27th December 2005

Stop waiting for signs and signals from above or below. Tune into what's inside. Everyone's heart beats to a desire and an ambition so strong like a forest raging fire. Yet, because we are living on cold, clueless Pluto we cannot feel the heat! Try to orbit closer, and experience the warmth of an infinite expanse of possibilities...as vast as the Amazon forest! When you're done, to avoid jettisoning back into outer space, write down how you felt...Yes! It is as simple as that.

Be bold so that you can write down whatever you want to be, wherever you want to go. Be specific so that you can actually feel the event already occurring. Be a little vague so that those out of the blue surprises can slowly trickle through to tickle and amuse. Write more than one page, or if you are a one page summary kind of fussy Dilbert executive, write on a really large page. Avoid making a list of goals. This is NOT a to-do kind of list. This is NOT a list. This is a story of an adventure already lived.

If you're the shy type, keep this story to yourself. Yet, I assure you, if the story is really compelling, you would be dying to tell it. The confidence to do so will come with time. Like a movie trailer, reveal certain facets of this adventure. The highlights, part of the climax, the resilience through the downs, the pride through the ups, and the gratefulness through it all. Reveal through your actions, your speech, your thoughts. Immerse the today in your movie. 24-7, your being must market and promote this movie. Through the unfair criticisms, through the thumbs up reviews of totally blown away journalists, through what's actually happening at the box office...through it all, the world must watch your movie, because this is probably the last movie you'll ever make.

So much for being shy.

PS: Starting from today, I will endeavour to reveal the source of my inspiration for these very sporadic and random Outpours. Unless you have read the Da Vinci Code a million times, you'll probably never get the link. Nevertheless, if you REALLY did want to know, you could always ask. Have a Happy Crazy NEW YEAR!! :)

Inspired By http://www.nikefootball.com

21st November 2005

On the wall facing your bed, stick this message, in those cool neon glow-in-the dark colours, so that this is the last thing you read at night and the first thing you read in the morning:

Today I will aim for the mighty tiger and not a lame goat. My hunting ground is vast, so let me circumnavigate 45,000 kilometres, in search of the greatest need that warrants my attention, that urgently seeks to be hit by my ultimate weapon, that of selfless love and selfless service.

If today I have dreamt of ambitions and goals, worthy of a lion king's glory, and in any felt let down by circumstances out of my control, let me be content because I would rather aim for a tiger and lose than aim for a lame goat and win everytime.

Eventually every action of mine everyday will be driven and motivated by the highest goal Man is ever capable of achieving. If every day, I operate at such a level, how do you think I would be feeling?

If the wall facing your bed isn't that big, I'm sure the above can be summarised. Suggestions welcome! Please leave your brilliant one liners and share them right here!

Hunt Away!

13th November 2005

Seek positive inspiration from anything and everything. With the blessings of Mother Nature, inform dear Katrina that you would like to take the world by storm too. From the desk of the film editor, learn that the climax and happy ending would not be complete without frame 13, part of that dreaded scene when you lost faith in yourself. From those stories in Forbes and Business Week, be rest assured that everything is to be gained from the tiniest first sacrifice, and nothing ever lost from the biggest that is yet come. The world is a stage and to perform well, to feel your true character, you do need the feedback of other actors. But don't forget the props, the little things in the background that make everything so real and meaningful.

23rd October 2005

I am against some odds, with an irrational fear nagging away at the back of mind, there are endless hours of work, an uncertain future, plus no exercise with plenty of gluttony instead.

You hope there could be a plan for everything, even a plan to do something if some plan did not work. Then there is the past that you loved and now rue leaving behind, and the present that overwhelms. All 3 time-linear realities are either impractical or undesirable. And then something tells you that every step you took, are taking and will take has been bringing you a step closer to your ultimate reality. Those ambitions you ever harboured, those dreams you ever had, that closeness you ever felt with someone, all of these things that make up your ultimate truth, your ultimate reality...you must believe that to reach it, it will take one step at a time.

26th September 2005

Please let me be behind this curtain. Please do not lift this curtain. Please understand that if you lift this curtain, there will be chaos. Look, these eyes will be locked and my lips tenderly sealed. Please, you've got what you never really tried hoping for. You've found what you never really set out to seek. Please do not lift this curtain. Oh god, my dear friend, understand that you must wait a little longer. Please, otherwise there will be chaos.