Something meant to be shared 真水无香

These are the snapshots of my conversation with Dave through Skype today:

[5:22:29 PM] Dave Carpenter says: congratulations. Senior research Exec!
[5:23:12 PM] isabel zhang says:
[5:24:43 PM] isabel zhang says: oh, I did part of the presentation in Grey with Soph yesterday
[5:24:58 PM] isabel zhang says: couple of slides
[5:25:41 PM] Dave Carpenter says: Lets hope we can get you a work permit in KL or Singapore. We are moving towards a regional consultancy biz and KL will be less important. You are very much in our plans for this. good to see you are presenting, you’ll have to get used to it!
[5:25:47 PM] isabel zhang says: i haven’t talk in front of not more ten ppl after my public speaking class back to college haha
[5:25:54 PM] isabel zhang says: it was fun.. hehe..i enjoyed it
[5:26:04 PM] Dave Carpenter says: you are a natural, like me
[5:26:36 PM] Dave Carpenter says: both onlychildren and so naturallt show-offs!
[5:27:11 PM] isabel zhang says: hahehha… i could construct my thoughts better when i think about it now..
[5:27:37 PM] Dave Carpenter says: use it for next time. we only learn by doing things
[5:34:36 PM] isabel zhang says: yea

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To be honest, I have nothing much to say about this, the promotion, the opportunites in near future, the motivations from my boss, the intentions from the company make me feel - it just same shit, different ass-holes!

It was raining the whole day, beautiful sunset as reward at last..

Crazy fun gals!

Old-school boys!

Solidness found.

More photos…check out this site!

Part II

The things I have learnt in my past lives (if there were any):

Revenge won’t cure anything

Not afraid of Responsibility

Purpose of Self-discipline

Acceptance of people who are different from me

Strength of faith 

Nurturing hopes

Trust for others and myself

The things I have to learn in this lifetime and next…(if there is any):

Patience, in general, it is the key for learning 

Acceptance of people who are progress slower than my current lifetime

Empathy      

Letting things go

Giving/Charity

Love and relationship 

Sharing/teaching/coaching others what I know and believe

Learn to trust my intuition

Forgive others and myself

Not to judge others

Harmony and balance

The key purpose of this lifetime: Love, understand/learning, knowledge 

Part I

          I finished reading a book called "Many Lives, Many Masters’. The author is a respected psychiatrist in U.S., he shared his extraordinary experience with one of his patients in the book – the key messages are – reincarnations, in between lives, purposes, dimensions, vibrations, death, superconscious-state, etc. 

          The book is trying very hard to expand the horizons of our mind. Although I am not quite convinced by certain parts of the book, it does support the ‘core’ of my beliefs and its hidden messages made me think.

          I am an atheist. However, I believe humans are not just physical creatures, but with possible spiritual advancement. See, I can’t be certain about reincarnations, but I do believe each of us has a purpose of being in this lifetime. We are here to find out some answers, or to achieve something that you haven’t achieved in previous lives, to learn and to understand, to correct our mistakes in the past lives, to enhance our knowledge.

          ‘Knowledge’, I mean, it is not about what is the latest fashion,  how’s the stock market doing, which MNC just merged with another company, which football team won the world cup in 1938, or even understand what consumers want. These are facts, information, and human interpretations. They are not knowledge, not to me. Knowledge is codes for soul, it will never diminish with time but last forever, it guides humans, generation after generation; knowledge is something to share among humans that’s beyond races, territories, colors or any human-created differentiations.  On the other hand, I believe people are not created with equal power and cognitive abilities. We’re born with talents, abilities and knowledge accrued from other lifetimes, though each of us still have to go through all the physical stages of developments, such as infant, teenager and etc…

           As for ‘God’- although I don’t believe in any particular form of ‘God’, I believe in the ‘God’ in each of us. We learn until we truly understand; we advance our soul, life after life, and then eventually, all of us will reach a state of ‘God’. "We are beyond life and death, beyond space and time. We are the Gods, and they are us."   

         

          I can stop to compare this book with a few other books I have read: ‘Tibetan Book of the Dead’. I read that book when I was 19. It was so powerful; it shaped my belief of death. Whereas, ‘Tuesdays with Morrie’ is trying to teach us the ‘life lessons’ in this lifetime from a old, wise man’s perceptive – a simple, yet important way to approach life. ‘Celestin prophecy’ series are trying to reveal and decode some mysterious language of this universe, the dimensions, human connections and etc, it is rather fascinating.

          To me, my intuition is telling me that I am heading in the right direction, even I know I have a long way to go… 

          I’ve just got promoted as ‘Senior Consultant’ in Firestar, my current company!

          Ironically, I met up with the MD of ISR, a company found me through a head-hunter agent a year ago, for a quick catch up. They contacted me when they found out that I’ve finished my MBA. The MD expressed that they still want to take me on board, especially they’ve just merged with a global HR specialist, Towers Perrin. They are hunger for talents! It sounded like what they do is what I am really interested in - a Industrial Psychology based, B to B consultancy. They are offering me a senior regional consultant role this time.

Cyn and I organizaed a reunion party for ex HELP mates, lots of them didn’t make it…but, it was all good! I will try to do this more often!

           Brian, Melissa’s bother, told me he found some photos of me in his company’s server. "What?! I didn’t know I was that famous! Where do you work?" "Gray." "I can’t remember I had anything to do with them…" "I think it was a party for Kent last years, in Volvo showroom…" "Oh, right, that one! I’ve been looking for the photos! I remember there were peolpe taking photos, but I haven’t seen any of it!" Well, here you go…

OMG, Kutaki? Wonder what she’s up to nowadays..she is a bright girl, lost a little tho..

On the stage…

Cyn joined us, on the stage, woo hoo~~

Cyn’s friend, some hot Brazilian guys..they really know how to move their bodies…I invited my hot Brazilian dance instructor to the party tonight..woo hoo~~ The Bellydancer is coming too…it is gonna be a very interesting night!

       Our confusion state can do others harm unknowingly, especially loved ones. So, try not stay in that state for too long…

             Went to this exotic Arabian restaurant called ‘Al Nafourah’ in Le Méridien for dinner last Saturday. What made it so special was the belly dancer, who came to each table and dance in every 15 minutes continuously from 6 to 10! She was this gorgeous Middle-East young lady in a red belly dance costume – simply goddess ! Woo Hoo~~ Check it out, guys!

             P/S: It might not be a good idea for couples, not for the first date! The guy wouldn’t know where to put his eyes on…! Haha! Opps.