Are You Willing to Give Up High-Paying Job and Follow your Passion?

Last couple of days, after my friend told me about he had accepted a low paying job because the job scope is what he is really interested in. His salary is suddenly reduced at least 33% due to this decision. Surprisingly, without any hesitating, I spontaneously fully support his decision. After re-thinking about this 'brave' decision his made, I found out that I have changed quite significantly in terms of my mind set. This is because if the same situation occurred in the last 5 years, I believe that I was going to 'consult' he to re-think the decision. Thus, I decide to record this case in my blog to remind myself that I am not a slave to money.

The Endless Cycle of Birth, Rebirt and Redeath of Buddhist: Insight

Samsara (also known as cycle of existence or wheel of suffering) is the endless cycle of birth, rebirth and redeath, according to Buddhist. As an ordinary human being, I cannot justify it via scientific experiment or observation. However, I do find an interest similar phenomenon in our daily life. In this post, I draft and share my idea as a record for future thinking.

 

Instead of the so-called six realms of existence and a relatively long period in each realm of existence, I believe that the six realms of existence occur in our life, daily.

God Realm (Blissful State)

Two Effective Ways to be Famous in the Short Term

One of the most effective ways to be famous in a very short period of time is to say something or do something that many people curious about but only few people dare to say or do so.

1. Critically Comment Celebrities
For example, you can simply critically comment some celebrities so that their "fans" or "opponents" will be attracted by your comments. What a brilliant idea to leverage celebrities' influence. Yes, celebrities may tend to ignore you in the short term. However, celebrities and people are not silly in the long term. If you are really talented, then, maybe, people may still will to buy "Nasi Lemak" from you. But, if you keep doing the same trick without "innovative" and "creative", eventually, you will be hit by "Badminton Racket".

Charlie Chaplin: The Great Dictator speech - in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

An inspiring speech that should be shared with everyone in this world.

Script (Start from 1.02)
"I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another.

Insight: Is Fast always better than Slow in investment?

"... teaching a fish to walk; a bird to swim; a dog to fly...."

Maybe Fast is commonly recognized better than Slow. But, is the reality the same? I don't know. Maybe it only got suitable or not. If you want to drive  F1 race car, please keep fast. But if you want to walking, please walk carefully. Both of them have their own  pros and cons.

Driving F1 race car

Advantage:

-You can reach your desire destination faster and even reach some places who walks never reach.

Potential risk:

-You may not able to full control the car movement if the speed is over of control.
-You cannot enjoy the atmosphere along the journey because you need to focus your drive in such fast movement.

8 Advices from a Respected and Experienced Businessman about Life and Business

Yesterday is the 15th day of lunar new year 2012. I was lucky to meet my girlfriend's friend's father in the celebration party last night. I believe it is the so-called 'luck' or 'destiny' to have a chance to learn lots priceless lessons and advices from an experienced businessman about his life and business.
Here I summarise the top 8 advices from the respected and experienced businessman about life and business.

1. Success people must 'drink'.
Personally, I think that 'drinking' is a way to respect the one who treats you, especially when your customers treat you. There are lots of arts in 'drinking'.

Making mistake is not a shame, but refusing to acknowledge and correct it

8 Things I Have Learnt and Experienced from a Virtual Game (Dragons of Atlantis) : Appreciation Create Fulfillment and Happiness Life

Yesterday, I suddenly realize and understand the reason why appreciation make our life more pleasant and contentment after playing a virtual game (Dragons of Atlantis) in Google Plus for around two weeks.

My journey of Dragons of Atlantis is stated as follows:
“Initially, I was given 7 days protection to build my “virtual empire”. So, I was very excited to make my “empire” stronger before the end of the protection. After having a small group of army, I tried to attack other players to obtain more resources to enhance my “empire”. Everything was nice since no

Life Insight: Appreciate Your Time with Your Kids

Life is strange.

When children are still young and want to stick with their parents;

Parents are busy to earn money.

When parents want to accompany with children;

Children are already used to the life without parents;

So they are normally closed to their peers instead of their parents.

Ask yourself:
Are your children really need a iPhone or luxury car or house to have a better life?

Need or want?

Understand them, distinguish them, your life would be different.

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Written by: Xaivier Chia

Experience Sharing: Pen-Friend

Ten years old, the use of Internet was not so general. Besides the so-called ICQ, knowing new friends via mail was still very popural. It is very hard to imagine Facebook, MySpace, Friendster etc. in the time. In this post, I am going to share with you about the so-called Pen-friend, which was a popular word in last decade.
Having few pen-friends was exciting. Your life will full of expectation, such as when the mail will be received and replied. You need to have enough patience and belief to maintain this kind of friendship. Guess what, I have zero pen-friend now. In fact, just like any other relationship, it requires mutual patience and belief. One hand cannot clap.

Experience Sharing: Ones Determination is Stronger than the Help from Other

When I was in secondary school, I was very bad. To me, teachers were stupid because they always said something I did not know in the class. As a result, the only motivation for me to go to school was chatting with friends. Computer game was everything in my life. I was thinking to be the best game player among my friends. In fact, I was satisfied be the best in the virtual world. Therefore, I spent most of my time to "train" myself succeed in virtual world.

In this period of time, my parents were so worry about my future and they had no idea how to guide me to the right direction. Luckily, something "miracle" happened in my life after I went for a part-time job during school holiday.

Inspiring Story: To Succeed in your Life - Be a Good Sea Captain and Steer your own Life Yourself

Sometimes, we are just too used to living in a our familiar circumstance or comfort zone. Due to busy working routine day after day, we almost forget to think. To think about our life, To think about why I am doing particular thing right now instead of other activities. To think about the meaning of our existing. To think about the fact that everyone can make a difference to this world. To think about anything we want to think.

However, it is very dangerous if we just simply think about anything we want to think without any terms and conditions or guidances. Guidance help us to direct our life toward the right direction. Without guidance, our existing is just like a ship in a middle of ocean without a compass. A ship that is controlled by the trend of weather, wind and wave. Therefore, it is our duty to find out our own compass.

Six Principles of Life: Limited life versus Unlimited Money

"Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal." ... Henry Ford

Sometimes, we might miss in this complicated world.
Sometimes, we might lost our principle of life while pursuing so-called fortune and treasure.
Sometimes, we might even forget who we are just because we are too busy and no time to think about it.
Sometimes.... we might let these 'sometimes' to be 'often' in our life unconsciously.

Therefore, we should always recall our self with the following principles: