Change The World

It's been exactly a month since my last blog entry. I've been busy, really busy. I guess it is a good thing to still be so busy during this gloomy economy. In January, I was busy preparing for my son's start in primary school and after that, Chinese New Year. I thought I could take a breather after Chinese New Year, as many of my business associates were predicting that Singapore economy will only get worse after CNY when everyone will stop spending. I had in fact braced myself for the slowdown. But for some unfathomable reason, my company became even busier in February and continued till now. I guess it is a good thing and I've also decided to focus on my business for the time being. In times like these, it is important to make the right decisions and all the more important to focus on customer retention and providing them better service.

After a long day, I finally am able to turn on my iTunes and listen to my music.

Earlier in the day, it was just phone calls after phone calls. It started all the way from 10 am and only ended around 8 pm. There were so many calls to make, coordinating the multitude of projects that my throat has gone parched and my mind became numb with overflowing information. My brain just feels a dull numb reverberating from the buzz of the day.

I guess this is why I came back to blogging, to force my brain to exorcise the chaos of the day.

In the past months, I had the fortune to meet some very talented and promising Singaporeans. They are so young. When talking to them, I can't help but feel my age. I even began to question how I've spent my younger years. Some of the talents are so young and yet they have achieved so much that I feel very paled in comparison. Some of them have traveled and seen the world. When I was their age, I was still a struggling undergrad wondering if I can graduate together with my friends. The new talents, with the aid of online social media networks, their work is recognised internationally, even though they may not be as known locally. Singapore is obviously no longer a big enough playing field and without urging, they have already firmly set their eyes in the global stage.

Even though I have been busy, but I still manage to keep myself abreast of the local current affairs and the buzz in the blogosphere. Sometimes, I wonder if we've focused our energy on the wrong stuff. We don't look too far and we are so short-sighted that we can only see the happenings just before us and treat them as though they were world changing events. I wonder, have we been making a mountain out of a molehill? In the end, we see only people penning their thoughts, thumping their chests, traffic to the blogs increased but in the end still no concrete action taken... nothing change.

I've shared my thoughts with a good friend of mine and she felt that I've achieved a lot too (maybe she was justing being kind). But I wonder... where is my recognition? There lies the dichotomy, I want recognition (maybe I'm really getting old) and yet I want to remain invisible to the public. If I've really achieved, then why do I feel so hollow?

I recall a statement that Lim Sau Hoong (林少芬) of 10AM Communications used in one of the ad her company created:

"心有多大　舞台就有多大".

It literally means, the stage is as big as your ambition.

Yes, I want to change the world and leave my footprint in the global stage. Let us all set our sights on the world.