21DJC-Day 21 - What is Your Biggest Wish for the Future?

I have finally come to an end of this 21 Day Journal Challenge. Today is the last day of this challenge, ended with the question: What is my biggest wish for my future?

I always tell myself that, I have achieved all the goals in my life, except one: to form a family.

I wish to have a husband with a few kids. I believe that with the family, I would be able to learn even more and move to the next level of my life.

I hope that my dream would be achieved by age of 32. I really hope so, and I’m working into it as well.

Tonight, I ended this last post of 21DJC with a short one.

21DJC–Day 20 - What Limiting Beliefs Are You Holding On To?

Today is the second last day of this Daily Journal Challenge program from Personal Excellence. Today’s question is: What is the limitting belief that hold me back from reaching to the next level in my life? (Phew~ a long question!)

With this long question, there is only one word as my answer: Confidence!

Yes, I don’t have confidence enough on myself. Before I’m to do something, I would ask myself: what is I cannot make it? What if something happen in between? What if… Many “what-if” questions would appear in my mind.

I know my appearance is not good enough, that’s why I’m lack of confidence. And that is the reason why, I accepted the challenge from my friend to reduce my weight for 10kg in 6 months. It might be tough for me, as this is my very first attempt to reduce my weight, but I would try my best.

I know my teaching skill is not good enough, so I try to be creative, inject a few new ideas into my lessons. Some of them failed, while some of them succeeded. From those ideas that failed, I figured out what the students think normally, and I would try to tackle their interests. (Sigh, it seems that it is not easy to be a lecturer. We still need to tackle the students’ interests in order to make it to be a good lesson)

I know my communications skill is not good enough, so I try to learn to communicate by joining Toastmasters Club. However, due to some issues, I decided to leave next year. I would concentrate on my Master course after that. It is not to say that communication skills is no longer important to me, but it is just that I know I cannot handle too many things at once. I would need full concentration in only one thing most of the time in order to come out with a good result. That is one of the reason that I decided to leave.

I know my drawing skill is not good enough, so I decided to start learning drawing myself, by taking note on how people draw and how I draw. I hope that I can enter to the competition one day too!

I know my photography skill is not good enough, so I decided to learn taking photos and edit photos in different styles, but not limit myself to only one style of photo editing. I would let my feeling flows!

All these happened because of lack of confidence in myself. So I started to take corrective actions. I would not let myself hold back with what I have planned and what I wish to achieve so much in my life, before I leave this world.

Go on! I can make it!

21DJC-Day 19 - What Words Best Describe You?

It is the 19th journal that I have written for this 21 Daily Journal Challenge. Today’s question is what words best describe me?

If I would to describe myself, I guess, the way people see me and the way I look at myself would be different. If other people look at me, they would always think that I’m a cheerful person. I always have smile on my face. But, I would to describe my own characteristics, I would say, I’m an emotional person. I’m easily affected by other people’s emotions. That is the reason why I always want to make people around me to be happy, because I want myself to be happy as well.

Besides, to myself, I think that I’m a highly motivated person. No matter how bad of feeling I have, I would be able to recover in a fast manner. I know that I have to go on with my life, so I cannot stop at the same place for long time, I cannot afford to. That is how I live until today.

In term of appearance, hmm… I have a bad word to describe myself, too casual. I seldom take note on my appearance, as long as I feel comfortable, I will wear the clothes. It is good in a way that I know what I want, but it is bad in term of trying out new clothes. I know I might have new taste if I would to try out new style of wearing. I know, just that I do not have the guts to try it out. =.="

That’s all for tonight. I feel kind of tired today, driving and working the whole day. Wish you enjoy your holiday.

21DJC–Day 18 - What Matters Most To You?

Yesterday, I skipped this journal again because of the business in preparation for today’s class. So today, I have my day 18’s question: What matters most to me?

After thinking for some time, I think, the only thing that matters me, is smiles of the people around me. I always hope that the people around me will be happy and smile. When they smile, I will feel happy.

Yes, I always mentioned that appreciation with sincere heart is important, and I’m a self conscious person, always thinking to make myself happy. This is the way how I make myself happy, or you can say that it is the matter of chicken and egg. Is there chickens exist in this world before eggs or vise versa?

I wish to make myself happy, so I make the people around me to be happy. The people around me feel happy, so I feel happy. To me, both are the same. So it doesn’t matter if I make people happy because I want to feel happy, or I feel happy because the people around me are happy.

Whether or not I’m doing good in making people to feel happy, I guess I will still in the learning stage, learn to make people feel happy. If it is not offended to my principles, I can be a clown, can be a laughing stock for the people around me.

As said, smile can draw relationships to be closer, while laughter can cure diseases. So, why not all of us smile or laugh all the time, so that we will have better relationship and keep ourselves away from diseases? Try it, we can always smile, if we have the wish to make the rest of the people to smile. We can always smile, if we take note on the details in our lives. We can always smile, if we appreciate for what we have currently.

21DJC–Day 17 - If The World Came To An End Today, How Would You Feel?

Today’s question is a common question, how would I feel if today is the end of the world? This topic always appears during the Toastmasters meetings, or even when we were writing essay in the secondary schools.

Different age, we have different thinking. If I were in secondary school, I would feel that I have not enough time to enjoy the life, enjoy the world. If I were in college, I would feel that I have not enough time to achieve my dreams, achieve my goals. And now, I’m an adult, and I have nearly achieved all my goals in my life, except for forming a family.

If today is the end of the day, how would I feel? I would say, yes, I’m ready to go, ready to leave this world, ready to survive in other spaces, if there were other spaces after we transform our lives. Since everything is the end, why should I still be persistent with my goals and desires? No matter how, everything is gone, there will be nothing left in this world, in this earth.

Maybe, we would have a different lives in the other world? Or maybe, we would transform to a new type / style of life? I would say, I always appreciate with what I have now, so there’s no regret, nothing left behind that I haven’t made it. So, just appreciate every moment we have, do not waste the time too much on unnecessary thing. Appreciate so that we have no regret! By the time when it comes to the end of the world, we would be able to say, YES, I’M READY!!

On the other hand, to prevent the world to come to an end, just appreciate the earth that we currently have. Do less damage towards it if possible. I’m practicing that as well. Just try my best to protect it (while I’m still turning on my air-condition system, as the weather is really hot nowadays…). I know everything will come to an end one day, but what we can do now is to prolong the life of our mother Earth. So, let’s work it out together.

21DJC–Day 16 - What Makes You Happy?

Yesterday’s question talked about pain, while today’s question is talking about happiness. What brings me happiness?

This is a simple question, but complicated answer. I would just say, there are 2 situations that make me happy. First, is that I’m able to be with my family / friends. Hanging out with family / friends, just to have a short break, or a meal. That’s good enough for me to feel happy, and let me know that I’m still alive, still having members supporting my life. Without family and friends, I have nothing left.

Second, is that when I feel satisfactory in me. There can be many reasons for me to feel satisfactory. For example, when I finish a craft work, a drawing, photograph editing, etc. Those are the satisfactory towards myself, my achievements. Sometimes, if other people achieved something, I feel happy for them as well.

Not long ago, 2 groups of my students, 30 students overall, all of them passed the test! I felt so happy! I felt happy not because I was good in teaching, but because of their efforts put into the assignments and tests. I felt happy to see them grow. Although they complained a lot about the difficulties of the assignments / tests, but at last, they passed! They have shown their efforts that they were able to make it. That was what I felt happy about.

Some of my friends said, they always can see smile on my face. Yes, I always feel happy that, I’m alive now. We don’t know what will happen in the next minute, or even the next second, so just appreciate what we have right now. If we have the chance to be happy, don’t hide, just explode it out and spread the happiness to the people around us! Let them feel the happiness together!

21DJC-Day 15 - What is the Most Painful Thing You Have Ever Experienced To Date?

What is the most painful thing i have ever experienced. There is only one thing that stuck in my mind since my childhood.

It was an incident that I couldn’t even tell my family. I know, once I say it out, things will change. That was during my childhood time. And now, I’m already an adult. I can tell, but I choose not to tell. I hope that time will cure my pain.

And yes, time cures it, slowly. Up till now, I’m slowly released from the pain. How many years that I have beared the pain? 5 years? 10 years? No, it has been 20 years. It became a nightmare for me when time past. Now, I want it to become a past incident that I can tell off, just like a story telling. So, I started to tell my friends about the story, but not to tell my family about it.

Anyway, it was pain. Now, it has past, and I’m released from it slowly. I know, I will be fully released one day.

21DJC-Day 14 - What Is Love?

Now it comes Day 14, I have done this journal series for 2 weeks! (In fact, it is more than 2 weeks, as I have skipped 2 days before) Today, the question is: What is love?

What does love mean to me? How do I identify that I’m loved by someone? What is the word that I can use to describe love?

Well, I always stress on “Appreciation”. Appreciate what other people have done to me. When I have the feeling of appreciation towards others, I have the feeling of love from them. It is pretty simple, isn’t it?

Just think about it, let’s say one day, you had everything running so terribly, all the things were messed up. Your work was wrecked out, your plan was ruined, you was escalated to your boss or your director, or even you are fired, retrenched, and you felt so depress about all that. You sat on a chair at the roadside, thinking about what had happened through out the whole day, and you was trying to figure out what had gone wrong. Suddenly, the rain fell down from the sky, even the god was trying to ruin your day. Your feeling went down to the bottom of your heart. And then, a stranger walked nearer and nearer to you. He stood beside you, holding an umbrella on top of your head, and asked you, “Friend, are you ok?”

How would you feel?

Yes, to me, the stranger, even though he was just a stranger to me, he had brightened up my day. He didn’t need to be my friend, didn’t need to do anything, just a question, and he could make me feel that I’m back to live. I would feel appreciate of his greeting, even though it was just a simple question. At least, there was someone out there that concern about me. Wouldn’t you feel warm?

So, just go on, concern about your friends. You might not be able to help out with their problems. But you can still be an audience to them. Show your love to your family members, your friends, your partners, your spouse, or even to a stranger that needs help (Of course, you need to take note if the stranger is suspecious…). Remember, your question of concerning, might turn a person alive again.

Personal Dictionary #1

Today, I decided to start off my personal dictionary by collecting the vocabularies while I’m reading the English posts / novels. I will make sentences with the new vocabularies. I’m to improve my vocabularies.

1. mediate – (v) 调解，劝说；(adj) 间接的
: I tried my best to mediate the misunderstanding between them, but I failed.

2. trauma – (n) 创伤，伤口
: I always believe that time will reduce the trauma in our heart.

3.heed – (n) 注意力，关怀，注意；(v) 注意，听从
: The incident brought up my heed and so I noticed about his suspecious actions.

4.intimidate – (v) 恐吓
: He intimedated her for not telling her family about what he has done to her.

5. perpetuate – (v) 延续
: The existance of this statue perpetuates the spirit of the great leader!

6. intervention – (n) 干预，加入
: Your intervention will just ruin the whole project.

7. qualm – (n) 疑虑（指对所做的事是否正确的疑虑）
: He has no qualms in crossing the line of labour laws.

8. amiable – (adj) 和蔼可亲的
: You can hardly find amiable students in this class because they are reluctant in getting to know each other.

21DJC-Day 13 - What Do You Fear Most?

Last night I had a gathering with my zither mates and back at home quite late, so I missed this journal again (2nd time). Today, I will continue with the question, what do I fear most?

After I calmed myself down, I asked myself again, what do I fear most? I know, many people afraid of dying. In fact, if you tell me that I’m going to die tomorrow, I have not much fear, as of now. I would not say that I’m definitely not afraid of that as I wouldn’t know what I would think of when the situation comes.

To me, currently, what I fear most is illness, diseases. I live to be happy, so I always concern about how much happiness I can bring to myself in my whole life. I want to make sure that I have no regrets when I leave this world. But, when I hear about my relatives or my friends’ family members getting cancer, or any diseases, I feel that it is even more fearful than dying itself.

If a person dies straight away without much pains, I would say the person is lucky enough to have a good ending in his life. Whereas, if a person dies after the torturing of diseases, he is leaving the world unpeacefully. Further more, when the person is suffering from diseases, it is not himself the only person to feel the pains, but it brings a chain effect to the family members as well. Family members feel sad and worried when looking at the expression of the person while having the pain. It is also a torturing to the family members.

Thus, I’m to say that, health is always more important than wealth. I have to take good care of my health – this is the recent concern to myself. That is one of the reasons, why I started to work out to reduce my weight. I have never wished to be a pretty lady. I was born to be in this way, that is given by my parents, and I appreciate it. I just want to live with a healthy body. That is not to let my parents worry about me, and also a way for me to keep myself happy.

21DJC-Day 12 - What Are Your Biggest Goals for the Next Few Years?

Today, the question from Celes is what are my biggest goals for the next few years?

Next few years. Honestly, I do a checklist every year to check how many goals I have achieved in that particular year. So this question is not new to me. But, one special goal that I would like to add in to my goal list, is to get married.

It is funny. If you ask me this question few years back, or even last year, I didn’t really think about getting married. It has never come into my life planning before, until this year. I have strong intension to get married now. Although you might be thinking whether is it too late to think about marriage now?

Aha, I always tell myself, there is never been too late if you start doing it right now. I’m still working towards my goals, including this. But, whether or not I can be succeed in achieving this so called special goal, I leave it to the fate, as I’m trying to get it.

Besides this, as normal, I plan to enroll master course, I plan to take the zither examination, plan to decorate my house, plan to invite my Mandarin teacher for a meal, plan to continue with my clay work / art work, etc. There are many goals in my plan!! I will complete it one by one. As mentioned by Steve Jobs, think that today is your last day, what do you want to achieve? Yes, just do whatever I want to, just enjoy my life with the fruitful experience!

21DJC-Day 11 - Out of Your 5 Senses, Which is the Most Important to You, and Why?

Today, It comes to a difficult question: Which of the 5 senses is the most important to me?

Hmm, If you ask me to choose one and only one sense, I would say, sight is the most important to me. Every time, when I look at those blind people, I cannot imagine, if one day, I lost my eye sight, I cannot see anything, what the feeling will be. I guess I will be going crazy, insane!

I use my eyes to see, to enjoy the views in front of me. I use my eyes to see the good and bad in this world, and from there, I learned. My feeling flows with the things appear in front of me. I use my eyes to express my feelings towards something. Without the eye sight, I will lose most of the happiness.

After all, all 5 senses are important. Appreciate for what we have now. Do not wait until one day, we lose any of them, and we feel regret. Regret is useless, appreciate them, and take good care of them all.

21DJC-Day 10 - Who Do You Enjoy Spending Time With?

In our lives, we interact with people around us. We cannot live without interacting. That is the beauty of the world in one aspect, if you appreciate the people around you. Today’s question: Who do I enjoy spending time with?

The first person that came into my mind is of course my dearest mum. I always think that my mum is a superwoman. She can talk about any topic to all family members. She talks about politics with my dad, talks about business world with my elder brother, talks about family problems with my sister-in-law, talks about education with me, talks about computers with my younger brother, anything. When my late grandmother was still alive, she talks about the history with my grandmother too. She can make us expressing our thoughts all the time, no matter what kind of incidents we face. She is always so wonderful!

Then, the next person will be my ex-colleague, whom we use to call him “Tai Lou” because he has a fierce outlook. “Tai Lou” means a big brother, especially when those gangsters calling their heads. Although he is not a degree holder, but the way he thinks is more than a degree holder like me. He was the one that guided me since the first day I stepped into Dell. He was the one that invited me for lunch on my first day as I didn’t know anyone in the department. He was the one that helped me to resolve server issues of the applications that I was taking care. Although we were colleagues, but our topics are always beyond the work, and I treat him to be one of my good friends. We talks about our problems, talks about our family, talks about our hobbies (both of us like photography a lot), etc. Now, I have left Dell, but we still keep in touch all the time through IM.

Also, there are many people that I treasure the friendships a lot. I enjoy hanging out with friends to have a chit chat, or have a meal, have a drink. I hope that our friendships will be forever. ^^

21DJC-Day 9 - What Drives You?

Yesterday, I was busy in setting test questions, so I missed this title. I guess, today, I will try to answer 2 at once, if time allows me to do so.

Today’s question: What drives me? What do I live for? Well, I always feel that, I live for happiness! As I mentioned in the previous post, whenever I’m to do something, I ask myself: Will I feel happy after doing this?

If the answer is No, then I will stop thinking about it; If the answer is Yes, then I will just go ahead doing it without thinking too much. Once I face problem with my decision, I know that I have made the wrong decision. From there, I learn, and I’m happy that I gain new experience.

There were times that I felt so depressed from my work, and every morning I felt so tired, so unwillingly to go to work. I had negative mood almost every moment in my workplace, argued with people all the time, even escalated my counter-parts to the director. What a terrible emotion! When I was driving, whenever someone overtake my car without the legal rule, I cursed the person. During that few months, I knew that I had to leave, or else I would be going to meet the psychological doctor very soon.

Thus, I decided to change the job, and I found my dream job – lecturer!! Although I’m still new in education line, but I still have my passion in it. What I need to do now, is to maintain my passion towards my dream job. So, with that, I need to grow, equip myself with more powerful skills! Of course, it is not only in term of technical, but in term of soft skills as well. I know, if I want to do it, I can!!

That’s all for this post. It is already late, so I guess I will leave the next question to tomorrow.

21DJC-Day 8 - On a Scale of 1-10, How Much Do You Love Yourself?

Through out my life, I have heard the phrase “Love ourselves, treat ourselves nicely”. But, how much do I love myself?

I would say, I spend all of my effort to love myself. I’m a heavy self conscious person. I know what I want, and I try my best to go for it. Whenever I think how to resolve a problem, the first question that comes into my mind is: Will I feel happy after doing this?

In a different perspective, you may say that I’m a selfish person, I admit that. There is no right or wrong answer in this kind of philosophy question. To you, I’m a selfish person, but to me, I feel that there is one and only one of ME accompanying me through out my life. How can I leave myself being unhappy? I know, I will regret one day if I do so.

However, to make one self to be happy, there are many ways, depending on the person’s attitude too. From my characteristics, my feelings actually follow other people’s feelings. Other people’s feelings may affect my feelings, my emotions. So, as long as it is still under my limitation, I will try to make other people to be happy.

That’s me. I would say that I’m selfish in a way that I always think to make myself to be happy. How to make myself to be happy? It is to make other people to be happy.

I feel good whenever I have done some effort to make people to be happy. It might be a matter if the person does not appreciate my effort, but that is to show that I can improve myself. From there, I learn, I reflect, and I grow. Doesn’t it a happy experience?

So, how much do you love yourself?

21DJC-Day 7 - What is the Most Important Thing You’ve Learned in Life So Far?

Today is the 7th day I started off this Daily Journal Challenge. Time flies, it’s been one week!

I have tried my best to maintain my momentum in writing an English blog post everyday. Today, let’s talk about what is the most important thing I have learned in life so far.

About this question, it always brings me back to year 2001, 10 years ago. That was the year that I suffered the most, and that was the year that I changed the most. I changed from a quiet person to a talkative person; I changed from a passimistic person to an optimistic person; I changed from a guy’s mindset to a girl’s mindset person.

The only one thing I have learned: There is no chance to feel regret in my life, appreciate everything I have!

I was in Diploma that year, my first year in Diploma. I kept on telling myself, I have to change, because I was to prepare myself to get into the society, prepare myself to step into the real world.

And I told myself, I don’t want to leave any regret in my life by the day I leave the world. Whatever happened before, it’s past. I should not keep it in my heart all the way. I should let it go and look at everything that I had have. For those bad happenings, I should take it as a lesson learned, reflect to my present and apply in my life.

Before I decided to change my mindset, I could say that I didn’t really have a good luck.

1. I knew a new friend, and he passed away.
2. I wanted a mountain bike, so I requested my dad to buy one for me if I got into the first class, but ended up I went to the second class because of the quota of student numbers in that Malay school.
3. Some of my friends thought that I was autistic because of my bias thinking towards guys.

Just right after I changed my mindset (I will not mentioned how hard it was, but I have succeeded to go through it), I could feel that I have changed my luck too.

1. From my DIploma until now, I knew many gentlemen that took good care of me, either in my daily life or my working life. They taught me a lot of knowledge and trained me to be better.
2. I got the mountain bike now, although it does not really belong to me. In fact, it belongs to my younger brother, but my younger brother does not take bike anymore, so I own it automatically. XD
3. Now, my friend circle is enlarged, not until the other end of the world, but at least, I have known many people from different states in Malaysia, and even from different countries!

So, I succeeded! I changed! Although even until now, there were times I stay quietly, especially when I’m in a crowd or a group of people, I tend to listen to people more. Until today, I still keep on reminding myself: Appreciate what I have now. Be gratitude towards people who have helped me. Leave no regret!!

My thinking might be extreme, but this is my favourite quote (created by myself… Haha):
Only cowards keep on feeling regret towards their pasts, because regret is useless. You cannot hold back the past, so hold back your present, and make full use of the chances you have!

21DJC–Day 6 - What Frustrates You?

If you would to ask me, what frustrates me usually, it would be meeting with the people who neglect on other people’s feelings, and also neglect in achieving a common goal in a team.

I understand that it is hard to communicate with people. Every time, when it comes to the situation that I meet up with a person who doesn’t care on other people’s feeling and just do whatever he/she wants, I feel frustrated, but I don’t show out my feelings towards the person. I keep the feeling within myself, and that causes me feeling unhappy for quite some time.

I feel release only when I don’t meet up with the person again within a few days. Whenever I meet up with the person again, the feeling comes back. That feeling creates a perception in my heart towards the person.

Maybe, because of this perception, I started to look into all the bad things about the person, and I myself neglect on the person’s good points. I’m trying to learn to communicate with this kind of people without the influence of my own perception. I think I will need to take some time in achieving this.

Yeah, I hope that one day, I can go through this, look into everyone’s good points, enlarge the good points and reduce the weak points in them.

21DJC–Day 5 - Who Is the Most Important Person to You in the World?

Now, come to this quuestion, Who is the most important person in my life in this world? In the post, Celes mentioned that I can only choose one person, the most most most important person to me.

Well, as what I can think of, definitely, the most important person to me is my mum. She has been my idol from my young time, until now, and I believe, until I get married, I have children, grandsons and granddaughters, the rest of my life.

I have to say that, she is not a perfect mum. She doesn’t cook well (as I mentioned in my previous post), but I love the ways she treats my grandmother, the ways she treats my father.

I always believe that, it is not easy being a woman, especially when a woman getting married. When a man gets married, he is getting a person into his family; whereas when a woman gets married, she is moving to a new family. A new family with different family background, different customs, different habits, some families are even having different races, different religions, etc. With all these differs, do you think it is easy to survive in there?

To my mum, she can always treat my grandma very nicely. Although there were times she got angry with my grandma, but she still respected my grandma as an elder. She takes care of my father a lot too. In my heart, both my parents are the ideal couples, although both of them have some weak points, and they still could compromise with each other. They seldom quarrel, not even in front of us, children.

Now, she is also a mother-in-law, and of course, she has some unhappy feelings towards my sis-in-law sometimes, but she has never complained to my brother about that. She just cares about my brother’s feelings, she doesn’t want anything unhappiness happen in our family. And so, I become her audience, listen to her problems, listen to her nags.

From her, I learned how to be a good daughter-in-law, and I hope that I can be a good daughter-in-law after I get married too.

21DJC–Day 4 - If You Are To Travel Back in Time to 3 Years Ago, What Advice Would You Give Yourself?

As mentioned by Celes in the Day 4 post, today, the title need a little bit of imagination. If I’m to travel back to 3 years ago, what advice would I give myself?

When I flash back to 3 years ago, I was 26 years old, and I was working in Dell. However, except these 2 facts, I couldn’t remember much about my 26-year-old life. That is the reason why I keep my blog. Now, it is the time for me to flip back my blog.

Looking at the blog, I noticed that, I have gone thru a lot of experience when I was in 26!!

1. I went for a jungle tracking of 10 hours! (Where other people just took 7 hours for the whoe journey =.=” )
2. I learned swimming finally!
3. I learned Qi Gong for meditation
4. I confess to a guy that I liked
5. I went for the 2nd time of snorkelling in my life in Pulau Payar
6. I enjoyed in a theater for my very first time
7. I got a bad result in my health check

With all these experiences, I could see that although it was hard to work in Dell that time, but I seemed to be enjoying my life too! No matter what it was, good or bad, I would like to tell myself: Go one with your life, enjoy your life whenever you can!

Although I was not into IT life style, I didn’t regret in choosing IT course for my Degree. As the research in Dell, IT department was funnier compared to other departments. Because of IT, I met up with a lot of good friends in Dell, or else, I wouldn’t have enjoyed my life in Dell while working there!

So, I always thank my ex-colleagues, always mention about it to my friends: In Dell, the only thing that I appreciate the most was FRIENDSHIP!

I strongly believe that, we can have friendship in working life. It is not only the “colleague” relationship, it can be “friend” relationship in a workplace. It is just to see how you can adjust yourself to get into them, or how you treat people.

So, Go on!! Jaleen!!
You can do it!
Enjoy your life, make it to be full of fun and happy experience before you leave this world!

21DJC–Day 3 - What is Your Ideal Diet Like?

This is the 3rd day of DJC that I started off from Personal Excellence website. Today, the journal will be about my ideal diet.

Well, I’m not a person who cares about diet a lot. I have no balance diet. I like most of the chicken and pork meals. But, I still feel that the meals prepared by my late grandmother and my mum are the best.

My late grandmother was a good cook. She could turn all sort of raw cooking materials into delicious dishes, by adding in her own recipes. Everyday, she must have a fish as our dish for either lunch or dinner. Vegetable is for sure a must.

Whereas, my mum, although she can’t cook as good as my grandmother (I’m sorry to say that, mum ), but she knows what I like and what I don’t like. She konws that I like chicken and pork more than fish, so she always cooks chicken or pork as dishes. She knows my dad likes soup, so she must have a soup during dinner. She knows my younger bro doesn’t like to eat fish because of the fish bones, so she cooks fish without fish bones.

However, for now, as I’m keeping fit for a free travel (I will talk about that some time later XD ), I started to take fish more than chicken and pork. I take vegetables as much as I can. It’s lucky that I don’t really like junk food like snacks, and I seldom drink soft drink. Thus, it is not hard for me to keep my diet.

I’m just trying to take less food per meal, and do more exercise. I hope that I can make it! ^^

21DJC Day 2 - If You Are To Do Something For Free For the Rest of Your Life, What Would It Be?

What I would do for free for the rest of my life? It would be, learning and doing art work for my family members / friends – This was the first thing that came into my mind when I look at the question.

I like crafting, or any art work, including clay, paper craft, or even drawing, play around with 3D art work, photography, all sorts of art work. However, nowadays, as a full time worker, I have a lot of work to be done. This is always the reasons I gave to myself.

Sometimes, when I have the time, I would love to do some craft work for my nephew and niece, or even my friends whose birthday is getting near. If I have the intension to give a craft out as a present, I will need to prepare for the craft for a long time, to ensure that I have the time for it.

Thus, I would say, if I have the time, I always like to do some crafts for my family / friends.

I have a plan at my home as well. I’m planning to buy 2 big pieces of polystyrene foams, cover them with a big pieace of cloth and stick it on the wall in my living hall. I’m gonna design the foam and put on with the photos of our family!

I agree with what my friend said, “It is a must to have a photograph corner in a living hall!” It is not to show off what we have done with our family, but it is for the family members to flash back what we have done together. Whenever anyone of the family members encounters any problem / quarrel (touch wood!!), they may look at the photos taken and tells themselves, “Even if there is nothing left in this world, still, you have your family with you in your heart.”

This is my plan to decorate my living room. I’m gonna do it by this coming semester break! This is my promise to myself.

21DJC Day 1 - What would you do if you have 1 million dollars?

Personal Excellence -- I have followed this blog for quite a long time, but I didn’t really go through all the blog posts in it.

Today, while I was waiting for my car-pool mate to finish the class, I spared some time reading the posts carefully. And, I found out this program -- 21-Day Journaling Challenge! It is a simple challenge. Everyday, the owner of this blog, Celestine, posts a question on the blog. What we have to do is to answer the question posted so that to reflect what comes to our minds. Isn’t it simple enough?

It would be great if I could participate in this challenge! I knew that it has been closed for signing up, as I missed out the timing for signing up for the challenge. However, I still hope that I could participate in that, thus I’m just writing the journal here, to express my thoughts. Here, I would label all these posts as 21DJC!

I know I’m late for many days. They have started it off since 7 November, and today is already 18 November.

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Today, the first question: What would you do if you have 1 million dollars?

Seriously, this is an old topic that we got for our essary writing since our primary school, in different languages, including Mandarin, Malay or English. Many people would say, in different ages, we have different thoughts, different feelings.

However, to me, I seem to have almost same thoughts since my childhood. What would I do if I have 1 million dollars? I would not quit what I’m doing now, would not invest in business, would not donate for charities. The only thing I would do is, I would save them into bank, and withdraw out bit by bit for travelling around the world!

This is not the whole of my dream, but if I would to have so much money, I would have many travels to different places. It is just to widen my mindset, widen my thought, widen my knowledge.

Yes, my answer is short, but it concludes my thinking. XD

That’s all for tonight. Tomorrow, I’m going to answer the next question. Phew~ it’s just like a table topic session in Toastmasters, I’m required to clear off my mind before writing, and straight away express whatever comes into my mind.

See you all! Good night, and happy weekend!