Ready-set-go!

11-12-13
..perfect day for this title.

_______________________________________

过了连续几天的‘工作训练营’后，便是和现实开战的序幕了。

告别了家庭般的‘工园’(公园)后，我告别了每个星期的电影日点心日，告别了时不时就请我吃马来糕点的民族歌手，告别了不厌其烦地教导我的‘上师’（上司）们，也告别了温馨又可爱的同事们。。。 我，很不潇洒地来到了这个战场。

心理总有这一件心知肚明却又不话人知的事实：那就是犯贱的背后，我不是全心地想要离开这么好的工作环境；可是细想而知，人生总不会一直风平浪静的，了解我的人更是深知这一点：如果我现在不向上爬，到时恐怕连趴地的机会都会没有了。

简单来说，我的人生就是一只活在上游的小鱼，不进则退。

原本很想很想偷懒的我，无论被现实刮了多少巴掌还是想要去冬眠的~~  没有上进心的我原来还是有自知之明的~  最终来到了这个战场，迎来的是许多初出茅庐的小兵们。
不知道是我老了，还是我落伍了；这一批的新兵，来的都是想坑大业的梦想家，每个人都是有备而来的战士，好不强大！ （才怪！）

意外的是，我们一开始的训练营进行中，大家渐渐熟了起来，开始结交成好友了~~ 这种见怪不怪的常景，却对我来说正是我的最佳娱乐！ XD 。。我其实就是个挂名战士，现实工作为外景记者。

把大伙对工作的认真当成是娱乐的标题，贪玩之余的我其实还是认为，要就对人生认真，不要随随便便地把工作和人生放上同等号，这样会贬低了自己的存在性，自己的价值观。
很靠运的。。。 也遇到了些很好的朋友~~  这些靓丽有为的小妹，在训练营结束后也和大伙告别回到马六甲了。。。

在要画上句号的同时，啊。。。我的人生回来了。。。我上了地铁后地铁突然坏了，我便冒雨跑到附近的巴士站上----结果车水马龙中我就被困在巴士上一两个钟头。在冒雨奔跑下，我朋友也很不耐烦地回家吃饭了。。取消了晚餐计划后，结果很不容易地回到了家。。。 扑通地睡了下去~~  当时深想，狮子座的老子是应该凶恶骂人的角色！这么驯的我还是真的怀疑我是不是名副其实的‘什么都不想--座（做）’；其实友人的笑容最重要啦~ 大家开心就好。。。。我果然懒到很有道理！ XD

游戏结束了，战斗开始了。
雨，夜，搁笔。
___________________________________________

..on the very next day, when the warmth of allies still sooth our hearts. Everyone got assigned to their very own engagement in a matter of seconds. Despite slight reluctance and uncertainty that lies on everyone's eye, the battle mode got switched on as fast as lightning.

I think I found what I am looking for here, and this will only lead to me something way more interesting! :)
..yes I did write that in chinese purposely to limit the audience. I think appreciation is more than something that is showed on the surface, its something that u keep in heart dearly.

I liked everyone's face. The hidden resolute to win with a tinge a doubt... this is auditor's path: everyone knew this is coming, despite the surprise it has taken on us. Everyone knew that we won't stand side by side in this battle, and accept it with a harden resolution. I dono whether its the shining kiasu-ness, or the other side of the face/the attitude that is beginning to emerge... but I liked how these tension pushes everyone. How ppl strategize differently to survive, some puts on mask, some decided to stay low profile and pretend to be ignorant, some acts blur, some stands out, and all are ready for the coming battle!

Me? I got assigned to pretty uncommon engagement. Changes happens in split seconds without notification at all, but that is just like how my life has ever been right~ I enjoy being the someone who fears physical death so much yet wanted to walk closer to feel how its like being feel like wanted to be mentally killed. Maybe I just wanted to reassure myself, that once u met death, you will realise a different level of survival, and appreciate a little bit more of everyones' smile, and how much that means to you.

...and what have I proven to myself?
..yes. I think I am very certain now. Auditing is not THAT tough, there are a lot of job out there which is way tougher.. but this one?

..it's just a pathetically lonely job.

I wanna see how many more will continue to deny this.
How many more will give in.
How many more will give up.
How many will throw up their emotional defence and choose their colleague to be their life-mate.
How many will give up on fantasies and decided to stick with whatever they have unable to move on either because of appreciation or because a fading fire in them thinking that this job kills ur option.
How many will go beyond this and see life as it is, not defined by small things in life that began to overgrow their role.

Because these small things should never define your life.
Your life defines them.

Will you build your own building of career?
Or will you treasure your own treasure more?

Psycho-leon, Fri, 12/12.

《未走之路》

金色的樹林裡有兩條路岔路
可惜我不能沿著兩條路行走；
我久久地站在那分岔的地方
極目眺望其中一條路的盡頭；
直到它轉彎，消失在樹林深處。

然後我毅然踏上了另一條路，
這條路也許更值得我嚮往，
因為它荒草叢生，人跡罕至；
不過說到其冷清與荒涼，
兩條路幾乎是一模一樣。

那天早晨兩條路都鋪滿落葉，
落葉上都沒有被踩踏的痕跡。
唉，我把第一条路留給未來！
但我知道人世間阡陌縱橫，
我不知未來能否再回到那裡。

我將會一邊嘆息一邊敘說，
在某個地方，在很久很久以後；
曾有兩條小路在樹林中分手，
我選了一條人跡稀少的行走，
結果後來的一切都截然不同。

, Robert Frost.

The chain reaction...

..has begun.


And the fire burns!

Re:connection

Blog revival with random stories: part 2

Dear readers keep urself entertained by scrolling towards those part that you wanted to read.

Here are some guides if anyone fancy for a little reading.
Prologue(1st part) - Roughly on what happened before year end.
Prologue(2nd part) - The year ends with life changing experiences
Monthly updates - Time vs me In outliving each other!
Kids and Peoples - Appreciation for friends and ppl I've met

Gotta continue from where I left off.. xD
___________
July Gladiolz

What comes from July onwards are a series of random project, side quest, and busy schedules.

Shinkaizen, who was also in the midst of his job-changing transition period was nice enough to guide me to Semenyih(Selangor) for a hiking trip to Broga hill~~ It was a journey away from city area and after some stamina-killing hiking we managed to conquer ALL three hills(peaks) of Broga! >=D
..its a good physical achievement after months of office sitting work xD

The Japanese festival of Bon Odori is what comes next~ Honestly the food sold isn't as good as what they provide previous year, but what made up for it was the totally awesome fireworks!! Its round its big its right above our very own eyes with colourful display of light! xD Ofcoz what makes it better was the time spent with precious friends Shinkaizen SinYi MayYong ZhengYaw Frost Xeno etc etc.

The streaks of activities doesn't end with single satisfaction. I took a trip to Kuching, Sarawak to visit my homy and finallyyyyy for the very first time stepping my feet on East Malaysia!!! Totally doing what I wanted to do before I turned 20 or like 25 years old? D:

Another one day trip ensures right after I came back from Kuching... whrs next? Johor Legoland!! Thx to Captain I had a chance to learn and spend time there~ Ofcoz like usual for what I have shared on my social network site I usually won't disclose much on my blog, unnecessary to remind myself of the same thing twice right?

July ends with a totally ordinary day of my life during my birthday.. one of my junior Sammie happens to be around and treat me a nice scoop of BR icecream without knowing its my bday? xD Haha that was cute of her-- oh ya n MuiYing made a surprise appearance to entertain me too haha.. even after months later she bought me a very yummy pandan cake for like erm... belated celebration? Thx alot!! TwT (Ini gamdong de emoticon kay!)

__________________________
Outside of the bokx(books/box)

What comes next is quicker than lightning. An international audit firm Pwc gave me a call and so I went for it. Days after that I went Puchong to find Frost for small Raya gathering and hang out session with friends before the most hectic part of the game comes in.

I took on freelance job to help YihWen with some accounting work, but at the time as Animangaki(an anime convention that I was involved in) was drawing near my team-mate are stressed out and experience semi nervous-breakdown kind of thing? The kids politic issue in the team is what I ignored most so I usually don't claim credit for what I do while picking the best seat to see how they busy complaining to each other rather than pushing themselves to work harder... but ironically I think god also enjoys watching how I play my cards... I got my hands full with OBU graduation coming at the very same time. So I have to prepare for my graduation(payment robe rental email confirmation meansof transportation document preparation etc) while finishing up my freelance work AND my Animangaki task....wait. Pwc last interview falls on the same time so I kinda went for it without preparing much and to my surprise they decided to recruit me! o_o

Audit is totally not something I am prepared for so after due discussion they allowed me to join in the December batch... anyway it wasnt too bad for the 50 hours madrush multitasking experience... what I do hope is that I wun get to feel that EVER again! >< Geezzz.... and I m getting myself into audit life with high probability of this happening OTL

 As August ends with the last page of my hectic schedules.... I felt like I could do something more, but at the same time I really wanted to take a proper break too. So I took some time for a very last minute planning of a trip to... England, UK!

Not going to update too much about my trip here so if I have time I will write a bit about it ;)

_________________
The Reluctant Battle

My 10 days journey of solo trip in UK blown the minds of many who knows me... My first time travelling outside this very country Msia was a year ago where I went Singapore with my coursemates. This--the very next time I go overseas became a trip to leave asia and alllll the way to UK!

The journey was like one's life: there are always ups and downs, like the sea waves of TC and Whitby! xD I was welcomed not only by the autumn of England, but also at the very same time the message of new house owner going to increase my rental payment with the assumption of thinking that I was trying to avoid him by not calling him =.= ..whatadouchebag  This ended when I came back on October with numerous trips to go KL(from my hometown Ktn) in search of alternatives. I end up renting other room to temporary solve my problem.. sigh =S

Some minor projects here and there with one of it being making personal postcards to send to my dearest friends. I don't think it went well but well... I dono wat else I can do :P I don't have much to spend in UK to bring back souvenirs anyway xD

Here comes November... long story short. I spent one of my weekend going to Shah Alam for Karnival My3L to help out Cap'n Allen. It became such an unique experience being able to meet new friends rather than just acquaintances of face memorising. On the next week I had another trip there (again ==) for a sponsored exams which I decided to take to equip myself with extra... license? Its more like for the purpose of more knowledge and exposure with the expenses of having to reactivate my rusty brain to some overnight studying blahbuhwahh8nvohourelvi-9mv3t40p ANYway I was at the very same time on a rush schedule to learn cooking and swimming while handling my hydrophobia and viola! ..no I havent really know how to survive in the sea but wat I am trying to say is that... here. I. am. now~~

..lets welcome what comes next and hopefully I can survive better in whatever waiting ahead.

______________________
Friends and Nakama-tachi

Let's start off with mentioning alot... and I mean alot, of kiddos. Juniors from my ACG world (Anime,Games,Comics/Manga) which I occasionally joins in. We had lots of anime convention whr we met each other: AnimaxCarnival on March, KuantanCoswalk on April, C2Age on July, Animangaki on August, CPFCompetition on September, and there is always more coming...
Must say... its good having to know all these amazing friend and the surprises is always when I met really cool friend in this field who eventually became my close friends ;)

Oh ya... I also met back my little kai mui(sister) that I lost contact for like 2 years... guess how much we changed? = ) ..darn she is so tall now!! xD That really surprises everyone around ahahahaha!!

Coursemates are never important ppl in my life...not until I treat them as friends! I never like the idea of treating ur friend as coursemantes. The priority is wrong, fullstop. I spent time rebuilding lost connection with my UPM friends after I stopped my work... u should know how much I treasure friendship (look at the blog post title! xD) trying to meet friends who are going to graduate. And what I didn't mention above also was that I eventually made it to their convo at end of October... Really happy to be part of them seeing them marking their last footprint in this university.

ACCA coursemates and highschool-mates are people I don't lost contact with... u know it if u r one of them = )

Sometimes I really wonder having complicated life helps. I wishes if I can just sit down and chill out enjoying every single moment but.... meh I dont think I will be able to stand the guilty pleasure.
But for other ppl of my life... no matter how we were connected, university, anime, games, schools, photography, work, event, exhibition, travelling, sports, etc etc etc I am going to have another 12 months of sort-of like disappearing into audit life BUT DO Know that I am writing this to emphasize that... whatever happens in life. I always appreciate the bonds of our friendship/relationship!!

..I thought I would have time to write a post about wat went thru during my 100 days working in Sunway Tower. It consists of precious moments and experience there, so despite of not having sufficient time to motivate myself to slam my fingers more on the keyboard to bullshit about how much I treasure them who wun really get to read this :P (I wonder how is everyone doing now :) )

Allow me to end this with a fav quote I learnt from my mentor~
"Friends are made throughout your life but true friends will always be in touch wherever you are." - Catherine.

-Racing against the clock-

Revival of this blog with random stories~~

Dear readers keep urself entertained by scrolling towards those part that you wanted to read.

The prologues and for those who wanna know why I sorta distance myself from a lot of things and ppl, not gotta reveal much about my life but I am breaking my own habit of being a little bit too conservative so this time around I am starting to share photos about things going around.

Here are some guides if anyone fancy for a little reading.
Prologue(1st part) - Roughly on what happened before year end.
Prologue(2nd part) - The year ends with life changing experiences
Monthly updates - Time vs me In outliving each other!
Kids and Peoples - Appreciation for friends and ppl I've met
__________________
Prologue - Backstory

Exactly 12 months ago I wasn't exactly having the best, nor the worst time of my life... coz I know only more will be coming and growing up under this kind of environment alot of problems is inevitable and the worst part of it? ..when there is no solution.

Well time to add in some substance here and there~~ I was working part time to partially support myself before I get financially suffocated, I ended up quitting the job in order to focus on my exam. My feelings at that time? Finger crossed, it's now or never!

Not being able to take advantage of the shortcut I made to complete my ACCA (professional accounting exam equivalent to a Master cert) my parents wasnt exactly satisfy with their investment. That aside with some minor stories of usual family-politics I found myself a straightforward solution, albeit a temporary one: To financially sustain urself and pass the exam -- Something that seems perfectly simple but with a minor twist of having totally totally insufficient time to prepare for my test nor to have enough time to earn myself a good loaf of bread.

Luckily~ I have a few friends who are willing to emotionally support me... just like an author's undying spirit to satisfy its reader, I kept going and make sure that I will be able to pick myself up very soon.

What's in line with the direction of luck is ofcoz some distraction here and there... with some close friend thinking that I hate them and yada yada yada bla bla long stories short, I really think that the difference in maturity is the fast-paced catalyst that causes the breakdown of the whole friendship. Even until now... survival is often the thing I associate myself with. Therefore, to fantasized about me being a good guy to realise ur dream or even just to be a good listener of your daily whining about how cruel this world is not to fulfil ur fairy tale day-dream bla bla bla...

..Yes, I AM cruel. When I am busy thinking about how to fully utilise 5 weeks of mine to earn enough money while having enough time to study AND pass my exam with the additional pressure of needed to sell off some of my assets coz I am as usual constantly moving to other place of rent to lower my financial burden (ok main point here) I dont really have time to discuss with you about how I can be ur bff/love-matcher that would save u from the first world problem of rich kid getting not enough love from ur friends and partners.

..and NOPE, this might not be who you think it is. If my memories still serves me good then I can safely say there was like 3, or is it 5 ex-close friends who taught I m borned to be their savior? Nou way.

_________________
Prologue - Aftermath

Well, what's next? I don't really remember all the detail~ But I do know that it was followed by a series of awesome events that ends the year. A free ticket to SCANDAL Rock Concert, my fav J-rock band which rocks the night with their energetic songs. An absolutely worthwhile experience to be there with my two closest buddy Shinkaizen and Ducky while having my final exam in like... 3 days? xD It was a totally daring move to take on the bet to make this decision and yeap... for those of you who doesn't know that I graduated eventually... yea I passed my final exam xD

Right after that was my penang trip that I planned earlier to meet my very good friends -- the acca penang gang is often what ppl used to call them. The 3-4 days of the trip was totally totally packed with activities and greaaaatttt foods! I climbed to the temple and we spend every single day getting exhausted from all the travelling, from cultural site to food stall then shopping mall before chilling out around nice walkways facing the sea talking to random backpackers. What was really heartwarming too was that Fanzy let me stayed at his house for free during these days and Mr.Spiderman treated me a lot of good food!! I didnt really pay much but still really appreciate what they did.

Right after the trip was a short window period of 4 days before Malaysia largest anime convention Comic Fiesta... I dun usually get obsessed with all these cartoon thingy but THUUUU... I mean TWOOOO of my close friend are going to cosplay for the first time in their life... they are getting really really nervous back then so I thought if would be nice if I actually do something for them... but erm... I m seriously dumb so wat can I do eh? With Yadea and nekokami's help we spent hoursss assembling a human sized Danbo suits with all the cheapest material we can find.

A normal costume for a cosplayer(or coser in short) would easily cost u over MYR50 or 100 already but how can I 'troll' them with something that doesnt even exceed the total cost of MYR10? Well... I kinda did that anyway =S It was dam fun!!! The rest of hyped in CF was with frens who together we wonder around trolling, kudos to Ducky TheWindz Shannie Albert Heliosgon ahahahaha xD

..unlike everyone thou the hyped was short-lived as I rushed to the modern art gallery in University of Malaya that exhibits some great artwork which includes great photographs of my friend PlayStesen =P ..that sight-widening experience ended up with me rushing straight back to my hometown exactly the same time when the news of flash flood came to me. (I think there was problem with the dam so the heavy rain causes the whole city to experience its first major flood damage in 50 years, well... my cousin managed to saved his ps3 xD And luckily my house is slightly on the higher grown so only the parking space kena a bit)

_______________________
Embrace the new - January

It wasn't easy to keep up the pace of all the things going on, as usual... so Imma make this short~
It started off with some hang out with friends around Selangor/KL, with preparation to find full time work the rest of my free time brought me to Monash University whr I slacked around with Shannalberto couple : 3
..will totally feature minor writing for them but lets just continue~

I really really had a lot of short trip (most of it being one-day trip) around different places whr I started to explore new place with friends and trying to widen the exposure of this kampung boy, personally!
I bought an early ticket to Muar by a bus with a irresponsible drive who drove thru Muar without telling me =.= ..luckily the guy beside me kinda ask me if 'this place is Muar?' so we kinda stopped the driver from 'kidnapping' us to melacca x) Thx to Ducky he picked me up n show me nice place around the Mahogany Town - Muar (seriously sounds like a pokemon town aye?) Seriously a good place for the retired to stay on. We spend quality time around laughing in the book store chowing random local delicacies swinging butt oopss I mean just playing around before I buy my evening tix to go back. Thx Duck n ur really nice fren too! xDD

Well I will just skip the interviews I had with different job which kinda occupies my time away but the next trip brought me to Ipoh~ Thx to Satthia a very good form 6 friend of mine we went to Kampar-Ipoh for a nice one day trip to visit around... A true 'chinesey' place indeed! xD
Met a new friend wen I was strolling around UTAR Kampar campus too~~

_____________________________
The month of beginners - February

With Chinese new year around everyone is getting ready for fireworks and celebration~ During this time Elmo and MissTan took my offer to visit my hometown for a small break in their workaholic life... I used to really thought that Elmo would be a good mentor-sister-friend to missTan and well, as always I am more than correct muahahahahahaha NotGottaRevealANYbackstoryATall :P
..but nope they r not lesbian, and I aint bringing 2 gf back home =m=~

Anyway That followed by CNY celebrations ended with my first trip to Klang. I jio(invited) Satthia for some masa untuk explorasi di Klang for Chap Goh Meh celebration whr we found 'no.8 bridge' the famous site for Klang ppl to date n relax to help our friend to throw random chinese oranges for wonderful love blessings xD
It was great with all the celebrations going around and we felt like we totally blended in with the local communities too~

Not forget to mention also my lovely ACCA mates spent some time with me 2 days earlier for mini wish-making chap goh meh celebration!! =D Ahahaha pics are to be found in fb if u ever interested. And all thx to MuiYing and Jun for helping me out to shop for my formal cloths too! ><

_________________________________
Time to get serious - March ing to April

With my first ever pure accountant path began in the very place I studied for it, I started to work and met alot of really really good colleagues xD

But aside from all the works, work-life-balance is not impossible. I went to International Hot Air Balloon Festival with MissTan after 3 long years of absence, althou it was more of a field-festival than an air-festival it was still kinda fun~~ Oh and we end up freezing ourself in cinema with Elmo who doesnt feel a thing o_o ..scary.

I also (finally) made it to Batu Caves the week after that for a personal trip/goal to climb all the way in for this holy-adventure with AhKiong... who I eventually 'forced' him to bring me around to SetiaAlam too!! xP
All in all the times spend with friend is truly the great times of life... but I cant stop to wonder, am I going to the right direction of life? Anyway lets not talk about it for now and show u some candid/shot.

______________________________________
May Jun bless the changes of time and people

A lot of things keep pouring in during the periods of this two months which really strains my mind into going a transformational period of wanted to restructure my life.
The graduation, where I rushed madly from the start till the end and until all the way back to my hometown for election period. It takes up time while I was working on a little side quest with Kin & Eddy to sparks the fire that will eventually lead every photographer-wannabe into the burning sensation of kap lui *cough cough* I mean it started of with good intention but u ought to know whats coming and that exactly what we expected xD
Hehe I was actually surprised when Kim n some others praised me a bit for the effort to organise n take pics for the cosers. That was a good one xD ..althou I dun tink I did fairly enough.

Talking about photography... One of the greatest breakthrough of my life started when PlayStesen gave me a map... a virtual one. A guide to explore and to see more, feel more. Both of us like photography in a special way... we dun take photo first and make it good later; we only take photo when we see the good in things we found. Anyway~ We joined a local picnic event whr Malaysian of young hearts gather for a good cause... *cough* its too awesome to put everything in words so u r gonna explore this urself if u are interested. That being said I truly saw the beauty of ppl in the simplest form in this event... a motivation equals to an oasis for nomads!

Our journey of the week didnt stop with just ONE great adventures, we spend quite some time getting lost in Cheras before finding our way to support a local art event of postcards... one whr u find adventures and art blends harmonically~~ = ) ..made me wanna travel more seriously xD

On the other weekend I had a really really rushed journey(what again!? yeap... I am always rushing... hate this man.. ) to Genting Highlands to meet my parents for a short while~ Lots of stories to tell but since I cant compensate it with pictures.... ... ...still not gonna tell :D

..gotcha!

Out of random ideas to be taken I decided to stop working after a long dilemmas of whattodo inmylife. Its a really tough decision for me coz I love my colleagues alot xD Not sure whether I will find colleagues THIS good elsewhr but anyway... life goes on! I spend the rest of the month travelling around selangor area finding cousins and friends who I (almost) totally ignored for quite some time, when everyone is busy someone oughtta make the move to connect the links right? I totally felt like the theme of the month was... Re:Connection. (Again u r free to interpret it the way u want)

Jowena and I went for a two-full-day art conference at KL Performing Art Centre where we (yes we have free food in restaurant with nice scenery too xD) gained total exposure of the local art culture and how corporate leaders supports them under the banner of good CSR investment. A mind challenging lessons indeed when technicality and passions clashes... but the final product of the conference was a decent one I must say: Great lessons that everyone learned from each other.

And so you see... My holiday doesn't start right after I stopped my work.... In fact a halt to my income can be a damage to my financial (or rather lfie-)stability anytime soon~
That said, I am putting this blog post to a halt for now~ =D

..tobecontinue

Don't live in the past.

Grow up, move on. ..then only you can go back to the place you once loved so much.
"the past is a good place to visit but certainly not a good place to stay."

為了自己想過的生活，勇於放棄一些東西。
這個世界沒有公正之處，你也永遠得不到兩全之計。

若要自由，就得犧牲安全。
若要閒散，就不能獲得別人評價中的成就。
若要愉悅，就無需計較身邊人給予的態度。
若要前行，就得離開你現在停留的地方。

mari berBORAK about ARTS~

http://www.mypaa.com.my/borak-arts/

As the conference title suggest, this is the first ever Borak Arts Conference where art practitioners and business leaders meet face to face for a two-days networking session of different nature. This art conference goes by the name Borak (Malay - to chat casually) in order to promote informality in the art industry without losing any professionalism contained thereon, this conference became the stage for both the art practitioners and business leaders to speak out their mind, to tell stories, and to inspire people. I am truly grateful to be able to attend this conference thx to the EYE Project (acronym for Empowering Youth Endeavours) that allows me to be there =)

Connecting art & sustainability in this modern era
So let's make it short and clear. What exactly is the relationship between art practitioners and business leaders? Is art a business now?? All and all, it goes back to the theme that this conference and its panelist have been focusing so much on: the sustainability in arts.
It's not about making art a business. It's about being professional in and when you do exceptionally good in what you doing, the money always comes following you. And the function of all these networking sessions? It works as a bridge to connect the gap in this barter system: one where art practitioners needs certain resource to survive, against the one who are willing to provide the resource but its only doable under a some very specific condition... the gap? This is exactly what everyone is trying so hard to fill up.

To be honest, I learned as much thingy off-the-stage as much as what I've learn from the panelist, speakers, etc. The organisor MyPAA(My Performing Arts Agency) did this by claiming that there are 'understaffed'. However, the management of this convention clearly shows that efficiency IS everything(well, almost everything). How the moderator, emcee, and usher conduct the flow of the programme, how is flexibility instilled in this 2 days program... it gave me a lot of insight of how to manage an event and how to plan(and more importantly, prioritising) properly.


One big picture, many perspective
I am one art lover who comes from accounting background, one that emphasize professionalism and the best part? I get to see from both sides: from the corporate perspective and from the point-of-view of street-artist/young-art-entrepreneurs. Batman doesn't change Gotham city in ONE night, so it wouldn't happen in our non-fictional world as well. But just like what all speakers involved in this conference emphasized and trying so hard to inspire... it's about passion. It's the thing that hold you back from giving up, while pushing you harder to be better, so u can reach for more, and in turn, gain more.

Mapping the journey travelled
The first day of the conference was mind-blowing... the speaker sets up a pretty good pace for others to follow in. The tea networking session was very nice, it can be see that there are many ppl exchanging name cards and information around... but whether it is constructive for those who attended, I think it depends on what you learn from here, and whether that prompts you to do better for a change.
The Borak session(informal networking session) is a nice gathering overall but from a third-party point of view it is just a good exposure to see and understand that the current local (M'sia) art industry is not one that comes with perfect information flow... which in turns explains one obvious thing: there isn't perfect flow of knowledge and resource in this industry as well, so if you need something, you gotta work your way to it and get it yourself!

My point of view? Everyone needs to be motivated to reach out and help each other.

Destination reached? Yes? No?
..chill guys! Its only the first convention of this Borak Art Series. It's okay to dream big, but it's also important to take one step at a time. However, it can be said that this 2 days(tiring days with technical knowledge overflow, one would say. xD) is nothing but a big leap of local and international art industry. Allow me to end this with another quote from one of the successful local art practitioner that everyone agreed on:

"Sometimes, you just have to aim properly, and take a leap of faith to reach the height that you have never touch before."