MJ This Is It

It seems our late legend MJ is creating another new trend even after leaving the fans worldwide.

The making of grand concerts can be sold into a new form of cinematic experience if carefully directed and edited.

Imagine the possibility of grand concert experience made personalized, a little less artificial, a bit of your idol's back stage personality, combination of both stage aesthetics and screen productions.

And most of all, all at a small fraction or an original concert price! and for those who could not get the tickets to the main event, this could be an alternative venue and for those especially who loved the artist and the productions but can barely take the wild crowds in the concert, this may be a better option.

Well i'd watched the movie and i find it better than expected and it's somewhat like a musical, with nice songs and fantastic dancers~

Law Abiding Citizen

what will you do when a misfortune happened to your life so brutal you can never imagine?

will it add to the pain and disbelief if you were all the while the best man or woman in town doing everything the most righteous ways?

maybe this movie will teach us to not every misfortune too logically..

and never underestimate the power or the will of one individual especially when he or she has nothing to lose.

and the best part of all might still be the ending, what i derived from it: you might be right about most of the things, but you will never be right about everything, and perhaps one should never be too extreme in his or her pursuit in life.

what do you think of the movie?

would like to know your points of view ^^

Goodwill Hunting

yeah perhaps that's really it. life might not be about engaging into what you do best. it's about finding a solid reason to live. and that might not happen until you find a soulmate or a subject of interest that makes you want so much more out of your every minute alive.

"it's not your fault. it's not your fault. it's not your fault.." i like that part. even the strongest or most defensive person has a past that might be blocking him or her from getting out of his or her comfort zone and risk losing everything for that something that matters..

"what do you want to do?", "go get it son." aww isn't that the best statement to get from the one you loved and cared about? just makes you so defensive when deep in your heart you don't believe you'll ever get the blessing..

"Chuckie: Every day I come by your house and I pick you up. And we go out. We have a few drinks, and a few laughs, and it's great. But you know what the best part of my day is? For about ten seconds, from when I pull up to the curb and when I get to your door, 'cause I think, maybe I'll get up there and I'll knock on the door and you won't be there. No goodbye. No see you later. No nothing. You just left. I don't know much, but I know that." - i really can't imagine myself that great as a buddy, a friend, a brother or a parent or teacher. and that's really the greatest thing a real friend, a parent or a special someone can do for you.

not a superb movie, but a couple of lines that could be meaningful.

check out the meaningful quotes from Goodwill Hunting at

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119217/quotes

Homeless to Harvard

A really inspiring movie inspired by real story of a young lady by the name of Liz Murray.

A 16year old girl who lived a torn life with a mom who was a drug addict, alcoholic, had schizophrenia and AIDs; struggled through life alone from little to no education and having to take care of her mum and hanging around people who see no lights in future because there is nobody by their side to encourage and motivate them to live for any purposes.

She made a difference when she lost everything including her mother who she had to babysit and started to make a resolution to work as hard as she can and see what changes she can make to her life. And she made it to the prestigious Harvard University at age 20.

Watch it and i guarantee you will cry. But it is a success story that inspires people to believe in making a difference. =)

Connecting with Kauffman event in Gardens~

it was a fruitful 2 hours event!

thanks again especially to Michael Teoh for organizing such wonderful entrepreneurial event with great speakers to share so much in such short frame of time! cool~ never been to such concise talk before so far. of course not to forget Daniel, the co-founder for Youth Entrepreneurs Malaysia alongside Michael. to honor the speakers of the day we have Michael Levin from Kauffman Foundation, Dash, Roshan from Leaderonomics and Sabri, UPM ex student council chairman.

so below are some of the gist i learned for the day. hope you can pick up something too.

imagine Kauffman who was a farm boy from Kansas made it his way to become an entrepreneur who founded The Kauffman Entrepreneurial Foundation for USD 700million!




below are some keywords and pointers to becoming an entrepreneur:
1. the 3 main motivations for entrepreneurship:
a) hunger for cash
b) hunger for change
c) hunger for green
d) others

2. the beginning of entrepreneurship: what are the things to do?
a) do something old in new ways?
b) do something completely new?

3. the characteristics/ similarities of a leading entrepreneur:
a) functional mastery (deep rooted mastery in something)
b) personal effectiveness (the act, walk and talk alignment)
c) business senses (intuitive, foresight and ability to link upcoming events/ trends)
d) leadership/ personal credibility (be it humble or assertive, talk or listen, it's not the exact trait but about when you use that trait, the sound decision making ability)

4. key challenges to entrepreneurship:
a) experience in the industry
b) building a management that can last

5. a few examples of critical failure experience:
a) error in judgment when stocking up too much stock and ended up obsolete when major new trends came.
b) not turning up for an invitation to something or someone you particularly look forward to.

6. questions to ponder:
a) what is the leader of 21st century going to be like?
b) what is your purpose in life?
c) am i relevant?
d) how long do you want to remain under radar? when do you want to rise up to the global level and push your word out there?

7. quote of the day:
a) want something? go get it!

8. the making of an entrepreneur:
a) screening process to grab potentials
(eg: sportsman are not born or made, you can teach skills but not speed)
b) cultivate awareness
(eg: 4 year old football kids are taught the skill of anticipation and 16 year old star footballer is produced yearly.)
c) the art of perception
(stay hungry and stay foolish. don't compare, have a point of view.)
d) entrepreneur has to be hungry wolf.

9. perception of whether practice or theoretical learning is more effective has little importance. it is the pleasure of the learning process that matters! eg: a study was once taken to give 2 groups of tennis players training. 1 group given purely practice while another group purely theoretical teaching. and the ones who watch beat the ones who play!)

10. some things to ponder:
a) how much you enjoy?
b) personal choices
c) exception to the rules
d) the free paid training obtained when working for companies.
e) the loading: failure practices increases probability of success.
f) your trigger factor to be an entrepreneur
g) education and academics should be for learning and not to get a job.
h) courses on "commercializing of ideas".
i) engaging cultures.
j) are we creating "cozy" entrepreneurs?
k) the art of grant seeking. (venture capitalist companies)
l) entrepreneurial purpose vs entrepreneurial privilege
m) growth changes, internalize possibilities

11. entrepreneurial spirit:
- doing something your way because no such avenues exist in the market and the desire to prove your way is right.

12. finally,
- do you love the sense of being a part of... ...




do check out http://www.entrepreneurs.my/

Want to Change Your Life for the Better?

i just came across 3 very interesting sites today.


http://entrepreneur.com









http://definitionofwellness.com







and

http://lifeorganizers.com



do take some time to check them out if you are interested in making your life better and taking charge of your wellbeing and helping the people around you.

i will blog about it later when have time to pick out the gist.

Biz vs. Employment

sometimes i wonder why so many of my peers are convinced about the bright future they can make by engaging in businesses and yet they conformed to the rule of the game in society -- securing your future by being employed.

yes there is no doubt that you need capital to start a business, you need opportunities as to what products or services of value can you provide, you need networks of talented people to work with to operate and materialize your concept of business, and last but not least your capacity to undertake risks and persistence to endure the hardship and challenges you are abound to face!

sometimes i wonder which notion is fact and which is crab. are employers bad and exploitative or are employees lackadaisical and unproductive? or it is the society's fault to have devised a system that matches the wrong people to the wrong value propositions?

have you the belief that everyone is gifted to perform or carry a certain value or a certain set of values to this society to substitute another human's lacking? and yet those unknown values are not promoted simply because the society's system is preoccupied with quantifying values with existing job descriptions and monetary rewards!

sometimes it feels as if it is the failure of education system to empower young people to think on their own and dare to make a difference by going against the tide and form a new value proposition for the society. so it seems on the surface education would be the best option to engage in to make a change. but then there is so many rules and system in education that is dictated by politicians who understand little about education and perhaps led by monetary or industrial influences, and so the gap of rich and poor continues to widen. is there ever a possibility of change you might ask.

thinking otherwise, employers are not so bad afterall. because they are willing to risk taking you in and paying you a fix amount of salary when you are new and learning and yet to contribute to their bottom lines. whereas as a new staff, who are you to demand for security when you are not contributing an awesome job? be reminded that you are a cost to the company! well perhaps a cost that is potentially an asset rather than a liability. so your boss took risk! and so he deserves the power to rule over you! is that right? well at least we do have employee rights and laws to mandate them from exploitation.

rule number 1 in investment states that the higher the risk you assume, the higher your potential returns. and as employees most of us are taught to be risk-averse and tied to our seats and condemned to the belief that security is what we get when we continually serve our bosses. but what does our bosses think in return? unfortunately they think of how they can leverage their investments by using us. we might be comrades or friends but at the end of the day we are just a quantifiable asset or commodity to our bosses. we are as much as we can make money for our companies! we are not indispensable or irreplaceable!

then comes another general perspective. many people are happy go lucky kind of people. we want to be happy and we want to enjoy life to the fullest and work least or if possible don't work at all. how nice if i can enjoy life and not work? but is that possible? everything comes with a cost. if not then how do the society function? that is precisely why the employers gain the rights to wield their power wands over us! dictate us and rule us! we can't fault them can we? afterall we gave them the power to abuse us since we abuse our rights to security. we all have certain responsibilities to assume anyhow no matter who we are. the rich owes a greater responsibility to taxes and charity too don't they? the only difference is whether you gain where you want by a righteous way or a wrong one.

and how do you find yourself fitting into an existing value proposition in the society?

do you have a solution to this phenomenon?

do take note that the world does evolve, just that it is evolving in a rate you can hardly notice when you are immersed into your own perceived world.

some of us are still sitting aside watching the global phenomenon as if it is a movie scripted by directors, and so sitting calmly in denial assuming that we are not a part of the system. are we? are everyone of us a part of one big system? are everyone of us obligated to uplift the other and do what we can to help another? is the global world really evolving towards the making of One Community?

do read on my next upcoming blog if you have the same queries.

and please do share your views if you have any. i would love to learn from you. =)

to be continued, perhaps with an evolving solution..