Thursday, March 22, 2007

Pursuit of Dreams


Walking alone, I feel scary sometimes. I just don’t understand why life is so complicated and unpredictable. Living without hope seems like going down to the hell, to me. Honestly, when coming to the outside world, I feel that there are a lot of things to learn, experience, try, and so on. My curiosity is now bursting days by days. One thing that had influenced me and let me rethink what I should do, what I have to do, and what I will do is when I was working with one organization for one of my school projects.
This organization, a global community inspiring youth awesome living, spreading the “YOU CAN” attitude so youth can pursue their dream, has taught me a lots. Since then, I found that I have changed in terms of personality, attitude, and mindset.

When the passion of a dream becomes compelling enough, it seems we tend to become just so much more willing to almost absentmindedly place ourselves in perilous positions just to see if something might happen. Think pubescent teenager waiting under the void deck for hours just to catch a glimpse of that girl from the other class that he’s so in serious like with.

If you have a dream, pursue it. Do it for the experience, the bragging rights and stories to share. But if you don’t do it for yourself, do it for all the people that need to see someone doing it because they are just too scared to do it alone.

“Some people live for the fortune. Some people live just for the fame. Some people live for the power, yeah. Some people live just to play the game. Some people think that the physical things define what's within and I've been there before, that life's a bore. So full of the superficial” - Alicia Keys

Friday, March 9, 2007

Short Scenes of SB

Here is the fighting movie we are going to make but we just practice some first skits lolz...
Should you wait for the whole movie. Surely, it's gonna be a 100% guarantee that it's WoW! and then Wow!

Street Band! Rock U!

Here is the uniquely street boy band(SB) starting to emerge among other stars hehe...
Our band consists 4 boys(Handsome & Gentle), namely Phuomirak(Composer, Singer, Lead guitar man...), Nenja( Singer, Pianist,Guitarist), Harryman(Pianist, Singer,Base Guitarist ), & last but not least Youngster( guitar man, Drummer, singer).

Here are pics we took during Nenja's BD. Unfortunately, Harryman couldn't join us cos he stayed at his house to practice his stuff haha... Only three of us.

Sorry for our improper dress today:) it is just the old ones!
So Do come to support our brand new star boy band! We'll rock you guys! We are a man!!!






Thursday, March 8, 2007

Cambodia from the Economist

Invasion of the land-grabbers

Small farmers lose their livelihoods to corrupt officials

ONE day in December, 70-year-old Doung Moeurn and her neighbours arrived to work on their rice paddies to find soldiers putting up a barbed-wire fence around them. As in China, across Cambodia growing numbers of small farmers and slum-dwellers have fallen victim to land-grabbing.

Keep reading go to this http://economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8819918

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2007

Ending Impunity for Violence against Women and Girls


"Violence against women has yet to receive the priority attention and resources needed at all levels to tackle it with the seriousness and visibility necessary."

Secretary-General’s in-depth study on
violence against women (2006)
(A/61/122/Add.1)

Anyway, on this day, let women show all men you can do like a man. What they want to impress to the man is you can enjoy cooking very delicious food for men and dont forget to clean house as well lolz... so there will be a comfortable environment. By the way it's a joke but if you want to proof that you are a woman, let's show it. A man will see it!

Sunday, March 4, 2007

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005

It is a indeed good speech. You can take away points from it. Believe it or not! Let's try it!

Saturday, March 3, 2007

In your dream!

You wanna get on TV? 'In your dreams!' That phrase came in during the 1990s. It meant someone is being unrealistic, very optimistic, very hopeful. Any circumstances in which expectations are raised - in your dreams!

It mixes two senses of the word 'dream' - what happens when you're asleep, of course, and the sense of day dream or reverie - it's a very general use.

And I've heard it said all over the place in recent months. I've heard it said when in a traffic jam, when the driver thought the road ahead was clearing. 'In your dreams!' said the passenger.

And most interesting of all, I've now heard the phrase being extended with the pronoun changing - you see, 'in your dreams' is the second person, but I've now heard it with a first person and a third person. The other day I heard, 'He's going to try for a part in the movie - in his dreams!' - third person. And then one day somebody said to me, 'I hear you're planning a holiday this year'. And I remember muttering to myself, 'in my dreams'!

Seriously, I haven’t often had a dream during sleeping. I wish I could have a dream so that I could have some thought and imagination. Does anyone know how to get a dream? Any dreams lolz…Is it happened naturally? I doubt it because I definitely couldn’t find it right now.

Friday, March 2, 2007

Self Reflection

Days by days, life is still rolling on to another point that we are trying to face it. Some are sure to discover what the life is and get successful in it since they have been preparing into the world of their own by setting clear goals, experiencing every new things, and then putting their careful efforts to achieve their wishes, hopes, and dreams. However, some people are trying harder to grow better in their own ways due to lack of observing themselves and getting a reflection to it immediately. For sure , there might be a doubt in mind what to reflect and how to do it! The answer is that there are many ways that people can reflect differently based on their personalities and experiences. Of course, i am falling in the latter person i am talking about since long long time I haven't observed about myself and done a reflection. It is just due to not knowing what to do and how to do it as i have mentioned it early. Actually, I came across one article telling about the personal reflection which is about taking time for yourself. Anyway, it requires me to have a better understanding in reading. Unfortunately, I am not such an effective or even good reader. " My thought(brain) is like a Shrimp." Luckily, i went to ask my friend's recommendations, and then he gave a lot of advice since i have troubled in reading. He told me that it is time to Start Reading now,& your life would be changed. you know what " Reading is the source of Knowledge". Continuing, he also woke me up from the unknown world of my own(Laziness)that i rarely notice the important of it. Just now i realized that i haven't had much thought cos of it, and i quickly woke up to prepare myself in this kind of battle. In the mean time, i like to thank my friend Panha who gave me the starting point which is a story book( Not a bad one lolz...) After all, comiing to our point: the reflection, you can read this article as a sake of your thought. And u can reflect as much as you can based on what you are able to interpret it into your own use.

Date: 27 February 2007
Headline: Don't forget to set aside time for yourself


A fortnight ago, I wrote about life's priorities and how important it is to give more time to those who are close to us. This was after I read about the six concentric circles of priorities, as told by Mr Eugene O'Kelly, the ex-CEO of KPMG, in his book Chasing Daylight. The circles classify people we know in order of importance, so that we will be able to decide how much time to spend with those in each “ring”; the inner-most circle consists of those closest to us.
Those who read it found the article a wake-up call. But some have told me the "circles" are impractical in real life.

One of the most interesting comments I got from a close friend was that I left out a major person in the circles. And that person should be given more attention than anyone else. To be sure, this person should form the core of-the concentric circles. Wondering who it is? That's right. Me Or you. I was forced to think about what he had said. Indeed, it is true that the person who deserves the most attention is that person himself (or herself). Imagine that you are a high-performance race car. You are going at breakneck speed, negotiating sharp bends and dodging other cars at the same time, and still emerge the winner.

What if there were no pit-stops?
You would be out of fuel in no time and the tyres would burn out before you know it
That is really how it is with all of us caught up in the grind. Unless we nourish our body and mind, we will not be able to function optimally.
To say that we have no time to spend on ourselves is to say we are going for a long drive but have no time to stop and fill the tank. I was also motivated by another book, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, by Robin Sharma. It's about how a hotshot lawyer detaches himself from the material world- and that includes selling his Ferrari – to go in search of the "true meaning of life" in the Himalayas. The book suggests a number of things we can do to nourish ourselves. And one of them is - surprise, surprise - reading. At least, I'm assured I am doing right to "fuel" myself.

And another activity the book emphasizes is personal reflection. Reviewing our actions regularly and thinking hard about how we can improve ourselves and our behaviors is something we do not do enough.

At end of the day, we all know what a hectic lifestyle Singaporeans have. So it is perfectly all right to feel overwhelmed (or underwhelmed?) by such concepts like personal reflection, and spending time with yourself and close ones. But I feel it's still possible. For example, it's really not compulsory to have lunch with our colleagues every day. Why not meet up with old classmates or friends one or two times a-week for lunch, when you are near their workplaces. They will appreciate it.

As for spending time with ourselves, waking up half an hour earlier and going to bed 30 minutes later than usual is not that big a deal. It may be difficult at first, but once we get into the habit, we would wonder why we thought it was so hard in the first place.

The mornings could be spent reading, and the times before sleep in personal reflection. No matter how many friends we have and how much time we spend with our families and at work, it is important never to ignore the one engine for survival -ourselves. Me, myself and I is not such a selfish thought after all.

The writer is a final-year student at the School of
Information Systems at Singapore Management University.

Source: The New Paper O Singapore Press Holdings Limited. Permission required for reproduction.