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Oh yeah!!! 2 holidays in less than 2 months, I must be crazy!!! Hahaha, but man, I love every single moment of it man!! Hong Kong and Macau and then followed by Taiwan and both was my first time there, COol man!!

Although, now I’m back to reality, and pocket also with a big big hole….. but I loved it hahaha!

LIfe should be like that, work hard play hard!!!

NOw is time to work hard!!! Is been really busy since I’m back in Singapore. Can you imaging, it was only last week Thursday, 12th march that I touched down back here at 1am, at 8am, I was in office preparing for a meeting. and then on the 13th and 14th March I was doing training at a local Secondary School. Next, 15th was a Sunday, and I was back in office too, as I need to be attend a briefing for the 16th and 17th March program!!

Then next was 18th March, Wednesday where things got slower, and by 19th Thursdaywhich is today, I was down… withpiles… OUCH!!! (guessed is body too heaty and lack of rest, anyway…..)

It really have been a mad rush, but don’t know why, I just feeling excited. I think the main reason could be for the first quarter of 2009, I did really have a great time and hence despite the mad rush, I still feeling excited and I want to have more interesting events for the rest of the year!!!

So I hoped you have a great first quarter of  2009 too, yar!!

The weather for past few days were really crazy, it could be sunny and shiny for one second, and the next moment, is pouring like no body’s business. It was not just a normal rain but a thunderstorm for the past few days, the thunder and lightning was so furious to a point that it even struck on our Singapore icon, Merlion’s head. Poor Merlion, not only it lost some of its mane but its left ear as well.  

Man, for me, it’s really a love-hate relationship with the rain. I mean, I love it when it is a thunderstorm, especially I want to stay and rest at home, the cold yet comfortable and dark feeling provide the best enviornment for me to take a good nap. However, when it comes to having activities to do, I hate it when it rains, almost 100 percent of the time, you will be trapped indoor with nothing much for you to do.

I don’t know about you, but it happened to me alot time and most recently, I was trapped by the rain again. This time round just a few days back  I was trapped once again in the evening, luckily, I was trapped in office which is still not so bad, at least I can stay back and still do my work.

Frustrated at first, as it was already late in the evening and I’m trapped and doing some stuff that I didn’t want or didn’t plan to do. The mood I had at that moment was exactly like the weather, DARK, CLOUDY,RAINY and HEAVY. 

Guess without much choice, I found my energy back and focus on finishing  a clients’ video that I had started doing on that day itself, and soon without much of my realisation, an hour went by and the rain had stopped.

And surprisingly, I had just finished my video clip. Ha, decided that since I was “trapped” for more than a few hours(including office hours) becuase of the rain, I went out to take a breather… and below was what I saw….

And Yes…IT  was a “WOW” a rainbow…. it was the largest rainbow I ever saw in Singapore, and my mood just changed in a instant. Suddenly, my cold, cloudy and heavy feeling was replaced by the warm, shiny and beautiful rainbow and it made me felt so light, calm and peaceful. “Ah, that’s is so nice” I talked to myself as I looked up onto the rainbow, “Guess it’s not a bad day after all….” and soon, I packed my bag and was on my way home.

Come to think of it, it was such a interesting evening for me, at one point Iwas grumbling about being trapped and had to stay back in office and did some of my work and not long after, I was a happy man, with my my video clip done and enjoying the beauty of the rainbow. Such an irony.

Well, I guess that’s life isn’t it, at one moment, it can be dark and cloudy and at the other moment, it can be bright and shiny with a rainbow beautifying it.  

Just a note to end this post off, remember my friends, life is much like a rainbow, you need both the SUN and the RAIN to make the RAINBOW appears… so learn to learn both the “SUN” and the “RAIN” so that your RAINBOW can appear…

Ha I love going to movies, in fact watching movies is one of my favourite past time. Still remember that there was once, My friends and I went to watch 4 movies at one go, but that’s was many years back.  In recent time, the max I go is 2 movies in one day. Oh, and I didn’t mean watching DVD, I’m actually talking about going to the cinema and catch the show.

Watching movies for me is great form of relaxation for me, as it allows me to sit back and listen and just let the stories unfold in front of me. Movies is also a form of exercise for me to practise appreciation too, you know is that kind of like appreciation of the plot, the music, the acting, the direction, the special effect etc.

Another reason why I love to watch movies is that, there are learning about values and life that I can pick up from the movies. Ever heard of “learning from someone else’s mistake”? and yes, I do know that most of the time movies are fiction but still, there are still learning for me to pick up. 

Almost all the movies that I saw allow me to pick up some learning and recently, there’s one movie that let me pick up and learn a few things too. That movie is JIM CARREY’s YES MAN.

The movie is about a man called Carl(Jim Carey), whose life was sort of becoming stagnant, bored and a bit meaningless after his girlfriend left him, however things changes when he sign up for a life-changing course that’s required him to say yes to almost everything and that was when his life started to change once again.

Needless to say, in the movie Carl, found a new love, new life and new perspective of life. The idea of saying “YES”, opens up many possibilities in his life and that the main learning I get from the movie.

When was the last time that you can remember that, by making a decision to say “YES”, that decision actually impacted your life? For me, I could remember many, especially in the year 2008, my willingness to ”YES” to end my baby Business, had resulted a few new opportunities for me, my willingness to say ”YES” to a personal development course, has allowed me to re-ignite my passion in life and meeting great people from all woks of life. My willingness to say “YES” to a new job had allowed me to work in an environment that is inline with the things I enjoyed doing and it  feed my passion for growth and of course they were many more “YES” decision that I made in 2008 that had made me grow as a person.

And what JIM CARREY did with his movie is that, he reminded me that how am I today and what am I today is really based on what decision I had made in my life. The “YES” and “NO” that I made in my life had lead me to where I am today. I can never blame anyone and I must be 100% responsible for what I am today.

So thinking back, there will be regrets about some decision that I made, but that’s already history, what is more important now is that it is time to make new decision, especial it is the start of the new year.

2009 is already here, and Yes I want to see new possibilities and that will only come by saying “YES” many things, but of course, you don’t need to say ”YES” all the time, as Carl( Jim Carrey) said in the movie, you only say ”YES” when you only want to and only your heart want you to say “YES”. Don’t you think so?

So, if you do agreed….just simply say “YES” 

OH boy, what a girly title, hahahaha can’t believed I had actually thought of it and put it down some more, wahahah!!!

Anyway, yup yup yup, is about FIREFLIES!!! Man, as you know (OK not all are aware), recently I just came back from a working trip at Kota Tinggi Waterfall Resort, Malaysia. I was conducting a 4 days - 3 nights Training Workshop for a neighbour school. One of the night was actually spend on going on a Night Fireflies Cruise.

We were in a small boat that can hold up to 20 people and  the boat owner was the guide of the cruise. So with our life jacket on and comfortably seated, the whole group were off to see the fireflies.

Well, it was not the first time I saw fireflies, the last time I saw it was many years back when I was in Chiang Mai, Thailand, we were in a village sitting at one of the high points, and right in front of us, was a big group of fireflies blinking and shining at us, some even flew past us, it was such a lovely sight.

This time round, it was slightly different, we were on the boat and we were cruising along the Johor River. I was hoping the sight we were going to see, could matched what I saw in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

After about 15 mins cruising down the river, the “ah peK” the captain and owner of the boat started to shout in mandarin”OK, people, stay silent and switch off all the camera light we are approachingthe fireflies real soon”, With a right turn of the boat, and from the corner of my eyes, I saw a magnificence sight,  the river banks on my right was suddenly brighten up and blinking at us, it was like the whole forest were being decorated with Christmas lighting, it’s like walking down Orchard Rd with all the lighting blinking and shining back at us. There were easily thousands of them covering the forests. As we cruising along, they were more both on the left and right at the river banks. 

It was really beautiful, as the cruise went on the mood of the crowd were starting to change from an initial of pure excitement to a form of quiet, smoothing admiration of the beauty of the mother nature.

this was when my head started thinking, I was like “Wow, this tiny insect that’s gives up light can actually brighten up the darkness and create a beautiful sencery with its lights, what an amazing creature” and to know that fireflies doesn’t really live long, some people said they only last for about a week - 2 months and some only last for a few hours make me even wonder more, “why even create this insect, what was its purpose to be here, was it just to give up lights or were they here to send us a message?”

Hahaha, somebody say i always think too much, and probably that is true. but really, I can’t help it, i was thinking if I’m the firefly, why live? When I know that I don’t live for more than 2 months, what’s the point and all I do is to give out lights?? I might as well just die. 

Ha, but the other side me me is telling me that if I’m really a firefly, and I do know I have only 2 months to live, I will guaranteed that I will give out more of my light and shines even brighter! and the point  I know that my light can lit up darkness and it can offered a beautiful scenery for others to appreciate. I know that my light can make 20 people on a boat to go “Ahh… that’sso nice” and I know that because of my light, the “Ah Pek” can earn his living by bringing people to see my light. And that’s why, If I’m really a firefly and have only 2 months of lifespan, I will LIVE and SHINES!!

What about you? if you are a firefly and have 2 months to live, will you just wait to die or you will LIVE and SHINES! If the answer is the latter, then who and what is your light shining for? Is it for your loved one, your family or even the community. Can you be the light that lights up another person’s darkest moment?

I know I can and I know who and what my light is shining for and Yes, I will live and shine bright, and I want the people around to shine too and that’s because, it is not the effort of one firefly but the efforts of thousands of individual shining firefly that can create the full strecth of riverbank that’s blinking and shining bright in the darkness of the forest. 

OH YEAH!!! A few of my colleagues and I had just returned from Bintan after running a 4 days 3 nights leadership training program for a local secondary school.

Once again, it was a great training and I strongly believed that the 41 youths and the 4 training staff(me included) had gained valuable learning from one another. Well, It’s really hard for me to put the learning down into words in a single post here, reason is that there are really just too much learning going on. 

All I can say is that the program that our company conducted is really about making and providing a safe environment for one to step up as a leader, learn to build and to lead a team of leaders where they can achieve and create results. You can be assured that the training allows participants to lead and challenges each other to the next level of excellence.

Oh, for those who are still not sure what am I working as, I am currently working as a trainer that creates leaders for now and the future! he! he! 

Ok, the the main aim of this post is not about my work, the real aim is to really share with everyone about the beautiful place that I had just spend 4 days on. and the name is LooLa Resort, Bintan.

It is really a great place to spend a few days of your life, as for once you are back with the nature, away from the City, the workload (Hmm not for me, I was there for work purpose yikes! ha), the fast pace society and it is also a chance for one to really sit back and enjoy the natural breeze, slow tempo life styles and some local delicacies.

It is also a great place, to take a time break and sit down by the seaside watching waves hitting the shoreline and seagulls guiding through the blue sky. And if you have the mood, you can do a personal reflection too, you know that kind of reflection on whats life is all about. Well, not sure, if you have this set of questions before especially when you are in a place where life is slow and simple, they sound something like “Wow, this is so relaxing here, why can’t I have this feeling back in Singapore, how come I can feel relax here and so tense and tired back home? How come it feels like I always don’t have enough time back in Singapore? What am I really busy with all this time and what is for?”   Do, you people have that before too?

If yes, great, I hoped you have some answer to it, If Not, maybe is time to give yourself a break and go to some place like LOOLA and really, just go there and do the two Rs, that’s  to “Relax & Reflect” and maybe, just asked yourself the question ” What does LIFE really means to you?”  and see what you can get out for yourself ha.   

Below are some pictures to share, enjoy!

Welcome To TANJONG PINANG (BINTAN)!!

LOOLA Resort

SUN~RISE @ LOOLA!!

BoOm~NeTtING & KaYAkinG!!

FLyinG FOx INto the SEA!!

JOuRNey BAck HOme(Singapore)

 THe END….yeah!!

Get Real!!  is the message that I have for myself today.

Life is a roller coaster ride, there are high point and low points. It has its bright and dark side.

Right now, I don’t think any one’s life is just filled with all the high points and nothing else, nor I believed any one’s life is just filled with just all the low points and nothing else.

One’s life definetly has its bright and its dark side. and hence the reason why I choose this theme that able to contrast the feeling and the thoughts I have for my life, my thoughts and my experience for the world.

Be it Bright or Dark, Good or Bad, High or Low, Warm or Cold, Right or Wrong, Pleasure and Pian, Life should go through it all, the most important is that We, humans, can feel and must learn from all the experience.

If you never been experienced what Warmth is? How can you ever understand how warm feels like? Same thing if you never experienced what pain is, how can you explain pain?

The key here is it is only when you been through both extreme then you can totally understand whats the difference in life.

To me, to be happy and sad is a choice and it is only a fine line that separatehappy and sad just like this wordpress theme design that I chose and the fine line theory applies to many other things too.

 Life is a learning journey, the more experiences you been through, the more learning you gather and you grow. And when you grow you have more power to make choices. So learn now and choose now; do you want to be on the bright side or the dark side; choose now; is it to be happy or sad? The choice is yours.

I’m having a fever a running nose and a cough while I typing this post. but you know what.. I choose to be Happy and Motivated to share this thoughts with you.