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Election is over. The official result has yet to be announced but from the looks of it…..opposition won a lot of seats. It’s the first time in many many years. Guess everyone is worried about their beloved country Malaysia and is willing to make a change.

Changes bring uncertainties to many. Changes require them to move out from their comfort zone. But sometimes, when the comfort zone itself has been threatened by not embracing the changes……….people tend to be more open-minded in order to protect themselves and their comfort zone. In the end, they embrace changes with open arms and hope that things will turn out to be better after the changes.

No matter who is going to be the ruling party for Malaysia, I just hope that everyone can learn 3 things from this election 2008 – Malaysia belongs to all of us, all of us are hoping that Malaysia can become a much better place to live in and ….we all still care a lot for this country.

Cheers to all. Kudos to those who voted. I didn’t vote because I was on project assignment in London (only full time students, military personnel and government employees can vote).

I think I am. After all, we’re in a moan and groan society. I was talking about this in my previous post “Comic: Life is short, think positively and live life!“. Maybe i’m thinking too much after reading (yet to finish) Susan Jeffer’s “Feel the fear and do it anyway“.

With the coming election and also the looming economy crisis (job cut, inflation rate, etc etc), people around us are surely becoming more and more negative. It seems like your life will never be good in this world……..

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Your alarm clock rings in the morning….but you are too demotivated to get to work….so you put SNOOZE and return to sleep.

Then the alarm clock rings again….and you drag yourself up from your bed.

You go to the bathroom to take shower, wash your face, brush teeth, etc….

And then you become more awake. You start to think about the day ahead…the boring job…the idiotic boss…the problematic and annoying clients…the stacks and stacks of reports to do….and the list goes on and on.

You go to work…stuck in a jam…listening to the news, which always convey news…….bad news – market crashed, forest fire in Indonesia, jobless grads on the rise, etc etc.

You go for lunch with your colleagues and while eating, each of them starts to relate their stories of the day….normally it’ll be about complaints on jobs..bosses…colleagues…the market…lack of money…etc.

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Just look at the example above. Does that sound familiar? I’m sure it does. Because everywhere we go, we’ll be faced by all these negative influences around us. How is it possible for us not to be negative when the people around us…or should i say, the entire world, is behaving negatively?

I donno…but i was often put down by my friends whenever i came out with an idea. Maybe my ideas were pure nonsense to them but it’s better than not trying at all. Having the awareness that i should make a change, is a lot better than sitting around complaining that money is not enough. I’m always frustrated by my friends’ negative mindset. In the end, i stopped asking them for opinions.

Positive thinking is very critical. You can overcome a lot of obstacles in life if you think positively. I also believe the famous “Secret” or “Law of attraction” is actually trying to teach people how to think positively (no, i don’t believe in the supernatural power thingy). Sometimes, I really wonder, why can’t an adult be positive and cheerful like a child…like what he used to be?

So people, time to change. Be positive. I’m not there yet…still very far from it. But i’m trying my best to go towards that direction. There will be some idiots in my life trying to pull me down, but I am sure i will be able to handle it.

Again, life is short. Stop wasting your life away behaving so negatively. Be more positive and enjoy life. Hope it helps.

In case you don’t know, I don’t really like to read newspaper or listen to the news when I’m not feeling good. It will just worsen my day. But why is news still so famous when they are talking about negative stuff? Because human beings like to listen and hear things that are on the same channel with them…. and most people in this world are tuning in the “negative” channel. Try asking a news agency to report Good news. Most probably not many people wanna listen to them.

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I’m currently reading a book from Susan Jeffers. I really like the book because it touches on a lot of things that I’m encountering in my daily life……everyday. One part of it talks about the moan and groan society that we live in. I believe it is very true.

Picture yourself talking to a good friend of you regarding a great business idea……then your friend (without even thinking much) will say “Come on, you are not going to make it with that crappy idea” or “Someone has already done it” or “If it’s that simple and useful, someone has already done it long time ago”.

That’s very demotivating right? Then everytime you talk to him, he will you the same feeling of DOOM.

To be honest, that friend of mine is not the only friend I have who are negative-minded. I have a lot a lot of them.

One of my biggest wish is to have my friends and the people around me, to think more positively. At any given moment, we rule our own feeling. Life is short, why think negatively and ruin your mood when you can choose to be positive?

p/s…. a female friend of mine said how can i be so cheerful again after that 3 years…the case with that girl. Is it because guy can forget n let go easier and move on to the next target? I told her….if i’m someone like THAT, then i wouldn’t wait 3 years for the girl. I’m sad…i even dreamt of her a number of times…but life goes on. I choose what I am and how I am feeling today. The sooner I start to think positively, the lesser time I’ll be wasting dealing with someone i cannot possibly change. 

This is another old post of mine. I’m a bit tired today. I’m doing a comic for the regular Alvin & Ken series but I have no inspiration on the “jokes” part. I’m sure I will come out with something tomorrow. Suffering a bit from lack of sleep. Dreamt of the girl and the guy she chose last night. Hahah. Maybe that’s why I woke up and didn’t sleep well. But no worries, when I said I’ll be fine means I’ll be fine. So for today, I’ll just post up this old post of mine. 

In case you’re wondering…No, this is not some advertisement asking you to key in some numbers and look for “friends” to talk to. This is a post by me.

This morning (Monday morning…..) I came across this conversation or dialog by a local radio DJ which somehow woke me up (well, it’s Monday and I wasn’t driving). The DJ actually talked about human beings always want to talk to other human beings. It’s our nature. We need to feel belonged to somewhere…some places, any places. How true is this? Well, no matter how much we deny…it is a fact. It is our nature. Human nature.

Let’s have a simple scenario. I have a friend, who is very quiet (a bit nerdy)…and very very shy (to the extent of being weird). He doesn’t talk to anyone in the class. Well, it’s not that he doesn’t want to talk to anyone…it’s just he’s too passive, introvert or shy. So, there was this one day when we (me and my friends) approached him (sounds like a gangster but we’re not) and asked him to join us for a basketball match. His usually boring and moody eyes suddenly brightened up. He looked as if he’s a completely different person. He nodded his head non-stop (you know..those very excited mood).

So, the following day, we were having a simple basketball practice match. He was there alone, in a corner, practicing his basketball skills – dribbling, crossover (with an imaginary opponent), etc. We were playing the usual game of course….and well, we did talk to him from time to time during the day – we’re all very caring you see.

Everyday, he was there to practice…very hard, even when we were not there for the match. Finally, the “match” day has come. Well, it was a normal game for us….but it wasn’t for him. He started to have this “sense of belonging” to somewhere – to us, the basketball team (erm..even though we just ask him to play for fun). When the match started, he retrieved the ball, wow-ed all of us with his skills (4 days of training….and he did a lot of tricks that I couldn’t do) and went pass 4 opponents …and he did a back flip lay up (erm…should be called back flip, since he couldn’t see the net when he did the lay up) … and he scored ! He was jumping up and down, up and down and ran towards us and said “High 5 !! I did it !!“. We were all very happy for him because he finally found a place – a place where he could find someone to talk to.

However, we weren’t be able to react to the “High 5“…because well, he scored the wrong net… it was an “own goal“.

Well, you see…sometimes people don’t really want to speak out. They are feeling moody, down, troubled…yet, they do not want to approach their friends and tell them the problems. They keep these problems in their hearts until someone approaches them and ask “Are you okay? Is anything troubling you?“. Then, they will pour their heart out.

It’s not that they do not want to share. They are just too shy to trouble someone with their problems. Everyone in this world needs people to talk to… needs a place to belong to…. Let’s face it. We don’t live alone in this world.

So, the next time you see a lonely person sitting quietly and look troubled…approach him/her and show that you are concerned. Talk to the person and see if you can help. Make this world a better place to live for everyone. Well, just make sure that person is not mentally ill….erm, otherwise, good luck.

Today she MSN-ed me, asking me how am I doing, bla bla bla. But I told her that perhaps we should not contact each other so much anymore. It’s better to let me calm down a little…….clear my head a little…….. We’re still good friends nonetheless but I feel I need some time off. I don’t want to get close again and going back to zero.

She was okay and said she doesn’t want to add additional stress for me.

But after that….my mood wasn’t that good. I offended few close friends of mine who were trying to wake me up. Sorry to Rob and Kendly.

What you 2 told me, are correct. It’s just a bit hard for me to accept the reality. I’m okay now. I won’t blame luck…or fate…or circumstances…or even her. I will not blame myself. Nobody’s fault. It’s just that things might have been a little bit different, if the choices I’ve made back then were a bit different. I chose this road myself. I could’ve abandoned my UK dream and stayed in Malaysia…but I didn’t. I could’ve send the flowers to her personally, but I didn’t. I could’ve waited for her outside her office to confess, but I didn’t.

Those few are the choices that I made. They didn’t work out well……but I shouldn’t blame anyone including myself. Just learn from it.

I guess it’s relevant for many other things as well. Failing in a job interview does not mean you’re a big failure or that interviewer is a nutcase. Don’t blame anyone. You could’ve prepared more….you could’ve rested more the day before, etc.

In the end, everything that happens is more or less due to our own choices. Things might go the other way, if we change our choices back then. But also due to these choices, we are what we are today. I feel instead of blaming other people, blaming ourselves or blaming everything else (the sky, the earth, the sea, grass, etc)……we should try to think what we can learn from such experiences.

Some people say life is a journey…….and some people say life is an adventure. I’ll say life is an adventurous journey…..which you need to keep on learning. That’s how you improve and live life to the fullest.

Thank you to all my friends and my family. Thanks to those who have listened to my complaints and story for the past few weeks. Thanks to those who visited this blog and looked at the comic strip.

And don’t worry, I’m fine now.

p/s…. crap, i might not be able to go Old Trafford this weekend. one of my friends decided not to go. and i dont think i can get the FA Cup ticket in time. Guess I have to reschedule the trip. But surely, i will go there, 1 of my dream destinations, before i go back to Malaysia.