Passions create Actions!

This year, I decided to form a team, consist of 3-5 committed person, to take charge of the school talk community service. For me this is a "reborn" project because I had stop it since 2007. Initially, I meet up with a few students of mine to make them understand the program so that they are committed to work with me for our so-called "mission" - to educate the right learning attitude for primary and secondary students, sharing the success studying method of "A" students, the key preparations before examinations, VAK memory methods, to create good life values and building good "kum cheng" with friends, classmates, teachers and parents.

To appreciate this team's effort, I choose to be their personal mentor, to guide them in their career development as long as they are still within the team. It will be a rotating basis whereby after every meeting, I shall meet one of them with a 121 session for around 20 minutes.

Recent 121 session, I realised many undergraduates, especially those that about to graduate, are at the crossroad, not sure about what they want to do, what kind of job to apply, how should they plan ahead .....[ A long list of doutbts ...:-) ]. My dearest students, here I would like to quote one powerful quote taken from Ralph Waldo Emerson:

"What lies behind us, and what lies before us,

Are tiny matters compared to what lies within us"

You have your own answers in you! Here is the assignment for you:

1. Find a quiet place

2. Give some thoughts to your roots on what is important to you, why you want to pursue it?

3. Start thinking for yourself - as no one else but you will come out with the right answers

4. Write down in a piece of paper all the possible reasons for you to pursue what you want

5. Feel passionate about it? If yes, you are on the right track!

Very often, many of us have the ability to do, to achieve and to perform to the standards that we want, it is only the "fear" in us that had stop us in moving forward. According to my mentor, Dr Lawrence Walter Ng:

F - False

E - Evidents

A - Appearing

R - Real

Sounds interesting ? According to a survey done, 80-90% of what you fear will happen, never really come into reality.

Thus, fear is the divider between

1. Victor and Victim

2. Winner and loser

3. Success and Failure

4. Passionate people and the Mediocre

5. You and the rest of the world.....

You decide, it is your choice!

Save the Earth

1st January 2010, it was a fresh new year for me. I spend this day reading a book at home. Feeling so energized and abundanced. It set my mindset right and determined to pursue my greater goal this year.

As in my long term plan, every beginning of the year I decided to reduce one "meat" so that ultimately I will be a full vegetarian. Many started to ask me " Is it because of religion? or because of any other reasons?". For me, I think this is one way of healthier living, better for my health. At the same time, not feeling guilty of seeing animals being killed in a cruel way (compassion). I heard a friend told me this once " If this is a world of survival of the fittest, the higher level of creature can killed and eat the lower level of creature, then is it possible one day those more intelligent can kill those which are not that brilliant?" I think it is a little bit extreme to say so. Anyway, I think everyone has a choice in their lives, deciding what is the best for them. At the end, we are the one have to accept the consequences of our own behavior, eg: over eating, over indulgence, over sleeping ....:)

On that Friday, in SinChew Plus, there are full of articles talking about how we can help the earth by becoming a vegetarian. Some of the facts are:

1. Over 70% of the forest are cleared for the purpose for breeding animals for human consumption

2. One kg of beef produced will produced 36.4kg of carbon dioxide (the energy used equivalent to having an 100watt bulb on for 20 days)

3. Two-third of American died are due to food habits whereby vegetarian hardly having cancerous sickness.

4. The number of animal being killed each year are 420 billions.

5. Half of the water (50%) used in American are for the animals.

6. 90% of the cereals in America are used for breeding animals whereby 40,000 of children are death due to starving in 3rd world country. Yet, every year USD1.5 billions is spent for slimming or weight lost programs.

7. Becoming vegetarian can reduced the number of animal being killed (43 pigs, 1107 chickens, 11 cows, 3 lambs, 861 fishes, 1000+ prawns)

Well, you might feel hesitate or at a cross-road now not knowing what can you do to help the earth, starting with oneself. Maybe you could start taking action as below (choose any which is suitable for you):

1. Start reducing one "meat" per year as what I did since 3 years ago.

2. Meat free one day in a week (eg: every Friday)

3. Reduced the amount of taking meat compare to vegetables

4. Set every quarter for 1 week "vege week"

5. Every month select 4 days for vege day.

I am glad to know that one of my friend after reading the article from SinChew Plus had decided to reduced one meat this year, including all his family members. Bravo!