Letih berpanjangan

A'kum dan salam sejahtera. Wow, 2 minggu off from internet!!! Dasyat tu~ the longest so far I've been away from the world wide web. So, how's everyone? Great I hope. Well, as for myself, I'm very-very tired. Why? The past two weeks I've been attending two separate courses at two separate places. Last week in Malacca and this week in Langkawi. Can you imagine? Penatnya jgn cakaplah. Tapi yg best dlm penat2 tu sempat shopping "kaw-kaw" punya kt Langkawi. Hahaha~ Biasalah... tak penah pi la katakan~ iyer, aku tak penah pi Langkawi. Ni lah kali pertama seumur hidup. Perasaan? Tak suka naik bot. Rasanya this is the first and the last kot. Ntahlah~ tak menarik pon~ yg best beli coklat ngan pinggan mangkuk ajalah~ lain2 tu tak minat.

Sebenarnya, tujuan utama menulis di ruangan blog ni sbb nak penuhkan ruang. Hahaha~ taklah... nk update sebenarnya. Yalah kan, kang bersawang pulak blog ni. Well, otak mmg fried. Nk komen pasal kursus, haaa~ nnti aku citer. Tapi semua kena tukar nama la~ kang diorang tau pulak aku mengutuk diorang (uikss, dah terlepas cakap~ tak suspen dah la lepas ni hehehe)

Tapi ada satu peristiwa menakutkan bagi aku. Ada la sorang makcik ni, umur dah setengah abad, tapi ranggi. Tang ranggi tu aku tak kisah sgt, ya la.. pakai seluar jeans, free hair, bagi aku boleh diterima lagilah. Tapi yg paling aku tak tahan dia ni kuat merokok. Aku ni kira ortodoks sket bab2 ni. Bila aku tgk dia mengembut aja, aku rasa mcm dok tgk ibu ayam. Heeee~ takut! Dia ni baik ngan aku tapi, aku tak tau la pulak apa niatnya. Semalam room mate aku nk balik umah dia, sekali makcik ni paksa aku tidoq kt bilik dia. Pergghhhhh~ aku ketaq lutut la. Mcm2 benda dah menusuk otak aku ni~ takut!!! Ya la~ org la ni bukan buleh pakai sgt. Yg aku heran, dia paksa aku tuuu~ suruh tidoq jugak2 ngan dia. mak aiiii~ berdiri bulu roma aku!! nasib baik room mate aku kelentong dia kata dia tak jadi balik, padahal dia sedap dah dok kt umah dia. Aku pulak kunci segala pintu, tingkap, siap selak lagi. Punya takut kt makcik tu. Heeee~ ngeri aku! Alhamdulillah laa~ semuanya dah berakhir. Aku pon dah selamat balik umah. Pengalaman yg menakutkan tapi moral of the story, jgn betui bendui sgt. Mesti pandai berlakon. As in mesti belajar cara kawal emosi dan fikiran supaya org takleh baca apa ada dlm hati dan otak kita. Very important.

Dahlah~ aku pon dah letih ni. Mail box sampai 400++ email. Giler byk kena delete! See you guys next time!!!

Follow Your Heart

Okay, today I want to write about some successful individuals who had tough life before them but now they are a huge success in their own business. The first one is a guy called Tony Hsieh, and he's the CEO of Zappos.com, an online shoe business. What??? You've never heard of him? *eye rolling* okay okay, here's his picture:-

and here's a little excerpt of him from Wikipedia~

Tony Hsieh (English pronunciation: /ʃeɪ/ "shay") is the current CEO of online shoe and clothing shop Zappos.com. Prior to joining Zappos, Hsieh co-founded and sold the internet advertising network LinkExchange to Microsoft for $265M in 1998. Hsieh graduated from Harvard University with a BA in Computer Science. He is a second-generation Taiwanese American.^[1]

On July 22, 2009 Amazon.com announced the acquisition of Zappos.com in a deal valued at approximately $887.9mm.^[2] He is said to have made at least $214 million from the sale not including money made through his former investment firm Venture Frogs.

So, now you've known him. Here's the second guy. His name is Gurbaksh Chahal. You would've guess, he's originally from India and he's Sikh. He had a very challenged childhood in school cuz you see, he wore his turban when he was young. So, he fought all that and became mature and wise at such a young age. Here he is:-

And here's his Wiki's file~

Gurbaksh Singh Chahal (born July 17, 1982) is an American entrepreneur, best-selling author, TV personality, motivational speaker, and self made multi-millionaire. By the age of 25, he founded two advertising companies worth $340 million, more recently appeared on several TV shows and published a memoir.

So, now you're wondering, why I choose these two? Basically, they are normal people like us. We are the same basically. We are not celebrities. We come from the same kind of families, who appreciates values and have simple kind of lives. Our life can be challenging and tough at times, but we managed through. So, what makes these guys different than us? Well, they are very, very successful! Money wise, life wise. What do I mean by life wise? They are happy and passionate about their job. It's not even like a job after all for them.

Take Mr. Hsieh for example, I saw him in an interview on Oprah Winfrey show, he said he's very passionate with customer service and that's what drives him to do this business. And he doesn't even have his own office! He sat in the same kind of cubicle just like every buck of his 800+ workers and pleasing his costumer is his number one goal. What a simple, down to earth millionaire! What pleases me the most, is how he makes his office environment to be so happy and family-like. They are so happy working, there's no strict working hours like we're using now. He's truly an inspiration.

As for Mr. Chahal, the bit that I learn from this guy is that he was in a difficult situation, yet he took it so positively that he admitted to himself being different from everybody else and he channelled the energy to find what is his strength. It turned out to be a positive thing after all, why he's a millionaire by 16 years old! Fancy that~ but he did point out that he missed out his teenage years being so engrossed with the internet business he developed and then sell out at hundreds of millions of dollars. But then again, "No Sacrifice, No Victory" (again, the Witwicky motto~ gosh so many Transformers line here hahaha~)

The main reason I choose to post this is because when I learnt about these two people, it actually tells me the simplest thing about life. Follow your heart. Choose to do what you love. It is really that simple. I know, I know sometimes you don't get what you want but you can always work towards it. You must have loads of things that you love. For example cooking. Maybe you can start your own baking business or something. That's the kind of idea I'm putting in here.

In case you're wondering, mine is writing. I always wanted to write and here I am having my first blog. And I really hope to make it a success. It's not about the money. It's about doing what you love. And I'm so glad I did it. Here's hoping the same to you~ :-)

Morning Ritual

See those? Yeah, they are my morning ritual. I'm sure everybody has one. Every morning I need to get my dosage of internet, and these webs are my top three. It's not like my life will be over if I didn't get to open them but you see, it's like a craving. Like an addiction. Like an obsession (maybe that's a bit too far, but still~ a possibility). I just had to check my emails (even though it's just deleting facebook's notification) but still~ I must do it! No matter what. It's simply like those who needed their caffein or tar indulgence every morning, I must have my Vico and internet. Hahaha~ sounds familiar? I bet you guys feels the same way too~ maybe in a different way.

Gone were the days where newspaper is a must. I used to be in that position before. Every morning I must read a newspaper. Tak kisahlah surat khabar cap apa, semua boleh. Utusan, BH, Kosmo!, HM, semua belasah. Janji masa breakfast mesti baca newspaper. Sambil baca sambil makan. Dah tabiat agaknya. But since the birth of the internet, and the fact that I'm quite not a big fan of the news published in our mainstream newspapers, I have thrown away that habit. So now, it's Yahoo!mail, fb, and eurosport taking over my morning. Hehehe~

Actually, I always have the habit of doing something whilst eating. Be it sitting down with my family, chit-chatting between the munching, or if I'm alone, I'd watch tv or vcds or read something. In short, I can't just sit and eat without having something else to do. I guess I developed this when I was young. Being in between wasn't that easy~ haha~

Having said that, I've done my morning ritual. Gosh! Just look at the time~

So, how about you? Care to share your morning ritual? ;-)

Between your dreams and reality

Okay, so this is my first post in my blog. Oh my God, I have a blog!!! Oh God, oh God, Ya Allah *breathe in, breathe out*. Phew~ okay. Back to business. So, today I want to talk about dreams and reality. My dreams. My reality.

Dreams
When I was very, very young I wanted to just sit at home and wiggle my feet while watching tv. Yes, that's my dream occupation. Odd enough but that's the truth of it. When I started school, my teacher asked all of us to write down three dream occupations. Three!!! Can you imagine how hard it was for me? I had none! Well~ the one that I had was hardly called "occupation", it's more like leasurely occupation. Duhhh~ I was in panic. What am I supposed to do? You know what I did? (I can hear a chorus of NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO). I fancied myself a picture dictionary, and I flipped through to the occupation page. It has all sort of occupations there. So, I filled in the damn form, and voila!!! All set and done. Hehehehe~ I fooled my teacher.

When I was 11, I finally see what occupation was all about. Getting money ($$$$$$$). So, the closest thing to my school is a clinic and the highest paid job there was a doctor. Truly inspired by this and watching Dr. Doogie Howser (did I spell it correctly?) I set my target then to become a world-famous doctor (cheeewaaahhh!!).

Come form 4, 16 years old, studying science stream, being introduced to Mr. Biology. First impression? Not good. Hated it and still hates it! What the heck? Cell dividing? Who cares anyway? Well not me~ No thank you. So, what happened to my dream of becoming a world-famous doctor? Puffttt! Kaput!! Dream gone~

Come form 5, 17 years old, I need a new dream job. Quick. Fast. Why? Cuz I need to apply into a good university. Come on brain!!! But I had none. I talked to my favourite teacher, Mr. Ooi Beng Huat, who was my Chemistry teacher (my favourite subject, btw) about this matter. He's the one suggested Chemical Engineering for a degree. And boy, do I owe him. I may not be an Engineer in practice but I am happy that I took that course in university. It is certainly the perfect course for me.

REALITY
Now, reality check. When I graduated, I pictured myself working as a chemical engineer in a plant in PFK, Gurun, Kedah. However, that's not the case. I was forced to become a petroleum engineer and failed to do so. I hate it. I have no passion whatsoever in it. So, kaput! Pfffttt! Dream gone.

Now, I'm in a completely (like 360 degree turn) different fields. But one question that I asked myself every morning when I woke up, am I happy? And everyday, my answer is the same, YES, I AM. And that is good enough for me. In reality, even though my dreams are not my reality, most important thing is that I am happy with my life. And that's all that matters. :-)