I thought I wanted to write about women after a watch on Whitney's interview with Oprah, after going through the motion on Janie's life, after listening to my aunty about her life, after watching friends' lives going on and on with their men, after listening my grandma's, after falling in love myself with men. I had the urge to write about us women. But somehow, while deep within I thought I had many, many words to make up a good piece. Unfortunately, when I was confronted with a blank piece to pour my soul out before my eyes, all I could do was blink. In search of words. Sentences. And a flow.
So I did not.
Writing to me, is all about the heart. And that makes me a heartfelt writer to some extend. I can't work mechanically like a lot of people. I'm a heart person I think.
So, this is not the first time. It's one of the many other times.
Tomorrow is the due of the short stories submission for Malaysian writers and I am just done with Jimmy with a mere 800 words.
I have decided last Tuesday while driving home from work at 9pm that I will not submit my work. I mean if I can't do justice to a good piece, I should not just do it for the sake of submission. Rush jobs simply equates sad reads. And by the virtue of things, my mind at this moment is focus on everything else not literate. Unfortunately.
Yesterday, when I was asked to attend a presentation about this program on building my career since someone viewed me with some 'potential' (as I've said before, programs like this by the stupid HR is always a showcase in justifying their importance to the organization, people like us just need to show the face. To ditch it aside represents attitude, to give it a cold turkey represents irresponsibleness so just to play it safe, we've got to just fill in the gap as 'required'), nevertheless, I learnt 2 things from my big boss.
The difference between "excellence and success."
It's a nice and apt way to differentiate 2 simple words and it reminds me just, to stay true to myself to do what I enjoy doing, despite the rest of it all. The rest to me means money, recognition and lifestyle.
Excellence is doing something you love doing and doing is exceptionally well from the rest or norm. Success is going something well but unnecessary excellent. So he went to conclude it is always that with excellence, success comes and seldom the other way about it.
He is right.
And so, here I am, trudging on with my journey towards excellence as I go on with life in this wonderful 2010.
So I did not.
Writing to me, is all about the heart. And that makes me a heartfelt writer to some extend. I can't work mechanically like a lot of people. I'm a heart person I think.
So, this is not the first time. It's one of the many other times.
Tomorrow is the due of the short stories submission for Malaysian writers and I am just done with Jimmy with a mere 800 words.
I have decided last Tuesday while driving home from work at 9pm that I will not submit my work. I mean if I can't do justice to a good piece, I should not just do it for the sake of submission. Rush jobs simply equates sad reads. And by the virtue of things, my mind at this moment is focus on everything else not literate. Unfortunately.
Yesterday, when I was asked to attend a presentation about this program on building my career since someone viewed me with some 'potential' (as I've said before, programs like this by the stupid HR is always a showcase in justifying their importance to the organization, people like us just need to show the face. To ditch it aside represents attitude, to give it a cold turkey represents irresponsibleness so just to play it safe, we've got to just fill in the gap as 'required'), nevertheless, I learnt 2 things from my big boss.
The difference between "excellence and success."
It's a nice and apt way to differentiate 2 simple words and it reminds me just, to stay true to myself to do what I enjoy doing, despite the rest of it all. The rest to me means money, recognition and lifestyle.
Excellence is doing something you love doing and doing is exceptionally well from the rest or norm. Success is going something well but unnecessary excellent. So he went to conclude it is always that with excellence, success comes and seldom the other way about it.
He is right.
And so, here I am, trudging on with my journey towards excellence as I go on with life in this wonderful 2010.
