Life, Travel, GRACE

[UPDATED] This book is indeed interesting and an eye-opener for me. The author presented us an alternative view why some people succeeded and some did not. Generally, a successful person is perceived to have achieved such status based on his down-to-earth attitude and relentlessly hard work. Hard work is, of course, part of the ingredient of success. The real reasons for success are opportunity and legacy - as presented in this book. The first part of the book deals with opportunities in successful people’s life. The author argued that those elite sport teams are selected based on unfair cut-off birth date. For example, Canadian junior hockey team selection is confined to children aged between 9-10 years old. Usually the cut-off date is on 1 Jan. Other countries may have different cut-off date, 1 Aug in US. So for the same batch of children who were born in the same year but in different months, that matters. The author has observed some interesting statistic of the players whi...

We had a family trip last two weeks. This time we went to Bali. We chose Bali because we like Ubud so much. This time we went with SY's parents and her brother's family. So it was kinda bigger family trip. We took Airasia flight. The flight from KL to Bali was served by Airasia Indonesia. My only complain was the crew did not distribute the disembarkation form to the passengers. So we ended up had to queue and fill up the form before the immigration clearance (at the arrival hall). The immigration clearance could have been a smooth process should we have the formed filled beforehand. Overall, there was no extraordinary experience during the trip since we've been there few years ago, except for some high priced meals. Will share the trip in the next few posts.

Well, this and last year Christmas were not much different. With two kids in the house, it couldn't be more merrier than to see them play and have fun. We had not been to the church for quite some time. Partly because the no. 1 son did not focus in his Sunday school. Another reason was no. 2 son was getting "noisier". Anyway, we shall try to attend church in the near future. We usually end our year by giving to the needy. Last year, we gave to a church in rural Sabah. We learnt about their development. It was so much encouraging. This year we give to the same church again. Hopefully the little gift will bring more development and betterment to the church members.