Be Yourself...

For Star Wars Fans...

After Some Hectic Work, I Just Wana Relax...

My New Chapter...

Im in the lowest confidence of my life...

Happy Birthday Malaysia!

My Holiday Homework For SC

2 Little Dialog Between Father & Son

Son: I don't know what I want to do and I'm sorry I'm such a failure!
Father: You haven't really failed, son. Because you haven't really tried to succeed. So don't credit yourself as a failure. You're worse than that.

Father: Just take a shot at something. Don't think about it too much. Just take the shot.
Son: I don't even know where to aim.
Father: Anywhere... Everywhere... Just take wild shots. Hell, it's something just to hear the gun goes off.

Dialog taken from Mr. Franklin & his son, Matt

Eason's Duo Concert 2011...

Getting Eason's Duo Concert 2011 ticket...  ✓

Arrived to Eason's autograph session 

in front of Sungaiwang Plaza... ✓

Queqeing for his Golden's autograph... ✓

An autograph on the poster

 from Eason... ❤

Concert Day: Getting to the Stadium 

Merdeka 2 hours before it starts... ✓

 Meet with the kids... ✓

Get the concert's sponsored

 hand-liked fan thingy... ✓

Thousand of fans  

playing with a huge ball... zzz

Enjoying the 

Bloody Concert!!! ✓

Eason performed one of 

his songs, "Sha Long"... ★★★★★

Encore Session!!! ✓

That goes my RM95... $$$

Go Home ✓

Everytime I Think Back...

This wasn't something I always wanted to do

Fck!

Too late for changing that

Happy Birthday Freddie!

A Little Memory From Paris...

Linkin Park- "Rolling in the Deep"

A Little Taste of Freedom...

Finally I get off the job I have done for 8 months...
Worked like a robot, a job is nothing but a total lie,
lying from the start til the end...
And in the end, the reward you're getting
is not equivalent to your hard work...

The possibilities of 10,000 calls; getting 800 potential calls;
and get as much deals as you can in 3 months, usually it's less than 10...
Countless sighs, downfall, disappointment in the sales floor...
Sometimes I think this job is not based on hard work but luck...

Think back again, managers in this company are truly leaders...
Different from other people from what I see...
They're self-motivated and really good in motivating others,
giving positive thoughts instead of giving up easily in what you do...
Their goal setting, rules and ways in managing staff is
one of those valuable experience I've learned...
You can learnt so much under this room of pressure
but eventually  it can't be a long term commitment...

Finally I'm able breathe... see things clearer...
The intense stress and pressure that I perceived finally vanished...
and most importantly I can finally have a good night sleep...


before my engine restart again in August...

Coldplay's "Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall" Galstonbury 2011 Live Performace

Coldplay's new songs in 2011...

True Friendship Last A Lifetime...

Keep Moving?

When someone did better than you,
It motivates you to do better? or demotivates you?
Well it demotivates me...
I try to think positive, but I can't
Does it really motivate us to do better when someone actually achieved higher than yourself?
For me not really... It makes you think that you just lost a race...
If you can stand up and do it again, so called self-motivate... That's good... But what if you're still standing where you are and can't go any further;
Then you might need to start questioning yourself... what's the gain?
only disappointment...
Something that I learnt from this job, never give up...
Keep moving, keep on generating...
Hard works do pay off...
Don't ever give up...
It's easy to say, but really difficult to do it,
practice it,
even understand it...


"Life is a race..if you don't run fast ..you will be like broken anda.."
-Prof Viru "3 idiots"

Something We Need All The Time But Sometimes Reality Just Killed It

I watched this recently on Youtube. It came out around 2008. Now only I watched this short film after 3 years. Well, it's an absolute meaningful short film that reminded us what we have missed in our real life. Talking about the magic of looking for the best in people and the meaning of smile. "Validation" has played at 34 film festivals worldwide and won 17 awards. 

O Freddie...

Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see
-"Bohemian Rhapsody"


So you fell like you ain't nobody
Always needed to be somebody
Put your feet on the ground
Put your hand on your heart,
Lift your head to the stars
And the World's for your taking
-"The Hero"


Keep your chin up when you're feeling lonely
Don't let 'em get you down
Ain't no use in you sitting all alone
Hanging around
-"If You Can't Beat Them" 


My soul is painted like the wings of butterflies 
Fairy tales of yesterday 
will grow but never die.
I can fly, my friends!
-"The Show Must Go On"

-Queen

Thank You Barcelona :)

WWE Pays Tribute to "Macho Man" Randy Savage (1952-2011)

See You Very Soon in Edinburgh, Mr. Passenger!

 

Feels like the time just got rewind one year back... I going to watch the passenger perform one more time in Edinburgh on the 21st of July... Just mentioned about the passenger weeks ago on blog and how I wish I can see him perform in London again... Well it seems like my prayer has been heard... Too bad it's not in London, it's in Edinburgh... But who cares, I'm in Edinburgh at that time! Ha! Thank You God!

I actually will be flying from Edinburgh to Paris on the 22nd of July for traveling... As my sis just bought flight tickets last week, yesterday she actually told me that Passenger will be performing a gig in Edinburgh... What a coincidence! You won't actually get another perfect-matched schedule anymore... We were actually saying that this is something we probably called fate... Fate it is! Before I fly to Paris, my ears and eyes can enjoy a little moment of his acoustic performance with his beautiful voice...

It's official! Newcastle Here I Come Again! :)

"Liverpool Is All In" Commercial by Adidas

My New Toy~! Sony MDR-XD200 Headphone~

Long awaited headphone finally on my hand! :)

It's Sony MRD-XD200... It's not something latest in the market but a decent pair of quality headphone I get so far... Bring my music enjoyment to another level... So those who think music is their life, or life can't live without music, what a huge difference it is music without a headphone... LOL... This decent set of headphones will make you feel music is something that is no longer intangible but something that actually bring you comfort to your mind and quality sounds to your life... 

Looks brilliant aint it... :)

A little switch on both headphones, sound mode can be changed to either "movie" or "music",

but for myself it feels the same... not much difference... 

Still, the sounds quality is super good! Ha! 

Indie-rock

One of those good songs recommended by Shana the other day. Tagged me and Amos. Remembered the live show we had in a local London Pub last year. It was a little music concert by "the passenger" inside the Regal Room of the Distiller Pub. The background, the lighting, and the acoustics feel of this video just reminded me of the live show by "the passenger". It's hard to find this kind of show in Malaysia. Probably pubs in the UK or US can gives us this kind of live, acoustic & little bit of indie-rock kinda feel. Truly missing live indie-rock music show of that time. Everytime I listen, I'll found peace in my heart, a space where I have no worrying or any complex thoughts, feels like escaped from the reality. If there is a next time for me to fly back 6500 miles back to London, and a chance for a live show again, surely not to be missed...

Guest Star Matt Corby & Mike Rosenberg (The Passenger), 

The Regal Room, The Distiller Pub London, 2010

"People Buy You Before They Buy Your Product"

"People Buy You Before They Buy Your Product"

-L Tan

A key quote to sales by one of my colleagues from sales floor. 

Always told me that "no matter how good your product is, people will not buy your product unless they like you as a person."

Well it's true in some way. In our tele-sales job, it's tougher. 

Our client doesn't know how we look like, whether we're smiling or having eye contact with them. So how are going to build connection with them? People can only judge us through our voice, laugh, and personality on phone. And 1 more thing, rapport building. So if your client doesn't trust you, means that business is over. To be liked or not to be liked, that's the key of whether you can sell your stuff or not. (I actually blogging business stuff here. Dmn! but a good quote from my colleague)

Lil Birthday Celebration in 2011...

 Miles and myself celebrated 

on the same date 7th of April...

Lil surprise from our office staffs...

Icing doll...

Was forced to eat the whole thing...

 

Before...

& after...

 

My Bday dinner with SC during the other night...

 Finally the ribs and 2 beef fillets... 

what can I ask more...!

 SC's Grilled Chicken Fillet ... 

 Almost a year I didn't have steak...

What a Bday dinner, the fillet is brilliant!

Lil Ballon by the Ripples team... 

Thank u guys for the
surprises and celebration!

Remember the Hillsborough 96... YNWA

Football, regards as the most beautiful game in the world. No one ever expect a football game can end up with people crushed, died, injured or even traumatised. What a tragedy, what a disaster that happened on the 15th April 1989 at the Hillsborough Stadium. 96 Liverpool Fans lost their lives during the FA Cup Semi-Final against Nottingham Forest. 96 Liverpool fans never came home

I never know the story. I mean the full-story or the true-story until I watched "Hillsborough- the documentary" few days ago. The memorial service was held at Anfield Stadium recently for the remembrance of the 96 victims at Hillsborough. It's the first time I watch the memorial service & it's already been the 22nd annual memorial service for year 2011. People in the stadium were touched, wiped their tears and felt sad about what had actually happened during that day.

That day, Liverpool fans were allocated the smaller end of the stadium, the Leppings end. It was tighly packed at the time. But as a result of some bad decisions made by the police, who never control the crowd appropriately, allowing thousand of Liverpool fans streaming into the ground. Poor crowd control outside the ground meant fans were ushered in through un-manned barriers and turnstiles into the narrow entrances onto the terrace within.

Shortly after kickoff, there were far too many fans jammed in the lepping lane. Fans outside the stadium keep getting in without noticing what actually happen inside. Fans were pressed up against the metal fences in front, pushed too far forward to get back to an upright position and crushed from behind by the sheer weight of their numbers.

At that moment, some fans were packed so tightly in the crowd that many of them died standing up of compressive asphyxia. Fans who were in the stand above tried to help those below by lifting them up out of the crush. The pitch quickly started to fill with people sweating and gasping for breath and injured by crushing, and with the bodies of the dead. After awhile the police, stewards and St Johns ambulance service came to the stadium in order to do whatever they can. Fans helped as best they could by using advertising board as a stretchers to lift injured victims and some of them attempting CPR. 96 of the fans didn't make it in the end. They came to watch a beautiful game and they died. The 96 never came home.



That day, the policemen were the one who gave the order to let the fans to move quickly inside the ground. But in official testimony, one of the policemen tried to lie and cover it up. In the end, the police who gave the order get an early retirement on an enhanced pension. Another police officer was adjudged to have traumatic stress from the incident was award 330,000 pound of compensation compared to one of the parents who lost a son in the disaster paid 3,500 pound of compensation. Even there's a CCTV which can unfold the tragedy, the policemen cover it up by saying the CCTV tape were somehow stolen from the control room. On that very day, some policemen were actually prevented ambulance crew to get into the pitch to help out the dead. Not a single person were charged or prosecuted because of the disaster, not one policeman even lost their job. Where's the justice?



After 22 long years, families from the Hillsborough disaster still waiting for the justice for the 96. April 15th is not about football anymore for Liverpool, it's about remembering the 96 who lost their lives, who never came back home. Justice will prevail.

You'll Never Walk Alone...