Anniversary

Guang by Quek Shio Chuan

It's time.....

Dermablend Tattoo Cover

Apple - Think Different - Pablo Picasso

Think different

RIP! Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

Editor’s note: On June 12, 2005, Steve Jobs gave a commencement speech at Stanford University that summed up his life lessons. In memoriam, Business 360 publishes the full text of that speech.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down – that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.

Tribute to Kevyn Aucoin

Kevyn Aucoin Beauty Part 2

WAY BANDY_1980

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Way_Bandy

Kevin Spacey - Motivational speech.mp4

The girl who made the world silent for five minutes

Joan Halifax: Compassion and the true meaning of empathy

TEDxHouston - Brené Brown

Hopes in Despair

Theatre of the Nameless Illamasqua's New AW11 Collection

Theatre of the Nameless: Behind-The-Scenes

Dick Page Takes NYC

M10: Madonna's MTV 10th Anniversary

Mac Ad - think different - apple

Dalai Lama - Why there are different religions

Bersih 2.0 Walking With People

What is most ironic out of this rally is that, BERSIH has managed to unite Malaysians that Saturday in the name of love and justice for the country- a feat that Najib’s 1Malaysia campaign is still trying to achieve.


Malaysia! We love chu and this our land...

every human must watch this video

Gay Parents Bashed

CNN Heroes 2011 - Everyday People Changing the World - Special Reports f...

you're different. and you are beautiful.

Beauty is subjective.

Beauty comes in all shape and sizes. Colors too.

Beauty is in the eye of beholder.

You're different. And you are beautiful! Period.

Take it or leave it.

Peace x

Lego-style apartment transforms into infinite spaces

The Brand Film of Illamasqua

Chanel Cruise 2012 "The Tale of a Fairy" Dir. Karl Lagerfeld

Lou Reed - Walk On The Wild Side

Classic Young Stars: Hahn-Bin

"The 22-year-old violin phenomenon's recital was without question the most exciting performance I've heard in years. Unusual, daring and original, one was quickly transported into Hahn-Bin's artistic universe by the sheer force of his personality and prodigious musical gift."
— The Omaha World Herald

"A tour de force...Eyes closed,
Hahn-Bin is calling spirits."
— Newcity Chicago

"Was it a deal with the devil that made this young superstar become so incredibly talented? Was it the training from Itzhak Perlman? No explanation suffices. Brilliant, audacious, and exuberant Hahn-Bin mesmerized the sold-out crowd."
— The Huffington Post

"The audience could not have been more impressed by Hahn-Bin's astonishing virtuoso passages, his warm and noble tone, and the extraordinary control he exercised over every attack."
— The Tribune

"The immense technical ability of the young virtuoso was astonishing. More important were the expressive dimensions of his boundlessly soaring manner of playing and the fascinating variety of his tonal palette."
— Die Rheinpfalz, Germany

Cat's Eyes - I Knew It Was Over (Performed Live at the Vatican)

This is magical and its in Vatican!

The true beauty ~ Queen Rania

The voice of heart no need translation,
The way we feel is exactly the same,
Whatever we look like,
Wherever we live,
However we pray,
We respond to the same human suffering as a human being.

~ Queen Rania ~

She is truly beautiful inside and out.

One goal project by Queen Rania.

Peace!

Annie Lennox - Why

Why

..... siempre te amare....siempre .....

... no creo que lo supieras como me siento ...

Bruno Coulais-Karma

From all the tune/music/prayer/choir, azaan - choir and tibetan tune....

How wonderful and inspiring!

In Memoriam - Les Choristes [Music by Bruno Coulais]

Bruno Coulais is one of a great musician/composer in the world. From Tibetan's tune to Christian choir, his music is just powerful yet beautiful.

So inspiring!

Attitude is Everything by Vicki Hitzges

It was an interesting lesson in power. The only time you truly have it is when you genuinely don't care whether you have it or not.

BEAUTIFUL AZAAN IN A CHURCH USA

Love is all around!

Beautiful!

Serge Lutens Inoui

資生堂INOUI C

Serge Lutens Dior 1973

JUN ROPE' CM / Serge Lutens (1978) 2

JUN ROPE' CM / Richard Avedon・Anjelica Huston (1973) 60 second

02.Vois Sur Ton Chemin

Do we really need to understand what are they singing all about?!
Wasn't it this is a plain beautiful and lovely just listening to it.
The children voice are superd!

No Music No Life!

一代紅顏-阮玲玉 (ruan ling yu)

Jorge Sarmientos Marimba Concerto I, played by Keiko Abe

If we just practice with sincerity, the fruits of our practice will shine forth. Anyone with eyes can see. We do not have to advertise.

BBC：艾未未专题纪录片（Ai Weiwei, Without Fear or Favor）

The process of making art itself is art.

An art gallery designed by Ai Weiwei.

What a space created by Ai Weiwei for the gallery.

At Beijing last year to have me mind boggling moment next to Ai Weiwei design, the centre piece of Olympic Stadium, The Bird Nest.

Part 1 | She's my son by Indrani Kopal

Part II

A great documentary about 'Mak-Nya' by Indrani Kopal.
This is just brilliant about a mother love to her 'daughter'.

There is nothing touching and beautiful that a mother's love to a son or daughter.

I Love You! Mama....

May god bless us all!.........

Peace!

~ 'Mak-Nya' = transgender ~

莫文蔚-他不愛我

我看到了他的心

演得全是他和他的''電影''

他不愛我

儘管如此

他還是贏走了我的心

當你與他去看電影的那天起

我的悲傷藉由這首歌得才到安慰與釋懷

她不愛我 儘管如此 她還是贏走了我的心

I'd love this music video, as its simple, nothing fancy. Mostly different mug shoot with touchy lyrics and Karen's touchy performance. Classy! Isn't it beautiful...

Cat Power - Crazy Live (Gnarls Barkley)

Do we really need marijuana to fly when you have Cat Power a.k.a Chan Marshall for you.

Her music is just "mental" and makes you flyyyyyyyyyyyyyy......or fry! :p


Wicked! Wicked!

Wonderwall Cover (by Cat Power)

This is one of my fav cover ever.
Cat Power a.k.a. Chan Marshall rocks!

'Chocolate' by Yasmin Ahmad - English subtitles - 15Malaysia

Behind the scene of Chocolate.

I still can't believe that Yasmin has left us...sob sob...
Just look at her smile and the way she talks and brings everything together, even just a short film.
She is just incredible!

May you rest in peace! Yasmin.

You will be miss and love always.........

Color Blind by Yasmin Ahmad

I just love this one by late Yasmin Ahmad, If the kids can be "color blind", why can't we ~ the adult. Especially to those shallow politician in the cabinet, who tried to divides us.

Salam 1Malaysia!

Funeral TVC commercial directed by Yasmin Ahmad

"When we learn to let go,
the lighter the mind becomes."

Tan Hong Ming's Love directed by Yasmin Ahmad

Yasmin's creation is PURE and REAL!

Keep It Real! Mate

xoxo

Miss You! Yasmin Ahmad.

Yasmin is incredible. Whatever she did, it moves us, touches us and inspires us. She is the real 1Malaysia for the Malaysian.

Note from one of my lovelier Angel ~ Petra Gimbad

"We often think of peace as the absence of war, that if powerful countries would reduce their weapon arsenals, we could have peace. But if we look deeply into the weapons, we see our own minds- our own prejudices, fears and ignorance. Even if we transport all the bombs to the moon, the roots of war and the roots of bombs are still there, in our hearts and minds, and sooner or later we will make new bombs. To work for peace is to uproot war from ourselves and from the hearts of men and women. To prepare for war, to give millions of men and women the opportunity to practice killing day and night in their hearts, is to plant millions of seeds of violence, anger, frustration, and fear that will be passed on for generations to come. "

— Thich Nhat Hanh (Living Buddha, Living Christ)

Geddit!!! Mate...

Who is Ai WeiWei?! Dan Rather Reports.

If you ever been to Beijing, and visited Bird Nest the main Olympic Stadium. Ai Weiwei is the man behind it. The architecture and design are just impeccable and blown me away, what a breathtaking moment.....

I am in awe and pause for a quick a long moment in front of this creation...
Indeed! A beautiful moment for me....

His art gallery too, situated near by 798 Art District.

I am so grateful that there ARE people like him in the world. When he talks about freedom of speech, it is for a good reason and its good as his art pieces. To my dear friend André Koster, from Holland. Many thanks for bringing this to my attention..

How To Be Alone

To me, been alone... is not lonely, this is when 'you learn to know about yourself' and have me time's time.

I am just enjoy been alone. I am a loner, perhaps. Hahahahaha...

C'est La Vie!

Funny Thai ad for Bridgestone tires

....muahahahahahhahaa.....

Ai Weiwei: Olympic Bird's Nest & Beyond

"Love the Future" message by Ai Weiwei


- “We love the future, not for any one person, but because we hope the future will be even better. We love it here, and we hope it can become better.”

- “It’s not that I really love the future. It’s that it hasn’t appeared. When I think about my own study, work, etc, and what I have to do tomorrow, I suddenly feel I have no power, and to think about it is no use.”

- “To love the future is to love yourself. Fill the microblogs with love. Fill the motherland with love. Donate your love to the future of the motherland.“

- ”I really don’t dare believe that in this society, even love for the future can disappear.”

- “Have you loved the future today?”

- “Justice doesn’t die; faith is forever. Love the future!”

- “Love life; Love your dreams; Love freedom; Love the future! Good night!”

Pilobolus perform "Symbiosis" | Video on TED.com

Pilobolus perform "Symbiosis" | Video on TED.com

I Dare You

HHT at Fantasy Studios - Orphan's Lament.mov

lyrics:

As a baby bird who fell from the mother's nest/I will never see my mother again/

Even if she'd appeared in front of me now/all those years of tears

and suffering without her wouldn't have gone away/... But I will never

see her again...

Unreal: Mongolian Throat Singing

Farewell Dame Liz Taylor.

when people say, 'she's got everything, i've got one answer, i haven't had tomorrow..' ~ Elizabeth Taylor

How zen can this quote be by Dame Liz Taylor.

...RIP...

The Chicken or the egg?

During his first visit to England, Achaan Chah spoke to many Buddhist groups. One evening after a talk he received a question from a dignified English lady who has spend many years studying the complex cybernetics of the mind according to the eighty-nine classes of consciousness in the Buddhist abhidharma psychology texts. Would he please explain certain of the more difficult aspects of this system of psychology to her so she could continue her study?

Dharma teaches us to let go. But at first, we naturally cling to the principles of Dharma. The wise person takes these principles and uses them as tools to discover the essence of our life.

Sensing how caught up she was in intellectual concepts rather than benefiting from practice in her own heart, Achaan Chah answered her quite directly, "You, madam, are like on who keeps hens in her yard," he told her, "and goes around picking up the chicken droppings instead of the eggs."

saddhu!

Buddhist Psychology

This is why I adore Achaan Chah teaching....

One day, a famous woman lecturer on Buddhist metaphysics came to see Achaan Chah.
This woman gave periodic teachings in Bangkok on the abhidharma and complex Buddhist psychology.
In talking to Achaan Chah, she detailed how important it was for people to understand Buddhist psychology and how much her
students benefited from their study with her. She asked him whether he agreed with the importance of such understanding.

"Yes, very important", he agreed.

Delighted, she further questioned whether he had his own students learn abhidharma.

"Oh, yes, of course."

And where, she asked, did he recommend they start, which books and studies were best?

"Only here," he said, pointing to his heart, "Only here."

Saddhu!

J22 尺八 SHAKUHACHI Flûte de bambou 後半 福田輝久 杵屋子邦

J21 尺八 SHAKUHACHI Flûte de bambou 前半 福田輝久 杵屋子邦

JUST LET GO...

From A Still Forest Pool - The Insight Meditation of Achaan Chah.

Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect any praise or reward.
If you let go a little, you will have a little peace.
If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace.
If you let go completely, you will know complete peace and freedom.
Your struggles with the world will have tome to an end.

This sounded very easy, but, it's so hard to achieve.
Are you game?!...:)

Saddhu!

Om!

REAL LOVE

From A Still Forest Pool - The Insight Meditation of Achaan Chah

Real love is wisdom. What most people think of as love is just an impermanent feeling. If you have a nice taste every day, you will soon get tired of it. In the same way, such love eventually turns into hatred and sorrow. Such worldly happiness involves clinging and is always tied up with suffering, which comes like the policeman following the thief.

Nevertheless, we cannot suppress nor forbid such feeling. We just should not cling to or identify with them but should know them for what they are. Then Dharma ( the truth ) is present. One loves another, yet eventually the beloved leaves or dies. To lament and think longingly, grasping after that which has changed, is suffering, not love. When we are at one with this truth and no longer need or desire, wisdom and the real love that transcends desire fill our world.

Serets Shared by Keri Smith

I presented this list to my illustration class today. It was targeted to illustration but I realized it has wider applications. Simple truths I have learned over the years, many I’m sure you have heard before. I am hoping to give them some mental tools to work with as well as tools of the trade. Part of being successful is having a belief in yourself and the process. Plus, sometimes it just feels good to read a list and feel like you can do it (especially number 6). I told them number 6 is the source for all of my best ideas (wreck this journal, guerilla art kit, explorer, all were done when I was supposed to be working on other things). True story.

Secrets of the Self Employed (or How to be an Amazing [insert profession here])
1. Don’t worry about marks while you are in school. No one will ever ask you what school you went to or what your marks were when you leave it. (this pertains to the field of illustration).

2. You are always working for yourself, even when you work for others. Sometimes it feels like you are just the hired hand (and some clients can be really challenging to work with). But there is always some way to turn an illustration job into something exciting for you. Some ideas: experiment with a new technique (or a new color palette), use it as an opportunity to learn about a new topic, rebel against the job in tiny ways (do some roughs just for yourself in which you insert subversive material).

3. There are no actual rules for how to become a successful [insert profession here]. Make your own path.

4. It will help you to create a social network of other self-employed people.

5. Move your body every day. There are many health reasons for this, but it also helps you to work on ideas subconsciously. Ideas and solutions will come in when you least expect them but (almost always after a minimum of one hour of walking). There are new studies that suggest increased oxygen to the brain is a greater source for creativity than “creative brain exercises”. I have found this to be true for myself.

6. Goof off on a regular basis.

7. If you want to work on your art, work on your life. All those personality traits that aren’t working for you will come back to haunt you in your career (i.e. assertiveness, fear of conflict, fear of confrontation.) It’s all connected.

8. What you think becomes your reality. I always had a belief that if I cleaned out my recycling bin in my studio I would get new work. And guess what, it always happened. If you think the industry is screwed and there is no work to be had, guess what you will find out there?

9. Focus on ideas instead of tools (technology). Anyone can learn to use the tools, but it is the thinkers who really impact the culture in important ways. In the end the tools don’t offer anything interesting.

10. Worrying about the competition does very little to help your career. I know it’s hard sometimes to ignore what other people are doing (we all think that others are doing better than us), but every one of us is on a different life path. We are all here to accomplish different things and even though it would seem like one person’s path is similar to yours, it is not.

11. Only work for free if you are passionate about the cause or receive something of value in return. (Be wary of people who offer your name in lights in lieu of money. Many people will tell you something is good promotion for you, often it is not and there are no guarantees when it comes to promotional value). If you are not getting something of a measurable value (i.e. printed pieces, or money) ask for something else, creative freedom. If they refuse then they may not be a good client to work for anyway.

12. Take some small risks on a regular basis. Some ideas: write some places/companies you would really like to work and let them know why you think they are great.

13. Don’t worry about whether or not you are good (good is subjective and most people are not great judges of their own work), just keep making work.

14. Ignore cool. Successful people do not try to be hip, they just do work that excites them.

15. Always come back to work that excites you. Even if you get off track for a while. Do personal work on a regular basis, show it to others. You can reinvent yourself at any time.

Keri Smith