Self-reflection, Self-upgrading and Self-execution

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Everyday we are making decisions and our decision making is based on what we know and believe. Out of junk, we make junk decision but an informed person would make an informed decision.What if you have been making decision out of ignorance? Sound funny but is real! I learn that good decision making comes from good judgment and good judgment could only comes from learning from experience of making poor judgment! But we can cut down our poor judgment, one of the ways is from our consistent and continuous self-reflection, self-upgrading and self-execution. The key to success first decide what you want, and secondly is knowing and most importantly is knowledge when applied will benefit the people who act on it. For example, Self-reflection: Decide what you truly want in life – First you must decide what type of girl you like and one day you meet your dream girl who matches what type of girl you want. Did you chase the girl immediately? No of course. Self-upgrading: Learn what it takes to reach your desired outcome You find ways to know the girl to see if she is attached and maybe read some tips about relationship and girl. You might ask her friends to find out a little bit more and check with your pastor or mentor about your intention. Self-execution: Take action on what you have truly decided – You learned that your chances are pretty good and nothing beats than you ask her yourself. Unless you take action to tell her one day, you will never know whether she likes you and in turn, you lose the chance of getting the girl you want and the opportunity to learn from your mistake if it didn’t work out to improve your chances with other girls you meet along the way.

This is so simple but almost deadly vicious cycle in human life. “I am nobody therefore nobody wants to talk to me.” To break this vicious cycle, you have to decide what you truly want in life, learn what it takes to achieve what you truly want in life and finally, take massive action on what you have truly decided.

There are 5 aspects of our life we need to take care namely personal health, family health, career health, relationship health and spiritual health. Each influences one another, when one crumbles, the other too but when one stands out strongly, it is the result of your other strong health aspects. I am writing this at a point that I have decided what I want in life and I am learning on how other people (modeling) of my age achieve it and daily taking action to improve my good judgment, and in turn be a good decision maker. One aspect I would like to touch on today is personal health. I am assuming you have decided on what you want in life, but even if you have not as we may don’t know what we don’t know, these are my top three self-improvement books which I find useful in my learning and growing my personal health. Is important to have an open mind, and pick up one thing you find useful in the book(you may not agree in everything the person shares) and apply it immediately, you will see wonder!

1. Choose To Be Rich – Robert Kiyosaki (I picked up about having a good personal finances)

2. The Unemployed Millionaire – Matt Morris (I happened to chance this book in MPH recently, he just launched this book and I ordered another one online to support his charity. I picked up about the importance of self-upgrading and why we should do it massively. CONTEST details: You just need to tell me in this entry why you deserve or want the book and join our facebook page. Is that simple! The best response will win yourself this FREE business book by Matt Morris. Leave your name and email behind. Deadline 24th Dec, it would be your best Christmas Day gift to you.)

The Unemployed Millionaire by Matt Morris

My first order from Amazon using Vpost

3. Awaken The Giant Within – Anthony Robbins (The mentor of all mentors: I am still reading his book but the first few chapters have already amazed me. One thing I pick up is about when peep ask him how long then he can then pick up a skill, he ask him back, “How long you want it to take?” This just blows me away.)

Lastly, for those of you who keen to explore your business ideas and keen to learn about entrepreneur skill, I found one great program called, Entrepreneur Action Program started by founder, Wendy Kwek. I just attended the seminar yesterday and to be frank, it wasn’t easy to go alone. Finally, I learn what it means it takes courage to confront your fear. My action paid off. I learn from this free seminar about business ideas and what you need to be financially free in her perspectives, two engines you need to have, business engine and investment engine. Business engine is to generate good cash flow and investment engine is to grow your asset. At the end of the seminar, there is action you need to take, to sign up the 3 days Boot Camp with 2 days theory class and 1 day practical class.(full details in link above) It doesn’t come cheap but I learn that information costs but it pays for itself. One tip here before you go, you might want to apply your DBS or POSB credit card first if you are keen about starting business.

All right, hope this entry give you a headstart in your business seeking direction and do share with me your journey. Looking forward to hear from you!

Best of you! Foo fighters

I have got a confession to make… I am not giving my best to someone everyday… You and I got a choice to make… We are born to make a different to be the best of us! To give the best to someone we meet everyday! You can break that chain… Just a small change will make the BIGGEST different… Enjoy the song. (You might want to lower your volume before you hit the button PLAY! You know what I mean…)

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I’ve got another confession to make
I’m your fool
Everyone’s got their chains to break
Holdin’ you

Would you born to resist or be abused?
Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?
Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?
Are you gone and onto someone new?

I needed somewhere to hang my head
Without your noose
You gave me something that I didn’t have
But had no use
I was too weak to give in
Too strong to lose
My heart is under arrest again
But I break loose
My head is giving me life or death
But I can’t choose
I swear I’ll never give in
No, I refuse

Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?
Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?
Has someone taken your faith?
Its real, the pain you feel
You trust, you must
Confess

Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?

Has someone taken your faith?
Its real, the pain you feel
The life, the love
You’d die to heal
The hope that starts
The broken hearts
You trust, you must
Confess

Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?
Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?

I’ve got another confession my friend
I’m no fool
I’m getting tired of starting again
Somewhere new

Would you born to resist or be abused?
I swear I’ll never give in
I refuse

Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?
Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?
Has someone taken your faith?
Its real, the pain you feel
You trust, you must
Confess
Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?

My Quest for Best Sashimi In Singapore: Momoya, 16 Jalan Pari Burong

 

I am an avid lover for sashimi. My love for sashimi just grow unconsciously. Remember the first time I saw my friend ate sashimi during my JC time, I was filled with “Eeeks!” and “Ahhh!” but I am now a transformed person who love sashimi especially fresh salmon! Too bad when I was in Japan last year, I did not crave sashimi. If not, I will be running around Tokyo eating only sashimi for every meal! But today I will only be running in Singapore, in fact to the far east of Singapore at Jalan Pari Burong. (for non-Malay speaker, “pari” means stingray and “burong or burung” means bird, to say Pari Burong probably it indicates that stingray was once a bird here or a stingray-like bird. Normally people will say “ikan pari” which mean stingray fish(direct translation) instead of “burung pari”. Hint of evolution?)

Direction (from Gothere.sg)

Suspected target: Momoya, I was recommended by my buddy to this place at the same time celebrating my another buddy’s belated birthday. But for those who are not driving(like me), you can take a train to Tanah Merah, exit the control station and go down the escalator, turn right towards Bedok area and take bus 2 or 9. Alight just before Jalan Pari Burong at Upper Changi Road which is three stops away. (The map generated by GoThere.Sg, a bit off cause it shows you alight at Bedok Road, check your direction at GoThere.Sg) The shop is located at one of the shophouses along the road so you dun have to walk into the private housing (like I did!)

Momoya at 16 Jalan Pari Burong

Food: I must say for a person who only try sashimi several times in Sakae Sushi and once in Japan. The sashimi is better than normal Japanese chain restaurant. The sashimi mixed platter is a must try if you have not try out all types of sashimi. After which, depending on your favourite, you can zoom to one type of sashimi you like. (I ate >10 slides of salmon sashimi! Hope they dun bankrupt!) I try California temaki, and other Japanese food which I cant remember their names. (I will try harder next time) Buffet doesn’t include the price of drink, special menu and dessert. (It would be nice if they can include green tea as complimentary)

Mixed platter set (consists of Salmon, Tuna, Yellowtails and Octopus)

Ambience: Cozy and nice place to chit chat with friends. Nothing fanciful and nice place to chill out. And this is on Fri evening. Not very packed and before we left, we saw a bunch of Japanese peeps(7-9) eating here so they must think the food here is pretty nice too. Do make a reservation before you go.  Sorry my Iphone camera hanged when I was trying to take the ambience of the shop, so I promise next time!

Value: Think is good value for money for the number of sashimi I ate and many other varieties of Japanese food they have here! They gave us a complimentary dish of 1/2 cray fish which I skipped cause it is too small for 4 of us!

1/2 of Crayfish (Complimentary dish)

Service: Think the service is superb. They keep filling up your green tea without asking. Also for the birthday surprise, they offer to serve the cake  lit with candle (they are quite excited about it actually!) I just have one point to add that the serving of sashimi is not consistent. On the 1st time we order salmon sashimi for 4 persons, they came out 8 slices, the 2nd time we order we specify how many slices we want and the 3rd time, we order for 2 person, they serve exactly 8 slices again.

Overall is my rating for sashimi in Momoya 8 out of 10! *Clap clap*

You can check out further reviews in HungryGoWhere by other peeps!

Hope you find this review is useful.

Iphone Apps: Face fighter

Finally things settled down a bit here. Past weeks have been crazy. Cases went unclosed despite much efforts. My girlfriend sprained her ankle during her school holiday and in cast for 2 weeks – was busy visiting her and bought her food and gifts hopefully she will be happier. My childhood’s friend, James Ng passed away in Norway while hunting, believed to have lost his step and fell to his death into a gorge (how unfortunate) – flew down to KL with a close friend and stay for a night.

But the most serious and close to my heart, my Dad hospitalized in Hospital Pantai Ayer Keroh for coronary artery diseases with 3 blocked arteries – thanks goodness the bypass surgery went successfully under the guidance of Dr Patrick Leong.(you can read my twitter for the ordeal of my experience) I strongly recommend him if you have friends need bypass surgery in Malacca. During the few days stay in hospital, he has done bypass operations about 3 per week on patients ranging from 40+ years old man to 80+ years old grandma. (Seem like everyone is getting heart problems) Guess what? They all survived and they have discharged from hospital. But the price to pay? Total cost of room stay and ICU, consultations, medications, equipments and operation estimated to be RM50,000.00 (S$21k). There are two ways to settle this bill. First is they called it “Medical card” if you have prepared yourself earlier and second they called it “Ka Ki Lai” (hokkien for foot the bill yourself). If you can’t afford, you can choose not to go for the operation and queue for your turn in government heart surgical hospital. (Hopefully your queue comes before your heart stops.)

Okay, enough of my story, and back to the topic of my entry. I recently bought my Iphone application and I have been using it (maybe overused!) day and night non-stop! For non-iphone users, you may not understand why. But if you equip yourself with the latest Iphone 3GS and a decent data plan, (for me I took up 10GB/month on top of my iTwo value plan – monthly damange $80++/mth) you are off to go and do wonders with your phone. The most useful and new feature to me in Iphone is the App Store. This is where you can download hundreds of games, entertainment, utilites etc (just like you have moved to a new neighborhood and discover there is a hypermarket like Carrefour or Fairprice and you shop). The difference is that App Store has free “goodies” that are available for you to “taste” and if you really really like it, you buy it at the cheapest cost of USD0.99 (S$1.59) per app. Up to date, I bought 3 games. Hopefully I will be more active in my blog since I have download a WordPress App (for free) for the Iphone because now I can blog from my Iphone!

Today I going to introduce a game which will unite all your family members, your colleagues, your arch-rivals and even your enemies to come together to celebrate the joyous moment together. With what? With this App called “Appy Face Fighter Lite” version. This is the best game so far as I literally have my mom to play it (my mom is a classic housewife who never use a computer), my eldest bro to laugh playing this game (who is 12 years my senior and we seldom talked) and of course, the rest of my nephews and niece crowding around me hopefully I will pass them to play. It is such fun! (All these happened while we were waiting to visit my dad in ICU because the visiting hour is so limited. We have to wait for 4 hours between the visiting hours of 12-1pm and 5-9pm.)

Just go over to the App Store and search for this game. Click install. Once you are done, you can play! I downloaded it over Wifi in Old Town Cafe in Legenda Malacca as the game is over 10MB I think. (Fyi any games over 10MB you have to download over Wi-fi and not with your 3G data plan) Some screenshots of the App.

From here you can see it is a lite version. The full version cost only USD0.99 (Fyi all Apps are in US dollar, dun get cheated!) You can either start the game immediately by clicking “Fight” or you can have the second option called “Make Foe”.  I choose the second option for instance. From here you can take a picture of your friends face (or someone you dislike!) or you can take from your phone photo library.  For me I pick my fav nephew!

You can see his very cute face on the body of the karate master. For offense, you can left punch, right punch and kick (my fav). For defence, you can block. (the button showing two hands across). There are difficulty levels for you to choose, so if you like to keep punching your foe, select easy.

After a few rounds of punching, these are some of the funny expressions you will see.

My other nephew’s beaten face.

My fav’s beaten face expression.

Last but not least, I am not spared from being beaten too!

Finally I am defeated by my nephew!

But that is not the end. If you fast enough to click the Rock icon (the button will take turn to change into a Rock icon), you will have surprise!

Yup that’s the finishing shot by the immortal! Hope you enjoy this  game as much as I do. If you do not have this game, go download today. If you do have Iphone, go get one! You won’t regret it. If you do not have money, go save up for it!

Okies. Take care till next time! Please feedback. Now you can rate my entry.  You can do so at the end of each entry.

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Guess this is not the end. I received a  surprise from Paul O’ Connor, the brand Director of the company Appy, which develops Face Fighter.  See below.

The Bible says “Freely you have received, freely give.” Indeed, I am blessed by the lite version of the game, so I wrote the review of this game to share with everyone. Now I may get the full version of the game free! Hope I can use the promo codes. Thanks Paul for your email and your offer! It was a pleasant surprise.

I love you man…

Do you have a friend who you can lean on? It’s never too late to find one yourself. The movie called “I love you man” just illustrates each of us(especially guy) need a friend. (for your wedding sake!) Ever wonder how a guy say “I love you” to another guy? Go and watch the show, bring your guy friends or girlfriend to watch it. It’s funny and meaningful. I rate the movie 4 out of 5. (my advice is try not to see the trailer, it contains SPOILERs) You can check the rating about the movie in IMDB here. (my favourite, so far it hasn’t fail me) and in case you really want to see the trailer, it is here.

It is important that in life we excel in all circles of our life i.e. our career, our love life, our health, our spiritual life, our family ties and last but not least, our friendship. No man is an island. Have story to share about your friend? Do post it here or send an email to me. I would love to hear. For your reward, I leave you with this song and for best entry, you will get a surprise from me. (a date with me)
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YOU”VE GOT A FRIEND (James Taylor)

When you’re down and troubled, and you need some loving care
And nothing, nothing is going right.
Just close your eyes and think of Me and soon I will be there
To brighten up, even your darkest night.

You just call out My name, and you know wherever I am
I’ll come running to see you again.
Winter, spring, summer, or fall,
All you got to do is call and I’ll be there
You’ve got a friend.

If the sky above you should grow dark and full of clouds
And that old north wind should begin to blow
Keep your head together and call My name out loud
And soon I will be knocking on your door.

You just call out My name and you know wherever I am
Ill come running to see you again.
Winter, spring, summer or fall
All you got to do is call and I’ll be there.

Hey, ain’t it good to know that you’ve got a friend?
People can be so cold, they’ll hurt you and desert you.
Well they’ll take your soul if you let them, don’t you let them.