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Financial Freedom (courtesy of Scott H Young)

I came across this interesting person's site: www.scotthyoung.com And I kind of like one of the points he raised, in his take on the three aspects to financial freedom. Let me just brutally copy and paste his writing here: A Low Poverty Threshold The poverty threshold is a term I use to describe the minimum amount of money you need to enjoy a comfortable life. Some people require $70,000 per year for comfort. Other people need less than $10,000. A low poverty threshold means you could be perfectly content with a bare minimum of material conveniences. If all your savings were stripped from you, and your income was reduced by 80%, could you still enjoy yourself? Or would you be miserable having to adjust to a lower level of income. Your poverty threshold is psychological. It’s not about actually having to survive poverty. Having a low threshold simply means you’d be willing to sacrifice more to make bigger changes. For example, iimagine your poverty threshold was roughly $50,000 per

Dragon Inn

Woo.. For some inexplicable reason.. This is one of my favorite wuxia OST of all time. I also dunno why.. But glad to find it in youtube. They don't make proper wuxia series anymore nowadays. Even if there is.. it is like 1 title for the last 3 years.

Ah Pek's Life

When men gets older, they get to know more things, and thus they could talk more and longer, sounds wiser, and yet.. they get to do less things. they have lesser courage to take risks. Just spend an hour in a crowded coffee shop. If we are lucky, we will listen to some interesting conversation among some knowledgeable ah peks.. who seems to know it all. But that's what they do.. they watch, they criticise, they watch, they talk. You ask them to try something.. they will give you all their 'risk analysis' and tell you.. "Cannot do one lah.. it's too risky!" and when a courageous young man tries and fails.. they tell you.. "Told you so.. where got so easy?" I am really worried that we are heading there. I hope and try not to. Maybe that's how Coral comes about. Instead of watching how the car COE rises.. complain about it.. predict when it will come down, bla bla bla.. I just listen to the heart.. and go for it. And ask God to provide for me.. make

Relentless Pursuit

Sellers are getting greedier, buyers are living in the past. Some expect tough times ahead. But I can't afford to do so. Because my Father is greater than all these. And because I am carrying His genes of greatness. I don't have the luxury to sit back and give up. The only option I have.. is to relentlessly pursue.. and relentlessly trust in my Banner of Victory. Because my Father.. He makes no provision for failure.

How to Train Your Dragon?

'the scene that leaves me with deepest impression' A good title (that brought up some laughter when I bought the tic with ika today).. and what a dragon.. what a movie. Love it! To begin with.. it got vikings.. those crazy folks.. they remind me of Asterix and Obelix. Love them! The battle crazy vikings. And it got a cool dragon nicknamed the night fury.. aka.. 'toothless'. And it got a lot of brilliant ideas.. packed into an entertaining 98 minutes show. When was the last time I felt this satisfied watching a movie? Was it 'Cloudy with a chance of meatball'?
No matter how hard a man try, no matter how smart he could ever be, there is nothing he can do apart from You.. and nothing would ever prosper apart from You.. Yesus pokok.. dan kitalah carangnya.. tinggalah didalamNya.. pastilah.. kau akan.. berbuah... Thank you Jesus.. for your grace tonight.. as I am humbled again by your steadfast love. my Lord.. Immanuel..
it doesn't feel the same without your laughter filling the air i am breathing something is missing without your presence filling the space beside me.

Quiet

and it's all quiet.. it's all silent.. words are slowly vanishing.. life.. it sparks.. in its beautifully wordless way.. and love.. it grows.. in its trustfully wordless form.. words are losing their purpose.. when everything is understood.