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Music and passion. Today after taking a half day leave and visit Chinatown with my parent in laws. Went shopping for a while and then waited an hour for my wife to be with us for dinner.

While sitting behind OG Chinatown and chatting, I saw an old-uncle was dragging a speaker and guitar with him. In my mind, it just another basker playing music for living. No offends on baskers outside there ya. To my suprise, when the uncle started to sing, all the public attention is to him. He plays ‘quite OK’ on the guitar and sings old chinese songs that capture attentions from the old-folks loitering around the area. I was expecting to see a small plastics cups/plastics in front of him, to my suprise the uncle did not collect anything from the performance, he is just perfoming for the sake of the performance. WOW, that uncle is living in his passion. After the dinner, I just realised that the uncle actually ice cream seller at that area.

Two things that I learned from this experience:
1. Music / Pop Culture
Music really have powers to bring back memory and capture public attention. We are all in tuned with music. Interestingly when the uncle play, even though not really that clear, but it captures people attention and quite a lot of people actually sing along with the uncle.

2. Passion
Do what you passion about and even though it is for free, as long as you happy. And best if you are paid for it. ha2.