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.

Seems like most parts of Singapore felt the tremors from the earthquake in Sumatra today. I did too…. Was at home working on my computer when i suddenly felt woozy. Apparantly, my table and doors were swaying too.
It’s a very unfortunate situation for the many people living there. I can only hope that the damage and loss of lives be a minimal. At times like these, we should really be grateful that Singapore is pretty much “natural disaster-free”. Grateful but not taking it for granted.

By the way, I’m turning 23 this year. I did the calculation
Seriously, i can’t remember…

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 )
(more…)

Love the colors in this picture. CNY at my kind ex-boss’s place. Me and my ugly sun burn still quite obvious.
Thanx Fion for the lovely picture