Proactivity

"There are some people who interpret "proactive" to mean pushy, aggressive, or insensitive; but that
isn't the case at all. Proactive people aren't pushy. They're smart, they're value driven, they read
reality, and they know what's needed."

No One Can Hurt You Without Your Consent

Einstein tips

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Imagination is more important than Knowledge

I want to be infinite

it's impossible but i will try

Overconfidence

Confidence is my strength

Overconfidence is my weakness

"If every basketball player 

worked as hard as I did,

I'd be out of a job."

~steve nash

Tsakoys vs No-Na-Me

This is the best game I've ever played!

This is one epic game too!

We are considered underdogs because of the opponents' heights.  But we manage to lead in the first half.  In the game we appear to be stronger because of our scoring ability and rebounding as well as defense.

I didn't start the game.  I entered 2nd quarter.  As soon as I touched the ball, I felt a different confidence from inside.  I passed the ball to the wing and he passed it back.  Having the confidence I never had, I drove right with my head up, seeing everyone on the floor, I passed the ball to Mow and got my first assist.  Then every possession I successfully manage to assist my teammates.  I was not afraid to turn the ball over for I was so confident with my dribbling skills.

I defended hard too.  Nobody can break the defense I was giving.

But I didn't play that long.  I was just a substitute for this team and I understood it.  Then, we lost.

It was an epic game and I am certain that I did a very good job that I don't need anybody to give me compliments.

The key was Patience and Confidence.

After the game, No-Na-Me's players said that I should be playing for them.  It was some sort of sweet revenge that I manage to give them a hard fought game.  I was contented with the outcome.  It was fun and I manage to show my skills.  That's what sports are all about.  Winning is just secondary.

Lost to Rookies?

I thought our game was 10:30 but it started at 9.

I was late. 

I arrived at the end of first half and the score was 6-21 in favor of the rookies.  I was confident that we can chase the lead down.  I started the 2nd half.  I saw my team mates' shots missing badly.

The thing is I tried to keep calm and patient just like what I learned from AJ.  I played a passer and a defender.  The game turned into our side.  

The lead came down to 4.  Until I turned the ball over and the opponent successfully made a 3 point shot.

I was leading the team to victory but I felt like that one wrong move turned it all out.

It's not too late, there's still plenty of time but my team mates' shots was missing again.  I cannot drive to the hoop for an easy score because the team we're against are taller than me.  

I didn't feel like I did my best because I hesitated a lot.  I wasn't comfortable with my dribbling skills that time.  I turned the ball over twice.  My defense wasn't that solid.

Then I was tired 5 mins left on the clock.  I sitted on the bench and watch them play.  I was disappointed with my turnovers because I let my team mates down.  We lost.

Everyone was sad but I still have a smile on my face making them feel like I'm confident that we will win the next games.

AJ, who was very disappointed, told me that my game had improved a lot and that if I were in the court in the first quarter there's no chance the opponent will lead.  That compliment was one of the best because I know AJ never compliment people just for the sake of making them feel good. 

Now, that's a booster for me.  

Next game, more confidence.

Nobody can steal the ball away from me.  I am fast and accurate.  I am a tight defender.

I wont have any turnover again.

I think 2 steps ahead.

I will win.

New Basketball Shooting Form

Keyword: Square

Square shoulders to the basket
Shooting hand is always square or in a perfect L shape.
Wrist bended almost 90 degrees backwards.
Point elbow to the rim.

Envy

“Envy
comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts”

Boy Labo

I went to the gym today to play basketball.  There's this nerd looking Chinese guy wearing eyeglasses.  At once, I said to myself, "He's a nerd trying hard to play basketball."  Then, after about 10mins, we played.  OMG, the nerd guy is a shooting god.  He is weak when it comes to lay up, but his shooting is just amazing.  His shooting form is a perfect L-shape.  He handles the ball well.  I wanna be as good as this guy when it comes to shooting.  By the way.. Don't forget, I BLOCKED HIM TWICE! bwhaha!

practice...

Get up!

Everybody gets knock down, how quick are you going to get up?

Knight and Day

One of the coolest movies I've ever watched.. not only that it has no dull scenes but because I learned to be calm in times that it's so pleasurable to panic. xD

don't worry, i got this!

Leadership

A GOOD leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a GREAT leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves

Imagination

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon
my imagination. Imagination is more important
than knowledge. Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world.

-Albert Einstein

Patience is the Companion of Wisdom

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.  
Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.
He that can have Patience, can have what he will

Toy Story 3 Effect on Me

Yesterday, my girl and I watched Toy Story 3.  Watching movies makes me learn something but this movie made me realize something that made my eye teary.  The scene when the toys would be burned and whatever they do, they can't save themselves anymore.(I'm saying themselves because those toys are alive in the story)  Woody, who was a very intelligent leader, have given up too.  While I was watching this scene, I looked at my girl.  She is so beautiful and so fun to be with.  I realized that 1 lifespan is too short for us to have fun together.  I then smiled and promised myself that from now on, I will always make her happy and take care of her no matter what.  I will do my best to be the best man I can be.  After I graduate, I'm going to pursue our dreams for our families and for us.  I will be very healthy so that she won't cry that I'll be leaving her early because of illnesses that are acquired through abusing one's body.  I know a lifetime won't be enough for us to be together but i will make her have the best life anybody ever had.

My Favorite Quotes

General

1. Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

2. Someday your life will flashback before your eyes.  Make sure it's worth watching.

3. If you want to be the best at something, you should learn to love it first.

4. To make something special, you just have to believe it's special. (believe you are special, and you will be)

-from the duck in Kung Fu Panda

5. I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeeded.

-from Michael Jordan

6. Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are right! -Henri Ford

7. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, and achieve more and become more, you are a leader.

8. It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.

9. Keep moving forward. -from Johnny Depp

10. Never change your originality for the sake of others, because no one can play your role better than you.

Gaming Quotes

1. Always outsmart your opponent. -Puppey(Pro Gamer)

2. Tact is, after all, a kind of mind reading.

3. Most victories came from instantly exploiting your enemy's stupid mistakes, and not from any particular brilliance in your own plan.

4. You have to learn the rules of the game. Then you have to play better than anyone else.

5. Just play. Have Fun. Enjoy the game. -Michael Jordan

6. Focus, Focus, Focus... -NBA commercial

7. Attack him when he's unprepared. Appear where you are not expected. -Sun Tzu's Art of War.

8. Don't find faults. Find remedies.

9. Psych out your opponents.

10. "Play the game like it's your last" - Allen Iverson

Wisdom Quotes

1. The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

2. Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how ot do it, and Virtue is doing it.

3. Strategic planning is worthless -- unless there is first a strategic vision.

4. Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

5. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

6. Anger dwells only in the bosoms of fools.

7. When Anger rises, think of consequences. -Confusius

8. We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. - Samuel Smiles

9. Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

10. Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.


Jack’s Love Quotes(made by my girlfriend) :

1. " I love you not only for what you are,
but for what I am when I am with you." (Jack’s fav line)

2. " Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense."

3. Loving you is like a picture with a thousand words."

4. If loving you is a sin, then send me to hell. For life without loving you is my hell, and at least in hell I can go on loving you."

5. Loving you is like having ice cream on a hot day, the day is so much more enjoyable with you in it."

6. " If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand."

7. " If enduring pain, braving shame, despising one's self for the sake of affection and accepting misery without question is the definition of love - then, I LOVE YOU."

8. I love you more than any word can say ... I love you more than every action I take ... I'll be right here loving you till the end."

9. " Loving you is not a problem, it's trying to stop."

10. " Death can not stop true love, it can only delay it for a little while."

Mission: Increase Stamina

I played basketball today and my breath lasted for 15mins. :))

Things to do:
wake up early
walk to school
convince my girl to walk to their house with me after dismissal
use the stationary bike when i got home

Stay Calm and Never Rush Things

After playing several dota games, i have more battle lost than won.  Though i won several championships, I know I didn't played the way I imagined myself.  I'm so eager to win that I lost fun to my games.  I have more deaths than kills.  And just think of plan B to defeat the opponent.  I know my plans are effective but end up failing and I didn't know the reason why.  Then, I retired.  I felt I didn't accomplish anything yet but I need to stop playing Dota anymore.

After 3 months of not playing, I went to the computer shop, where my friends play, because I'm gonna wait for 1 hour and 30mins for my girl on her 6-7:30pm class. I was asked to play but I said I'm already noob.  They say it's ok.  So I played.  I had this mind set: "Ok, i'm noob now, i'm just going to have fun and give everything that's still left inside of me."  I played in a very calm way, laughing when my team mates die, saying it's ok when an error occured, saying it's ok when I die.  I gave commands to my team because I find myself still remembering the strategies back then.  It was successful then we won.  After the game, I realized that my game was better than my game before when I was still considered a "PRO".  I realized that the plan was successfully accomplished and it was after the game that I saw who our opponent was.  It was the best players in the shop.  I was happy not because we won.  I was happy because I learned.  No matter how good your plan is, if you rush it, you'll end up failing often.