Secrets Revealed

I attended Dr Mel Gill’s NLP seminar yesterday and got an opportunity to meet a different spectrum of people. I have always found it hard to open up especially even when there’s a small group of people and coming to such a seminar, I learnt ways, techniques that can be so easily adopted in my life. 

He shared with us his new project, The Meta Secret which is a sequel to The Secret. The Secret is a book and a movie basically talking about the laws of attraction. Click on the link on “The Secret” to watch a 20 minute video clip oposted by aSecretAgent. Oprah herself talked about it on Larry King (posted by adriancel) here where I agree with her that,

“It’s not the answer to all questions. The law of attraction is only one law there are many laws working in the world. It is very true that the way you think creates reality for yourself. There are other factors going on so it’s not everything but you can change your own reality on the way you think.”

Dr Mel Gill mentioned how we all have 5 senses: to feel, smell, see, hear and taste. Not everyone uses all these senses the way we should and often people find themselves having certain preferences. They could be more visual, auditorial, kinesthetic and so on. He told us we needed to pay attention on the things around us. To communicate with someone effectively we had to understand the person and be like them to create a connection. Knowing how they are as a person, one can derive how to speak so that the person would understand. All patterns that one should adopt of the type of person they are trying to connect with so that there is common ground.

I definitely had a good time and it was a great experience. Funny how the mind can be so powerful and the brain so complex…

Passion in What You Say

I love to sit in at seminars, listen to people talk, preach about things they are passionate about. Their eyes gleam and it’s an amazing feeling truthfully. If you have ever seen Ted Talks on youTube, you would definitely know what I am talking about. For the past few months starting the Masters program, I was given an opportunity that I took without a hesitation. I was given opportunities to attend a lot of short talks where I could listen to people who spent months, years researching and sharing with us what they found out or their experiences they had encountered along the way. Even sitting with classmates who have years of experience, it is something that is indescribable when they tell the struggles and joys they went through.

You see it in their eyes… the passion of “this is what I have done and I have made it so far.” I want to have that same desire as they do with my work but sadly I am not there yet. I came to the course not knowing what I wanted in my life and which direction I should be heading. Months of people saying, you should know what you want and work towards that mission with goals set up that you want to achieve and try and do them. Setting a goal on what the market needs may not make one happy but setting on something that makes you happy, realistically it may not even pay for bills. I sometimes wonder if I will get there to the same level these people are experiencing rather than stick to a job because it pays for the bills.

Lately I have been receiving tweets about Pat Law giving a lecture to a group of students where the students wrote blog entries about the event. As I have been a follower of her written work that she posts on her blog Blankanvas and previously elsewhere, I believe her presentation would have been an experience. Definitely something I wish I had gotten the chance to sit in. But needless to say, to be where she is today she gave a lot of her blood, sweat and time which is admirable [additional update: To see her schedule of how her daily schedule looks like read this post]. So have you found your passion in life?

Testing Purposes

How long do you think it would take a person to type a blog entry without going psychotic using an iPhone? As a matter fact, I find it rather hard to type.

Shortlisted

I got shortlisted for the masters course. Will be going for a test and interview this Saturday!

I am feeling happy, nervous and panicky…

Not prepared… Not prepared at all.

FiRST Oscars Movie Marathon 2009

SPH magazine FiRST was kind enough to organise a show case of the best of the best Hollywood filmmaking Oscars Movie Marathon last night at Cathy Cineleisure Orchard from 11pm to 6 am. I admit this is the first time winning tickets to go to a movie marathon in Singapore and it was very well organised. Kudos to the FiRST team. Besides the movies, we got goodie bags from the team which I was so “stoked” about (happy) because I got a superman 3 poster (so going to frame it and put it in my room), a Harry Potter t-shirt, a booklet, shampoo and a bottle of cabernet sauvignon and salitos beer.

My friend and I watched 3 movies that was being shown, “The Wrestler”, “Frost Nixon” and “The Dark Knight”. I preferred the 1st movie even though there was a lot of blood in it and some parts was so disturbing that I was cringing and hiding behind my jacket. I didn’t quite like the 2nd movie since it revolved around how a team of interviewers were trying to get the ex president (Nixon) to admit his wrong doings. The last show with Heath Ledger in it, I couldn’t help being amazed how good he played the character “Joker”. It was like he was fully into it. The lips licking. The way he was prancing around. He left too early before his time.

FiRST has really organised a great viewing experience for me for show casing the 3 shows. I admit though in the 2nd and 3rd movie I was in and out of my sleeping zone but despite that I had a great time. Thank you for the tickets FiRST and Cathay for giving me a good Saturday night out.

Week 2: Why I Take Totalife

I had been thinking about finding happiness in one’s life. A being in town a few days ago made me think of what I have achieved these past years. Am I happy? All the things in one’s life possibly financial problems, work problems, family problems. All that pressure we have everyday. The list is endless. Having negative thoughts and a negative attitude does cause one’s body to deteriorate faster.

I don’t know how others may think but I think it’s important for one to look out for their health especially if you are the sole breadmaker for the family. Just saying that if the sole breadmaker falls sick and cannot go to work which in turn means no income coming in, the family may not survive. Thus it’s so important that we look after ourselves. 

Lately I had a few people at work been commenting saying that I look fine and I don’t need to lose weight since I am not really very fat. I didn’t reply but I thought to myself, being fat is not a healthy lifestyle. If I continue the rate I am going… my body system will breakdown and I will have all the sicknesses that come with obeisity. It’s easy to have these people tell me that I am stupid for losing weight but they don’t know the self inflicting pain of what I am going through everyday with myself.

Being happy does not start with loving others first… although being in love with someone can give a certain degree of happiness but true happiness starts with oneself. Why I take Totalife? To become healthy. To be able to slim down. To have the self confidence and me feeling great in my own body. To feel that I can give 100 percent everyday.

After going to the slimming project A and listening to the people before me take the product. I believe in what they say. It starts with you and nobody else. If you aren’t ready for the change then there is no point in taking it because you will end up going into it half heartedly whereby you end up where you started. So how happy are you with your life at this moment? What are you doing to find your own happiness?

I Can’t Even Rank It

There are things in life where you will mentally assess the situation and rank it accordingly to determine whether it was a good or bad experience or something that didn’t mean a thing. I don’t even know where to draw the line when it comes to the laws of attraction. All the things of ambuiguity… However if there are no expectations then there will be no disappointments right? I don’t even know why I even said it. It’s just so much harder to control my feelings nowadays or maybe I stopped trying. The reality though, it’s like a card game. So I played the game and did a show hand revealing my heart and soul. What was I expecting you ask? Truthfully I didn’t think about it. I just said it and laid all my hearts on the table. Bad enough I can’t help stop thinking of them to see that the hearts don’t mean much at the end of the day.

On another note, today I joined a Slimming Project A with Totalife. It was a great day and I learned about the slimming series I was consuming and all the things that are in it. The environment was very enthusiastic and the people were very kind and helpful. Mind you a lot of it was conducted in mandarin so through many of the motivation talks my head was throwing out question marks. I wasn’t the only one not comprehending but the feelings today was enough to prove to me that if I put effort and stick to the regime, it’s possible.

If only laws of attractions was something like that sometimes. I can’t help the way I feel at this point of time.

Totalife – 4 days

Number of days: 4
Location: Work Site
Current mood: Relaxed

It’s been 4 days and the past few days have been hard. There was a lot of craving for food in the evenings since the program I am on consists of the following:

In the morning drink one packet of the juice packet and then followup with the Total Diet Meal drink 15-30 minutes later. Then every 3 hours drink another Total Diet Meal maximum of 4 packets a day. The evenings leave me with one meal.

At work I usually would feel tired and no energy resulting my lunch times to be having great 30 minute power naps. In the evening it is quite hard to stick to non oily food and don’t over eat. Have to admit 4 days and there is no progress? Although I think maybe if I did an exercise workout it would be quicker? Lately been walking back home from 2 train stations away from my place since I can’t go jogging this week. I am always thirsty and consuming lots of water and it requires many trips to the bathroom. Overall it’s not so bad between the 3 hours of consumption of the drink unless someone has something nice to eat and you have to find the willpower to say “No thanks”. We will see in the next few weeks of any progress.

Totalife

So I will be participlating with the slimming product line that Totalife has and I decided to buy the 2.5 month set which costed me more than I can afford. I admit though I have an obsession with losing weight and I don’t do so well with self esteem as I grow bigger.

By having my mother’s support and signing a contract with her… the next few months will be purely on me losing the weight and on the special program. In a way I am scared that I am incapable of refraining from indulging.

Giving Back to Those In Need

The thing you have to understand about the company I work for in Singapore, more than 60% I figure are foreign workers coming from (on the top of my head) Malaysia, India, Myanmar, Philippines, etc. They are all here for one reason and it is to make money so that they can send it home for their families hoping for a better future. Everybody works hard and the weather here in Singapore is somehow hot and humid and becoming 3-4 shades darker from working under the sun is considered normal.

Recently all the news about how Yangon (Myanmar) was ripped apart by the cyclone (Nargis) killing over hundred thousands in its path, it is amazing how people at the company I work for are digging deep into their pockets to give back to a community that has lost everything. I heard that there are torrential rain which isn’t helping those that have survived in Myanmar and as more people are dying and missing, we can only give money hoping that it would help since the junta’s refused aid initially. Take note all these foreign workers don’t earn alot in one month (approx basic ~400) so they are donating a quarter of their monthly income. Half of their monthly income goes to paying for their fees and services to get them to Singapore (or something similar to that). So the company seeing that a lot of the workers here are Burmese, the company is willing to pay what the workers pay to assist with the donation. So seeing the money go from $0 to almost $35,000 and the final amount almost hit $70,000 in the past week, I can’t but hope this amount of money will help the society in picking themselves up again even though it seems nothing is left.