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07 June, 2004
12:49 AM
Just checked my mail, but really am too burnt out to reply...*ironic*. Yeps, but today was a WONDERFUL day!!! Despite me and my friends' lack of sleep, we all managed to get through our training course so energetically! Haha, was really an excellent course, and it so motivates a person to live his or her life to the fullest.
One thing that i learnt from there is that there are 2 kinds of teachings in life: 1-Survival, 2-Success. I guess most of us, actually effectively all of us have been trained only to SURVIVE in this society and nothing more...and true enough, we spend the rest of our lives applying that technique. And at the end of the day? We are stuck with this skill, and if there're any changes to the way things are, we die! (not literally lah)
They say give a man a fish and it will feed him for a day, but teach a man to fish and it will feed him for life. But wat if one day he becomes too sick or old to fish? Who'll feed him? NOBODY!!
For me, I'd want to teach all my family and friends to fish too so that they can also survive on their own. But if for some reason i can't continue fishin, will anyone feed me? I'm most certain...YES! =)
Against the rules (by twisting the meaning of the phrase)? Who said so? Heh...probably the people who are taught the ways of SUCCESS wouldn't think so...=)
Inspiring Words
"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident."
- Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
"It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place."
- Abigail Van Buren
"Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds."
- Hugh Elliott
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself."
- Oscar Wilde
"The best thing about pain, it tells you you're not dead yet."
- the movie G.I. Jane
"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need."
- Kahlil Gibran
"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in
you."
- Dale Carnegie
"Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear."
- William Shakespeare
