1 week without Salsa...

makes me feel really weird...

I WANNA DANCE DANCE DANCE!


was surfing the net earlier on, and i came across this story on motivateus.com. found it quite interesting.

What Really Matters In Life

A vacationing American businessman was standing on the pier of a quaint coastal fishing village in southern Mexico when a small boat with just one young fisherman pulled into the dock. Inside the small boat were several large yellow fin tuna.

The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish.

"How long did it take you to catch them?" the American casually asked.

"Oh, a few hours," the Mexican replied.

"Why don't you stay out longer and catch more fish?" the American businessman then asked.

The Mexican warmly replied, "With this I have more than enough to support my family's needs."

The businessman then became serious, "But what do you do with the rest of your time?"

Responding with a smile, the Mexican fisherman answered, "I sleep late, play with my children, watch ballgames, and take siesta with my wife. Sometimes in the evenings I take a stroll into the village to see my friends, play the guitar, sing a few songs..."

The American businessman impatiently interrupted:

"Look, I have an MBA from Harvard, and I can help you to be more profitable. You can start by fishing several hours longer every day. You can then sell the extra fish you catch.

With the extra money, you can buy a bigger boat. With the additional income that larger boat will bring, you can then buy a second boat, a third one, and so on, until you have an entire fleet of fishing boats.

Then, instead of selling your catch to a middleman you'll be able to sell your fish directly to the processor, or even open your own cannery. Eventually, you could control the product, processing and distribution.

You could leave this tiny coastal village and move to Mexico City, or possibly even LA or New York City, where you could even further expand your enterprise."

Having never thought of such things, the Mexican fisherman asked, "But how long will all this take?"

After a rapid mental calculation, the businessman pronounced, "Probably about 15-20 years, maybe less if you work really hard."

"And then what, senor?" asked the fisherman.

"Why, that's the best part!" answered the businessman with a laugh. "When the time is right, you would sell your company stock to the public and become very rich. You would make millions."

"Millions? Really? What could I do with it all?" asked the young fisherman in disbelief.

The businessman boasted, "Then you could happily retire with all the money you've made. You could move to a quaint coastal fishing village where you could sleep late, play with your grandchildren, watch ballgames, take siesta with your wife, and stroll to the village in the evenings where you could play the guitar and sing with your friends all you want."

The moral of the story is: Know what really matters in life, and you may find that it is already much closer than you think.
a thousand and one thoughts crammed in my puny brain...

but so what?
Bailamos 2009 is over. had a really great time at Zouk. :D

pictures:

while performing

while performing the final stunt, the yoyo.

about to flip and drop the girl...

voila! it's done.

the ladies, with Gary (our instructor).

the gentlemen, with Gary.

all together now!
my life's been pretty busy for the past week.

school started (sighs, groans, complains, moans, grumbles etc.), and i'm having really intensive salsa training recently...

had training every day for the past week, and this will continue till the day of the actual Bailamos event. yea it's tiring, but i'm still kinda enjoying it. :D

Jive & Lindy Hop look really fun. considering to take up lessons. hmm...

i'm beginning to believe that there are no happy endings in real life.
just remembered why i even logged in into blogger. LOL!

it's to blog abt what happened ealier today.

went out with catherine to watch movie.

had late lunch aft tt.

then we talked n talked.

it's always interesting chatting with cathering, even though it always revolves ard the same few topics. hahaha!


i'm a "it's all or nothing" kinda person.
updates!

had an exciting expedition holiday in m'sia from 2nd to 5th Jan. technically it was supposed to fulfil our NYAA Gold Adventurous Journey section, but now i'm not too sure. nevertheless, the trip was AWESOME! i'm not really into describing evry itsy bitsy detail rite now, and i'm all too lazy to upload pictures (in fact i don't even have a single 1), BUT i will briefly go thru the major events for the trip.

so we met on the evening of the 2nd, and we took a bus to JB. we transferred to a train tt very nite, and chug'ed the nite away to ipoh (or near thr). couldn't really get to sleep on the train, especially when the train stopped moving. lol!

reached the right train stn on the morning of the 3rd, then we had to take a mini-bus up the mountains/hills to Gopeng Rainforest Resort. quickly dumped our stuff down, packed our daypack, and we were off for some WHITEWATER RAFTING. woohoo! well it was raining the whole day, even b4 we started rafting, so the river was like EXCITING (and thankfully not too dangerous). whitewater rafting was a hell lotta fun, especially for the 1st half of the river course, where the rapids were really big and violent. the raft i was in got stuck at the rapids twice. and it was dam tough to get it back on course. very fun though. the only bad parts were tt i didn't manage to fall into the water (coz i sat too far in on the raft), and the raining weather (which made the river water C-O-L-D... and nearly eveything else cold as well).
lunch was immediately aft rafting, under some shelter. got a lil drier, but still felt v cold. brr... anw the ride on the pick-up to our lunchpoint (and also to many other points thruout the trip) was like some GAME for many of us - avoid the leaves and branches!
after lunch, we went caving. everything was kinda boring till we came to a point where we had to abseil down this rather steep wall. from there, things got more challenging. it became really pitch dark, and we were required to bend low/crawl through certain sections. dark, mosquitoes-filled, and an uneven rocky ground. simply amazing. hahaha!
the evening/night was spent slacking at the resort, playing table-tennis, mahjong, carrom, cards and chess.

The next day, we had some forest trekking to find a rafflesia flower. the trek wasn't too bad, typical actually. muddy, slippery, and a lil rough at some point. but there was 1 very interesting thing abt the trek. evry1 spent 99% of the time looking at their legs; looking out for bloodsucking LEECHES! didn't really manage to spot them initially, coz they were tiny (imo). but aft viviana got bitten, i knew what to look out for. haha! anw despite wearing longs, socks and covered shoes, i still got bitten. those nasty little squishies managed to bite through my socks and drink my precious blood! Peter, junliang, james, and guodong were the worst i must say. blood blood and more blood!
went for some WET fun in the afternn by playing at some waterfall. didn't really spend much time thr, coz we didn't have much to spare. lol.
left the resort in the late aftnn n took the train from ipoh all the way back to s'pore. talked with shawn, peter and ciyi for a long long time on the train. abt scouts stuff.

5th Jan. we reached the train station at harbourfront at ard 8.30am. had breakfast at Mac's, then we walked the nature trails. walk and walk. rested in between. but tt's abt it. no mood to write anymore. hah!

go to facebook for the pictures. shawn uploaded em. hehe.

tmr's (today rather) gonna b an exciting day.
AHS CCA Orientation
SIM Salsa Performance Training
Y Camp Red Titans Gathering
i'm feelin' phuckin' emo & pissed.

stupid things. stupid reactions. stupid emotions.
gah!
hello 2009!

psst psst! can i be honest with you?

you don't seem any special to me.
oopsy! =x

& i'm only wishing for greater optimism in the new year of two-o-o-nine.