The young fire fighter! the event was fantastic!
Prince
Monday, September 12, 2005
Sunday, September 11, 2005
Prince: Can you learn by looking at one side?
How far can you go in your working life, study life and your tedious life without the aspiration to learn? It is very sad to see that human being set confinement on their learning curve due to the lack of the thought of learning, for example, you can learn a great deal with reading, writing, playing and other routine activities, provided that you are equipped with the thought of learning which enable you to be receptive and ponder at the macro perspective.
Talk about reading, it is not so simply about reading an interesting article, an intriguing story, or history, if you read it so just to spend your time, then you will not be able to learn and comprehend thoroughly the underlying value. You may just admire the surface; it is like judging a book by its cover.
How much can one person learns in one life is solely depend on that person willingness to open up their mind, without being carried away by their emotion at that moment. It is hard, of course, to stay at a neutral ground in any particular learning platform, nevertheless, this is the only way to judge matter rationally so as to achieve optimum learning experience.
This is what the old one deem as ‘elite thinking’, to become an elite thinker, you shall not only look at one object at only one angle, but to ponder the object at different angle, certainly, you also must not take or defense your underlying thinking, in such a way that acting against the new concept.
The process involves read, understand and related, when you read, you are not just reading but also understanding the underlying value, then you relates it to share with people who has zero knowledge, it will become a viral knowledge that spread along the community, and knowledge can carry along from generation to generation. However, if this does not happen, then the opportunity for other to learn was deprived!
Think about University professor, who, if teach you only one side of the story or theory, either all about the good story or all about the bad story, under this circumstance, will you be able to learn more? One must not always stay on one path, the old one deems the outdated figure as traditional because they can not hold up to new meaning in life, and when you aren’t able to accept the fact, which has been proved generally effective with wide adoption, then you are more than just traditional.
Talk about reading, it is not so simply about reading an interesting article, an intriguing story, or history, if you read it so just to spend your time, then you will not be able to learn and comprehend thoroughly the underlying value. You may just admire the surface; it is like judging a book by its cover.
How much can one person learns in one life is solely depend on that person willingness to open up their mind, without being carried away by their emotion at that moment. It is hard, of course, to stay at a neutral ground in any particular learning platform, nevertheless, this is the only way to judge matter rationally so as to achieve optimum learning experience.
This is what the old one deem as ‘elite thinking’, to become an elite thinker, you shall not only look at one object at only one angle, but to ponder the object at different angle, certainly, you also must not take or defense your underlying thinking, in such a way that acting against the new concept.
The process involves read, understand and related, when you read, you are not just reading but also understanding the underlying value, then you relates it to share with people who has zero knowledge, it will become a viral knowledge that spread along the community, and knowledge can carry along from generation to generation. However, if this does not happen, then the opportunity for other to learn was deprived!
Think about University professor, who, if teach you only one side of the story or theory, either all about the good story or all about the bad story, under this circumstance, will you be able to learn more? One must not always stay on one path, the old one deems the outdated figure as traditional because they can not hold up to new meaning in life, and when you aren’t able to accept the fact, which has been proved generally effective with wide adoption, then you are more than just traditional.
Saturday, September 10, 2005
Prince:Blame...
Have you ever been into a situation where you are being blame for the irresponsibility of others? Yes, many of us would have experience it once or more, prince believes. In work place for example, when many projects are in progress, company tends to manipulate the existing resources by appointing chairperson and vice chairperson, and one can be a chairperson in certain projects, and vice chairperson in other projects, this is to share the heavy responsibility among others. But, under certain circumstances, when your chairperson was an irresponsible person, then you will have to take up heavier responsibility on your side, and worse still, you bear the risk of being blame for any failure that shall occurs.
This would happen when your chairperson is not a good employee after all. He may leave you a lot of follow up work, or let you clean up the messy ending but never even inform you about you duty of doing it. When problem occurs, they will simply hide away, and let you take the blame! Stressful isn’t it? Of course, stressful and life is full of worry since you will not know when the next escapade is! There is one way to solve the problem, where you can talk to your superior about the situation, and constantly update them about your responsibilities through emailing, the least; they know that you are doing your part. Meanwhile, you need to be transparent to your colleague, who leaves you the blame, at least, hint them your dislike! Many of us afraid of losing a friend or a good colleague, thus, they do not dare to be transparent in any situation required. This could be wrong.
This would happen when your chairperson is not a good employee after all. He may leave you a lot of follow up work, or let you clean up the messy ending but never even inform you about you duty of doing it. When problem occurs, they will simply hide away, and let you take the blame! Stressful isn’t it? Of course, stressful and life is full of worry since you will not know when the next escapade is! There is one way to solve the problem, where you can talk to your superior about the situation, and constantly update them about your responsibilities through emailing, the least; they know that you are doing your part. Meanwhile, you need to be transparent to your colleague, who leaves you the blame, at least, hint them your dislike! Many of us afraid of losing a friend or a good colleague, thus, they do not dare to be transparent in any situation required. This could be wrong.
Friday, September 09, 2005
Prince: Life has problems! even planning!
Do you believe that every problem will have solution, and that every plan will have problem? This is human life, and no way, you can run away from this nature behavior of life. In management, people are talking about planning, but they do not understand the meaning of planning, whereby, it bounds to have problem because no plan is perfect. It is sad to see many manager to adopt the belief that plan should be no problem in the execution. May be they are bound by their own wisdom, and they should be learning about life philosophy before they are able to lead!
Thursday, September 08, 2005
Prince: Synchronize...
Prince heard this from his previous superior, Mr. Kit, during an event speech. Prince can’t remember who the scientist was but he remembers the theory. There was a man who owned two pendulum clocks in his house, one day, when he was going out for a lunch appointment; he noticed that both pendulum clocks were swinging at a different direction.
An hour later, when he came back from his lunch, to his amaze, he found out that the two pendulum clocks were eventually, swing synchronously. He researched the nature of the pendulum swing, and devised the synchronization theory.
The theory tells that, when two pendulums are put together in one room, even though it swings at different direction, but it will eventually swing synchronously.
Same to human being, we will be able to ‘synchronize’ when all human being stays together for quite a period of time; it is similar to pendulum swings synchronously. Certainly, there must be one objective to achieve.
An hour later, when he came back from his lunch, to his amaze, he found out that the two pendulum clocks were eventually, swing synchronously. He researched the nature of the pendulum swing, and devised the synchronization theory.
The theory tells that, when two pendulums are put together in one room, even though it swings at different direction, but it will eventually swing synchronously.
Same to human being, we will be able to ‘synchronize’ when all human being stays together for quite a period of time; it is similar to pendulum swings synchronously. Certainly, there must be one objective to achieve.
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Prince: Still need trust in management...
Prince has a presentation today, about one of a minor project he involved. His CEO said he was too conservative in drafting the proposal. At least, prince feels that he obtains the trust from the management when the word ‘go ahead’ was voiced.
Prince has doubt about the trust that being laid on him by the management, because in many occasion, management has indirectly related prince as less of trust. The recent occasion, when prince was told to show lack of nationalism in company, the situation put company as country which indirectly assumed prince to be in such behavior.
For so many months working in the company, prince has built their trust slowly, but unfortunately, it is not enough. Simply, prince’s outlook may be the major hindrance to him. He may need to re-look into his own character now (Perhaps). However, prince still feels careless about it, because he believes only in his own self, and he knows, he is committed to company.
Prince has doubt about the trust that being laid on him by the management, because in many occasion, management has indirectly related prince as less of trust. The recent occasion, when prince was told to show lack of nationalism in company, the situation put company as country which indirectly assumed prince to be in such behavior.
For so many months working in the company, prince has built their trust slowly, but unfortunately, it is not enough. Simply, prince’s outlook may be the major hindrance to him. He may need to re-look into his own character now (Perhaps). However, prince still feels careless about it, because he believes only in his own self, and he knows, he is committed to company.
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
Prince: Reality still needs Contigency...
The reality about management and the practical implementation are hardly in line. Very often, management talked about their expansion plan but forget to draft the contingency plan that allowed them to look into the problem that may occur. When you are too indulge in expressing your view, you may have forgone that many others to have a different perception on what you have to say, because they are able to look at the wider picture, and may have doubt about what you got to say.
Of course, nothing is impossible; solving a problem is every human being’s instinct. However, if they are not psychologically prepared for problem due to their indulgence in their own plan, it can cause serious problem then you have ever thought of.
You may talk about how much you want to do, but if you forgone the fundamental problem that may arise in implementing your thought, then you can be easily given up in the process, or it may halt your plan from branching.
Of course, nothing is impossible; solving a problem is every human being’s instinct. However, if they are not psychologically prepared for problem due to their indulgence in their own plan, it can cause serious problem then you have ever thought of.
You may talk about how much you want to do, but if you forgone the fundamental problem that may arise in implementing your thought, then you can be easily given up in the process, or it may halt your plan from branching.
Monday, September 05, 2005
Prince: Oppress...
Prince was asked to be patient many times by different people from different background, even though he feels being oppress in work place, whereby, idea wasn’t allow to be executed accordingly. Different in thought may be a major hassle to all, secondly, the power struggle that stop prince from functioning? Very often, human being is influenced by the ‘religious idiosyncrasy’, this type of behavior tends to be aggressively impart own value into other, with the hope of transforming someone into similar behavior. This type of people will only believe in own value, idea and thought. They will be happier to see people implement their idea than other using their own idea, and they will try their ever best to force their thought to be in placed. When you come across this type of behavior, adopts ‘look see’ strategy to protect your position, or on the opposite, ‘offensive strategy’ to defense your stand till your grave!
Sunday, September 04, 2005
Prince: Lies Detector
Prince was taught about human character / behavior and the causation effect since young, he can not stop himself from reading and observing people around. Initially, he was taught about this because his master does not want him to be cheated by people in the society; somehow, it brings a considerable consequence.
Prince can’t claim to be the best, but he was a lies detector in himself, he knows when people brag, he knows when people lies, and he can’t help it. It is inside of him. The instinct used to prevent him to making more friends until 2 years ago when he met up with his master again in hometown. Only then his master enlightens him that every human being tells lies before! Every human being is not honest creatures! Human being is not holy unless you are a monk.
His master said, “You learn about the technique but you don’t understand the philosophy, if you don’t understand, then you will not be able to be receptive because the fact is, every human being tell lies and not honest, because they are not holy, that’s why you tend to lose your trust whenever you come across someone.”, he continue, “you must not let your knowledge becomes a barrier, but to develop it, now that you know every human being is a liar, because every human being lies before, then you must learn to accept the fact, but, also learn how to identify those human being tells the most lies, only then you walk out from your own shadow!.”
Now that prince has learned, to make friend with everyone and trust every one in the circle, because he realizes that, no human being is holy. Somehow, he can not help to control his instinct who tells him quietly in his heart about something……
Prince can’t claim to be the best, but he was a lies detector in himself, he knows when people brag, he knows when people lies, and he can’t help it. It is inside of him. The instinct used to prevent him to making more friends until 2 years ago when he met up with his master again in hometown. Only then his master enlightens him that every human being tells lies before! Every human being is not honest creatures! Human being is not holy unless you are a monk.
His master said, “You learn about the technique but you don’t understand the philosophy, if you don’t understand, then you will not be able to be receptive because the fact is, every human being tell lies and not honest, because they are not holy, that’s why you tend to lose your trust whenever you come across someone.”, he continue, “you must not let your knowledge becomes a barrier, but to develop it, now that you know every human being is a liar, because every human being lies before, then you must learn to accept the fact, but, also learn how to identify those human being tells the most lies, only then you walk out from your own shadow!.”
Now that prince has learned, to make friend with everyone and trust every one in the circle, because he realizes that, no human being is holy. Somehow, he can not help to control his instinct who tells him quietly in his heart about something……
Saturday, September 03, 2005
Prince: Human-Animal Instinct
Prince realized that human has no different than any other creatures in this world when he found out that a stray cat gave birth to 4 kittens a few days ago. The stray cat is very protective of her 4 babies; she has set herself a comfort zone whereby no one is able to walk across. Once she saw a moving object, her eye will stare on it; it is like waiting for an order to attack. However, the situation will be different, if the cat is belong to you. As a master of your cat, you certainly, will be able to do almost anything on her, for example, hugging her babies, feeding, touching her and many more. This is probably built on trust, because your cat trusts you.
Similarly, human shares the same instinct because you will not allow anyone to enter your house, room or any compound you deem as comfort zone at which you feel secure upon. You tend to become furious once your secure zone was breached because you are acting on self defense. You will start acting on self-defense when you realize that someone is looking or strolling around you secure zone even though they aren’t do it on purpose. This is the nature of human being. However, if you trust the person in breach, there shall not be breach anymore. This is the animal instinct attach to human body.
Trust is one element that affect human to act upon animal instinct but when ponder deeply, prince found that, it can link to more elements. For example, if you have done something wrong, you tend to react on your self-defense, it is like police trying to enter a compound full of drug addicts, they (drug addict / trafficker) will run, or fight back because their secure / comfort zone was breached.
Similarly, human shares the same instinct because you will not allow anyone to enter your house, room or any compound you deem as comfort zone at which you feel secure upon. You tend to become furious once your secure zone was breached because you are acting on self defense. You will start acting on self-defense when you realize that someone is looking or strolling around you secure zone even though they aren’t do it on purpose. This is the nature of human being. However, if you trust the person in breach, there shall not be breach anymore. This is the animal instinct attach to human body.
Trust is one element that affect human to act upon animal instinct but when ponder deeply, prince found that, it can link to more elements. For example, if you have done something wrong, you tend to react on your self-defense, it is like police trying to enter a compound full of drug addicts, they (drug addict / trafficker) will run, or fight back because their secure / comfort zone was breached.
Friday, September 02, 2005
Prince: "Synergy"
There is no way you can accommodate or adapt to a character which you know is wrong, however it is not impossible after all, to accept or adapt to one character. It is also not impossible to synergy the character which needs a lot of give and take. Both ways work through but arrive at a different outcome and consequences, one for long term (synergy) and the other for short term (adaptive). The most difficult part is to make the other party understand of what should be amended, because every human being lives through their age, and it is very difficult, for example, to ask a human who has a bad temper to be patient, because he could have lived with the bad habit for the past 20 years! You are asking him / her to change a 20 years routine, similarly, you are asking for his death…sigh…human character is difficult to understand and change if they are not opening their mind wide enough…
Thursday, September 01, 2005
Prince:Tough Luck...
Prince wonders what is wrong with his luck this month, because bad incident seems to arrive pretty soon and in a series. He lost his laptop and one of his hand phone in a burglary, not long after, his current hand phone broke down, and need RM 100 to repair (but he only purchased it at RM 200 6 months ago!) When working, office network is going up and down due to wiring problem, and no technician seem to be able to fix it right! It halts prince’s productivity and efficiency in delivering professional service to his company!
Prince:Ancient History...
That night hanging out in Seri Kembangan with Fion, Kevin, Foong Peng and Siew Ci, had allowed prince to recall what he had read since young about China ancient history about war, it reminded prince about Zhu Geliang, Liu Bei, Chang Fei & Guan Di, when Siew Ci literally said that she liked to read China ancient history.
When reading a history, it requires you to look into the meaning and understanding the underlying moral value in order to widen your thought and wisdom. Prince still remember the scene whereby, Guan Di was killed because of his arrogance that the enemy troops will not be able to engage his own troop, but eventually he fell into the trap and die under the thousand arrows from enemy. Prince ponders deeply, and realizes how the word arrogance can destroy a person; even a life can be sacrifice.
The story not yet ends in this way, Liu Bei, as the king of his kingdom, lost his best comrade. He called for a revenge and raised a troop of hundred of thousand, to declare a war against Country Wei (if prince still remember vividly). Zhu Geliang was then an adviser for Liu Bei, realized that it is not the time to declare war against country Wei since the troop had just been defeated. But Zhu Geliang did not voice out his view to Liu Bei, instead, he allowed Liu Bei on his decision.
One of the general asked Zhu Geliang, ‘Why aren’t you stop our king from the war?’, Zhu Geliang said, ‘At this moment, when our king was carried away by the vengeance of the moment, he will not take any advice from us anymore, any additional words against his will, will be treated as committing a treason’.
Prince, again, thought deeply, and realized the fact that, it is true when someone was too much indulge with his own perspective, such as in relationship, when the old one said, love is blind because they are too indulging into a relationship that halt them from thinking properly.
Liu Bei with his troop walked against their enemy, he set his tent at a location whereby his enemy can easily cut his water supply, and set fire against his troop. Zhu Geliang received the location map where Liu Bei set his tent, and surprised by Liu Bei ignorant about the strategy and location, quickly, he sent a soldier to advise Liu Bei to change his position against his enemy, but Liu Bei was too arrogant to take his advice. Zhu Geliang was very sad because he knew the consequences.
The next day, Liu Bei soldier shouted, ‘Fire’, by the time Liu Bei realized his own mistake, half of the troop was burnt to death, and was killed by their enemy, As a result from that, Liu Bei had to retreat, and it caused the country to take a defensive approach for a few years before they can start to raise a war against others. Prince learns a great deal about the story, whereby, arrogance can destroy a person, and when you are being carried away by the moment, no advice you can accept, except your own view.
When reading a history, it requires you to look into the meaning and understanding the underlying moral value in order to widen your thought and wisdom. Prince still remember the scene whereby, Guan Di was killed because of his arrogance that the enemy troops will not be able to engage his own troop, but eventually he fell into the trap and die under the thousand arrows from enemy. Prince ponders deeply, and realizes how the word arrogance can destroy a person; even a life can be sacrifice.
The story not yet ends in this way, Liu Bei, as the king of his kingdom, lost his best comrade. He called for a revenge and raised a troop of hundred of thousand, to declare a war against Country Wei (if prince still remember vividly). Zhu Geliang was then an adviser for Liu Bei, realized that it is not the time to declare war against country Wei since the troop had just been defeated. But Zhu Geliang did not voice out his view to Liu Bei, instead, he allowed Liu Bei on his decision.
One of the general asked Zhu Geliang, ‘Why aren’t you stop our king from the war?’, Zhu Geliang said, ‘At this moment, when our king was carried away by the vengeance of the moment, he will not take any advice from us anymore, any additional words against his will, will be treated as committing a treason’.
Prince, again, thought deeply, and realized the fact that, it is true when someone was too much indulge with his own perspective, such as in relationship, when the old one said, love is blind because they are too indulging into a relationship that halt them from thinking properly.
Liu Bei with his troop walked against their enemy, he set his tent at a location whereby his enemy can easily cut his water supply, and set fire against his troop. Zhu Geliang received the location map where Liu Bei set his tent, and surprised by Liu Bei ignorant about the strategy and location, quickly, he sent a soldier to advise Liu Bei to change his position against his enemy, but Liu Bei was too arrogant to take his advice. Zhu Geliang was very sad because he knew the consequences.
The next day, Liu Bei soldier shouted, ‘Fire’, by the time Liu Bei realized his own mistake, half of the troop was burnt to death, and was killed by their enemy, As a result from that, Liu Bei had to retreat, and it caused the country to take a defensive approach for a few years before they can start to raise a war against others. Prince learns a great deal about the story, whereby, arrogance can destroy a person, and when you are being carried away by the moment, no advice you can accept, except your own view.
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Prince: Assumption
Prince has made a wrong assumption due to a few series of even happening around lately, at which he should have realized the underlying fact about the incident, and that he should have stood on his neutral ground to take into consideration of other factors.
Sometimes, when event is occurring in your life once, may give have given you the wrong idea of what has happened, and when it happens twice, it gives you another emphasize effect of what has happen and what you have assumed earlier on, which strengthen your belief.
This, sometime, may be wrong, the wrong-doer, may be another party who did not convey the right message across to the other. For example, when A told B to do something on behalf on C, B may have doubt of what C may have in mind, B may assume this is what C needs in the process, further at this junction, if C makes another move which may create an emphasized effect on what B has assumed initially, will eventually strengthen the assumption of what C has in mind.
It may be too naïve to believe only in A, without finding the fact, as if what A wants B to do for C is what C want. At this junction, when looking back and evaluate, 2 mistakes have been committed, firstly, A may have a miscommunication with C which lead to another misunderstanding, secondly, B assumes C needs ‘what to be done’. The emphasized effect comes in, if C unintentionally mentions to B something that may have related to what need to be done, and then it will strengthen B perception of what should be done or what C wants.
Sometimes, when event is occurring in your life once, may give have given you the wrong idea of what has happened, and when it happens twice, it gives you another emphasize effect of what has happen and what you have assumed earlier on, which strengthen your belief.
This, sometime, may be wrong, the wrong-doer, may be another party who did not convey the right message across to the other. For example, when A told B to do something on behalf on C, B may have doubt of what C may have in mind, B may assume this is what C needs in the process, further at this junction, if C makes another move which may create an emphasized effect on what B has assumed initially, will eventually strengthen the assumption of what C has in mind.
It may be too naïve to believe only in A, without finding the fact, as if what A wants B to do for C is what C want. At this junction, when looking back and evaluate, 2 mistakes have been committed, firstly, A may have a miscommunication with C which lead to another misunderstanding, secondly, B assumes C needs ‘what to be done’. The emphasized effect comes in, if C unintentionally mentions to B something that may have related to what need to be done, and then it will strengthen B perception of what should be done or what C wants.
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