Dream BIG Dream BIG!

I'm back with my post! Fell sick for the 1st time in 3-4 years, and I can say it's not a very appropriate time to get fever, with the ongoing H1N1... But I've recovered! and thanks to my dear friends for their concerns and blessings!!

yup! so let me post again!

Let's ...

Dream BIG!!!

yup. How come I decide to post this?

This is because, it is something we do since young!

When we were little kids, our dreams are as big as universe. Our dreams are often becoming somebody Great and somebody powerful!

Little kids, and we are dreaming of becoming the World President, Becoming a Prime Minister speaking in Parliament, Becoming a 'Michael Jackson'-like pop singer, Becoming the Richest person on Earth, Wants to land on the Moon, Wants to own a Spaceship.... many many more...

Still remember yours?

I did remember mine. Whenever my dad brought me to Changi Beach to watch aeroplanes, my dream is to be a pilot of a plane. Whenever my dad drives to Malaysia 'GIANT' supermarket, I see myself building a supermarket BIGGER than 'GIANT' in the future...

So guys, what's yours? its interesting to think about it again:D

However, as we grow older, our BIG goals, BIG dreams, become small goals, small dreams.

From a World POP singer, we told ourselves its good enough to win our school's Talent-time contest.

From a Minister, we told ourselves its good enough to be once a School Student Council.

From the Richest person on Earth, we told ourselves its good enough to be able to survive in this competitive world, no need to have a lot of money...

yup... BIG dreams... become small dreams... and may become NO DREAMS.

Sometimes, we are even afraid to dream. YES! We do not Dare to Dream!

We stopped Dreaming. We told ourselves Dreaming is a Waste of Time! Because what we dreamt will never come true. So Why Dream?!? You see how we are lying to ourselves??

This is interesting... When people are asked if they ever lied, many say no. They never lie. However, they do not know that they are lying to themselves every minute, every second.

We keep giving ourselves reasons to support our inadequacies. yup! We lie to ourselves we can't do this , we can't do that. And we use some meaningless reasons to support these claims!!

And for this, We dare not dream!

We are afraid that when we dream, we are seen as somebody silly, somebody with crazy thoughts, somebody who are not being realistic and practical. So we are afraid of how people see us too, and so we don't want to be seen as someone with Great Dreams!

Let me share something...

There are two kind of Thinkers in the world...

BIG THINKERS vs small thinkers...

When you tell your dream to BIG THINKERS... let's see what kind of response you may get...

You: '' Hi Tom! I would like to own one Ferarri one day, like the one you are driving now!"

Tom:" Hey sure dude! You will be able to own it one day! How are you going to do it?''

...
small thinkers...

You: "Hi Bob! I would like to own a Ferarri one day, it's damm cool!!

Bob:"HAHAHA stop kidding dude. You drive the Ferarri??? hahahha.Stop lying to yourself. Look yourself at the mirror! You know it's impossible. Haha. Just ride your bike and be happy man!"
...

So what are the two BIG difference you see?

BIG THINKERS never laugh at people's dreams/goals. They take it with respect. For one thing, they have done it, and they know it's possible, and they would encourage someone to achieve it too!

small thinkers laugh at people's dreams/goals. They will tell them to stop dreaming, and its impossible. They will tell them to be Content with their present life, and stop wasting time aiming for higher things.

Do you see alot of small thinkers around you? Whenever you want to say something about yourself, they laughhhhhhh hahahaha at you. They may sometimes say .. "You are Crazy"...

And when there are too many small thinkers criticising your dreams/thoughts/goals, your dreams become smaller and smaller...and poof!

No more dreams...

So what can you do?

Share your dreams with BIG THINKERS! Share your dreams with people who have achieved what you want! Share your dreams with people who can show you the way to achieve it!
Share with them, and just not to small thinkers...

...

Talking about dreaming... there's nothing wrong about dreaming. Dreaming can give yourself a CLEAR vision of what you want to be.

However, how come most people still can't get what they want even after they have Dreamt?

Simply because, they just dream and dream and dream and dream and dream...

and never DO anything to their dreams....

Yes! A dream is still a dream. and ACTION is what makes a DREAM a REALITY.

Maybe I can say, Dreaming gives you the BLUEPRINT of what you want...

Then you have to put this BLUEPRINT into its Real Form.

How to do it? I share it again :D


So first, for all things to materialise, we have to DREAM! Let's not be afraid of DREAMING!

Maybe I can share some REAL examples here...

1) Founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates. He had a dream when he started out his company...

'' to place a personal computer in every home''. Some call him crazy, some say impossible.

But now we look again. Don't each of us has a PC at home, running on Windows( before, if you are using Apple now:P) ?

So has his dream come true?

2) The Wright Brothers who invented the aeroplanes. They are inventing something that can fly!

There are people who say '' how can it be? It can only fly if it's lighter than air"

So again... SIA / Jetstar / Tiger Airways / Cathay Pacific ... aren't they flying all over the world? lighter than air?? haha.

3) And lastly the Famous example of...

Martin Luther King Jr. 's speech of "I have a Dream."

Actually i blogged about this example in my previous posts. Click here to view it:D

So their dreams have come true!! And again, do they care how small thinkers think of them?

Hardly.

And what if they do care of those small thinkers?

We will still be taking ships to USA, taking months. Using a PC would not have been possible. USA Presidential history would not have changed.

So how about your dream?

Will your dream be a dream that change the world?

P.S. Their dreams come true, because they did something to their dreams! They do not leave it there alone:D

I did my goals last year when I finish my National Service , 11 Nov 2008.
It has been around 7-8 months since then.
I set my goals that time, by dreaming BIG, what I'm going to achieve in the next few months to a year.
Yup. I dare to say of the 5-6 goals i posted, I did not accomplish most of them. Ya.
I written it down, but I did not achieve all of them.
I will did a review of my goals next month!! :D

At least I wrote down that time, and I'm not afraid of people laughing at me at my failure to achieve them :D.

After reviewing it again, I will post new ones up again!

If I have done it, what about you?

Let's

DREAM BIG

and

make

DREAMS into REALITY!!

then, share them with BIG Thinkers!

See ya at next post! :D

Longest Total Solar Eclipse this century

I didn't catch it!! Did you?

Success in 8 words, 3 minutes. Interesting Video.

Think Big Think Big!

What a July yea...

I recently read a book by Donald Trump, "Think Big".
It's a very good book. and it's worth reading. Humans need to think big. BIG.

I know a lot of us had heard of this "井底之蛙", or "Frog in a well". It simply says that the frog concludes that the sky is only as big as the size of the well. But when he finally came out of the well, he really see a big sky.

Reading into it deeper, many of us here are really a "Frog in a well", although many of us claimed we are not. I am one also. People like to generalise things too much. When they see something as it is, they will see it as it is. Like the frog, from the well he determine how big the sky is. And whenever another frog ask him "How big the sky is?", he will say,"as big as my well."

When people see others winning big money fast from 'Toto/4D', they think that it is easy to win money this way. Alright, they may won a few thousands. But they didn't count how much money they have put in, before they have won the money. Often or not, they usually pay more than they win.

Recent recession causes many banks to go bankrupt. Then, a journalist from Straits Time published a article, " Less students are applying for Local Uni Business Courses. " The journalist just did his job of reporting facts and statistics, probably from university applications. But what about the students applying? There are a lot of interesting quotes or comments from students...

"The banking industry is not secure anymore"
"My brother just graduated with a business degree from a local uni, and couldn't find a job."
"My parents say that the next hottest industry will be Hospitality & Tourism, as the IR is coming up next, and so I'm getting a degree on that."
"Science general degrees are still the best. With a general degree, I can choose to become a banker, or I can go and be a Maths teacher with MOE."

Hahahahahahahaha....

When I see these comments, I just can't stop laughing at how Naive, Short-sighted our young generation are. Let's analyse these comments one by one...

"Banking industry not secure anymore."

There are indeed many banks collapse during this recession, biggest being the Lehmann Brothers. However, this doesn't mean the whole industry is going bankrupt!. It is just these few companies who didn't handle their problems well. Remember the days when milk products from China contain melamine? It's the milk products from CHINA that has problems, and not the whole Milk Industry that is collapsing!. People like to look at failures to determine their opinions. China has problems with their milk, and all their factories are closed down. But other milk production companies are still doing well yea! That explains... Only the Fittest Survive.

"My brother just graduated with a business degree from a local uni, and couldn't find a job."

Ok. Your brother just graduated with a business degree. But that is just the sentence reported in the news. It did not state his grade, his attitude, his records, his overall GPA, his character, his soft-skills, such as leadership, his experience... many more! So who on earth know who your brother is, except you and your family? And so, people are using this 'example' as saying business degree students couldn't find a job. It would be very superficial, and naive to use this example to determine whether to take up a business course or not.

"My parents say that the next hottest industry will be Hospitality & Tourism, as the IR is coming up next, and so I'm getting a degree on that."

Yup. Singapore will be having an Integrated Resort, with 2 casinos. And people say there will be a very big market for this. So, what would be a better choice? Working in a very 'hot' industry, or invest in companies of the 'hot' industry? Alot of people see the next 'big thing' coming up, and so they want to work in there. But they do not see further. Working in 'Hotter' industry means higher demand for workers, means greater competition, means stiffer challenges. So when people work there, they need to be indespensible, if not they can get replaced anytime! Since everybody also want to get into the 'hot' industry. But as an investment, it's different! 'hot' industry will create higher demand for the products or services, and higher income flow, and hence more money generated in their pockets.

Another thing is listening to parents before making own decisions. I'm not saying parent's comments are useless, but I'm referring if valuable information are given. If his parents are some economic professors who have successfully predicted trends for the past 10-20 years, then ya!, their comments are very valuable. If not, it's hardly valuable.

"Science general degrees are still the best. With a general degree, I can choose to become a banker, or I can go and be a Maths teacher with MOE."

Hahaha... has anyone done that before? What do I say this... This person has no direction in mind what he want in his life. He make his decisions based on external factors. He's putting all his control of his life on external factors. So if he can he will become banker, if not he become teacher, if not... den what he become? He doesn't know what he want.

Example... this person is travelling out of Jurong. If the person wants to go Changi, he may have used the PIE. Because, he knows his destination will be at Changi, and PIE is faster. But if this person do not know where he is going, but just wan to get out of Jurong, he would have landed himself in many places. Even if he drive through PIE, he will have enter many exits, to the North, South, den enter some places, den back to PIE again, den enter some exits again... 'cause he doesn't know where he want to land at. By the time he has stopped, he realise he has wasted alot of time. The time can be short, a few years, or 10-20 years. When time is up, they dunno what they have done in their life. They can say they have alot of experience, maybe they have tried alot of industries...

Yup. Alot of people thought that generalisation is good. they know alot of things. But back to the end, "Jack of all trades, Master of none". On the other hand, Specialisation is the winner. How come?

Tiger Woods only plays golf, and he is the world no.1 golf player and the most famous player in the game. Roger Federer only plays tennis, and he is no.1 tennis player. Michael Jordan, only plays basketball, and the most famous in the game. Michael Jackson, famous for pop songs and dance. He does not go into performing musical or classical music. See it? They only need to be master of ONE thing, and they rocked the world.

Coming to specialisation here, I don't mean that anyone who specialise in anything will be good. NO!. Winners are only those who specialise in the correct things. What if someone is a specialist in fixing type-writers? What if someone a specialist in making casette tapes? What if someone is a specialist in fixing windows 98 OS? These ppl would have died 10 years ago...These are ppl who choose the wrong things to specialise in, even though they can be master in their field...

If you want to be a winner in specialisation... find a niche that will not change for years to come. Games of soccer, basketball, golf, their rules are still quite similar to, maybe 10-20 years ago, or just some adjustments to the rules. However, looking at technology...how fast they have changed, how fast they have improved, and how great they can be year after year. Look at the functions of Nokia 3310, and current iPhone. Vast differences.

Hence... I regard that newspaper report as a very invalid and inaccurate report, as it is written irresponsibility, and may have misinformed alot of people, especially students. It would be a killer, if someone accept everything what the report says.

My point in this passage, is just to bring the message of asking people to think big, bigger than their lives, because the brain can think as big as you want them to think. The brain is only limited by our own thinking.

Whenever we do something, let's see how far we can go, and if you can see where you want yourself to be. If you can't see yourself doing it in the future, so don't do it! If you can't see yourself standing in labs doing chemical works day to night, wearing masks, suits, gloves, and memorise scientific equations, formulas, so don't study science! Never say you will try to get interested when you start to work. This will never work.

Think Big. Look outside for what we really love doing, and do it. That's the real meaning of life. Get accurate information from people who have done it, and succeed in things that you want to do. Even if you want to learn how to rob, you should find a seasoned robber who has not been caught, and not a robber who has been nabbed by police in his first attempt! ok. this is just an example... not asking you ppl to do illegal things :P

Let's start thinking BIG yea!! :D

The Michael Jackson Video I love...

He is a legend. You can just never get sick of watching him sing and dance!

Anyway, I enjoyed my 21st birthday, celebrated in a very very unique and special way, that I never thought of, and had far far far exceeded my expectations. It just can't be described with words. It's the feeling...


Thanks my dear :D

A Happy Lunch at Fish & Co.

This Saturday is packed of activities, and it's quite an exciting though.
Firstly, I got a lunch for the celebration for mine, and KC's birthday at Changi Airport Fish & Co.
Got a good crowd though, and some nice dishes for our lunch. Alright, let's move on to the highlights.

Fish & Co. is known for its birthday celebration. yea. This is my second time there, and I stood up together with KC, and the staff do their Fish & Co cheer and dance. The first time I did on my 19th birthday, I was quite embarrassed. But I enjoyed quite a bit that day. Haha...

Then I got my present!

Presented to my by Francis! Yup.



And I opened it, it is a book! Yes! a book, and I love it. And when i look again, it is a book on the "Best-Sellers" shelves on major bookshops, like Times, Kinokuniya, Borders. I saw it before, but I just put it in my 'Going-to-read' list. But now, I got it! And I'm gonna read it :D





"Become a Better You" by Joel Osteen. 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Everyday. That's exactly what I'm looking for! Improving Everyday! A little improvement everyday, will snowball into a BIG improvement every month, every year!

To me, this is just the best of the BEST present someone can get!. A book.

I posted this on Facebook...

When you put your body to work, it will generate thousands for you.
When you put your brain to work, it will generate Millions for you!

Yup. I can say this book will generate my mind to generate millions for me:D Thanks guys! And I look forward to greater books to come! :D. After reading it, I'm going to pass it on to someone else, so that it will help them generate millions too!

Month of July, Time to GIVE!

Hi guys,

We are at the month of July!

Time really really fly very fast. And when they fly, they never come back. Just last year, I was counting down to my ORD date. This month July, I'm going back to KINS unit for a 1 day briefing for my reservist. Time really flies.

For the month of June, I can say I receive quite a lot. And for the month of July, I can say it's my time to GIVE! I had learnt a lot of things, such as the little magic skills I learnt in Zoe Conference, the 'life-changing' words shared by Bro. Darren, 'mind-stimulating' words by many Wise people, and connecting with foreign friends in Facebook.

I just recently blogged about Bro's Darren words here:
1) Lesson 1: How long can you wait?
2) Lesson 2: Never judge a person by looking at his past...

Actually there are more lessons, I blogged it in later posts:D

I never afraid of information overload. I believe the more information I receive, the better
person I am. What I mean here is Good, Accurate, and Effective Information that will help someone change for the better.

Month of june, I came across a funny myth. I had a friend who called me 3 times on the phone in a matter of ard 3 weeks. To break-ice with me the first time, he asked where I stay, and where I am studying. I told him i stayed in Tampines, and going to NTU. Second week he called me, he asked me where I stay and where I study. I gave him the answer again, as i thought maybe he has forgotten.

THIRD week, he msged me in MSN, and asked the same 2 question!! I told him, "I thought I told you last time?" His reply was," Oh! I forgotten..." Alright, nevermind. Maybe he didn't hear properly last time. That same week, he called me again! He wanted to meet me for lunch, but I can't make it the last 3 weeks. I picked up his call, and he started saying..." How have you been..." and after 2 sentences of conversations...

He asked me "Where I stay?", "Where am I studying?". Wow. That really irritates me. I told him, "Hey, this is not the 1st time you asked me these 2 questions!!" He replied as "oh, I got a lot of friends to remember, you can't expect me to remember everyone's answers..."

Do you guys have such friends? It got me quite irritated, and maybe most of you guys, to repeat your answers for four times. Sometimes, I really wonder if this is a real friend, or just an acquintence. He told me he got poor memory, or alot of things to remember... My answer is BULLSHIT. Yes. It's just an excuse.

Let's see for example, If Johnny is an enthusiastic Arsenal Fan, and when Arsene Wenger, Manager of Arsenal, come to Singapore, and he gave you his contact no. and his time of arrival, and he wanted to meet Johnny and ask him to call him when he reach. You think Johnny will forget Arsene Wenger's number, and say, I got alot of friends' numbers to remember, and I can't remember yours? Haha. I think Johnny will even chant Wenger's number while he's sleeping...

What about Warren Buffett gave his number? Bill Gates? Brad Pitt?

And that's what I say, it's an excuse. Poor memory is an excuse. The reason is whether you have taken any effort to remember their number, and being interested in your friend. That's all. That's a poor communication skill, and it just irritates people :D

Last Sunday, 28/6/2009, I went to Johor, Malaysia for a Personal Development Course. So far, I have been to Two such courses. However, I will not say they are the same. Each has its own characteristics. The last course I've been to was back in November, a 2-day course. Last Sunday's was a one-whole day course.

I woke up at 5am, took the first train at 6am to Yio Chu Kang, and jump on to my friend's car, and reach Johor at around 8 am. The course is held in a hotel, and food and everything is provided. It started at around 9, and everything finished at 10.30pm. Reach back Singapore at around 11.20pm

To me, this is a very good course. This will really help you change for the better. However, I can say, not everybody who attend this course will change. This really depends on the 'attitude' you bring into that course. Attitude. If someone who is serious, he will learn and absorb more. If he's not, it's unlikely he will learn much, and hence, change much too:D

This goes for other Personal Development courses, not just this. It should be a course tat someone should attend it voluntarily, and willingly, not by begging or by force. It's useless. The person will not change.

For any guys out there, I would seriously recommend you guys go for at least 1 Personal Development Couse in your entire life. The earlier you go, the better for you. I am sure you do not want to realise you need a change in life at the age of 50-60 yea... And, it would be recommended to go for Good courses, conducted by Good Qualified and Well-known trainers. It will make your money worth-while too.

Yup! I can say money spent on one's self education is the wisest investment. A improvement in skills, change in thinking, change in mindset will reap more benefits than one can imagine, when actions are taken.

I'll come back with more posts! and kindly share your comments with me guys!. :D