bad day?

A "bad day" is something most of us go through these days with the pressure from family, work, finances and what not. Show me a person who says every day is a beautiful day and I'll show you God. Don't get me wrong though, I don't meant to be pessimistic, I am a realist. 

Although not 100% of the time, but I tend to hold this belief that:-
"What I need to get done, I get it done as soon as possible with the least energy. What I don't need to do, I just don't do".

We spend, at least in this part of the world, a good 12 to 14 hours working, rushing to meet deadlines and commitments so much so that burning out is something you see coming straight at you like a bullet train and you having no time to dodge it. Despite the lucrative monetary benefits that can even get you salivating, we still burn out and next thing you, every day is a bad day - you get irritable, people annoy you, the littlest of sounds prick you like a 1000 needles, and suddenly the world is against you! 

I was browsing around the net over the last few days just before catching a shut eye after a long day at work. Ironically, I was listening to Daniel Powter's Bad Day. I love the video clip, the melody and the lyrical irony thrown into the song. Then I realised that I haven't really heard or seen much of Daniel Powter. 

Did a random search and turns out after making millions from Bad Day, he spun off into a life full of promiscuous sexual relationships, drug abuse and alcohol. Again, the irony in the fact that the same person who wrote a beautiful song about a bad day seems to had a long drawn out bad day working through rehab and getting himself back into the right frame. 

Now trying to bounce back, I quote and unquote Daniel, "I thought maybe I should sleep with hundreds of women and do drugs on the road to live up to the pop star image, when really I’m just a regular guy. But I lost touch with reality and the trigger for going to rehab was that I was so paranoid and underweight, I was in danger of dying". 

I guess for most of us it's not surprising he became another statistic considering how many pop stars wind up in such a situation but point to take home is that (and you may agree but I am penning it down anyway! =0P) we go all out trying to make that one extra buck so you can buy that car, that necklace, that house, that wedding ring and all the "wants" in life you can come up with. But to what end? When you finally got what you want, you realise your list of "wants" grows longer and you keep pushing hard to earn a few more extra bucks to maintain and entertain those "wants" and before you know it, you find yourself living a life full of "bad days" having succumb to what I call the need "social acceptability".

So take a step back and ponder about it before you decide to run off chasing the dream of "wants" because you might just end up living a life of "bad days" spending time, money and effort on things in life you don't need so you can please people you don't like. 

Hope you have a nice day! =0)

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-1084719/In-taxi-8230-Reformed-Bad-Day-bad-boy-Daniel-Powter.html#ixzz20swtHxBt

might as well go all the way if you are halfway there..

Ever since  i got my car about a decade ago, wiping my car and keeping it gleaming had become a part of my daily to-do. Actually those close to me call it my must-do because no matter how late i get back from work i'd still clean my car before i head to bed.


Call it OBD it you may but i simply care for my car above and beyond thd level of an average joe and it's really a matter of preference when it comes to giving my car that bit more detail of attention.


Ok, anyway, this post isn't about my car although it does make reference to me and my car. Well, for the past 5 weeks or so, I have been getting back from work at obscene hours. I am talking about leaving the office at 2am, 2.30am, 3am sort of crazy times. I think that works out to about 18 working hours a day on average. Believe you me, it's not a very nice way to spend your day.

Despite coming back home in the wee hours of the morning, I'd still wipe my car. When I mean wipe my car, that'd be the top, the bottom, the wheels and then the interior. Since I don't own a large, luxury car or a large reasonably priced car, I only need about 30 minutes in all to wipe my car down.

There some days where I took a step back and thought, "Most people are only going to look at the top and the wheels, so maybe I can skip wiping the bottom and get me a bit more sleep time.". Then, I took another step back and realised that if I have already expended my energy on the top and the wheels (wheels typically take a bit more time due to the patterns on the rim and the more dirt it picks up), I might as well just spend the next few minutes doing the bottom and I'd eventually get a gleaming car from top to toe or rather, "roof to wheels".

All so often we think of doing something and by the time we finally get started on it, we somehow lose steam and shy away from completion. But if we really sit down and gave it some thought, it doesn't make sense because you would expended quite a fair bit of time, energy and in some cases money simply to get you halfway day only for you to abandon ship. Is it not then wasteful to a very large extent?

I like to use my car as an example because it's easy to explain. Every night when I am finally done wiping the car, I can take a step back and just look at the gleam. It puts a smile on my face and ends my bad day at work. Had I just stopped at the top and the wheels, I'd still see the gleam on my car but I know, in the back of my head, I'd be telling myself, "Hmmmmm.... but you didn't do the bottome.....". It's not really an honest piece of satisfaction, if you know what I mean.

So the point I am trying to bring across is that, if you have already committed to something and you might as well go all the way and see to the finish line if you are halfway there, irrespective of the results. At least you tried, you know you tried and that's more than enough a reason to give yourself (I mean YOU) credit and be proud!