Who Is Doe Zantamata and Why?

I like to see and read the posts that are shared in Fb, especially those with photos. And of course, with some words of wisdom in them. I just notice that some of the quotes are overused and repeated again and again. Some of these quotes don't even give effect to me. I mean, I can't find the magic in them. I'm not sure about others. But it must really hit that point of magic, then only I can stop and nod.

I remember start reading some quotes, which look original, that made me go, Yes!! That's totally true! and I read  the name below there. It reads Doe Zantamata. Who's that? Oh, maybe some author I just discovered.  Could be a big name. I thought so.

So I started following the Fb pages that share mostly her quotes. Oh, her? Doe is a She? Apparently Doe Zantamata is a female. I found this in google. That's not too generous of an info, but at least we get some info.

"Doe Zantamata is an author, artist, and photographer. In addition to the Happiness in Your Life book series, she also creates and designs poster books of different titles, including “Happy By Nature,” “Old Children, A Book for “Adults”,” and others. Doe has been writing since before she could tie her shoes. In addition to writing, she enjoys nature, history, and is an animal welfare advocate. She also runs a blog at www.thehiyL.com with daily posts". 

 

It's not easy to Wiki her, maybe she's only starting to gain popularity OR she's just a little too secretive and would prefer people to know her by her works, and not personal life. Doe, a little note on that. If you want to get famous a little faster, it's better to show more of yourself, to get personal a bit, and expose yourself more. The first people that will be your fanbase would be among your family, relatives and friends, and old schoolmates, and some people you met when socializing. Yeah, which you won't get if you want to start to be known from zero, using a pen name that even your own family don't know of. You know what...I'm being sarcastic to myself here, actually. I've been doing the same thing. I can be 10 years in blogging, and still unknown. I have to accept that. LOLS. Kidding! I mean, not in your case. You have a very interesting pen name. Unlike mine...ehehe. And you are famous enough to me. Your quotes are everywhere!!

Doe Zantamata actually has the same kind of ideas with me. In most of her quotes, it just reflects my own philosophy. It's hard not to like her. To Doe, I think I can feel your passion in this. I hope you carry on. I hope more people will get inspired by your quotes. For some reason, I think you have underwent some experiences that have totally brought you to the idea of positivity. I think you totally get it, your mission in this world. You gonna use your talents for goodwill. So continue with this. If you manage to light the heart that is gloomy, you can help people change their outlook about life. Bravo and keep up the good work!!

Pssttt...I'm your fan :))

You may browse around 2 her sites:

http://www.doezantamataquotes.com/

http://thehiyl.com

Qualification Or Passion?

I remember a few years ago, this girl who worked at her aunty’s restaurant nearby always came and talked with me. That time, I was only started working. So the experience of picking a career was still new and revolutionary to me. I told her , what led me to this job is not my qualification. It’s my passion.

She was so surprised to know that I had a qualification that can make me pick much safer career like A Teacher, and I went and pick something else, which is risky and less of a security. I saw that look in her face. She was a bit startled. Maybe she never imagined that someone could be so bold. All maybe she thought it was rare. So yesterday, she came again to my place. And she told me she currently was having a hard time. She was still without stable career. Her application to work with the government was never succeeded. She told me stopped renewing her application. She said, “Not that I gave up, but I think the job with the government won’t suit me. I’m a type of person who likes to be active and explore many things, instead of doing the same job over and over again.” Then she continued, “ Remember what you told me back then? I kept saying it to people, about your story. That you could have been an English teacher, but you did not. You picked your passion. Because if you do what you like, you will never get tired of doing the job. You will feel happy all the time. And that’s what life’s all about. You remember that right?”

I went, “Whattttt?! You actually remembered? I laughed at the part when she referred me as “the could have been English Teacher”, I didn’t actually said that. I only said the part where I could end up be teaching Science and Maths in English, since that was what most of my teacher friends do. Okay now back to her. I appreciate that she took the inspiration from me.

But judging from her situation, she came to kind of a dead end. Cos she tried what she liked, which was in family business of selling foods, but the were a few changes in her market that made it hard for the business to survive. I’m sure she tried her best. She made the effort, I’m sure. But I’m not sure about attitudes. I’m afraid that she was lacking in that. I remember some time ago she told me that she wanted to do some extra work that I might need help in. And it would earn her some money. And then when the time came, she gave a lot of excuses or she never picked up the phone at all. I sensed that there was sthing wrong with her way of doing things.

You could be having the most perfect dream to achieve in your life. You could learn the best way of achieving them. You could have the courage and determination. But these aren’t enough. So be careful about it. You can’t simply adapt a concept that works for others, thinking that it would simply work for you too. Cos there are just some essense that need to go with that, before the recipe turns out perfectly. I’m not Donald Trump. I haven’t achieved anywhere yet. But in this one and at this level,at least I know the kind of attitudes you should NOT have to succeed. Just like I might never be like Donald Trump. Although his achievement is so great, but there are just things that he has that I don’t. The way of thinking, I don’t always agree with him when I watched his show The Apprentice. But then this was the show that first inspired me in my career now. Since I know that I could not adapt everything the way Donald does it, at least I figured out my own way of doing it. At least my passion is so big that I would not mind to discipline, to put full commitment, to put in effort, to keep my integrity – and the basic thing is, you must AT LEAST know how to keep your word. If you fail, show the effort to make up for it. If you are all talks, and not serious, love to play with excuses, seriously…you need attitude makeover first. Then continue seeking for that dream. IT’S POSSIBLE. But IT’S NOT SIMPLE. Only the strong will survive.

But Once you do survive…the REWARD is a truly blessed, well spent life. It’s WORTH IT. NOW go ahead and do something!! Good luck and God bless!!

Health Is The Real Wealth!!

Generally talking, we used to think that our health was so much better back then than now, right? When we were younger, our body were stronger and immunity was better because everything else worked at their best. Maybe I was wrong. But one thing for sure, things so get less and less effective and eroding as we age. Was that idea right?

I used to tell people I had problem with sleep back then. But maybe it was just because I loved to be awake at nite. I would sleep any other time but left the nitetime for me to study and other desk activity, including listening to music . I drank coffee just to make sure that I could be awake as late as possible, even if there was a 7 AM class the next day. It was just crazy. I also had this annual disease of getting flu. Oh, not annual. It’s like monthly. Or as often as possible. Whenever there was a housemate who had a flu, and any close contact that I have, even by just talking nearby each other, “The Disease Is Successfully Transferred”. Darn. I remember that I could be really healthy one day, and just voiceless the next day. The viruses were just playing king and queen with my immune system. You used to be so weak, 256!! For someone who drank nothing but coffee and coke, and ate whatever she liked, and never cared if she slept enough or not, what do you think?

Surprisingly, the pattern has changed. Since the year I’m working, it took a while for me to slowly change my habits. Still, I notice the most and utmost difference only by THIS YEAR. I did some crazy things this year. If you guys remember, how I put myself in a 30 Days Challenge. First in June, I did a MILKYLESS MONTH challenge and went on an extreme WATER DIET, And then July, CAFFEINELESS MONTH. Then I took a break for Aug and September, October with coffee and milk in moderation and ongoing water diet. But some time in October, I started to add another routine, My Daily Cycling. Since my mom brought in the Orbitrac bike from the other house, I found out I love to Sweat!! And one more thing, of course you guys might guess that anyone who are new with physical activity might have muscle ache all over. Guess what, NO muscle ache at all. I was surprise too. Then I look at my bottle of mineral water and got the idea. OH MAN. IT MUST BE THE WATER!

Do you guys know why we are told to drink sufficient water everyday? Water is not like coffee or coke. It doesn’t taste so good. It’s just hard to enjoy drinking water; you can’t even pretend it’s sweet, cos it’s just with the absence of all the flavour of the drinks you like to indulge in. But why only recently that I learned that water is THE FUEL to our organs to function. Really. All the years, I thought that water is just to keep us hydrated and diluting all the extra sugar and sodium that we take, and why I only know recently that water is also provide sponge for our joints. For all the years I didn’t drink water, only last year that it got back to me. My knees were really painful and I could not even use them. I could not kneel or even bend, and I thought, IT WAS THE END FOR MY KNEES to ever function properly again. Remember that water diet that started at June 2012? OMG, it healed my knees!! No medication, no nothing. Just by drinking water. Alleluia. Can u imagine what water does to your body?

And speaking of sleeping. This is finally the year when I don’t bring work to home anymore. I tell myself that I don’t believe that I’m too busy to sleep, and so no matter how busy, I will only do work at the office. Nitetime is only for me to spend leisure, spending time with my loved ones. And SLEEP! Actually, sleeping is never a problem anymore for the past few years, but with my own help, I get better sleep by practising to relax and though my mind is so occupied with heavy thoughts at times, they are not enough to keep me awake. What I know, my body needs sleep to start doing most of the job of health maintenance. Thank God that my health is just so so much better. I’m not anymore susceptible to flu and fever – even when sometimes I have to deal with people who cough and sneeze, luckily my immune system is just better! And since a few weeks ago, I’m starting to adapt Lemon Drink every morning to start my day. What can I say. With this health, we know we are capable of doing WHATEVER we want and Let’s go achieve our dreams!

This health Makes It Possible :) It’s indeed the wealth that surpasses any satisfaction that money can give us. Our Health Is Our Wealth!! STAY HEALTHY, PEEPS!

My Public Apologies

There’s just a long list here, I think. I never write one, but I feel such heaviness when I start to think about how many people that I do owe my sorry to.

I don’t have explanation for everything that I do. Really. Sorry if you think it’s strange. Oh, there goes my first sorry. I’m sorry if I deleted a lot of names from my Facebook accounts. If you ask why, I don’t have the answer that sounds logic to you. What I know is, it’s definitely not as bad as you think. It’s not even anything negative that I can think of. Sometimes I can’t always explain why I do what I did.

I’m sorry to those who sent me messages, and never get a reply. I don’t know what goes into your mind. If you wonder if I actually open and read them, Yes of course. I read every words you guys type. With each of you attending different issue, I choose to keep quiet. Maybe you guys have all the funny assumptions going on in your head. Trust me, maybe it’s not that complicated.

Sorry to those who sent me messages offering friendship. And still left unreplied. You have no idea how I appreciate that. I really do. Just that, I never said a word. Maybe I’m still contemplating what’s best to do. I could not just go ahead and be too casual about my replies especially when there are other parties involved. I sense that there’s a sensitivity that might be affected. So maybe I’m just playing it safe. It’s not that I am not accepting new friendship, No, it’s not that. But sometimes there’s just a better time and way for things to happen.

No arguments, no hurtful debates, No nothing, and suddenly you guys realized you guys were removed from my list. I know it must feel strange, thinking that you did something. In most cases, No. Nothing wrong. It’s not even the end of our friendship. But to not have a conversation for now, is the best so far. Still, I’m surprised. Some of you never asked. You guys, who some are my silent readers, understood. I must have reason doing what I do. And thank you for thinking that “She can’t be so evil no matter what.”

I just don’t want to raise certain issues. And if I need to close down old books, I have to also close the links to it. I’m just making things easier. A conversation is good to go on on certain ground, but to keep things in place, a further conversation will just complicate things. There will be more misunderstanding, and then blames, confusion, so on and so forth.

So, to those who think they are one of them, please accept my sincere apology. One day, if we have the chance to talk about it, we sure will laugh and let it pass. Thanks that despite my unsocialized life as a person, as a blogger and even as a social network user, still there are people who recognize my existence. Grateful for that. Please accept my humble apologies. Thanks :) 

Note: If I were to extend it to the people outside, of course I have more to say. Especially to my customers who offered closer  friendship but I'm just not competent enough to please everyone. As much as I have tolerated with people before, I do hope that I do get that much tolerance from others. After all, I'm just a weak human being. Thanks for the understanding.

In The World Of “Every Man For Himself”

My parents used to say this since many years before. We must start attending weddings and parties, so that they will return the favour. They always scare us with, “If you don’t come, no one will come to your wedding.” Living in the kampung culture, I guess that this is never yet too obsolete for them. We still hear that line to this day. We failed to attend a lot of wedding invitations. In my case because I was away from home for so many years. I mean, I did not stay at home for almost all my 365 days in a year during those years. But even I didn’t get exempted. So now I’m still to be punished for my unintentional crimes. Then recently when my parents said that line again, then I got something to reply. “Are you sure that everyone whose wedding we attended; will attend ours?”

Then my parents said, “Of course. That’s the way it is.”

But my parents were wrong. During my brother’s wedding a few years ago, there were some relatives who were not present. And my parents attended all the events from those families, be it weddings or birthdays. So? Why didn’t they come. My parents did go and ask them after the event. They were giving some funny excuses, like, “Oh, all of us got food poisoning that time, we all went to the clinic that day.” Then you would assume they were lying. Or maybe they could be telling the truth. Would you go extra mile to find out the truth? Or just let them be?

That’s why. When you do something, you can’t always expect people would do you the same favour. This is one big factor of frustration and heartache in people. EXPECTATIONS. I have learnt my lesson the hard way. Expectations for other people always bring disappointment. Never rely or depend too much on others. Their next move might just crush your dream, just like that. Don’t let them.

I give you another tips. Whatever that you do, you must learn to do it with sincerity. The more sincere you are, the safer. Sincere means you would still do it even if you won’t get paid, or get back what you give. Of course, you can always rely on “What you give, you get back” but still, it’s better to feel wholeheartedly volunteer to do something. If you can’t do it, then don’t. It’s much better than writing down all your deeds and waiting for the reward, and it just never comes. Then you start cursing life in your own unique way. Would it do any good to you, you think? Life still goes on, right?

This is the world where you can’t really trust must, depend much, more than you do ON YOURSELF. Cos at least you know, the next thing that your hands and feet do, is an order from your own brain, which you have control of. Even that, you are still not really in control sometimes. Not to mention the rest of the things in this universe that you totally have no power over. Have you read the quote saying, “Even your own shadow will leave you when you are in darkness”.

Using the example above, when you attend a wedding event, attend because you think you want to attend to just be part of it. Think about the foods, the musics, the people – feel good about doing something for others. And lastly, it’s better to not expect that by you coming there, you make them owe you. I choose not to do so. Why would I do so? I keep a positive mind thinking that even if all this people won't attend my own event, it's okay. I create such a world where as long as we do things with good intention, things can’t get too far wrong. EXPECT LESS and start to let go hard feelings for others. We just never know. They have their own battle too. So good news is. You TOO should do the same. Go right ahead and achieve the life that you want, without much interference from others. The less you expect from others, the more powerful you become in your own life.

Still, I believe, in the world where every man for himself, it doesn’t mean that we better off as strangers. We still have unwritten rules for a better life. Honour Familyship. Honour Friendship. Be there for one another for support any time possible. In case they can’t repay you, you know who will…. God :) Just feel good and fully enjoy being In Power In Your Own Life. Lets do it!!

We Can't Eat Money

Money is only made of paper, we can’ eat paper, can we? We use money to trade for things that we can actually consume. We can buy foods with that money then only we can eat something out of that money. It’s not the money itself that can fill the stomach. This is all so cliche, I know. But sometimes not sure if we remember what money is. It’s just a trade tool. The more you have, the more you can buy. But hello? Please. Money is NOT ALIVE. It doesn’t have a soul. It doesn’t have a heart. Let alone, have a LOVE. How can u be related to something so much when that thing doesn’t even recognize you by your name? Sometimes I think, we just give Money a high rank in our lives, that we forget about all this. Money doesn’t even CARE for us!

I know it sounds silly to speak that way. But please, remember that. I’m afraid, sometimes we forget about this silliest fact about money. How can we let something like this DESTROY us. What made me write this post is when I think, if we get close to the fact that money is only what it is, we won’t let it be above the things that are alive. Sometimes we quarell and disown each other, because of some mistakes made about Money. Sometimes even family never talks again, because of some argument about money. Cos Money, like my past post said, Is The Chief Devil. YOU make it the chief devil. Oh Money. How come you do this to humans?

Sometimes when a problem arise from money, when someone cheats your money, when someone steal your money, Yeah, it can bring your life upside down. Cos without money, we will face all kinds of troubles in this temporary life. Yeah, of course, it will also temporarily make us feel “disabled” because everything in this materialistic world needs money before you can get them. But can we just put a limit to this? Can we just not forget that while money doesn’t have a soul, OUR FAMILY HAS. We can’t hurt one another just because of something soul-less like money, agree? So whatever problem that we get ourselves in which involves money, IT’S NOT THE END. You don’t pick a dagger and stab your family or friends – just because of a piece of freaking paper, you get me?? Find a solution. Do not enslave yourself to this notes. Come on people.

Let me give you some tips.

To make sure that money will always just be what it should be to you, you need to take cautions. Knowing that money is the chief devil appointed by humans, you know that humans can go bad because of money. You need to be SMART to always keep money under your feet, and not above your head. Try to always treat money moderately. So you know the amount of money that you need, enough for what you want to spend it for. If you don’t have enough, you save money, spend less, try to earn more. What always hurt you is when someone takes your money and never return. This is usually cause the hardfeelings towards one another. 

The tips is, when someone comes to you to borrow money, when you are not sure if he will pay you back, and u know u need that money for yourself, THEN DON’T LEND. Show your compassion by DONATING an amount that u can freely let go, thinking that you are helping a friend/a family. When the person comes to another person, if that person thinks the same way, give as much as he can to help, so the person in trouble will have more to settle his problem. The difference is, you don’t make someone owe u money, which when the person doesn’t pay, money will indirectly cause hatred and vengeance in your heart towards that other person because of the lost of trust. Learn to share the little bit that you have. Family in trouble, give them some extra to lighten their burdens. If you are in trouble, they do the same. That’s how u treat money as what it is. If you make mistake in handling your money, it will start “ruin” you. Don’t go there. So to those who are facing heartaches because of money, maybe try to think about this. 

When this world coming to an end, then you realize that money is really just a piece of paper. Please be wise in handling your money. They can’t be more important than those who have souls. Keep the world in peace and happiness, and MONEY shouldn’t ruin good relationship between humans. Lets be wise, peeps.

The Enforcer & The Preacher

I seldom have issues with people, even some like to put up a show, a drama, I’d watch, even how many episodes you are willing to give. I’m a peaceful person, trust me. If you share something good in Fb, I would take delight from every word. I’d be thankful. I’d be thankful for every good thing, as much as possible.

That’s why, when I start to feel a little out of way, I start to switch the sensing button. Why is this happening? Why does it bother me this time, unlike any other times. Why do I have bad feelings towards things that aren’t suppose to be bad. When I saw people sharing good wishes, good advice, I would expect myself to accept them all in a good way, why wouldn’t I?

It’s rare, but when it happened, I have identified why. It’s just sound quite wrong. I tell u why. You can be all this bitter person anytime of the day, cursing some people to just go to hell and stuff like that. Stuff that I can never make public, which I won’t even dare to say to others, and even if I say it, I’d never ever be proud of it. Some people are just too generous with expressing hatred and clear cut swearing even if it's only for minor reasons. But still, I’m not judging. I accept that people have ways of doing things. Although it’s not in my favour, still, I also might have a way that not in most people’s favour. Fair enuff.

Then imagine, when I open my page, and I saw some people sharing words of positivity, about being grateful, about doing peace, about respecting one another especially the elderly, about feeling good about one’s life no matter what. All those things. It felt so awkward. I’m used to hear so much bitter words, and the same person would even wish others “to just go and die tragically”, was promoting totally a life free from all the things that used to be overly promoted. Then I went, EmmmmmmmmmmmmMMMM…

So I thought, Oh Okay, People change, right.

Then just before I wanted to adapt to the new personality, just when you speak words of love, joy and peace a moment ago, it happened quite too fast to finally speak the word of grudges and full of suscipion towards others. Not even being reserved or trying to hold back a bit. Everything looks like people are always bad and they are good. Far from having the kind of respect for others, even to at least try not to make enemies. It was just TOO CONTRAST, I got really confused. Which one is really you? Come on!!

Split personality? I appreciate every preach you make. I enjoy positivity too. But don’t do this to just simply “let me down” when you change into another personality in a split second. So the next time when you start to wish for World Peace, you don’t go and declare a World War the next few moments. I couldn’t help but feel disturbed. And this is not too normal for me to feel this way. Unless it’s just too disturbing. When I wake up at wrong hour, and again, fed with the wrong words, it’s just much of an eye sore to me. Sometimes there’s the little voice, hey, can u just practise what you preach!! You don’t make a law today and enforce totally the opposite. Stop confusing people about your laws!!

 

Maybe I’m just a little upset. Cos whenever you speak of good things, I thought u MEANT it :) Maybe we all just wait for the day when the preacher, can be the enforcer at the same time. It’s okay, We’ll wait for the day…:)

Get A Faith, You People!!

 News like this brings an impact for the believers. Alleluia. 

I try to avoid as much as I can, topics that could bring uneasiness in any of you, in case your view is different from mine. But okay, give me this honour to write, since this is my blog. Agree? 

 In a society that you are in, you don’t expect that everyone is like you, eat what u eat, drink what u drink, watch what you watch – let alone, Believe what you believe. If you can go to people and start speaking in awe about the philosophy that you devote to, people can do that too. We share the same ground, equally, am I right? 

If you are lazy to wake up one Sunday to go to church, you hate it when your mom has to wake you up and nag to you to start dressing up cos the mass will start soon, and you hate it even more that someone told you not to do this and that, and you hate it when you feel guilty when you want to do it anyway, then you start to rebel and claim that religion is null and void to you, and that religion doesn’t work for you, and only fools have religion. Then you start to make it more dramatic by pointing out errors cos there are people who use religion to get money from other people, and you just use that excuse to punish that everyone in that religion is corrupted and crooked. To make yourself more relevant, and not blamed for being radical, you even broadcasting your hatred and mockery every chance you have. Cos maybe the more you do that, the more you prove that your choice of disowning your religion is one correct move and that you don’t even have a compassion left for it. Then when you realize that you overdo it, you start to take back some of your words and reinstate yourself, that – No, I don’t hate the God, only the people, those corrupts who abuse religions for money. Now bravo, just because of that, guess that you don’t even have to memorise a prayer anymore, and you can go right ahead do your life without any rules – and you can tell yourself everytime, It’s okay to do this, it’s okay, didn’t I do enuff telling others that I’m not part of that religion anymore? So now I can do everything I want without guilty. Yeeehahhhh! –Oh, is that so? 

I don’t get the part when you have to address the religion so shamefully and make fun of the things that used to be your values in life. I don’t get it why do you need to even make a joke out of of yourself, showing a level of desperation to spread bad force around, showing off how you are reversing your gratefulness - and how much approval do u need to get to clear that guilt away, that you have to prove your hatred to that extent? What I know is, whatever you say, whether you mean it or not, it doesn’t change THE TRUTH up there. It doesn’t UNTRUE my God, and it doesn‘t nullify my values, and it surely doesn’t just make me A Bad Person just because you claim to be The Good One. But it does change people perception about you. And you make people start questioning, if ever that u take the right move to back out from a so called Bad-Religion, oh, behaving that way won’t help it. Cos it doesn’t take a genius, how good can a person be when he/she has No Respect for others. You don’t have to prove your genuineness through negative words or insensitive commentary – if you think you can try to influence others with your way, most likely it won’t work cos just like you, others believe what they believe because THEY HAVE SEEN WONDERS in their Faith. And as much as they believe in their religion, for sure they won’t say anything bad about others’ religions. That’s what Religions do to the believers. It teaches us the values we should live by. Even if you decide you’re too tired for your religion, it’s sad that you bring nothing good back with you. AT LEAST THE RESPECT for OTHERS. Not because you think they are good, but at least because you Are. 

I suggest You Get A Faith. That will do the trick :)

Doc, You’re Right! (Tribute to Dr. Richard Teo)

I’m sure everyone of u have heard of Dr. Richard Teo, the beautician doctor, who performed all kinds of beauty alterations to his patients, and then earned so much money to afford expensive luxurious life, which he thought the key to his happiness. He got really rich and self sufficient, he didn’t have space for God anymore – thinking that he could do it all by himself. Until he was diagnosed with lung cancer Stage 4, got months to live. And finally, he has left us on 18th October 2012 for good after losing the battle. He managed to give his Last Speech which then goes viral in the internet. I picked to read instead of watch. It just got more interesting from one paragraph to another.

My highlight is…He Said It.

“True joy I discovered comes from interaction. Over the last few months I was so down. Interaction with my loved ones, my friends, my brothers in Christ, my sisters in Christ, and only then was I able to be motivated, able to be uplifted. To share your sorrow, to share your happiness – that’s true joy.”

There is a lot of good stuff there in the speech. I suggest you to read it, and see if you can relate to it. I’m sure the line above, is the thing that can relate to everyone, at least the part where he finally declared that it’s about the relation with the people we love and care for, matters more than the relation we have with the wealth and worldly cares. Aren’t this answer your question, my dear friends?

I have asked this question much earlier than this. Especially before I started my career now. When I was still jobless. Thinking of what job to do, was really tough that time. I sensed that I might not want what the society expected me to do, and that included my parents. I felt there was sthing wrong with my life journey, cos I didn’t feel like this was what I wanted. Because of the urge, I took my time to THINK – And I asked that question to myself, What is the purpose of being alive? What is it that humans want? 


Then I looked for the answer, squeezed my brain everyday, and then I came up with HAPPINESS. In my pursue to this, even to this day, I just feel not that connected to the materialistic side of this world has become today. I’m just not that kind of person who finds pleasure in getting everything. I always learn to be happy with my average life, and it’s hard for me to envy those who have more. It’s not that I tried not to envy, but I thought that although life would be better having what they have, but if my life is tailor made this way for me, I wouldn’t want to trade it with anything else, cos this life IS FANTASTIC. I thought that my work, my passion and my moderation is finally leading the way to my happiness. I thought I was right all along. 

Until earlier this year, I finally realized that I’ve been really selfish. I was showed in many ways that my life looked really sweeter when I spent time with my family, did sthing for them and made them happy. After all the years, they were there to tolerate with me, not even once that I thought I owed them anything. I thought it was their responsibility to cope with me. So Thank God, for such a wisdom. I finally connect more to the fact that – It’s not my passion, it’s not my work, or all my effort to prove a point to other people – IT’S THEM. My lovely family. More than ever, I finally think that this is not just sthing that I should do, this is sthing that I WANT to do. So I came out of my selfish shell, and in every possible way, I want to contribute. I want to cheer them up. I want to be the little reason behind their smile. And when I found sthing like that in Dr. Richard’s speech, I went like, Oh Man Oh Man. You said it. And you said it right!! Thanks for making me feel that I’m in the right way. A person who spent his last chances to finally do thing THAT REALLY MATTER, I find the approval so enlightening. I’m delighted. God’s plan is just indescribable.

Dr. Richard Teo, Rest In Peace. You are in better hands now.

READ THE SPEECH 

 http://www.heavenaddress.com/Dr-Richard-Teo-Keng-Siang/424153/379719/content

WATCH THE VIDEO OF HIM GIVING THE SPEECH 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umLkfADe17s

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