The amount we have.

               
                    We were often told to do our best in almost anything in order to achieve our goals. But we never know what is the definition of "best" from the person who told us and from the our perspective when we think of the "best". Example: Your parents would say something like "do your best in your final exam" and in their minds, they would probably define "best" as in getting A in your exam. Meanwhile in our brains, we would probably think "if we get C in our exam, that's the "best" we could ever have". SEE THE DIFFERENCE?

                     We can't really read each other's mind, but we are given enough information in guessing what the other person might be thinking. That's how we overcome obstacles in life. But what we don't know is that how many ways are there in reaching the same destination with different solutions. If you believe that you can only make "good" things with "good" materials or that you can only achieve a "good" career with a "good" education certificate, please stop reading this. If you are given a limited amount of money to survive for a period of time, have you ever ask yourself how you would use the money to maximize your survival. Most people would calculate how much money they can spend by dividing the amount of money equally to the amount of time in that period. That way they will know what are their limits, avoiding any insufficient usage. It's logical that if you want to be able to achieve something, you must be able to know what are your limits. What are you capable of doing with that limited amount of money will determined how awesome you are in your survival.

                      However, what happens if you desire more than just survival? What happens if you have the desire to survive in a more luxurious way. Would tell yourself to just give up on that luxurious thought? or would try to find a way to achieve that luxurious life? But you would have to take risks if you plan to make your life luxurious. Example: You choose to find a way to make your survival much better. That would mean that you will need more money. But how can you get more money? Simple, invest half of your money on an item and make a business out of it by selling the item through the market. Make a profit and poof, your survival rate just got better. But what happens when you invested on an item and no one buys it? Well that would mean that you can't spend anything within that half period of time and that would probably mean you're screwed. That is the risk. So most people would pick the safer way out. They'll just keep themselves alive with a limit set on their heads. They will never know how much potential they have if they keep playing safe.

                        This just proved that most of us will only do something if there is a safe route in front of us. Because of risks existing in an alternative path, they ignore to take that route fearing they might fall and never rise again. Even so, do you really believe that the safe route will lead you to your success in the future? I can tell you this, you can have the best coffee beans to make the best coffee in the whole world. But if the way you approach in handling them is bad, you will end up making the worst coffee that anyone has ever drank. Just because you have "good" quality coffee beans doesn't mean that you will be able to make "good" quality coffee. If you brew them without care, they will not turn out well. The opposite is also true, even if you have cheap coffee beans. If you brew them carefully, they will turn out to be favorable and you might just find yourself opening a coffee shop in a blink of an eye.

                           So if the next time you got something "good", start thinking how to bring out the best qualities of that "good". It might just be the opportunity for you to reach your true goal in a split second.
                     
       
                         

Changes Began within us.

                  Ever wondered how people used to communicate with each other back in the old days where social network hasn't existed yet? Let me tell you something, I bet they would say "I had a better life than you right now" These days, most of us (including me) used smartphones and simple devices in order to make friends and join group communities that are difficult to be found. Thank god that technology improved and enhance our mobile tech and we were able to get ourselves involve in almost every activity event that we have ever dreamed about achieving. Strange... technology was suppose to change us for the better in order to make our lives more convenient but it almost felt like we were being taken over by a non-living thing...

                     For these past few days, I went to a camp where we improve our personality. It was organized by the Shine Award Center in Taylor's University called the Shine Discovery Session. It was a free field trip for all the students who join the Shine program so I figured I could have some fun going jungle trekking and I even did the flying fox activity (it was awesome, it felt like I was flying through the air!!!). But here's the catch, if a student were to join this field trip, they will be living in an "Orang Asli" settlement for 3 days, 2 nights WITHOUT any line connection to the outside world. That means, even if you had the best connection if the whole world. You won't be able to contact or receive any transmission from your friends and family... I knew the risk and I'm sure nothing will happen for a 3 days, 2 night stay. But once I got back to KL, I can hear small continuous gun shots from miy Facebook notification and Whatsapp messages vibrating on my phone (let the scrolling began). It basically means that I was able to survive more than 48 hours of no technology from the outside world. And it made think that how much things could have happened when a mobile-addicted person had his gadgets taken away from him for more than 24 hours... He would probably go insane...

                       But to me, I didn't know that technology could changed us this much.... it made me remembered a video that I watched recently in my class: Z7dLU6fk9QY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7dLU6fk9QY After watching that, I think you already know what you should do. GO.

Does it Stack?

                           It's been quite long that I haven't blogged about anything yet. Let's just say I was really busy and barely got anytime to go online and blog. By busy I mean both with college life and with my free time. As time slowly goes by, I started thinking will my studies get harder to a point where I go insane all over again like SPM stress mode... The assignments are simple but it's flooding my life to a point where I can't even take my eyes off the screen for a moment (because all my assignments are uploaded online in their website). However, I would say that the campus's environment is well-built for students to study in a relaxing surrounding. The library especially is awesome enough to suit a quiet environment for students to really finish their project assignments. But homework will continuously be handed to us and if we do not complete them, marks will be deducted from our result for the whole semester (it consist of 10% from our total score).

                              I still did get my free time such as playing LOL and hangout with my friends. Recently, I just watched the Avengers: Age of Ultron movie and it was quite a disappointment seeing how it ends. It was enjoyable but compare to the first movie, I liked Avengers better than Age of Ultron. (SPOILER ALERT): Vision, Thor and Captain America are the only ones worthy to hold the hammer, Mjolnir in the comic. Vision just did it in this movie and I bet it's an only matter of time before Captain America does it too (I mean we all saw him pull out the hammer a LITTLE bit in the trailer, so it's pretty obvious.) I was already in the hype-train for Age of Ultron to a point where I would even buy it's movie popcorn set combo.

                                             First day on the first show time of the movie XD
                                        
                               Look at chibi Iron-Man!!! Although I don't know why am I so addicted to it, only to realize that the movie didn't exceed my expectations. It felt like the hype-train just got into a complete stop when the movie ends. I never knew that excitement can be stacked until it falls when you saw what the hype was all about. At some point in life, we will always see ourselves rise along the ride with how we progress our work, only to see ourselves fall when realizing the results of our hard work being wasted. Such a shame. It's even more pity depending on how much we stack.

Stress Mode Activated

                      University life is stressful.... I do admit that it's at least much better than my old miserable high school life back in the old days. But surprisingly in university, you literally gained control of EVERYTHING in your life. And when I said everything, I meant literally everything is under your control and your responsibility as well.

                       Will the teacher (lecturers) give you homework (assignments) and tell you to finish them before some day? Nope, The tasks are all uploaded on their website and if we want to do it, we would need to find it ourselves. If we don't complete their assignments, will they punish us? Nope, they'll do something like "well too bad, no marks for you on this assignment" :) And what are the subjects (module) that you are supposed to take for this semester? Go find it yourselves on the website, don't be lazy...
                                               

See what I mean...

                     If you fail any of your exams, will they let you continue to learn? Nope, retake the whole semester until you passed :) Must you join extra co-curricular activities? Nope, we don't give a damn about whether do you want to join any one of them or not. You literally have to take care of your own educational life style when the moment you entered college. The transition from high school to university is quite rough at first, but you will get used to it eventually. As assignments, I wouldn't say they give a lot of them. But it's enough to keep you busy for a whole day. Making friends would be your biggest problem of all. Even though the orientation allows you to introduce yourselves to one another, by the end of the week you will still become a lonely stranger to everyone unless you really start talking to people.

                       So far I am trying to get involve in college activities just to make more friends, but it would seems that is taking a huge amount of time away from my hobbies. Even when I joined the Anime Club, I still didn't make much friends on the opening party. At the moment, I am planning to open an anime booth sale in the campus and I hope this doesn't screwed up my reputation in my university life...

Life just got ANIMATED!!! in a Bad Way...

                    As you all have know, I just started college about a week ago and the orientation was great until it slowly became serious. The fourth day of the orientation week is clubs and society day in which seniors would start scouting recruits to join their club/society. Of course we get to choose on whether do we want to join that club or not but by the end of the day, all students would at least have to be in a club and the first one I joined immediately when I entered the hall is the Anime Club!!! (it's pretty obvious). They did a pretty good job on designing the sign-up booth, attracting quite a lot of random students. I ended up helping them promoting the club after signing up.
                                         

                    They even got their on mascot to represent the founder of the club. Surprisingly the club's leader is one of the regulars at Little Akiba in Subang Jaya SS15 which I met a couple of times. They are planning to throw the new recruits a welcome party for joining the club this coming Friday (can't wait). Overall, It was a fun week until Animax Carnival 2015 arrived...

                        These past weekend was just one of those unlucky days for me. Animax Carnival 2015 kind of sucked this year, not much enjoyment can be felt than before. reasons:
1. Queuing process was just bullshit (lined up in a zig-zag and after finally got out of the queue only to see MORE zig-zag queuing -.-)
2. Security was so much that they had no idea what to do with them anymore ( i guess no thievery occurred this year...)
3. Games are to hard to play and everyone just kind of gives up around halfway.
4. Nothing much to window-shop because most sections are just promoting Animax channel and drinks...
5. live show sucks.
6. Free gifts are pretty cheap (literally cheap to a point where they can't even give a proper size memo pad) and a free balloon which could float away if you don't hold it tightly...
7. Really bored to a point where you can just run in and out of the event hall for more than 3 times within an hour....

Rating: 2.5/10. It's literally not as exciting as it would seem to be, (pictures are taken for documentaries).

                        By tomorrow, it will be just like my school (college) days all over again in which I would have to wake up early in the morning and go for classes (lectures) to learn (listen) from teachers (lecturers) and do more homework (assignments) and projects (more assignment) -.-... I don't really see much difference in myself compared to last year (sigh). I did make some good sales in my small business and bought some anime merchandise at the event.

                         By the end of this week, most anime have already ended and I would have to renewed my list of "Must Watch Anime" at the same time keep up with my college life. This would pretty much took over my time playing PC games like Dragon Nest and League of Legends (gaming life)... All for the sake of achieving my career, I definitely need to improve my time management or I'm screwed and might be dishonored by my family.... (GOD THE STRESS!!!)

What I have Earned so far.

                        This past weekend was a dozy, I have been exhausted and confused at the same time. Last week, I applied for a job event at Asia Championship Cardfight Vanguard 2015 (ACC 2015). My job was simple enough, I just need to teach random strangers how to play Future Card Buddyfight (another card game). 1 shift per-day, I'll get paid RM50. So since I worked for both days (my whole weekend), that would earn me RM100 just like that. Easy money is what they say, unless someone (my boss) tells you "Change of plans, you'll be doing other things. Guess you're gonna have to improvise" -_-... To top things off, I had a friend coming to KL to sleepover on that weekend. So in some extend, it really caused me to burn out all of my energy for both days. I took a long time in bed sleeping just to regain my lost energy back and now I can't sleep anymore since I'm already in full spirit -.- sigh....

                           First day on the job was alright, strangers came to the workshop and I did what I was hired for. Teach them the basics of the game and repeat it a LOT of times because they placed a speaker right beside the workshop tables which whenever the emcee speaks through the Mic, his voice covers my whole explanation on the rules of the game (and I sat the closest to it -.-). After a long shift (10a.m.- 3p.m.) on the first day, I went home only to get ready a mattress and some stuff for my friend that is coming to sleepover soon. I was planning to enjoy myself for the night, but after a long day at work, I fell asleep pretty fast...

                            The second day is where things got insane. Turns out there was more competitors coming over to the tournament than what the organizers had expected.... (Well I mean the top 1 winner gets sponsored for a free trip to Japan with all the hospitality provided, so I don't see why wouldn't anyone showed up..... And the tournament is free for registration) so we got more than 200 players competing over for 1 ticket to Japan...
                                     

More like "Life Ends Here" lol.

                           So since the players exceeded our expectations, our boss told us to be referees instead of workshop guide. Which we would have to walk around and keep an eye on at least almost a quarter of the players... yeah..... just what I was hired for... Life really does end there.

                             As by the end of my shift, I did have some fun over there. Played some mini games, met some cosplayers and tried out the standing-fight table.

                                                                        Guess Who
             
                                    By the end of this weekend, I guess you can say that I really didn't earned much but instead prepared a lot. I would also need to get ready for college soon since it starts next week's Monday and Cardfight Vanguard Stuff (www.facebook.com/cardfightvanguardstuff) is going to have a big sale which I will also have to handle it. Not to mention, Our badges that we have invested together with Anime Access (www.facebook.com/animeaccess1863) are about to be printed out soon. With all of that, I think it would caused me to have less time to blog about my life. But I'm not planning to stop blogging just because of this, I simply just need to improvise my time to be a little more flexible... hopefully nothing changes when I enter college. Good luck to all of you out there who are entering college for the March semester in 2015 and have fun :)

A New Beginning

   

                Alright where do I start? First of all, I am just relieved that I passed my SPM :) Apparently I didn't fail a single subject and I got 6 credits and out of those 6 credits I got 2A's in it. So i guess you could say that my placement as a college student is secured. (family-dishonored crisis avoided Phew) I'm also quite surprised that I was able to get such a result like this, I mean how is this a good result?????

                  Sure I mean all of them are passing grades but still. With all my efforts, this is as far as I can reach then I wonder how difficult would college exams become.... I am quite thankful for the people around me that helped me reached my fullest potential. I'll starting my business course on the 23rd of March 2015 (damn, the time sure flies very fast past me -.- sigh). 2 weeks from now, I would be going back to my study mode and I just know that there's going to be a little break for it. But I guess my fun time has to come to an end eventually...

                    So with my studies secured, I should be thinking about my future plans soon. With all the crazy stuff happening, I'm surprised that I was able to get this far to this point in life... I mean when I was in primary 6 (the year of 2009 when I finished my UPSR), I was literally thinking about not giving a damn about SPM (that's the time when my sister finished her SPM). And now I passed this scary test and I'm about to move up to another higher level of studying. The only difference is that if I fail just ONE semester, I will have to retake the whole test again starting from the beginning -.- sigh. Yup, my life just became harder.

                    Now with all my future study secured, I'm not just going to let go all of my fun-time. Recently, my facebook page: www.facebook.com/cardfightvanguardstuff just got improved in it's content a lot, and with the addition of the partnership with Anime Access: https://www.facebook.com/animeaccess1863 (awesome anime page, you should go check it out). We're designing badges and planned to sell them at C2AGE 2015. We hope you all would support us by suggesting some designs to us and if it's an awesome artwork, we'll make them into badges!

                      At this moment, I'm still enjoying my anime life (for the moment....) Here's what I'm catching up these days: 

   1. Nanatsu No Taizai

                 2. Kuroko No Basket: season 3

                                                                 3. Tokyo Ghoul: season 2
                                                                  4. Death Parade
                                                                    5. World Trigger
                       Let me just say that the opening on Nanatsu No Taizai is just well-played. The song gets more exhilarating and exciting as it sings along: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp7oY1JhUj8
                         Enjoy it :) I'll would welcome any recommendation of anime that you think I should watch if you guys would like to share them with me.

                      Chinese New Year 2015 isn't much to celebrate about since my grandfather passed away this year.... But when I'm in KL, I went to my friend's house and gamble a little. Surprisingly, I went in with only RM3 being prepared in my pocket with thoughts in my mind saying "Well, there goes my RM3 that could have been useful for future usage... sigh...." and then I went home with RM21 in my pocket XD!!! We played mostly "Blackjack 21" and I scored 5 cards less than 21 TWICE!!! (5 cards less than 21 means I'll be winning triple the amount of what I gambled from the cardholder). In other words, that amount of money just settled my public transportation fee and my dinner for that night lol XD.

                            I do still received some red packets from my friend's parents and my neighbors. And I spend them on a new skin in the game: League of Legends...... This particular skin caused about RM50. (yeah I know, it's insane.) But this is one of the ultimate skin that I actually liked about. DJ Sona, the skin that allows you to change between 3 different types of music while you're in the game playing it.

                            God they looked awesome in each unique form. Each plays a different music that let's you get into the beat while playing the game. (I played the this champion: Sona a lot, so it's actually quite worth it to get this skin as my first ultimate skin.) And I have been jamming everyday with this champion causing me to almost forget to eat lol XD. But I still continue my usual lifestyle, doing my chores and errands everyday like I'm supposed to.

                            With this much being told and knew about, I decided to create facebook page where everyone could just come together and share their awesome experience in that group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/159161447451100 If you want to share any awesome stuff or you just wanna get news update on what cool things are happening now, I'll be glad to welcome you into this group. It's called the "7 deadly sins" which may sound a little weird for you guys but trust me, it's just a name that I came up with because of this awesome anime: Nanatsu No Taizai (when translated to english, it's called: the 7 deadly sins.) This anime is why I decided to name the group: 7 deadly sins. Nothing bad about it, I'm just trying to promote this anime because it's really well told and the story's awesome.

                             With all that news, I guess this is as much as I can spill. Until next time, I will share my college experience soon. "soneija, jannei"