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Manifesto

What’s the meaning of life? This is mine, what’s yours?

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I believe we all have a purpose in life. Some of us may already found the reason to live, some of us not. Whatever it may be, don’t stop searching because life is short, make it count.

Here’s the meaning of my life – to inspire/help/guide others with what I’ve been given.

Below are some testimonies I’ve gathered in a short first 2 weeks of 2012.

“Life is beautiful when you’ve found your purpose.”

Update
My friend was kind enough to tag me in a picture he found online which perfectly suits my meaning of life.

Manifesto

When do you deserve to love and be loved in return?

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You may be single or attached or heart-broken or trying to recover from a sour relationship as you’re reading this. But what you’re going to read here applies to everyone.

The only time you deserve to love and be loved in return is when you know what you’re doing with your life. True love isn’t just about the looks or the money. That is as shallow as any relationship can get. You might even argue with me that there are elements like being truthful, being earnest, being forgiving, being caring and all but true love only happens when you learn how to respect and admire the unique individual for who they are genuinely and what they do best with their life.

No one, and I mean no one would be truly in love with a person who beg for love and forgiveness. That is just loving out of sympathy, nothing more and nothing less. The day you have learn how to focus your energy in doing what you do best is the day everyone would see it and admire you for who you are. Humans can be blinded by love but we are no fool in recognizing what lies beneath that mask. We just choose to have faith and hope even though we could spot the ill patterns from experience. This will surely one day exhaust itself and he/she will wake up one day and realize why am I still sticking to this joker with multiple mask for? Who was I loving all these while?

So don’t waste your time chasing for love and companionship if you can’t focus on yourself individually. You don’t deserve love and be loved in return if you can’t be the best you can be in this life time. Go that extra mile and gain that respect and admiration and soon enough you’ll realize that you not only love yourself more, you are also a truly happy person. This will then make you worthy of loving someone and be loved in return.

“You don’t deserve love if you can’t focus on yourself. The day you focus on yourself is the day everyone would respect, admire and love you for what you do best with your life.”

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Silver Screen

Don’t watch it! Drive 2011

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Ratings for this movie is at a stunning 8.1 stars on IMDB and 79% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes. If you’re all about numbers then you would definitely watch this movie but my title here is telling you otherwise. It’s ridiculously overrated! To be fair, I did feel a little emotional attachment with the great cinematography that draws you closer to the movie. I felt the movie was fantastic for a moment. But after a day of thought, the movie is a disappointment. I want my 2 hours back!

Trailer Vibe
The trailer give this movie off as the type of movie where you would expect lots of cool pumped-up action driving scenes with Ryan Gosling. Carey Mulligan seems to have a romantic connection with Ryan Gosling and multiple sideline stories seem interesting enough to explore the movie. Overall, the perception of the movie is a fast-paced action type of show.

Action movie goer perspective
You will be immediately thrown off by the fuchsia pink of the opening credits. You thought some cool jagged-edged title is gonna flash across the screen and disappear as soon as the car chasing scene starts. It did still managed to build up the tense moments during the first chapter but you will be completely turned off as the remaining ultra slow scenes unfold for the next few chapters. You’ll be dreaded to wonder where did all those action scenes went to from the trailer you saw. The uncalled for violence and uninspiring story leaves you ponder what else is beneath this movie without it. Sure it has style, but there’s no substance.

To summarize, it’s painfully slow, unimaginative film blanketed by loud music and blood capsules.

Artistic movie lover perspective
Ryan Gosling did a good job in portraying the silent cool character speaking only when necessary. Scenes where you could feel the tension and fury in his eyes as well as silence that brought the caring and ridiculously though side. The scenes unfold slowly as the emotion sinks deeper and deeper into your heart. A skill the director has put in this film to grab hold of you and takes you inside this often dark and dreamy LA setting. It has beautiful cinematography but what is it without a great plot?

To summarize, retro action with style but portrait a blank canvas in the end.

Conclusion
It’s good but far from a great movie.

Manifesto

World is a Stage now has an icon for your iOS home screen + how to create it.

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See that awesome icon. Let me teach you how to add it onto your home screen!

Step 1:
Visit https://jameslsy.com with your iOS device and click on the lower middle button.

Step 2:
Select ‘Add to Home Screen’

Step 3:
Entire desired name because ‘World is a Stage’ is just simply too long for the iOS home screen.

How to create it for my website?
Creating this icon is pretty easy. All you need is your favorite graphic editor.

1. Create a 114px x114px icon in PNG format. This is a retina screen proof icon size. You can get away with 72px x 72px for iPads and 57px x57px for other iOS devices. (always 72dpi and you don’t have to worry about the corners and the iconic reflective shine, iOS does it for you!)

2. Name this icon ‘apple-touch-icon.png’

3. Put this file in your root folder of your website or in your HTML add this line if you decided to name your icon differently <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/your-custom-icon.png"/>

Manifesto

When we fall in love again, do we love better or worst?

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First Love
I want you to unwind back to your first love. Who was him/her? It felt perfect didn’t it? It feels 100% because everything was for the very first time. There was nothing, no one else to compare it with. But what if the first love didn’t worked out as planned? You had to pick up a new love. The soul tie that was formed previously with your first love has to be cut. Could it be cut completely, or will there always be a thin line holding each others heart? (Admit if you will that there will always be a little soft spot for the first love as kryptonites are to Superman.)

Below are 2 theories on loving better or worst after a complete clean breakup.

Loving Worst
Because the soul ties are not completely cut away from the first love, therefore we are not able to form complete soul ties with the next partnership. The second love could only experience 90% of what’s left from the first love because the remaining 10% is forever with the first love. I could not imagine what’s gonna happen for the remaining lovers if the second or third one fails. The more we love the more soul ties we form and the less is given because now the love of 100% is divided.

Loving Better
Even with the soul ties attached to the first love. We are able to love more. This is because our hearts heal, what doesn’t kill us only makes us stronger. And because it heals, we are able to give a complete 100% or 110%. The more we have loved the better we are at understanding ourselves and our partners. Our hearts have infinite love if only you choose to unlock it. And with each new lover, our love will always flow like a river endlessly to a new found love because that’s where hope is found.

Conclusion
We always love better. Even when we are afraid of getting hurt again in a second relationship. The reserved heart will open up the moment we realize our lover is giving their all sincerely. All doubts will be lifted and you will choose again to love with all you have and even more because our hearts do heal.

“Our hearts have infinite love if only you choose to unlock it.”

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Manifesto

Subliminal messages from my dreaming self.

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Most people dream in first person view. They are seeing things unfold from their own perspective. There are also some who dream from a third person point of view where they see themselves from a distance. But rarely do people dream about themselves interacting with oneself.

Pre-dream
I woke up at 7.30am after an early night of sleep. The weather was beautiful and I could hear the birds chirping happily away. Before I freshen myself up, I decided to go the the fridge first. Took an apple and munched away till the very last bit while replying some emails. Threw the apple and head for the showers. After putting on some clothes, I proceed to read some news and my eyes seems like they are dropping. I fall flat on my pillow with my body facing downwards and doze away.

The Dream
The dream started abruptly as I could see myself lying down on the bed from a first person point of view. The dream me then started to wake the sleep me literally by planting both hands on my shoulder trying to peel myself off the bed like a banana peel. The dream me was trying so hard I could feel my shoulder muscles tensed up. I woke up immediately after that.

Interpretation
1. I guess the dream me is trying to tell the sleep me that I’ve been sleeping too much and I should wake up.

2. Unconsciously I’m trying to tell myself that I should wake up from my bitterness and stop being bitter over nothing.

World Stage

What I concluded from a 3 year old McD fries vs KFC fries science experiment.

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Fries were left in unopened Mason jars for three years.

Conclusion
“If we eat enough McDonald fries for the rest of our lives, our body will never rot when we die.”

Poem

Bitter heart bitter heart, why are you bitter?

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The news came and painted my heart blue,
I thought I heard wrongly but it’s true.
There were feelings for her that grew,
bitter heart bitter heart, I hate you.

All the things we said to do and play,
I don’t blame her or felt betrayed.
Knowing that the boat has left the bay,
bitter heart bitter heart, please go away.

We knew the differences altogether,
time flies and we aren’t getting younger.
I’m happy but my heart begs to differ,
bitter heart bitter heart, why are you bitter?

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Manifesto

Before the countdown of 2012.

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Some pictures from New Year’s Eve

Being an Aries, the confident part does show a lot in me. I would claim that every new year would be better than the one before but not this time for 2012. I was reluctant to enter 2012. I know I didn’t have a choice but there was this big clock flashing in my head buzzing me about 2012’s arrival and I didn’t like it. So for days, I’ve ponder upon this matter and came out with a few reasons on my weird instinct about 2012.

I don’t wanna grow old. Funny for a guy who is saying that when he’s just turning 30 and with looks that do not reflect 30 at all. Yeah, but I’ve said it. I don’t wanna grow old.

The bigger picture behind me not wanting to grow old is also because I think that I should’ve achieved more in my life before 30’s. It’s all too late for me to dwell over it but to play catch up and make sure I’m able to achieve the things I’ve envisioned for my life at 30. Reason for me feeling this way is also a stronger influence from a book I’ve finished reading just before 2012, Steve Job’s Biography – he started out from an average family and he achieved so much at 30.

So let’s not sit and wait for 2012 to pass us by. It’s the 8th of 2012 today. 1 week has passed and 47 weeks more to go for us to achieve what we want for this year. I wish you all a Happy New Year and God speed!

Here’s a video of what I think is the greatest fireworks for 2012.

World Stage

7 billion population, why fight over a girl?

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The Earth has 7 billion population. Amongst the 7 billion, over 1 billion are single and eligible females. Why are men still fighting over the same girl?

Throughout my life, I’ve seen numerous examples of guys going after the same girl and often it doesn’t end where the winning guy and the girl walks into the sunset like movies or fairy tales. It mostly end up in blazing flames.

I myself did make a similar mistake. I remembered during my adolescent years, I did fall for the wrong girl and that cost me my best friend who is like a brother to me. (we are still strangers) That lesson was a painful one and since then, I’ve never fought with anyone else over a girl. It’s never worth it. Let me paint you a few scenarios.

The Ego
Ben is an average looking guy who has never dated and decided to try his luck with Ellie. Unfortunately Sam likes Ellie and decides to go for her too at the same time. Ben & Sam tried their best to woo Ellie but Sam decided to let go in the end. Sam gave his blessings and Ellie accepted Ben. Things were good for awhile till Ben started showing his ego. Since he won Ellie over Sam, he felt like he could just get any girl. So Ben ditched Ellie and tried to pursue other girls. Sam is now dating someone else and Ellie is heartbroken.

The Superstar
Ellie is a sweet & kind average looking girl. She was never popular because her best friends are more attractive than her. She seldom gets noticed and she couldn’t care less. Suddenly it all changed when she noticed that 2 of her peers are trying to date her. It was a feeling she has never experience and it felt good, real good. The exciting discovery changed Ellie from the sweet & kind girl into a girl who plays hard to get. Her friends now call her a bitch.

You’ve Changed
Ellie is an elegant woman who is a successful manager who works in a MNC. She wasn’t rushing into any commitment especially when 2 guys named Ben & Sam constantly showers her with gifts, flowers and love.  A year has passed and she figure out who she wants to spend her rest of her life with. After a phone call, Ben is the happiest man alive. Ben was so ecstatic he made sure everyone knows who he was dating, especially after that 1 year long chase. But 6 months later, Ellie broke up with Ben. She said Ben has changed. The gifts, flowers and love was less.

The Trophy
Ben & Sam decided to go after a gorgeous young girl name Ellie whom they both met in a club 6 months ago. Ben & Sam tried their best tricks up their sleeves to win Ellie’s heart. 2 months later, Sam sealed the deal, he would proudly bring Ellie around and wave her around like a trophy. Ben moved on. 4 months later, Sam got bored and decided to go for the cute girl he just met at Starbucks coffee. Sam managed to date the cute girl from Starbucks Coffee but 6 months later, he went after the new neighbor.

Character names have been changed to protect the innocent.

I hope these few scenarios made a point and anyone could get hurt in this game. Be the gentleman and back off for the losers now will later win. Trust me, cause I won.

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