A Mind of My Own

The trailer is from When in Rome. After watching it, it sounds ridiculous for 5 men to be chasing after one woman. It seems that the fountain does contain magic for people to fall in love just by picking up coins from it. Before I let my mind wander further into somewhere, I think the one for Beth would be the reporter, Nick. There are 3 reasons.

1. Nick may be clumsy but there’s a charm in it.
2. His love may be real and true to Beth.
3. He isn’t under a spell.

As for me, the 3 things I want to find in a partner:

1. Be real and true to me.
2. Let me be myself so that I am letting him see the real me.
3. Be confident in himself.

Those are simple attributes.

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Robert Kyosaki is a businessman to learn from. After publishing his famous Rich Dad Poor Dad, he went on to publish other books and eventually came out with Cash Flow board game that depicts real life situations. The famous Rat Race is a cycle that everyone who has gone through and currently going through will know. The line between work and home are sometimes blurred when one is to be on 24-hour standby. I have friends who are stuck in the rut, as they call it.

The money is often used for expenses that we dare not calculate because if we do, we might just lose hope that there is life besides working hard for survival. I met up with a friend recently who is doing a lot of things and in his words, survival. After talking to so many people about how life is going, there is something in common that we have. We just want to be able to go to places without worrying about the money later.

We work only because we want the best in life for ourselves or family. It’s pure and simple. While some may have used the other methods of getting a lot of money, the majority is still copying from the people who want to be successful yet not there. Someone asked why we used to copy from homework from those As students when we were studying but not copy from those who are successful in life.

In my life at work, I have gone through situations that anyone who is working will encounter. That’s when I know that life in the corporate world isn’t permanent despite what the job states. We may be skeptical of certain things. However, in order to make the right decisions, we often have to analyse and find out what is being presented. Even if the opportunity is missed, someone else will take it up.

A favourite story that I found is shown below.

What God gives us may not be glamourous but if it can get me out of the situation and let me find myself in a place without limits, I will do it.

If anything that will capture the headlines, it’s the sex lives of performing artistes. Either it’s Edison Chen or Jack Neo. Else, Marcus Chen’s (陈健并), the Chinese characters may be wrong, divorce. Apparently, artistes have to play a role in telling everyone why they marry or divorce or have an affair. Or multiple partners and maybe the fetish of filming everything being done.

Let’s not forget that Gary guy who blogs or rather shows off his abs using homemade videos to the rest of the world and his females who were bedded by him, including his cousin. And then, there is this guy who decides that it’s a jolly good time to spread highly false news about someone’s health using a blog.

I thought Singapore is a rather conservative country. Anything about sex is rather hush hush. Perhaps time has changed to the point whereby if the question of sexual orientation isn’t on ourselves, the press will have a really good field day just questioning the same questions to the same people.

I still remember the tired headlines of NKF and its gold tap. There’s also this news about Ren Ci’s scandal of abused funds. Meanwhile, I wonder if the rest of the world is laughing their heads off.

I’ve been watching Cruel Temptation/Temptation of Wife/Wife’s Temptation (아내의 유혹 or 妻子的诱惑) in DVD format. After knowing that there is a total of 129 episodes, I just couldn’t stand it any more and simply watched the last disc. I still managed to catch what had transpired before. With flashbacks, no worries.

It’s an engaging Korean drama with lots of cat fights, sharp remarks, crying, revenge plotting, money and back stabbing. Seriously, some of the scenes made me cringe as it’s absurd that their eye vision can be so narrow! How can they not see their enemy standing next to the pillar? How can a mother who was already told not to do something, still go ahead and do something only to be overheard by some nosy person?

It is also strange to find that it’s so easy to steal someone’s signature seal just for confirming legal documents without the person’s permission. It’s also too coincidental to have all the characters related to each other in some strange way. The obsession of having a complete family by Ae Ri is also scary with her personal tactics.

Seriously, I can’t believe that this guy, Gyo Bin can be so callous. Perhaps, there are such guys around and I do pity the women who fall prey to such worms. The one thing I like about this drama is the earrings though. So many different earrings! Even if they are costume jewellery, I would like to have a few for everyday use.

Without limits, I can just buy anything and do anything at the drop of a hat. I don’t have to inform any boss why I am taking leave and whether the tasks can be completed before I am on long leave. I always believe that no matter what, anything related to work can’t be finished even if I do the urgent stuff before I am on leave.

When I return from any number of days from leave, the tasks are always there. Without limits, I can simply buy way too much clothes for me to fill up my tiny wardrobe, perhaps upgrade my wardrobe to a walk-in so that I can put all my clothes there.

Without limits, I can buy all the shoes I like, take holidays anywhere without worrying about how much there is left in my bank account, throw a party at any place I fancy, buy way too much stuff on impulse just because I like them. Without limits, I’m wild on purchases. Not healthy but I feel happier spending money then trying to earn them.

Earning money has always been and will be a tough job because facing humans is a problem by itself since dealing with people isn’t my forte. I’m improving and after mixing around with other people, I’ve come to a conclusion. Humans love to live without limits. With limits, they lament about the pay, the boss, the weather, the leaves they have to take even though they have no money to travel overseas, the noisy kids, the obnoxious people hugging the poles in trains, the naked people running about in some parts of Singapore, the ridiculous complains about the same things over and over again at Stomp, and so on and so forth.

Without limits, I may not have discovered that I have been stopping myself from certain things. I have realised that limits on certain things help me grow in certain ways that I have never thought possible. Still, I like to buy without worrying about money. That’s the one limit that I will be rid of.

I love reading. Reading lets me escape from the world and fantacise in the world of Alice in Wonderland (the movie is coming), Xanth creatures and other beautitul characters with wonderful homes. For the past few months, I have been reading other books. Books that have helped me get better focus in life.

Dale Carnegie was a visionary; he knew that everyone would need help in How to Win Friends and Influence People. Long title but it impacted everyone who needed some help in the friendship area. The book isn’t just about influencing people. It’s about building good solid, sincere relationships instead of making use of people to help anyone gain in a one way traffic. Business don’t make money just on a one time sale. Such a business will go broke sooner than you can say “Donald Trump!”

Friends are treasures and real friends don’t cheat friends. Real friends help one another without thinking about whether the returns for the help is equal in value. If a friendship is based on equal values, how can it last long? It won’t even last more than a year.

As I was saying, books are my love and I have this growing stack of books that are for keeps. I also have another stack of books to be given away or sold. Go see if they might be useful for you since I won’t be reading them again as I feel that they are more useful to others.

It’s September and time does fly when you don’t notice it at all. Ever notice that between the age of 0 to 20 years, time seems to go so slowly as if it’s crawling?

From 20 to 40 years, the years just seem to disappear into a bottomless pit. Needless to say, from the 40th year of your life, time feels like the Road Runner zooming past with just its trail of wind on your face.

I have been hit with a few obstacles and overcame some of them. While some left me with a bitter taste, I have been learning to let go of them as they are the real stumbling blocks that won’t let me move forward if I were to keep them in my heart.

The year is coming to a close and it had been a great year since I made some changes in my life. My dreams are coming true and I will be able to fulfill my life long dream soon. All I have to do is to move forward, adapt and hold on to my dreams tightly.

DD coming into my life has been a wonderful change since it feels pretty awesome to have someone hugging you tightly for a reason called “Just because”.

I have made new friends and enjoying myself each day with hopes and achieving some improvements to myself daily. The years ahead will be even more wonderful.

Having seen the preview of Up by Pixar, DD and I were anticipating for it since the GPS dropped out of the sky by Russell. However, I didn’t expect the unbelievably cute clouds making babies of both animals and humans to be carried out by their storks to the respective homes. It was called Partly Cloudy as a short film just before Up was to be shown.

I love the poor cloud who was tasked with making the other kinds of animals from shark to porcupines to rams. He was really happy with his creations but when his stork arrived, the poor stork was abused by the babies’ natural instincts. Despite the abuse, the stork still loved his cloud and it showcased the strong friendship bonds between the two of them.

Up is about this old man who finally decided to take an adventure in his house literally. I just want to put a disclaimer, helium filled balloons can’t really carry a house no matter how many of them are tied to the chimney. What really touched was the meaning behind this whole adventure. We should grab hold of every chance that we have in life as we may not get a second chance again.

This movie may make the adults who understand the meaning behind the scenes cry while making the kids confused as to why their parents were wailing their hearts out. After watching this movie, I demand that someone create a real collar that allows the dogs to be able to talk.

I haven’t been feeling good lately and let one person to spoil my day. Just one lousy attitude from this stranger and I have been feeling on a hormonal ride. Any little thing that usually irritates me for a short while will be dwelled upon even when it’s rotten.

For this guy who started it in the first place, he’s some dude representing Standard Chartered bank, do have some common sense, man. You spoke loudly from about 3 metres away from the booth as if you would have melted under the sheltered bus interchange. The hand gesture was like a command to me to walk towards you instead of you walking towards me. Asking for my nationality from 3 metres away was totally telling me that I was invading your personal space.

So far, the personal space for strangers in Singapore is about 1 metres away. You had the nerve to gesture to me while asking the nationality question. Have you forgotten that you are representing a company? Dude! It’s like wearing the army uniform and going into the casino for a gambling spree!

If you respect your army, then do show some respect for the company that you are representing. Even if it’s just work, remember that attitude counts before skills! It’s common sense!

There goes my resolution to input positive stuff.

There are times when I am faced with some situations and I ask myself why am I faced with such situations. That’s when I try to think of my past actions. It’s called The Secret. Having read this book; a gift from my mentor, I realised that where I am now is a result of my past actions and thoughts. All I have done have led me to where I am today.

What I’m going to be will be a result of my current actions and thoughts. I have always treated others in an open way. I say what I want to say without considering their feelings and whether they will accept the remarks. It’s called an honest-in-your-face remark. Not many are able to accept my communication style and they have been avoiding me using all sorts of excuses.

It reminds me of the famous quote in Tom Cruise’s movie; A Few Good Men, “You can’t handle the truth!”. It’s one of my favourite quote because over the years, I realise that people avoid a lot of unknowns and “scary” situations because they are afraid of the truth. The truth about themselves.

Hence, I resorted to blogging the truth here. I guess this is an outlet for me to just tell the truth without hurting their ego. Our egoes are fragile ornaments that we safe-guard as much as possible. I forget that everyone has an ego and often tell honest remarks or opinions that hurt them.

I won’t apologise for any of the remarks I have made because they are what I think. I am entitled to my opinions and if you have asked for them, think about what you have asked instead of assuming I am rude. I believe in telling the truth since I sleep better at night.

Can you handle the truth?