BE HATED>GET HURT>GO HOLIDAY!!!

Today, I kinda got caught up at a Game of Truth.
When the saucer turned to you.....*Dummies Guide to Rules of Truth!*
1. You'll be tasked to ask someone around the table anything.
2. And that someone must say nothing but the Truth.

Believe sometimes hearing back our own Truths got us into perspective.
Perspective of what matters. what is honest. what is human. I'm not flawless.

Someone asked me if I'm serious in getting back to all these blogs/webs stuffs.
Probably b'coz I never was?:-)

and seriously yeah I'm looking into getting my personal one stop online portal!
you know an integrated platform where your friends, family, clients, even fans etc.
can get daily updates from you, stay in touch with you, discuss your the latest craze yada yada....

BUT even more profound why 'Defy, Stand Up & Be Counted'?

Defy has been my motto in life and work.
Stand Up & Be Counted was what hit me when one of S.E.C. Advisor's Ms Tan voiced it!
So time to innovate!.....put it together and there you go....Defy, Stand Up & Be Counted.

But that's too simplistic huh? Ok...here's the Truth:
If I were ever to give you three advice; it would be these:

BE HATED.
You should be striving to be loved right? Why the other way round you asked?
Poor is the man whose actions are only meant to seek the approval of another.
These souls will never truly gain the true respect of another and worst themselves.
All the time you could be trying to be quiet in class for the teacher to like you.
Trying to splurge mindlessly on your sweetheart to win to his/her heart.
Trying to be the ultimate Yes Man to your boss.....

Yet you know how it all turned out be it in love or in work.
WE have the WRONG IDEA of how to be loved.
Love is not selling our souls and be dogs to those we hope for love in return.
and Love is not the same with Attention!
Be Yourself matters so much, you cannot bother what your neighbours will gossip.
The fact they engage in that instead of more productive work means they're not very successful.
So you probably shouldn't concern yourself with them. You're another class.
Those who mind do not matter, those who matter do not mind.
It's about your personal USP. Your Brand. Your Legacy.
If you aren't being hated greatly, you aren't being loved deeply either.
No publicity is bad publicity. Better to be hated than be ignored.
The former has influence as strong as love itself- there's a thin line of difference between both!; the latter not.
Be yourself. Wrong. Be your BEST SELF. You'll be loved & you'll fall in love with yourself.
Be Hated my dear. DEFY.

GET HURT.
The truth is I'm not as perfect as some people think I am.
Perfect all-rounder? Polished? Good at everything? Except joining them at parties perhaps?
All these always amused me.
There I was a kid who trembled on stage, having inferiority complex, OCD and whatever not.
All these shall pass. I told myself.
Today, I'm grateful to all my mentors, my grandparents, my family, my hangout friends, my past girlfriends and all those who ever made me a better man.
It's actually not lonely though sometimes you may feel so.

Should I not be ridiculed, still fail at something everyday, still trying to improve my character...
I wouldn't have been good. Everytime that I had experienced hurt, I grew.
Anything that doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
If you ever wondered why I pushed myself so hard, it's b'coz of this philosophy.
Reflecting muscle building, unless the tissues are tore none will bulk up.
Everything is DO or DIE. No turning back. Cannot spend time sighing.
Perhaps that's why you felt I can be really SERIOUS.
Only when you decide it's a MUST will you ever succeed.
Only when you risk going too far, will you discover how much further you can go.
The pain of regret far outweighs the pain of discipline. One Life. Love Ya.
At least, I tried to express the totality of me; and honor the Source.
You may laugh. I could got knocked down. BUT at least I have a story to tell, do you?
Fall down Seven times. Get up Eight. A Japanese proverb.
Get Hurt my friends. and STAND UP.

GO HOLIDAY.
Ever wonder why you have stress? Why you hated work? hated school? hated your life?
B'coz we so often have the wrong programming. wrong perspective.
Who says you were meant to have all the money to throw at birth?
Who says your first love must be your last and how he/she is supposed to look like?
Who says you shouldn't die of cancer and you should have the parking space?
These are our fantasies pre-set WE SET and if they weren't met we got frustrated.
Life isn't about positive thinking and all things positive.
Law of Duality. yin and yang. to have both is balanced. is best. is true perfection.
Perfection means enjoying the goodness in life while being grateful for the bad that makes the good possible and deserving.

You should work like mad! If not, your life isn't a life worth living.
You spend a majority of time working and sleeping.
YET all you bother is how to sneak away from both.
If you love basketball, you should be a player.
You say you're not qualified? Fine. How about sports blogger, basketball retail owner, basketball competitions/ kids camp organizer, basketball online merchandise seller, basketball Playstation game guide author, be a basketball club/ complex owner, academy founder, be a fanclub president......?
There got to be a way to do it. To make your play your work. And fall in love with work.
You no longer take 14 days annual leave. You don't need that. Your holiday is work.
Make your vocation your vacation.
If you do what you love and love what you do you'll have success your whole life through!
How about my salary? You probabaly aren't making enough for your retirement now either....
Be entrepreneurial. Period.
More important than that. Your Dharma. Perhaps yours is basketball.
You can serve humanity best through basketball.
It could be food, travel, watching TV, or even shopping....
but make your hobby a cash machine simultaneously.
You don't have time to do both?: work and play. Integrate then!
Don't waste time elsewhere except for your destiny's preparation:-)
Still kept Hardrock Cafe's card: Love All, Serve All.
Go Holiday ya. BE COUNTED.

Here's our parting video in this post:
May You Find Your Happy Ending Too.........:-)




***DEFY, STAND UP & BE COUNTED!!!***