Water & Cups Story

A group of working adults got together to visit their University lecturer.

The Lecturer was happy to see them.

Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
The Lecturer just smiled and went to the kitchen to get an assortment of
cups - some porcelain, some plastic, some glass, some plain looking
and some looked rather expensive and exquisite.

The Lecturer offered his former students the cups to get drinks for hemselves.

When all the students had a cup in hand with water, the Lecturer spoke:
"If you noticed, all the nice looking, expensive cups were taken up,
leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal that you only
want the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and
stress. What all you wanted was water, not the cup, but we
unconsciously went for the better cups."

"Just like in life, if Life is Water, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold/maintain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change."

"If we only concentrate on the cup, we won't have time to enjoy/taste the water in it."

It is about time that we need to enjoy of WATER !!

A Beautiful Present

25 May 08 Sun ~ Yeah.. Here I am after some slumber moment and lazy to write. It Sunday again and I'm as busy as usual. As out PTNP C'ship is approaching, the training become packed. All teams were squeeze inside the hall. Wow, I really can't take care all of them coz train teams need certain of attention for each team. I have about 9 teams, lucky that I got some assistant to help me out a little.

All goes well but not much progress especially my Power Rangers and Power Puff Girls team ( children team ). They really drains me out completely. Lastly the training over, and some members stay back to have some extra mile in Sparring. Really happy that they take effort to stay back and learn more. In martial art there are no short cut, not like studies, just read it and scores. In martial art, everthing is done little by little, gains through experience & experience is time consuming. Talents alone is not enough. I do have talented students but most of them just stop in the middle and gone with the wind and yet those who have perserverance stays on and eventually become better skills in some ways. Talents only give you extra boost and not permanent. For those who achieve better skill is just another stories of Rabbit Vs Little Turtle.

Sunday class is really such a hectic day. From 6.30 am in the morning to 8.00 pm in night only with little rest in afternoon. 2 of my stay back for some target training. I teach them some 'front side jep' and 'back kick. One of them miss the target and landed on my stomach Ouch... Well, after we packed up our things we have some chat. We touch about what going on around us, why a student of mine suddenly stop TKD even though he luv TKD very much. Maybe is just some attitude that matters. When talk about this, I explain to my student about her attitude problems also. There is a point when she make me mad. I explained to her how I handle the problems in order to prevent further damages to our relationship. Relationship needs time to build and yet easyly broken if either of the party back off.

I really mad and sad by the behaviour of not being responsible toward the action done. The consequences from the action taken is not taken into account. this is not the way of doin things I said. 'I have the every right to mad at you and don't bother you anymore' I said. 'But in this way non of the party will benefits from this type of action I taken'".... " Eventually you will leave our family and both also loose" I opts to consult some advise from my friends from various age group on how they see things.

So I believe I've taken the best approach for to FORGIVE first pending the appology from my student. FORGIVENESS is the best present after all. After all my lecture, my student admited and applogies to me. Well, forgive and forget is the next things. We chat on untill the time past so fast it's already Monday 12.09 am... Really hope they learn from my lecture They bade me goodnight and went home. I ask them to give me a call after arrived home but 20 minutes past no a ring. I'm worried and her mother said they didn't arrived home yet and I drive out to search them. Lucky that they arrived home minutes later and went to have some DaPau ( take away ) to eat... Phew....

Forgive and Forget,

Live Ur Live without REGRET,

The more you GIVE, the more you GET,

Thats the Live I pledge and BET......
Aven

Life And People

 

Life is liked a box of chocolate, you do not know what you will get in the next.

If the chocolate is not inside your mouth, you wouldn't know how was the taste.

Sweet, bitter,.....whatever....only you can felt it and taste it once you choose it.

Different people have different say on it too.

Never try never know in life.

 

 

 

                              ........do you like chocolate ........

 

 

People are liked tea bags, you have only to put them into hot water before you can know how strong they are.

we are packaged in all kinds of shapes and sizes to suite the different taste buds. Some TEA are sweet while others are
bitter. But one thing TEA need is hot water.  We need hot water to bring out the flavor and aroma. 

Different TEA taste differently.

 

 

 

                             ........do you get your's cup of TEA in life........

 

 

Time Shall Tell

Once upon a time there was an island where all the feelings lived; happiness , sadness , knowledge , and all the others, including love .

One day it was announced to all of the feelings that the island was going to sink to the bottom of the ocean. So all the feelings prepared their boats to leave. Love was the only one that stayed. She wanted to preserve the island paradise until the last possible moment. When the island was almost totally under, Love decided it was time to leave. She began looking for someone to ask for help.

Just then Richness was passing by in a grand boat. Love asked, "Richness, Can I come with you on your boat?"
Richness answered, " I'm sorry, but there is a lot of silver and gold on my boat and there would be no room for you anywhere."

Then Love decided to ask Vanity for help who was passing in a beautiful vessel.
Love cried out, "Vanity, help me please."

"I can't help you", Vanity said, "You are all wet and will damage my beautiful boat."

Next, Love saw Sadness passing by.
Love said, "Sadness, please let me go with you."
Sadness answered, "Love, I'm sorry, but, I just need to be alone now."

Then, Love saw Happiness.

Love cried out, " Happiness, please take me with you."
But Happiness was so overjoyed that he didn't hear Love calling to him. Love began to cry.

Then, she heard a voice say, "Come Love, I will take you with me." It was an elder. Love felt so blessed and overjoyed that she forgot to ask the elder his name. When they arrived on land the elder went on his way. Love realized how much she owed the elder.

Love then found Knowledge and asked, "Who was it that helped me?"
"It was Time ", Knowledge answered.
"But why did Time help me when no one else would?", Love asked.

Knowledge smiled and with deep wisdom and sincerity, answered,

"Because only Time is capable of understanding how great Love is."

Truth About Money

The truth is that many of these beliefs and attitudes that some people have about money are nothing but inaccurate generalizations and excuses that keep them from living a truly ahappy and wealthy life.In order to truly align your mind to wealth creation, you mustdebunk these negative myths and really look at the facts.

Myth: Having a lot of money will change you (into a bad person).

Fact: Money is a personality magnifier. It brings out the true person within you. If you are a selfish and nasty person by nature, having money will make you even more nasty and selfish. However, if you are a kind, generous and loving person deep down inside, money will magnify your goodness.

Myth: Money isn't everything.

Fact: This is the top excuse given by poor people who are in denial. The truth is that everything is money.Without money, you cannot maximize other important values such as family, career, health, spirituality and relationships.

Myth: Money will make you less spiritual

Fact: If you are by nature a spiritual person, having money willallow you to touch more lives and help you do more of god's work. In fact, the wealthiest people in the world are extremely spiritual. Not having to worry about money anymore allows many of the rich to focus on the more important things in life.Many truly wealthy people believe they don't own their money. They are just custodians of God's wealth.

Myth: Rich people are materialistic. They worship money.

Fact: It is the people who lack money who worship it. Who works all day, year after year in a job which they hate, just for the money? Who are those who constantly sacrifice their health and family tomake more money?In fact, the rich rarely work because of money. They work because of passion and a sense of personal mission. Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, George Lucas, Michael Jordan & Steve Jobs certainly don't work for money...they don't need to.

Myth: To have more money, I will be depriving others of it.

Fact: When you become rich, you actually create more wealth for other people. Wealth multiplies into more wealth.Bill Gates is the richest man in the world because he has createdthe most value in people's lives through the creation of Microsoftand Windows.Because of his invention, so many more millionaires have beencreated as a result. Think about it, if Microsoft Windows, Word and Excel did not exist, would you have been able to create as much wealth as you have today?

Myth: Money is the 'root of all evil'.

Fact: The lack of money is the root of all evil. The number onecause of murder, cheating, stealing, lying is poverty (the lack ofmoney).Get your beliefs and attitudes right and you will start to attract more of it into your life!

Cheers & Happy Chinese New Year !!

Shark is lurking around..

19 Jan 2008 - I got one missed call from my student. It was late at night so i didn't return call. He called me again the next day. He have problems he said and need some money. Ok. We shall talk about it later tonight.
He said that his father owned money from a few Ah Long (Loan Shark)and was in dire state and need to become fugitive. Wow. It was quite some of money, All I can offer is little. I really felt the pain he endured because this is what happened to me before. Beside some money support, I do give him morale and advise to what should do. Help him to calculated all the cash flow and it really take a lot of effort to have things turn back around. He should take another part-time job too. His paycheck alone, is just a tiny part. He bare the responsibility not toward his father side but is to her mother and his siblings.
I've said to him he should have enough money to cushion him, his mum and siblings should there be another downfall. As this stuff happened before, the trend is it will happened again I said.
Some of his TKD member also lend him some money, even tough they know each other for bout 2 years ++. I explained to him to valued and cherish this, as this is what we called true friends that he found in TKD. Even his buddies were hesitate to get involved.
I do ask him to differentiate true friends and bad friends. I ask him who are there who visited you when you landed in hospital after a car accident. TKD friends he said. Wow... it really a long story I've said and explained to him....... Just too many to be said it all here.

All the best for him.
Cheers

P/S: For my student who read this, do ask me what lesson he learned. It is really a point for us to ponder. I guess I explain better in words than writting.