Tools of A System

A machinery moves in an automated system. It runs like a clock, in fact, it is trying to beat the clock to produce faster and faster. Churning out goods at a rapid rate to meet the demand from the suppliers.

The employees working in an Multi National Corporation (MNC) are just tools of a machinery system. They are delegated specific functions in their respective departments. They work around the clock, the employees in the USA are working in the day while the employees in India work while they are asleep. Everything is part of a big automated system that ensures profitability of the stock holders.

Everyone is becoming part of the system, each one of us contribute to a bigger objective. Tall buildings dominate the landscape while workers scurry like ants on the ground level. CEOs play golf while entertaining prospective clients. Money is the bottomline. If it brings in profits, we will start production of the goods and services to the masses.

We are just dispensable tools of a system. You can be fired and replaced anytime. Unless, unless… you decide to control the system and stop running in the race like everyone else.

Averal Lim is a Business Undergraduate who examines the consequences of economy on the people that traps them in an invisible race for a “greater being”.

Want To Be A Star?

Picture of Gackt, a famous Japanese Singer

Humans sell everything and anything nowadays. As long you have the money, you can get anything (superficial). Human Products is a term i invented for the rising number of “artists” who are marketed by record labels into an “image” that people would “purchase”. It can also mean selling of one’s body (in a sick and twisted way).

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Where Has My Heart Gone?

He took a scissors and cut the veins towards her heart and threw it into a deep hole that no one could find.

There are no sadness in her eyes, they are just moving tear drops that don’t feel a thing

She looks at the world spinning around her while she sits still.

Waiting, waiting for the day that her heart can be found.

There is No Human Left

The world is getting faster - everyone wants it quick. Traditional resturatants are losing out to fast food, human labor is being lost to automated machinery. The bottom line of businesses is to deliver at a low cost and speed of delivery into the market determines competitive edge over the others.

Over the last decade we had seen the prevalence of automated machines in our everyday lives - ATM machines, vending machines and even driverless trains. The opening of 7 - eleven beside the station has led to a row of traditional mini-convenience shops to close their operations after being in the area for 20 over years. Our technology is killing the old, replacing with new, automated service “Good Afternoon Sir, how may i help you today?” by service staff over counters.

Gone are the days you will spot an uncle in a singlet scratching his back while serving you in his mini business. The human like characteristics of personal service is replaced by company scripts and models of behaviour is replaced with guidelines in the handbook, ensuring corporate identity. There is no more room for personal identity - after all, who said we were living anyway? We are just a small part of a big system that automates the supply chain work flow.

They say that globalisation has led to a growth of accumulated wealth that has been never been precedented for in the entire human history, that we have more liberties as compared to being peasants in monarchies. I say, we are all poorer in fact, we are losing our identities to the large corporate dungeon whereby masters would whip out any sign of rebellion to ensure the population conforms to certain roles that they are expected to perform. Liberties are replaced with conformity, individualism is gone. Who says we have a voice? The ruling party decides what to portray in the media, the sheep like mentality of the population gives greater powers to the shepherd leading the herd into the slaughter house while putting on a smile.

They say the human spirit is free, however, we had trapped ourselves in another game - the game of life. For more wealth, for more gains … while bleeding the ordinary to work for their riches. Welcome to the 21st century, lose your identity to the corporate world and be part of the faceless race.

Averal Lim is a business undergraduate who thinks that globalisation has repercussions that economists failed to see.

Music is Universal

There was once i asked my mum why did she take up classical piano.

She replied, “Music is a universal language, no other language can replace it.”

For my typically bimbotic handbag perfume loving mother to say something so profound shocked me initially, i recovered after a while and pondered about it. No matter how much i tried to argue within my heart, i couldn’t find a better argument for her statement (i am used to arguing with her when she says illogical stuff like sleeping with my cat makes me sneeze).

“There are so many barriers in languages, not everyone can understand the differences in language. For music, it is different, everyone can understand the emotions in music, and that is what makes it such a powerful communication tool.”

It is true, no matter how flowery or brilliant language can be, its impact is limited within that few words in a statement (that is if the person reading it has a good comprehension of the language in question). Music is different, its impact is so powerful that anyone in the world can be swayed with its emotions.

Which reminds me, when i was in St Francis doing my A levels, a teacher called up an “ah beng” from my class to play the piano. With tattoos all over his chest and tattered knuckles, i thought he was the least likely candidate to be able to play the piano (more like karate).

“Play us a song about how you feel” My music teacher kindly instructed. When he sat on the pedestral and started moving his fingers across the keys… i was astounded. I could feel his emotions as he played the notes… his body swayed with the melody as he transported us to another land. My impression of him changed drastically after that, i did not see him as a gangster, in fact, i admired him.

They Are Not

The world is full of people that pretend to be who they are not.
They boost of extraordinary feats when they are nothing

I call them fakers.

They are just living in denial.

An imaginary lie.

A sad sad one that is.

I hope they do realise that they need to DO something instead of not doing anything…. things happen for a reason. It needs a strong intention to manifest it into a physical form… that is real.

Sometimes they really make me sick in the stomach. Not everyone is dumb to believe in their fantasy world and i hope they stop trying to brainwash others into a “paradise” at the end of a cliff.

Bleeding

Cracked walls revealing tainted blood
Skies breaking revealing the odyssey

Angels falling from heaven’s height
Humans nailed on holy crosses

Devils laughing at worlds end
Spirits lingering at deads end

A giant web cast upon opened eyes
Noise distortions on broken drums

Wired hands tied behind bars
Brains electrocuted on iron chairs

A bleeding world of sinners
A hellish place where evil thrives.

Universe

The human eye is a failure tool at prediction. In statistics, eyeball tests does not provide accurate analysis as well. That is why we need computers to process information faster than a human mind could handle. A human mind is under utilised because we believe in what science tells us instead of our own feelings to guide us.

To use our inner “superpowers” to reach beyond the limits of what is humanly possible, we have to listen to our mind. No matter how irrational or illogical it seems, it provides us with the answers to everything. It is called the infinite intelligence. Everyone of us has the ability to tap into the mind of the universe but some people prefer to not accept the gift from heavens. 

Everything sparks from a seed of imagation, driven with desire to make it a reality. The stronger the desires, the faster it manifests itself into forms. Without risks, there are no gains. The risker it is, the higher its returns.

We only live once, so why not risk it all? There might not be a point of return but it beats the hell out of being ordinary. You might be remembered in history for taking the chance too. Ordinary people are just afraid, fearful and disillusioned puppets controlled by the very few who dared venture out of their own boundaries.

Protected: Blinded World

Gift From Heaven

“Calling out to everyone with closed hearts and closed minds
Don’t be afraid to open up your heart.
The more you share, the more you receive
Ask, and abundance awaits you. “

In this world where money is exchanged in every transaction
And the best man gets the best jobs

We don’t stop and look anymore.
Sometimes we just got to stop whatever we are doing and think.

How are we going to contribute back to the society for all that
they have provided for us?

How can we share the love and blessings that the heavens have
endowed on us?

Just stop, and think.
Is there anyone you can help?

After all… karma works in the way that
the more you give, the more you receive in return.
If you don’t start giving… there will be no returns.

Open up… and you will find that
We are living in a very beautiful world.

Treasure every moment of it.