Think
Get Ideas
Debate them
Get solid proposal
Put action plan on the proposal
People love the idea, some are even willing to pay for it
You and mates were extremely bungee jumping type happy,
Then people walked up to you and say, "Mate this is international class, simply superb"
Then you would have thought, "Hey I could make a few bucks from this idea".
Nope, CANNOT. That's the WUPID fate.
International event, attended by royalties, supported by one of the biggest banks in Malaysia but you cannot make two bucks out of that nice idea.
It is better to bring Il Divo, better to get FI to be here but not up to the mark when the great idea was Malaysian Made.
Sad, it is great when it is someone else's but not when its your. The wonderful world world of WUPID.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Of Divine Intervention
The CEO of Malaysia Airlines stated loudly that life cannot run away from divine intervention(DI). True and agreed to by many.It is jsut that some people stretch and squirrel the divine intervention part too much for anyone's liking.
HOW DI WORKS:
1. You have a clear profitable objective/s that has been tested and proven by trends and studies.
2. You have a plan.
3. You have action plans with clear vision on the make ups of the people needed to to implement the actions successfully.
4. You implement the actions, they fail... THEN YOU CAN CLAIM IT WAS DI.
Other than that, it is ususally due to lack of planning or even simle laziness. For debaters on a losing streak who canot even convince the poor African to eat free food, well... look at the list above, before blaming adjudicators for your poor result.
HOW DI WORKS:
1. You have a clear profitable objective/s that has been tested and proven by trends and studies.
2. You have a plan.
3. You have action plans with clear vision on the make ups of the people needed to to implement the actions successfully.
4. You implement the actions, they fail... THEN YOU CAN CLAIM IT WAS DI.
Other than that, it is ususally due to lack of planning or even simle laziness. For debaters on a losing streak who canot even convince the poor African to eat free food, well... look at the list above, before blaming adjudicators for your poor result.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Of AllAsians
I was there at the first AllAsians in NTU Singapore. It was amazing we even got there.Lack of funding, no proper address, famous first speaker who decided to skip the event, well all the usual negativities (according to Sir Elton) came on the day we got to Singapore.
Well we got there, me, Daniel and Teh Chee Seng. We had only one plan, pray hard to be the proposition all the time as that was my specialty. I could squirrel a motion that would make Plato himself proud. My second speaker has no understanding of matter what so ever, he was and still is I fancy, the perrenial manner man. Chee Seng, well he was sort of the unholy glue, relentless, repeating all that was worth repeating through wonderful repackaging of our not so strong points combined with the opponents' rebuttals. It went quite well till we got to the octo-finals. Somehow or rather, we were the opposition and as our plan did not cover that particular issue, we were floored through a double squirrel from our namesis.
Fun, it was that first AllAsians. Soon, it may not be around anymore, thanks to idiots who just do not appreciate history. It has been around for 13 years, countless heroes like Peejay Garcia, Prabha Ganesan, Taufik well but to name a few that came through this wonderful tourney. Suddenly, some morons are playing the fool with this long history of fun debating and a sure fire friend making place. Idiots and morons. Am I angry, YES I AM.
Not easy to have a worthy idea
Not easy to build a plan to see the idea become whole
Not easy to see the idea become great
Not easy to get people to believe
Not easy to break down either,
Break it down all you doomsayers,
Tomorrow I will build it back with this bare hands with debaters who love debating and friend making,
It will not take much as the most crucial piece is already there, someone thought of the idea,
Let us not forget the person's contribution to Asian debating and let us not waste the time spent by Omar Sallahudin writing the constitution.
Let us not kill, let us build, together.
Well we got there, me, Daniel and Teh Chee Seng. We had only one plan, pray hard to be the proposition all the time as that was my specialty. I could squirrel a motion that would make Plato himself proud. My second speaker has no understanding of matter what so ever, he was and still is I fancy, the perrenial manner man. Chee Seng, well he was sort of the unholy glue, relentless, repeating all that was worth repeating through wonderful repackaging of our not so strong points combined with the opponents' rebuttals. It went quite well till we got to the octo-finals. Somehow or rather, we were the opposition and as our plan did not cover that particular issue, we were floored through a double squirrel from our namesis.
Fun, it was that first AllAsians. Soon, it may not be around anymore, thanks to idiots who just do not appreciate history. It has been around for 13 years, countless heroes like Peejay Garcia, Prabha Ganesan, Taufik well but to name a few that came through this wonderful tourney. Suddenly, some morons are playing the fool with this long history of fun debating and a sure fire friend making place. Idiots and morons. Am I angry, YES I AM.
Not easy to have a worthy idea
Not easy to build a plan to see the idea become whole
Not easy to see the idea become great
Not easy to get people to believe
Not easy to break down either,
Break it down all you doomsayers,
Tomorrow I will build it back with this bare hands with debaters who love debating and friend making,
It will not take much as the most crucial piece is already there, someone thought of the idea,
Let us not forget the person's contribution to Asian debating and let us not waste the time spent by Omar Sallahudin writing the constitution.
Let us not kill, let us build, together.
Friday, April 3, 2009
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
It is disheartening when I heard about the big bonus pay off for AIG's top execs. It will take a great line up of debaters to be able to defend that line.
This era of slumps and lumps, we should go back to the French Revolutionary era and revisit an old but extremely suitable concept in this current climate. We are all guilty until proven innocent or rather people in certain climates or involved in certain issues should be seen as part of the environment till they are viewed as heroes, saviour,etc. This undoubetedly should include the AIG execs who should prove their worth before taking the bonus, Obama who should see the economy climb a bit more before being paraded as a saviour in Europe and also Najib Razak who should really have a couple of dozen weeks excluding honeymoons, to rectify the money politics, Malay issues, etc.
Let us get the prososal to show result first before crediting anyone with anything. It is at times so useless to ask those who cannot comprehend the concept of numbers to count.
Simply put, bright ideas do not equal result. Get us some result first o' great execs and leaders of the world or forever would you be the bane of the debaters who in a debate have to be the side that defend your unproven but highly rewarded proposal.
Litany o litany of boredom and unfathomable frustations.
This era of slumps and lumps, we should go back to the French Revolutionary era and revisit an old but extremely suitable concept in this current climate. We are all guilty until proven innocent or rather people in certain climates or involved in certain issues should be seen as part of the environment till they are viewed as heroes, saviour,etc. This undoubetedly should include the AIG execs who should prove their worth before taking the bonus, Obama who should see the economy climb a bit more before being paraded as a saviour in Europe and also Najib Razak who should really have a couple of dozen weeks excluding honeymoons, to rectify the money politics, Malay issues, etc.
Let us get the prososal to show result first before crediting anyone with anything. It is at times so useless to ask those who cannot comprehend the concept of numbers to count.
Simply put, bright ideas do not equal result. Get us some result first o' great execs and leaders of the world or forever would you be the bane of the debaters who in a debate have to be the side that defend your unproven but highly rewarded proposal.
Litany o litany of boredom and unfathomable frustations.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Life and the gig
My life is fantastic.
Always full of wonderful gigs
Always full of wonderful people
None more so than my beautiful wife
She is my main gig, the one who would be behind all gigs, past - present - future.
My gigs are great and my lfe is fantastic.
Lucky me, hopeful for others too.
Always full of wonderful gigs
Always full of wonderful people
None more so than my beautiful wife
She is my main gig, the one who would be behind all gigs, past - present - future.
My gigs are great and my lfe is fantastic.
Lucky me, hopeful for others too.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Of Perception
We are bias. Period. Continous. As we are humans.
So...
Find ways, steps, guides to reduce heuristic and biases.
1. Forget names
2. Forget photos
3. Forget even religion when looking at someone.
4. Do those again.
* Now you are at the first step of being less bias.
Like all new steps, it will take a while to get use to these methods but in a while through consistency and belief, it'll be a habit. An allmighty good one.
So...
Find ways, steps, guides to reduce heuristic and biases.
1. Forget names
2. Forget photos
3. Forget even religion when looking at someone.
4. Do those again.
* Now you are at the first step of being less bias.
Like all new steps, it will take a while to get use to these methods but in a while through consistency and belief, it'll be a habit. An allmighty good one.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Winning and having Fun
I have been debating and playing rugby all my adult life. At 38, I'm sure that the second option will not be with me that much longer. Nonetheless, with 6 previous fractures, two torn ligaments and stitiches (luckily covered by still black hair) all over, I'm still playing and I still want to play. The eagerness of waiting for a game, the willingness to break speed limit to drive to a game after an outstation stint, the sheer wanting to play or watching my mates play is vehemently undeniable.
I do believe, in terms of accolades, even my Phd reserch is on debates, skills and ability, debate would be the better choice for me. Sadly, it just does not have the feel of fun these days. There would not be that many friends or fans who would gasp at a hard tackle and wishing loudly that your are okay. The last two debate tourneys I went to however, I got to see a lot of smugs and punks who participated. Blokes who could not say two nice words to their opposition without trying to inject their supposed intelligence superiority over everyone. Arrogance is the name of the game. Yes being arrogant is a posture that you can employ but usually it is only for those big cans who are loud but have no substance inside.
Ladies and gents, if you're good, you're good. There is no point having this air of hollier than thou surrounding you. That is why I loath to go to debate events nowadays except for some select few. That is also the reason why I would rather train school students than college or university ones adhering to Malone/Sean Connery in 'The Untouchables' that if the apples in the barrel are rotten, then we should go the the trees.
That is also why I would rather play agains brute men who named their team Dogs of the Royal Selangor Club but saluted your team at the end for giving them a good game (we lost 4-2). they realized that a good game is more fun and it will also help them raise their game.
I do believe, in terms of accolades, even my Phd reserch is on debates, skills and ability, debate would be the better choice for me. Sadly, it just does not have the feel of fun these days. There would not be that many friends or fans who would gasp at a hard tackle and wishing loudly that your are okay. The last two debate tourneys I went to however, I got to see a lot of smugs and punks who participated. Blokes who could not say two nice words to their opposition without trying to inject their supposed intelligence superiority over everyone. Arrogance is the name of the game. Yes being arrogant is a posture that you can employ but usually it is only for those big cans who are loud but have no substance inside.
Ladies and gents, if you're good, you're good. There is no point having this air of hollier than thou surrounding you. That is why I loath to go to debate events nowadays except for some select few. That is also the reason why I would rather train school students than college or university ones adhering to Malone/Sean Connery in 'The Untouchables' that if the apples in the barrel are rotten, then we should go the the trees.
That is also why I would rather play agains brute men who named their team Dogs of the Royal Selangor Club but saluted your team at the end for giving them a good game (we lost 4-2). they realized that a good game is more fun and it will also help them raise their game.
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