Incredible Presentation on Global Warming

You heard of Al Gore? You must have.

So you would have heard of global warming as well. Who cares about global warming?

If you are an environmentalist, you might. If you are a responsible parent, you might. For the rest of you out there, if you are given a choice to be our Earth's hero, would you?

Watch the video to be convinced.

"If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together"

Take action, together.

Singapore Won Inaugural Youth Olympics Game

It is quite exhilarating to announce Singapore as the host of the first Youth Olympics Game. Being a Singaporean , I am really honoured as well to be posting this good news on the internet.

This goes to show that no country is too small to execute an order so big; you just need to have the 'think outside the box' spirit that you are able to do it. And just keep on doing it.

I would like to thank the Big Boys out there for giving us a chance to serve the world community at large in providing a peaceful and non-political arena for sports to thrive.

Thank you, World.

Please Reuse, Reduce and Recycle

Recently what happened, or has been happening in my house for the pass 24 years startled me. For a moment, cold sweat broke out of me.

I was doing the usual Chinese New Year spring cleaning when I saw the huge amount of recyclable and toxic objects in my house.

I am pretty sure I have 'culled' at least 500 pieces of plastic shopping bags, slightly less than a hundred disposable plastic spoons,those pesky little rubber bands, plastic disposable food containers and a few dozens of empty sauce glass bottles.

What makes me paranoid is not the amount of trash my house contains ( You believe!), it is visualising the huge amount of trash one is capable of producing, without you consciously knowing it before you do a reality check.

One thing that really intrigues me is that recyling companies actually hand out big plastic bags for people to throw their recycleables in. isn't it ironic that at least 1/5 of those plastic bags i found are for recycling purpose?

It is a good start by introducing Bring Your Own Shopping Bag day, but i think more should be done to instill a since of urgency in people. People will not give up something so accessible and given in order to sing to your tune of saving the Earth.

Maybe they should introduce a plastic offset tax on plastic bags so for every plastic bag they you get, a certain amount is contributed to the acquisition of plastic bag maufacturers and close them down.

Are you acting like you have succeed?

In my 25 years of living, I haven't heard of anyone saying they have failed, at least not significant enough that I can remember.

You must be thinking, that's cool, you must have successful people surrounding you.

Bullshit.

The reason why people do not say they have failed in any way is because of our cut throat society. Nobody will tolerate a slow learner or a failure, sometimes not even your grandma. You are either up there, or you are out there.

You must be thinking "hmm, all these doesn't fit the title at all". I am glad to tell you that I wasn't off course in any way.

In fact, most people out there hasn't been near success in anyway. They just thought they are.

Now now, I have just opened the pandora box of psychological theories. You must be saying success is a state of mind, or success doesn't need to be anything fanciful.

That is absolutely correct ( Omg, am I crazy to acknowledge that?)

You see, success is really a state of mind. But state of mind itself can't be sustained if it's not backed by physical success.

You can't say that you are successful by setting your own company either. Anyone can loan a 100k from the bank and set up some money losing business, and boosting outside about how great their company is, how many girlfriends they had. Talking about state of mind.

Do you know what is Silicon Valley's definition of success?

It isn't attaining a 100billion bucks status, or created something that half the whole's population is using.

It is about setting up a foundation. The highest form of success comes when you are able to feed one million people under your care, or have the power to change the state of poverty in certain countries.

TheSummerLife.com website is up

Ok i shall clarify now that TheSummerLife.com is actually a content website.

Live Your Life

This website is specially catered to people looking for health and effective weight loss advices.

Commercial weight loss programs are either too expensive to purchase or too confusing to follow. The last thing you need to solve your weight loss problem, is to create more problems.

You will be informed about proven weight loss plans that encompasses nutrition, training and mental strengthen in order to achieve your goal.

The Next Big Thing In Triathlon

I used to say that Running Is My Religion. But I have since upgraded it to Swimming as well. Soon, you will see, that Cycling is next.

You know why? Cos I will be the Next Big Thing in the Triathlon World.

Sounds cocky isn't it. I beg to differ. Since young I know I am prepared for something great on this Earth of ours. I know all of you might have some sense of this feeling before. But it might not be so strong.

That Is the difference between someone who's able to raise their hand to ask question in class every lesson, even when all other classmates are pissed, and someone who wouldn't.

I wasn't particularly fast in school and wasn't the best swimmer in the pool. In fact I am one of the worst freestyle swimmers in the pool.

But the sense of being criticised, and excel in it will be tremendous.

Arnold Schwarzenegger was once criticised for his puny calves ( come on, how fucking puny can his calves get).

Guess what he did in return?

He turned his trackpants into trackberms. He wants to show the world how SMALL his calves are, and he dont sulk at it. He loves the criticism. It makes him grow.

The difference between WINNING and LOSING, is about self belief.

Right now, I am going to achieve it. my target is peak at age 35. Don't worry about telling me that's not impossible, I already had a few reminders.

And would you please, Slap me on my face and Tell me GET IT GOING!

Does success always comes with a price?

A friend of mine's MSN nick caught my attention - Does success always comes with sacrifice?

Technically everything, that you do and don't do, is a sacrifice - a sacrifice of time that is. And when a time sacrifice affects your ability to engage in another activity, then that is the oppurtunity cost of it.

And let's say that this alternative activity brings you anything that is constructive, that means the time is not wasted on some useless activities. So in this case, you have successfully make use of time.

Now, the answer is nearer.

Everything you do is either useless or useful,

and doing one useful thing can be more useful that doing another activity. This goes to say that to be success, you either pay the price the price which is spending time doing useless things, or spending time doing more successful stuffs, which is quite unlikely as in the first place, success is the state of mind. And since you have chosen success no. 1 as the real success, then the 'more' successful stuffs become less successful.

Disclaimer: Reading this post might make you rethink your goals, at the expense of more important goals that you don't seem to understand.

Are you a Gypsy friend?

You might be wondering what does that mean? A gypsy friend? I thought gypsy is the thing of the past.

Well, not quite.

I was having a shower last night and this term came to my mind. A gypsy friend.

Basically a gypsy friend, from what I deduced, is a friend whom you might have close to your heart, but at the same time they are always on the move, always doing something new. Even though this friend is always away, somehow they still come back to you, and you always had this feeling he/she isn't really so far away most of the time.

This gypsy friend might have been away for half a year climbing some mountains at south africa or went exploring the world, one town at a time. He/she is those kind whom seems so oblivion about the things happening in the world, but he/she is just too pissed about how things are portrayed as doomsdays everyday on the news.

Life isn't so bad if you have a gypsy friend. This friend wouldn't judge you as much as you have judged him/her. He's just happy to be hanging around chatting about everything at the present, nothing from the past, nothing from the future.

You can say this friend of yours might seem to care only for himself/herself, but at the same time help is just a call away if you should need one ( and if he's around to help)

I am sure most of you have this gypsy friend. The next time when you are meeting this friend of yours, remember to pass a lucky charm to your friend.

Are you Affiliated to any B*&%h? I mean Niche

I was recently catapulted to the world of affiliation and money-making niches ( How I wish I am blasted straight to the bucks). I can say it's quite daunting to see so many individual's dedicating their time to blog or set up websites talking about these two words- affilliate and niche.

A quick search on the Google and you can see like 35 millions pages on the word Niche, and a staggering half a billion pages on the word Affiliate; a mispelled affilate already turns in 1.39 millions pages.

You can see that no matter how hard I did my homework on the Search Engine Optimisations (SEO), I wouldn't be able to make this post to the top of these 2 words search.

So how did it happened?

The first reason is that money makes the world go round, and in this case, makes the world spin faster as well.

Internet + marketing = Gaudsend

Internet + individual marketing = FedEx Gaudsend

Life on the internet nowadays doesn't leave much to the imagination: a few google ads on the side bar, and some nice graphical referral ads that you can click on to find yourself in a pool of yet more ads and sales pitches.

Someone once told me that I should do some online research before getting my hand on some products.

I just hoped that product is not a niche...

Trading emotions with emoticons

I just chatted with a friend over the MSN. I probably did like 50 'Lol's over the timespan of 10 mins, a few dozen ,') and some :P. Ok, maybe I have exaggerated abit. Buy you know wat I mean: when enough is enough for emoticons?

I am not saying that emoticons are nuisances. Contrary to this, I actually encourage people to use more of it, together with proper punctuations, so as to drive across a genuine emotion of the state that the writer is in, or is made to be in. I will leave the punctuation usage to another post for some other time.

So genuine emotion is the operating word. As you would know, non-verbal conversation cues take up

85% of the overall message that you want to bring across. verbal cue only take
up 15%.

It's not hard to recall a situation when a genuine joke was taken as an offensive sarcastic remark.

Although technology created a vast variety of communication medium, people are using brick and mortar style of interaction. One thing that lacked behind is the human touch. A simple handshake or the assuring look in the eye and the pat on the back is exchanged with some emoticons or a *pat*.

I personally have the habit of overdosing my chat sessions with 'LOL's. I cant help it but to mind-laugh everytime I use that. It's not exactly an emoticon but I guess it brings the emotion across.

So remember to inject a healthy dose of emoticons in your next sms. Just don't use a <3 on the email to your boss.