An Entrepreneur’s Journey

From a very young age, I was intrigue by the story of Romance of Three Kingdom. I first got to know this story from the computer game. That was the first time I got to know some of the characters in the story, Liu Bei, Cao Cao, Sun Quan, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei etc.

This story is about China being divided into 3 huge forces during the A.D 189 - 240. During this time, many outstanding individuals who excel in war and politics appeared. It was one of the exciting and dramatic period of China.

Since then, I was hooked to this story. Started to went around looking for more information about the Three Kingdom. I got the comics initially. There are 2 types of comic that is about the Three Kingdom. But I’m not satisfied, because in the comic, lot of details are removed. Finally, I found the actual novel Romance of Three Kingdom, 三国演义。

I thought I’ll be satisfy after with the finding. Unfortunately, after reading the novel, I found out that this is only a novel, a story. Not everything written in the novel is true. The author simply added some colours so that readers will be interested to read on. So I begin to search for the actual records of Three Kingdom, 三国志。

The actual records are recorded in ancient chinese which I couldn’t understand.

I am always curious about some characters in the Three Kingdom. Like Zhuge Liang, is he really that intelligent?

Also Generals like Zhang Fei or Lu Bu seems to be quite stupid in the game or the novel. But these people are generals leading soldiers to war. How could they be stupid? The lives of the soldiers depend on them, how can they not be intelligent?

Fortunately I found a clip in youtube that analysed the history of Three Kingdom. It was a gem that I found, as there are many lessons to be learned. I would share some of the learnings in the next few posts.

Another disappointment match by Liverpool. Against strong teams like Man u, Arsenal or Chelsea, they can’t win. Now they can’t win the lower teams too. If they can’t win Aston Villa, Middlesbrough, Man City, Wigan, and now West Ham; I wonder who else they can win. It seems to me Liverpool standard of football has drop to the level of the amateur.

Spending so much money to buy expensive players doesn’t work. Look at Arsenal, they didn’t spend money this season to get any star players ever since Henry left, yet, they are doing so well in the league.

Looking at their performance this season, I doubt they can even get into the top 4 this season, especially a few teams has improved this season, like Man City.

Benetiz may have a problem on buying players. Only 2 players whom he bought succeeded in Liverpool - Alonso and Mascherano. Even Torres, the most expensive player Liverpool ever bought is below par.

Benetiz, maybe you should start listening to the fans from the start. Your rotating policy obviously is a flop.

A big match, a disappointing night. As a Liverpool fan, this is the biggest match of the season. Playing against Man U is like playing in a cup final.

I could not watch this match because of business, but I am still very concern about the result. Alas, Liverpool didn’t win again. They didn’t beat their biggest rival at Anfield for 6 seasons. Maybe Liverpool are starting to form a belief that they can’t beat Man U.

One pattern that I observed from Liverpool this season was that they usually dominated a match, but couldn’t win. Also they have a very high number of shots, but couldn’t put it into the net.

After spending so much on players, another pattern did not change. They tends to lose to lower clubs, (lost to Reading last week 3-1), and they couldn’t beat the big clubs.

Every week when they go into match, it will never be a sure win. Yes, I know there will be no sure win in football, but for other big clubs, their chances of winning is superbly high. For Liverpool - base of their inconsistency, it is not so.

One match they can score 4-0, and in another they can lose it. A club that has a rich history, one of the biggest club with huge fan based, dominated the English football scene in the 70s and 80s, couldn’t pick up one Premier League Title for 18 years - what is happening to the club?

After losing last night match, I doubt they can lift the title this season. Think I got to wait another season.

Wendy, my mentor sent this amazingly beautiful 1000-hands Guan Yin Dance to me. Being able to witness this awesome dance allow me to connect with myself again. Thank you Wendy for sharing this video clip.

While watching this dance, I reflected on how fast I am moving, or my mind is working that I forgot to appreciate beauty around me.

There was once my mind was so busy working that I don’t even realize that I had crossed the road when it was on red light.

There are so many times that I walk so fast that I did not observe the beauty around me. How many of you did the same thing?

Here you are - 1000 hands Guan Yin dance

Scoreline: Liverpool 1 Chelsea 1

A joy with this result, yet there is a tinkle of disappointment. Because Liverpool could have won the game, if not for the poor refereeing from Rob Styles.

My goodness, Styles actually gave Chelsea the controversial penalty in the 62 min. It’s so obvious that Malouda fell onto Steve Finnan. Even Morinho dared not claimed firmly that it was a foul, given his kind of character, he would definitely do it. Lampard then converted that penalty giving Chelsea the equalizer.

Though it was a disappointing result, as Liverpool should have won; still I am in joy to see Liverpool playing in their form. They controlled the game, having most of the possession. To add on to that joy, the record breaking 20 million pound striker, Torres scoring his first goal for the club at Anfield.

The ability to control most of the game against such a good team proves that Liverpool is able to mount a good challenge on the Premiership title this season. In fact Liverpool is having 8 shots on goal while Chelsea is having only 2 shots. With this game, it shows this may be a different Liverpool from the last season.

I am looking forward Liverpool’s every game now. Seeing how Benitez gel the old and new players sure is a joy.

Beside watching movie; which is why I set up Good Movie Review; I love watching anime as well. For some who are not sure of this term, anime is Japanese cartoon.

There are a few animes that I loved. Currently I’m chasing after Naruto and Bleach. Naruto has gone to episodes 200+ whereas Bleach is in 100+, and there is no sign of this two anime ending soon.

Recently, I found another interesting anime, Blood+. This is a short one with only 50 episodes, do not need to chase after it. It’s a movie with blood sucking monsters lurking around the world, and there’s only one girl who can destroy them - with her blood.

There isn’t any action packed fighting scenes like Bleach or special Ninja techniques like Naruto, but the story unfold nicely leading me from mystery to mystery. More questions from me surfaced on who is this girl, where does these monsters come from?

It’s kind of slow in the beginning, however, Blood+ showed me a very good storyline. I am at episodes 15, a lot of questions are in my mind now. Can’t wait to watch it till the end to find all the answers.

I always look forward to Sunday, because it’s my weekly football session. I picked up this sport accidentally at the age of 14. Since then, the love of football never die.

It was a beautiful morning, with sun shining brightly and no rain for the past few days. That means the field is dry, we can enjoy a good football session. We had been playing in muddy field that makes movement much tougher for the past few weeks.

I had a fantastic game today. I started off as a defender, man marking the striker of the opponent. I effectively clamp him down, getting him frustrated, feeling darn good whenever I took the ball away from his feet.

As the game changes pace and players getting tired, I moved up into a more advance position. I am everywhere in attack, running from the flanks, getting into shooting positions, or controlling the pace of the game at center.

I can be an effective defender, but I love to attack. Well, not so much as a striker but as a creator. I love to see myself creating chances for my strikers. Today, I am doing that, sending through passes to players in front. Though not all chances can be converted into goals, but I’m proud that I have the vision to put those passes in.

It was a beautiful morning for a beautiful game. Looking forward for next Sunday.

Later it will be the showdown of these two great teams. What can be more exciting to watch the Champions League Final with my favourite team playing.

The most inspiring players in this match got to be the Captain of Liverpool, Steven Gerrard. I’m looking forward to see his performance to later.

The most dangerous player will be Kaka. Amazing player, I do not wish to see him perform…haha.

Liverpool, the most stubborn defence in Premiership vs Milan, the attacking force that destroy Man U. Who will survive? Who will grab the Cup?

Liverpool’s strength is in the team. The team synergy works wonder when everyone click. Milan’s strength is in individual players where each one of them has the ability to turn the match around.

Liverpool bring back the Cup for one more time.

A new banner, a new look, a new feel. The new banner fits in nicely with the theme of my blog. It projects a feel of inspiring journey, at the same time, it gives an emotional aspect in this journey, balancing out the masculine energy.

As the theme of the blog has shifted slightly from the initial plan, this banner is the perfect match to the theme right now.

The birth of this blog was purely for commercial purpose, getting every avenue to monetize it. In the process, I do learn many things about blogging and internet marketing.

At this moment, the theme of this blog has shifted. The existence of this blog is no longer for commercial purpose. It has become a place to dump my feelings, (entrepreneur do have feelings too) my thoughts; basically a real journey of myself, not only for the business or money.

The shift took place naturally, it is not an intentional effort. Somehow the Universe plot that course of action in the background.

At present, I am extremely comfortable with the theme of this blog, writing about a real journey of an entrepreneur.

Who designed the banner? Not me! I am never a good designer.

She is a lady with character, yet exudes a feel of kawaii ne (cuteness). She is a strong lady, yet at times, she showed a feminine side of her.

We always thought we were twins separated from birth. We shared so many things in common, our characters, our journey, our crap, and we are both taurean.

Thank you, my dearest friend, Adelene for creating this nicely done up banner. Thank you for always giving, thank you for teaching me the heart of giving.

You will always be my dearest friend. Wherever you are, always remember; a friend of yours from far away land wishes you to have happiness.

I was conducting training today. I enjoyed today training very much. Lots of laughter in the class; with me creating most of them, getting the students to laugh, enjoyed their lesson.

Then to my shock, one of the students, SM didn’t call me “Teacher”, she called me “Baby”. It doesn’t matter to me what they called me actually. As long as it’s not something bad, and “baby” it’s cute.

Then according to another students, SM said something later. she said, “Baby, I love you”, which I didn’t hear.

Fortunately, I didn’t hear that. I might not know how to react in that situation. With other students in the class, it might felt awkward.

Due to the media twisting of the meaning of “love”, young kids only know “love” as man and woman kind of feeling. They have not understand friendship is also another form of love.

In a class of kids, saying “I love you” will cause a huge commotion. Then I got to spend time to explain to them.

Anyhow, I am blessed to be loved by kids. Thank you for saying “I Love You.”