How to F-O-R-G

蘇永康-那誰沒有下次
聲演：卓韻芝

It was winter solstice the day I was introduced this song.
And it was supposedly the longest winter night when I listened to this song.
And when you are all alone braving the cold winter listening to a sad song, somehow a wave of depression seems to come rushing to greet you.

The next day, trying to see if the video is true, I purposely went into Google and was greeted with this..

Image source: Google

First thought, beautiful artwork. Somehow it brought a smile after braving a cold night.
Second thought, oh so it was winter solstice. That's how I knew that I had endured a longer night than before.
Coming from the tropics, I never knew my days and nights could lengthen and shorten till I arrive here.
And that the impact really do seem great when you are not a tourist here, but someone living here.
Because the winter I experienced in Europe never seem to be so dreadful, even when I experienced a snowstorm that disrupted my train trip to Amsterdam.

Anyway as I typed in Google...
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the first suggestion was 'How to forgive'
So the video was only partially correct.
Hmm...
I ask 2 of my friends to type that too, without explaining the context too much.
Both didn't elicit the vibe I was looking for.
Hmm one was having a summer solstice while the other was having summer all year round.
Maybe weather does play a part?

And as I replay the youtube video in my Nokia phone the whole day.
Again and again.
I kept thinking.
Between 'How to forget' and 'How to forgive'.
A 3 letters difference.
A stark difference.

Recently I just repeated to a friend this line.
It takes the same amount of time you once loved someone, to forget someone.
But had we all been looking at the wrong direction?
Should we have tasked it upon ourselves to 'forget'.
Or should we have tasked it upon ourselves to 'forgive'.
Forgive the relationship that has gone awry.
Forgive the other party who did not managed to complete the life with you.
Forgive yourself for not able to sustain and hold on to this fragile bondage.

不是每一个人可以放胆去爱，但只有真正爱过的人，痛过，但也体会到爱的真正原理。

Live a life that matters

Was checking my old mails (those with attachments) and downloaded a few to read to waste some bandwidth and happen to see this one.

Suddenly remember cL asked me something I did not reply (usual). But I had planned to search an old pensieve before replying then. It was June 2010. I had been waiting for an interview with a prestige company (which I still fail in the end). And I remembered I told myself once I get a suitable job, I can sponsor my second child. I even had decided the country I want the child to come from. At that time I had shelved the plan for half a year. Presently, the plan had been postponed a year exactly. But I did realised it.

As for why I wanted to do so.. if the video is correct, then what you measure in life is not what you possessed but what you gave. I always remember the story of a poor lady who is willingly to give what she can spare to help the poor... even if the amount is insignificant to the common folks. I am not rich either else you wouldn't see me cooking my lunch and dinner but feasting everyday. I don't plan to be the old lady either, I just feel it is a good way to curb me to splurge on my wants haha.

And I don't think I will teach these children anything either. For this second sponsored child, I'm expecting the child to teach me Chinese in fact haha. But sigh, as of now I am still stuck in Melbourne and unable to see the child's profile nor be able to write my first letter to the child. I'm also wondering what Christmas letter my first sponsored child will give me this year. Sigh, now I really wish I'm back home. 10 more days.

Chip Conley - Measuring what makes life worthwhile

The second video link by CL which I watched last month (20th July) but only had time to blog it now. The first one was Sir Ken Robinson's Bring on learning.

In this clip, hotelier Mr Chip Conley talks about Joie de Vivie (Joy of Life). There was this quote by Robert Kennedy on the definition of GDP. It is said that GDP "measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile."

And yet GDP is the measurement metric everybody is using to measure the success of the country.

Because of it, I guess Abe Maslow makes absolute sense when he said "if the only tool you have is a hammer, then everything starts to look like a nail". Everything will just tweaks into the perspective you want it to tweaks into, because human are known for adjusting their needs into one that the society accepts.

On a trip through India, early in his reign as king, he actually was asked by an Indian journalist about the Bhutanese GDP, the size of the Bhutanese GDP. And the king responded in a fashion that actually has transformed us four decades later. He said the following: He said, "Why are we so obsessed and focused with gross domestic product? Why don't we care more about gross national happiness?" Now, in essence, the king was asking us to consider an alternative definition of success, what has come to be known as GNH, or gross national happiness. Most world leaders didn't take notice, and those that did thought this was just "Buddhist economics." But the king was serious.

I wish I can go Bhutan and see how one create the habitat for happiness to brew. Seems like it is THE HAVEN that I am looking and searching for right now. I sincerely wish I know what is the measurement to make my life worthwhile. I thought I know. But 3 days more to the trip, I started doubting if this is the path and do they want me on the path?

Video Source: http://www.ted.com/talks/chip_conley_measuring_what_makes_life_worthwhile.html

p/s: Still remember reading an email on "Value What is Yours!" where the story goes like this...

The owner of a small business, a friend of the Poet Olavo Bilac, met him on the street and asked him,
"Mr. Bilac, I need to sell my small farm, the one you know so well. Could you please write and announcement for me for the paper?"

Mr. Bilac wrote,
"For sale, a beautiful property, where birds sing at dawn in extensive woodland, bisected by the brilliant and sparkling waters of a large stream.
The house is bathed by the rising sun.
It offers tranquil shade in the evening on the veranda."

Some time later, the poet met his friend and asked whether he had sold the property?
To which he replied:
"I've changed my mind. When I read what you had written, I realized the treasure that was mine."

Sometimes we underestimate the good things we have,
Chasing after the mirages of false treasures.
- Poet Olavo Bilac

I don't know how authentic this story is. But I really don't want to find myself chasing after the mirages of false treasures. Maybe once again, I will just let fate decide? 4 more days and I will know the answer. At least GA has been kind to me.

Sir Ken Robinson - Bring on the learning revolution

CL gave me 2 videos to watch before she MIA to be busy with work and then her Irish affair. Let me do a review on both of them, individually starting with Sir Ken Robinson whose speech gave me a boost I sorely need in my now deflated attitude.

I love that word, "disenthrall." You know what it means? That there are ideas that all of us are enthralled to, which we simply take for granted as the natural order of things, the way things are. And many of our ideas have been formed, not to meet the circumstances of this century, but to cope with the circumstances of previous centuries. But our minds are still hypnotized by them. And we have to disenthrall ourselves of some of them.

Yes, too many of us are just coping with last century’s problems and constricted with last century’s dreams. But the dreams we should really pursue, should be this century’s future.

One of them is the idea of linearity, that it starts here, and you go through a track, and if you do everything right, you will end up set for the rest of your life. Everybody who's spoken at TED has told us implicitly, or sometimes explicitly, a different story, that life is not linear, it's organic. We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to the circumstances they help to create for us. But you know, we have become obsessed with this linear narrative. And probably the pinnacle for education is getting into college. I think we are obsessed with getting people to college, certain sorts of college. I don't mean you shouldn't go to college, but not everybody needs to go, and not everybody needs to go now. Maybe they go later, not right away.

I know studies meant a lot. And I know many who yearn to have an education. And I know I am one of the lucky few who don’t have to sell nasi lemak when young to study my way. But I also know education has freed me and I wish I can free the others too.

There was this guy buying a book, he was in his 30s. And I said, "What do you do?" And he said, "I'm a fireman." And I said, "How long have you been a fireman?" He said, "Always, I've always been a fireman." And I said, "Well, when did you decide?" He said, "As a kid." He said, "Actually, it was a problem for me at school, because at school, everybody wanted to be a fireman." He said, "But I wanted to be a fireman." And he said, "When I got to the senior year of school, my teachers didn't take it seriously. This one teacher didn't take it seriously. He said I was throwing my life away if that's all I chose to do with it, that I should go to college, I should become a professional person, that I had great potential, and I was wasting my talent to do that." And he said, "It was humiliating because he said it in front of the whole class, and I really felt dreadful. But it's what I wanted, and as soon as I left school, I applied to the fire service and I was accepted." And he said, "You know, I was thinking about that guy recently, just a few minutes ago when you were speaking, about this teacher," he said, "because six months ago, I saved his life." (Laughter) He said, "He was in a car wreck, and I pulled him out, gave him CPR, and I saved his wife's life as well." He said, "I think he thinks better of me now."

A classic example of how adults like to impose their ideology on children. I never blame my parents for stopping me from pursuing a psychology education though even till today, I always wondered what my life would be if I had chosen to be a psychologist. But even if my current life has revolved around technology, it does not mean I have lost the life mission I wanted. And even though I have the capability to pursue a psychology education if I truly desire it, I knew I no longer want to waste the time and money on it when there are other more pressing matters to accomplish as time is running out for me.

Often, people are good at things they don't really care for. It's about passion, and what excites our spirit and our energy. And if you're doing the thing that you love to do, that you're good at, time takes a different course entirely. My wife's just finished writing a novel, and I think it's a great book, but she disappears for hours on end. You know this, if you're doing something you love, an hour feels like five minutes. If you're doing something that doesn't resonate with your spirit, five minutes feels like an hour. And the reason so many people are opting out of education is because it doesn't feed their spirit, it doesn't feed their energy or their passion.

Passion. Work passion. Something I deal and blog about many times. I know truly that I can easily like anything I like if I want. And I can easily hate it just as well. So even though I keep repeating to them how much I dislike corporate world, if fate decreed that I must stay in corporate world, I actually can tune myself to like it. But truth is, I have failed so many corporate world interviews. And I have not found the resonance that life can bring me, the passion that one has when one truly found his/her calling.

Actually while watching The Mysteries of Love, I wondered, sometimes parents always want the best for the children. But is it really the best? And when they object, how long will they take to stop objecting?

I am only one
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the
Something that I can do.
- Edward Everett Hale

Video Source: http://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution.html

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I was trying to find Itchy Finger's Talking Behind the Bag just to reminisce the paper bags again. I guess I was bored because I missed the Night Festival, totally forgot it due to something that has happened lately that occupied my mind. So was just flipping the archives of National Museum exhibits and thought of seeing the paper bags again which Itchy Fingers had visited.

That is when I caught sight of her Taiwan buying Good Good Eat Products post. And caught sight of their advertisements in her previous Good Good Eat post.

And I spent my morning watching 張君雅小妹妹 instead of running... (Hopefully I will be better for an evening jog - PS. I was better but the weather was not better... darnz).


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Leader and Follower

Today 小黑trainer wrote 2 columns, Leader and Follower and made us write our names in the column. Because of his intonation, I felt he had demeaned Follower (to be weak although later when I clarified with him, he said he did not.), and I chose to be a Follower. I expected the whole department to write their names in the Leader column, and most did not fail me except for the 2 newcomers and one joker. I cannot remember the last guy choice but I remember Maggie chose to be on the fence and I thought why not be clear. However she made full sense because for every leader, there must be followers and every follower will one day be a leader too.

Anyway she said that 小黑trainer chose to find out who are the leavers and mentioned the Followers are the leavers.. which in some sense is true for me but may not be true for the newcomers (these people have not been inculcated by their doctrine which is actually very good positive psychology. (Well Doc wrote a pretty simplified article on this topic so let’s give Doc some credits *clap clap*.)

Alright I digress, so back to leader and follower. I think this video says it best!

http://sivers.org/ff

1. A leader needs the guts to stand alone and look ridiculous. Alright maybe need not be ridiculous but he must be doing something out of ordinary in some sense.
2. The first follower must have guts to publicly show everyone how to follow. Being a first follower is an under-appreciated form of leadership.
3. However the leader usually puts the first follower as his equal because well, the first follower transforms this guy to become a leader and not just a lonesome crazy fellow.
4. The 2nd follower is a turning point as it is a proof that the first follower has done well. After all, three is a crowd.
5. It must be made public where everyone can see the followers, because new followers emulate followers - not the leader.

The most important lesson is to courageously follow what you genuinely care for and show others how to follow too. So butterflygal, I must carry on this road less travelled, because I genuinely believed it will lead me to where GA wants me to.

Anyway while tearing today, I accidentally dropped by an old post on Do you want to be the same as the rest. It has been a year. How time flies. I know this probably is just the beginning of everything that might change and there will might be more clashes.. but maybe just maybe, there might not be. I can only put my faith in GA.

He who seeks one thing and but one,
May hope to achieve it before life is done.
But he who seeks all things wherever he goes
Must reap around him in whatever he sows
A harvest of barren repent.
- William H. Hinson

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.
Just because they're not on your road
doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
- H. Jackson Browne, Jr

I wish I can say this to her, but will she be able to understand it?

Time Management

Time Management
- By Randy Pausch
Source: Youtube



Heard it many times but it still doesn't hurt to repeat this video again.

And before I note down the important pointers, let me first comment that youtube has a lights up/ lights out feature too. Geez lately everybody into this lighting feature haha.

Have to admit the lights out help to concentrate better.

1) Limited Time
The world is indeed a cost-centric world. Everything is valued by cost… and not time. But guess what, cost can be earned back, time can never be retrieved back.

2) Inbox is not To Do list
To Do list is important and is highly recommended. But Inbox is not a To Do list. You should just clear your inbox and file them accordingly. Yeah I hate to see a long list of inbox too, other than my webmails which usually shouldn't contain any To Do stuff for me haha.

3) Filing system
Hmm totally agree. All paper that have been retained should be kept in one place. The alphabetical order is a tricky issue though. Probably categorising would be a better way?

4) Interruptions
Hmm late Professor Randy suggested turning phone calls into email and switching off the email alerts. Because we don't live our time thinking "Maybe I'll get another email!" I concur!

At the end, he suggested to revisit this talk in 30 days and see what have changed. If nothing has been changed then it will just be a pleasant hour spent together. But if I have changed things, then probably I would have gained more time to spend with the ones I treasure. Because ultimately in his words, "Time is all we have. And you may find one day you have less than you think."

For the record, I revisited the talk a year later and as long as it is in my blog, I will revisit it a few more times I believed. Even if it doesn't change much for me as what he suggested, I have already adopt those I like haha.

張國榮,生日快乐!

Source: Youtube

突然有个念头，想在今天只剩几分钟前，告诉張國榮，“生日快乐！”
也想知道他那短暂的人生快乐吗？

Do you want to be the same as the rest?

Do you want to be the same as the rest?


Source: Youtube

This is a question I used to ask myself. This is the answer only GA will know. Because this is something even I have yet to fully figure out myself. But can I stay tenacious in what I believe in, and hope to achieve something like how those who I idolise were able to achieve in their lifetime?

This is something I had been thinking about ever since I attended the JGI preview talk.. ever since I heard her talk in this video.


Source: Youtube

Image source: Wiki

JG is someone whom I read about in Ntl Geographic. I never really did research her life story, just as I never really did research the others life stories. So through this video, I learnt greatly from her. How her dream to go Africa was actualised, how much support her mum had given her and how much inspiration she had given to the rest because she believed what her mum said:

Jane, if you really want something, you work hard enough, you take advantage of opportunities, you never give up, you will find a way.

I remember vividly her part on "Makings of a scientist"
- Curoisity
- Asking questions
- Go find the answers straight away
- Think you will find it on your own
- Make a mistake, but don't give up

And of course the famous joke on Tarzan marrying the other Jane which even the speaker had repeated in the talk that day.

I am still pondering deeply on this J sign.. while these songs are playing in the background. Oh although "Circle the World" is related to this JGI video, I personally prefer "Tell Me Why"... somehow I got smitten by his voice and affected by the words

Is that what my life is for
To waste in a world full of war
Can someone tell us why we let the forest burn?

CIRCLE THE WORLD
by Dana Lyons

Copyright 2004
Lyons Brothers Music BMI
www.danalyons.com


What if we could circle the world
Flying peace doves beneath the sun
Giant twenty foot wings of fabric
That are handmade by everyone
Once a year we circle the world
Saying ain’t it time to bury the guns
Our time has come and we have begun
To Circle the World

It's a dream and it's a vision
It's a prayer that we may see
When every person, every creature
Will be treated with dignity
When every war will be a memory
We never shall repeat
Our time has come and we have begun
To Circle the World

What if we could circle the world
Flying peace doves beneath the sun
Giant twenty foot wings of fabric
That are handmade by everyone
Once a year we circle the world
Saying ain’t it time to bury the guns
Our time has come and we have begun
To Circle the World


It’s a parade and it’s a party
Giant puppets with many drums
It’s a song with many rhythms
That is sung in many tongues
It’s a giant snake dance
In every country beneath the sun
Our time has come and we have begun
To Circle the World

What if we could circle the world
Flying peace doves beneath the sun
Giant twenty foot wings of fabric
That are handmade by everyone
Once a year we circle the world
Saying ain’t it time to bury the guns
Our time has come and we have begun
To Circle the World


Source: Youtube

Tell Me Why
- Declan Galbraith

In my dreams children sing
A song of love for every boy and girl
The sky is blue the fields are green
And laughter is the language of the world
Then I wake and all I see is a world full of people in need

Tell me why, does it have to be like this
Tell me why, is there something I have missed
Tell me why, I don't understand
When somebody needs somebody
We don't give a helping hand
Tell me why

Every day I ask myself what I have to do to be a man
Do I have to stand and fight
To prove to everybody who I am
Is that what my life is for
To waste in a world full of war

Tell me why, does it have to be like this
Tell me why, is there something I have missed
Tell me why, I don't understand
When somebody needs somebody
We don't give a helping hand
Tell me why
Tell me why
Tell me why
Just tell me why

Why why, do the tigers run
Why why, do we shoot the gun
Why why, do we never learn
Can someone tell us why we let the forest burn?

(why,why do we say we care)
Tell me why (why,why do we stand and stare)
Tell me why (why,why do the dolphins cry)
Can some one tell us why we let the ocean die ?

(why,why if we're all the same)
Tell me why (why,why do we pass the blame)
Tell me why (why,why does it never end)
Can some one tell us why we cannot just be friends?

In search of the beautifully imperfect

Source: Youtube

Is the new TV commercial "Funeral" launched by the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) and I have been wanting to watch it but due to my forgetfulness and the fact that I rarely watch TV, I have not caught it. Till my friend asked me if I had watched the "Funeral". Vaguely, I was wondering was it that ... thanks to my friend I finally caught sight of it.

Went back to re-read the news article from Today and realised the director is Yasmin Ahmad, a Malaysian lady who has a husband that snores too. Sometimes the best stories are usually the type of stories you can find happening to you... that is why they are so endearing.

And sometimes finding your true love really does not mean finding the perfect someone.. it really is just loving the someone despite all his/her imperfections.. that is why love is blind...

Oh and this was the last year ad which I like it very much too... the daughter with her love for red shoes haha...


Source: Youtube

Promotion

Source: Joyce Meyer Ministries

I chanced upon this video from a friend’s friend post. (Thanks for the innovation of peer to peer networking.) The speaker is very funny, she speaks with an impact. Sometimes she sounded fierce but every point she makes, hits hard, at least to me. Because she was discussing the exact topic I had been thinking for the past few months.

Some snippets extracted (not exactly word for word and might contain my own thoughts and interpretations):

True promotions comes from God and God alone.

So if the guy is not giving you the promotion you deserve, God will circumvent. He will remove the guy, replace the guy, or move you to another organisation.

And if you really do deserve the promotion, and you are not getting it, what's wrong then?

Truth is, are you really working?

Have you been doing personal matters? Anything that you have to hide and do, there is definitely something wrong with it.

Then there is the excuse - because they don't pay me well anyway.

But are you really working 8 hours for 8 hours pay? The times you spent surfing, taking your personal calls. If you really leave at 5pm on the dot, you are actually preparing 20 minutes before it already.

And if you do not leave on time, you will not be the first one out of the carpark. You will be stuck in the long Q in McDonalds. You will miss your show. But God will notice it, He will notice this extra mile.

In addition, if things are not working well in your life, the first thing you should look at is actually yourself. Don't go blaming everybody but yourself.

Check, have you been sowing discord at work? Gossiping? Talking about the boss, the colleagues. Always using 'they' should do this, and 'they should do that'. What about 'we'? What about ownership?
(Man, I really love this segment. Somehow she made me resolved to discuss what I wish to discuss after my exams ended. Because, I really don’t want to see the culture here continue degenerating. Sometimes it pained me to see how everybody just goes about doing their stuff. The day I chose to study, 2.5 years ago, it was also due to this fact. In a sense, I thought maybe by studying, I will not focus so much and will not blame too much. But as the years go by, it got worst, and I got unhappier. But I wonder, how much can I do, how much can I convince, and how much can he listen and absorb? Of course I also must consider what is at stake but since he no longer trusts me, I think that should not be much of a problem.
On a sidenote, maybe it is indeed a blessing that my friend is leaving. At least I will clamp my mouth from now onwards. Afterall I ought to have learnt my lesson well having been the subject before last year. And ya, gossips can be frightening.. No wonder my friend gave me this advice 8 years ago.. just that being woman, I still tend to slip into such situation at times. Will try my best to refrain.)

Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance
and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of life.
Proverbs 4:23

Most importantly, God never tells you to do something you can't do

Would you rather live your life and not need a miracle? Because most of us are just whitening our knuckles and hanging on, waiting for the miracle. Why not just live your life, enjoy your life instead of always waiting for someone, for God to bring you your joy.
(Yeah, being grateful helps a lot with the appreciation of life. I’m just grateful for having a chance to hear this video. Thanks.)

Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch - Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

Source: GoogleVideo

Memorable Quotes mentioned by him:
It is good to be criticised. Because if you are doing wrong and nobody is correcting you, it means they have given up on you.

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

Brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things. Because the brick walls will stop those people who do not want it badly enough.

When it come to man who are romantically interested in you -
Just ignore everything they say, and only notice what they do.

Bflygal's comments:
I watched this video many times but never completed it. Till recently. Digital Media, something that I had always been interested in. But never even took a course on haha. I just saw that NUS offer it too. Why am I always late for such things? Sighz...

Hmm actually I remember I got a lot of things to say because once again it had been a rainy Sunday. But I was too excited the whole evening to forget to blog. Except that I promised myself to post this by 3rd March so here I am blogging it.

Oh but I do want to remember this day. 13 June 2003 was its "birth". 2nd March 2008 was its "death". I guess it would be funny to admit that the eyes did get teary. But with its death, everything has been cleared.

I once asked if feelings get transformed. After that, 2 other persons did wonder about it in their blog. I suddenly wondered do thoughts get transformed too? Haha in relation with my blog "Hist Thots? Her Thots? My Thots?" -
"Above you, there are thousands of fireflies-like thoughts, some are happy thoughts, some are sad thoughts, some are thought-provoking thoughts, some are fairy-tale thoughts. So which thoughts will you be having today?"

If thoughts get transformed, I hoped they get transformed into dreams. And I hope to achieve my dreams. But of course not all thoughts.. besides I really forgot what thoughts I had today already.. zzz time!

Mark Gungo - Tale of Two Brains

Source:
Youtube
Multiply - I uploaded too since I have the video

Saw this video this morning... Tale of Two Brains by Mark Gungo.. Highly hilarious, entertaining and yet thought-provoking. Here's what I caught from the video:

Man's brains are made up of little boxes. Boxes for the kids, boxes for you. And the rule is the boxes don't touch. When a man discusses a certain topic, he only opens that box and discuss what is in THAT box. At the end of the conversation, he will close the box and make sure carefully, that he did not touch other boxes.

Woman's brains on the other hand is make up of a big bob of wire. Everything is connected. (You should see his reaction haha). It is like the Internet. And it is driven by an energy we call emotion. This is one of the reason why woman tends to remember everything. Because it reacts with the emotion which will burn into the memory. It happens to man too but not very often because man don't care. Woman, however, tends to care about everything.

There is a box in a man's brain that a woman don't know about. It is the Nothing box. And it is his favourite box. If a man has a chance, he will just go to his Nothing box everytime. That's why a man can do something completely brain dead for hours e.g. fishing. In fact a study discovered that man has the ability to think about absolutely nothing, and still breath.

Woman cannot do it. Their mind never stops. And they don't understand the Nothing box. And nothing drives a woman more crazy or makes you feel more irritated than a man doing Nothing.

Oh man! Suddenly I feel so enlightened.

The Other Side of Outsourcing

Reference: Youtube

A video recommended by my outsourcing lecturer. A video added 2 years ago in youtube. I do believe the video might have been made much earlier (did not really research on it though). It is also based on Thomas Friedman's "The World is Flat"

As to how you view outsourcing, is entirely subjective. Truth is outsourcing will exists. Truth is India, and many other countries, have already been affected. Truth is globalisation has taken place and we are no longer living a life our parents were living.

But it is still the same city. How we retain our traditions depend on ourselves. There might be youngsters who prefer hip-hop and MTV. But there will also be youngsters who loves Chinese wayang, and Chinese dance. There will still be youngsters in India who will cherish their own tradition values.

I wouldn't say globalisation is good or bad, it is just a necessary element to introduce change. However being a feminist, at least this change empowers India’s females. But is that a good thing?

Oh towards the end, there was this part where a lady was talking about quality of life, between village life and city life. I remember reading an article a few days ago about this guy (Singaporean) who chose to give up the city life and went into kampong life, a life he used to live in. He just wanted to be true to his dream.

Talent

Source : Youtube
An entertaining video of a man with a singing monkey..



p/s : This post is just testing the new feature (Add Video) in blogger draft...
Sighz I can't get the file to display... posted it in my multiply instead.