How time flies....

We always don't realise how time flies very fast. We are so engulfed in our daily works that we don't stop and appreciate our surrounding.
Today we are here and the next thing you know you are NOT ALIVE ANYMORE.
This is what happened to a childhood friend of my colleague. My colleague saw him on Tuesday and he passed away in a motor accident on Thursday evening. Nobody would ever expect him to die.
A lesson to be learnt here, appreciate every minutes and every seconds you have coz you might never know u when u will be gone.

May he rest in peace ....


Namoamitofu.......

Today is today, tomorrow is tomorrow, yesterday is yesterday.

This morning, for the 1st time of all my working days in the camp, I didn't go towork. Normally, I am the first one to wake up and the last one to sleep. Today I decided to sleep it off. Felt disheartened that's why I don't want to wake up and slept until nearly noon. When I finally I wake up, I took my own sweet time to take bath.....hehehehe....
Then i sat on the porch observing the trees, the wind and the birds. I told myself that I don't get to c this in Kl.. Everywhere u c would be high rise buildings.
Ding.... a realization came into my mind. Why waste the present moment thinking about the negative things, why not enjoy the NOW moment? Why worried about the future? Why lingered at the past? Why not live at the PRESENT moment??? If lived at the NOW moment then I won't be worrying about the future and thinking of the past......

the 1st 3d2n camp of 2009

Just finished the 1st 3d 2n camp of 2009. I've learnt a few things from this camp. Nowadays the students don't care much about being a leader. They don't use their thinking cap which is really a bad thing... They just accept things on the face value, follow orders blindly, not enough sense of responsibility and have this don't care attitude. Some of the students are really pampered, some of them are arrogant which I termed them bodoh sombong and some of them are quite impatient. Normally, I would 'wash' those who are arrogant but I couldn't do this as I don't really have the support of the teachers and from my team. Thus I just leave them as they are in their own world which is quite a pity. I have a feeling I am the worst FCs of all... what a change. I overheard that I luv to nag them.... Erm... I wish I had somebody then to nag me on the qualities of leadership and to motivate me..
Another important lesson I learn is everyone can move a mountain but the person has to have tremendous strength, believe and courage to move. I don't know whether I have one coz now I felt like I am drained of energy and always wonder whether what I am doing is correct and whether it's worthwhile.....

Fly again......

Once in awhile there would be something to affirm my luv for my job. My job allows me to travel a lot in search for new camps or new students. Last Saturday, on an impromptu decision, I booked 2 air tickets to Langkawi. The reason - to seek out new students for Orange International College, Kuala Lumpur.
So, on Sunday, off I went to LCCT airport at 5.00 am to catch the AirAsia flight of 8.10am. It was fun having to drive in the early hours of the day with no traffic. It wasn't fun though when I had to search for parking to park my car. Wow, even though it was 630 am, the airport is buzzing with people....Talk about early birds....
I am a fan of Air Asia, so, for this trip, I chose Air Asia. The flight to Langkawi was not my usual cool, comfortable and enjoyable flight. It was one of the terrible flights I have been on. The takeoff and landing were awful. The flight attendants never smiled.... The captain mumbled through the speaker....Talked about good service.
However the flight back from Langkawi was nearly perfect. Although it was delayed for 90 minutes, I still consider it perfect. It was suppose to take off at 1040 in the evening, it was delayed due to bad weather in KL. Even though it was the last flight of the night, the flight attendants were always smiling and they were given applause by the passengers, the flight captain (Captain Desmond) and his assistant (Darrell) have the courtesy to come out from the cockpit to bid every passengers good night when they are alighting from the plane. Quiet takeoff and perfect landing..... the best of all my fights with Air Asia....
However it was not the case with the customs officers in Langkawi. One of the them was quite rude to the passenger and this passenger did not take it lightly and it blew into a big quarrel and created a big scene. Talked about service the customer with a smile....
This is actualy happening in Malaysia. I have travelled a lot and I've met a lot of people. One of the most common reaction I got was that our Malaysian Officers irregardless they are the police, the customs, the traffics officers... some of them can be very rude.
I wonder will this ever change...

Enggagement is a time to be shared??

Enggagement is a time to be shared??

The traditional view is that whenever there's wedding, birth, enggagement etc, these occasions should be shared with immediate family members and friends.

2day my associate got enggaged. Why I called him an associate and not a friend? Well, i used to consider him as a close and dear friend but eventually I realised he had been using me for his own personal gains. Those sweet talks and all his concerns are all BULL SHIT....

2day is his enggagement. Supposedly I should rejoice with him in this happy occassion. ( I am just a normal weak human being, easily forget everybody ill doings.)
He had invited me to follow him all the way to Perak on the pretext that I am his close friends. After snooping around, I found out his real intention, to ferry his friends and brothers. Tooooooot.. where the sincere intention of asking me to join in the celebration?? Thus, I asked for support for milleage, and he has the nerve to ask me to do it for free even though I have helped him in his many financial woes and when I declined, he made it seem like I owed him and thus have to help him.....

What's made me blew up would be that he brought his frens to his enggagement party in Perak and not his brother who financed his education loan (which he didn't pay back), the one who helped him a lot. What kind of a brother is that????

TOOOOOOOOOOOT....................................................................

Smile, an everlasting smile...

Smile, an everlasting smile, a smile would take your heart away.....

This is certainly lacking in Singapore. Just came from Singapore and during my stay there, I noticed that Singaporeans doesn't like to smile at strangers and they don't return their smile easily. I came to Singapore by train, and at the Custom Entry Point in Woodlands, the officers don't like to smile, to offer a greeting nor to say thank you to the visitors to Singapore. They are like robots. At one time, I smiled and greeted the officer and was met with suspicions........ Maybe I'm a terrorist hiding behind smiling face.....hehehehehe

Then I went to my uncle's place by taxi. At least, the taxi driver warmed up to my smiles. Even the waiters, waitresses, salespersons can't even manage a smile to visitors. I always travelled around by plane and I always enjoyed most of them. Not this trip back from Singapore. I felt like I am under a survelliance while waiting to depart at Changi Airport. I can feel the Singaporeans' tensions surrounding the buildings. I felt like I couldn't wait to get out of here.

Another time I felt like this would be the time I was waiting for my MRT in Singapore. It was 7 something in the morning and I could see the Singaporeans rushing to work with a tensioned face. Never smile, never stop to smell the flowers, always rushing around.

They sure miss a lot of things in life. Why are we rushing? Why can't we smile?????

Namoamitofu....

Getting married....

Just came back from my sister's wedding in Singapore. The bride looked very beautiful, the bride looked hansome. The wedding was done beautifully, they showed their childhood photos, how they've met and fall in luv, how he proposed thru a song...... very romantic. Infact the whole wedding reception is done in a romantic manner. They sang love song to each another, declared love to each another.

One thing that came across my mind, would they live happily ever after? It takes a lot more than romantic love to carry on a couple's marriage. We'll just wait and see.

CONGRATULATIONS to my sister.....................................