FireMice

Don’t think! Feeeel!

firemice — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:54:28 +0000

Don’t think, or you will miss all the heavenly glory…

Mental Diet

firemice — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:07:38 +0000

I’ve been going through a dramatic of ups-down lately that put me into an resourcefulness and unproductive manner. I can feel there’s a large amount of negativity in my thoughts and in my behavior that hamper me heavily to maintain my daily routines well and pursue my desires. Struggling myself constantly and squeezing my mind intensively so that I can squeeze out a quantum amount of inspiration to propel me to excel.

I stumbled upon something interesting and maybe enlightening. It was some sort of Self-Help material… and it is a Challenge! and I will take it!

I decided to share with the readers in this post, to witness my decision to undertake these challenges, and I hope at the end of the challenge you guys can tell me whether I am successful or not.

I got this challenge from one of the Self-help genius, Antony Robbins. He is famous so I decided not to do any introduction here.

Before I rant this challenging thingy further, I would like to link Mental challenging with FOOD DIETING. To ease everyone (including me) to picture the so call mental challenges around us…

I have to put a significant amount of time to verified that I actually went through it, so let’s put 10 days into the process… ok, let’s start the challenge by finishing this post ( I felt so ugly to continue this writing now)

THE TEN-DAY MENTAL DIET – RULES OF THE GAME

Rule 1. In the next ten consecutive days, refuse to dwell on any resourceful thoughts or feelings. Refuse to indulge in any disempowering questions or devitalizing vocabulary or metaphors.

Rule 1 is so direct and brilliant.

How this method can be link to food dieting:

What are the things that indulge you when you start craving for something tasty or hungry?

, , ,

exactly, above is the kind of food that will bring you down and avoid you being slim and healthy.

How to apply rule 1. into your mental?

In normal circumstances, when one is having problem? they will indulge themselves with negativities,

Example of mental indulgences or so called “dis-empowering patterns“:

Cry endlessly
Lazy and avoid facing the problem
Finding Excuses
Angry
Watch Movie
Wait for the problem to become bigger
Smoking or taking coffee

Above are the examples of how our mental can be easily indulged. Sometimes, it makes you dwell with it for a long long time, makes you stagnant. We must train our mind to be harder and strong.

We can remind ourselves that these indulgence are “Signals” to us… if we started to get indulged, Please remind it in your mind that it is the “Action Signal” that is triggering in your mind.

Rule 2. When you catch yourself beginning to focus on the negative, IMMEDIATELY redirect your focus toward a better emotional state.

Rule 2 is another important rule, why? because most of us caught ourselves in a situation whereby we definitely will lose our focus in achieving or change something.

Ask any smokers, how come they think trying stop smoking is so easy? Because they’d done it thousands of time.. they tried to stop and pick it up again………

How this method can be link to food dieting:

When your stomach starts to drive you to , , , …..

You can divert your focus by reminding yourself rather than taking all the junk food, do take the super food that benefits your body like fruits, Vegetables, water, supplement… build your knowledge resources on food that can improve the quality of your life and body.

How to apply rule 2. into your mental?

When you get the so called mention “Action Signal” from rule #1, you know your mind is triggering you that you are indulged with negativities. What shall you do?

take a step back, re-evaluate your situation, redirect/interrupt your dis-empowering patterns by giving yourself a different view on the problems.

try to enrich yourself by asking / talking Problem-Solving orientated question to yourself.

Example:

“What’s great about this?”

“What’s not perfect yet?”

“Is it worth that I put so much fuss on this?”

“Why do I need to care about other people?”

Questions is a powerful tool for your mind to bring your mind from point A to point B. Humans tends to discover themselves by asking question. Talk and ask more questions to yourself dudes!

Rule 3. For the next consecutive days, make your focus in life on SOLUTIONS not problems!

The minute you see a possible challenge, immediately focus on Solutions. Try adopt this as a daily routine in you, it will train your brain to be stronger than ever!

How this method can be link to food dieting:

When your eyes started to see fooooods and your mouth starts to be watery, instead of feeding your gluttony, turn your attention away from food by giving yourself massive EXERCISES … and take out lot’s and lot’s of sweat coming out from you . how can you become fat again if your simply adopt this method?

How to apply rule 3. into your mental?

Making it a habit to turn all the negatives in you away like doing exercises. You will have to train your mind constantly, turn all the negativity away and feed yourself with constructive ideas! train your mind until it becomes your reflexes in your body, once you get a negativity, identify it and throw in tons of Solutions!

Rule 4. If you backslide-repeat the process for another ten consecutive days

If you found yourself to be indulged on resourceful thoughts or feeling for a measurable length of time (I say measurable of time, it means to give you some time to recover), do another 10 more days of Mental Dieting!

So guys, this post will be the covenant between me and you… If you would like to take up the challenges, we shall remind each other! Together we will excel.

Swim like there’s nothing in front of you

firemice — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:18:57 +0000

I haven’t been into the water since I was in Belfort, Can’t wait to submerge into the water and taste the chlorine again..

and swim like there’s nothing in front of me!

Having Fun with World Cup Trophy

firemice — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:28:53 +0000

One day visit to London

firemice — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:23:16 +0000

Can you guys help me to decide where should I go in one day time?

Strasbourg

firemice — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:13:32 +0000

Strasbourg is another must-go-destination in Alsace region (North-Eastern France). Whoever comes to visit me, I will bring them to Colmar then follow by Strasbourg. They might think I’m a expert or a native of Alsace, because I don’t need a map to navigate around these 2 area, I can story-telling about the history and events in Alsace so good so well that they didn’t even know I was actually bull shiting them…. pls let me continue bull shitting you in this post =)

Strasbourg is the capital of Alsace Region, it is hosting a few European institutions such as the Council of Europe (with its European Court of Human Rights, its European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines and its European Audiovisual Observatory) and the Eurocorps as well as the European Parliament and the European Ombudsman of the European Union…

See, all the important European thinggy is situated in Strasbourg, if one bomb dropped into Strasbourg, the entire European institutions will be vanished! Great fun..

Now, I brought some of my friends to Strasbourg by train. Most of them, when they came out from the station, they will have a WoW expression.

Low Kei and Kalen at Strasbourg train station

The train station itself is very old, they built a sky dome for the train station to protect the premises. The architect reminds you about China Beijing Olympic bird nest Stadium

Low Kei took a picture of me, I like the clear blue sky and the sky dome of the train station 一望无际，海阔天空。。。

Justin visited me during winter, the experience was totally different

The train station look like the Beijing Bird’s nest stadium is deposited with full of Bird Droppings =)

Strasbourg is not really a big town, it is very convenient to walk around, just like Colmar. The very first thing we arrived Strasbourg is to find the famous Strasbourg’s cathedral.

Well, it is very difficult to describe what I felt about the cathedral.

This cathedral is huge, bigger than Notre dame of Paris.

Look at the beautiful design, it is so majestic and beautiful…

I stood in front of the building, closed my eyes, in my mind I think

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Thank god, I was not born during 1176 and 1439, imagine what will happen to this Cathedral if I was born in Strasbourg during 1176 – 1439 and was assigned to design and build the cathedral? (few example of my art at Art #1 and Art #2 .) I would have destroyed the whole masterpiece and no one will come and visit Strasbourg after 1000 years

Catheral of Our Lady in Strasbourg. used to be the tallest building in Europe between 1647 to 1874. It was so gigantic, I can just buy one ice cream near by and admire it from morning till afternoon, then buy one kebab sit down and look at it from noon till evening, from evening take a beer till midnight

Nice sunsent in Strabourg

Justin admires Strasbourg cathedral also

The color of the facade seems different, I loved it so much until I even..

licked at it and feel what it taste like, the conclusion is: Cathedral Our Lady of Strasbourg taste like 900 years old.

Old buildings in Alsace region are special

Strasbourg used to be an important town to produce wine

For those who wants to take a tour ride to visit the entire Strasbourg, I would suggest you to take a boat ride at River ILL

It will bring you around, around and around until you feel dizzy…

The ride story telling (not bull shitting ok!) everything nearby the river and Strasbourg. See the above picture, Low Kei was listing so intensely

The boat will pass by the European institutes..

The ride was long, we decided to cam whore

one is not enough, so we did another one…

We passed by Barrage Vauben..

stumbled upon a gigantic dog

you have to be careful, the dog bite everything that moves

Nearby there’s a Mega Virgin Store, I used to write a lot about Virgin

We walk around River ILL,

the river bed, 100 years ago, Many prostitutes tried to attract their client here. The house wives liked to wash clothes here.

I was exhibiting “the French” way to my friends

after all the wonderful experience, we went back to

Colmar and Bukit Tinggi

firemice — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:47:29 +0000

Some years ago, some business man from Malaysia went to France. He visited a small town called Colmar in Alsace. He duplicated Colmar and created Bukit Tinggi in Pahang.

I never been to Bukit Tinggi but I heard it is a very nice place to be visited. However, I’d visited Colmar city 4 times (Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring) since last year. Colmar remains as one of my favorite and the most sought after place to visit in France.

Colmar’s attraction are concentrated in its old town, stunningly beautiful and well preserved. What I like this place most is the relax ambient in Colmar, it is small a very small town hence you don’t need to rush from one place to another. Although Colmar is small, it has loads of interesting stuff.

Low Kei + Karen visited Colmar in the beginning of Spring.

There’s some shopping in old town Colmar, so tempting……………

One of the main attraction is Maison des Tetes (House of Heads)

Why do they name it house of heads? because the house has many heads

Where did the head come from? If you look at the opposite side, it explains everything

Nice houses.

ice cream too…

eat eat eat…

Nice Colmar beer

and famous Colmar pork knuckle.. yum yum

nice to shop… with low kei and Kalen..

and we came to Petite Venice, very very nice place

From here on, it turned into winter… and Justin came by

at night at little Vanice

Justin teleported

me too..

but failed

firemice — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:57:21 +0000

WORRIED

Adopting Volcano victims is a fun thing =)

firemice — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 14:40:17 +0000

On 14 April 2010, Iceland volcano Eyjafjallajökull (pronounce as “AY-uh-fyat-luh-YOE-kuutl-uh”) erupted. It was mad and deadly, it impacted the entire Europe. The volcanic ash cloud led to the closure of most European airspace.

For me it was entertaining, because it is one of the unusual event that caught my attention haha =) … not until I received a sms from my friend low kei..

Low kei sms..

I’m now in Amsterdam, the Iceland volcano ash cloud has caused all the plane grounded, Kalen supposed to take off tonight but the flight was canceled. We plan to make a trip to your place. update you later…

This is not cool man, my first instinct prompted me go to Google and search for…

yes Volcano victims… and I found a lot of tragic photos like

I cried loudly like a baby at that instant moment . My French boss helplessly asked me what’d happened?

I told him Eyjafjallajökull volcano will turn Low Kei and Kalen into you-cha-guai 油炸鬼 and Ham-Jim-Bang 咸煎饼..

turn them to…..

Obviously the French don’t know what is You-Cha-Guai 油炸鬼 and Ham-Jim-Bang 咸煎饼.

My worried now is not how Low Kei and Kalen will turn into You-Cha-Guai 油炸鬼 and Ham-Jim-Bang 咸煎饼, instead I was struggling to clean my room to welcome the volcanic victims. Because I need to hide…

and

Anyway Low Kei took train and reached Belfort safely…

The first thing Low Kei did in my room was to look for…

er… I think he was not looking for things in my room… I think he was cleaning it…

hmmm…. maybe we is not looking and cleaning, he is cooling…

Thanks to him, we cook for me for the last 10 days..

We took the opportunity to celebrate Kalen’s birthday with champagne =)

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Low Kei took a picture of my handsome toy

Picture below summarizes all the activities in my room.

making distorting noises, hanging wet-clothing (only Asians will do that), messy stuffs, TV, walking around the room, everyone sardin together.

At night, I have to listen to…. low kei

please click below to listen to what I heard at night

zzzzZZZzzZZzzZZz Low kei snores

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Nice quote from Master Oogway

firemice — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:33:41 +0000

For some reasons, I love Master Oogway very much……. see the quote below

Oogway: There are no accidents.

Oogway: My friend, the panda will never fulfill his destiny, nor you yours until you let go of the illusion of control.
Shifu: Illusion?
Oogway: Yes.
[points at peach tree]
Oogway: Look at this tree, Shifu: I cannot make it blossom when it suits me nor make it bear fruit before its time.
Shifu: But there are things we *can* control: I can control when the fruit will fall, I can control where to plant the seed: that is no illusion, Master!
Oogway: Ah, yes. But no matter what you do, that seed will grow to be a peach tree. You may wish for an apple or an orange, but you will get a peach.
Shifu: But a peach cannot defeat Tai Lung!
Oogway: Maybe it can, if you are willing to guide, to nurture it, to believe in it.
Shifu: But how? How? I need your help, master.
Oogway: No, you just need to believe. Promise me, Shifu, promise me you will believe.

Oogway: [walking towards Po] Ah! I see that you have found the Sacred Peach Tree of Heavenly Wisdom!
Po: [Po turns around with a lot of peaches stuffed in his mouth] Oh! Is that what this is? I’m so sorry! I just thought it was a regular peach tree!

Shifu: But who? Who is worthy to be trusted with the secret to limitless power? To become the Dragon Warrior?
Oogway: I don’t know.

Oogway: One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it.

Po: Maybe I should just quit and go back to making noodles.
Oogway: Quit, don’t quit? Noodles, don’t noodles? You are too concerned about what was and what will be. There is a saying: yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the “present.”

Shifu: Master! I have… it’s very bad news!
Oogway: Ah, Shifu. There is just news. There is no good or bad.
Shifu: Master, your vision. Your vision was right! Tai-Lung has broken out of prison! He’s on his way!
[pause]
Oogway: That IS bad news.

Po: What are you pointing at?
Oogway: The Dragon Warrior.
Tigress: Master, were you pointing at me?
Oogway: Him.
Po: Me?
[Moves around, Oogway's finger follows him]
Oogway: You.
Po: What?
Oogway: [Raising Po's arm with his stick] The universe has brought us the Dragon Warrior!
Po: What?
Tigress, Crane, Monkey, Mantis, Viper: What?
Shifu: What?
Mr. Ping: What?

Oogway: My time has come.
[hands his staff to Shifu]
Shifu: What? What are you…?
Oogway: You must now continue your journey without me.
Shifu: No! WAIT! You cannot leave me, Master!
Oogway: You must beleive…
Shifu: MASTER!
[in a haze of peach blossoms, Oogway ascends to the heavens]