Merry Post-Christmas & Happy Pre-New Year

Count Down.... 3 - 2 - 1 days to go... 2011!!!

So how are you all plan to celebrate it? I will be going to Tiara Club for the count down and to support my friend (the magician) who fly all the way from KL to show us some Great Show! Got to be real fun and laugh all the way to 2011, I bet. Hope to see all of you there...

something to look forward to...

It has been a great success... well, at least for myself. (Yea... I know, I might sound like I am blowing my own trumpet) BUT if you don't do it, who else is going to blow it for you? =)

Ever since I started writing on this blog in the year late 2008, life has never seem to be the same again for me. If you do follow, I bet you'll noticed that I've written almost about everything that happens in my life - from my thoughts, my accidents to appearing on radio show or simply means I rant a lot. Most of the time. Not until I bump into a few friends who I talked to recently.

After all these productivity talk, I think it is about time for me to move on to the next phase of life and do something about it before I miss out another wave of opportunity which I had already missed a few years ago. If you are lucky a chap, you might be able to bump into a few opportunities in life but the question is how many could I afford to miss it again? We will never know how many are there coming but I can assure it ain't many left as we AGED. 

Having a though as such had forced me to look at life at a different perspective. I am actually working on a few new blogs pending to launch once it's up. I hope I could start the main blogs when year 2011 approached.  Keep everyone posted once it's up and running.

Malaysian Nature Society (Sandakan)

Today, I just came back from a history in making event on a preview of the forming of Malaysian Nature Society in Sandakan - in short MNS. It shows that the Sandakan community do cares for the city, which we called the city of nature. I even met some old friends & make new one at the event. One of them is a person who has indirectly taught me a lesson on passion. He is also the person who initiated the idea to create such a society in Sandakan & am proud to have known such a passionate person which cares not only for the nature but the community of Sandakan as a whole. Keep it up Charles!!

The Malaysian Nature Society (Sandakan Branch) is on the move to form his new team and in no time projects after projects will be initiated for the benefits of everyone from near & afar especially for Sandakan. To find out more about what this society do: CLICK ME!! I bet you will never regret once you get to know them better - will keep everyone posted. Do check out the Daily Express & Sabah Times for more info (which I think is either tomorrow, Sunday or Monday)... I know you will be saying this - ("lei kong sai lor").... translate - I said it all. =) till then...

http://www.derricchew.com/

Attended a preview on http://www.derricchew.com and I found that I have found something that I would like to do as a passion and as a long term hobby. I highly recommend everyone to take a look at his preview and who knows what might come out, out of the preview. The catch is.... there is no catch at all. Its F.O.C.!!! All he need is your time (3 hour) and your attention & I believe you can gain some insight about making USD$ via the Internet if not all, maybe a sip of the coffee cup could make a whole lot of difference. If you still feel skeptical, due to your previous experience? Well, I urge you to give yourself another try and see what he has to offered. Till Then....

Merry Christmas Folks!

Hi everyone, as we step into the month of December 2010.

It's that time again where snows are replaced by rain, evergreen tree is replaced by plastic cone look a like tree, and colorful present is replaced with empty wrapped box which will end up under the cone alike tree is here again. (well, that's what happen in my hometown... on a typical local home)

What's Christmas to you all? Is it the present? Is it the Snow? Is it the fellowship? Is it going to church like everyone else? Is it going to pub and drink like there is no tomorrow?

So, What is it to YOU?

I have a very simple plan, which is to have a quite time with God and reflect back on what I had done for the past one year before I make my new resolution and my aim about next year. I hope everyone enjoyed your moment no matter how you planned to celebrate it but do enjoy and take care. Presenting to you here with Merry Christmas by Kingdom Works artistes. Nice Song!!! Bravo!! & I hope you liked it. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

Something Interesting

Anything you wish

Life is all in how you look at it. Through the way you choose to look at it, you can make your life into anything you wish.

What if you could transform your resentment for having to do something into enthusiasm for getting it done? The powerful and amazing thing is, you can.

Instead of being angry about something that's happened, you can be determined to make it right. Instead of being disappointed by the setbacks, you can be motivated by the new possibilities they've created.

What are you looking at, that looks difficult or painful or annoying or just plain impossible? What if you looked at it differently?

You can choose your perspective, you can choose your feelings, you can choose your thoughts, your words and your actions. No matter what life sends your way, you can choose how to look at it and what to do with it.

Get in the habit of looking at life with love and gratitude, and with enthusiasm for the positive possibilities. When you look, see the life you wish to live, for you have what it takes to make it be.

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I asked God, 'How do I get the best out of life?'
God said, 'Face your past without regrets. Handle your present with confidence.
And prepare for the future without fear!’ For I am with you!

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Hi All, I took this article somewhere out there... which I have no idea who wrote this but there is a reason why I saved it in my personal computer all this while. I read it and it has enhanced my life even more. I hope it will do the same to you all. Till then... =)

Blogging: Perspective Changed

My 1st Blog Book

YES!!! I am a dummy when it comes to blogging... many years ago. Although not as clever just yet but this is a good book to those who wanted or dream of one day to explore this new activity / job / journal / whateveryouwantedtocalledit. I got started off pretty dumb because I just simply open any account after account on various web-based hosting site and eventually I landed back to where I started which is blogger.com You can read more on this HERE.

Anyway... let me just get to the point first. Recently  I just bought  myself another book on blogging called Problogger by Darren Rowse & Chris Garrett. After reading 144 pages from it - my perspective about blogging & it's future had changed dramatically. Apart from that too, ideas that my friends once told me on what can I do can actually turned into something very professional had really had me seat back and think and this is the reason why I am going to embark on a new profession soon via blogging of course but let's keep it a secret for a while until I had draft out the whole idea. At this moment, all the ideas are flowing here & there. What I need to do now is grab them and put them in order - is like solving a 1000pc puzzle in 15 minute. (Am not God la...)

is a Blocks of Blogs

To be frank, I am not so a humor guy like ahbing.com or kennysia.com but someday I hope I can write like them. The world is full of serious stuff and bloggers like them can help ease our tension by writing craps with substance. Well, that's how I feel about life & blog. When all things are black and white, we can see no fun to it but at the same time we don't have to become a clown to get everyone attention. Just as I mentioned, write enough craps with substance and the world is yours.

Apart from that, I realized that I need to learn some photoshop skills cause merely taking picture & get it posted will get me no where far. BUT, once it's all tweaked & wrapped with sugar, honey & everything nice... I bet even the birds can be lured to come down from the tree (Read it with a Cantonese mind set) - 树上雀仔都“tam" 到落来. (ui... Shane can write Chinese one meh?)

Don't be surprise with the Chinese wordings. I know those who knows me well, can tell that I can't write or even read apart from my own name. I get a friend help la... of course... haiya you ah...

As in year 2008, 2009, & 2010. I have changed my blog title from "Shane's New Chapter" in 2008, "Make Things Happen" in 2009 to "Make a Difference" in 2010.  The reason for these changes are to remind me of the things I needed to do & not to off track too easily.

As you can see, is end of the year again, sooner or later you will see new theme coming as well. However, the main reason that I wanted to blog on this article is not about the changes of theme but is because I wanted to  make it a point that I will be working on a new project soon which will be closely related to the industry of blogging and what I fond on. Till then... Let's keep our finger crossed on my new project.  Jana...

*BTW, more personal pictures will be coming right up in year 2011...

My Score from The Oatmeal

Created by Oatmeal

humor sidekick

There is a member in the Toastmasters club who was once famous for his humor speech and acts told us that he has lost his skills in it  the birth of the new born baby in the family. We all thought that he was joking but after giving it a second thought... he has a point too. 

You might asked, why do I think so? (since I am not a father to any child yet)

Here is some of the why(s):-

1. I have lesser smile this year after I took up more responsibility in life such as the presidency post & the vice president post for two NGOs. 

 

2. Faced with many new obstacle in life, such as a change of job & holding of medium to huge size projects.

 

3.  I don't have the laugh factor towards my silly mistakes.

Well, that's me in 2010!!

 

Things.... I believe have started to change because I realized that I began to laugh at myself for no reason (I'm not psycho yet) and topics for my Toastmasters manual seem to be coming by quite easily for no apparent reason as well. Does that mean my sense of humor is coming back alive? I wonder... crossing finger

Will keep you all posted when I found myself smiling in front of the mirror.

debt is awesome?

Of course!... Not! (proclaimed by some) There are so many books out there that will teach us on how to eliminate debt and eventually debt free. I am sure many of us would like to experience a debt-free-day once in their lifetime; but as we all know, life is not a bed of roses and it will never will until we learn to take debt as a tool to help us in making more money and not to kill us. Debt is surely a double edged sword, is either it will make more money for you or bury us alive. 

5 years ago, debt was initially a good friend of mine because I used it to get all the goody stuff I ever dreamed of and I can pay it off in one go whenever payday is here. However, today debt is no longer a good friend of mine but a teacher instead. Debt teaches me how to take control of my life and build up my maturity with money. Some of the hard earned lesson I got (and still learning) from it is:

1. How to become more patient with life

2. How to delay gratification

3. How to say NO! (to all those gadgets)

4. How to still smile on a rainy day

5. How to make jokes even I am in deep shit

6. How to discover skills I never thought I have

7. How to be not shy in asking silly questions &;

8. How to have found true friends along the path

Hm... after listing down how debt has actually taught me some of the important lesson about life, I think debt is after all an awesome tool to have &; like all tools, we must know how to use it wisely or else it will backfire to the user. As one of rich dad's fans, I urge all of us to pick up his book and read all about it. Till then, let's build a good friendship with debt.