It's no secret to many friends of mine, that I am driven to be a successful person.
I can only measure success by materialistic means.
- To live in a big house
- Drive a stylish European Car
- Lives VERY comfortable (but not extravagantly)
- Hold a high position in an organisation or run a legal profitting company.
To me, this is SUCCESS mortalised.
Is this success driven by my own will to succeed ? Partly.
The other part of it, sadly, is by the lack of love....
Not the family kind, not the kind between friends, and definitely not the brotherly ones.
I have all these.
I am talking about the kind of sparkles between a male and a female.
By becoming successful, i know i will be able to indulge in a life of my own, enjoying other things in life (other than what a relationship might bring), and maybe forget the fact that the word "Love" had always elusively evaded me.
I always tell my friends, if you can't find this love, maybe you can spread the love, by sharing it with the less fortunate, make their life better, and in order to do that, you need cash! cold hard cash!
A friend of mine recently tell me, but without this love, won't your life be kinda incomplete ?
I hate to admit it, but I do and will be incomplete.
In life, love can't be force, either you got it, or you don't....
If I am meant to be, to not get it, may it not even come near me, i will be thankful. Really....
In the cinema, right before the start of any movie, there will always be a running of this particular screening which reminds patrons of the cinema to switch their mobile phone to silent mode.
Still, halfway through the show, you can hear ring tones and sms tones....
In the meeting room and lecture halls, the same goes. On the projector screen, will be a powerpoint slide, reminding participants to switch their mobile phone to silent mode.
Still, halfway through the meetings / lectures, there will be ring tones and sms tones, and often, by a cruel twist of fate, they almost only occurs during the most silent segment of meetings / lectures....
So can you tell me ? Whats wrong with these people ?
To me, they are more than inconsiderate.
They are lazy for not acting according to what the reminder had stated.
They are selfish for impeding the learning/advancement of others.
Is this the problem with the society ? or just the invidual? Do ponder.
For now, I urged anyone reading this entry, that the next time the scenarios above happen to you, please, switch your handphones to silent mode, if not for yourself, do it for others....
Dreams. Everyone have dream(s).
When you were young, I am sure you wanted to be a Scientist, a Teacher, a Policeman, a Fireman or someone else. You wanted to be someone, you have an ambition.
As you grew up, reality sets in, the distance between you and your dream, gets further and further apart.
At some point in your life, you realised,
"Hey! this aint what I want and/or where I wanna be!"
So you drew up a plan, a plan to do what you want in life, a plan that shows you clearly the steps which you gotta take in order to reach the objective. That's your vision of your future. You visualize your future.
We are humans. We are animals of habits. We hate to move from our comfort zone. We rather stay the way we are, in a familiar environment, then to take risk and move into the unknown.
We have a plan. However, our very own nature to procastinate, resulted in our reluntancy to make the first step forward, to act.
Until we decide to act, until we decide to take the very first step out, the dream will remain a dream, the vision will remain a vision. The dream will never become reality, so won't the vision.
"Vision without Action are merely Dreams.
Action without Vision is passing time.
Vision with Action can change your life."
Change your future, act now!
Make decisions which you will not regret.
If ever you met an option which might result in you having the possibility of feeling regretful, take that option, leave no regrets in life.
Be a Dreamer, as well as a Do-er.
You only live once.
Make that once, count!
In Singapore, the news is shown on TV daily at various timing throughout the day. Half an hour before the actual showing, there will be a newsflash, and what these newsflashes do for me, is that they tell me the headliners, and these headliners will decide whether I will use the time to watch the news, or use the time to catch my favourite serials or do some other stuffs.
The newsflash tonight talked about this 18 year old gal murdered in AMK. It was reported that she was slit across the throat, and had various injuries on her body as well.
Cash and other valuables were intact, thus ruling out the possibility of robbery. It is OUTRIGHT MURDER! A 22 year old suspect was rounded up to assist in the investigation.
What triggered me to write this entry is that 10 to 20 years ago, such crimes will almost certainly not happen in Singapore. Singapore was so peaceful back then. There are still crimes, of course. But crimes of such extent was few and far between.
What had happened to our values ? to our humanity ? that such crimes am occuring more and more frequently...
Is it the evolution of Singaporeans? Westernization? or the power of the internet, exposing our next generation whatever they should not be accessing ?
I am tired. I mean physically tired, as I had just finished a run not too long ago.
So here I am, jotting down this entry, but I am going to rest though.
However one word can easily sum up the way I am feeling now - Disappointed.
I am indeed, disappointed......
