Wednesday, November 20, 2013

1 Week Ago...

Few days since my last post. 1 week, or simply known as 7 days. Although to most people 7 days won't do much but it has done a lot to me. 1 week ago, I'm still lost in my own world not knowing what to do. 1 week ago, I'm still feeling insecure due to personal problems. And the list goes on. Ah well, since this blog is a diary, let's make it a diary then!!

  1. 1 week ago, I was given a project by Jazz. But this time, I'm not in charge of only the program execution. This time, the responsibilities are much heavier and the tasks are much more challenging. This time, I'm the Project Director for the entire project - The Youth Awards '14. Wow!
  2. 1 week ago (actually several weeks ago), I was still thinking if I could let go of something so important to me. I was still lost in the decision that I agreed to and I once made. In the end I chose to let go because of no.3.
  3. 1 week ago I started a relationship with someone really special. Someone who's able to make me smile a lot and the happiness is expressed deep from my heart. Yeah...it's really quick how my feelings changes to the point people doubt if I'm being serious or not. But yes, I adapt to situations very quickly :)
  4. 1 week ago (more than 1?) I decided to return to the Ragnarok Online world. But still, no legal playtime. I would use a bot program/software to autoplay everything for me. Play smart, not play hard :)
Well these are the top 4 changes in life since last week. What's yours? If you're reading, feel free to drop a comment below? :)

Sunday, November 17, 2013

Self Discipline - Day 3

I'm slowly getting the hang of it. I realize how much easier my work would've been if I completed them earlier. I have much more time for other stuffs too, and my time is much looser now. What must be done must be done!

On a related topic, these days I woke up at 8AM to 9AM no matter how late I sleep. I think my biological clock is slowly getting used and adapting to my lifestyle? But these days, my mornings are different from the other mornings. These days, my mornings are something to anticipate (Read about it : HERE) all thanks to a very uniquely special person.

Ah well, my timeline breakdown is still very loose. I couldn't possibly show this to my team, YET. I've got familiar people back in the team, so WOOHOOOO to that!! I thought it would be the last I heard of them after 8TV's Shout Awards '14 but yeah, I'm glad they're back.

The mission to bring YouthsToday to up to 1,000,000 (1 million) Malaysian youths won't be easy. I really appreciate the core team's trust in me, and I appreciate the captain's return. Let us make this happening TOGETHER!

Lesson of the day : What I said yesterday. LOL.

Beautiful Mornings

It's not easy overcoming a breakup, everyone knows this. But unexpectedly, one very unique person is able to make me overcome my sadness.

Recently, a very special person came into my life. A new person. Per title, my mornings are much much more beautiful with her presence. She would greet me very early, I have no idea how she does it but yes, she wakes up early. We had conflicts in between, but I'm glad it's all over to the "understanding" stage now.

Believe it or not, in a matter of months, we've only met twice. Once while I was working at Youth Jam '13 and that was just a brief moment I met her. Less than 10 minutes accumulated, I assume. Our first casual-informal-meetup was last week on Wednesday while it was her friend's birthday. True, it's very awkward, they're all girls but one guy. (Smile lah bro, LOL). I couldn't find a channel to converse with them but eventually my self-mechanism overcame it.
[Note to self : The vegetables served in Texas Chicken's shawarma wasn't too fresh and their potato fries are rather dry to the core. The meat however is rather tasty. And their Coke. Duhh, how else should Coke taste?]

She's a really lovely girl lady and she possesses the sweetest most childish smile I've ever seen. I really wanna pinch her bad but I have to control myself or it'll be an awkward scene *crickets chirping, creek creeekkk creeek*

I never expected myself to see someone new so quickly, but yes, she broke my record. And so I heard I broke her record too? Either ways, I'm also searching for my happiness and bliss. The past is the past, let's put it down and forget it.

My mornings are much more beautiful with you, and I look forward meeting you again :)

Saturday, November 16, 2013

Self Discipline - Day 2

Day 2 of Self Discipline.

Ahh, great day. I gave myself 1-week to complete the summary/proposal for the coming interns/team mates so it eases them in a way it eases me too. Everything has to be clear for them because nobody would want miscommunication.

At first, I gave myself one week to complete everything in phase 1 (proposals, summary, target research, timeline). And it's day 2, I've completed it all yet realized it's not that good yet. There are still parts which can be improvised. Call me a perfectionist, but perfectionism helps a lot in team-understanding!

"...must be compact yet simple to understand that once you show them, they know what to do," is what she told me. I can do compact, I can do simple but not both. A combination of both is equals to lengthy to me. Just completed my summary/proposal and let's see if it's simple YET compact or not?

Am I really able to put full trust into the soon-to-be-formed-team? Perhaps due to my past experiences, I have trust issues with new people? Put your doubts away Hubert, perhaps? It's really impossible for you to do everything for 1/2 year all by yourself!

What am I doing now? Still constructing the timeline. It's a 1/2 year project, baby! Also I'm looking for a team to assist as Project Managers. Wow!

Lesson of the day : The set time is not the duration to complete tasks. It's a duration to PERFECTING everything. Plus I should learn to trust people as much as they trust me.

Self Discipline : Day 1

I should learn to discipline myself. I'm always delaying my tasks, thinking "Later laa, I still have time," and at the end of the day I'll shift it to the next day. I'll never get my work done if that's the case. My mentor who's also my boss mentioned that too.

That's it. If I can't discipline myself, how can I assist the others? If I cannot even lead myself how can I lead the others? I took a step out.

Great honor indeed, I was given a project and this time I'm heading it. It's a project to expose YouthsToday's brand to over 1,000,000 youths nationwide. Wow, just wow. Then comes a question in my mind - "Can I do it? What if it fails? What if I screwed up...AGAIN?". Come to think of it...I never actually handled such projects before, never once. It's a 7-digit number we're talking about.

"It won't," she (Jazz) said confidently. Wow! I'm amazed by her confidence. She didn't even hesitate giving the answer, she didn't even think that it would possibly fail. Such confidence is really something I admire! "If we don't do a thing we won't have a thing. If we can't have 100%, we can at least have 50%," she added. True, if we do nothing, nothing will happen. Have faith, have confidence Hubert. If she trust you then you should trust yourself, I told myself.

Expecting to complete the research in 1 week, I completed it in just less than 12 hours. Well, it isn't so bad after all! Now I have lots of time to do the summary of the project for the coming team (I wouldn't call it a proposal. It's too brief and simple to be one).

Self Discipline Day 1 initiated with the support of the team and a can of energy drink. :) I look forward to a more productive day.

Lesson of the day : Self-discipline pays. Not in money but it saves a lot of time. Also, the chicken rice at KLCC is the best chicken rice in KL, so as I heard from Jazz. And yes, it DOES smell and look good.

Friday, November 15, 2013

Welcome!

Oh hey there! Not sure if people are actually reading this or not but I'll check on the views later. After all, what's a blog without a proper welcome note right?

So I finally decided to start a blog (obviously) as Facebook is more to my 'workspace' and Twitter allows 140 characters only, too short to post long essays. You know, sometimes you need more than 140 characters to describe even the smallest drop of rain. While YouthsToday's blog......you wouldn't want it to be filled with "ME", would you?

Well that might be all for now. Welcome to my blog and feel free to come back again! :D