World's No 1 Badminton Player

I was really tired today, but I don't want to miss out the excited feeling I am having now..

I was covering two events today for our Prime Minister's wife, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor--both were outdoor..God knows how hot and humid it was today in Kuala Lumpur. Sweat non-stop and I started to fee dizzy..But at the second event which was the open house for national athletes - former and present athletes, I met one of the most popular badminton player in the world, Datuk Lee Chong Wei. Well, Malaysia claimed that he is now World's No 1..after he defeated Lin Dan from China in recent Commonwealth Games, he is even more popular.

I was never care about athletes but today I was just having this feeling, "wow, Lee Chong Wei is standing beside me". The feeling was good, but to add on that, the process before I was standing beside him was funny..

Other sport reporters from other media [they seem to be very close with Chong Wei] forced me to admit that I'm his big fan..Reason being was--I told them jokingly that we should not address him as 'Chong Wei', but instead we should call him 'Datuk', the title granted to him when he won in previous Olympic Games. They said I love him so much that I don't allow others to mis-address him...a big LOL on that...That's how they started to tease me and they told Chong Wei that I am his big fan after the press conference with him - Well, I'm not in the sport desk, so I was chasing the PM's wife on another side. When I finished my work on another end, the sport reporters just dragged, ok not to use this word, they asked me to take a photo with Chong Wei since I am his big fan. They said I should not miss this opportunity....another big LOL on this...One can imagine how awkward the situation was, when I don't really want to take pic with him, not that I don't want but just not that desperate [gosh, Chong Wei must be thinking that I'm really in love with him..another LOL for this @@'']..at the end we did take picture together..how embarrassing.... and to add on this, he is really a nice and humble man [well, I really don't know him that well, but first impression, yes he is humble].

So, now, I think he is really one of the people we should respect, Chong Wei did make our country proud, didn't he? It was so silly of me that never appreciate sportsmen from my own country.

So, yeah, I respect you now, Chong Wei..Thank you for your contributions..^^

Love, is what we need

Is another day off for me. I suppose to finish part of my thesis that I planned to do days ago, but I didn't. Well, I did finish small part of the one that I planned. Anyway, I supposed to feel guilt for my undone work. But, I didn't. Probably because I knew that I'm able to finish the whole thesis in time,or perhaps because I finally understood something that I've been searching for since I became a journalist few months back.

When I first joined the news desk, everything seems interesting to me, but at the same time it find it really difficult to adopt to the journalism world. People there aren't really friendly like most of the people thought they would be. The job, task and assignments are fun and interesting, I do enjoy it very much. On the other hand, walking in the office makes me distress. I'm afraid I might step over something that I should not. For example, some reporters do have their own bit like environment or health or politic. I never know who told them that they are the specialist in the field they claimed they are good in. But the unwritten rule is, if you are writing on these certain areas, it is advisable to let your seniors know that you are working on their "specialist topic". Also, all the bosses seem to group themselves up. The moment you step in the office, you have to clearly aware who is your boss that day.

I started to feel panicked when I don't really seem to be given opportunity to perform. I guess probably because I'm not really good yet. So, I started to find my own story. Searching for own stories is not something easy. You have to be careful you do not cross others' borders and searching for something that interest you is also another tough task. When hearing other colleagues telling me how one should love the environment, how to take care of your own body etc etc, I started to feel that "gosh, I'm not interested at all".

Often we hear people saying, "hey, save the environment, the earth is for your kids", well, it is true. But how many people out there doing it because they realise that it is their responsibility and not following the trend? That's why I do not really pay attention when some companies are organising big "save the earth campaign" and at the same time printed out their press statement - mind you, the press statement is single-page printed. Anyway, this is not something I want to talk about today.

Today, suddenly I felt that I found something that speak direct into my heart. I've been searching for the area that I'm interested in all this while. Not health, not really politic, well, environment..not really. I'm actually interested in human's relationship. I started to think that if people keep saying that go green for the kids today, how about the way we treat other people? Why do we need to think about the future which is so far away when we don't even care about the people sitting next beside us? I suddenly thought of what David Tao always says, Love is what we need now! Well, it is pretty true. Forget about politic, environment and other things if we do not have what human need the most "L.O.V.E".

I might offend many people when I say forget about this and that, well, politic and environment are equally important, but personally I think that people nowadays are lack of love and passion in life. Many people, well, maybe they might not realise, when they are giving out something, they are expecting the return. Need not to talk about others, I personally are like this. So, I wonder, is life now a business? I don't know.

Well, for a better tomorrow, let's us start loving people around us without asking or hoping for any returns. Love others without any expectation, this is my petition today, how about you out there?