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Recently, I was informed by that one of our close friends kana a critical illness and needed to go for urgent ops which will cost hellavulot. And for all good reasons from the past, I decided to volunteer myself to help her raise funds for the ops.

So I asked another 2 good friends to help and we decided to draft an email and send out. It turned out unsuccessful and we decided to do it via sms.

It was really interesting the way things turned out… Let me explain. I smsed out to 5 close bros who are quite close to her during our uni days. I smsed that particular morning and there was absolutely no respond from the 5 of them. I was like… Shit!!! Telling myself: You mean no one cares???

The saving grace came when one of them called back in the afternoon. Guess who is that? The one who responded first was actually a bro from Shanghai!!! Can you imagine that?! The furthest away was the one to responded first! How ironical this is!

And for the next 1 week, there was no respond and suddenly, another bro smsed and just mentioned that he had transferred money to my account for her already…. And came 3 more by the next 2 weeks and all ends well with full 5 bros responding.

And then I realised everyone repsonded differently and I concluded that there basically 4 kinds of people around for this kinda of situation.

1. Those who react quickly and act quick on it.

2. Those who dont react but working silently at the background.

3. Those who dont react and do nothing about it.

4. Those who react quickly and act none on it.

Thanks be with God that all my close bros belongs to the top 2 categories. I really proud and honored that I have these dear friends as my bros. And to compliment the Shanghai bro esp for his prompt reaction though he is miles and miles away. If there is anything, good or bad, he will always be the first few to know. That is how close the few of us are and I really appreciate God for giving me such close kinship found within friendship.

Another thing I learnt is that you really dont know who will be there for you at your darkest hour. Take this incident for instance, you can say that I did a good deed or even say that I am the biggest KPO around but I was thinking that if something happens to me like that… will anyone besides my family help me? Do I expect my friends to do something like that for me? What if there is no KPO like me for myself? I hope not…

And I realise how fragile life is. I put this in a very materialistic POV: Imagine you have 1000 bucks in your bank, being human and being greedy, most probably you will wish there is 5000 bucks soon and then 10,000 bucks. Then you might want to wish for 100,000 bucks and later a million and then many more millions. My point is: At any point in time, you will never know how much you will need on a rainy day. You might have 100K, but that critical and particular rainy day may need 200K. You might have 1 Mil, but again that challenging rainy day may require millions. You will never really know how far life will test your threshold in money and health on that fateful day.

My only conclusion from this exprience:

Live life the fullest every SINGLE day like there is no tomorrow and live with no regrets!

And when shit happens, just make sure you have enough to at least cover for yourself and remember to buy a high premium insurance policy that covers at least 30 critical illnesses.

I was watching the movie on the plane on my way to Philippines for work. Never did I imagine myself to watch the same cartoon twice within the next 96 hours. The story was amazing, the phrases that caught me most were something like: "Anyone can cook!" and "… a chef can come from anywhere, despite his or her background."

What inspires me the most is the way the writer/ director expresses himself in the movie to bring dreams to anyone despite the fact of their backgrounds; be it whether you are a rat or despite that you think are actually at the lowest of the foodchain. And that "twan jie jui shi li liang"- that is when people come together, there will be synergy and unprecedented strength found between one another.

It was really inspiring to me and I realised that what goes beyond watching a movie is what you can gather from it, harness on the positive parts and benefit yourself and the people around you.

And that while everyone can be (super) cynical and mean of what you want to do, dont ever be deterred by their comments. Believe in yourself and believe that you can make it! And even if you dont, at least you have tried and you live through with no regrets about it. I rather live by it (with no regrets) than to live and regret not doing it. But of course, let’s do things that are of goodness (very subjective though) for yourself and for the people around you… yada yada…

With that, I asked the good looking steward for a pen and paper and started scribbling all the things I wanna do in my life time that I have been neglecting… Write a story, learn and play guitar, write a game adventure, learn my languages…

And while I was scribbling my pointers, I realised there are basically a few core fundamental elements to all the things I wanna do: Passion, Interest, Creativity and Time. With that I quickly scribble down all that I have mentioned before the plan landed.

This is my first attempt to write my own decent blog… so don’t laugh at me!!! Any positive comments and encouragements are welcomed. Any bad or negative comments… save them for yourself.

Have a Merry Merry Christmas and a Great New Year! God bless!

Dinno that that there are legacies before LOTR until I read this darn amazing book. Finished it in 3 nights of 3 hours. Solid!

And then realised there are like 8 more episodes prior to LOTR.

JRR Tolken good or what!