...jack daniels...

…its was a close tie. both impressed the audience well with a funny white inside; yellow outside banana story and the touching story of the former newscaster’s clouds with silver lining. and both of them are true winners. yes, my two son won the 22nd effective speaking course. nothing makes me prouder to see both of them emerging champions; tied in the top position with equal number of votes.

jack daniel. this bottle of whiskey never fail to surprise me with their last minute rehearsals, last minute touching up of story line and last minute practices. their heart attack timing was indeed heart wrecking.
jack was with me in starbucks for almost 3 hours to go through his contents and off we go to mcdonalds for another 2 hours of rehearsals. and that was the day before the finals. i didn’t get to sit down with daniel with his speech because he was having exams the whole week. daniel has his final rehearsal with me the hour before the contest starts. and jack has his final rehearsal with me right infront of the toilet of bgf moments before he was due on stage. my goodness. i am getting a heart attack.

jack has a problem with remembering his speech. his pressure was high because he was the one “chosen” to win. He also have his emceeing to do – which adds more pressure to him. daniel has a big challenge of remembering the bombastically structured sentences and super hard to pronounce words. he also has a slight issue on how to position his hands. wakakakz. during their private rehearsal with me, they fared extremely awful. oh my gawd!

but they did extremely well. they lived up to their expectations of under promise over deliver. something they learnt from someone; definitely not me. (according to both of them – they can only speak well infront of a live audiences ; the more people the better). their speeches were excellent. daniel has bought a super huge banana; measuring over 8 inches in circumference and just over a foot long made him the winner of the overall exhibit used. everyone was impressed with his farnee presentation and superbly amusing banana. jack on the other hand touched the crowd with his motivational story of a former newscaster now wheelchair bound and how she found back her spirit and determination to lived on; to see the silver lining in the clouds.

both jack and daniel has shown us that if we put our minds into it and focus our energy on it, whatever problems there is, we are sure to be able to see the opportunities in it. they have done well with the metzteam and coming out with the first incovar trailer. they have conquered the effective speaking course. they are conquering the youth exchange program next week. whats next for them? 3 individuals of such diverse background synergyzing their effort; worked as a team and striving forward; now they are ready. ready to conquer the world.

congratulations again to both of you…

... jack...datuk dr victor wee...daniel...

...metz...

...metz team. ideas thru illustration...

...inspiring the future...

...executive committee of buddhist gem fellowship. executive board of world fellowship of buddhist youth. and yea, got re-elected back to the committee of bgf for my like 8th term i guess. knowing i can make a difference and knowing i can do something for the youth. i am glad i am in this long term relationship. congratulations to me for committing myself yet again in the board of committee that inspires the future...

- INSPIRING THE FUTURE -

...ideas thru illustration...

...fuyoh. i just saw the preview of the incovar trailer. and i am loving it. i love the feeling of suspense. i love the feeling of speed. and i love the feeling of moving ahead. this summer. coming to a temple near you. i am glad with these 3 teenage son of mine who have done well despite some minor misalignment of thoughts and some unforeseable splurge of mouth diarrhea. the team members did well in aligning their thoughts and synchronizing their energy to achieve a common goal. in the corporate language, it is called teamwork which many of us do not understand the basic component of working together as a team. i am embarassed of myself.

3 individuals of diverse background of accounting, business it and chemical engineering brought together by the making of this priceless trailer. coming to kl from as far as nilai weekly by train; stuck in the queue line for hours, taking midnite cab that costs a bomb, skipping taekwondo, free provision of instant noodles, free wifi and aircond and deprieve of sleep; my 3 teenage son has indeed shown the difference between the pig and the chicken where one merely gets involved and the other committed. their commitment level is indeed beyond expected. and their close knitted bonding brings out the inspiration in them. lookout for the trailer. it will definitely surprises you...

...MEtz team...ideas thru illustration...

...gimme back my smoke...

...slept 2 hours on thu nite then off on a flight to singapore. slept another 4 hours on fri nite after spending some splendid midnite whining with den and kantai-san. touched down klia at 10.30pm. and arrived to pcic slightly after midnite. slept another 3 hours on sat nite. i am seriously deprieved of sleep and dem tired. 3 nites of sleep deprievation and full load of thinking and having a huge tsunami in my brain. i was told to just go home and sleep and come the following day. i stayed on cos i know the team spirit is in such extreme that i can feel it thousand of miles away in sg. and yea, so i was extremely motivated. i needed my sleep back. i am dead tired. maybe i should get some smoke. gimme back my smoke. its by law!!!...

...the pickup...

...very tiring day. immediately after touching down from lcct a fren came to pick me up from the airport and we went for a long drive. we had a really really long chat in the car. so many things popped up from the conversation; including little petty people who never fails to make an appearance whenver people are at the most vulnerable stage. arghh...mj will call it du'h. but to me i will just turn on the dkdcdb mode. but that nite was special. it was just different from other nites. we had a long heart to heart talk about stuff. and believe me, alot of things were spoken and alot of things were said. and its definitely about u...

...a fine city within a city...

...singapore a fine city - i would love to go over more often. was there for just two days (gotta rush back for pcic). but the two days was well spent. friday was spent in the office which was located in takashimaya. we stayed in park hotel which was just across the road. a long dreadful day full of presentations and listening and discussion and meetings and stuff. but the after eight hours was great. bosses took us for a bowling session with singapore club and after which; yea the nite life has began.

coincidently den and the gang were in singapore as well. called him up and met him at his hotel robertson quay hotel. so happen kantai-san was with him and thus the three of us went off for a drink together. the nite is still young. we chatted and talked and discussed. imagine what hooegarden can do to our mind. closed mind open eyes. wakakaz. took a cab back to the hotel in the wee hours. my gawd. and the next day more meetings.

the next day was full of meetings and discussion again. more things to talk about. more stories to tell each other and more food stuff into our mouth. and later in the afternoon went over to singapore buddhist youth mission for the asian youth buddhist leadership seminar conducted by a dear friend dr ong. sat thru a few session and found some pretty interesting topic to relate to. will do some posting later. sat in the executive board meeting to discuss about the youth leadership seminar to be held in tokyo japan this coming winter. also met daniel, katak and gang there. it was great meeting up with them. took the late flight back to kl.

my singapore trip never fails me. or rather i did not fail myself in this trip. i got to do what i didn think i will do and i had a great time with great people. i so wanted to be back to singapore again. the city is a fine city that never fails to impress me.

...singapore...

...off to singapore. 4-5april2008...

...petty people again...

...have not had such a long chat with a friend already. though tiring but it was great brainstorming on ways to eliminate the petty people in our lives. and what can we do?

1. get a pair of old shoes.
2. get a cutout of the petty people. maybe can put their face on it.
3. go out to the road side.
4. make sure you squat down (depending on how long you would like to beat them).
5.*them? shit that means there are more than one.
6. start beating them and cursing them. curse every single one of them.
7. do not allow loop hole for attack.
8.beat until hands gets tired.
9. change friend to beat'em up.
10. contniue the process until we are satisfied.

and our bitching session ended at 2am. i gotta catch a flight to singapore later. darn. but i am pretty awake! and satisfied with the beatings...

...petty people...

...i dunno what the fuck is going on with things now. i just prefer to stay low and stay out of reach by little bastards that makes my life so miserable. how can i go and beat the petty people. i just wanna beat those petty people to eliminate their vicious influence, while invoking aid from honorable people...

...killing me softly...

...arghh...everything feels so miserable. nah. more of like everything is MISERABLE. notice i never use any uppercase in any of my posting. but this time, the whole thing really fucked me off. everything seems to be fucking uneasy. why are some people so fucking irritating and insensitive. so fucking manipulative with words.

we are all human. we do have one mouth and two ears. but we prefer to use the mouth to cut throat and manipulate people. manipulating the words and cutting through their veins. suffocating them and making them feel useless. but the ears are too redundant. collecting dust and growing spider webs. these are the lowest of the lowest type of people that knows nothing better than slicing their thin crisp words with high pitching voice directly; cutting peoples emotion and demolishing them into fine dust beyond recognition. fcuk those infuriating useless pieces of dung...