The 500 and More ....

Warning! This post may take hell of your time. Please read when you are really free! It's really long!!!!! Thank you! :D

So, I was challenged earlier on or should I say, was given a unique piece of homework by a friend of mine. I need to list down 500 things that are good about me (sounds narcissistic eh, trust me .. when you tried to write more than 50 ... you thought you are having some type of medication) and that's all about it. I am allowed to seek help from others and not allowed to disagree with what they say (unless it's absolutely 100%-ly rubbish).

I am still not sure what's the purpose of this challenge. To some, it seriously sounds so silly. It sounds like you are so full of yourself to even think you should bother so many people about this. I wonder if some really think I (in its most crooked mind) came out with this myself as I need to seek some attention. To tell you the truth, I love myself but I don't love myself that much that I can spell out 500 good things about myself like that!!! It's not easy, okay!

And this exercise has directly involved 26 people (27 including myself, since I'm also a human being), 6 days and 4 countries and 6 cities. It has also tapped on the indirect source from 7 other friends of mine. Crazy or what? But it's all worth it.

I thought this exercise will only help me to know myself better but apparently it has taught me so much more:

1. I've made a better epic movie than 300 as mine is 500!! (Panci's stupid comment -.-" ... sad ... but true).
2. You can't do it alone. To make it an epic, you need more.
   
3. You thought you know who you are but apparently you are more than who you are.
   
4. You thought you know who your friends are but apparently you may not. They are much better than you think.
   
5. You will see who've given their best, take you seriously despite of your ridiculous plea.
6. You will see who doesn't take you seriously and think you are simply crazy and have nothing to do.
7. You will make better close friends.
   
8. You will then realize that the amount of time spent hanging out with someone isn't necessarily proportionate to the quality that you have in mind.
9. You will discover that true friends do not need much touch-base, but once put together, magic begins.
10. And in the end you may realize, that 500 is apparently not that bigger deal after all. Because you are not alone. You are bigger than who you think you are and you are connected to many great beings. Even if the number reached 10,000, it may be tough to find the right vocabulary to describe you anymore, but possibilities are endless.

I am finally ready to present what all of you have helped me to accomplish. You know who you are. Every single one of you, even though it's just one silly comment, it counts. I'm sincerely grateful and blessed for your presence and the gift of time you've generously shared with me. As a token of appreciation, I will in the return your effort by getting your good points noted down too. People should know how wonderful you are (even though most of you are written in initials). And most importantly, you should know how good you are to me.

It'll be too ambitious to write down all the good points of my 26 contributors at this one posts, so I'm chewing them slowly, may be 3-4 at a time. Please be patient ... :-) You know the 500 didn't come that fast. But I promise I'll make it happen to all of you. Bear with me.

And now, I'm presenting the 500 (+some little extras) to you. The colors used didn't represent anything at all -.-" .. (if you happen to be pink doesn't really mean you are as sweet as bubblegum) ... and the order of the names just happened to be the order of the person whom I've approached and responded to me. I chose myself the color white because without all of you, the chart will not be as colorful. So thank you again for making this exercise a fun learning experience. :-)

Happy reading and make sure you have time for it.

Love ya all! :D

P.S. Everybody, you should try to do this exercise! :) It's pretty enlightening and an eye-opener.

P.P.S. As I couldn't paste the table here as it's tooooooooo HUGE!!! Can't fit lar ... So, I've made mine as a PDF files and you may view them by clicking the links below. You need to have Adobe Reader to view the file. If you don't have it you may download it here. For the rest, I managed to make them into image files. Those that have the wordings too small, please click on the image for the bigger version. Hope all works fine ... (Never expect these hiccups but oh well...that's life I guess)

Today's special:

1. DD & The 500
(By clicking the file, it will direct you to another site - www.mediafire.com, to download the file). See lar ... so troublesome! When I'm a bittttt free, I'll cut all the tables down to 10 images and shall post it as a separate entry. Aiyoyo.... Really apologize for the trouble!

2. ST
Who is he? The person who gave me this challenge. A great person to be with. :-)





















3. Jack the Beanstalk
Who is he? One of the character from the fairy tale. :p Nah ... he's someone whom you can talk to especially you need a very unique opinions :D He does see world differently and most important he's very open minded.





















4. Panci
Who is she???
Needless to say!
She's a cooking pot!























5. Aunty Cheng
Ah ... my beloved student when I was a teacher 3.5yrs ago. Someone whom I smuggled to cinema after school hour. HAHA. And I still smuggle her to cinema to this date.