Art of Swimming

Recently, I picked a new sport. Swimming…. It is an interesting sport. A lot of coordination to work on with breathing, arms and legs. One minor mistake may cause out of breathe or get tired faster. It is also a sport to learn relaxation and trusting  yourself with  water. It is just like an art to communicate with the water.

I have fallen in love with this new sport. And I like to thank my swimming buddy and my coach for this opportunity to learn this graceful sport.

Is this what I really want to be??

A friend asked me whether am I doing what I really want. I paused and replied her. “I’m not really sure, all I know is that I am adding value to myself and others.” What I believe is that to find out what I really want to do needs to continue what I am doing in present. There isn’t any shortcut to find out the real interest or passion. I will call it an individual - mind-spirit - body exploration. There is a need to have a clear alignment between these three segment to get the understanding of what I really want to do. Once, someone told me this- as long you add value to yourself and others. It is the AHA.The moment I achieve the feeling of adding value to myself, i will be able to add value to others. For example, a baker is baking a chiffon cake. He/she has to use all the appropriate ingredients to bake this cake. Beside that, he/she has to test and create new taste to satisfy his/her customer. Once, the cake meet his/her expectation. It add value to himself/herself. Then, he is able to continue using the same method to create the same taste of chiffon cake to sell to others. This leads to adding value to others.

So if you are questioning about are you doing what you really want, reflect within as in whether are you adding value to yourself first, then to others. And keep up what you are doing if already know what you want.

Sound of Forest

On 20 May 2008, I went for a hike with some friends. The hike was led by two gentlemen as they had been there several times. As for me, it was my first time hiking. I was very thrilled about this hike and so, I woke up early in the morning at 5.10 am. And our meeting time was at 7.30 am at the MacRichite carpark. Can you imagine how excited I was.

This hike allowed me to enjoy the sound, nature and breeze of forest. Every step I walk, I could hear chirping, droning and twittering. I could feel the gentle breeze. It was indeed relaxing and refreshing. I like this feeling to experience the nature.

Honesty speaking, I will not go for such activity In the past. I dislike the thought of “feeding mosquitoes”. Fortunately, this hike did not create such experience. I didn’t get any bite. I was very surprise on that too.

One said: In life, it is important to enjoy the process of the journey rather than outcome of the journey. Our aim for this hike is to get up to treetop. In order to go up to treetop, we had to walk 5.5 km. The journey may be long yet I enjoy every moment I had with the nature and friends. Not only I get to exercise, I even get to catch up with friend who I have never connect for a long time. Thank you for this enjoyable process. Thank you for organizing this hike and I look forward for another hike. +)

List of word

I had a list of word to improve  my vocabulary

To my surprise, the page on feelings has compiled more negative descriptive words than positive descriptive words. Just on the word. There are about 5 …furious, outraged, livid, infuriated… this can go non-stop. As for the positive column, words used meant joy.

Subconsciously, I chose to study those negative words first then positive. After reading through, I understand why I chose to study those negative words before the positive. It is like a process to acknowledge all type of negative feeling and heal with love. Hee. It always nice to add in new word to my daily vocabulary. Looks like there is more to come.

Theory of Dreams - Zhi Hao (rephrase)

I had kept this rephrase note from my student for 4 years. Today I have this urge  to put it as a post.

NO Matter how successful a person maybe he/she will meet up with some hurdles along the way, and of having a dream can make them successful through his/her passion of what he/she doing, he/her persistence and he/her  perfection in work. One should always look forward and let the past be a history in you. Never look back in life. In the eyes of God, every make mistake, and everyone in the eyes of God are the same. A dream can never be achieve if you fear that it can’t be achieve. The dream that one have can be anything however if one do not do anything about it, it will never happen. By having a dream, it will only encourage you to move towards your dream and not just a dream. Never give up your drive without even trying. Do not easily give up your dream or it will only make you unhappy.

That’s fast

oh gosh…it already 4 April. I really can’t believe it. Everything happened seems like it was yesterday.

Sometimes, I really hope that I have the magic power to put time on hold just for a day. Or perhaps I just want to take a break to breathe in full cycle.

One day break from teaching doesn’t seem to be enough for me. I feel so drain each day.

As I don’t have such a magic power. All I can ask is Universe, shower me with abundance of energy. Thank you

Great Sunday

It has been a long time since I picked up a new skill. Without much thinking, I approached a master to teach me inline skating. To my surprise, this simple sport has many interesting theory and technical knowledge. Within 2 hours, I learned 7 important basic skills. Another 3 basic skills, I will be completing my level 1. I am enjoy every moment while skating. It is a delightful experience to keep focus and stay in a present moment. One important reason is that I have a fun-loving coach.

Thank you, Coach. I am looking forward to my next lesson.

I’m so thrilled

I’m so thrilled when Monday is approaching. Haha… As it  is the day I will be learning Japanese from my friend. Hee… In return, I will be teaching Mandarin. However, planning Mandarin is not an easy task even though it is my mother tongue. I did a few research before I decide the context of the lesson , then the content. It is still in the planning process. More to come and I am looking forward to it. I feel that it is so interesting to learn this language in a different position.

Thank you for this wonderful opportunity.

Spinning around

Can’t think of any suitable title for this post… My mind is spinning around with thoughts coming in and out. I have a lot of stuff to plan. A lot of questions floating into my mind starting with “How to this “… “How to that”. If you are spiritual teacher, you will say it is time to give your mind a rest. A quiet time may help. This is the not the first time that I could feel that my mind is so noisy.

It really time to keep my mind still………..Beside keeping it still, there is a need to change my regular diet to trash out junk coming in to my mind. There was once I saw this quote “What you eat is what you become!” “What you think is what you get!”

Let’s keep it positive at all time. =)

What I wish for …

I was watching this movie … (oops can’t remember the title… I ‘ll  include the title here after checking it up) That is this quote or perhaps a learning kept prompting me. What you pray for, you will get an opportunity to learn from it or improve it. In the movie, the wife pray for more family quality time and understanding the family as a whole. And she was putting into the test.

Today, I was put to test of looking beyond my belief of how a student needs to behave to be title as good student. It was an AHA learning. At one point, I was very fuss that I wanted to lecture the student. Somehow, there is this energy that shower me with cool and reminded me that it is an opportunity to learn something from this student. It kept hinting me to listen to your heart and be patient. You will find out what is the problem behind his reaction. (Thanks for that reminder)

At the end of the session, my student voiced out his issue. I thought through his request and provided him a brilliant resolution. He nodded with agreement smile. I am proud of him for the change he had made for his study. I believe that he will be a successful individual.