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Breath-Taking Bicycle Stunts By Danny MacAskill


I didn’t know that there were so much that we could do on a bicycle until I watched a video clip featuring an amazing and breath-taking bicycle stunt.

A 23 year-old young man named Danny MacAskill has produced a set of stunts on his bicycle. Most of the moves are very breath-taking and they include riding across spiked railings, leaping across three-storey buildings, backflipping off a tree and so on.

Danny MacAskill is a street trial biker who rides for fun hoping that other riders would like his video filmed by his flatmate called Dave Sowerby. The filming was taken place in Edinburgh over a few months to capture every tricks done by Danny MacAskill.

Apparently, he has mastered an incredibly dangerous form of Bike Parkour (the art of movement) that people use every available urban or rural platform to choreograph a set of stunts.

The bicycle that Danny MacAskill uses to do his biking stunts is specially designed for street trial riding. I wonder how many bikes he has had replaced so far whenever a mistake is made 🙂

Enjoy the amazing video clip entitled “Inspired Bicycles” :

Motivational Tip – Kick Away Your Excuses And Start Living In A Positive Direction


Many a time, we hear people around us giving endless excuses for not doing the things that they were supposed to do or were planning to do.

The excuses that they usually give are “no time”, “too busy”, “too difficult to do”, “I love to but…”, “do it some other time”, “don’t have the mood”, “not having enough sleep”, ” have better things to do”, “do it tomorrow” and the list goes on……………………………

I find that the most common excuse among all is to say you are busy. Oh boy, who is not? I feel that if you have the heart to complete a task, you will definitely find time for it. You are determined to make it happen no matter what is stopping you.

If you have loads of excuses and are not successful in realising your dreams, it is obvious that you are the only one who is holding yourself back from success.In fact, you are doing damage to yourself. You have got yourself to blame because you set a goal and then you throw a huge mountain in front of it.

You are responsible for your actions and the situation that you may be in. If you got yourself there, you can definitely get out of it as well.

You have to know that there is always someone out there who is much more worst off than you. They face greater challenges than you do but the fortunate thing is that they didn’t allow their limitation to limit them from realising their dreams.

These extraordinary people are willing to do whatever it takes to achieve their goals and become the best person that they could be. They are highly motivated people who do not allow useless excuses to get in their way. You see, they give no excuses.

So, it is time to kick away your excuses and start living in a positive direction.

Get motivated and inspired by watching the video clip that features Warhawk Matt Scott in NikeNo Excuses‘ Commercial.

Yunnan-Style Seafood Hot Pot


I have had a taste of Yunnan-Style Seafood Hot Pot when I was having my dinner at a Chinese steamboat restaurant this evening.

I’m used to Cantonese-style Hot Pot or steamboat but I seldom have the chance to try out regional variations such as Taiwan, China (Chongqing, Chengdu, Sichuan, Yunnan, etc.), Thailand, Vietnam and so on.

So, I had decided to try out the China style and ordered a personal set of Yunnan-style seafood Hot Pot today. The waitress told me that there was an option of adding milk to the soup. Since I wanted to try something different, I chose to have milk mixing with the soup for my order.

Yunnan-Style Seafood Hot Pot with Milk :

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The ingredients include tomatoes, mushrooms, broccoli, prawns, fish slices, mussel, squids, glass noodles and crab meats. Some of these ingredients of the Yunnan-style seafood Hot Pot are not commonly seen in the Cantonese-style.

Iced Jasmine Green Tea :

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The iced Jasmine green tea definitely helps to cool down the heatiness after taking the whole pot of steamy seafood Hot Pot during dinner time. I like the glass bottle which looks like a cup as well as a jar.

I feel that the taste of the Yunnan-style is more plain than that of the Cantonese-style Hot Pot. In conclusion, I still prefer the Cantonese-style to the Yunnan-style Hot Pot.

Photo-Editing Tip – Create Your Own Motivational Poster


I often see motivational posters either displaying on the shelf inside the bookstores or hanging on the walls inside the office. I believe the posters will act as a reminder if not stimulus to get you motivated in your everyday working life.

Ever wonder how nice it would be like if you could create your own motivational posters. You can select the picture that you like, type in the motivational texts and choose the colour that you want.

I just came across a website that allows the users to custom make the motivational posters for free. What you need to do is to upload your picture, choose your design, type in some texts and hit the “Create” button. As simple as that!

Here is my custom-made motivational poster entitled “Persistence“.

http://laingan.com/images/2motivator-persistence-big-ants-and-leaves1

Click on this link to access ==> Create Your Own Motivational Poster

Hope you have fun!

Three Reasons As To Why We Must Always Be Learning New Skills


As mentioned in my previous Blog post, we must always be ready to learn new skills especially when we are experiencing a major shift into technology-driven economies. Otherwise, those things that we know might soon be out-dated or irrelevant.

We have got no choice but to follow the trend if we wanted to stay up to par with the latest techonologies in order not to lose out to others.

There are thousands and one reasons as to why we have to learn new skills. I’m going to list down 3 reasons only over here. If not, the list can go on and on.

Firstly, it is good to learn new skills because this will make you a more versatile person who is often if not always ready to work on any kind of projects that might be assigned to you.

Secondly, the more skill sets that you have mastered will help you to pick up new ones easier and faster. It is like learning cooking, once you know how to cook 3 or 4 recipes, it becomes very easy to learn a new one.

Thirdly, if you are working online such as doing Internet marketing stuff, it is essential for you to learn how to design websites, design graphics, write simple programming codes and so on because the web is the fastest changing environment that we have.

So, it is time to have a good thought and stop your procrastination right now. Do your own brain-storming and start picking up a few new skills right away.