Made in China

How do you know what you are? If you are a duck born amongst and raised by chickens, you would most probably think, feel, and act like a chicken. That is ofcourse until you get to be with geese, ostriches, and ducks. By going through those groups then you get to be able to fully decide. To be a chicken forever, or be a duck.

I might not make sense here but point is, how do you know what you are made of and for, until you get to find it? Tip: Find it fast!

Do you have what it takes?

To most, this is just a picture of a creature. But to some Final Fantasy fans out there, this is a trophy of epic proportions. The unique thing about Final Fantasy games is that it provides an avenue for hardcore players to actualize their addiction to insanely extreme challenges.

Meet ruby weapon, a hidden boss in the Final Fantasy 7. You dont have to beat him to finish the game and end the story. But if you like to beat yourself up crazy for excellence in a form of self satisfaction (not just bragging rights) then go ahead. It will take 100x more effort and strategy than just finishing the official final boss of the game.

With excellent preparation, experience, and strategy, you may still even experience dying 10-20-30 times. Expect frustration to haunt you as you spend countless hours of trying, failing, and getting back up. But the feeling after bringing this big guy down, its... priceless.

Do you have what it takes to go against the "weapons" of life?

McAfee Epic Fail?

Talk about virus cleaner epic FAIL. Yesterday, McAfee, known as one of the world's biggest Anti Virus company made an estimated tens of thousands of computers all around the world useless.

Getting Older

My birthday is fast approaching and I'm not getting any younger. My friend Nell gave me a good idea: to run my age. With this, I plan that every year, on the week of my birthday, I should run my age. I wonder if I can run 24kms...

However, this is just a plan (the short term kind) and execution is a whole other thing. Us being human, we plan so many things yet execute so little. So how do we help ourselves?

There are probably a thousand books out there and a million web articles about execution so I shall speak from my personal experience.

1. Realistically Attainable
I was able to run 15km on my last. 24 is not to far from that. Some plans with little time frame are so grandeur that motivation is immediately massacred on Day-zero of execution.

2. Document it
If its a goal, write it down. Your brain is no computer. Even computers are prone to corruption of data, what more your brain (with your diet).

3. Let somebody follow you up
It would help if this is a real person (close to you). Please, an alarm on your iCal or iPhone would help but a real person is something concrete. They respond back. They remember. Are you willing to be remembered by your best friend as an "all-talk-no-walk" kind of person?
Its basically social pressure.

Thats it. So, my 24km plan is realistic, and I wrote it down. Time to message my friend Nell after I click on the Publish Post button below. Ciao!

New Version of iPhone - Lost and Found

There is this article in Gizmodo.com spreading like wild fire on the internet. It tells a story about how a certain Apple Engineer lost an iPhone v4 prototype in a bar at California that eventually landed at the hands of the site runners.

Fabricated story by Apple to make this whole thing more interesting to its Fans? I dont know. It seems very well executed. Which leads me to this week's topic. Execution.

On a sidenote, I can't wait to have this phone though.

Keep

I may not know you name, how you look like, or where in this little world you are right now or then. But when I find you, I wont let you go, no matter what.