Monday, February 13, 2012

Was listening to Drew Dudley, when he mentioned that leadership is a term that we often overestimate, as we often think that it must be earth shaking, revolution making, or trend starter, so he came up with the observation that we have made leadership into something bigger than us, that this label requires certain level of cockiness and arrogance to be pasted on ourselves, such that we often devalue things that we did that influence people's life. As such, actually, many of our actions that made an impact on people's life are not remembered, that at times people might go to you and thank you for being an important person in his or her life but you have completely forgotten what you did. Also, it's also because so that we seldom thank those people that had made impacts in your life, and instead celebrate birthdays years after years where what it takes is just to survive 364 days of the year, but a small action could make a difference of a lifetime.

Then on facebook I was commenting about how the randomness of the world works in such an amazing way, that connects us, and thus we have random people popping into our lives by sch, by random chat, by facebook. Then someone commented: Wow, like pokemon, Wild Mr.Yap appears... haha so I replied, that life is indeed pokemon..... wild problems appear, we can run from it, of it can run from us, or we can tackle it using experiences from previous problems (captured pokemons), or we can capture the problem and use it in future =D and ofcoz, problems can evolve as time goes by with experience, we need badges to control them, and also, with that, it attracts challenges of higher difficulty, and finally, there are lots of trainers out there to throw problems at us too.

Today, couple of saddening news broke about the departure of few renowned celebrities, Feng Fei Fei, and a little late news of Whitney Houston.

‎"I've led a happy and interesting life. Thank you, my brothers and sisters, for the exciting moments I've experienced.

"For the songs I've yet to sing, I will sing to you in my next life."


- Feng Fei Fei

I especially love her 掌聲響起, it speaks about the importance of recognition and sense of achievement after many setbacks and efforts to brace the storm.

For Whitney Houston, her powerful and pure voice pierced through the ceiling of "normal vocals", "When You Believe", without doubt, is one of the most uplifting song, with such a legendary singer for her partner. Then, her "Saving All My Love For You", she sang it with so much gusto, so expressive. And ofcoz, her "Greatest Love Of All", just like the talk above, mentioned about giving pat to your self. We can give thanks to many many people, but dont forget to give ourselves a little credit too. There are lines in the song that speaks: "children are our future, teach them well and let them lead the way, show them all the beauty they possess inside". And that "Everyone is searching for a hero, someone to look up to". This is really true for kids, especially when I started volunteering at SCC, till now, if given chance, I would want to be on some of their sides, to jaga them, to see them grow, to give them support.

Psy today was cool, lots of interesting therapy that Im exposed of. Started to think about some of them and so on. Especially play therapy, however I was thinking, what if the client acted that way due to media influences? So it wont determine that he or she has that problem, it is basically learnt from TV. But the stress or anger management is cool, shall adopt it someday. The doodling one too. Wow, it sort of make me curious about those "gifts" I received from some people, like is there underlying issues? Hmm.... haha.

Right, V-day, hmm, forever alone. haha, well gonna catch Wedding Diaries at Katong, 8pm show. =D Was at Katong few days back, there was this roadshow, giving out prizes to couples that compete, or sharing their favourite love song. How I wish I had a spontaneous gurl, that we can spend whole day having fun, getting freebies and takign lots and lots of pictures together. Extinct. Haha. And so it seems.

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