Would Mitch laugh or sulk if he knew I had conveniently stolen his best-selling book title as the idea for the title of a blog in this humble little space? Judging by how friendly and warm he was by our very brief meeting, I doubt he would be upset.
Mitch Albom happily signing his name away!
Yes, I finally met up with this international best-selling author of Tuesdays With Morrie (now you know where my blog title came from!), 5 People You Meet In Heaven, For One More Day and the latest addition to his family of inspirational books – Have A Little Faith.
Imagine this. Your life is a story, and you’re the protagonist. This story revolves around you – your interactions with the people in it, your thoughts, dreams, goals, achievements, mistakes, joys and regrets.
How would you describe it? Is your life a routine? Or is it full of unexpected surprises?
Do you enjoy fulfilling relationships with the people you love? Or are your interactions with them too few and bland?
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Love of an Avatar
Love, is the answer.
That’s the conclusion I get while craning my neck in an uncomfortable position watching the humans and the Na’vi slaying each other in a bloody and painful battle in Avatar.
There are no sides to be taken, because I’m sure nobody likes to see so many lives dead, homes destroyed, natural habitats demolished and trees that contain more interactive cells than the neurons in our brains razed to the ground.
Yet, the war did happen. Due to what? Greed. The insatiable greed of the human beings. For greed, they’re willing to attack and invade a territory that doesn’t belong to them.
I’ve read many personal development books, and many of them swear by the belief that happiness comes from within. It’s inside you. Happiness doesn’t come from a gleaming new half a million dollars sports car. Nor does it come from a wardrobe full of branded clothes, bags, scarves and shoes.
It comes from what’s inside you – your emotions, thoughts, feelings. It is what you feed to your inner soul that emanates to your brain that tells you that you’re happy.
Now, I swear by these too. And I also witnessed one more thing that will make you feel, think and have loving and positive feelings, thoughts and emotions. What is it?
Julie and Julia. These two women don’t just share a similar name. They are intimately connected by one deep passion too, despite separated by space and time. Julie is at a crossroad in her life. Not someone who has ever completed something in her life before, she gamely takes up the suggestion of her husband to start a blog. After a few rounds of to-and-fro on what to write, she decides to challenge herself to blog about cooking. Not just ordinary cooking where she does when she has time or the mood to, but to finish cooking 52 recipes by the famous celebrity chef Julia Child in 365 days.
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She’s Inspired By The Other She Who’s Inspiring!
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I’m not sure if the other users feel the same way, but it has certainly scored huge brownie points with me. Gauging from my relatively high standards (er-hem, I think so) when it comes to customer service, I suppose this little thoughtful gesture from M1 is, indeed, sweet!
Doing some research on the ground as I began my search, few weeks ago, for a mobile phone (again!), I was having two (or three?) minds on the provider to sign up with. Starhub has its carrot dangling with their hub discounts, effectively pushing Singtel out of the ballgame temporarily. Unless I’m getting the iPhone.
The pangs of regret hit you so sharply you feel as if you’re being cut into shreds, your body torn into pieces and falling flatly on the ground, getting stepped on by the many pairs of brisk feet rustling over, digging into your pain each step they take as if telling you that you deserve this punishment. You can feel the pain in your heart, and not one second passes without you berating yourself “How can I be so careless? How could I have misplaced it?”
Who would have guessed it? It wasn’t the day of Toto with its seductive $10 million prize. Neither was it a day of 4D. Then, why would the queue be so long?
The origin of the human chain revealed the answer. They were all in the line to exchange their EZ-link card. Yesterday was supposed to be the last day for the free exchange. But, as I had predicted pretty well, the deadline was extended by one more week.
Is one week enough? Well, I believe that there would still be that many people who would only do it at the eleventh hour come next Wednesday.
How many times have we secretly wished that we are the most popular guy or girl in class during school? Well, maybe not the most popular, but well-liked at least.
Acceptance is a “popular” value among many people. Don’t we hate the feeling to be ostracised by others? To be left alone while our peers huddle together in their tight inner circle, passing juicy titbits of gossips of people out of their clique. Many times you wonder if you were one of the subject topics among them.
I had lost my mobile on three occasions: pick-pocketed twice and carelessly left it in the toilet of a very small pub once.
In all the three times, I discovered the loss very quickly – within five minutes of it being gone. Equally swift was the pair of hands that landed on my prized possession at the other end.
The dreadful message announcing the phone has been switched off when I called myself means I have received the death sentence for my mobile. It is gone forever from me.
