.

I'm not worried about the judgment date, I'm more worried about the time wasted in the process of worrying things that might not happen. If worrying now and nothing happens later, the whole effort of worrying was wasted. If worrying now and something really bad happens in the end, then we begin to worry about it.. again! We bound to the feeling of worry, twice.

Don’t you think it’s redundant?

Lunch Actually

Recently I had a lunch with a friend, who wants to taste success in a shortest time. Whilst I was still chewing my fifth scoop of rice, he already emptied his plate. Gosh, that was really quick. He told me the same speed is used when comes to completing his work assignments. Yea, basically in everything he does.

Of course, I believe him.


It got to be a quick one.

Now where did I go wrong? I choose to enjoy every bite instead of eating for the sake of filling up my stomach. Surprisingly, he boldly said he gains more joy and satisfaction in that way. As I read through his way of eating, I can come up with a few reasons why his taste buds still bathing pleasure while going under pressure.

Order Yourself

All the food he ate was ordered by him, unless his girlfriend is around. In other words, he gets to eat what he likes. In real life, we get to do things we like when we focus on what we want. Like selecting the best school, deciding an ideal job, choosing a life partner or merely fixing your mind on which undies to wear. Just that someone will suggest something else which tends to taste better than the choice you’ve made.

Eat While It’s Hot

He savour immediately when things are served in front of him, though the food was still hot. Strange but true that once his tongue adapts to it, his appetite will keep him going. Well, continuous momentum will persist once it is forcefully built. I guess many tasks seem hard at first. Probably you can opt to do it later - but more work or problems might arise from there. It will kill your mood and none will be solved by then. I reckon there is nothing to lose for practicing this, except for some sweat.

Chew Properly

This is probably the most blatant part. Yeah, he did munch appropriately before swallow. If not, I think he will choke in front of me with his last breath caught in his esophagus. Result wouldn’t go wrong if necessary actions are performed correctly in place. For instance, I used to do workouts without proper warm-up exercises and I did suffer bad muscles and joints ache. So I ended up fat. Therefore in a critical process, we need to go according to its procedures to obtain the desirable outcome. In another word, no shortcuts.

Tasty Ones Always Go Last

I saw him ate the fried chicken skin after he finished everything else. So while eating other less tasty stuff on the plate, he's driving his speed towards the end for the crispy skin. In real life, hard work sits on your shoulder before you find your success. If you desperately wanted success in your life, your desire will motivate you to bite lips and move on with your efforts no matter how tough it is. In my case, I ate the rice first then only I ate the veggies I'm kidding, I don't eat veggie. Five words. Save the best for last.

Drink Goes In Between

Both of us drink something - a sip of fruit juice or a spoonful of soup in between the bites. It relieves the stress of consistent chewing in the mouth. My jaws did feel tired when comes to chewing the rice, so I just washed them down the throat with a sip of drink. Just follow both of us. Take a break whenever you find necessary. Do not overwhelmed yourself with work because work will never ends.

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Indirectly, it does relate to how things should be handled in life. I'm glad I learned something out of his eating habit. I thought to myself, maybe both of us should go for lunch more often.


Well maybe on something different next time.


Perhaps a steamboat lunch..



I wonder this time how fast he can eat. Teehee!

American Idol Season 86,987

Don't bother too much about my post title (just a random number). Somehow I knew the American Idol show will still carry on for another 1,000 years. So guys don't be disappointed as this year's winner wasn't a female.

The past winners of American Idol are listed below.

Season 1: Kelly Clarkson (Female)
Season 2: Ruben Studdard (Male)
Season 3: Fantasia Barrino (Female)
Season 4: Carrie Underwood (Female)
Season 5: Taylor Hicks (Male)
Season 6: Jordin Sparks (Female)

and..
Season 7: David Cook (Male)

A total of four females and three males! I believe like most of the years, females are stepping closer to dominate the crown but this year's winner happened to be a male rocker. Finally a sort of perfect looking young man beats all the previous male winners (in terms of voice and looks) - which one happened to be fat and the other appeared to be old.

A big congratulation to David Cook. I guess the past winners have a new competitor member now.

For now, enjoy the parody!

How Job Hunting Haunts Me

At first, it was cool to receive many phone calls. I was laughing all the way whilst job opportunities were rushing its way to my mailbox. Most of you must be wondering how this could happen to a guy who meditated long enough in a same job spot. I will tell you how I was hunted without much job hunting.

Send resume to headhunters and you shall be headhunted

I find it hard to get connected to job headhunters, especially those well known ones. So when I paid visit to job fairs previously, my targets were only those headhunter companies, instead of multinational companies or Fortune 500 companies. I reckon getting candidates wasn't their concern, they were actually paying more attention in branding their names to the public (by giving free pens, notepads, etc.). The process was so simple - I just drop my resume in the database of those headhunters. *feels like contributing a donation*



If that spells too much hassle, you can do it online at home. Based on my extensive research (just use Google will do), there's a list of headhunters in Malaysia for everyone to mark their targets. Don't be overjoyed, some headhunter profile doesn't have email address, only phone and fax number. Throughout the time, I'm way too lazy to use a fax machine and found it cumbersome to send my voice over a phone. So I decided to click for headhunters in JobStreet's page instead.


They will 'buy' your resume with a scan through their bar scanner.

Focus on things you can control

Along the way, I was being discouraged whenever I thought about the stress of going through interviews and the amount of time needed for interview preparation. Worse, when I’m working late and I've only couple of hours left at night. By managing my time wisely, those are things within my control. Dinner/shower: 5 minutes, create interview script: 15 minutes, dinner for my brain: 50 minutes and sleep: 5 hours. I believe so. Do you?


Written words are sharper and easier to remember.

I could unstressed myself by looking on bright side. If headhunters give a phone or mail response, I'll just go thinking I’m possibly a potential employee in their lens, though my mind might put me in doubt whether I'm capable for the job. As I mentioned, I can make time to prepare and memorize interview scripts, so that it’s no longer appear to be a stress. Instead of wasting of time judging how things might go wrong, the remaining time should be utilized for improving yourself, or merely shop for a better looking attire for upcoming interview.

You need headhunter and headhunters need you

Whilst employers hire headhunters to get quality employees, they will still try to promote you in front of their clients, as long as you are qualified with their basic requirements. It is a win-win situation for both parties - they get paid and you get hired. Trust me you will even stand a concrete chance, if they are desperate and have no other choices in hand.


Smile! You stand a chance. Ermm, I mean that lady.

Ask properly and you shall receive properly

Long story short, I received phone calls by then - all the way from India, Middle East , Thailand and back in Singapore. After I've done with the first conversation, the subsequent ones were pretty much the same. First they will ask whether I am interested to attend to one of their clients' interview from bla bla bla country. Then I’ll be answering questions like how long you've been working, your current scope of work, expected pay and current pay. They even offered useful interview advices during my interview with them. Surprisingly I can't even take it as a headhunter's interview at the first place.

Expect the unexpected

Headhunter seldom reduce the amount of your expected pay (unless a ridiculous amount). You can go as high as 30% to 40% of your current salary. But when you meet the interviewer from their client, they will ask about your expected salary again. I usually answer them with a question - "How much would you pay someone with my background and experience?". This will get them to suggest a price on your behalf.



If you aren't satisfied with your employee-labeled-price-tag, you can scold them stupid reveal your honest amount with a solid reason tagging behind. For example, I would say something like "I’m currently being offered $4,000 by a Singaporean company, but I’m really interested to work for your company. Is it possible to work out a similar amount? I don’t mind to be bonded in this case". Case closed.

Beware of one missed call

As headhunters will be calling you in the morning, afternoon and evening, get yourself to charge your cellphone at night. This will avoid sudden conversation cut off during the day. But the last thing I expected to happen was this..



I received several missed calls from several headhunters while I was in toilet. My cellphone was left on my table catching numbers that were either ‘Withheld’ or ‘+60301’. The others were sadly listed as 'Unknown'.

Now tell me.. How I supposed to call them in return?



At that moment, she describes the exact expression of mine.

Crazy Driver Drives Crazy Life

My life took a rough ride for the last few weeks. I would consider it as a part of the career journey of mine. Basically something that I have never tried before. As I moved out from my comfort zone, I have completed a major project in two weeks, went for three four interviews in a week and sat for three mental aptitude tests as required during some of the interviews.

First, it was like a child going for a fun ride. So much fun, and so many things seemed to look like candies to me. *Never have so many interviews in one time*



But see, being the driver will never get to enjoy the beautiful scenery of life. My time has been killed for watching the road ahead. Don't get wrong, I love to drive my life the way I want it to be. Not like someone out there whom their parents drive them around and make them feel like peanuts.

Anyway, I got to go along with the danger of freaking out in those interview rooms, as I have been trying my very best to chase away the butterflies from my stomach. Pretty tough! But I still managed to wrap off a project and wrote different sets of resume for the three interviews. It's considered as an accomplishment for someone who always take numerous days off in a week.

The only thing is.. this blog was victimized in this situation. I still plan to plant some love in this blog.

Oh yea, here's my favorite song for this moment. Love in this club. I got this creative hip hop driver singing rapping for me. Teehee.



Remember don't drive your life recklessly. Loopholes of disaster and challenging humps are everywhere. Well you may still rap off the pressure of your hot wheels while driving along the long road of life.

Hiro Nakamura Freezes Kuala Lumpur

Hmmm, you must be in Hiro's time freeze range if you are frozen around Pavilion at 2.30pm 3.35pm, Sunday 13th April, which is today.

Don't believe? Then watch the following video..



To tell you the truth..

It happened before in Paris, London, Canada and New York.

Everyone is frozen on the name of unity. And of course, the influence of Improv Everywhere which encourages scenes of chaos and joy in public places.

And thanks to Facebook for gathering the crowd..

Staring At Pretty Girls But..

Warning, there will be an extensive usage of the word 'Butt' 'But'.

Humans stare at beautiful things especially on those things that they find attractive. I mean things like great scenery, paintings, architecture and.. babes babies. Having to stare at newly born baby is the most beautiful thing happen in life. Yeah, it's really fun to stare at those little creatures, but some people eye on things differently..



Of course disaster would happen when a dude stares at a beautiful baby, carried by a pretty woman. Simply because his partner couldn't spot where his eyes landed on. But this isn't his fault! No matter you are male or female, would you stare at other hot guys or girls when your partner is around? Hell No. But I thought everyone would answer yes to this..


I'm carrying a cute baby, anyone staring at me?

I reckon it's a very natural thing for both men and women to do.. but it's just out of respect for the person you're with! We shouldn't stare at someone else, unless they are acting funny or wearing something hideous which both of you can enjoy staring and giggling at the same time. But this really depends on the situation..

I'm not really sure about this, but some people mentioned that the speed of our little brain plays a role here. Women have a quicker speed in capturing images, which means they have the ability to record the most minute details in a split second glance. Men have a slower mode. Don't laugh. They have to first focus (stare) for like minutes to get a general sense of the objects. This literally explains why men stare a lot.. but this doesn't make any sense to me either. Don't you think so?



Some men would express disgust over other men who stare at their girls. But in some cases, some said men supposed to eye on women as they already spend massive amount of money on expensive clothes, cosmetics, skin care and slimming products. All these done to avoid stares from a guy? Well there is a point here. But, but, but, this isn't sound right..

If you still consider treasuring pretty things around is a good view, there's a price to pay. Your girlfriend would probably mad at you, or your boyfriend would probably kill someone over the offense done by your eyes.

But like I said before, it really depends. Let's stare at the girl in the following video, but I strongly discourage you from doing so. But still, I know you will watch it. Anyways I think many of you have watched it already.



Whilst I'm confused, I believe most of you feel the same.. but would you watch another clip of hers? Well..



That's so weird. She does nothing, but just staring at you. And you know what, she got more than a million of views in YouTube. I don't get it. Guess humans stare at beautiful things for sure, but without you knowing, money dropped from the sky as she made all these videos. At this moment, the video already reached 1,565,162 views, so if the advertising company pays $0.01 per view, it's gonna build a massive amount of $15,651.62. Ermm, this is just for one video alone. Not a bad paycheck someone with nothing important to say. Her boyfriend will probably thank everyone for staring at her.

After all, I personally felt it's like a revenge video towards those guys who always stare at other girls.



She's watching you (O_O) to watch her back. Teehee!