From Neo Mui Kian:
"A PENCIL MAKER TOLD THE PENCIL 5 IMPORTANT LESSONS JUST BEFORE PUTTING IT IN THE BOX :
1.) EVERYTHING YOU DO WILL ALWAYS LEAVE A MARK .
2.) YOU CAN ALWAYS CORRECT THE MISTAKES YOU MAKE.
3.) WHAT IS IMPORTANT IS WHAT IS INSIDE OF YOU.
4.) IN LIFE , YOU WILL UNDERGO PAINFUL SHARPENINGS, WHICH WILL ONLY MAKE YOU BETTER.
5.) TO BE THE BEST PENCIL, YOU MUST ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE HELD AND GUIDED BY THE HAND THAT HOLDS YOU.
We all need to be constantly sharpened. This parable may encourage you to know that you are a special person, with unique talents and abilities. Only you can fulfill the purpose which you were born to accomplish. Never allow yourself to get discouraged and think that your life is insignificant and cannot be changed and, like the pencil, always remember that the most important part of who you are, is what's inside of you."
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Another inspiring sharing from Neo Mui Kian:
"Perspectives
A business executive was deep in debt and could see no way out.
Creditors were closing in on him. Suppliers were demanding payment.
He sat on the park bench, head in hands, wondering if anything could save
his company from bankruptcy.
Suddenly an old man appeared before him.
"I can see that something is troubling you," he said.
After listening to the executive's woes, the old man said,
"I believe I can help you." He asked the man his name,
wrote out a cheque, and pushed it into his hand saying,
"Take this money. meet me here exactly one year from today, and you can
pay me back at that time."
Then, he turned and disappeared as quickly as he had come.
The business executive saw in his hand a cheque for $500,000, signed
by John D.Rockefeller, then one of the richest men in the world!
"I can erase my money worries in an instant!" he realized.
Nonetheless, the executive decided to put the cheque in his safe first.
Just knowing it was there, would give him the strength to work
out a way to save his business, he thought.
With renewed optimism, he negotiated better deals and got extended terms
of payment from creditors.
Soon he could close some big sales. Within a few months, he
was out of debt and making money once again.
Exactly a year later, he returned to the park with that uncashed
cheque. The old man did not appear for some time; yet, the business
executive decided to wait for a while more.
A while later the old man came along the way but seemed to be unmindful
of the business executive. He stopped the old man and was about to hand over the
cheque, with words of thanks, as well as to share his success story.
At the same time, he saw a nurse come running up and grabbing the old
man. "I'm so glad I caught him!" she cried. "I hope he hasn't been
bothering you. He's always escaping from the rest home and telling
people he's John D. Rockefeller." And she led the old man away by the arm.
The astonished executive just stood there, stunned. All year long he'd
been wheeling and dealing, buying and selling, convinced he had half a
million dollars behind him.
Suddenly, he realized that it wasn't the money, real or imagined,
that had turned his life around.
It was his new found confidence that gave him the power to achieve
anything he went after. It was HOPE . Hope given by a passerby.
"Our duty is to encourage anyone in his struggle to live up to his
own highest idea, and strive at the same time, to make the ideal as
near as possible to the truth" - Swami Vivekananda
The role of the passerby s, all that one encounters is key to give that Hope,-
a glimpse of what could be.
For a life lived where the past looks better than the future is a life
lived without HOPE
Its all about perspectives!"
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But the sad but true fact is...ppl wont bother to look at what's inside of u...ppl only choose to judge n condemn me n label me as hideous, poor, fat n dumb monster n despise me!!! ppl wont bother to give a shit abt u if u r of no value to them! this is a damn practical society where ppl will only suck up to those who can help them advance their career or biz! so he wont bother abt u even if u were to die in front of him if u r not an anal-yst or top ceo! u r the lowest lifeform n ur life is worthless to him! he thinks u r juz worthless trash who cant b compared to anyone he knows n u r only qualified to jump off from his building!!!
Btw, i was at a shoe shop at somerset313 yest when there was this tall n skinny gal who thinks she can look down on me cos she was carrying a Chanel handbag n i'm not! btw, y aint she carrying an Hermes if she wanna stand out from the crowd? this type of gal is what my leechie mum would term as "pedestrian"...she would look like one of the many millions of v.ordinary gals in the crowd if u were to strip her of her Chanel handbag! btw, i'm supposed to hav an inferiority complex...so am i supposed to feel more inferior juz bcos i'm not carrying a Chanel bag? i've seen gals carrying Chanel bags who use nets to pay for a cheapo cup of coffee...i dont know how atas that can be! lol ;p
Guess most ppl would have read abt some FT scholar here calling the locals here "dogs"...som self-perceived atas ppl despise us n call us "dogs"? n i need to put up with some atrocious english...well, if u could even consider that english! =.=" btw, i was at this Spanish mass market boutique with the name of a fruit the other day...n i asked this cheena lady to get me a new piece of clothing which i wanted to buy...she ignored me (i dont think i look transparent? or perhaps she thinks i cant even afford to buy 1 cardigan from a Spanish mass market brand???!!!)...but she went to serve customers of a fairer skin-tone...i'm being ostracised here! trust me, i wont b going back to this brand anytime soon! -.-" i dont get this type of shitty treatment at H&M!
There was one instructor at the fitness class n one student...n that one student was me! =.=" checkout the view from the gym o.O looking at fireworks through the windows of the gym on the treadmill alone on a fri nite is a sad thing ya...n i juz did that =(
Emotional scars r the hardest to heal...he condemned me as hideous, poor, fat n dumb monster who cant b compared to anyone he knows n deemed me as only qualified to jump off from his shiti-bank building!!!
Traders r the ones whom i really admire...not those self-perceived atas anal-yst who switched views faster than flipping roti-pratas!
From Digital: "if u listen to anal-yst, u'll be picking up cardboards in ur retirement!"
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