Today i was quite bored during lunch. Therefore whilst letting my imagination run wild, i came up with this.
"I hate war because i love peace, so i am going to join in the War for Peace"
So am I a peace lover or not? I decided to sms that phrase to anyone who popped up in my mind, and i got quite a series of interesting answers. So before i forget them, here they are...
A: Thats campaign for peace, not war for peace. Wrong use of syllabus.
Me: What if i mean real war, not just a campaign?
A: If real war, then thats not a peace lover, its an idiot.
B: Hmm.. Chim question sia. You are fighting for peace. so okay lah, cansider peace lover bah.
Me: But if i fight a war, i will be disrupting peace. So does it still count?
B: War is going to start whether you join or not. Need to fight to end it early mah. Just like egg or chicken which comes first.
C: Hahaha.. your question is so silly. But i guess it depends on how you see it, as in whether the end can justify the mean. If so i guess you're still a peace lover.
D: I'm not sure if you're a peace lover, but i can bet you're a "peace a" lover! "Peace a" like in "Pizza" Wahaha. Lamez! Yeah its ironic.
E: Peace lover. Think "war for peace" means the action that you're going to take to achieve peace and not literally fight instead.
And the Best so far, together with a real life practical application...
F: You are a peace lover because the ultimate result is still peace. but if you use war to achieve peace, people will only blame you for bringing war and not be grateful for the peace in exchange. This is exactly why Bush fight Iraq.
So how? Should i hate Bush?
F replied, it's true that many innocent lives, including that of the soldiers and those who went to maintain peace after war, were lost. But imagine if Bush had not fought Iraq, the lives of the people in Iraq will still be in terror and still be in very terrible state. And people of other countries will also still be in terror wondering who will be the next target and when will they be targeted. However, not many people appreciate what Bush did, and the peace that was brought to them through the war.
C00l! Think of Perspective!!
Time for pondering!
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Sunday, March 25, 2007
+ L.T.C. +
Recently, I went for a leadership training camp, (LTC). A true leadership training camp, different from those typical LTCs. Those typical LTCs mainly train your confidence, teamwork and etc... But for this camp that i went, it's more like a self-discovery camp.
Learnt two things there.
"True Leadership is trained by being a leader."
Only by having the chance to be a leader can one truly experience and learn how to be a good leader. It's only when you lead can you learn true leadership.
And Leadership goes hand in hand with Respect. Respect for others, and others will respect you.
"If one persevere, he can create wonders."
This is one thing which i had learnt from one member of the camp, even though it was I who said this to him. This is applicable to not only him, not only me, and also to everyone else who doesn't give up!
I've really learnt a LOT! And I'm totally grateful for it! (Except for the immensely poisonous rash-looking mosquito bites all over my hands and legs that I brought back from the camp which totally itched for 2 whole weeks!! >.<)
Yea! Go go everyone! Cheers to all those who are still hanging on and never give up!
Learnt two things there.
"True Leadership is trained by being a leader."
Only by having the chance to be a leader can one truly experience and learn how to be a good leader. It's only when you lead can you learn true leadership.
And Leadership goes hand in hand with Respect. Respect for others, and others will respect you.
"If one persevere, he can create wonders."
This is one thing which i had learnt from one member of the camp, even though it was I who said this to him. This is applicable to not only him, not only me, and also to everyone else who doesn't give up!
I've really learnt a LOT! And I'm totally grateful for it! (Except for the immensely poisonous rash-looking mosquito bites all over my hands and legs that I brought back from the camp which totally itched for 2 whole weeks!! >.<)
Yea! Go go everyone! Cheers to all those who are still hanging on and never give up!
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
+ Of dReamZ and |dea|s +
Today, I had a little chat with this xiao mei mei who's working in my company as a part time office girl. She had just gotten her 'O' Levels results and gotten a place in NYP. But that course she got into wasn't what she wanted, and feeling rather dejected. And she was contemplating whether to pursue her dream course, and weighing the pros and cons and risk factors.
And then we started chatting about dreams(meng xiang) and ideals(li xiang).
She said, her dream is to produce music. Be an audio mixer or whatever, just be someone who can create nice music. But, since dreams can never come true, she shall never be one.
I said, "No..! Dreams can come true!" (As usual, my antics.)
Then she said, "Yah. People become famous because of their dreams." And she went on, saying that how nice it is to make your dream a reality, pursuing a dream career, doing what you love and have great passion in. How blissful that would be.
And I said, "that's an ideal."
She objected, "no. It's a dream."
I insisted, "that's an ideal. There is a difference between a dream and an ideal". (No idea why i insisted. Just felt it's different)
She thinks for a while.
I continued, "dreams is more of a guide. Ideals is more of the path."
And i shocked myself. Because these words just shot out of my mouth but i don't really understand them.
The girl thought she understood, "Ok. I think I know. It's like my dream is to do music, but my ideal would be to get into business and earn bigger bucks with better future prospects? Like a dream is to do what you love while ideal is to be really practical and be successful in reality?"
Now this feels even more wrong. and i rambled on without much sense.
"A dream is about what you love, passion is about why you love, and an ideal is about actually getting down to doing it."
How does this sound? Anyway the girl goes on to talk about how a career should work. One has to have passion in what he is doing in order to be able to continue doing it for the rest of his life. That would be to make his dream, his passion into his career.
As i listened to her, it suddenly occur to me as if I'm looking at a younger me. Those words would have been what I would have said many years ago. But I know that even when many years back as i say those idealistic words, deep in my heart i still knew a fact. And though i know it is cruel, i felt i still have to remind her about that fact.
"To be able to combine passion and career would of course have been the best. But always bear in mind that many people, in the process of pursuing their dream as their life career, they actually burn out their passion." I guess she understood, because she agreed.
But on my way home, i kept thinking, how do i define dreams and ideals? I concluded that, a dream is like a guiding light. It shows you the direction. Ideals are like the paths towards the light. And to reach the light, there can be many paths to choose from. So perhaps the challenge in life would be,
1) To find out what is your dream?
2) How to turn your dream into an ideal?
3) How to achieve your ideal?
Perhaps we can say, we cannot directly achieve our dreams, but we can achieve our ideals. Yet once we have achieved our ideals, it would also still mean you have achieved your dreams. Sounds confusing?
Let's say for 2 examples.
1st example: My dream is to be a singer, because I love to sing, and I want to let many people hear me and feel my passion for singing. To break it down, my passion is in singing, and my ideal is to be a singer. Instantly, everyone will think about the famous glamorous pop singers. But if i can't be the next Stephanie Sun or Rain, i can still achieve my dream! Other alternatives would be to sing in cafes, or sing in Ge-Tais, or sing in open lounges, or simply tape my songs and upload into the net for all to hear. All these are ideals too. If I only want to be a famous singer, then my passion would have been to become famous, not in singing.
2nd example: My dream is to be a doctor, so that i can relieve people of pain and help others lead a healthy life. However I'm too stupid and can't get into the medicine course in university. But i can take up first aid course and read up on health articles. Even if i can't be a qualified doctor, i can still be a medic during emergencies, and give advice to the people around me how to live healthier. You are still achieving your dream.
You don't have to make your dream/passion your career. Being a singer or a doctor is just the most straightforward way that's all.
We may all have the same dream, but each of us has our own ideals towards achieving it. That is the difference.
Anyway we've all heard of cases when people burn out their passion when they face the harsh facts of life while pursuing their dreams, so i shall not harp on that. But that thing is, i know all the above, alternatives or not, sounds so unreel and idealistic. But that's what ideals are. Ideals are meant to be idealistic. The challenge would be, how to turn your dreams into your ideals and how to work towards it.
Another formula again:
(the purest passion) + (all the practicality elements) = your ideal life
Once your ideal life is attained, you have realized your dreams. Even if you didn't manage to attain the ideal life, you are still in your correct direction, which is still as good! That is why, " 人因夢想而偉大"!!
Conclusion, dreams really can be achieved! The rest would be up to you to find out how to do that.
Perhaps that explains my last advice to the little girl about the fact. Maybe i want her to know that, even if she can't achieve her dreams using the most direct way, there are still many other ways. So long as she doesn't forget what is her truest dream, her purest passion, and keeps working towards it, someday, she may just achieve it!
And then we started chatting about dreams(meng xiang) and ideals(li xiang).
She said, her dream is to produce music. Be an audio mixer or whatever, just be someone who can create nice music. But, since dreams can never come true, she shall never be one.
I said, "No..! Dreams can come true!" (As usual, my antics.)
Then she said, "Yah. People become famous because of their dreams." And she went on, saying that how nice it is to make your dream a reality, pursuing a dream career, doing what you love and have great passion in. How blissful that would be.
And I said, "that's an ideal."
She objected, "no. It's a dream."
I insisted, "that's an ideal. There is a difference between a dream and an ideal". (No idea why i insisted. Just felt it's different)
She thinks for a while.
I continued, "dreams is more of a guide. Ideals is more of the path."
And i shocked myself. Because these words just shot out of my mouth but i don't really understand them.
The girl thought she understood, "Ok. I think I know. It's like my dream is to do music, but my ideal would be to get into business and earn bigger bucks with better future prospects? Like a dream is to do what you love while ideal is to be really practical and be successful in reality?"
Now this feels even more wrong. and i rambled on without much sense.
"A dream is about what you love, passion is about why you love, and an ideal is about actually getting down to doing it."
How does this sound? Anyway the girl goes on to talk about how a career should work. One has to have passion in what he is doing in order to be able to continue doing it for the rest of his life. That would be to make his dream, his passion into his career.
As i listened to her, it suddenly occur to me as if I'm looking at a younger me. Those words would have been what I would have said many years ago. But I know that even when many years back as i say those idealistic words, deep in my heart i still knew a fact. And though i know it is cruel, i felt i still have to remind her about that fact.
"To be able to combine passion and career would of course have been the best. But always bear in mind that many people, in the process of pursuing their dream as their life career, they actually burn out their passion." I guess she understood, because she agreed.
But on my way home, i kept thinking, how do i define dreams and ideals? I concluded that, a dream is like a guiding light. It shows you the direction. Ideals are like the paths towards the light. And to reach the light, there can be many paths to choose from. So perhaps the challenge in life would be,
1) To find out what is your dream?
2) How to turn your dream into an ideal?
3) How to achieve your ideal?
Perhaps we can say, we cannot directly achieve our dreams, but we can achieve our ideals. Yet once we have achieved our ideals, it would also still mean you have achieved your dreams. Sounds confusing?
Let's say for 2 examples.
1st example: My dream is to be a singer, because I love to sing, and I want to let many people hear me and feel my passion for singing. To break it down, my passion is in singing, and my ideal is to be a singer. Instantly, everyone will think about the famous glamorous pop singers. But if i can't be the next Stephanie Sun or Rain, i can still achieve my dream! Other alternatives would be to sing in cafes, or sing in Ge-Tais, or sing in open lounges, or simply tape my songs and upload into the net for all to hear. All these are ideals too. If I only want to be a famous singer, then my passion would have been to become famous, not in singing.
2nd example: My dream is to be a doctor, so that i can relieve people of pain and help others lead a healthy life. However I'm too stupid and can't get into the medicine course in university. But i can take up first aid course and read up on health articles. Even if i can't be a qualified doctor, i can still be a medic during emergencies, and give advice to the people around me how to live healthier. You are still achieving your dream.
You don't have to make your dream/passion your career. Being a singer or a doctor is just the most straightforward way that's all.
We may all have the same dream, but each of us has our own ideals towards achieving it. That is the difference.
Anyway we've all heard of cases when people burn out their passion when they face the harsh facts of life while pursuing their dreams, so i shall not harp on that. But that thing is, i know all the above, alternatives or not, sounds so unreel and idealistic. But that's what ideals are. Ideals are meant to be idealistic. The challenge would be, how to turn your dreams into your ideals and how to work towards it.
Another formula again:
(the purest passion) + (all the practicality elements) = your ideal life
Once your ideal life is attained, you have realized your dreams. Even if you didn't manage to attain the ideal life, you are still in your correct direction, which is still as good! That is why, "
人因夢想而偉大"!!
Conclusion, dreams really can be achieved! The rest would be up to you to find out how to do that. Perhaps that explains my last advice to the little girl about the fact. Maybe i want her to know that, even if she can't achieve her dreams using the most direct way, there are still many other ways. So long as she doesn't forget what is her truest dream, her purest passion, and keeps working towards it, someday, she may just achieve it!
Monday, February 12, 2007
+ i |0vE cHeAp0 sTuFFs +
Yea!! I finally got my OWN radio cum CD player!!
Haha... I know i'm very backward in technology and gadgets etc.. Nowadays, everyone are talking about ipods, mp3 players, mp4 players and blah blah... But too bad, I'm still proud to say after so many years, I've finally got myself a proper radio cum CD player all to myself!! wahahah... (Even though it's a cheapo one, which my bet will be it can last at most 2 years only if i take care of it properly :P )
Yea Yea!! I still remember, I got my FIRST cheapo receiver at a pushcart outside Cineleisure 5 years ago for only $8!! It's a small squarish silver n metallic blue thingy branded "Bailang" <-some cheapo brand i tink, but everyone thought it was some latest mp3 gadget! wahahah.. But guess what!? It actually stayed with me during all my mugging times, all the way till i graduate! Unbelieveable right?! And I no longer use it now because i used it too much, i lost the earphones.. oops! So I decided to let this good old friend retire, and get a proper big radio.
You must find it funny... I'm so old already, don't my house even own a radio!?!? Yea My house actually has quite a few radio... But guess what? They're all for show. Nobody uses them, because they find radios too noisy. NOISY?! -_-||
I used to listen to radio and CDs on computer, but now that i officially live at home now, I don't have a computer to my name; One in my brothers room shared by all, all shared that one. I do have one sitting in my room though, but not wired up. Simply because i don't know how to, and my brothers are too lazy to do it for me. ZZzzz...
So what do i do when i wanna listen to music?? Some early in the weekends, when no one is at home, or all are still sleeping, I'll switch on the radio in the living room, or blast my CDs using the CD player connected to my TV, which is like such a big waste of electricity. And on top of it, getting thrown by rubbish, pillows and bloodcurdling screams telling me to SHUT UP! Muahaha.. Too bad! Just wake up and let me have some music dear!
My brother is always telling me to just get a cheap ipod or whatever, which is like so cheap nowadays, and not as if i can't afford it, and still get to enjoy thousands of songs. Oh well, yea
indeed. And how long do I need to finish listening to all those thousands of songs? and how long do I need to scroll through that list of thousands just to find that one song which i simply feel like listening? Hmmm....
Most people don't buy CDs now. They just download. But recently, I'm just getting into the habit of buying CDs! Hahha...
Call me slow or a country bumpkin or what, I'm totally fine. I still feel that there are still some reasons why some stuffs should remain that way.
And a radio cum CD player boom box is just what I need after a long week of hard work. Cheers! ^^
Haha... I know i'm very backward in technology and gadgets etc.. Nowadays, everyone are talking about ipods, mp3 players, mp4 players and blah blah... But too bad, I'm still proud to say after so many years, I've finally got myself a proper radio cum CD player all to myself!! wahahah... (Even though it's a cheapo one, which my bet will be it can last at most 2 years only if i take care of it properly :P )
Yea Yea!! I still remember, I got my FIRST cheapo receiver at a pushcart outside Cineleisure 5 years ago for only $8!! It's a small squarish silver n metallic blue thingy branded "Bailang" <-some cheapo brand i tink, but everyone thought it was some latest mp3 gadget! wahahah.. But guess what!? It actually stayed with me during all my mugging times, all the way till i graduate! Unbelieveable right?! And I no longer use it now because i used it too much, i lost the earphones.. oops! So I decided to let this good old friend retire, and get a proper big radio.
You must find it funny... I'm so old already, don't my house even own a radio!?!? Yea My house actually has quite a few radio... But guess what? They're all for show. Nobody uses them, because they find radios too noisy. NOISY?! -_-||
I used to listen to radio and CDs on computer, but now that i officially live at home now, I don't have a computer to my name; One in my brothers room shared by all, all shared that one. I do have one sitting in my room though, but not wired up. Simply because i don't know how to, and my brothers are too lazy to do it for me. ZZzzz...
So what do i do when i wanna listen to music?? Some early in the weekends, when no one is at home, or all are still sleeping, I'll switch on the radio in the living room, or blast my CDs using the CD player connected to my TV, which is like such a big waste of electricity. And on top of it, getting thrown by rubbish, pillows and bloodcurdling screams telling me to SHUT UP! Muahaha.. Too bad! Just wake up and let me have some music dear!
My brother is always telling me to just get a cheap ipod or whatever, which is like so cheap nowadays, and not as if i can't afford it, and still get to enjoy thousands of songs. Oh well, yea
indeed. And how long do I need to finish listening to all those thousands of songs? and how long do I need to scroll through that list of thousands just to find that one song which i simply feel like listening? Hmmm....
Most people don't buy CDs now. They just download. But recently, I'm just getting into the habit of buying CDs! Hahha...
Call me slow or a country bumpkin or what, I'm totally fine. I still feel that there are still some reasons why some stuffs should remain that way.
And a radio cum CD player boom box is just what I need after a long week of hard work. Cheers! ^^
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