A Legacy

1. Money or property bequeathed to another by will.
2. Something handed down from an ancestor or a predecessor or from the past

A Legacy is a life not wasted, we all want to live/leave a legacy. This definition made Legacy sound like a materialistic girl, but we all know there is more to it. To leave a mark on this world, to be known to have made a difference to many lives and move hearts.

Today, I saw my lil sissy beaming at me, smiling from ear to ear, she made her own little sales, and I brought her down to make her order, looking at her eager to touch every make-up on the counter, looking at me, pleading me to "let me just stay here". I felt like the older brother I should be, giving my sissy the support she needs and then see her soar.

Today I gave the most precious person in my life her first facial from me. It was the best experience ever, to be giving my mum a facial, I felt like I did my little part of being a loving son. I want to wipe away these wrinkles, these time inflicted wounds on the most courageous woman in my life. To tell you how much your support mean to me and how grateful for all the things you do for us.

And so, it wasn't much... but what an eventful day! My little foot prints slowly painting my legacy, starting from my family, and my friends. Had my first house meeting, with my lil sissy, and my best friends, we talked about life, about our future. Isn't this how we should live? To be constantly challenging ourselves and people around us, to do better and to want better. Passion, some say overrated, but this is what I live for. My fortune teller says I am 'fire', there a flame in me that burns so brightly. I'd say,"Be careful, don't get scalded". ;)

Be somebody, live it for something meaningful, and I always say this, "We only live once, what are you going to do with it?"


Think about your life, and make something out of it. And one day, people will say "He's been here, and he made it all better".

Be SOMEBODY!

Try or Cry

Beautiful day! First thing that strike me on days like this, is to go for a swim,  my love for swimming stems from my younger days of asthma attacks, then my parents figure it will be best if I picked up swimming :S pretty risky if you ask me.

So with a hop in my stride, I went to the pool, strip down to my trunks, wash myself by the poolside shower, WHAT A BEAUTIFUL DAY! You know how it feels to have the sun beating lightly on your back and you're having a cool shower, ready to jump into the pool. Ok, so this happened, me ready for my swim, I stretched my goggles.......and......."SNAP". Sh*t.

There goes my beautiful day :( so could this be it? I came here all the way for a nice shower by the pool and that's it? I cannot accept my fate. What a twist of event. Things didn't go my way, but did I have to go home? They must have some goggles lying around somewhere since it is freakin a pool.

So I got out of the pool and approached the lifeguard post, "excuse me, (swinging my broken goggles), sorry, if you might have...", "Here you go", sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet, and he just whipped me a pair so swiftly like he already prepared for my arrival.

I can't help thinking about the POWER of TRYing, when things don't go your way and you seek a solution. I could have gone home crying, blaming my ill fate. Don't blame your fate, there is nothing you can do about it, it is how you can react accordingly. A friend's dad told us this when we were pondering over if we should call a friend out, "If you never try, you will never know", the lifeguard could have said sorry they are out of extra goggles, but if I never tried, I would never know; my chances for a swim would have been ZERO, when I asked, I changed the probability to 50%. That's a huge number jump in statistics if you ask me.Haha!

Wise words from my best friend,

Love your fate, change your attitude, you will be able to achieve greatness. That is my believe, if you will believe in it too.

Weight of the world

Rainy days again, we get this periodically in the year over a few months. Horrible for a scooter rider like me, to have myself drenched from neck down just because I have my helmet on. And then the sight of the city centre came to my attention, the clouds came down and swallowed half of all the buildings.

There I witness the weight of the world, because being wet, I felt burdened, I felt gravity working harder on me. The clouds took on weight and they descend because they too carried weight. Then I talk, words carry weight too, but mine they never "sank", I realize how empty my words can be, so "weightless" and so superficial.

Who am I? Why am I such a hypocrite? why do I give people my words when sometimes I know I don't mean it, "I'll think about it", "let me look through it first", "I'll let you know later", things like that when in fact, I already know the answer. You see what I mean when my words do not have weight? They are just pleasantries, meant to protect my image, or cushion your pride, I cannot figure which.

How much do your words weigh? Can you back every word you say with conviction? Constructing your words and sentences as flawless as a finely cut diamond? Is it possible to make your words weigh as much as it is meant to be?

Chris Medina sang this, "what are words when you don't really mean them when you say them, what are words if they're only for good times then they don't"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQY4dIxY1H4

This got to change, I need to work on this, I want to stand by my words, I want to be able to look into someone special and say words that will change our lives. I'll say words that can move worlds, words that can bring life and words that will live forever.

This has to change, and this gotta start from fundamentals, it is who you want to be as a person, and who you will be for people. With words that weigh the world, "They live on even when we're gone".

Weigh your words, then you know the weight of your conviction.

How are you living today and how are you living it for your future? Let us start NOW.

MEAN what you SAY!!!!