Save the Animals, Please...

月熊，你听过吗？我没听过。直到刚才收到一封转寄的电邮，我才认识这受尽虐待，快要绝种的动物。或许，换一个大家比较熟悉的名称——熊胆，听过了吧？

人类在月熊的胸膛上开一个洞，再把胆囊拉出来，然后将一枝比铅笔还要粗的铁管，插进胆囊里，以方便他们定时抽取胆汁。从此，月熊就会在一个只有体型般大小的笼子里，度过它的一生。能想象吗？一只活生生的动物，被关进一个无法转身的笼子里，过不久就被人用针筒刺进胆囊，抽取胆汁……

阅毕，我的心很痛，很痛……这让我想起不久前收到的另一封电邮，是关于贩卖狗肉的。许多同事看了都觉得很可怜，觉得那些人太残忍了。那封电邮，附上请愿书，许多人都在上面签名反对如此不人道的作法。有个匿名人士，在其签名旁写了这么一句：那么你们吃的鸡肉，猪肉呢？

我打从心底的赞同这人的看法。说到吃狗肉，大多人都觉得不忍，因为狗是人类的好朋友，狗是许多人心爱的宠物。可是鸡嘛，猪嘛，牛羊鱼，是家禽，家畜，是食物。曾经的我，也是这样想的。我从小到大都是吃这些的，我从来不觉得有什么问题。什么健康为由，宗教倡导，根本无法构成有力的理由，让我履行素食主义。

直到去年十一月的某一天，在一有机素食餐馆用餐时，看到电视播放着，畜牧业的实况，动物惨遭不人道的虐待与宰杀，叫人心酸。我才知道，原来餐桌上端好的，美味的荤食，背后是动物血淋淋的牺牲。它们只是为了提供我们食物的家禽家畜吗？它们不也是一条生命吗？

我不会去争辩人类原本是素食，杂食，还是肉食动物。不管我们的老祖先的饮食习惯如何，我们能思考分辨，我们有怜悯之心，如果素食主义，能够让我们活得更健康，同时亦能避免更多可怜的动物惨遭屠杀，何不选择这更好的饮食习惯呢？

我爱管弦乐

好久没有写日志了，明天周末不需上班，终于可以歇一歇，在忙碌与压力中，喘一喘气。

踏入2009年，几乎每一个放工后的晚上，都是工作，然后睡觉。这样的生活，确实单调乏味了些。偶尔找些音乐调剂一下也不错。想到了自己很喜欢的管弦音乐会。上网搜查了Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO) 的资料，我曾经以为只属富人享受的娱乐，原来价格是如此的平民化。

回想起第一次观赏MPO演奏会时，是中五那年吧。我们圣婴女中军乐队，一辆巴士浩浩荡荡，穿着乐队演奏服前去。那一场，演奏的是Gustav Holst的曲子——《The Planets》。原曲共有七篇：

Mars, the Bringer of War

Venus, the Bringer of Peace

Mercury, the Winged Messenger

Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity

Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age

Uranus, the Magician

Neptune, the Mystic

音符与节奏在各种乐器的交响下，赋予了七行星生命力和独特的个性。演奏厅仿佛变成了辽阔无比的银河系，而我们，犹如正太空漫步的旅客，观赏着太阳系的七个小孩，每一个都带来不同的体验。演奏会结束后，大伙儿还意犹未尽，优美的旋律仍环绕在耳边，迟迟不能散去。

曾经，我们也有过自己的演奏会，那是即将毕业退位的时候。虽然只是小型的音乐会，但是我们总算完成了大伙儿的心愿。那是我们“八仙”，还有Jamie，我的专属小鼓，一起走过的音乐旅程。

我与管弦乐相识于乐队，告别了乐队，对管弦乐之爱，却将伴我一生。

今天是怎样的一天？

今天是怎样的一天？

在往巴生的Kesas Highway上奔驰，突然一颗疑似石头的东西，敲击在我车的前方大镜上，就这样多了一个星型的裂痕。我还不知道要怎么处理，我刚刚不久才弄了防晒防爆的tint film，心痛-ing……

顾客们都说拨款不够，不能多买。左算右算，现在的业务额距离目标还挺远的，真恼人……

心情还真有够糟的，就这样怀疑这一天是不是倒霉的一天，猜想接着会不会更运衰。时间每一分每一秒，就在垂头丧气，满腹抱怨中，悄悄的过去了。

后来有人说，现在经济不景，到处都听到人们唉声叹气，怨声连连，为这个世界累计越来越多的负面能量，大家只会愈加意志消沉，何不积极乐观一些，力求在困境中闯出一片天。一语惊醒梦中人，我也不再心烦气躁，顿时恢复信心与活力。

《Secret》、《The Law of Attraction》等众多激励书籍，都传达着类似一样的讯息——Positive Thinking，是通往成功与快乐之途的要素。Zig Ziglar 也告诉我们：“Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.”

其实抛开励志书籍及成功人士的忠告，大多数人都知道积极的心态的重要性，可是能够不受外界影响，保持积极乐观心态的人，却是少数。不是吗？有人抱怨生意受经济风暴影响，有人抱怨上司施加太多压力，有人抱怨每天塞车等……这些都是我们常常听到，也是我们曾经都有抱怨过的。可是抱怨过后，只会让心情越来越低落，没有mood工作，情形不但没改善，还会越来越恶化。

积极的心态不是与生俱来，也不是自然而然的，是需要我们不断提醒自己，刻意地去培养。任何事情都有其积极的一面，只是看我们从怎样的角度去审视。正如Winston Churchill所言：“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

Oprah Winfrey也说过：“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.”

因此，日后不管世界给与我们多大的考验，且让我们微笑着说：“今天是美好的一天！”

来一个心灵大扫除！

年尾假期多，又逢清假时，难得悠闲。花了一天，清洗厕所、打扫睡房客厅、抹地、洗衣……整间屋子整洁舒适多了，心情也愉快多了。

还记得没什么纪律的我，用了东西总懒得放回原位，老是把睡房书桌弄得乱七八糟的。看着乱糟糟的房子，心情也特别烦躁。待稍为空闲时，或忍无可忍时，才来个大扫除，心情也会跟着打扫后的房子一样，焕然一新。

居住的环境与人的情绪息息相关。趁新年即来临，打扫房屋，也给自己的心灵房子来个大扫除吧！

肤浅的遐想

看了《Twilight》，深深的沉醉在男女主角浪漫凄美的爱情故事中，深深的迷恋于男主角Edward Cullen俊美的外表，和不顾一切保护爱人的勇敢。如果说爱慕外表是一种肤浅，如果说沉溺于虚幻世界是一种肤浅，那么就让我肤浅这么一次吧。

没有双鱼座的温柔，却继承了双鱼的喜欢幻想，不切实际。有时我甚至觉得自己不适合看戏。无论是恐怖骇人的《I am Legend》，浪漫唯美的《Twilight》，描画现实勾心斗角的《珠光宝气》，总让我入戏太深，无法自拔……

或许我真的要减少看戏了。才能更加贴近现实生活，才能更脚踏实地，好好地活出自己。就这么决定……

Thanks to Brian Tracy!!

I'm so glad that I attended Brian Tracy's seminar. Thanks to Raymond for the kind offer, or else I would have missed the splendid talk and more importantly, the turning point of my life.

No doubt Brian Tracy is a superb speaker and motivator. By listening to him, your dreams soared and your desire for success burnt like roaring furnace. We've always heard of the phrase "No pain, no gain", and there is also a Chinese proverb saying “吃得苦中苦，方为人上人”, but from Brian Tracy, you will learn that you can be joyous in your pursuit of success, simply by tuning your self-dialogue to a more positive mode.

Great speakers might not be great practitioners. But Brian Tracy excelled in both. He started off his life with few advantages. He began working to support his family since he was ten, and he left high school without graduating and worked at laboring jobs for several years. But he is now a successful businessman and one of the top professional speakers in the world. He has consulted for more than 1,000 companies and addressed more than 4,000,000 people in 4,000 talks and seminars throughout the US, Canada and 40 other countries worldwide.

To learn more about this great man, you can access to his website: http://www.briantracy.com/. You can even get a free e-book entitled "Million Dollar Habits" by signing up for any of his free Newsletters. I just bought one of his best-sellers, "The Psychology of Selling". It is great!

I have been passive and lost of direction for about a year, until his speech changed my thinking and mentality, and then my life. Thousand thanks to Brian Tracy!

给你的信（一）

夜已深，疲乏烦躁的你，怎么还不睡？明天还得早起，又是忙碌的一天，不是吗？

被一些不该想太多的事困扰着么？被太多琐碎的事捆绑着么？你知道的，心烦意乱不能为你解决什么，只有不断消耗着你的时间。为了前途，你必需要专注，stay focused!

只可惜，你是个普通人，总被情绪凌驾于你的理智之上。那么问问自己，有勇气去面对吗？如果没有，就算了吧。甘心做个落荒而逃的失败者，然后去追求你的理想，哪怕漂流海外，哪怕孤身只影……这不是第一次了，不是吗？

明天睡醒，你又放下了一个包袱，又可以更快速的向目标迈进。你可以的，我相信，你可以……

Let Your Dreams Soar!

Few days ago, I went to cinema for "High School Musical3". Apart from the beautiful choreography, what touches my heart is the part when Troy struggling in deciding his path.

Playing basketball in University of Albuquerque, is not only his dream since childhood, but also his father's dream and his best pal Chad's wish. However, when he was given an opportunity to win the scholarship offered by a famous dancing school, Julliard, and got involved to stage a spring musical, he found his passion for theatre that lies within his heart. After an inner struggle between his father's dream and his own choice, he finally decided to go to the University of California where he can play basketball, study theatre and be close to his lover, Garbriella.

I can't help but keep thinking if I'm on the right track now. I thought of the poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost, one of my favourites since high school. "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both, And be one traveler, long I stood, And looked down one as far as I could..."

Unlike Robert Frost, I always took the road most people travelled, because I felt more secured. I was never firm in deciding the road to take, like got into Form 6 because that's the safest option; took Biomedical Sciences in UPM because I studied Biology and that's the best option offered. And I always thought that I was forced to get into sales line because I have no choice due to family financial crisis. But deep inside, I always felt that I shall be doing something that I'm passionate with as my carreer, not just doing a job.

The problem is, there is so many things that I'm fond of. Singing, dancing, playing musical instruments, public speaking, debating, writing; anything about music, science, politics, etc... But I'm never an expert in any. So which one shall I choose?

I then remembered one of the points shared by Brian Tracy during his seminar, one of the qualities of self-made millionaires is to do what you love to do. If you do not know what you love to do, like me, according to him, try to figure out what did you love doing during the age between 7 to 14 years old, that is what you love to do!

Those things that you love to do, is those that you have natural talents in it. He quoted from Michael Jordan that "Everybody has talents, but ability needs hard work."

So I begin to think back what I enjoyed doing when I was 7 to 14, and I got the answer. Now, with the destination in my mind, I'm no longer a boat without a sail, and I believe, together with the focused effort and determination plus the rest of the recipe of success, someday my dream will come true.

I've found mine, have you found yours?

急迫性偏执狂？

最经常听人对我说：“你很像又瘦了。”这句话出自久未见面的大学朋友，我已习以为常。但是那天才两个月没见面的朋友也这么说，我不知道该开心还是伤心。毕竟增肥让自己好看一些是我的目标，我也一直“厚待”我的胃，正餐后再甜品，是人生享受，可还是不长肉。应该不是蛔虫作祟，是工作压力吧。

工作挑战一波未平，一波又起。尤其明天是十月closing，这几天亡命追sales追到很累。我的target明明是quarterly target，这个月closing并不会为我带来incentive，可我还是得拼了老命似的hit我的EA。轰炸式的短讯伊媚儿，排山倒海的上头压力，有的没的paperwork（省略）……我是很烦躁，可是同时我又有一点点的享受，享受这种忙得透不过气，与时间赛跑的滋味。

我不禁想起Stephen Covey在 《与时间有约》 第二章中提及的“急迫性偏执”，“患者”习惯于处理突发状况时潜力大发的感觉，到后来期待突发状况的发生，以从中获得刺激与力量。当解决一件重要而迫切的事情后，心里会升起短暂的成就感，当重要性消失时，才了解追求一切显得迫切的事情，仿佛只是为了不让自己闲下来，从忙碌中找到成就感、安全感，以忙碌暂时填补空虚。结果，无法思索生命中最重要的是什么，警觉时自己已成为了急事的奴隶。

检验一下自己，好像真的有这样的“病征”呢！ @@ 要快点“自疗”了。 希望有一天当有人问我：“最近很忙吗？”，我的回答会是：“我不忙，但我过得很充实！”

又要搬迁了……

自去年毕业出来社会工作后，我已经搬了两次家，现在我又得再搬了……

虽然许多朋友都曾劝我搬离USJ这个塞车黑区，但是有了一次恐怖housemate的经验，我宁可继续呆在这里。虽然交通经常拥挤，但至少这间屋子的住户人品都不错。只可惜，我还是得搬迁。因为master买了新房子，所以年尾要搬了。而我们，谁也不想当master，所以也得搬。

唉，找房事小，看着堆积如山的东西，刚买的厚厚的床褥，经过多次拆装后有点坏的电脑桌，还不知道要怎么搬……

又要搬迁了，又要适应新环境，又要重新认识新屋友，很显……