Floorball - Wrist shot v Drag shot v Slap shot

I do not profess to be a master of floorball shots, but I am, at least, average in the floorball community. The below comment are that of just another floorballer.

Personally, I feel that unless the flooring is gerflor, wrist/drag shots are better than slap shots, any time.

Practice makes perfect. Slap shot, like airhook, may seem attractive, but really, if basics are able to take you further, learn your basics.

The drunk mind speaks the sober heart.


Thanks Anonymous for your heart-warming comment. I really appreciate it, along with the concern expressed in your comment. 


However, I would like to address some points, and also pen down what I feel about what you wrote. Please don't take it that I am scrutinizing your comment, take it as a 'reply'. 


Firstly, the person did betray my trust, but I would not judge the person as to label them as 'stupid'. But one fact still remain, the person betrayed my trust. 


Yes, I have heard of the passage before. I have always given others the benefit of the doubt that they are good in nature. But one thing I never understood is why have so many people showed me that they are not?


Randy Pausch had a really inspiring quote - If someone fails to impress you, it is just that you haven't given them enough time. I am trying very hard, but why do I sometimes get the feeling that they just DON'T CARE?


But yes, life is a learning process. I guess there just ain't any one-size-fits-all solution. I'll make do with my trial and error. 


And do not worry; I am still chasing after the many things I want in life. I will be strong. 


But I miss my floorballers. I wonder if they do so too. Guess there's a point in life where we can all sing the song 'Vitamin C - Graduation' to ourselves. 


So long, goodbye. 


P.S. I really appreciate my crazy C4 alcoholics for taking such wonderful care of me. Now, I truly understand that C4 is a place more than just fun, but genuine care and trust. 


Here is my most sincere thanks, though it does not, in any measurable way, justify what I truly feel. The drunk mind speaks the sober heart.

For 'floorball rox'

On the tagboard, 'floorball rox' requested for a post discussing about where to draw the line between using your heart and using your head. Of course, my generic answer is cliché - It will have to depend on the context, employ the right one for the right situation.  I shall explain myself in a few context, hoping that one of it is what you are looking for.

First up, the most common topic whereby people are faced with this dilemma - Love.

My stance for this is to use your heart. For the simple reason that you don't think love, you feel love. But some will ask, if you were to follow your heart in love, then what is the right way of loving someone?

Lucky for all of us, we are homo sapiens. We have innate primal instincts, and highest priority in the list is survivability. Part of survivability is to reproduce, and part of reproduction is mating, and we all know that there is one important thing in mating - Attracting your mate; impressing the opposite sex.

You see, this ability of how to love is innate. There is no need for another to teach you, just as a baby Komodo Dragon knows that it have to climb up a tree the moment it is born to prevent being preyed upon - It is a primal instinct. But sometimes, why we find it so difficult to love is simply because we have been taught to suppress our primal instinct.

For example, a part of survivability is communal living, but some of our parents taught us to be wary of your friends, that there is no free lunch in this world, that everyone cares more about themselves before you. Like communal living, some of us managed to make ourselves believe that love hurts; it's not worth a try. If you happen to be in any of the categories mentioned above, or any along the line, you might find it hard to re-discover your natural ability to love.

But so long as you are willing to allow yourself to live again, to follow your heart, how to love will come to you, naturally.

And a piece of advice from me to you is not to hide in your comfort zone of not loving in fear of getting hurt, because love is divine. 

Next up, spirituality. For the simple reason that spirituality is something you you personally believe in, and yet is unable to rationalize, you have to use your heart. Enlightenment, which I think is the best thing spirituality can offer you, is felt, not taught. You don't go about saying, "Teach me how to attain Zen?". Instead, you ask yourself, "How do I attain Zen." Zen is a self-discovery, a personal mastery. In spirituality, teachings are only able to teach you that much. In my opinion, teachings only make up 20% of why spirituality is awesome. The other 80% that is most wonderful about spirituality is discovering yourself. Enlightenment, and change, comes from the inside. Knowing yourself, recognizing your flaws, and strengths too, suggest that you are halfway on the route to enlightenment, to changing for what you perceive is better.

For most of the other things, follow your head.

In short, if it is about spiritual, primal instinct(communal living, survivability, etc), love, etc, use your heart. If not, use your head.

This writing sucks bad. No rigour, no emphasis, no personal touch. Seems to me like blatant ranting.

More Life Lessons.

These are some of life's many important lesson that I have came to discover recently. I believe it would be beneficial for you to know. These may not be of much value to you now, but rest assured that it would be in the future.

1. Every action can be perceived differently by different group of people. To an individual, it may mean one thing; to a group/organization, it may mean another; to the social media, it might just mean the opposite.

2. Just because one is smart doesn't make him/her necessarily wise.

3. Give others the benefit of doubt that they are trustworthy, and more often than not, they would not fail to impress you.

4. Delegation of work does not mean that you dish out the dirty work. If anything, it means that you dish out the easier work to others so that you free up your time to do the dirty work yourself.

5. Think, before you act.


6. At any point of your life, you can choose to either smile or frown; you can either see it as a really bad experience, or you can choose to see it as a learning point; you can either see it as an extreme pain, or you can choose to treat it as a quest to become better than before.

Remember, good decisions comes from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions. -Randy Pausch


7. Anyone who is where he is now have to start from where he was. -The idea was quoted from Tracy L. Chong, but was rephrased(or so I think) in my own words.

8. It's okay to be critical, but please be constructive. The aim of all critics should be the improvement of the subjects.

Pardon me.

Yes, to all the Chilli Bombs, please pardon my poor organizational skills. It ain't really the easiest thing to reach home past midnight everyday and still having to plan several outings. I'll do my best, please provide constructive feedback. Thank you! (:

Also, I am unable to accommodate everyone in Chilli Bomb. There will definitely be people who are not free on the outing day, so let's just be fair to yourself and me - Just because a few members are unable to turn up doesn't make it a bad outing. Thank you again.

To the rest who are complaining or whatsoever, I welcome complains, but please include recommendations or constructive feedback together with it. Do rest assured that I will try my very best to understand your perspective and consider your recommendations, but if I don't adopt it, it does not mean that I don't hear you. Also, if you could convert a little of your effort in complaining to some help, it will be much more appreciated. Thank you once again.

And yes, I guess that OG spirit was really temporal, or was it not?

So many years have passed... Yet, it appears that nothing(long term) have been done to mitigate our issues at hand.

Dear Environment and Water Resources Minister,

It would be much wiser to understand Chaos Theory and not highlight the your inability to accurately forecast events of the future. Maybe you could use a bit of the 300mil to improve our weather forecast system, as I believe that Singaporeans could really use a 'Beware of Floods in _____ tomorrow' system.
Half of politics is probably about managing expectations. At least, it could give you the benefit of doubt that you know what's going on, and what you are doing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory

Within the Chaos Theory states - "This happens even though these systems are deterministic, with NO random elements involved."

Tackling the safety issues at hand is definitely effective in the short term, but I don't see how it is, at all, a long-term solution.

-A youthful idealist.

The last thing I want to see is

I wish you all the best.

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