Dreams and Goals

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It has been so long since the last time I started writing over here again. There are so many things happen in my life and I really don't how and where to begin with.

Have you ever think if life can be easy? You don't have to work that much and yet you have the income to sustain yourself? You can do whatever you want without worrying about money? When money comes into the picture, it will contradict with what you want in your life. Will you put your passion first or money first?

There are so many things in we life that dream of or we want to do but..... alot of times, we are unable to do so. Or rather I say we need great determination and motivation to work towards our goal.

The Secret by Rhonda Byrne, talking about the law of attraction, dream what you want and you will get what you dream. Do you believe? Well, I believe. Maybe I am not trying hard enough hence I still have not fully get what I want. There is one thing I had achieve is my health. Ever since I was 12, I was diagnosed with Lupus. What is that?

Okay, a short explanation:
Lupus is an autoimmune disease where the body's immune system becomes hyperactive and attacks normal, healthy tissue. This results in symptoms such as inflammation, swelling, and damage to joints, skin, kidneys, blood, the heart, and lungs. (Taken from: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/info/lupus/) Ha! If you want me to explain, I also don't know how.

Knowing my health is like that, there are so many things that I want but I don't even dare to dream or even know how to achieve it. If now, a person comes and tell you it is easy. Will you give a try? Given 3 to 5 years, you will achieve what you dream of, fulfil all your goals. What will you think? Do you also have the same thoughts as me that flash through in my head? A fraud? Serious? Sounds so unrealistic.... And of course, it was all in my head! And which means what I have done all these while is wrong? I had spent too much time trying to achieve what I want to achieve.

With all these doubts, I stepped into it, not knowing if I can achieve it, can't really see my future, don't even dare to dream of what I have always wanted...... I don't even know if this can works... A person like me, with no confident, never like to talk to people... Now, I need to learn all these. Or rather, I have to do all these despite I don't want to. It is a fear I need to overcome. A fear I choose to believe I can't do it all these while.

In order to dream what I dream of, to do what I want to do, to be who I want to be, to give what I can give, I need money to fulfil. Till now, I really hope I have made the right decision. Don't worry... it is not anything illegal. Will keep writing as I work on it. Just wish me success.



You Are Gamed!

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Have this ever come into your mind? We are in a game of a realistic world. You know, a game of our own world. And the difference between realistic world and virtual world is that you set your own games rules and you choose your own role. Example: well, you can choose to be a villain or a kind soul... Maybe working as a teacher, a nurse, lawyer, doctor blah, blah, blah.... Or maybe the bad ones like robber, rapist, erm... Well, whatever evil roles that you can think of.

Playing in this realistic world is not an easy task, of course. Cause you can never be game over unless your time is up. But in the virtual world, you can always start all over again or just save and start where you ended. See? That is how simple in virtual world. And not to say the difficult part, we all know that.... We need to crack our brains to solve all the different stages and come out with different strategies. The fact is, this happens in realistic world as well.

And the moment we are born, we have to play this game whether be it or not. Our game starts. And when we are a child, parents set rules for us. The clever ones learnt it fast and played it well. The slower ones, not to say, always ended up losing, by getting scolding, caning, and even getting poor results in their studies. Some even wanted to gave up this game. I think I don't need to say about this part. All these are part of the game.

As we grew older, we know that we can set our own rules in this game and get others to play with us. And we played in others' games as well. Frankly speaking, until now, I still don't really know how to play in this adult stage. It is not as easy as it seems it should be. There is no such thing as bonus points or rewards for you or even for you to restart again. To correct the earlier saying, there is bonus points and rewards but it often comes in a hard way. But you can never restart again. Even if you can, ...... It will never be you again, that's for sure.

Think about it again. Now, you know you are playing your own game. How you want to set your rules? How you want others to play in your game? It can never be in the way you want cause everyone want everyone to play according to their rules. One thing for sure, we can choose what kind of player we want to be. And the best part is, in the past, you can never ever thinking of changing your looks in this game. You can only change your style, the way you dress or behaviour but you can never change your looks. Now, You can. You want to look like who, change your shape, and even whatever, I guess which you can think of.

Whether you like it or not, the fact is, you are gamed!

Karma

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It just came to my mind... the most common thing that we all do in our daily lives... Refilling toilet paper. Yup, you have not read wrongly at all. Is refilling toilet paper! What does it got to do with karma??



Simple explanation of karma: the result of a person's actions as well as the actions themselves. Which means is the cycle of cause and effect. According to the theory of Karma, what happens to a person, happens because they caused it with their actions. Karma is about all that a person has done, is doing and will do. Karma is not about punishment or reward. It makes a person resposible for their own life, and how they treat other people.



How often you are the last to used up the toilet paper? Do you always refill it? Or do you just hope that maybe the next person who comes it will do the refilling job for you?



Of course, sometimes I fall in the second scenario: hoping someone can do the job for me. Well, that's human nature.. And this is where I meant karma comes into the picture. When you are hoping that things will not come back to you, it will. I always 'think' someone in the family will do that simple job for me....... But it was always me who don't why ended in the toilet the next day with no toilet paper. (And that was me who just want to avoid the hassle of refilling the toilet paper).



Maybe it is just simple things happening. But it can reflect to reality..... Karma. Looking back at real life situation, a father who abused the child since the child was young. Slowly, the little child grew up, abused his own child and maybe even his father who used to abuse him when he was young. Get the picture? Sound similar like the toilet paper scenario?



Things that we often do, and yet we don't know it has been telling us 'We are what we do'. Or maybe our subconscious mind just choose not to notice it. In the end, whatever we do, remember karma does happen and it will always happen back to you despite whether is it a small little thing or ........
Translation of the above chinese verse:
As one sows, so
shall one reap. Every effect arises from a cause. Under certain conditions, a
cause will come to an effect. This is a universal principle, on which Buddhist
morality is based.
Here's a verse.
If you want to know the causes in your past life,
The way you live at present is the effect of your past life.
If you want to know what your future life will be,
What you do at present is the cause of your future life.

阿桑。。。。

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在4月6日的下午,一如往常地听着广播。。。突然,听到阿桑病逝的消息。阿桑是在去年10月查出乳癌末期。在4月6日上午8点半因乳癌末期病逝于台北县新店慈济医院,享年34歲。心头涌起一股莫名的哀伤, 也很意外。让我不经想起当时MC King突然的离去。。。阿桑的离去很突然,很意外,也让她身旁的人久久无法走出悲伤。

阿桑本名黄嬿璘, 英文名Judy。 她在2003年以一首偶像剧《蔷薇之恋》原声带中片尾曲《叶子》而一曲成名。在同年底发行的首张个人专辑《受了点伤 》,获得2004年第十五届金曲奖《最佳新人》入围。她也因为《蔷薇之恋》的火热,个人专辑发行前即享受比一般新人更高的知名度,后援会早早成立,到校园演唱更是广受学生热情欢迎,丝毫不逊其它已成名的歌手,殊不知这些掌声与赞美对阿桑来说,已迟来了四年,看到今天小小的成功起步,对照其传奇性的经历与坎坷的歌坛美梦,难怪阿桑会频频感慨落泪。她因独具特色的声音和治疗系的歌路,从此被称为“疗伤歌手”。

她的歌手生涯也不是一帆风顺。阿桑为了成为一名出色的歌手,经历了许多考验。 她曾经有3次出版专辑的机会,第一次,唱片公司为她录了歌,但就是不和她签约;第二次,签了约,但由于唱片市场低迷,没有录音;第三次,签了约,也录了歌,但一场突如其来的台风把录好的小样全部吹烂了。。。。。也曾为了维持生活,她也当过律师事务所的总机与百货公司的客服播音小姐。甚至为了能够专心录制唱片母带,多赚点钱,便在朋友开的泡沫红茶店里打工。。。。但她的坚持让她终于原了出唱片的梦想。

在两年前的一次例行体检中,阿桑被查出患有淋巴癌,但由于一直坚持治疗,病情控制得不错,因此很少有朋友知道阿桑的病情,甚至包括她内地的经纪人也不知情。但是在去年10月,阿桑再次做检查时,被告知癌细胞已恶化,并扩散为乳腺癌末期。在姐姐的陪伴下,阿桑一直顽强地接受化疗,不过由于癌细胞已经转移到了肝脏和肺部,最终于2009年4月6日早上8:30病逝于台湾新店慈济医院,享年34岁。在她顽强的抗癌期间,一向低调的她没有把病情告诉任何人。圈内好友包括动力火车、S.H.E都不知道她的病情。在他们的眼中阿桑是个开朗、乐观的。 阿桑生前好友的张智成 说“她人生最大的目标就是寻找幸福”,但她最终还是带着遗憾离开了。

她为什么叫阿桑?因为歌声很沧桑,唱片公司帮她取了个比本名更好叫,更容易被记住的小名,从她的歌声中想到了“桑”,就取名叫阿桑。2007年,阿桑曾经两次参加湖南卫视的《名声大震》节目,从而被内地歌迷熟知。

Insect or Pest?

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As usual, I was at home doing my chores, when there was this housefly came by irritating me.. Hmm... why I called it a house fly? It has been staying my house for quite sometimes and it has become part of my family. So it is a 'housefly' instead of a 'fly'.

Okay, back to my topic. And at that point of time, I was cursing at that stupid housefly. And a question suddenly popped into my head. Hmm.. So should I called it a pest or an insect? I went to check on the definition of insect and pest. Insect is a small invertebrate animal with segmented body, 6 legs and usually wings. Pest is a troublesome or destructive person, animal or thing. So which means that housefly belongs to these two categories.

And if I am classified it as an insect. I am being very nice to it. It is no different to other types of insects like ants, butterfly... But I am not going to. From my grandmother's days, we all the while know that housefly is a pest. House Fly is often a carrier of diseases, such as typhoid fever, cholera, dysentery, and anthrax. The fly transmits diseases by carrying disease organisms onto food. It picks up disease organisms on its leg hairs or eats them and then regurgitates them onto food (in the process of liquefying solid food). It definitely belong to the destructive side.

But think again: In the list of insects, most of it are pest. Okay, what is it before a butterfly? A Caterpillar, right? Insect or pest? Can be both. Why do I say that? What does caterpillar consume? We all know that it consumes leaves. If there are only one to two caterpillars on the tree, the tree is safe. From a caterpillar to a butterfly, it needs tremendous amounts of leaves to sustain and change to a butterfly. Now, imagine the tree is full of caterpillar. Of course, the poor tree will be bald by then, and lack of nutrition as the chlorophyll in the leaves are its main source allowing it to obtain energy from light.

Now at this point, is butterfly an insect or pest? Maybe we can classified it before and after. Before it becomes a butterfly, the caterpillar is a pest. After it becomes a butterfly, it is an insect. Human are contradicting beings. We give names to classify these little creatures as insects. And somehow these little creatures start to interrupt our lives, so we come out another name for them as pests. So now, when you see any insect, you can think again whether it belongs to the insect category or the pest side?

冷漠?

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今天早上,有一位uncle 说是住在我们家楼下的邻居上来我们家。他按了我们家的门铃,表情很冷静地告诉我们他的女儿病了。他的老婆在做工,要到三点才回来。在同一楼的邻居都不在。。身上没钱,希望我们能借他三十块。当下,突然有很多问号 “有看过这位邻居吗?是不是个骗子?怎么从来没看过这位uncle?。。”

我只是在一旁看,什么话也没说。我妈跟他说对不起。。身上没有那么多现金,没办法借给他。他没多说就走了。他为什么不叫我们下楼去看他的女儿是真的生病了,让我们真实一下。最近有太多的骗局,搞到人心惶惶,对人都慢慢的都少了信任。。是我们太冷漠了吗?拒绝了他,我们都心有余悸。。。不知道自己到底做对了吗?如果真的借了给他,下次会不会更促使她再回来借更多呢?现在没借他,他的女儿会有事吗?好多疑问。。。

也不知道我们是在保护自己还是变得冷漠了?因为怕受到伤害为了保护自己而变得冷漠,还是忘了人与人的这份信任而变得冷漠了呢?

My kids

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Remember the first day I stepped into the Student Care, I was a stranger, a stranger to all the kids in the Student Care. I started off with the Primary One students... Slowly stepped into their life, slowly know their names. They were adorable. From that day, we learnt to know each other. Slowly, they let off their guard towards me. From a stranger till they know who I am... and ran towards me calling my name "Miss Ang! Miss Ang!"

Remember the first time, when I know the Primary Five students, I overestimated myself. I thought I can handle them, but I was wrong. They made me angry, made me cried and even scolded vulgar words at me. They don't listen to what I asked them to do... I was at a lost... Ended up, I was being reprimanded by my supervisor. A person like me who never had kids, don't know how to handle them, I was almost going to give up, but I did not. Slowly, I realised that I had never stepped into their life for 5 years. To them, I was a complete stranger who was trying to control them. I learnt to talk to them, understand them, made friends with them.

Even though I maybe a teacher to them, but I also learnt how to be a teacher from them. One day, one of the Primary Five boy opened his mouth and said "BB" to me, I was so happy. (BB means bye bye in their language.) I told myself I had made it. I had slowly stepped into their life. On Christmas, another Primary Five boy gave me christmas present. I was really overjoyed. Even though it was only chocolates.... At that moment I realised that, is not how expensive the present is, but is the thought that count. The Primary Five boy who always scold vuglar words now is friend to me.... Another one came to ask me why I want to leave them....

I really missed them now but the decision had been made, I had to go....

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