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"NURSING a fractured knee, Ng Ling Kai picked up her guitar out of boredom and recorded an original song using the camera on her Apple MacBook. She posted it on YouTube.

Three months and thousands of YouTube views later, independent Australian record label Lempicka Records came knocking."

- The Straits Times

http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Lifestyle/Story/STIStory_513230.html

It is kind of another miracle made possible by YOUTUBE. In recent years, there has been so many people becoming famous over YOUTUBE and so many stories of people's lives changed with YOUTUBE connections. I think YOUTUBE should get a prize for that, for creating a new way in which people can interact, showcase themselves in an otherwise restraining environment, and even a new route to building a career.

It's not just YOUTUBE, social media like facebook has also changed our lives. But besides being a passive user, can we be also actively tapping on the opportunities that these new media provides? It would be foolish to try to pretend that we are still in a society the way it was before these media arises. It is the phenotype of the society now, these YOUTUBE and Facebook things.

The idea is, other than surfing YOUTUBE for fun and Facebooking to catch up with our friends, these media also provides additional routes in which we can utilise in reaching our goals. Do not underestimate what these can do. Like Ling Kai's story is just the perfect example.

My lesson here is really, do what I want and enjoy doing and keep doing it :) And believe that if I really do try and wish for that, and not another 100 things at the same time, then there is no way that it cannot be done. This is something Bioengineering Day 2010 taught me as well. Do not give up and think about if I have utilised all the resources I can use in order to reach my goal.

A story from << 水煮三国>> by 成君忆: A man asked a little boy " what's wrong, you look really upset". The little boy told the man that he is desperate to get a piece of huge rock out of the way, but even though he was all the energy he has and even tried the lever method, he still failed. The boy said " I have done all that I can." However, the man smiled and said, " No dear, you have not used all you can." and jumped into pit to remove the piece of rock easily.

When I think that I have reached my limit or that a task is really hard to accomplish, before I stop, consider if I have used all that I can get my hands on to help me. And even if I know that I can do something myself, think of all the possible ways in which the same result can be achieve and decide what would be the best method. We sometimes have resources that we do not see and thus give up too easily, YOUTUBE and Facebook etc can be the new resources that have arised that we can learn to tap on. I guess that the end of the day, this might be want people refer to as an eye for opportunity or business acumen.

"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you" - Mathew 7:7