I am back
It has been a very long time since I last blog(ged). Blogspot has tied up with google and now I need to log in with my google account to access my blog. The big is getting bigger. And just because I am writing from Chongqing, the blogspot interface is in Chinese...how amazing. That's why I can run but I can never hide. If I log-on, they know where I am. Even my new passport is installed with an "antenna", and I presume now that the satellites are able to track me down wherever I go.
Chinese New Year is almost over and this is the most different new year that I have gone thru' so far. Two weeks of break and now I am getting back to life, or am I? It's almost 2 a.m. in the morning and I am still not sleeping. Tomorrow the sun will rise and whether it is a dreadful blue Monday or a beautiful breezy morning depends on whether I will be able to wake up from the "right" side of the bed. Life is like a coin - two-sided. We get to choose how it appears by looking from different angles. Most people are too lazy to choose.
So what if you have a choice? Sometime it is so painful to choose that you hope that there is no choice. Whatever you choose, you will end up thinking about the other road that was not taken. In the end, pessimists will see that decision always leads to regrets. To avoid that, we talk about positive thinking. And the million dollar question for positive thoughts is "What is your passion?". The gurus always advise - follow your passion and you will become successful. Again, we are talking about illusions. I questioned my MLM friend 8 years ago who tried to sell me some magnetic mattress on his definition of successful. What he told me revolved around $$ but still I took that as a lesson. The difference is that I have expounded that with my own idiotic ideas.
Back to passion. I am not sure about having ONE passion for my entire life. I found that I am a collector, going after things that I fall in love with. When I was in my teens, I imagine myself to be Michael Jordan - just that I am about a foot shorter. Now I imagine myself to be Ronnie O'Sullivan and Warren Buffett. And as Jordan fade away, so goes my basketball skills too. But that doesn't stop me from playing a game or two every now and then. I still haven't accomplished what I always wanted to do - to do a slam dunk. My consolation - Spud Webb won the slam dunk competition in 1986 and he is ONLY as tall as I am. I believe I have at least 5 years to try. But that's not the passssssion we are talking about!!! I am surprised by my own enlightenment while blogging this article...In Singapore, passion means the way to earn money. When someone ask "What is your passion?", it actually means "What do you like to do to earn money?"...and I think I have the answer...NOTHING.
Chinese New Year is almost over and this is the most different new year that I have gone thru' so far. Two weeks of break and now I am getting back to life, or am I? It's almost 2 a.m. in the morning and I am still not sleeping. Tomorrow the sun will rise and whether it is a dreadful blue Monday or a beautiful breezy morning depends on whether I will be able to wake up from the "right" side of the bed. Life is like a coin - two-sided. We get to choose how it appears by looking from different angles. Most people are too lazy to choose.
So what if you have a choice? Sometime it is so painful to choose that you hope that there is no choice. Whatever you choose, you will end up thinking about the other road that was not taken. In the end, pessimists will see that decision always leads to regrets. To avoid that, we talk about positive thinking. And the million dollar question for positive thoughts is "What is your passion?". The gurus always advise - follow your passion and you will become successful. Again, we are talking about illusions. I questioned my MLM friend 8 years ago who tried to sell me some magnetic mattress on his definition of successful. What he told me revolved around $$ but still I took that as a lesson. The difference is that I have expounded that with my own idiotic ideas.
Back to passion. I am not sure about having ONE passion for my entire life. I found that I am a collector, going after things that I fall in love with. When I was in my teens, I imagine myself to be Michael Jordan - just that I am about a foot shorter. Now I imagine myself to be Ronnie O'Sullivan and Warren Buffett. And as Jordan fade away, so goes my basketball skills too. But that doesn't stop me from playing a game or two every now and then. I still haven't accomplished what I always wanted to do - to do a slam dunk. My consolation - Spud Webb won the slam dunk competition in 1986 and he is ONLY as tall as I am. I believe I have at least 5 years to try. But that's not the passssssion we are talking about!!! I am surprised by my own enlightenment while blogging this article...In Singapore, passion means the way to earn money. When someone ask "What is your passion?", it actually means "What do you like to do to earn money?"...and I think I have the answer...NOTHING.
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