无奈

Today, I have a bad day;

I know it is not good and I am not supposed to say that;

Still, I just want to shout that out... .... ...It just brought me back to the same situation I have when I tendered my resignation 9 months ago;

I feel.... .... .... demotivated by whatever negative messages my superior said to me;

pressured for the ever increasing workloads;

frustrated by the people problems;

weary by the tight / hectic working schedules and long working hours;

worst, work so hard / much, return never get proportionately to my contribution.

Once again, these devastating emotion just crushed my heart that I just hate it......

However, I will remember this feeling. So that I can work towards my personal goals in order for myself to run away from "THE HELL".

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Later in the same day, I went to KLCC to listen to a symphony orchestra perfomance by Malaysia Philmornic Orchestra. It is a beautiful evening cause the MPO was giving the performance under the baton of MuHai Tang. One of the music they played, is the popular chinese "Festive Overture" composed by late chinese composer Mr Lee Huan Zi. I used to listen to this music 22,000 times (may be more) with my music lover friends during my secondary schooling time. We used to have a wonderful time together when I was in the Chinese Orchestra in my secondary shcool. We just approached music with a pure and innocent mind. Nothing more than that, and doing what we love and passionate about.

Just like MuHai Tang and all the other musician performed this evening, I believe, they are doing what they like. But, I am not. Every single day is a challenging day for me, my emotion and mood can swing from the top to the valley and shoot up to the sky again. It all depends my works.... .... .... When working in such environment, argument, disagreement, politics, people problems, are all unavoidable. And I am suprised that most of my collegues simply carried too much negative energy with them, many just complain, complain, complain, and complain. I just wonder how these things surrounded me can affect my mind actually. I almost can not remember how do I feel when I listen to a piece of music during my secondary school. I just lost it... ... ...

Day by day, I am becoming more and more melancholic... .... ... sometimes.

It takes a while for me to pull everything together. And I will remember all these bad feeling, so that it will reinforce my decision to realise my dream.

I will do that, and I will realise my dream.

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Believe, or not?

How many of us hold an absolute trust and faith in our self that we can accomplish whatever goals that we want to achieve? Today, I have the great opportunity to attend the seminar by one of the most successful women from the States. One of the many powerful message conveyed by her is that we should maintain a positive mental attitude to believe that we can do it. We should believe that we are protected by the high spirits and maintain a positive energy whenever we are and whatever we do. In that way, we can use our positive energy to change many things.

It is important that we tell ourself "we can do it" consciously, otherwise our subconscious mind will ensure that we don't do it. It is also important we envision our own success frequently so that we can have that "Desire" and momentum/imperatives to get there. No wonder, Albert Einstein once say that "imagination is more important than knowledge".

Well, of course. It is never easy to get our dream materialised. But that is our challenge to be who we want to be and to ultimately become who we are. If we really want to do it, our faith will find the way otherwise we get only excuses.

Thanks Miriam that you have imbued so many powerful message in me. I truly hit by all things you say and I truly feel your positive energy that you carried. I hope you can share your wisdom and wealth with more people.

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Buy Low, Sell High

Financial Management or Corporate Finance is one of the favorite subjects for those who study accounting and/or finance in university because that is how we, as a students, learn how to trade in a share market, how to make money, etc. One of the principle fascinated us is:- Buy Low Sell High, being that we trade the securities (shares) through buying the shares at its lower price and then sell at its higher price, which will result in a profit position. It sound so easy.

And yet, what happen? We still see people get their fortune flushed away overnight during whenever there is a massive market crash. And this happens many times, consistently, in many different place throughout the recent history that we can remember. The economic cycle has simply become shorter and shorter just as our living pace accelerates.

The so called "Buy Low", may sound a little bit misleading. I wonder if it is our "Kia Su mentality" (怕输心态) that intensify our price elasticity. Well, I acknowledge that life here is slightly tough, as a result we always waiting for "SALE" or "Value Buy".

But anyone who can relate the reason having a sale in a store to the reason why the stock price is low can find out how useless the "Buy Low" principle is. Obviously, when a company is offering sales on their products, it is likely that their products is obsolete (or defect, opps) or that they are not doing so well and hence stock clearing come in. When we link this to shares which has tumbled let say from RM50 to RM15, so what is the reason we are looking at here? Obviously I don't know because I am not an insider or an expert. However, doesn't this mean that this particular tumbling stock is, by its very own nature, a weak one? Why someone would wants to buy weak stocks since the probability of getting return / yield is lower............... I don't know why.

Worst, what kind of assurance we have to tell us that the stocks we purchased is at is lowest price and how do we know how far it can go up.

Do you know? I don’t know.

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WINNERSKENN JOJOBOY

Name: Winnerskenn Jojoboy ("Smokey")

species:- Canine

Breed: Shih Tzu

Date of Birth:- 1 August 2003

Sex:- Male

Colour:- TriColour

This is a dog I help my friend adopt from a pet shelter in Subang. I am lucky to find a pure breed dog because most of the dog available for adoption in pet shelter are mix breed stray/abandon dogs.

He is 4 years old and was kept in the cage from the day he was born due to his physical defect. When he was rescued he is very thin and could not even walk properly because he has been chained in cage for such a long time. He is very obedient. Since he is coated with grey fur, I helped my friend named him "Smokey".

I urge all the pet lover to love your pet because it is very important to know that we are "everything" to them.

Quotes you need to know... ... ...

a) In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

b) Our most profitable lessons are learned from failure, not success - Frank Davidson

c) There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power. - Honore de Balzac

d) I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble - Hellen Keller

e) Patience and fortitude conquer all thing - Emerson

f) If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you will find an excuse - Jim Rohn

g) Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground - Theodore Roosevelt

h) It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly - Mabel Newcomber

i) There are no such things as problems, only temporary situations without a solutions.

j) Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

k) There is always a better way; your challenge is to find it.

l) Life is like a grindstone, whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends on what you're made of.


m) Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. Neglect nothing. - Angelique Arnauld

n) To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life. - Robert Louis Stevenson.


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Delayed sleep-phase syndrome

On 15 January 2008, I walked into a pharmacy and ask for medicine to make me fall into sleep. I always has sleeping problem, possibly caused by my bad sleeping habit while I was young. This problem exacerbates while I am in my current job, long working hours is required for sure as I am working in an audit firm. As a result, we tend to go back late. My problem is more on inability to sleep early and unable to get up in the morning due to overnight fatigue or short sleeping hours.

And the problem becomes worst to the extent that I come to work two hours late, which is very bad.

Because of this, I decided to control my own sleeping hours. So I start read somethings about insomnia. When I Google it, I find out various type of sleeplessness:- from the most common insomnia to something like, sleep inertia, advanced sleep phase syndrome (contrary to my sleep problem), non 24 hours sleep wake syndrome, etc.

Definitely I don't need sleeping pills to make me sleep , Delayed sleep-phase syndrome (DSPS), is a chronic disorder of the timing of sleep, peak period of alertness. People with DSPS tend to fall asleep well after midnight and also have difficulty waking up in the morning.

I often cannot sleep until early morning, which is after 2am (at least) and have a normal need for sleep. Therefore, I find it very difficult to wake up in time for a typical work day since I have only slept for a few hours. However, I can sleep soundly, wake up spontaneously, and do not feel sleepy again until my next "night" if I am allowed to follow my own late schedule.

Worst, I can not simply take a nap during noon or evening, cause If I do, I will not be able to sleep before 4am. I also maintain several alarm clocks and always ask my housemate, family to wake me up if there is any urgent meeting I need to attend early in the morning.

In conclusion, my biological clock inside my body is in a state of disorder. And because of that, I believe that I have been stereotyped as an undisciplined person.

Well, research / report also shows that half of the DSPS patients has clinical depression, wow, do I have it? No idea, but I believe that my works is giving me lots of stress cause I keep thinking about it most of the time, deadlines, deadlines, deadlines... ... ... On the other hand, it could be that DSPS is causing my depression cause it is such an disorder which I can not expect other to understand.

Well, I just need to see doctor........................... may be. T.T

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My BLOG

Everytime I read my friends' blog, I am kind of envious of their blog because it is kind of cool to share your views online with others. As a result, I tell myself "why not I also have one?".

Starting one is just difficult due to my busy work schedule. Worst still, I just have no idea what to write, what topic to write, worry about my writing skills, etc. It is good that my friends tell me to "LET MYSELF GO". Write anything you like, and most important, practice make things perfect.

Initially I wanted to write in Chinese because I am Chinese educated, I reckon that it will be easier for me to express my thought in Chinese as compared to English. However, my slow Chinese typing skills has made me decided to type in English, which is faster and also allows me a chance to practise my English.

I start cracking my head what Blog name to give.... ... After much consideration, I decided to name it 水岚. The fist word means water literally, and the second word is kind of rare. The upper part of the second word means mountain and the down part of the second word means wind, hence it refers to some kind of "mountain wind" while the actual meaning of the second word means mist / fog in the mountain. One can pronounces it "Shui Lan". But in combination the name carries with it lots of elements from the "great nature".

One may enquire the meaning of 水岚 and in fact, there is no meaning. Haha, I just simply jumble these two words here. One of my friends actually advised me to change it to 幽岚，which sound better and carries a meaning with it, but i don;t like it cause it sounds spooky to me.

Anyway, hope can have more "BullShit" here to share with all my friends.

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