tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15679073143490172912024-02-21T06:47:29.988+08:00Learn the lessons in lifecall-me-kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00322107033322038716noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1567907314349017291.post-80515108837441270032007-06-16T22:51:00.000+08:002007-06-25T02:09:00.365+08:00Telling secretsEverybody has secrets. But not everybody you can share your secrets with. This is an important thing to remember, because once your secrets are shared with a wrong person, it is just too late to regret.<br /><br />There's a story like this. It is about a lady named Serene. She has been dating with a married-man for more than 5 years. None of her friends knew about it. Although she knew he is an unfaithful man, she just couldn't control herself but to fall so deeply in love with this man.<br /><br />That day was Serene's birthday. She has prepared everything for celebration that night. While she happily waited for the clock needle ticks to 5pm, the phone rang. After the phone call, she nearly had her phone slipped off her hand, luckily Mary caught it.<br /><br />Mary is Serene's new colleague in her office. She saw Serene's reaction, and asked what happened. Serene simple answered nothing, and asked: "You aren't going home?" Mary replied sorrowfully, "I don't feel like going home, I rather stay back in the office...". Suddenly, Serene feel close to Mary, as she reckons that they seem to have similar problem. Both of them then went for dinner together.<br /><br />During the dinner, Serene told Mary it was her birthday, and she got no one to accompany her. Mary told her that her last birthday was the same, her partner always leave her alone last-minute before their date, and that she has to share her partner...<br /><br />When Serene hears till this, she couldn't stop her tears anymore, as she sees Mary as a mirror of herself. And then on, she poured all of her untold secrets for many years about her relationship with the married-man to Mary. That night, she felt so relieved and relaxed. Mary became her best friend overnight.<br /><br />But one thing Serene couldn't understand was, her colleagues in the office were slowly changing their attitude towards her. She felt weird and uncomfortable whenever she look into their eyes. And one day, one of her close colleague finally tell her: "The entire office has known about your relationship with the married-man. Why did you tell Mary about it? You didn't know she's a gossip-broadcaster?" Serene asked frantically, "How could she do that? She's in the same situation as I am!". Her colleague answered in surprise, "Impossible! She just got married a year back..."<br /><br />Serene was both shocked and furious. She rushed to Mary's seat, "Why did you tell others my secret? Why you cheated me when you've just got married a year ago?!?!". Mary shrugged-off and replied sarcastically, "I just want to make you feel better when you hear someone has the same problem as you. Moreover, if I didn't make up this story, you wouldn't have tell me your secret." After saying that, she turned and chuckled as she move away from Serene, leaving Serene standing helplessly, regretfully...but all is too late...<br /><br />So, we learned something important here. <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Don't simply reveal your secret or something concerning your own privacy</span> to people you don't really trust or know. Don't trust someone else's story that may sound similar to yours and think that he/she will not reveal your secret because you know their secret as well, because <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">it may very well be made-up to trap your secret out</span>.call-me-kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00322107033322038716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1567907314349017291.post-34369803913861113042007-06-16T18:03:00.001+08:002007-06-16T18:07:02.117+08:00The beginningYesterday I was thinking, if I were to start a blog, what would I write? It didn't take me too long, the first thing that came to my mind is...STORY!<br /><br />Yes, I love stories. I think most people do, don't you too? We were told stories since young and if you still remember, most of the stories have an important lesson to tell. And we all learned and grew up with the lessons.<br /><br />The reason why people enjoy stories is simple. Stories are definitely more appealing than facts. Say, you tell a heavy smoker: Smoking KILLS......<br /><br />Seriously, I don't think he will ever listen, or worse, he might give you a punch as souvenir.<br /><br />The morale of the story, or the lesson learned, is surely more acceptable than you giving hours of lecture.<br /><br />Personally, I learned a lot from all the stories that I have heard or read. I'm not just talking about the school children stories, there are many more lessons to learn from real-life experience, many of which were never taught in school.<br /><br />But, I'm not a good story writer! With the very limited adjectives and descriptive words that I know, I think no one would even have the slightest interest in my so-called "story" that I write here. (<span style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" >uhh...so sad...</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">)</span><br /><br />So, what can I do? I think and think...and...ah hah! Why not I just think of this as a diary? All I have to do is to put into words the incidents that happened or I can just summarize what I've learnt from others, right?<br /><br />You've got it! Yes, this blog is my diary of lessons in daily life, which I will be writing down some <span style="font-weight: bold;">real-life incidents</span> that I have personally experienced, heard of, or read about, that I think will teach us how to be more successful in life -- be it in in friendship, love life or even office politics.<br /><br />I hope, with this blog, both myself and the readers, will all grow together. Afterall, <span style="font-style: italic;">"Knowledge will not grow if done alone</span>", one of my favorite quotes. And this is also one of the reasons why I started this blog (<span style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" >other than the reason that I'm feeling too bored and unproductive slacking at home doing nothing and I just wanna find something meaningful to do...haha</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">)</span>.<br /><br />That's all for the beginning. Will begin my first post soon =)call-me-kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00322107033322038716noreply@blogger.com0