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Repentance is the thought and action to correct a wrong and seek forgiveness from a person who is wronged. Often in religion, it is labeled as a sin and we look for ways to ask for forgiveness from the other party.

With different religious practice and belief, the way which religious believers ask for forgiveness also varies. At individual level, people ask for forgiveness directly from the person and are recommended and most effective and beneficial to individual mental and spiritual well being.

As for religious practice, there was a news article which talks about Pop Benedict XVI breaking the silence on child-sex abuse which was dismiss by victims who wants actions instead of remarks. While I was reading that news article, I remembered the informational show on Channel News Asia that showed how a Christian believer go on a holiday to walk and get a feel of what God went through in Israel the birth place of Jesus Christ and talked about how he was crucified.

The reason for crucified by the other religious leaders was partly due to the fact that he failed to respect other religions who did not at any point of time provoke him nor his religion at all and there he is going into a Muslim and Jewish religious nation and trying to spread his own belief and faith disrupting other people’s belief.

I’m not sure if it’s right or wrong, but one must be responsible for their personal mistakes which he did, and I respect him for that. Than going back to the news article, the phrase which states “must repent for sins and recognize mistakes” and when I think of the actual practice currently, it isn’t doing what they are saying. When a confession is made, believers were told that by welcoming God into their lives, their sins will be washed away and seek enlightenment.

I will agree partially as enlightenment that part, is same with all respective religion but when it comes to washing the sins away, that is neither practical nor realistic at all. Instead it is misleading people into thinking that they can continue to do bad things and yet ask for forgiveness, its identical to saying oh Law and Justice, I believe in law and will not commit the crime of robbing/kidnapping a person again, please pardon me of my wrong doings, don’t sentence me to jail please.

That to me sounds so wrong. What I understand of religion is whereby we should help one another, and not by expecting other people to carry the mistakes and be pardon without taking responsibility of our own actions. Perhaps it is precisely this misleading or misunderstanding of the true intention of God which caused the Pope sex scandal to keep on surfacing.

I do believe in religion but the moral, ethics and individual responsibilities still holds regardless of what we believe in, be accountable for our own actions.

Religion is what holds us to our own beliefs; it is like a moral light house guiding our way from dangerous costal shores.

So no matter what you believe in, make sure you are doing the right thing and be responsible for your own actions.

What kind of relationship do you want to have? Positive or negative relationship with people around you, are you going to force your way in and get killed in the process or approach with caution and respect for your competitors?

Think of the consequences before doing anything.

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Provocateurs are people who are employed by an entity to act as a undercover and to entice, provoke another person, group or business to commit wrong and rash actions.

It is a strategic and intelligent move by taking advantage of the weakest link.

It is a silent killer in politics everywhere, from home, schools to office politics and even businesses, such people are always around, and how often are you able to spot and identify such people?

They are under-cover agents or spies wanting to frame an individual or a group to achieve their personal gains and benefit from a chaotic situation. An example is the most talked about demonstration in Thailand.

Live ammunition were used in the demonstration, with many eye witnesses saying that soldiers using it while others remarks saying there were people who were from neither the demonstrators or the military force who were using live rounds, instead it was from people who were firing at innocent people form rooftops.

Remarks came from a former cabinet minister Suranand Vejjajiva now a respected political commentator as reported in Straits Time Newspapers.

Unknown gunmen were taking advantage of the hostility between the red shirt demonstrators and the opposition military force compromising of police and army.

From my humble opinion, instead of focusing on the violence, lost of lives, both parties, the red shirt demonstrators and the military police and army should join hands and come to a mutual agreement to save lives.

By having a agreement which is to weed out, capture those gunmen and soldiers caught using live ammunition and bring such provocateurs to justice who are trying to make matters worse by taking advantage of the situation.

While there’s chaos, agreement should be focus on peaceful demonstration and reducing the numbers of lives lost due to such gunmen.  To learn how to handle such issues, just stay tuned to get yourself updated on the news from Channel News Asia.

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Power is the ability, capacity or authority to carry out an order, action or command to have any task completed either done legally or illegally.

It is the strength, force to influence to accomplish tasks via being in a authoritative position to order subordinates to complete their assignments/tasks on time.

It is a force not to be reckoned with, especially with nature especially with the forces of natural disasters, the power and impact is damaging.

It is what many people would dream of having, the power to control almost anything and everything by being in an authoritative position. Power struggle is usually the result of not having reached an agreement and both either sides are happy with the terms and conditions being proposed.

In the most recent example, Thailand, the red shirts peaceful riot that changed into partial violence. While it looks like the military has got the weapons, and are in the authority position to defend them but without the command from their leader, they cannot carry out anything.

The people participating in the riot on the other hand has the advantage, whatever steps the military and government do, they still win because they are taking away their rights, restricting their movements and forcing them into a corner by force.

By using force, such as bullets, water guns against the protestors who started with ladies and even children, military has no reasons to fire bullets against them, but they still did, thus they are in the wrong. For pushing them backwards, they are bullying the weak, thus the protestors return what they receive from the military.

One of which was throwing back a smoke grenade back to the military, thus they cannot say that it is the protestors who started the violence with they throwing grenade into the government protected places as reported in Channel News Asia.

There are lots of political Dos and Not Dos which we can learn by watching the news. If you want to succeed and win in the war of business or politics, you will like to switch your channel and get the latest insights to their progress.

Who is right or wrong, it is all based on personal perception and views. To win, we not only need to know business but also politics.

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Discrimination is to show hostile signs towards an individual belonging to a group of religion, country and preface. It is the treatment taken towards or against a person of a certain group in consideration based solely on class or category. It is distinct in favor of or against a person.

The world most serious and damaging discrimination type will be racial discrimination. Since the age of time, it is born inside us to show favoritism towards an individual, a group whom we like regardless of whether there is any benefits laid out on the table for discussion to help one another.

It is a world that all countries and politicians want to avoid most and will try any cost to not discuss it. In the global nations, this problem still exist but nobody wants to face the music thus they are who they are right now having to face the same problem which they give to the blacks and yellow.

Now that the whites are trying to capture a market share of the rising dragon, than only did they realize the difficulty of racial discrimination, something which they are now complaining and making a big deal out of something which is so minor and can be ignore in fact.

Even fellow yellow skin people from local nations are suffering high business casualty rates of ninety percent, with only one success for every ten ventures, than what give the white the rights to even say that the rising dragons are making it difficult for them to do business in that country?

The way Singapore and China works differently, Singapore being a flexible and adaptable to multiple chances thanks to the multi-racial religion which makes it easy thus no racial discrimination and biasness doing business here in Singapore nor do we apply any culture from any religion.

But it is a whole new different story in China, even Singaporeans find it difficult to understand their culture let alone be successful in China, what rights to the Whites in particular USA can complain of China that they are making it difficult for them to do business?

Look at the most recent China Premier Wen JiaBao press release interview and he explained about what had actually happened during the Copenhagen Event and why he send a low rank minister to attend the meeting as broadcast in Channel News Asia LIVE. The next day, USA has nothing to say and there came up a news article with ‘arrogant’ in one of the headlines.

Look at that, so who is the devil? What goes around comes around, if you don’t want this to happen to you, than don’t even make life difficult for the others in the first place.

The key to doing bilateral business globally is not to walk the talk using office politics which will not work in global stage, but rather understanding the culture differences which no businessmen has yet to succeed in doing that to date.

To succeed in China means to be a foreigner making billions thus to be considered as successful, but to date there is none, because only locals understand the culture.

Stop finger-pointing and start reflecting. Look at the mirror and ask yourself what are you doing that is wrong.

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Compete is to outdo another for acknowledgment, prize and supremacy. It is the rivalry of two or more parties.

The most competitive industry in the employment sector will be Wall Streets in the USA. If you don’t know anything or what it does, watch Channel News Asia “Chinese woman succeeding on Wall Streets” and you will get what I mean.

In employment, it is the most competitive employment for employees where sky is the limit, and like what is said in the show, anybody who can survive in Wall Street for at least a year is already earning more than others. They have five times higher wages than others in the world. A hedge fun manager can easily earn up to a billion dollars of wages if he/she is successful.

In business, Forbes ranking list is the most competitive place for businessmen and entrepreneurs. In the past, being a millionaire will be sufficient to be among featured in the Forbes List, since few years back, Forbes List has changed and it takes at least a billion to climb into the list, thus the competition is intense.

Unlike employment, business is easier and much more fun and happening, if you enjoy what you are doing, something that is your passion, you are already ahead of your competitors because there is no classification between work and play for people who are working on their passion as business thus passion is a critical factor in business.

Competition is everywhere, it is the survival of the fittest for our own lives, we cannot depend on anybody except ourselves for a living, no even our parents, although parents are willing to give up their lives for us, but that is something that’s not good.

We should learn from the wild rogue nature of animals and beast, the instincts are kept inside each and everyone of us and will only surface in desperate times for survival. Clueless on what I’m talking about, watch Okto Documentary shows and you might learn about related stuffs.

Wild animals only protect their babies until they are fully independent and able to hunt on their own before leaving them on their own and carrying on with their own lives. This is seen and practiced by Western countries which is good but not in Asian countries thus contributing to Asian weakness in survival instincts.

Go for more natural outdoor sports and advantage, you don’t need to go into the advantage and sports full time, just a one time experience will do if you can catch and remember the feeling, experience at the back of your hand and recall it easily. If not, put in some effort into it and experience what nature and what is required for success.

Entrepreneurship is all about independence, and it come from freedom, breaking away from parents, care and protection and standing alone by yourself beating the odds and be the champion.

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Wager is the act of placing a bet to risk and stake something of value on an uncertainty, example placing bets on soccer, basketball, wresting, casino games and many others.

It is not wrong to wager, in fact both the poor and the wealthy successful people wager on most of their valuables in exchange for something bigger better for a new improved lifestyle and increase comfort.

Like I previously mentioned in the other entry Gambling in the difference in how they view the loss on investments which is identical to looking at the rate of returns or investments also known as ROI, thus it is good to place a wager, but don’t use lots of your money, instead you should start with little or no money and there are tricks to doing so if you have successful businessmen as your friends, you will realize how they generate wealth with little or no money.

Like what I previously heard from a seminar speaker Wendy Kuek who was featured on Channel News Asia “The Million Makers” on how to make money. A question was asked why emphasis on making money with little or no money? Her response was, if you do not know how to make money with little or no money, what makes you think you can make money with lots of money?

Like wise the same idea is being written in Rich Dad Poor Dad, Think and Grow Rich and many other books. The idea is to double your money growing your money. It is like the growing a fruit tree. You don’t plant a fruit with the intention of only wanting to have grown another fruit out, instead when you plant a fruit tree, you expect the tree to grow an abundance of fruits which you can profit from and the same theory applies throughout the law of basic economics in business.

Place a bet on something only if you can control and tweet the situation in your favor, that is the difference between the poor and the wealthy successful people and they successful businessmen/women knows exactly this point.

If you want to place a bet, bet your wager on wealthy and successful businessmen who are willing to help you succeed.

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