Spiritual Intentions

I Believe that People can transcend themselves, and allow for One-ness with all People and everything else.

I Believe Money can help, change, grow, flow, exchange. It is a tool that holds no emotional attachments like jealousy, fear, judgements, sadness.

I Believe in the New Ways. Out with the old, maybe modified to bring togetherness and connection.

I Believe in all things can flow. No jams, no wars, no egoes, no attachments.

I Believe that god is here, there and everywhere. If I don’t see, it doesn’t mean god doesn’t exist. I do know though.

I Believe in Me. To follow that invisible path that I question one to many times. For it is an adventure, it feels uncomfortable at times, but if I look back at the many adventures, the triumphs and the distance that I have scaled.

I Believe in You. For the experiences that you had; your pains, your joys, your fears and laughter. The Love that you have deep inside.

I Believe that we can right ourselves. Another calamity, another disagreement, another mess we created. We will transcend and learn. To change for our sons and daughters.

I Believe in Our Hearts. When binded can move any mountain. For the collective power of our spirits, is that of god.

I Believe in the Goodness of people. Even when my anger kicks in from the news I read, the roads I travel, the people I meet. We are still the creation of Love.

I Believe in Eternity for us to evolve, maybe not in my lifetime. We will get there. Time doesn’t exist in eternity.

I Believe in Laughter and Joy. The silence of connection, the colours and heightened senses.

I Believe that Love is the Answer.

I Believe.

The only consant is change. Everything else is. Some faster, some at a lesser speed.

Met a group today, and from my observations, practice in what I call an “old-school management method”. “Top down”, “I am right cos I say so”, “you listen to me kind of attitude”. Only few spoke, many more at the table ”looking attentive”. They seem comfortably numb !

Directors all, but with years of seasoned one-stroke way of doing things, doing the talking, but not taking responsibility or any actions… I have seen it all in the corporate world, and maybe so have you.

I don’t know why, but I just felt angry and agitated, even though no guns were firing at me. I think it is just all the tensions in the air. Phew…

Just watched V for Vendetta on TV tonight - similar feel of tyranny and general suppression.

Are you the silent one, hoping that maybe someone will make the stand, someday. Or perhaps, if the job market gets better, can go work for somebody else.

In the vast openess of the matured Internet era, and Obama consultative style, and times of Starbucks and jeans on Friday, I am still so surprised to see the rule by fear attitude.

Everything’s changing Mr “I Have to Show My Boss but You all Better do it Good”.

Bureaucrats makes me sick

As I turn left, an amazing sight.

The sounds and colours all so right.

I wish you are here, all of you

to share and be amazed to this delight.

The age passes beyond the physical,

never-ending infinite the Love & Grace

that holds all and connects All.

You are far but Near.

I love You.

As I sit before the computer, listening to the wedding songs that I and Iris have specially selected, I feel the emotions. I am definitely feeling so appreciative that our journey has reached a station called Wedding. This is only a stop, the one of many stops in our journey which has no terminal. It is infinite beyond anything.

Thank you for the journey. Thank you for the ups and downs; the lessons. Thank you for making it all possible. I appreciate you Iris for what you are. I appreciate myself too

I was having a discussion with Iris, and she said that Banking is seen as glamourous job. Probably the media and the public view modelling, flying, advertising, PR, etc etc, as glamourous as well.

Yes and No.

A glamourous job to me is an activity that you tremendously enjoy, willing to do it for free, full of passion and very masterful in. You are not bothered by money, career advancement or what people say. It will not even be work !

Glamour is an illusion that possibly can lead to a disillusion. It is only skin-deep.

It is beyond face. Beyond ego.

Listen to what sets your heart ablaze.

Here’s wishing you (and myself) find our true passion.

I appreciate the dark and the light.

In Love with the silence and the shrill at night.

Embrace both ego & spirit, for all are One,

mine, yours and all we are.

I love the laughter and love the fears,

the smile and gently rolling tears.

The pain & joy in perfect harmony

for it connects us all.

Fast and slow, ying and yang

I appreciate the old but young.

Hate to love, love to hate

one way or another, we create.

Brown, Gold, Red, Blue, Orange, Green, Yellow

feel all, love all, unity of colours,

Unites all.

- inspired by Joyce from Goldzone.

Tks for 31st Dec 2007.

I have never been a firm believer of cost-cutting. This applies both in business and on a personal level

Why reduce quality, use cheaper labour, suppliers and materials, reduce price, overly streamline, compete, etc, etc?

Just look around at the karma already created by businesses and organisations which got themselves into a bad rep that money and time can’t buy to remove the tarnish.

Cost-cutting is a way of telling the Universe - "I can’t afford it."

It is the start of a downward spiral that leads to more cost cutting and eventually, when costs cannot be reduced anymore, do you trade in your principles when the heat is turned-on?

Charge a fair price and be creative.

The solution I offer : Make more money, increase profits.

This effectively will take care of rising costs without the need to go into scarcity fear-based thoughts.

Thanks to my darling, she got the Heroes DVD set and I much wanted to watch it.

Watching it sort of struck me how much I have forgotten to believe the truth that I once knew and actually felt. We humans are actually much more capable then what we actually think. Somehow, the knowing is stuck by the denial, the power veiled by disconnection (mis-alighnment) and all of us want to do good which is our natural purpose.

I am sure somehow, we will find out who we really are.

I have never thought I would still enjoy emcee-ing till today. Having spent 12 years onstage hosting small parties to National events, I am indeed very blessed to have the natural ability to do so.

It was an event I actually felt a little nervous which I seldom do. I have not done this type of event for a long time and was searching in my mind before the show to tune the right persona and presentation style to best fit the audience.

It was a Welcome Party for new residents. A heartland show which I have not done for close to 4 years.

The easiest thing to do as an MC is to pick up the mic and go onstage. The nervousness miraculously dissolves when I go into action. The client was happy, so too the Minister, MPs and HDB officials. With an immediate promise of another event next month.

As I got offstage at the end of the evening, a little boy no older than 4 years old approached me backstage. He came up to me and pulled my hands. I bent down on my knees to talk to him. I asked his name and how old he was. He wasn’t chatty but I was drawn to his pure innocence. I picked up a token prize and gave it to him. He beamed.

His mom came over and said that his son has been waiting for me till the end of the show so that he see me and shake my hands. For a moment, a huge humbling feeling came over me. I was speechless.

I must have done something so right!

It was indeed a tremendous honour and a huge gift for me to have the pleasure to have hosted the event (plus the close to a thousand other shows). Thank you so much!

Just completed a MRT Hunt event as designer and producer (cum MC and Fitness Instructor) of the adventure race event for Spring Singapore for 270 pax. It has been some time since I stepped back to produce.

It brought back memories of some of the races which I had done 10 years back in New Orleans and London. Guess I still have it. Tired but very rewarding putting it all together and executing an event without much drama.

There were 25 teams, 5 routes, 6 stations. We created havoc at Giant at Vivocity, made the money changers at Raffles Place mad for changing their smallest note, did the old-school Macarena at Farrer Park field, do some crazy poses on Read Bridge, Clarke Quay with their behinds. The teams headed to find the "MacDonald" that was bombed in 1965, met Erich the Austrian Chef in Chinatown and having him feed the teams sausages.

The satisfaction of a successful project is absolutely priceless. I was blessed with good weather, fantastic crew, nice client and an amazing group of participants. Thank you for the opportunity to bring an old part of me back!

I am a closet "High C" which I seldom want to acknowledge, with traits of being systematic, anal-ytical, meticulous…etc. It sounds all so boring (my judgement :-)) But the truth is, if I can see it differently, I can tap on these strengths, and combined it with traits that I admire and intend to have and viola… I can custom make more virtues out of my life! I can take a hard look at myself without being hard on Self !

November’s first week will see me pick up the mic again, Adobe Conference in SG and KL, Osim Corporate Tri which I raced last year. It is going to be a mad rush to the end of the year and I am having so much fun doing it!

Love,

Water