Friday 27 May 2011

Hobbies + Dreams = Awesomeness


Greetings fellow readers!

This post is about a person named Sim Xuan Chi aka John Sim, age 21. He is currently studying in HELP University as a first year psychology student.

As for his interests, there are just too many of them. For starters, there's basketball, which he plays almost every week without fail. Any kind of sports would interest him. Kind of a typical guy huh? Anyway, other than sports, there is also music. Music has been his partner for the past 7 years since he picked up the guitar. And now, he also plays the drums! Talk about talent. Haha. He is also into outdoor activities like hiking. The most recent hike took him 9 hours to reach half (yes, half) the mountain and back. It was really weary on him. Almost bedridden.




This is supposed to be the 45 degrees hike up, but the camera didn't pick the angle up. Too bad.














In his recent trip to Ipoh, he joined his bunch of friends in paintball and water rafting. Both were new things to John, so he didn't hesitate to join. Well, maybe a little for paintball as he was broke.





Paintball's fun when you win!









Having said that, he did not regret one bit about doing paintball and water rafting. ESPECIALLY water rafting. It was pure excitement though it was quite scary. He fell into one of the rapids when the raft hit one. Here's the video of the fall :


As for now, he is into fishing. I mean REALLY into fishing. However, he did not bother about what others think of him and his new found hobby. Fishing was relatively new to him, started about a year and a half ago. Now he is getting considerably good at it.




This is his largest catch of a fish native to the amazon, Pacu of 7 kg.









Through fishing, he has made many new friends who are really passionate with what they are doing. This kind of spirit is rare now. It is this kind of passion and people that had kept John hooked to fishing. Not only the people are in great spirits, fishing actually exercises his brain to think more critically to solve problem. Make do with what you have to solve the problem in hand. Creativity went wild when he decides to try anything he can grab a hold of to use as bait. Corn, flour, eggs and even roti canai dipped with dhall was not even spared!


When it comes to dreams and aspirations, John doesn't have any specific target but he is looking to have a career in the line of psychology. In details, he still has not got an idea yet. To puts things rather simple, he never misses an opportunity to learn and earn. For now, he is just concentrating in his studies and tries not to worry too much about the future as it is unpredictable.

Just sit in for the ride called life.

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