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Friday, December 30, 2005

Fun for 3 days

Major sickness the other day. Flu and fever. Totally KO. Took Panadol and today feels better. At least no need to lie in the bed.

Went to Palace of Golden Horse for a Success program seminar. Invited by a friend and it is FOC. Oh yeah. The only grouse is it is in mandarin. The speaker is a young man of 36 years old and he is the boss of a MLM company. In this seminar, he spoke on some of the success secrets and his own experiences.

For 3 days, there will be games and learning session. First day, the game played is to exchange money with anyone in the room. No rules. Just change money. I took out RM10 and change money around. At first, I got around RM200 and someone swapped it for RM1 and in the end, I managed to change it back to RM10. The lessons from this game is simple. In order to survive in the society, we have to win. There will be lots of people who will be your competitor and we need to moved forward as fast as possible in order not to lose out.

Have success comes with chaotic pace rather than slow pace.

Second day, the game is played with a team of 17 people and a hula hoop. The rules of the game is to move the hoop around a person to the next person and ends when the hoop passed all the people. However, team member must hold hand and can't let go and no aid of hand to move the hoop.
There is a competition to see which teams can completed in the fastest time. At last, my team can fastest time is only 30s which is way off 22s of the winning team.
At night, we had the game once more but the challenge is to go 22s or lower. We did it after much practise over 2 hours time. The team went crazy later wanting to challenge 21s. We manage to do it after many practises and this time the time is 18.7s. Fantastic.

Success is possible if there is practice.

There is no games on the last day but some very good advice. Goes like this. For every dollar you spent, you must earn hundred. The reason is that if you earn 10 cents, you will not achieve sucess unless you can do it in large quantities.
This is the difference between someone who works hard but found success and someone who works hard but didn't found success.

Sunday, December 04, 2005

Do you still write and send letters?

I went back to my hometown recently and one day, I spent half a day clearing out the store room to make space for newer stuff. Out of nowhere appears a bag full of letters. These letters are my letters and are sent to me by my primary and secondary school friends.

You see, I study in Singapore primary school. During the year end school holiday, I usually go back to Sabah because the holiday is about one and a half month. During those times, some of my friends in Singapore sent me xmas greeting cards and usually, letter is inserted for me to read. I am reading one of the letter sent by my good friend, Eddie and that letter alone brings a lot of memories about my primary school friend. I did not keep in touch with most of them and I wonder what happen to some of them now. In fact, Eddie Yuan, if you are reading this, reply to me ASAP.

After my secondary school ended in 1994, I went back to Sabah to study for my diploma. In those years, phone call is too expensive and Internet is not yet commercialised. Besides, one of them went to Seattle and another is in Canada. Calling them is ridiculous due to extremely high phone call charges then. The only way to keep in touch is via letters.

I am reading one of the letter by Mr. Yeoh PJ and I am laughing loud as I goes on. The conversation topics are usually about movies, life in college, girls in college and everything that sucks. Most of the times, the letter ends a question on what is going on with the rest of our friends. Yeah! Those are the days before Internet. There is no way to know what is going on with each other life until we received letter from them. In fact, I am very excited whenever I received a letter. Same goes for my friend. That is why whoever is late to reply a letter, that person is usually will be greeted with colourful words in the first paragraph. Hahaha.

How times changed. Nowadays, I do not write letters anymore. Anything is via email or msn chat. Some of them like Mr. Yeoh PJ is online most of the time and we just chat over in msn. One thing is that I do not keep a record of our conversation in msn. Unlike letters, it will forever be there and one a while, it makes a good read when there is nothing to do.