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I walked into the Popular bookstore located at the Bras Basah complex today and I saw this book by the title of “The Secret” was displaying at the shelf. Actually, this is not the first time that I have seen this book. In fact, I have seen “The Secret” book and other books relating to it many times at different bookstores such as Times, MPH, Borders, Harris, Kinokuniya and so on.

Although I have not read “The Secret” book before, I roughly know what this book is talking about. This is because I attended the Wealth Academy program in November 2007 and the trainer was Adam Khoo who had shown us the sneak preview video of “The Secret” stories.

I find that “The Secret” is an inspiring video which has been featured in an issue of the TIME magazine. Besides this, it has also been featured on the Oprah Winfrey’s and Larry King’s TV talk shows respectively. By looking at these, you can tell how popular “The Secret” video is. 

So, what exactly is the video or book talking about then? What is the secret of “The Secret” video? Well, the answer to “The Secret” is : “Law of Attraction“. It is all about personal development and positive thinking. The like attracts the like so it is very important for us to have positive thinking in order to help us to sweep away any obstacles along the path of our life journey. In another words, we can say that our mind is like a magnet which has the capability to attract things. It has the power to attract those things that respond to what we are thinking in our mind.

I believe you might have experienced bumping into someone whom you have been thinking about lately on the street. Could it be a coincident? Maybe yes, it is a coincident. But what if you have exprienced it a few times? Wow, you better hurry up, go and buy a lottery ticket. HA! HA!

Well, what I’m trying to say is that this could be the effect of the “Law of Attraction”. Imagine what it will be like if you keep thinking about and focusing on the bad things. More bad things might be bothering you because the negative thinking will attract even more bad things to come and haunt you. This is really scary, right?

I would not want the negative thoughts to become a burden to me because I want to live a happy life all throughout my life. Therefore, I think it is very important for me to train myself to think positively. Hopefully, all the good things will soon be attracting to me.

Here is a sneak preview video of “The Secret” on YouTube. Hope you enjoy watching it :

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I used to dislike cats in the past and I don’t really know why. I guess it is maybe because cats are not as friendly as dogs. Or maybe because dog lovers can never be cat lovers both at the same time. Is this a myth? Probably, it is a myth that forces people to choose either cats or dogs.

I started to like cats after I had teased a cat out of boredom last year. This cat is black and white in colour. She always hangs around at the HDB multi-storey car park where I park my car near my house. The cat has been living there since two years ago but I only get close to her recently. I called her ArMeow.

Let me recall how I know ArMeow and how we have become good friends. On a fine Sunday, I was walking towards the staircase after I had parked my car. I turned back and noticed that a black and white stray cat was staring at me. I teased the cat by calling her “Meow Meow”. To my surprise, the cat was running towards me. I was very frightened to see the cat approaching me. Then, I started to make the dog sound : “Woof Woof”. To my surprise again, the cat stopped running immediately.

I was very delighted to see the cat had stopped running. Again, I started to call her “Meow Meow”. As expected, the cat started to run towards me again. Then, I mischieviously repeated the “Meow Meow” here and “Woof Woof” there several times until the cat was running near. I was so frightened and thought that the cat would come and scratch me so I ran away as quickly as I could as if I was running for my life.

A few days later, I went to the car park to get my car. ArMeow – the black and white stray cat appeared suddenly and gave me a shock. I was worrying that she might harm me but she didn’t. She leaned her body against my legs and instantly I can feel that the cat likes me. I found that the cat was cute and lovely when I looked into her dark round eyes. This was the moment that I started to like cats.

ArMeow is different from other cats. She is friendly, lovely and approachable. She would run towards me and lean her body against my legs whenever she sees me at the car park. To me, ArMeow behaves more like a dog than like a cat. She is very doglike and I suspect that ArMeow might be a dog-disguised cat.

ArMeow is my good companion. She keeps me company and chases away my boredom. I like ArMeow very much. Yes, I like cats now.

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After hunting for a few days, I have finally found deep-fried soft-shell crabs selling in a Thai restaurant located at Serangoon Gardens. My nephew and I went in to the restaurant and ordered two packets of deep-fried soft-shell crabs for take-away.

While waiting for the food to be ready, my 10-year old nephew was asking me a few questions about soft-shell crabs out of his usual curiosity. Questions like : “Why was soft-shell crab less common than hard-shell crab?”, “Where did soft-shell crab come from?”, “Where else can we buy soft-shell crab?”, “How much was soft-shell crab?”, “Why was the shell of the soft-shell crab so soft?” and so on.

Arghhh!!! The more questions that my nephew asked, the more question marks that I have had above my head. Frankly speaking, I have no clues at all. I’m neither an Encyclopedia nor a Wikipedia. How would I know? Then, I noticed that a waiter was standing quite near where we were sitting and overheard our conversation. So, I told my nephew to channel all his queries to the waiter whom I thought might have some answers readily available since he served food to the customer in the restaurant.

Guess what? The waiter returned a funny grin and then walked away smiling. Probably, he found the conversations between my nephew and myself were very funny. I guess the waiter might not know the answers either. We were left alone with our unanswered questions about soft-shell crabs.

The two packets of deep-fried soft-shell crabs were finally ready to be taken away. We took the food and then left the Thai restaurant with many question marks floating above our heads just like a Halo. Well, I’m determined to find out more information about soft-shell crabs when I get back home.

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I love interesting and meaningful quotes since I was a student. Quotes are usually short and sharp. Sometimes, a simple sentence is more than enough to paint a beautiful picture or to tell a great story. It is usually full of wisdom and full of philosophy.

Here is a quote from Confucius :

This is one of my favourite quotes. I like it because it spires me to write down things or ideas that come to my mind before they are gone forever. It helps me in my work to jot down important points in my handbook in case I forget about it the next moment.

Many a times, my colleagues or counter-parts would tell me that it is not necessary for them to write something down during training because they can use their brain to remember it. Fine, I just shrug my shoulders and let them be.

Guess what? Many of my colleagues cannot remember what they have learned during the training when it comes to the practical test setup. They still need to refer to my handbook for the test procedure and steps. Suddenly, my handbook comes in handy to make their work easier and more efficient.

Otherwise, my colleagues would have to crack their head if they were to solely rely on their supposedly very powerful memories to do their job.

I often feel that it is true that people can remember things well one day or three days or even seven days from now. They may remember the things two weeks later. However, I can assure you that the memory fades faster that you can imagine one month down the road.

It is especially true and tough if a person’s age is catching up. So, don’t let your memory to betray you. Start the habit of writing something down. You will be glad that you did.

Therefore, we have to remember this sentence :

“The palest ink is more reliable than the most powerful memory.”

Thanks to Confucius for his excellent quote. It is full of wisdom, isn’t it?

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My sister and I went to Far East Square for shopping at Orchard in December 2007. I parked my car at the basement carpark and I saw a bright-orange rare vehicle that caught my eyes instantly. However, I cannot figure out what it was because it doesn’t look like a normal car. This toy-like rare vehicle has 3 wheels and a steering wheel. Its seat is only enough for one passenger.

We were very excited and delighted to see this 3-wheeled vehicle. I was so curious and I rushed towards it to have a closer look. I got my camera and took a few pictures of this rare vehicle. Other on-lookers were as curious as us and they went closer to scrutinise it.

A few months later, I read an article reported in the Straits Times talking about this 3-wheeled rare vehicle too. Then, I get to know that this bright-orange 3-wheeled vehicle is actually an electric car. Its name is called Corbin Sparrow. In fact, this is the only 3-wheeled and single-passenger car registered in Singapore. Its car owner is a teacher at the American school by the name of James Diebley. He imported the car from California-based Corbin Motors back in 2001.

The Corbin Sparrow electric car runs on lead-acid batteries which cost less than $1 SGD a day to charge. It can run with a top speed of 110kmh and a range of 30-50 km. This 3-wheeled vehicle is classified as a motorcycle in some countries but it is registered as a car over here in Singapore.

According to the Land Transport Authority of Singapore, the Sparrow exceeded the 400kg maximum weight for a motorcycle. It weighs about 700kg and ‘has several car-like features such as a steering wheel, an enclosed body and doors’, said a spokesman. The Sparrow is powered by 13 lead-acid batteries which drive an electric motor connected to the rear wheel via a belt. It has a top speed of about 110kmh and a range of 30-50km.

I think it is not important whether or not the Corbin Sparrow is a car or a motorcycle. It is indeed a very unique vehicle. If you want to get famous, probably you should get a Corbin Sparrow and drive it around. You will definitely gain a lot of attention and attract many on-lookers to admire your 3-wheeled single-passenger eletric vehicle.

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