Work and Overtime

When we talk about work, average people work from 8am to 5pm or 9am to 6pm, 5 times a week, some 5 and a half. Minus away lunch, it's about 8 hours a day, 40 - 44 hours a week.

If we spent 8 hours on work, 2 hours on traveling, 2 hrs on meal, 8 hours on sleep, we only left with 4 hours for ourself excluding the misc stuff we do daily. It's only enough to watch 2 dvd.

Some people work late to prove their commitment and loyalty for the company. To me, OT is inefficiency. We are in a world of technology, not production, times don't count like usual way. Work smart not hard. Here's the way I look at OT:

1. Inefficiency
2. Overloaded
3. Acting
4. Bad time management

For point 1, if you are not born with it, you have to work for it, or else you will need some luck. For point 2, it's very common in asia, you have to voice out, if no improvement was made, I suggest it's time to go. For point 3, I suggest you go hollywood if you can act well. For point 4, sometimes it's not your fault, someone screw up the timing, treat this as a challenge, I believe at least you can reduce OT if time is manage well.

Finally, think! Why you work so hard for? I guess must be for a 'reason' (family, money, meaning, etc). If you spend all your time on work, do you have time for the 'reason' you are working for.

*unless your reason for work is to spent all the time you have, then I suggest you give me your money, you don't have time to spent. :P

My Theory on Life

From what I understand, we were not given a choice to live in this world - our parents bring us here.

I think that everyone is born with a piece of paper, and you will hand in your piece of art work at the end of your life. Here's some of the rules:

• You will decide your own theme and colour.
• There's a different deadline for everyone, but you are not suppose to know.
• There will be no undo to whatever you draw, even if you think that it's not nice.

The best way to avoid making mistake is probably don't even start any drawing. Don't be surprised that someone will just hand in a blank paper when they die. There are many people who live life without any direction, when there's no direction, you will be going nowhere.

Life can also be described like a stock market, some stocks have lots of ups and downs, some are like blue chips, consistently steadily up, some neither have ups or down. One thing for sure, no one will enjoy the down. I think the 'down' is to make you appreciate the 'up' next time.

Remember one thing - everyone only live once, so live with colours. Share your theory on life.

'Life is short, live fast and die young'

Money

To me, I think that money is like the 'devil', how much you have, depends on how much you can control it. If you have more than you can control, you may end up being controlled by them. I have seen too many people lost themselves over the 'devil' but don't even realised it, it's sad but true.

Once my friend told me he thinks that those people who spent money will knows how to earn money better then those who don't spent. I told him that I know some people who earn a lot and don't spend. He answered that your money does not belongs to you if you don't spent it, it belongs to the bank or whatever you put your money at. I think it is sort of quite true, what do you think?

Smoking

Smoking is bad for health. Everybody knows that, but why are there still so many people smoking? Smoking may seems like destroying you physically, but it really helps to release some stress (only smokers will understand). If only mental destruction can be determined like physical destruction, quitting smoking will be a real mental damage for smokers. I once tried to quit smoking immediately, but feel like was under depression everyday, I guess I should slow down the process. I think by eating too much unhealthy food, it may kill you as fast as what smoking does.

No matter what, I believe that mind over body. A happy and healthy mind will have a happy and healthy body. If smoking can make you mentally happy, why not? Probably another dark side of me.

Share your thoughts, especially non-smoker out there. ;P

'Dream like you are going to live forever, and live like you are going to die today.'

Love

The most powerful thing in the world is probably love. What's love? I think it's one of the most difficult word to define. It comes and go, some stays, some changed over time, everyone desire for it, many take it for granted. As true love is unconditional, how many of you can do it? - probably everyone can. Love started unconditionally, but time challenges it. Time is the only prove to true love. Once, I saw a mother playing with her baby in a bus, through her eyes, I saw unconditional love.

'Love using your heart, love the soul, don't be blinded by your eyes. Physical appearance may change through time, but the soul will not.'

Do we really need love? Share your thoughts.

Darkness

What is darkness? Define darkness.

Darkness is a place where there's no light - night.

Some say that if you lost your eyes, your world will be complete darkness . I only agree half of it, and I will call this "physical darkness". By losing your eyes, you may have to live in a world with light, but by losing the eyes of your heart, it's when you will be completely darkness. Perhaps it should be called "mentally in darkness".

I think that many people today rely too much on their physical eyes that they forget to open the eyes of their heart. If you close your eyes, you are as good as blind.

'Sunset may be beautiful, but it's the ending of lights and the coming of darkness'