Chew Piin Huann 丘品焕

At what point does a director thinks that the movie he is filming is good enough? At what point does a painter thinks that his painting is good enough and stop? How about writer? photographer? songwriter? What is 'good'? Are there quantitative measures like KPIs in business or metrics to be fulfilled? Or it is purely a generic feeling thingy? Most importantly, must the creator like the creation himself like how a fan likes it? The most controversial thing about art is the creation of art school itself.  Art by definition means 'the product of human creativity'. Creativity means something that is groundbreaking and new. How can we teach someone to create something 'new'? 'Teaching' means replication and it means that we are passing something existing to the next person. It is not something new, it is not creativity, and thus, it is not an art.  Perhaps the career as artist itself is also controversial.  An art...

I did not buy insurance. I don't have one. And this excited many insurance agents as I am the rare breed that can be their potential client. The most common pitch I received is: "Imagine you suddenly contracted certain disease and you are lying on deathbed but you have no money, how will you feel? You are going to die, don't you afraid?You should protect yourself, start from now." This statement is made based on one big assumption: "The longer life is, the better it is." or, "We must live as long as possible." What if we question it by thinking the opposite? What if I think, my life has already completed and I don't need more of them? I have lived for 25 years. I have done many wonderful things. I am born under two lovely parents, I played so many video games and sports, I scored so well in exams. I had wonderful university life. I had been to many many countries. I am able to explore so many knowledge and parts of the universe. I have ...

In recent years, there is this hot trend of 'reading'. Everyone started building their 'reading list' and putting 'reading books' as a mandatory item in their bucket lists. Since young we were told by everyone superior than us that 'reading is good', 'you should read more', 'knowledge is wealth'. Things were getting more tensed when journalists started telling everyone that every successful person wakes up at 4am to read and they read 60 books a year, and also every book becomes 'Must-read if you want to become successful and happy'. At the same time there were a lot of hoax-y pseudo statistics that were circulating around telling people which country's citizens read the most and how it was related to economical successes. The outcome? Happy book publishers, bookstore owners, writers (Of course the happiest will be the pseudo writers who claimed themselves as authors but in fact they are merely information refurbishers or ...

Wow wow wow. I am really 'impressed'. In a useless 'management class' with all the futile bullshit theories, everyone took it very seriously, copy notes and take them as gold. In the possibly most useful class about fire prevention, no one takes notes, no one asks questions, no one cares. I really wonder will they remember how to use the fire extinguishers. They don't. There are even people staying upstair in the office, not attending the talk because 'they have alot of important work to do' What's the logic? I am really trying to understand what's going on in their minds. They totally reversed the logic. What's more important? Work or life? The most important thing to hedge about in our life is our life. The reason they care about the management class is simple, it's something directly impacting them. Their job, whether they will perform better and get promoted, whether they will climb higher and receive better pays. It's ...

The silliest thing about human being: * Every single inferior is fear of superior * Every single superior thinks he/she is above of the inferior People called it "The common sense". And they think this is how the world should be ran. The scarier truth is, if we do the opposite, the world will be so much more richer and better.  * An inferior who constantly challenges and questions the superior will only make the superior see him/her as an impressive non-confirmist that challenges status quo * A superior who constantly presents himself humbly and even admitted himself as inferior will only make the inferiors respect, adore or even idolise him/her more.  And both of the above are only benefits to the individuals, there is a hidden astronomical benefit behind: Real meritocracy in practice. The chain effect is the crazy profits and unimaginable growth for the company and business. When people forget about hierarchy and statuses, they can only put everything into...

二零一七年七月十二日 晚上八点五十二分 今天吃完晚饭后，爸爸和妈妈坐在电视机前，为某一件事情争吵着。 他们买了一张电视台增值卡，要把号码输入到简讯里发出去才能增值，然后才能购买和看到某一些频道。 其实整个过程对一个年轻人来说是再容易不过一分钟搞定的事，但他们就是弄了好久好久都弄不到。 我坐他们身后的沙发，看着他们俩的背影，我马上联想到很多事情，然后就忍不住上楼回房大哭，哭到泣不成声。 我联想到这是以后的他们。两个与世界脱节了的老人，已经丧失了很多能力，有很多事情都已经没办法做好了。 看着爸爸只能一个号码逐个逐个非常非常慢地输入，而且还会输入错的那种。 我尝试解释了很多很多很多遍，他们都听不懂。 妈妈连手机也不太会用，教了她很多次要怎样进Maxis的App她还是搞不太懂。 最近跟他们聊天，也发现我们越来越有代沟了。很多我新学到的知识和在外面看到的东西，他们都好像听不太懂。而且在很多事情的看法上分歧越来越大了，特别是我越来越有自己分析真理和看世界的方法。 我联想到这是我不在他们身边的时候是这样的，他们很多东西都不懂，就只能这样碰碰撞撞抹黑。 我联想到这是以后我不在他们身边的时刻，很多事情他们只能靠自己，但自己却已经没有了 能力。很多他们要做的事，却不懂怎么做也做不到，那种无力感和沮丧。 我联想到以后他们万一连走也走不动，看东西也看不见时，怎么办。 真的很恐怖，联想到这我就真的很怕。 以前这种画面在戏剧里看得非常多，但当时没身在其境，不能体会。以前都觉得我爸妈很好，我还是可以想小孩一样依偎在他们身旁。 不知道是他们真的变老了，还是因为我真的长大了才会领悟到这些问题。 现在我亲身深切地感觉和体会到了。 我真的到了那个成人阶段了。怎么办啊，我没时间了。 几年前的我十分偏执，十分幼稚。我总是认为他们不太会科技，或是思考逻辑不太清晰，他们就应该学，我甚至会想说就是没人逼他们所以他们学不会。我真的太幼稚了。他们是在不同年代长大的，他们没有我成长年代的发达资讯，所以他们不会根本就是无可厚非啊。 我小时候什么都不会时他们从没有埋怨过，那我现在凭什么要求他们，凭什么啊。 我最最最害怕的是，有一天，他们觉得不要麻烦我，很多东西都往自己吞，很多东西都不告诉我，很多东西都不再找我帮他们做了。我最...

舍弃是一个比得到更珍贵的技能，而且强大好几千倍。 追求梦想最难的不是追求梦想，最难的是要做很多很多达到梦想所需要做的，完全不符合梦想本质的琐事。