February 2012
3 posts
Purpose-less Driven Life
“Knowing your purpose motivates your life. Purpose always produces passion. Nothing energizes like a clear purpose. On the other hand, passion dissipates when you lack purpose.”
What happens when your passion is to discover your life’s purpose?
KultPop
KPop is hovering at the extreme end of Ridiculous. It seems as though my few true, diligent friends and I are the only ones who aren’t sucked into this bottomless pit of clone-like stars (or should i say puppets), machine-manufactured tunes and wildly OBSESSED fans.
Like all Corporations built under the umbrella of Capitalism, the music industry functions as per standard template:...
January 2012
6 posts
2012 resolutions
Don’t judge me, it’s better to be late than never.
1. Stay sober (do things I would usually only do under the influence of alcohol without)
2. Calorie count
3. SAVE MONEY (e.g. Cut down on cabs and online shopping and splurging on food)
4. With that money saved, to LIVE. Skydive, dive, Travel, attend every concert/musical possible. Basically engage in all sorts of activities that...
The beginning of an end
It’s 2012 and emerges January, the horror of all horrors, the end of Christmas and festive joy. Enters CNY - yet another time for facades and roles of pretense and defense, unless you’re courageous enough to brave the vicious storm, alone.
The start of the year imprints less of a significance on me then it does for most. Resolutions will be broken, why bother. Nothing gold can stay,...
December 2011
12 posts
On this Christmas eve,
I am empty, lost, and falling back into the pit hole of unbearable darkness where mortal desires consume my soul whilst suffocating my conscience.
DID
You know how they say our personalities vary around different groups of people? What if that variation is so starkly contrasting, you could jolly well be on the edge of sinking into a multiple personality disorder?
I didn't
I should be doing up HPB’s powerpoint deck
I should be getting ballpark costs for the various individual outsourced aspects of the project
I should be researching on similar case studies
I should be taking relevant screenshots and slicing them up with Picasa
I should be allocating budgets in Microsoft Excel
I should be creating a timeline for virtual chef
I should be on a diet
Mockery
It’s as though I have lost control of everything in my life in the past 2 weeks. This impending loss hangs and sinks the already heavy heart of mine.
Oh the irony of being seated in a lecture on Dissonance theory that mockingly mirrors my current thoughts and emotions. What’s the point of understanding your mental state through psychological theories when they only provide...
I can’t remember when was the last time I felt like myself. But then again, who am I?
Reid: You wanna know why horror movies are so successful?
Morgan: Why is that, genius?
Reid: They prey on our instinctual need to survive. In tribal days, a woman's scream would signal danger, and the men would return from hunting to protect their pack. That's why it's always the women and not the men who fall victim to the boogey man.
Seaver: Count on you, Reid, to break a movie down to science. My favorite thing about horror movies is the suspense factor.
Reid: Ahh, the ticking clock.
Seaver: The helpless victim walks through the dark. Shadows reaching out to get her.
Reid: A sudden noise draws her attention. Is someone there or is it just in her head?
“Luck is an attitude”.
There is no such thing as luck because you can create...”
– Martini
How low can you go?
What I’m currently experiencing may also be widely known as quarter life crisis - although it does seem as though it’s a decade premature. I am feeling completely overwhelmed by this buffet feast of what they call life. But like every fat kid at a sushi joint, I can’t not get my hands on every plate that the conveyer belt brings, with the exception of a few that I plan to grab...
Plain Reality
“The basic reality of God is plain enough. Open your eyes and there it is! By taking a long and thoughtful look at what God has created, people have always been able to see what their eyes as such can’t see: eternal power, for instance, and the mystery of his divine being. So nobody has a good excuse” Romans 1:19-20 (MSG).
Will I follow you into the dark?
Over dinner, it’s typical of me to display a tiny amount of superiority through the form of being highly opinionated about any topic I have the slightest idea about. Well before you judge me, I’m pretty sure you’re equally guilty of that too. Or lapping up all of the laksa gravy. That’s equally sinful.
In one of those recent moments with A over what I would like to...
I am now nothing but public
Yes I am back once again after countless frivolous hiatuses and “I am a private person” revelations, whilst in the midst of discovering that my need for self-expression was basically a hollow vacuum all along which varies from whom I had assumed my target market was for the day.
Let me justify myself through the claim that these “notes to self” (current and to come)...
September 2011
1 post
“So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even...”
– Morrie Schwartz
August 2011
17 posts
“Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the...”
– John Piper
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work woes
I’ve come to realised that most heads (the irony) know NOTHING about the workings of their subordinates/workers. This results in a continuous cycle which the staff are trapped in, in re-explaining basic concepts/practices to their management - which could have been avoided with the degradation of thick-headed assumptions. Unnessecary problems brought about from the sum of two negatives - a...
Wisdom is...
Psalm 119:130
The unfolding of your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple.
Why so?
Can happiness only be found in simplicity?
Are dreamers simply, aggressively optimistic individuals who refuse to conform?
Does beauty/charisma/wealth determine power?
July 2011
2 posts
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June 2011
1 post
There’s a reason I said I’d be happy alone. It wasn’t ‘cause I thought I’d be happy alone. It was because I thought if I loved someone and then it fell apart, I might not make it. Losing love is like organ damage. It’s like dying. The only difference is death ends. This? It could go on forever. -Meredith Grey
April 2011
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August 2010
3 posts
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the sinner's prayer
Heavenly Father, I know that I have sinned against you and that my sins separate me from you. I am truly sorry. I now want to turn away from my sinful past and turn to you for forgiveness. Please forgive me, and help me avoid sinning again. I believe that your Son, Jesus Christ, died for my sins, that He was raised from the dead, is alive, and hears my prayer. I invite Jesus to become my Savior...
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servanthood
“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can.”
what do you want to do?
Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don’t think about what you want to be, but what you want to do.
- Richard Feynman
July 2010
1 post
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Choices
Here are three essential steps to simplify your life:
First, figure out your purpose, and then let your purpose guide the goals of your life.
Second, organize your activities based upon your purpose.
Finally, harmonize your schedule with your purpose; that is, bring your activities into agreement with your goals.
June 2010
36 posts
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“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in...”
“I understand that journalists these days need to self-promote. I do it...”
– Carolina’s really smart in this. And we don’t exempt ourselves from this; like virtually all publications, we sometimes fall into the trap of not trusting ourselves, and our readers, and the results speak for themselves. (via newsweek)
appeal of social networking sites?
whose life is so important that we’d be interested in this kind of detail?
that’s the running joke right? nobody is. but we’d all like to believe that there’s an audience out there that wants to follow our every move.
“The single biggest problem with communication, is the illusion that it has taken place.”
George Bernard Shaw