“I’ve lost my Prince….”- Terri Irwin

You can find part 1-7 of another interview here.
It was heart-wrenching to watch. I’ve got a sore throat only from watching until part 2….

Terri+Bindi Irwin on Ellen Degeneres

Never knew that they were on Ellen’s show. Found this on youtube. Bindi is such a sweet and mature kid. Such maturity are rare these days… even amoungst the adults.

I’ve had a revelation today…. As i was typing away on my keyboard while watching a pianist playing his keyboard on youtube, i thought:

“Hey! I can type on the keys of my keyboard as well as he can play the music keys of his piano! ”

So? We all can type well on our computer keyboard…. what’s the big big revelation?

The big revelation is… Practice makes perfect. Yes, typing on keyboard may be a skill that we often regard as “nothing”.
“It’s nothing… it’s just typing on the keyboard. i do that everyday…. day in… day out….in fact i’m doing it now as i’m writing this.” But it’s thing thats we do over and over again that makes as so good at it.

And then i thought…
“Hey! If I can type on the keys of my keyboard as well as he can play the music keys of his piano, then i can definately play the piano if i work towards that goal! ”

But of course, my interest wasn’t to master piano. It just means that, if i put my heart and soul to whatever i love and wants to achieve, i CAN DO IT. There’s no substitute for hard work. After 10 years, with some strokes of good luck and good timing, you might just become world-class. Who knows? You can make yourself into whatever you want to be…. you can even make yourself great. But great doesn’t comes easy.

Tiger Woods may be the youngest Masters champion at age 21, but he started playing golf at 3 years old and never stopped trying to improve.

Mozart began playing piano at 2 and would have accumalated tens of thousands of hours deliberate practice by the time he first played on stage.

It’s never too late to start.
The key word here is “deliberate practice”. Do it regularly, not sporadically. And never ever give up.

It finally rained today….. Think Earth really needs some cooling down… it’s been so hot these day, i could fry an egg on the top of my head.

Was watching Ellen Degeneres show today and she was talking about giving yourself an applause each day when you wake up in the morning… ( Whoohoo!!! I’m awake! I’m awake! *claps* ) Yes, it sounds hilarious. Even more so when it’s her saying it ( i just love her comical voice! esp her voiceover for Dory in Finding Nemo ). But i think she’s right. We should really be grateful for being able to wake up each day, with a roof over our head, food for our body and soul, work for our accomplishments, friends for company and kins for support.

Often we overlook the good in ouselves and we focus on the not so good. We tends to give ourselves a hard time and seldom give ourselves compliments. We think that compliments can only be good if it comes from others. Thus we seek acknowledgements and approvals from others, even if it’s those who doesn’t matters to you at all, their views about you does. And that can be very damaging to your self-esteem. Coz we are trying to base our self-image upon other’s opinions about us, which sometimes may be misleading.

I guess what i’m trying to convey is that We all have flaws. To those who matters, your flaws are merely skin-deep. They will see pass through that. In fact, they may even be oblivious to any flaws you have until you mention it. Try to learn to accept whatever flaws it may be and if there’s anything you can do to change it, then take baby steps towards achieving that change coz it’s not gonna happen overnight. And be patient. If there’s nothing you can do to change it, then learn to accept it and maybe even use that flaw and create something good outta it.
If you choose to be happy, you will be. Happiness is a state of mind.

So yup, let’s all start giving ourself a compliment to start each day with a bang!
I’ll start by saying….

” I can sing weird happy tunes and make it sounds nice!”

See, when i talk like this, i’m really just talking to myself. So if anyone finds that useful, please feel free to apply it to yourself. Although i’m not responsible for any emotional, mental or physical distress, trauma or enlightenment it may cause.

John Goddard is most known for his amazing Life List of accomplishments. At the age of fifteen John Goddard listed 127 goals he wished to experience or achieve in his lifetime. A generation later, he has accomplished 109 of these quests, and has logged an impressive list of records in achieving them.

I’ve been compiling my “Life List” for the past weeks. It’s still not fully completed yet but I’m sure there’s more to add on at different stages of my life. I hope i will be able to check off at least 3 items from the list in 2007. I have also added things that i have already accomplished before coming up with this life list. Events which i think are highlights that have shaped my life tremendously.

My Life List (14 our of 86 so far…)

EXPLORE
1 North & South Islands of NEW ZEALAND ( Feb-Mar 2005 ) ( will be back again soon )
2 Sarawak, BORNEO ( Feb 2006 )
3 Sabah, BORNEO ( Apr 2006 and July 2006 ) (July 2007) ( will be back again soon )
4 Chengdu-Jiu Zhi Gou-Huanglong-Wolong, CHINA ( Nov-Dec 2006 ) ( will be back to other parts of China )
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