Be inspired!

Long time since the last post was a video
Well.. this song i encoutered...really meaningful!
There is nothing to fear! Push on! Go on!
And truly life is beautiful..
This is dedicated to my Dear too.. be tough and strong
Will be back soon enough!



Lyrics (really wonderful!):

Dear you,
who's reading this letter
where are you and what are you doing now?

For me who's 15 years old
there are seeds of worries I can't tell anyone

If it's a letter addreswsed to my future self
Surely I can confide truly to myself

Now, it seems that I'm about to be defeated and cry
for someone who's seemingly about to disappear
whose words should I believe in?
This one-and-only heart has been broken so many times
in the midst of this pain, I live in the present

Dear you,
thank you
I have something to tell the 15 year old you

If you continue asking what and where you should be going
you'll be able to see the answer

The rough seas of youth may be tough
but row your boat of dreams on
towards the shores of tomorrow

Now, please don't be defeated and please don't shed a tear
during these times when you're seemingly about to disappear
just believe in your own voice
for me as an adult, there are sleepless nights when I'm hurt
but I'm living the bittersweet present

*clap clap

There's meaning to everything in life
so build your dreams without fear
keep on believing

Seems like I'm about to be defeated and cry
for someone who's seemingly about to disappear
whose words should I believe in?

Please don't be defeated and please don't shed a tear
during these times when you're seemingly about to disappear
just believe in your own voice

No matter what era we're in
there's no running away from sorrow
so show your smile, and go on living the present
go on living the present

Dear you,
who's reading this letter
i wish you happiness

Snapshots on World Environment Day

World Environment Day

It is world environment day..
But, all seems normal to me..what so special about it?
Maybe the general public weren't even realize it is a special day.
People goes to work with their cars as usual, polluting industry carry on..

SO WHAT?

perhaps it is true wat Dr Lee said,"Too many days la.. earth day la, world environment day la." MinFey even said we should have "White Coffin Day". Then the 'motorolans' will come anc chase us out!

ChernChung, MinFey, ChinYee and me got lost finding our way to a housing estate development area in the south of Penang island. Searched almost 45 minutes. Is it difficult to find the place? Sure is when u catch the wrong information. No big deal, call Charlie's Angel! in this case is LikMeng's Angel (her name really is ANGEL!). With the help of Google.. TADAAA we are there.

There is a small celebration to mark World Environment Day by the land developer. Crowd prescence? 100-150.. Good? they said there will be 500! talk big eh? Dr Lee was invited to speak.. what else? White Coffin lo...zero waste lo...then ultimately choosing a greener life.. Heard that the projector was shitty..have to present only oral and a few flinging packaging!


Still can talk without slides...and sweating!


At the end of the ceremomy, guess what? I had cultural shock. Hey! Should I? They are giving away free plants. Can u imagine the scene? ya..your right... people rushing like mad to the place to collect them..can even see children and their parents racing each other.. how pethatic eh. Cant blame.. it is already rooted in our culture of taking whatever is free.. shamful! wasteful! too much consumption for me. Then after taking the gift..what's next? of course...FREE FOOD! nothing else attracts the crowd most eh.

Then we had the famous beef noodle...Dr Lee checking? what else...what type plastic lo the bottle is..give ChinYee a fright! hehehe



By the way, heard from the radio that Penang government BANNED plastic bags every Monday..Chief Minister Lim said it is the first effort ever in the country to do so and gettin cooperation from major departmental stores..
So what is your comment?

How about other small stalls selling stuffs? No ban? Other days revert to the dirty habit using plastic? Or worse take more plastic as they missed Monday's thrash bag?
Start small? In hope to ripple the effect to other days? What kind of inforcement? Are the people ready? Are they given ample time to switch? Enough information sent to get people really understand?

ill wait and see their next move.





abe

p/s: CM lim already signed the white coffin pledge..check out the pictures.. USM will keep an eye on him. Better mean what he says!


the evidence..looking good there CC.

USM did it again?

Well...looks like USM once again in the 'blue ocean'.
The first ever university to screw up admission name list.
For me, there is too much of hidden processes and stories kept floating.

Firstly, such blunder cannot be accepted. NO WAY! How can you mess up such an important job? Maybe the officer or clerk givent the task of uplaoding the list didn't even care to pay attention or just not competent to think before their actions. This is in the sense that i presume the namelist should have pass through a lot of officers and departments for screening before it is released (then again, i dont understand why everything must be done so secretive!)

This is not about APEX or not. Is about competency. It is not that crucial whether this mistake was done by an APEX university or not, but no one should have did such 'obvious' and 'silly' mistake. A complete open target for people to shoot!

Now USM is under enormous pressure and monitoring. This event had sparked a lot of quetions again. I HAD confidence when USM embarked on the APEX journey. A journey of transperancy, profesionalism, competency and equity. Now incoming student is distressed, parents distrust the university's system, other university making us a laughing stock, poor Prof Shukri facing pressure to step down. Where is our mighty Tan Sri VC? Being Silent is not good enough.

He once said that blue ocean strategy is about the future. i agree totally.
He said we shouldn't be struggling and solving issues of the past. i agree.
But see what is happening now? Is this not enough to tell him that solving these current issue is prior before we can even think about the future?

Secondly, does USM deserve a second chance? Can the university given a chance to really explain themselves? YES! they must! Failing is a way of learning. No matter how messy it is, there is always something to learn about. I think this event is really big enough to give a wake up call for USM that things must be change if you really wanted people to convinced that you are the APEX university. No one in the university can be excluded. Down right to the most junior clerk to the most senior registrar. The whole concept of APEX is about paradigm shift. Working the way we are doing it like the pass 40 years isn't gonna take us to APEX. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! When are we seriously going to focus?

All talking and waiting for documents to emerge is only all on papers. Enough of talking. Enough of searching where we want to put ourselves.
Am thinking..if USM is not under the APEX programme, will we get so much attention with such blunder? Will we make it in the frontpage of the mainstream papers with such blunder? i wonder! Im still with you USM..

abe