I’ve been feeling a little down lately. Maybe because of all the important stuff in my PC has been removed by a virus. Imagine you spend hours and hours a day for almost a year to get “something extraordinary”, and suddenly everything’s gone just like that. Yes everything! Menangis!! Moral of the story: IT IS SO IMPORTANT TO BACKUP YOUR VALUABLE DATA IF YOU KNOW THAT YOUR HARD DISK GOING TO DIE SOON AND PLEASE SAVE THE DATA IN A DIFFERENT PLACES!! A lesson for me!

Since I received these interesting facts via email, I think I should share it with you. I believe the best type of motivation is self motivation. Everyone can make a big difference if we only choose to believe in ourselves and never ever give up. Failure doesn’t mean you’ve wasted your life, it does mean you’ve got a reason to start afresh. Hopefully we learn something from these interesting facts. Stay motivated people!

- Henry Ford failed and went broke five times before he finally succeeded.

- Andrea Bocelli didn’t start singing opera seriously until the age of 34. Some ‘experts’ told him it was too late to begin.

- Elizabeth Jolley had her first novel published at the age of 56. In one year alone she received 39 rejection letters but finally had 15 novels and four short story collections published to great success. Mary Wesley was 71 when her first novel was published.

- Stan Lee, creator of Spider-Man, was 43 when he began drawing his legendary superheroes and his partner Jack Kirby was 44 when he created The Fantastic Four.

- Thomas Edison’s teachers said he was “too stupid to learn anything.” He was fired from his first two jobs for being “non-productive.” As an inventor, Edison made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb. When a reporter asked, “How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?” Edison replied, “I didn’t fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps.”

- Michael Jordan and Bob Cousy were each cut from their high school basketball teams. Jordan once observed, “I’ve failed over and over again in my life. That is why I succeed.”

- Muhammad Ali is one of the best boxers the world has ever known. He suffered only 5 losses while having 56 wins and was the first boxer to win the lineal heavyweight championship three times. This is a guy who literally knows how to get knocked down and get back up.

- Charlie Chaplin was initially rejected by Hollywood studio chiefs because his pantomime was considered “nonsense.”

- The movie Star Wars was rejected by every movie studio in Hollywood before 20th-Century Fox finally produced it. It went on to be one of the largest grossing movies in film history.

- In his first 20 years of business, Tom Monaghan went broke twice, lost control of his pizza company, and was sued for trademark violations. Later on that pizza company went on to become Domino’s pizza.