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Friday, February 12, 2016

Personal reference: http://markmanson.net/passion

The problem is not a lack of passion for something. The problem is productivity. The problem is perception. The problem is acceptance.

The problem is the, “Oh, well that’s just not a realistic option,” or “Mom and Dad would kill me if I tried to do that, they say I should be a doctor” or “That’s crazy, you can’t buy a BMW with the money you make doing that.”

The problem isn’t passion. It’s never passion.

It’s priorities.

And even then, who says you need to make money doing what you love? Since when does everyone feel entitled to love every fucking second of their job? Really, what is so wrong with working an OK normal job with some cool people you like, and then pursuing your passion in your free time on the side? Has the world turned upside-down or is this not suddenly a novel idea to people?

Look, here’s another slap in the face for you: every job sucks sometimes. There’s no such thing as some passionate activity that you will never get tired of, never get stressed over, never complain about. It doesn’t exist. I am living my dream job (which happened by accident, by the way. I never in a million years planned on this happening; like a kid on a playground I just went and tried it), and I still hate about 30% of it. Some days more.

Again, that’s just life.

The issue here is, once again, expectations. If you think you’re supposed to be working 70-hour work weeks and sleeping in your office like Steve Jobs and loving every second of it, you’ve been watching too many shitty movies. If you think you’re supposed to wake up every single day dancing out of your pajamas because you get to go to work, then you’ve been drinking the Kool-Aid. Life doesn’t work like that. It’s just unrealistic. There’s a thing most of us need called balance.

My flava was expressed on 9:23 AM

Tuesday, January 05, 2016

For personal reference
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-build-1-million-business-in-a-weekend-2015-12?IR=T&utm_content=buffer8671f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer%3Fr%3DUS

I first met Noah Kagan over rain and strong espressos at Red Rock Coffee in Mountain View, California. It was 2007.

We were both in hoodies and had a shared penchant for the F-bomb and burritos, all of which led to a caffeine-infused mind meld.

It would be the first of many.

The matchmaker then introducing us was the prophetic and profane Dave McClure, general partner of500 Start-ups, which is now headquartered just down the street from Red Rock.

Mr. Noah has quite the start-up résumé.

He was employee No. 30 at Facebook, No. 4 at Mint, had previously worked for Intel (where he frequently took naps under his desk), and had turned down a six-figure offer from Yahoo.

Since we first met, Noah’s helped create Gambit, an online gaming payment platform and a multimillion-dollar business, and AppSumo, loved by entrepreneurs and moms everywhere. He also helped pour fire on the 4-Hour Workweek and 4-Hour Body launches.

The purpose of this post is simple: to teach you how to get a $1 million business idea off the ground in one weekend, full of specific tools and tricks that Noah has used himself.

He will be your guide ...

Enter Noah

For some reason, people love to make excuses about why they haven’t created their dream business or even gotten started.

This is the “want-repreneur” epidemic, where people prevent themselves from ever actually doing the side project they always talk about over beers. The truth of the matter is that you don’t have to spend a lot of time building the foundation for a successful business. In most cases, it shouldn’t take you more than a couple days.

We made the original product for Gambit in a weekend. “WTF?!” Yes, a weekend. In just 48 hours, some friends and I created a simple product that grew to a $1 million-plus business within a year.

Same deal for AppSumo. We were able to build the core product in one weekend, using an outsourced team in Pakistan, for a grand total of $60.

Don’t get me wrong — I’m not opposed to you trying to build a world-changing product that requires months of fine-tuning.

All I’m going to suggest is that you start with a much simpler essence of your product over the course of a weekend, rather than wasting time building something for weeks ... only to discover no one wants it.

I know what you’re thinking: “Yes, Noah, you are SO amazing (and handsome), but what can I do this weekend to start my own success story?”

Here are the steps you can take right now to get started on your million-dollar company:

Step 1: Find your (profitable) idea

At this stage, you are simply looking for something that people are willing to spend money on. So grab a seat and write down a list of ideas that you think might be profitable.

If you’re having trouble coming up with ideas, try using the methods below to speed the research process along:

Tim Ferris

Step 2: Find $1 million worth of customers

Now that you’ve found an idea, it’s time to assess whether there’s a big enough pool of prospective buyers. In this step, you’ll also want to ensure your market isn’t shrinking, and that it fares well compared to similar markets.

I use Google Trends, Google Insights, and Facebook ads when I’m in this part of the process. They’re great tools that help me evaluate the growth potential of my target market.

For example, let’s say you decide to build information products for owners of Chihuahuas (remember “Yo quiero Taco Bell”?). Here’s how I would check to see if there are enough customers:

Tim Ferris

We can see that the word “chihuahua” has a decent search volume (relative to “dogs”), and that “poodle” isn’t as popular. It also looks like the number of searches for “chihuahua” has been relatively stable for the last few years.

Tim Ferriss

Tim Ferriss

Tim Ferriss

You can also see if there is a large property that you can piggyback on.

PayPal did this with eBay, Airbnb is doing it with Craigslist home listings, and AppSumo looks to the 100 million LinkedIn users. If you can find a comparable site with a large number of potential customers, you’ll be in good shape.

What helped me with finding $1 million worth of customers for AppSumo was studying my successful competitors — specifically, MacHeist.

Their site did a Mac-only deal that generated more than $800,000. MacHeist shares their sales revenue publicly, but you can use your own business acumen on the CrunchBase list to see which business you want to replicate.

For instance, you might research Airbnb.com, discover that they have a profitable and growing marketplace, then decide to create a similar service for alternative verticals.

I like to create a Google Spreadsheet of the key numbers for my competitors’ businesses. Below is an example of what that might look like for MacHeist in their Mac bundles. [Warning to the haters: This may not be accurate, but I used these numbers just to get a rough idea of the business’ potential.]

Tim Ferriss

Step 3: Assess your customer’s value

Once you’ve found your idea and a big pool of potential customers, you’ll need to calculate the value of those customers. For our example above, we’ll need to estimate how much a Chihuahua owner (i.e., our customer) is worth to us.

This will help us determine the likelihood of them actually buying our product, and will also help with pricing. Here’s how we do that:

Tim Ferriss

Therefore, a Chihuahua’s average total cost of ownership is:

$650 + ($1,000 x 15) = $15,650

Damn ... you could buy a lot of burritos with that kind of cash. Silly dog owners.

In any case, these owners are already committing to spend a LOT of money on their dogs (i.e., they are valuable).

After putting down $650 on the dog itself and an average of $80/month on maintenance (aka food), spending $50 on an information product that could help them train their Chihuahua — or save money, or create a better relationship between them, etc. — does not seem unreasonable.

Of course, the product doesn’t have to cost $50, but we now have some perspective for later deciding on a price.

Now we need to use the TAM formula (aka Total Available Market formula), which will help us see our product’s potential to generate a million dollars.

Here’s the TAM formula for estimating your idea’s potential:

(Number of available customers) x (Value of each customer) = TAM

If TAM > $ million, then you can start your business.

Let’s plug in some basic numbers to see the TAM for our Chihuahua information product:

(84,260 available customers) x ($50 information product) = $4,213,000

We have a winner!

OK, obviously you are not going to reach 100% market penetration, but consider the following:

1. This is only through Facebook traffic.

2. This does not include the 5 million monthly searches for “Chihuahua” on Google:

Tim Ferriss

3. This is only for one breed of dog. If you find success with Chihuahuas, you can easily repeat the process many times with other dog breeds.

4. This is only for one product. It’s far easier to sell to an existing customer than it is to acquire new ones, so once we’ve built up a decent customer base, we can make even more products to sell to them.

By all measures, it appears that we have a million-dollar idea on our hands. Now we can move on to the final step!

Step 4: Validate your idea

By now, you have successfully verified that your idea has that special million-dollar potential. Feels good, right? Well, brace yourself — it’s time to test whether people will actually spend money on your product. In other words, is it truly commercially viable?

This step is critical. A lot of your ideas will seem great in theory, but you’ll never know if they’re going to work until you actually test your target market’s willingness to pay.

For instance, I believed AppSumo’s model would work just on gut-feeling alone, but I wasn’t 100% convinced people wanted to buy digital goods on a time-limited basis.

I mean, how often do people find themselves needing a productivity tool (compared with, for instance, how often they need to eat)?

I decided to validate AppSumo’s model by finding a guaranteed product I could sell, one with its own traffic source (i.e., customers).

Because I’m a frequent Redditor and I knew they had an affordable advertising system (in addition to 3 million-plus monthly users), I wanted to find a digital good that I could advertise on their site.

I noticed Imgur.com was the most popular tool on Reddit for sharing images, and they offered a paid pro account option ($25/year). It was the perfect fit for my test run.

I cold-emailed the founder of Imgur, Alan Schaaf, and said that I wanted to bring him paying customers and would pay Imgur for each one. Alan is a great guy, and the idea of getting paid to receive more customers was not a tough sell. The stage was set!

Before we started the ad campaign, I set a personal validation goal for 100 sales, which would encourage me to keep going or figure out what was wrong with our model.

I decided on “100” after looking at my time value of money. If I could arrange a deal in two hours (find, secure, and launch), I wanted to have a return of at least $300 for those two hours of work. One hundred sales ($3 commission per sale) was that amount.

By the end of the campaign, we had sold more than 200 Imgur pro accounts. AppSumo.comwas born.

I share this story because it illustrates an important point: You need to make small, calculated bets on your ideas in order to validate them. Validation is absolutely essential for saving time and money, which will ultimately allow you to test as many of your ideas as possible.

Here are a couple methods for rapidly validating whether people will buy your product or not:

Tim Ferriss

Of course, there are other techniques for validating your product (like Stephen Key leaving his guitar pick designs in a convenience store to see if people would try to buy them).

However, I’ve found these two methods to be super efficient and effective for validating ideas online. No need to get fancy if it does the trick.

The Final Frontier: Killing Your Inner Want-repreneur

We made it! You officially have a $1 million idea on your hands and you know for a fact that people are willing to pay for it. Now you can get started on actually building the product, creating your business, and freeing yourself from the rat race!

I can just see it ... You’re all nodding and thinking, “Hey, this Noah guy is pretty snazzy!” (Sorry ladies, I’m taken.)

So, what now?

– You are inspired. Check.
– You want to do something. Check.
– You get a link to a funny YouTube video, then you open up Reddit. Check.
– Suddenly, everything you thought you were going to do goes down the drain. Check.
– You and I softly weep. Check.

My flava was expressed on 1:58 PM

For my personal reference.

http://qz.com/584874/you-probably-know-to-ask-yourself-what-do-i-want-heres-a-way-better-question/

Everybody wants what feels good. Everyone wants to live a carefree, happy and easy life, to fall in love and have amazing sex and relationships, to look perfect and make money and be popular and well-respected and admired and a total baller to the point that people part like the Red Sea when you walk into the room.

Everyone would like that—it’s easy to like that.

If I ask you, “What do you want out of life?” and you say something like, “I want to be happy and have a great family and a job I like,” it’s so ubiquitous that it doesn’t even mean anything.

A more interesting question, a question that perhaps you’ve never considered before, is what pain do you want in your life? What are you willing to struggle for? Because that seems to be a greater determinant of how our lives turn out.

Everybody wants to have an amazing job and financial independence—but not everyone wants to suffer through 60-hour work weeks, long commutes, obnoxious paperwork, to navigate arbitrary corporate hierarchies and the blasé confines of an infinite cubicle hell. People want to be rich without the risk, without the sacrifice, without the delayed gratification necessary to accumulate wealth.

Everybody wants to have great sex and an awesome relationship—but not everyone is willing to go through the tough conversations, the awkward silences, the hurt feelings and the emotional psychodrama to get there. And so they settle. They settle and wonder “What if?” for years and years and until the question morphs from “What if?” into “Was that it?” And when the lawyers go home and the alimony check is in the mail they say, “What was that for?” if not for their lowered standards and expectations 20 years prior, then what for?

Because happiness requires struggle. The positive is the side effect of handling the negative. You can only avoid negative experiences for so long before they come roaring back to life.

At the core of all human behavior, our needs are more or less similar. Positive experience is easy to handle. It’s negative experience that we all, by definition, struggle with. Therefore, what we get out of life is not determined by the good feelings we desire but by what bad feelings we’re willing and able to sustain to get us to those good feelings.

People want an amazing physique. But you don’t end up with one unless you legitimately appreciate the pain and physical stress that comes with living inside a gym for hour upon hour, unless you love calculating and calibrating the food you eat, planning your life out in tiny plate-sized portions.

People want to start their own business or become financially independent. But you don’t end up a successful entrepreneur unless you find a way to appreciate the risk, the uncertainty, the repeated failures, and working insane hours on something you have no idea whether will be successful or not.

People want a partner, a spouse. But you don’t end up attractingsomeone amazing without appreciating the emotional turbulence that comes with weathering rejections, building the sexual tension that never gets released, and staring blankly at a phone that never rings. It’s part of the game of love. You can’t win if you don’t play.

What determines your success isn’t “What do you want to enjoy?” The question is, “What pain do you want to sustain?” The quality of your life is not determined by the quality of your positive experiences but the quality of your negative experiences. And to get good at dealing with negative experiences is to get good at dealing with life.

There’s a lot of crappy advice out there that says, “You’ve just got to want it enough!”

Everybody wants something. And everybody wants something enough. They just aren’t aware of what it is they want, or rather, what they want “enough.”

Because if you want the benefits of something in life, you have to also want the costs. If you want the beach body, you have to want the sweat, the soreness, the early mornings, and the hunger pangs. If you want the yacht, you have to also want the late nights, the risky business moves, and the possibility of pissing off a person or ten thousand.

If you find yourself wanting something month after month, year after year, yet nothing happens and you never come any closer to it, then maybe what you actually want is a fantasy, an idealization, an image and a false promise. Maybe what you want isn’t what you want, you just enjoy wanting. Maybe you don’t actually want it at all.

Sometimes I ask people, “How do you choose to suffer?” These people tilt their heads and look at me like I have twelve noses. But I ask because that tells me far more about you than your desires and fantasies. Because you have to choose something. You can’t have a pain-free life. It can’t all be roses and unicorns. And ultimately that’s the hard question that matters. Pleasure is an easy question. And pretty much all of us have similar answers. The more interesting question is the pain. What is the pain that you want to sustain?

That answer will actually get you somewhere. It’s the question that can change your life. It’s what makes me me and you you. It’s what defines us and separates us and ultimately brings us together.

For most of my adolescence and young adulthood, I fantasized about being a musician — a rock star, in particular. Any badass guitar song I heard, I would always close my eyes and envision myself up on stage playing it to the screams of the crowd, people absolutely losing their minds to my sweet finger-noodling. This fantasy could keep me occupied for hours on end. The fantasizing continued up through college, even after I dropped out of music school and stopped playing seriously. But even then it was never a question of if I’d ever be up playing in front of screaming crowds, but when. I was biding my time before I could invest the proper amount of time and effort into getting out there and making it work. First, I needed to finish school. Then, I needed to make money. Then, I needed to find the time. Then … and then nothing.

Despite fantasizing about this for over half of my life, the reality never came. And it took me a long time and a lot of negative experiences to finally figure out why: I didn’t actually want it.

I was in love with the result—the image of me on stage, people cheering, me rocking out, pouring my heart into what I’m playing—but I wasn’t in love with the process. And because of that, I failed at it. Repeatedly. Hell, I didn’t even try hard enough to fail at it. I hardly tried at all.

The daily drudgery of practicing, the logistics of finding a group and rehearsing, the pain of finding gigs and actually getting people to show up and give a shit. The broken strings, the blown tube amp, hauling 40 pounds of gear to and from rehearsals with no car. It’s a mountain of a dream and a mile-high climb to the top. And what it took me a long time to discover is that I didn’t like to climb much. I just liked to imagine the top.

Our culture would tell me that I’ve somehow failed myself, that I’m a quitter or a loser. Self-help would say that I either wasn’t courageous enough, determined enough or I didn’t believe in myself enough. The entrepreneurial/start-up crowd would tell me that I chickened out on my dream and gave in to my conventional social conditioning. I’d be told to do affirmations or join a mastermind group or manifest or something.

But the truth is far less interesting than that: I thought I wanted something, but it turns out I didn’t. End of story.

I wanted the reward and not the struggle. I wanted the result and not the process. I was in love not with the fight but only the victory. And life doesn’t work that way.

Who you are is defined by the values you are willing to struggle for. People who enjoy the struggles of a gym are the ones who get in good shape. People who enjoy long workweeks and the politics of the corporate ladder are the ones who move up it. People who enjoy the stresses and uncertainty of the starving artist lifestyle are ultimately the ones who live it and make it.

This is not a call for willpower or “grit.” This is not another admonishment of “no pain, no gain.”

This is the most simple and basic component of life: our struggles determine our successes. So choose your struggles wisely, my friend.

My flava was expressed on 1:23 PM

Friday, December 11, 2015

Quotes for Inspiration

"The wall that protects you from failure, is the same wall that will restrict you from success."

"Comparison is the thief of joy. Don't compare yourself to ideals. If you want to compare, compare yourself with who you WERE and who you WANT to be."

"It's not what you do, how you do, but who you are and why you do everything. And where you place yourself, determines everything."

"Make sure you constantly make the REST of your life, the BEST of your life."

"The upbringing of a person, comes from watching the backs of people who walking in front of them."

"Whether your life is hard or easy in the future, depends on what you deem as hard or easy at this exact moment. Life is hard either way, PICK YOUR HARD."

"Why invent the average, when you can copy the genius."

"True courage is the mindset of not surrendering, even if you lack strength and ability."

"It's not about whether you CAN or CANNOT, it's about whether you WILL or WILL NOT."

"Whether you walk or run, the destination won't change. It's your loss if you walk!"

"Are you listening to the demons or angels in your head for your next decision?"

"Just take a moment and imagine, what YOU can achieve if you're fulfilling your 100% potential."

My flava was expressed on 3:06 PM

Thursday, September 06, 2012

Don't listen like a dancer, don't react to music like a dancer,
don't move like a dancer,

Listen as yourself, enjoy to the music like yourself,
and let the enjoyment move you.

If you are truly dancing, it's not what you do that matters any more,
it's how you do.

Enjoy,
move,
freak.
Don't mess up the order.

My flava was expressed on 9:49 PM

Sunday, July 29, 2012

You all say you can't freestyle, no, you can't freestyle as well as you think.

It's not something only dancers can do.
It's just another activity, a form of expression to a feeling,
just like a baby reacting to the feeling of hunger by eating.

Every song has its own feel.
Be honest to what you feel, mean the movement,
don't misrepresent what you are feeling, that'll become a habit.

Overcome your shyness, expectations, perception of how others see you to enjoy the music.
Nothing wrong with being honest and expressing.

Styles and techniques came from reacting to the feel of the music.

Listen without the intention to move.
Move without the intention to freak.

No one can be a better you than you.

Number 1 supreme foundation of any dance is the music, not a pattern or a foundation.

Be real and party.
Dance, and not do the dance.

My flava was expressed on 11:17 PM

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

- Step out of 'Safe Set'

- Ridin the music

- Express full song with 1 movement

- Dance as if enter club

- Be free and natural

- Deep movements

- Make sounds to intensify movements

- Different feel for different music, thus different style in dance, but same flava

- Become the rapper

- Hear the way the rapper articulate

- Express the emotion from the rap, rather than hitting the rap

- Add in feel of the instruments (beat) to the emotion of the rap

- Don't apply technical knowledge and theoretical understanding to dance

- Dance is not movement to music, but connection with music

- Express the song

- Once connected with music, only with the head and hands also can dance

- Represent what you believe in

Thank you Luqman.

- Don't need to take dance too seriously, remember it's a human to human interaction dance

- Don't need to think one, just react immediately to what you hear lah

- Using most simple way to represent what you hear

- Don't just express the music, express MYSELF to the music

Thank you Semmy and Link.

- Always have fun and play like it's a playground

- Don't be afraid to be wrong

- It's like reacting to hunger: you instinctively put food into your mouth when you are hungry

- Self-expression to the music, instead of just doing movements to music

- Connect with the song and play with it

Thank you Melissa, Odette, Vivien, Xinru, Gina, Xinyun, Zul and Jovina. =)

- Listen to the melody

- Listen to HOW the artist is singing rather than exactly what he/she is singing

- DANCE before doing any style

- There's a difference between feeling shiok when you freak and feeling shiok when you are just feeling it

My flava was expressed on 3:40 AM

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

I haven't blogged in forever.

But I just want to have this post, because I'm very fucking angry.

SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT, OR WHOEVER, SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE,

DON'T BE LAME.

What is the whole point of arresting Martin Shing all the way from USA and jail him for 3 years? And make him serve National Service for 2 years?

So if someone who stays in Singapore, knows what he wants to do in life, which is to go overseas, get an education there, and LIVE HIS WHOLE LIFE there, and happen to go before he enters National Service,

IT IS AN OFFENCE?

THAT'S STUPID.

Don't be ridiculous and arrest someone for that, to make yourself look SORE.

SORE LOSERS WHO CAN'T ACCEPT THE FACT THAT SOME SINGAPOREAN GUYS DON'T WANT TO SPEND THE REST OF THEIR LIFES IN THIS COUNTRY AND DON'T WISH TO GO FOR NATIONAL SERVICE BECAUSE THEY HAVE BETTER PLANS FOR THEMSELVES.

Please.

Don't be stupid.

Someone who knows what he wants in life, working his goddamn ass off to achieve it, and you wanna screw his life up by making him waste 5 years in this country, for what?

And you guys will probably arrest me for even having this post.

Lame.

My flava was expressed on 1:42 AM

Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Life's good.

Girlfriend's awesome.

I'm still thankful today that I've been blessed to get this girlfriend now.

Not any other girl that I liked or liked me, but this particular girl, because I know no one else will be better than her.

I love her. =)

My flava was expressed on 1:30 AM

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Sometimes,

I can't be bothered to explain to people about how I live my life anymore.

Even to my parents.

Yes, I know they care.

I completely understand.

I'm not saying they are naggy, I'm not complaining at all.

In fact, I'm even happy that I have parents like this.

They care, but they don't control.

When it comes to having freedom,

I'm probably one of the most free ones.

They give me freedom when they trust me enough to make decisions on my own.

I appreciate that. I really do.

I know where I'm wrong actually.

I know informing them when I'm coming home late or not coming home is just a basic form of respect to them.

So when I stop informing them, they tend to worry and get unhappy about it.

Probably lesser of the worrying, because they knows how I'm spending more time with my studies and stuff that are important now.

They're just unhappy that they don't see me when they're home, when the fact is I do come home, but they are always not home at those times.

Thinking from their point of view,

I understand.

But sometimes,

when you know what you're doing is really ideal and good for you,

but it's just, it will take up alot of your time, even night time, or even time to just go home,

you'll still go for it because you know you don't spend the nights clubbing or the afternoons at the arcade.

But other people just can't see that,

because they are seeing from their point of view.

So you have to explain.

Again, and again.

But then again,

I don't have a choice.

My flava was expressed on 1:34 AM

Thursday, May 13, 2010

If this happened 3 years ago,
I would have retaliated, and wouldn't show any mercy when it comes to sarcasm and making you feel fucked up.

But then again,
I just remembered,
it did happen 3 years ago, and you DID get screwed by me after trying your pathetic ways to bully my friend.

So it has been 3 years, and now you're still doing this shit through the Internet?
Come on, I would have expected your guts and creativity to grow.
But I guess I shouldn't expect anything from you, after all you are still a retained student.
Sigh.

Bullying someone defenceless?
That was pathetic 3 years back,
and it's more than pathetic to do it again now.
But then again, I just recalled,
you guys are pussies anyway.

I feel sad for you.
Next time, try harder.
Or rather, try me.

I can let history repeat itself,
too. fucking. easily.

My flava was expressed on 1:32 PM

Thursday, May 06, 2010

Sessions nowadays are lesser but still going on very well.
Had a battle with all that came on the previous session.

Could see many people improving.
Super proud of people like Aty, who at the first session couldn't freestyle at all and can now battle with confidence.
Woots.

Glad that we could all understand what dance is, and improve together towards the right direction.
Not forgetting enjoying the sessions too.

And guess they are now more prepared for Get Down already.
Yeah, glad that we'll have more strong representatives from TPDE now.
Shall session with the juniors soon,
and check up on their progress since the previous session.

Super excited for Get Down now,
because most of the people joining Get Down are training hard and learning from each other,
so there's more bonding and confidence in each other too.
Even if we all get knocked out in the first round,
we also gained a lot from the training already.

Okay, shall prepare for work soon.

K bai.

My flava was expressed on 12:30 PM

Tuesday, May 04, 2010

Sorry for the lack of updates recently.
Life has been pretty constant and packed nowadays.

My time has been taken up mostly by work recently.
Work as in my new job and schoolwork.
And by schoolwork, I mean my classes, schoolwork and helping out with girlfriend's schoolwork.
My job's kinda boring but then again, no job is exactly not boring.
I'm working at Song Fa Bak Kut Teh opposite Clarke Quay MRT now, supposedly together with Weeming but until now we haven't gotten the same shift yet so it doesn't make a difference.

So other than time for work, I basically have no time left for myself unless I don't sleep which is stupid because I already sleep at 3am almost everyday due to the work overload.
Which basically means, I don't even really have time for dance also, other than my usual Suntec training sessions which is just 2hours per session, twice a week.

I have no life now.
I'm surprised I even have time to write this entry.

K bai.

My flava was expressed on 3:43 PM

Thursday, April 22, 2010

New reminders.

Flow. Flow. Flow. Flow.

~~Accent. Accent. Accent. Accent.~~

Hit. Hit. Hit. Hit.

~~Basic rhythm. Basic rhythm. Basic rhythm. Basic rhythm.~~

Music. Music. Music. Music.

Pffft.

My flava was expressed on 2:35 AM

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Because the only person in this world capable of making me feel this happy is no one else but you.
And the best feeling in the world is to know that I mean the same to you too.

=)

My flava was expressed on 10:36 PM

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

New semester, same course.
Same course, same LT.
Same LT, different coursemates.
Different coursemates, new friends?

Hopefully it'll be this way.

My flava was expressed on 1:39 PM

Sunday, April 18, 2010

I was never really sure about how I was feeling when she is overseas until today.
Until Frankie told me about how he was feeling when Joyce went overseas.

'It's like you are not sad or unhappy.
You just wake up and will go like.. 'Okay so what's next?'
You plan carefully what to do for the whole day and after doing everything, seems like there's still plenty of time left.
And you go to sleep, thinking you have done so much today.
But you realised there's still something missing, even after filling up the whole day with activities that you don't usually do.
It's like one part of your life gone.
It's like not eating/sleeping/drinking.
Yup, that's how it feels like.'

Yup, that's how it feels like.
And the stupid volcanic ash had to delay her flight for a couple more days.

My flava was expressed on 2:24 AM

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Sessions nowadays have been good.
Cyphers are video-ed down and uploaded privately so we can self-evaluate our freestyle and improve on it.
Glad to see everyone improve since the first video.
It's good being able to see improvement in my own teammates!

Another session later.
Time to critique and really push myself to improve!
But most importantly, will remember to have fun.

It's time to breakthrough.

2 more days. =)

My flava was expressed on 9:22 AM

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

19th April.
Many people dread that day, because that day marks the end of the holidays and start of school again.
But I can't wait for that day to come.

Because you will be back on that day.

I can't wait. =)

My flava was expressed on 1:47 AM

Tuesday, April 06, 2010

No matter how I look at it,
my future looks good.

Near future, with work, dance and most looking forward to that event.
Definitely a huge surprise for everyone.

Further into the future, if everything goes well, my occupation would be secured, and family life after marrying my most awesome girl would be nothing but ideal. =)

At least I can smile thinking about my future now.
Heh.

Now I'm tired like hell.
Time to sleep.
Hopefully I'll dream of you tonight. =)

K bai.

My flava was expressed on 12:23 AM

Saturday, April 03, 2010

The heart can't wait for the hand to be unlocked again by its one and only owner, you.
18 days will pass in a breeze. (:

My flava was expressed on 12:33 AM