(If) I Could Change The World

I had a chat with Han Ching last month regarding how we would like to mould someone into the way we want him/her to be. This reminds me of how I keep on telling people that Hong Kong Disneyland is not as fun as Hong Kong Ocean Park. I keep on telling and people who has not been there won't believe me unless they entered it. That is how people's mind are shaped. They won't believe you unless they've actually witness it themselves. Once they had experienced it then, they will say:

"You are right man. I should have listened to you."

I came to a conclusion that sometimes we can't make others think like the same way we think. And when that person happened to be closed to us for example closed friends or relatives, we will feel angry and puzzled as why they won't think rationally. I've witnessed physics-mad science student turn to become accountant, food science student changed profession to venture into a whole new field and even a bank officer jumped from banking to hair stylist. Well, not to mention far, a civil engineer turned electrical and mechanical engineer in the shape of me, myself.

I believe that our education system is one of the reason of this orthodox thinking. A civil engineer student must design buildings. An accountant must do accounts. A sway away from the course will be deemed a sway from the direction of life. Now, I'm reading a book on "The Airasia Story". Do you know that Mr Tony Fernades is actually in music industry before turning into a totally new field of aviation.

I bet he does not even knows what a taxilane is then! The book tells the magnificent story of how a RM 40 million debt-ridden aviation company being bought for RM1 and got profit within 7 months! Years later, they are the World Best Low Cost Carrier and boast the biggest fleets of Airbus in the world. Does a sway from his profession a sway of life direction? Yes. A successful life direction to be precise. If not because Wilbur's brothers swayed away from thinking that hot air balloon is the only mode of air transportation, Airasia won't be able to boast the famous tag line of:

"Now Everyone Can Fly!"

I offered some words to those who are mad or disappointed with his/her friend for doing thing against what other people thought is a norm. You can advised them or let them know how you feel, but don't demonise them. Let them sit down for themselves and make their own decision. Anyway, it's their life. You don't have any right in law or regulation to control them.

Well, of course please don't mix those who go for drugs or crime into this context please. They are of different story with this one. A friend of mine once thanked me for telling him to be not choosy with the university because of his decent STPM result. He told me if he's too ambitious going for hot universities then he might land himself with course he don't intend to study or worst still, not even a place in tertiary education. Eventually, he got himself a degree in the course he wanted at budding university. I told him, well what I can offer you as a friend is an advice. The final decision is yours. You made a decision and you are happy with that, me as a friend shares the same happiness.

With me watching how the dolphins jumping our from the pool and pandas shitting inside their enclosure at Ocean Park, I was enthralled and told myself,

"This is better than watching Disneyland's 'The Mermaid' or 'Kungfu Panda'!"

Location: Hong Kong Ocean Park

How to get there: Citybus Route 629 from Admiralty MTR Station or Central Pier Nos. 7 ($10.6 for adult and $5.3 for child)
Admission fees: $2o8 HKD