The monk who sold his Ferrari

Am going to finish reading this book soon. I bought this book because the readers reviews in shelfari.com suggested this as a good and inspirational book in achieving goals in your life.

However, I find this book more like telling people to have a balanced life from the rush hours most people have. There are 3 emphasis on Robin's book:

1. Balancing your spiritual and material lives.
This book reminds people, especially those busy ones, to sit back and look at yourself and look around for your loved ones. He questioned:


-Are you treating yourself good enough while you are chasing for your dream?

-Do you have enough sleep? Enough nutrients for your body? And enough time to let your mind rest and enjoy the short break?

-Have you talked to your loved ones recently? Or you haven't even looked into their eyes because you are too busy with your work?

-What do you do after work? Do you have 30 minutes for yourself, just for yourself, reading your own mind, asking yourself what you want in life? Or do you just sit there and stare lifelessly at the TV or PC?

If you can't answer all these. You need to sit back and think what is wrong with your life now. Because life is not all about that one thing-- your work. Don't forget your family, your loved ones and you yourself!

Health and happiness is the key to your life. Without it, money is nothing.

Sleep well, eat well, rest well. Then only can you work 100% effective. Just take ten-minutes three times a day, one before you sleep, one after you wake up and one during work, close your eyes and rest your mind.

Listen to your body. Your body won't want a restless life.

Balance up your life now. =)

2. Make full use of your time
Do you have a target in your life?

As simple as just being happy? Or being closer to your family? Or excel in a certain field e.g. public speaking? Or being success in business?

But, do you find yourself doing unimportant thing most of your time rather than doing what you should do to bring yourself towards the target?


Do you find yourself wasting your precious time sitting there allowing the time to slip away when you can actually spend the time reading a good book or practice on your speaking skills or spend more time with your family?

I'm amused by a great sentence Robin had just said--"Stop acting like you have 500 years to live". Haha.. This is so true. I think this is the most eye-catching sentence I read in this book. And this same sentence enlightens me and reminds me that I shouldn't simply live my life now. I started to think I should put more effort into my life. =P


3. Contribute to the society
Robin also emphasized on contributing to the society and being selfless in the book. He stated that the ultimate purpose of everyone's life is to serve and contribute. Contribution can be as tiny as letting a few cars to pass in front of you during a traffic jam or as major as volunteering for the needy every weekend.

You will feel good after contributing, thus giving more energy to your life. =) I believe when you find yourself able to contribute to the society you will feel contented with your life because your life become far richer and more meaningful.

Introduction Weekend December 2007 anyone interested?

Guys and girls! Here's for those who:

1. Love outing
2. Want to understand themselves more
3. Want to escape out of their comfort zone
4. Want to know people from different field
5. Looking for fun and more fun!!

During this Intro Weekend, you get to:
1. Stay in the jungle
2. Pee and poo in the jungle
3. Cook your army food
4. Bathe in the river
5. Make friends
6. Learn the importance of leadership and teamwork
7. Refresh yourself from the hustle bustle of the city life
8 Energize yourself to the fullest!!



It's more than just a stay in the jungle
It's more than just a leadership camp

Bukit Tabur pictures

Ian took the faster route. We took the longer but easier (less steep) route =P

Like this


And this

Raleigh monthly meeting on hundreds meter above sea level


Everyone got their spots to sit on


After the meeting we continue to climb and saw this magnificent view

Act cool. lol

Drop backward and you will 'fly' down. lol


Going up


And down


CK abseiling


But after abseiling we saw this beside the rock we abseiled

Dangers ahead??

Seems like it

So we going up again

We saw smaller Klang Gate dam cuz we got higher and this

Genting-like Kuala Lumpur. lol. Hazy and dirty city.

And abseil down again (this is second peak)

Dun remember which peak this was. One of the four or five.

And took another pic at another peak. lol

Prank websites

Just now was opening a page I got from the Friendster Bulletin. It was claimed to be a personality testing. So i answer the questions. But when I clicked to obtain the results I closed my eyes and covered my ears with my fingers.

Know why?

'cause everytime I got the scary prank with very closed-up ugly ghost popped up in front of me. And yeah... Especially the eerie scream. When I see the big eyes staring at me, all my hairs on my neck stood up and my heart missed a beat.

I wonder who photoshopped that ghost. Very successful indeed. But too bad nobody wanna take a second look at their creations, at least not me. =P

The first prank was about a hearing testing. I put on my headphone and listened properly to the sound (do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do) and clicked the "I can hear" button. Then, there's one note where no sound was heard, so I thought it was too high-pitched.

So, I turned my headphone to full blast and clicked on the "listen again" button.


The next thing I know was the eerie scream magnified 1000 times in my ear and at the same time that DAMN pale face ghost popped in front of me!!!


I almost fell from my chair.

After that I kept getting this prank. Luckily I had my speaker and headphone off. But the image is scary enough.

The magnificent Bukit Tabur and Raleighians

Just came back from hiking at Bukit Tabur today with Raleigh. It's a cool experience.


Bukit tabur is actually totally rocky at the peaks. And because of the steep rocks we had to use ropes to climb down two peaks (but use our hands to climb up lah) and another two we climbed down without the help of ropes.


I just said I want to do rock climbing in the previous post. Then so fast got the chance to experience it today. But my rock climbing down the peaks skills (with the rope) is really lousy. LoL. Lucky Ian was there to grab me. Otherwise I might be thrown down the hill already. Or swing to another side of the rock if I grabbed the rope tight enough? And maybe can swing back to the correct side? haha...


Dunno why I just love climbing up no matter how steep it is. Climbing down is like putting my life in the hands of Mr. Gravity Force. And if my feet slipped there goes my yet-to-complete life, rolling down the hill into the middle of the jungle. lol =P Maybe it's because I trust my fingers and palms more than my wobbly feet. =P


Pictures of the magnificent Bukit Tabur and Raleighians will be uploaded as soon as I get the pictures from Keen and Vincent. The pictures in my camera could not be taken out because I forgot to bring the cable. hehe...