砂漠のJeffire

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Wednesday, March 09, 2005

Up and down the rollercoaster go~!

Today I will be talking about different stuff in my life...but before that, let's thank everyone for their kind concern! And to repeat, this is a quote from a comic called "Dai no Daiboken" (Dai's big adventure), from Dai's teacher, Avan:

"Defeat does not come from a lost battle, from injuries, or from the loss of your weapons. Defeat comes when you not longer have the determination to fight on, and you have absolutely conceded defeat by losing all the hope of winning. Everyone has their strengths, and if you can do to the best of your ability using your strengths, I am sure you will be able to see some hope of winning eventually..."

Therefore, all of you, my dear friends, stray blogger-spies, and whoever got here by any of the "through passes" (ie links), if you feel that you no longer can take it anymore, why not just sit back and rethink where your strengths are and work on them rather than work on everything? Reality is harsh, but reality did not demand that you perform well in everything. Society was the one who demanded so. If society meant reality, then please look back to history and see how did the great inventors, philosophers and leaders changed society with the dreams they had! They had to overcome reality, and many of them were ridiculed, or rejected by society before they or their ideas became successful. If Colonel Sanders of the KFC chain did not try to sell his recipe to his 1090th potential customer, how can we be enjoying the great succulent chicken for so many years? If McDonalds allowed society to pressurised them through the boycotting of franchises, how could they become the leader in the fast food industry today? And so on so forth.

I am saying that if you want to study hard, get good grades, find a great job that you can work for years (dream on, guys), go get it! If you think your strengths do not lie in such things, then why do you have to make life so painful for yourself? Do you have the courage to go against society norms and make a breakthrough through your own visions and determination for your dreams?

Anyway enough about the philosophical stuff, I intended to write about the recents of life and some more bits and pieces about me...read on...

1. Driving
After obtaining my driving licence for 7 months odds, some of the troubles I have got into include breaking the extension rear mirror for vans (my dad, with 31 years of driving experience, broke the entire rear windscreen recently!! haha) and getting stuck on a slope for the disabled at a block in Sengkang(solved by putting a wedge under the wheel which was hanging in the air). In all, I will like to say that being driven around is a much relaxing than driving people around...! However, if you have good music and a good car, I guess driving alone and singing in the car beats staying at home to sing!

2. Looking good
I want to thank Kevin and Jinki for getting a pair of jeans that looked very good on me! They have great taste for clothes. Other than that, I think a well dressed person is much popular than a person poorly dressed. I am not sure if it has anything to do with the people around now, but personally I think the reason is that a poorly dressed person portrays a sense of poor taste(or in other words, no class) and most people don't like to associate themselves with such people in order not to get implicated by impressions of the general public. As one of my weird hobbies is to look at good looking people, I realise that most good looking people dress well, have clear skin and have small faces (ie small heads). I guess having small faces makes you look younger and therefore more appealing because youth is one of the greatest asset everyone has had. (oh well, most of us are no longer youths...) I also think that knowing how to dress and groom is an important skill to be learnt, but unfortunately, most people either think they've got it, or they know it. Oh well, that's why there are only a few popular people. One more thing, I also think that the % of good looking people exceeds the % of bad looking people and therefore, if you think you are bad looking, you may be wrong because you are either too humble or have really bad taste. Haha.

3. Exercising
I always believe that fat people are people who eat alot and don't exercise much. However, most fat people also know the same thing as I do, but they simply lack a great way to lose weight. Anyway, my view is that society demands you not to look fat is because subconsciously a fat person takes up much more resources than a normal sized person and therefore is a stronger competitor for resources. Nobody will like to give up their share of resources and this led to the portrayal of fat people being unpopular, comical and so on. Another supporting factor is that fat people tend to be less sexy looking because there is an impression that they are not going to be very 'active' when having sex. I think this is also embedded in subconsciousness, and since most men are more vocal about sex demands, this have led to the portrayal of sexy people being thin (thin people are easier to hug anyway) or fit. By the way I have digressed and all I wanted to say is that exercising is one of the best activities in life. Firstly it helps you to lose weight and makes you feel better because you feel lighter and you can eat with less guilt being felt. Secondly it helps to destress because you are either too tired or too hyped up to think about other stuff. Thirdly, it trains your endurance and determination up because sports conditions the body by repetitive actions. By constantly doing certain actions, that part of your body becomes stronger and you will be able to use it more often. Lastly, if you have lost much weight by exercising and good dieting, you will take much more time to gain them back because you have trained up your metabolism, which is the normal rate of energy expenditure by the body in relaxed status. In conclusion, if you exercise regularly and lose weight by exercising, you will be much happier and therefore, I want to ask you why do people keep fretting about their weight and size than to do something about it. Of course if you have problems doing something about it, feel free to approach me and we can work things out.

I think this post is getting rather long. However I am feeling better now despite still being unable to find my phone, do my homework and projects, getting fatter and uglier and many many other undesirable things. This shows how great it is to be blogging and of course it feels better if someone bothered by commenting. I think bloggers are people who want a space to put their thoughts up when they are alone and thinking, and of course they are people who want people to care for them because usually bloggers are people who want to have some attention which may be absent in their lives.

I wish you all the best in life and if you have any problems, feel free to catch me although my phone is absent for the time-being, you can catch me by email or MSN and from there we can arrange an appointment or something.

Regards
Jeffire

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