The Guide to Daily Living

I was attending the Rotary Club installation dinner last week. They distributed the Rotary Club newsletter, introducing the president, vice president, and other fellow Rotarians. Also, it summarizes the activities that the club has been doing, then there is this article titled as "The Guide to Daily Living".

It says "The 'Guide' serves to remind Rotarians of their priorities when doing 'Service Above Self' and when executing their obligations applying the object of Rotary."

However, I find that asking these questions to ourself will also help us to realize or it is simply reminding some important things in Life that we have overlooked.

Below is the higlight of the article. Stop and Think!

1. Have I spent some time in self-examinations?

This prompts us to evaluate ourselves and our ability to serve.

2. Have I spent quality time with my family?

This reiterates our commitment to our family - often neglected in the hustle and bustle of modern life, in same cases, we just take things for granted.

3. Have I given my best to my work?

This is reminder of the need to commit ourselves to work excellence and the practice of high ethical standard.

4. Have I given some time to someone near and far?

This prods us to remember the many less fortunate among us, at home and abroad, who need a helping hand - so taht we would "Lend A Hand". Such acts always lead to promotion of goodwill, understanding, and peace.

Have I?

Excuse me!

Out of main 3 things that bothering me now, there is one that I can easily solve. The damn Landlady who is NUTS. She is simply just has problem. She needs not a neurologist for her 'monthly migraine', she needs not a gastro specialist for her 'moody gastric', she simply just needs a Psychiatrist for her sickness.

If I were all alone by myself, I certainly have called the agent to help me find a new room. However, I am now with a roommate, so will give another month, and start searching now.

I do not feel bad for cursing her! She is the second person that I am so mad at. Maybe the first one that I will not forgive for her rudeness for people who cares for her (her current husband), and will always feel disgusted due to her cowardness in facing people (which I believe it's not only towards me).

I need to remember this so that in the future, when I meet some difficult to handle people, I know that they are not as bad as this one. (finger crossed) She laid out a 'rule' which I tried very hard to follow. Damn her! I am so stupid to let this kind of person setting 'rule' in my life.

She said (via her husband, she is a bitch coward that has never dare to talk to me on her own), she gives me Friday and Saturday to do my laundry. I do realize that it will be a bit hard to follow, but to avoid more conflict, or should I say to be a bit tolerate to the psycho, I just say yes!

As agreed, no matter, how late it is, the first thing I do when I reach home on Friday night is to wash my cloth! I normally bath, and sit around waiting for my laundry! This Friday, she had her cloth hung around during my 'allocated laundry day!' So, I can only did my laundry this afternoon.

She woke up this evening, finding my laundry, she called her husband, which I found out because, as always, her husband will call us (my roommate for today) afterwards, this time as the topic goes, asking about the laundry.

First of all, she gave the two days to me, and now she is complaining about it, while in the first place she is the one srcewed up the schedule.

I will not try so hard to tweak this shit so that the story will have a moral, a positive lesson to learn from it. She is NOT worth the effort! No matter how I see her, she is a coward, wearing an occasionally 'forced smiling mask', with no appreciation for others.

The only thing that I am thankful for is that I do not have to live with this kind of people for the rest of my life. I still hope that one day she will have the time to sit and think why her life is so screwed up, why she can't stay in the job for more than 2 months, why her son does not bother to talk to her, and swear in front her. She has so much bad things happen in her life, and she still complains that it's others' fault.

One thing I know for sure, when we are not getting along with a person, maybe it is simply just not the perfect match, but if we are not getting along with a lot of people, should start thinking that there might be something wrong with us!

Post with hatred! Excuse me!

Panic

A week left, half the race to go.

Random thoughts

I feel bad about myself who complains a lot lately, because outsiders have been affecting my life, my mood so much! I hate it! I hate people who complain, I hate myself even more when I complain.

I talked to a friend, she had been a very good listener. Sometimes, I need just a pair of ears to listen , really listen, and not commentting. Thank her for doing so, when I much need it.

Done a bit of thinking about responsibility, about giving our best and about the fact that we cannot change people.

Responsibility & Giving our Best

Each individual has responsibilities. The only that we can do about these responsibilities is to give in our best in fullfilling them. If each individual can just do what they are supposed to do, most likely 'helping hand' is not so much needed. I am not saying that we can now live without others, which we certainly CAN'T. Giving example; saying that if nobody is littering, everybody is doing their responsibility in keeping the environment clean, cleaner won't be out of job, but they certainly will have less unpleasant things to do, won't they?

If after giving your best you are still not achieveing the expected? It means your best is just isn't good enough! Feel good about the process that you have tried hard, next is to try harder.

Changing People

I should realize and should not be too upset that I cannot change the habit of others. The fact is nobody can. Good and Bad are relative. Nobody is perfect, and thus, some of us try to work towards perfection which we realize we can't, but still this is the process of giving our best. This is about the principle which some people live in, including me. This principle might not be 100% right for some people who do not believe so! Anyway, Right and Wrong are relative too.

The thoughts are so random, that I do not know how I should conclude them.

1GOAL: Education For All

Received a message from Singtel. They are promoting the "1Goal: Education for all" campaign.

The purpose of this campaign is to raise as many voices as possible, all over the world, ro rally our support and call on world leaders to make education a reality for the 72 million out-of-school boys and girls by 2015.

See what Queen Rania of Jordan (Co-Founder and Global Co-Chair of 1GOAL campaign) said:

"This is our chance to show not just out-of-school children, but our own children, that when we make a promise, we keep it. With your help, we could have billions of fans cheering not just for their teams, but for one team: 1GOAL. This is our moment to shine; we can bring millions of children in from the shadows of ignorance, and light up their lives with the legacy of education."

I thought it's cool!

I don't watch football. The game is too slow, I think. For you guys who watch and have a team who you support, or a player who you admire, joining this campaign might help you to connect to your star. *Persuading* :P

Even myself, who are no fan of Football, for this year I join Rio Ferdinand and Michael Carrick from Manchester United, in supporting this campaign. 1GOAL will be my 'favourite' goal of the year. =D

Find out more about this campaign from:

1GOAL: Education for all official website

Join their Facebook page

Join Them by clicking on the link below:

1GOAL official website
1GOAL by Singtel

To football fan, enjoy the rest of 2010 FIFA World Cup season =D

Happy Daddy's Day!

To my not-so-perfect, yet great Dad ever: Happy Father's Day! Love You~

Sent a card home, but I think it still stuck somewhere in the post office. Bought that card and it describes almost everything that I can tell about my dad.

On the card, there is this picture of a father, sitting in his car, and around that picture, there are 10p.m., 11p.m., 12 p.m., then "you are always there for me". Yup, He always be there for me. =")


People hate waiting, at least I do, but my dad always wait for me, when I am on my way home. When I studied in Malaysia, most of the time I took ferry home, the timing was always off, so I can only called home when the ferry was about to depart. Always, it arrived late at the destination, or the luggage officer gave me trouble. After I passed the busy and loud crowd, I will start to search for him, guess what? He was there already!

There was this one time, it was drizzling and it took so long before the custom officer gave my passport back (Yup, in the ferry, the officer holds on to your passport, then return a stampped passport to you when you arrive). I just stepped out the ferry, I could already see him, with his hair wet, smiling to me. I could still remember, how he must saw the ferry arrived and starting searching for me. under the rain.

Now, I am in Singapore, sometime, he can't pick me up in the airport, so my sister or my aunty will. Then, I normally take train home. Early this year, I was back home for Chinese New Year, my flight arrived around 9p.m., so I take 10 p.m. train. When I reached my hometown, it's already 2a.m., again, he is there waiting.

This kind of feeling, the feeling that there always someone be there for you, I will never trade it for anything else.

Love you dad~


To all daddy in the world, Happy Daddy's Day!

Fair?!

He is fifteen, but he looks like 9 years old.

He speaks like a normal kid, but you can tell that he is a kid with down syndorme.

He is an unfortunate kid in some ways, but he is fortunate for being love.

I felt touched, I felt he deserves something better, most of all, I am happy for him.

In my neighbourhood, I saw a kid grows up with a down syndrome. They all look the same. This kid might be a bit 'naughty', but now, when I am home, I saw him 'working', earning his own money, in a small stall in the wet market.

I thought that is Great! With all the limitations, he is at least employed and his employer loves him because he is hardworking. Think about it, if I were to compare with people I know, where they live in abundance, depending on parents mostly, make them feel there is no urgency to do their best (or even complain about the small LITTLE 'crappy' things in their life) I feel disgusted.

I thought life, at the end, is always fair! Just try to look everything from different angle. Sometimes, might be a bit hard, but it's worth the try, at least for me. Like how we always use 'but' after a positive statement, we can do the same whenever we start with a negative statement. The first is about complaining, the latter is about being more open-hearted for any differences in life (It's not unfair, It's just different).

P.S. I know most people do not believe that there is what so called as "Fair". Proven! I had difficulty in searching for a picture for this post. Gosh~

...

I have finally used up all the training session with my personal trainer. During the 6 sessions with him, I found out good things about having a personal trainer:

1. I make the appointment with him, I ought to come. No skipping class.

2. When things are harder for me to lift, he will be there helping. Imagine if I were alone, i will just move on to the next 'easier' machine. =P

3. Of course, he is there to show you the proper way to use the machines. I have learnt and from now on, I will be on my own.

Anyway, will try to keep the regular 3 days working out in the gym. Always feel happy whenever I walk out the gym, it's just a bit difficult to get myself in there, sometimes. =P

New update is that I have a roommate now. My friend is looking for a job, so she is staying with me now. I have been living alone by myself for 8 months. I have no issue with sharing a room with other, as I always did for at least the last 20 years, with my sister, with my cousin, and with my friends. However, I must admit that I prefer to have the room all by myself. I can do whatever I want: making a phone call freely, sleep with light off, cry when I feel to and of course a quite space that anybody would need from time to time, whether you realize it or not!

Sound selfish, huh? That's the truth, so forgive me~

Lately, I hate myself for being too 'cruel' to others (some say), and also too considerate about others which at the end I found out that I have been inconsiderate to myself.

Anyway, for those who are still looking for a job (in Singapore or Indonesia) all the best! Please put in your best effort!

Exhaustedly, love you all~

For the Run!

I am starting my practice for the race against cancer last night, officially =P

After 2 rounds and climbed up 7 floors of staircase, I thought I was dying... Yeah.. that's serious. Lucky made home in time, lied down and cathcing my breath and here I am, still alive.

Today, had my personal training session at the gym for an hour, and run for 13 minutes (reached only 1.3km of distance), and realize that I have a long way to go for the 5km run that is coming in less than a month~

For some people 5km is a short distance, for me it's like moving a mountain. Can do, it's just need more effort!

Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!

Lately, I feel dizzy all the time, when I turn my head too fast, when I shake my head, when I see my computer all day long, when I look down too long, sometimes, even when I blink my eyes.

Need more time to do whatever I need to do and of course so that I can rest more~

Please Ignore!

Please Ignore! Testing out Feedburner!

Exhausted

Lately, I have exhausted myself keeping an active lifestyle.

How is my feeling about this?

... both Good and Tired!


Lack of Sleep! Lack of Rest! Ah~


Now, I just wish for a day when I can sleep without setting my alarm on, accompany by a heavy rain outside my window. That will be really good~~~

Race against Cancer

Live healthy and Do that small good thing for those who need it. Here I am, signing up for the 'Race Against Cancer' by Singtel and Singapore Cancer Association.

Previously, thinking to participate with colleagues in Shape Run, but... too bad we are late for the registration.

When I filled in the registration form for the run, there are a column asking the reason for the participants in joining this event. I leave mine blank, but if I were to fill it in:

1. I just feel that I need to challenge myself. Create my own little achievement and feeling good about it. Since, I decide to do this (even I am not physically prepared), so... I thought I just need to commit and Just Do It. =D

2. The fee is donated to the Singapore Cancer Society. I think it's a good way in helping others and MYSELF!

Not that I like this fact, but I realize that I have a limit in the things that I can do. For now, I will just start from a very small step, but at least... I am glad that I am moving forward!