Do what I love

I get slightly annoyed when people think I take too much holiday or spending too much money on traveling. People might think I take advantage from working at family business - flexible in holiday and better pay.

Ok, I might be travelled more than some people. However, I disagree with the time and money. I guess most people's travel involve some sort of money (flight, luxury hotel, tour,etc) and taking long leave from work but it is not how I travel. All my travels are cheap and well time management.

• Book flight during promotion - it means you book your flight six months in advance. All my flights are 50% cheaper than normal prices. 
• Utilize the network - I only choose those countries which I could potential get a free bed or cheap accommodation. I do not mind sleeping on some couches. If I have to pay, will make sure it is good value (cheap and good) 
• Be a local - I will try my best to be local rather than tourist. I am reluctant to pay ridiculous price for those must do/see activities or places. It does not really matter for me. I enjoy meeting people and the local culture. It also makes my trip cheap. 
• Plan it smart - I do lots of calculation on cost and time to maximize the money value before any decision. 
• Be efficient and responsible - taking leave may be hard for most Asian company. I do agree that it is one of the advantages when working for family. For me, as long as I finish my work, I do not have to stay in the office 24/7 to prove that I am hardworking or anything. 

This is my travel philosophy. I enjoy travel more than anything at the moment. I want to maximize my travel experiences when I still have the freedom. I know it will be harder when I have more responsible in the future. This is what I love so stop judging me!!

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TEDxKL

I was quite excited about TEDxKL. It was an opportunity for me to reconnect with the ideas, positive energy and passionate people in Malaysia. There are 11 speakers from different part of the society.

Amongst all the speaker, there are two speakers, Peter Nicoll and Aloha Lavina, really got me thinking. Peter from Scotland is running a Community Action Group based in KL to "get people off the street" (address the symptoms of both urban and rural poverty through street food programmes, etc). I was shock that we have 770,000 population in KL are hard poor, living on the street and with hunger. It is HUGE but how many of us in KL actually aware of it and trying to do something to help them. I really appreciate a foreigner, has no responsible to this city/country, but doing such an amazing things for us.

Aloha Lavina, who is a photographer based in Bangkok. First, I love her accent and the words she were using during her presentation. It just sounds so beautiful. It is very interesting to see the world through a photographer philosophy. Three messages she was trying to delivery in the 18minutes - trust process instead of the end result, have fun and pure awareness (Attention shapes reality). She mentioned that you will stop having fun when you are losing your attention. I totally agree with it. At the end, she wrapped up with a phase "The World Is Your Idea". Believing in and focusing on our idea we can shape the world we want.

Pramesh Chandran, who is a technopreneur and was appointed as CEO of TIME dotCom in 2008, is another good speaker. He has given lots of very useful information to the audience why the broadband speed in Malaysia is way behind developed countries and countries in Asia which has high speed broadband with affordable price. It was way out of my imagine how many other parties, government are responsible to this. Except his overtime speech, it was a very informative and interesting presentation.

This event has inspired me to be more proactive and actually make a change in Malaysia society. There are so much I can do and need to be done but what I have I done to make a change in the past eight months? I always want to be an entrepreneur and owning a business. However, I do not want to be someone who only care about how much profit in their business. Impact that I could create always my motivation. I am very excited when I know there are people actually have the same dream as me out there and I am not alone.

p.s. Congratz to a very successful event with great speakers and audiences. One part I was very impressive was the organiser tried very hard to make sure everything on time. It is very rare amongst Malaysia's events. Although it is not perfect, I do see the effort and it is what Malaysian should learn to be.

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Obedience to the parent

As Asian/Chinese children, we seem to be obedience to our parent's order  or wish. Even though we're not happy or disagree with their opinion, order or decision, we most likely will obey. Remember during high school (even now), I get very frustrated when friend make their decision based on their parent wish. The most common is  their degree and at the end they don't even know why they are getting that degree.

I was trying very hard to live and do thing in my own way, however, I could not completely escape from this tradition or "responsibility". May be this is what they society has brain-wash us since young.

I am glad that my parent always give me lots of freedom in making decision.  may be i'm not listening However, when they are getting older, they intend to persuade you to stay and live with them. You will feel bad/shit if you're not doing what they wish although deep down you prefer to go for your own path and way. I completely understand how they feel but I think parent should also take initiative when managing their elderly, like making new friends, join activities, etc. It can't just be their child's responsible of making sure they are happy. Pls putting so much hope on your children, it could reduced the indirect pressure to their child and both parties will be happier.

It is such a conflict feeling for me when deciding between parent's life and my life. Hopefully I'll remember how I feel now; so when I am getting old, I'll be a cool and happy old lady/mum without worrying my family.

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