Ayn Rand Quotes

To say 'I love you' one must know first how to say the 'I.'- Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead)

"Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history".- Ayn Rand (The virtue of selfishness)

"In moral and intellectual issues, it is not enough to be right: one has to know that one is right".- Ayn Rand (The virtue of selfishness)

The story "The Emperor’s New Clothes". (Ayn Rand – THE VIRTUE OF SELFISHNESS -1964)

In that story, some charlatans sell nonexistent garments to the Emperor by asserting that the garments’ unusual beauty makes them invisible to those who are morally depraved at heart. Observe the psychological factors required to make this work: the charlatans rely on the Emperor’s self-doubt; the Emperor does not question their assertion nor their moral authority; he surrenders at once, claiming that he does see the garments—thus denying the evidence of his own eyes and invalidating his own consciousness—rather
than face a threat to his precarious self-esteem. His distance from reality may be gauged by the fact that he prefers to walk naked down the street, displaying his nonexistent garments to the people—rather than risk incurringthe moral condemnation of two scoundrels. The people, prompted by the same psychological panic, try to surpass one another in loud exclamations on the splendor of his clothes—until a child cries out that the Emperor is naked.

Outliers-Malcolm Gladwell

I have just read "Outliers- the story of success" by Malcolm Gladwell. One of my colleague mentioned this book during lunch time. it sounded quite intriguing and I have actually heard of this book a couple of times. So I decided to give it ago.

I must say it was a very interesting book. Although I still don't quite able to draw a firm conclusion after reading it, I need to revisit some part of the book . I think blogging about it does help to make things abit clearer.

From the cover of the book, here is the synopsis;

"Why do some people achieve so much more than others? Can they lie so far outside the ordinary? What is the secret of their success?"

In this provocative and inspiring book, Malcolm Gladwell examines everyone from business giants to scientific geniuses, sports stars to musicians, and reveals what they have in common. He looks behind the spectacular results, the myths and the legends to show what really explains exceptionally successful people.

Gladwell argues that, when we try to understand success, we normally start with the wrong question. We ask 'what is this person like?' when we should really be asking 'where are they from?' The real secret of success turns out to be suprisingly simple, and it hinges on a few crucial twists in people's stories- ont he culture they grow up in and the way they spend their time.

What does Bill Gates have in common with the Beatles? How does IQ relate to your salary? What can a linguist tell us about airline safety? How does the way your child speaks to an adult affect their success in life? What do rice paddies have to do with maths results? And how can you predict a maths star without even making them take a test? Malcolm Gladwell has the answers.

This book really will change the wat you think about life. And it will challenge you to make the most of your own potential.

In the book, he emphasized a lot on 10,000 hours rule and extraordinary opportunities. He claimed that Greatness requires enourmous times to build up their skills which I completely agree with him. He mentioned about the Beatles' musical talents and Gates' computer savvy due to their 10,000 hours of practise. Gladwell also said that they were given the opportunities to spend this amount of hours to practise. The Beatles were invited to go to Hamburg, Germany. They spent a lot of hours on stage performing seven days a week for few years. Bill Gates got sent to high schools that had access to computer. Gates was exposed to computer since an early age, he was really lucky since computer was very rare back then. He had already spent more than 10,000 hours on programming when he first set up his own company.

Towards the end, Gladwell concluded that success is not exceptional or mysterious. It is grounded in a web of advantages and inheritances, some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky- but all critical to making them who they. The outliers are products of history and community, of opportunity and legacy. The outlier, in the end, is not an outlier at all.

I think this is a very interesting and provocative sentences. It got me thinking, I think he is trying to instill humbleness to everyone. No matter how successful you are, you can't achieve them without the help of others. It is true, the things he doen't mention it very often is that you have to do your best and create your own opportunities. He keeps stressing on the unique circumtances that made every outliers to be the outliers. But if you don't make use of the opportunities and if you are not ready when the opportunities come then it would be useless too.

This book is very provocative indeed. It makes us think and remind us to make use of our time wisely since expertise is proportional to the time spent on practise.

Here is the quote that I like fromthe book;
"No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fail to make his family rich" Rice paddies

What's on?

I am working on  my new blog now... :-)

random stuff

It has been a very busy week so far. I have just moved into a new house. These past two days , all I did was shifting all my stuff. Luckily one of my housemate helped me out today. I really like my new room :-). Now my old laptop is actually working in my room. Since I got back here from my homecountry, My old laptop didn't work in my former room. It works in all the places except my old room. How strange! this is part of the reason I haven't been writing for awhile. I am glad that it actually works in my new room now.

Monday, 23rd of August was one of my historical day! I was overslept till very late and I was very late to work for the first time. I slept until almost 10am, literally was woken up by the vibration of my phone. I got a text from my mentor asking me why i was still not in. I was so shocked when I saw the clock and I was so blurred. I straightaway gave my mentor a ring saying I was overslept (what a good excuse! at least I was honest). I was rushing to work and had to work until 6pm to meet the working hours. It never occured to me before, I never overslept or late to lecture when I was in university. It was abit of a surprise to me. To be fair, I didn't sleep well the night before thanks to the noise of the television (from downstairs! not an excuse though) and I wasn't feeling that well the night before too. I learnt my lesson though, I set two alarms now.

Diamond

"A diamond is just a piece of charcoal that handled stress exceptionally well." ~Unknown

Stress here in scientific terms is pressure and temperature :-)

Medan

Hey I am back after spending 3 weeks home. It was good to visit family and friends and to see how much improvement my hometown has become. There are lots of new shops and entertainment places like karaoke and new shopping mall.

Medan is the fourth most populous city in Indonesia, after Jakarta (the capital city), Surabaya and Bandung. Actually, I have just realised that it is one of the most populated city and one of the large city in Indonesia. :-P. It's a nice place. I haven't appreciated it, not until recently. The city has a mix communities, from Batak people, Javanese and Chinese. Unlike the etnic chinese in other part of Indonesia, we speak Hokkien among us and speak Indonesia language with other etnics. There are still different dialects that are used by different communities in other parts of Indonesia like Sudan, java, etc... which some I don't even know. There are a few tourist places in Medan like Lake Toba and Berastagi.


Indonesia is huge, frankly I haven't travelled much to other part of Indonesia. I haven't even been to the capital city, Jakarta. What a shame! I would want to go in the future. I heard it's very crowded and very busy from my parents and siblings that have been there. But it's a really big city, large shopping places. Also I hope to visit other parts of Indonesia too like Bali, Bandung, etc...

ok.. I don't want to keep going on about my hometown. That's it for now. I want to have a early night :-)

Sushi

Sushi

Hot sunny days!!! these two days are really hot! It's still really sunny now even it's at eight in the evening. Everyone seems to enjoy the weather but it's abit too hot for me X-O, the neighbours are all out in the garden and my landlady she is gardening too while I try to keep myself in the shade :-). I was bored yesterday and decided to make sushi, with a little help from my landlady I made it as you can see from the picture above :-). It looks like this blog soon would become a cooking blog lol!. Between it only costs 3.5 pounds for all of the sushi shown in the picture above :-)

Sushi Rice;

Ingredients;

3 cups of uncooked calrose rice/ japanese sticky rice (I used 1/2 kg of sticky rice)

3 cups of water (10% more of water compared to the amount of rice)

1/2 cup of japanese rice vinegar (I used white vinegar instead :-P)

1/2 cup of sugar

1 teaspoon of salt

Preparation;

1. Wash the rice thoroughly until the water become clear

2. Put 10 % more water compared to the amount of rice

3. Soak it for at least 30 mins

4. Cook it in the pot with a lid or with a rice cooker

5. Mix together the rice vinegar, sugar and salt

6. Cook over a medium heat until sugar has dissolved and allow to cool

7. Put the cooked rice into a large mixing bowl then pour the vinegar sauce over the hot rice and mix

Sushi rolling:

For the filling, u can put anything you like. For me, I used cucumber, carrot, yellow pepper and onion spring and a can of salmon (all cheap stuff :-) )

Preparation;

1. Slice the veges thinly as shown in the picture

2. Place the rolling mat on the top of the chopping board.

3. Cover it with a layer of plastic or wrapping foil to prevent the rice stick onto it.

4. Place seaweed sheet on the mat and put a thin layer of the rice evenly on the top it

5. Start rolling it as shown on the video below.

Vegetable Lasagna

Vegetable lasagna

Ingredients:

•2 Tbsp. olive oil
•1/2 cup chopped onion
•3 cloves garlic, minced
•1/2 cup diced green pepper
•1/2 cup diced red pepper
•1/2 cup diced zucchini (courgette)
•8 oz. sliced mushrooms
•2 26 oz. jars spaghetti sauce or 6 cups homemade spaghetti sauce
•kosher salt and black pepper to taste
•15 oz. part-skim ricotta cheese
•2 large eggs, lightly beaten
•1 cup shredded asiago cheese
•12 oven-ready lasagna noodles, such as Ronzoni or Barilla
•1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
•2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese

Preparation:

1.Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

2.Heat olive oil in a large (12- or 14-inch) skillet over medium heat. Add onions, garlic and peppers. Saute several minutes until vegetables start to soften.

3.Add zucchini and mushrooms. Saute 2-3 more minutes until the vegetables have released most of their water. Stir in spaghetti sauce.

4.Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and let the sauce simmer about 7-10 minutes. Taste and adjust seasonings.

5.In a medium bowl, mix ricotta cheese, eggs and asiago cheese together. Set aside.

6.Spoon about 3/4 cup of the vegetable sauce into the bottom of a 9 x 13 pan.

7.Top with four lasagna noodles, going crosswise. It's okay if they overlap.

8.Top with 1/2 of the ricotta mixture, the Parmesan cheese and 1/3 of the sauce.

9.Top with four more lasagna noodles, the remaining ricotta mixture, 1 cup of the shredded mozzarella cheese and 1/3 of the sauce.

10.Top with the remaining lasagna noodles and remaining spaghetti sauce. Sprinkle the remaining mozzarella over the spaghetti sauce.

11.Cover with aluminum foil, and bake 30 minutes. Remove foil, and bake another 10-20 minutes until golden and bubbly.

12.Let rest 15 minutes before cutting.

I have tried making this lasagna for the second time, it turned out to be okay this time. It was too dry the first time I made it. There was still abit of problem with the second time some of the lasagna sheets were not cooked very well. I think the problem was that I should have layered the sheets, 3/8 cup of vegetable sauce and 2 lasagna sheets and put another 3/8 cups of vegetables and another 2 sheets. Instead of putting 3/4 cups of vegetable sauce straight away and put four lasagna sheets on the top.

Inspiring Quotes!

Guitar Guitar Guitar. Been practising lots... my fingers hurt! but the more I play my guitar the more I luv it :-). Nothing much to update really, I thought it would be good to just write a few inspiring quotes. Motivational Quotes are great, live up your mood and increase your positivity . They have so much wisdom in just a few words.

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is  a miracle."- (Albert Einstein)


"You don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great." - (Les Brown)


"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, you can achieve" - (Napoleon Hill)


"Excellence is not a skill, it is an attitude" - (Raph Marston)

“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.” —Lao-Tze

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.” – (B. Olatunji)

“We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.” – (Robin Sharma)

"The mind is everything, what you think is what you become"- (Buddha)


"We are what we repeatedly do Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit"- (Aristotle)

 "Life is not just about reaching the goals, it's about living it to the fullest" - (unknown)

For more inspiring Quotes, http://celestinechua.com/blog/2009/06/101-most-inspiring-quotes-of-all-time/ :-)

Baking is so fun :-)

My first carrot cake :-)

If you never try, you'll never know

I was free last weekend so I was tempted to try baking a cake. Since I never bake a cake before, I thought baking a cake would be really a challenge for me. But it turned out to be so much fun. It took me 45 mins to prepare and 45 mins to bake. Preparation was getting alot exciting since our house hasn't got a scale, had to use intuitive judgements and manual measurement to measure the ingredients X-D. Fortunately the cake came out to be okay (actually quite nice :-), no brag here as I was told by my landlady and housemate it was yummy!!!).

Here is the recipe;

Ingredients;

175g light muscovado sugar

175ml sunflower oil

3 large eggs , lightly beaten

140g grated carrots (about 3 medium)

100g raisins

grated zest of 1 large orange

175g self-raising flour

1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

1 tsp ground cinnamon

½ tsp grated nutmeg (freshly grated will give you the best flavour)

Methods;
 
1.Preheat the oven to 180C/Gas 4/fan 160C. Oil and line the base and sides of an 18cm square cake tin with baking parchment. The easiest way to do this is to cut two long strips the width of the tin and put each strip crossways, covering the base and sides of the tin, with a double layer in the base.
2.Tip the sugar into a large mixing bowl, pour in the oil and add the eggs. Lightly mix with a wooden spoon. Stir in the grated carrots, raisins and orange rind.

3.Mix the flour, bicarbonate of soda and spices, then sift into the bowl. Lightly mix all the ingredients - when everything is evenly amalgamated stop mixing. The mixture will be fairly soft and almost runny.

4.Pour the mixture into the prepared tin and bake for 40- 45 minutes, until it feels firm and springy when you press it in the centre. Cool in the tin for 5 minutes, then turn it out, peel off the paper and cool on a wire rack. (You can freeze the cake at this point.)

Surely I would bake more often now, I enjoy it lots :-)
 
P.S; I am working on my personal development blog, yeah it's my new blog atm. I have been procrastinating these days. Sigh... need to be more discipline and start writing :-)

Family :-)

Since it's Mother's day in UK! I thought of writing a short post about my family :-) i was just chatting with them this afternoon, surprisingly how open i can be to them now. I used to be really shy to talk about certain stuff to them. But literally i can say anything to them now. I think Asian normally we are more conservative, we treat our parents like our superiors not friends,i mean it is nothing wrong to treat them with respect instead we should treat them with respect. However, we also can treat them as friends, discuss things with them. They normaly give the best advices, eventhough they may not be right all the time.

I love my family with my heart and soul!!! We are just an average, simple and ordinary family, my parents work really hard for their kids and I come from a really big family (KB = keluarga besar not keluarga berencana!). I know how hard they have worked to provide for us, food, shelter, education!!! I and my siblings get along very well too. Just want to say love them all :-). I am trying to give everything to them too, by becoming the best person that i can be (i am working on becoming the best self) :-)

"Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one." (Jane Howard)

second video; Leaving on the jet plane

Heyhey this is my second video, the first video was really silly therefore i dare not publish it here. This video is slighly better i think :-P. The title of the song that i am singing is "Leaving on the jet plane" Beware Noise Pollution :-P. Hope those whose know how to play guitar well could give me some advices to improve my skill lol :-). Btw I don't purporsely want to upload the video on Youtube first but I haven't worked out how to upload the file straight to my blog from my computer. This is kind of double work for me.
I went shopping just now in town, bought quite lots of stuff. Spend and spend money again! not good!!! I think women spend lots of money from new clothes (which i am trying to avoid spending too much on clothes) to Skincare, haircare products (these are inevitable). I don't put on make up so i save on this, cause i don't believe in covering your flaw to look better, it only makes your skin worst i think. I would rather spend more on skincare. The silly thing that, i did today was that when i was trying on hair serum i accidentally sprayed it on my face ouch!!!

Personal Development

Yay...It's friday, it's time to write! First of all, just want to say i have decided not to put pictures on every posts of my blog unless i really need to. I notice i have wasted lots of time searching for pictures on google images and the pictures that i have found actually make my blog look very childish. Apart from that, I have removed my last post for editing. I am abit embarrassed actually when i read back. The story doesn't really flow and it's hard to understand what i wrote. I have been reading a post on this topic and I used quite lots of words from there. It sounds like plagiarism hehe... but not entirely ok! her perception on love is so similar to me, can't help it. Based on the above reasons, i choose not to publish my post until i alter it.

Recently, I have been reading quite lots of personal development blogs. I realise there are hundred or thousands of similar blogs and i came across a few really good one. The writers have inspired me in one way or another.  They got me thinking and open my eyes. Here are the links to the blogs;

http://www.pluginid.com/

http://celestinechua.com/

http://www.stevepavlina.com/

Their blogs may not appeal to certain people but for those who are interested in personal growth certainly find them very useful. They address quite important issues in life, it's interesting because they are telling the true story of their life. How they strive for their success in life which starts from the bottom to the top and I think they are very brave to share every single details of their problems and mishaps to the world and also the ways they used to overcome the problems. These certainly help thousand of the readers who visit their blogs regularly. Between, some of them are earning 4 digit or 5 digit figures from their blogs. I have no idea how it works out but that's the truth. That is the trivial thing, the most crucial one is that those bloggers i mentioned above are really living to the fullest. They live consciously, fully aware of themselves. To sum everything up, they have found their true identity.

I am not saying that i am completely lost, no direction or haven't got a clue at all. Certain things i am quite sure about myself, but still i am not fully understand myself and not fully aware yet. After i graduated and have moved to working life, I have abit of time to retrospect myself and my life. I realise that there are still lots of me need improving, for my personality say i get excited really easily, literally i can't control my excitement. In this case i need to learn to be more composed and calm. Second, i am very indecisive sometimes; i can get influenced by people's opinion just like that. In this case i need to know what i want and stay grounded to myself. It is good to ask for second opinion so that it broaden your mind, but in the end decision has to be made by yourself consciously. So that if anything doesn't go your way, you won't be able to blame others and you have to be fully responsible for that. However if decision is made by our own self normally we won't feel regret no matter what the results turn out to be because we know it is what we have chosen and we have done enough.

I find writing is really a good way to express and understand myself more. I am keen to document my progress on my personal growth and the improvement that i make and the problems that i solve. I know I am not very good in expressing myself verbally, probably i don't really good in talking and also I just recently notice i stumble with different languages. I will definitely elaborate more on these things.
Cao for now :-)

P.S; However, i don't like agree on everything that they have written. Some i do find them abit controversial, mostly they are very useful. I think just learn things that are relevant to you and ignore those that are not.

Btw, i find this video is very inspiring! thought of sharing :-)

Happy Chinese New Year and Valentine's day!

Happy Chinese New Year 2010! Tiger year!

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Happy Valentine's day!

First of all, i want to wish everyone and myself  "A very Happy Chinese New Year, 新年快乐! kiong hee! kiong hee! Gong xi! Gong xi! and Happy Valentine's day! :-)) what a happy day!

What a coincidence that Chinese New Year and Valentine's day fall on the same day!. At first i thought Chinese New Year was on Saturday, not until i chatted with my family and friends that i realised it actually is today :-P. Heard from my parents i still get angpao (red packets/envelopes) from relatives even i am not at my hometown :-). I miss all the happy moments, family get-together, Chinese New Year's biscuits and steamboat (hot pot) dinner on New Year's eve.

As an Indonesian born Chinese, Chinese New year is quite a big day. As a romantic idealist, Valentine's day is quite a big day as well :-). Though not spending this special day with my family and special someone. I pamper myself quite alot, went out with girlfriends yesterday for a girly day out and i cook good food for myself today, my favourite soup and do the things that i enjoy :-). It's still indeed a happy day! :-)

The inspiring movie! ShawShank Redemption

"Fear can hold you prisoner, but hope can set you free" (shawshank redemption's quote)

ShawShank Redemption! one of my all time favourite movie! I just watched it recently a month ago, precisely on Christmas day at a friend's house. I think this is a very inspiring and meaningful movie, that is why i want to blog about it :-)

This movie is alot like "Prison Break", Shawshank is like the short version of Prison Break but less dramatic and excitement of breaking out from prison instead it focuses more on the value of life.I like Prison Break as well especially the first season (i only watched season 1 and 2, stopped watching because it was a sad ending)

The summary of the movie;

The movie is about Andy, a young and successful banker whose life changes drastically after he is convicted and sentenced to life for murder at Shawshank prison. There are strong circumstances evidences, but he is actually innocent. He is very isolated and lonely at first but then he realises there is something deep inside him that can't be touched and  that is "HOPE". There is still a hope for him, even he is in the most tragic situation in his life, there is still a hope for him to be free even it seems really small. From that on, he lives his life on this hope. He starts to make friend with fellow inmate called Red and starts to gain trust from the warden and the captain of the guards. he even makes the prison a better place for the rest of the inmates by expanding the library, bringing in more books and acquired donation to revamp the library. Red indirectly has helped Andy to escape from the prison, he has connections on the outside who can acquire contraband for the inmates. He smuggles in a small rock hammer that Andy uses it to dig a tunnel through his cell's wall over the last two decades that allowed him to escape Shawshank. Before he escapes, Andy leaves a note for Red to come to look for him when he finally achieves his parole. He eventually comes across Andy on the coast, and they happily reunite. Friendship's forever!!! How sweet!!! love the happy ending! :-) x

This story is really touching! This tells us EVERYTHING is POSSIBLE! there is a HOPE for everyone in every situation in life! as long as we believe in them and work on our dreams! He can even shine in the prison! Andy epitomizes why it is crucial to have dreams. His spirit and determination, leads us into a world full of imagination, filled with courage and desire. This movie inspired me to change my blog title to these three magical words "Hope - Courage - Determination" :-) x

Good friends in my room

Here i just want to share my comfy room. Since i spend alot of my time in my room, resting, decision-making, relaxing, etc. I always like to make sure my room is in a good condition, what i mean here is clean and tidy :-). i still have my clothes scatteres around my chair but that's it.

When i was still in University, my room used to be in a very messy and disorganised state. Clothes were all over the place, papers and books scattered all around the floor. I never let anyone go into my room. I would only clean and tidy up few times a year, once before Chinese New Year! haha...
However when i started to work, i moved to a small town and my room is not as big as it used to be. It';s actually really small, so i can't afford to let my stuff scattered around on the floor or else i have to space to walk. This actually help me to cultivate a good habit to keep my room tidy and clean. I vaccumm my room once a week, i don't have to really tidy it up cause i don't simply misplace my stuff anymore, i will put it back to its place once when i don't use it.

Once its ur habit, it's always be there. Ironically, i can't stand cluttered room anymore. It would wind me up, i always make sure it is in a good state all the time. Secretly, now i feel my room has inspired me, i love being in my room, spending my own sweet time :-) i don't feel embarrased to let people into my room anymore, in fact my housemate and landlady always come into my room to chat :-). Conclusion, you can change ur habit, cultivate a good habit and make it ur real habit! :-)


Good friends in my room!

My Guitar and Teddy Bear

Books

Old Laptop :-)

Other things in my room are radio and magazines (New Scientist and Psychology and etc) and TV. I listen to the radio every morning before going to work and occasionally at night. I am not a tv person, i don't watch tv that much anymore except for the X factor :-) but i watch movie online though and magazines i just read them occasionally.

If you want to make a CHANGE, start it off with your bedroom!

New Year! New Me! New purporses! :-)

Another fresh New year is here,

Another year to live!

To banish worry, doubt and fear,

To love, and laugh, and give!

This bright New Year is given me,

To live each day with zest,

To daily grow and try to be,

My highest an my best!

I have the opporunity

Once more to right some wrongs,

To pray for peace, to plant a tree,

And sings more joyful songs.

(William Artur Ward)

"We will open the book, its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The books is called opportunity and its first chapter is New year's day" (Edith Lovejoy Pierce)

Yay! my first post of 2010! May this year be a wonderful year to everyone, blooming in Health, Happiness and Success!.

To begin with, i am going to mention briefly on my new year resolutions! this year i am going to work on three major aspects of my life; my job, personal growth, and relationship. Thus, no doubt! this year i will blog more on those stuff, especially on the personal development. I am determined to be a good blogger this year to update regulary and useful stuffs which are based on my experiences and the books that i read. Hope to increase the traffic to my blog this year! :-)

First of all, i just want to talk succinctly about my job. I am currently working as a Chemical Engineer for a small Energy based company. i involve in power generation side of things so what i am doing at the moment is closely related to current hot issue "Climate Change". The challenge here is how to keep the lights on whilst keep the carbon footprints low or diminish it completely. Sounds intriguing!! yeah, this job is interesting and i enjoy what i am doing! :-). I really want to learn more and gain more knowledges on my job!

Personal develpoment is one of the main key that i want to dive into this year. I am very interested in Personal growth since last year, after i read the blog by Celestine Chua. I did mention on my previous posts, i want to work on my personality. There are a few things, i really want to improve :-), i hope i can share my experiences with others and wish to help others that have the same problems. Let's work together to be the best self and to live the best life! :-)

Thirdly, relationship, mainly i want to broaden my network of friends. Hope to meet more people this year and socialise more as i live in a small town, I have to go out more often to meet people! and i also want to make more friends online which have the same interest in personal development through blogs!

And if i am lucky i may meet my knight in shining armour this year ! lols :-)

Severus Snape

I have completed all Harry Potter books! Cool!!! i can't believe that i say this " I am a fan of Severus Snape"

He is a brave man! btw, i like the name of Harry's youngest son "Albus Severus"! yeahh :-)

I am playing my guitar now, practising some christmas songs!!! good way to unwind before bed :-)

Ahhhhh this is how i spend my weekend! browsing, reading and writing!!! i need to go out, and socialise, make new friends!!! Get a life!!!