Episode 2: Are you a hero?

My definition of a great movie is that it can ignite your soul, your heart, and your compassion. At my young age, I love watching action movies, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Scwarzeneg. The amazing about these action movies is that it makes people think that, we could be a hero in real life too, the winner always the hero, that's why people want to be a hero, not a villain.

When I grew up, I barely watched action movies, not because I don't like them anymore. I realized that most of us have a shallow definition of a hero. My definition of a hero is an independent, a problem-solver, full of sympathy, have a warrior spirit, a leader, a good listener, a good communicator, hard-working, courage to fight for something, and the most important is to have self-improvement spirit. 

As you can see, it's very simple to be your own hero. A hero doesn't mean just fighting. Everyone is a hero of themselves, do not underestimate your capability what you can do, always have a faith to believe yourself you can do anything with a hero spirit. 

Life is getting harder and harder, what holds our faith is that we must believe in ourselves, in many times we will feel down, feel desperate, feel helpless, feel hopeless, and feel give up. But remember, there are not only the choices to feel negativity, you can have the choice to be positive to face adversities, as a matter of fact, turning out negativity into positivity will make you stronger to conquer every difficulty in life. So remember, the behind of every success story is adversity, struggle, and fear.   

To be successful in life, try to be your own hero.

Episode 1: Documentary

The idea of documenting my life came into my mind because I want to write down the things that wander in my mind, the things that I learned, my feelings, opinions, self-consciousness, etc. To transform into self-improvement, to be able to find out my goals, my targets, and most importantly is I want to know more about myself. 

It is a process of knowing myself, searching for my strengths and weaknesses, and improving to be the best version of myself.

I think documenting it down every week or twice a week would be a great way. At my young age, I had a sense of self-improvement always made sure that I could learn something in everyday life. I had that desire in my heart to learn something, I wanted to master one thing and be able to make my parents proud of it, but I failed. 

Then, I found out that I failed every time because I naively thought that the outcome should come overnight. Everything I did, I lacked perseverance, persistence, and confidence. I was afraid of how people would think about me doing the things I loved, I cared about their feelings, I wanted to impress people I don't really care about. All these negativities led me to failure, led me to nothing, those people I cared too much about were just my fear, doubt, and insecurity which led me to low confidence. 

For any reason, I want to change badly, improve, and correct my mind so that I can conquer the fears, doubts, and insecurities inside my mind. I believe documenting could help me, in other words, it's like self-talk, to think deeply and search for my 'Kaizen' and 'Ikigai'.

In fact, I believe finding what's the purpose in life is in everyone's mind. With self-improvement, I truly hope that we all can find out our lifelong target and goal.

Self-Improvement

 

Jasper was our General Manager, it's a waste that our management wasn't able to keep the best employee in the company. I remembered the first day Jasper joined the company, my first impression was that he looked young and naively thought that was this the right person to be our general manager? At the end of the day, Jasper's performances and vast experiences conquered me. 

He is an articulate person, clear-sighted, confident man, and humble. 

Although our connection is not close, I admired his ability and capability deeply in my heart. In his last week of service, he taught and explained the importance of presentation skills in order to further our career development. He sincerely reminds us that we should keep improving and learning to become the best version of ourselves.  

I greatly appreciated his lessons.

At last, I wish the good person all the best in everything in life and future endeavors. 

Bloody Hell 30%!

 

'Rental will be increased when the contract ends in March,' the owner told us.

I was shocked and thought, 'Bloody hell, 30%! Why is it rise so dramatically!' I would rather buy a house in Malaysia.

We tried to negotiate to go down by 20%, unfortunately, our offer was turned down. At that moment, we have to look for a new room immediately.

For me, it was a tormenting process and I hated this endless cycle to find a room and move new place every single year. 

In 3 weeks' time, we were afraid of missing out on every opportunity, we searched over and over again. There were several rooms that caught our eyeball but they rented out so quickly.

When you've desperately wanted something, you would think of worse scenarios. I would think of sharing a toilet with strangers, sharing a dining area, and might not have my own freedom anymore.

With pure luck, I saw a new post and clicked into it to find out more information about the common room. Lucky enough, the owner wanted to rent out the whole unit. I quickly dropped a message to make an appointment for viewing. Again with pure luck, it's the first time that owner is willing to rent out, and I will be the first tenant.

We had made a deal, I would say the rental is a bit higher than the market price but it's reasonable.

Eventually, we are quite satisfied with the unit, spacious rooms, clean, big fridge, king-size bed, sofas, etc. 

Equally important, the freedoms.