Painkiller

I am a kind of person who gets exhausted and depressed so easily. When I got exhausted, I will not be able to do the best that I can do. I will use a lot of my time to entertain my self with my hobby. However this hobby already become my addiction and tends to be negative and destructive. People do things to release their stress or kill the pain in their hearts. Some use positive/neutral way like doing sports/hobbies, watching movies, hanging out with friends. Some use negative things like drugs or alcohol. I just get an idea how to deal with stressful/painful situation: pray! Using drugs to kill the pain does not solve the problem, because drugs may make one unable to think clearly. I usually waste too much of my time with my hobby just to kill my pain and end up doing no progress in solving my problems. Indeed, the first battle to fix a problem is to control our self and to have a clear mind. Ask God in our prayer to make us calm, sober and courageous. Also, ask Him to make us understand what He really want us to do, yet still responsive to the problem. When things are getting worse, ask Him to give us endurance and ability to solve it. If the condition does not get better and nothing more you can do, just hold His promise! Is praying the same as consuming painkiller? No! Painkiller may make us unable to solve things and it passively helps us. It's entrapment. Prayer make our mind clear and God actively helps us to do what He wants us to do.

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What would you do if you had been born poor, slow, mediocre, indecisive and fainthearted?

30% is Fate, The Rest is A Battle

I just watched Shinjuku Incident yesterday. In this movie, Jackie Chan plays an illegal immigrant from China in Tokyo. This movie is his darkest movie ever. Usually he always becomes a nice or innocent guy who happens to have a good skill in martial art, but in this movie, he did not show off his kung fu skill. Instead, he tried to show his acting capability. I enjoyed to see the struggle of the people to pursue their dreams, because I want to see that their hard works pay off. However, later I found that I don't like the story because in this story the Chinese immigrants (led by Steelhead - Jackie Chan) took a shortcut to get money by stealing and cheating. And then, they ended up becoming the Chinese mafia in Shinjuku.

My favorite scene in this movie is when Jie (Daniel Wu) got a cart for selling chestnuts. Jie was the only one in their group that always felt uncomfortable to do crime, therefore all of his friends bought him the cart. In this part, one of they guys happily sang the "Ai Piah Cia Eh Yia" song. (I know I know, you will laugh when you see the clip, it is an oldie). I never known the meaning of the song until I read the English subtitle. The way they translate is also interesting. The guy only sang this part:

三分天注定 七分靠打拼
Thirty percent is Fate, the rest is a battle
(Thirty percent is Heaven's will, Seventy percent is hard work)


爱拼才会赢
You can only win if you love a good battle
(To win, you have to give your all)

Inside the parentheses is an alternative translation.

Indeed, everyday is a battle. You need to win the heart of your customers to buy more of your products, you must win against your boot-licking co-worker, you need to win the trading (if you're a trader), you need to win against your competitors, and you need to win the battle with your own laziness, anxiety, fear etc.

Below is the full translation of the song (taken from here):

At a time when we lose, our ego would naturally blame.
At a time when we fall down, our soul would naturally be terrified
The memory of going through days of losing hopes and getting drunk
My body is without a soul just like a scarecrow
But life really is just like the tide of the sea
They rise and fall by turn
Good luck, Bad luck
Really, you just have to wake up and get to work, do it.
Thirty percent is heaven's will, seventy percent is hard work
To win, you have to give your all.

Including the two things above (fate and hardworking), I believe someone needs to have the following for becoming successful:
1. Fate (talents, opportunities, intelligence)
2. Hardworking (diligence, passions, endurance, fighting spirit)
3. Relationship
4. Smartness and Creativity
5. Audacity
6. Vision and Hope
7. Integrity
8. Resilience
9. Ability to create chances
10. Ability to use a chance

Can you add more?

Fly Me to The Moon - Evangelion - Utada Hikaru

Fly me to the moon And let me play among the stars Won't you let me see what spring is like On Jupiter and Mars In other words, hold my hand In other words, darling kiss me

Fill my heart with song and Let me sing for ever more coz You are all I long for All I worship and adore In other words, please be true In other words, I love you

Cry and Smile

When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile. - by Unknown