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全職快樂 Joy of Being | 楊佳賢 Jason Yeoh | TEDxPetalingStreet


Translator: Bunz Yeoh Interpreter: Winston Szeto

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I moved back to Penang for a long stay this year

Because of the parental relationship

Then I started to realize that

My mother seems to be deserted in her life circle

Because everyone is using that smart phone

Later I gave her a smart phone.

Teach her how to use WhatsApp

Come and record to her sister

She is very nervous

She pressed the microphone and then:

“Hello! Hello?

Sister?

no sound”

(laughter)

Soon, her sister

Pass this WhatsApp recording to her:

“Yeah, you just say

Anything you can say

Don’t always say “hahahaha” right there?

Just say it directly.”

Later, some friends also passed some WhatsApp recordings to her.

I found something very interesting

For example, her friend said:

“Oh, what did you eat?”

“Your child is back, right?”

Then my mom will immediately answer:

“Yes, you are full.”

“Yes, Jiaxian, he is back.”

She answered while listening

(laughter)

The result is that “Jian Yin is back.”

I listened deeply to my heart

Because of my original name

Not called Ah Yin, nor Jia Xian

My original name bears our parents of the previous generation

A promise to the next generation

Maybe the last generation was too poor

So they very much hope that their children will be prosperous

So my original name was Yang Ronggui.

(laughter)

Yang Ronggui was originally very rational for me.

A life that is very hard to plan

But eventually I lived out the life of Yang Jiaxian.

This one thing must start from 17 years ago

I just graduated from college at that time

Then I became an electronic telecommunications engineer

But when I was in college, I was exposed to the work of broadcasting.

It seems to be in the job

I found a way to make myself very comfortable

Very happy

Staying in the moment

So after I came out to work

Also desperately writing letters to radio stations to apply for broadcasting

But under the illusion

I was admitted to a television station as a journalist

Journalist

However, I did not edit the Department of Journalism

But at that time I actually wanted to try

So I quickly returned to my hometown in Penang

Then ask my family’s opinion

My brother said: “Hey! Your income as a reporter

Less than the engineer’s income.”

Then my mom said: “If you want to resign, then you have to pay a lot of money.”

Because I used to apply for a college loan

Then there is a contract with the company

Six years after graduation

When I only did a year

So you have to pay a lot of money

My father was even more assertive

He said: “Never!

Do not do this kind of work

Not long term

(laughter)

I took these three back to Kuala Lumpur

The next day I returned to the office

The first thing, I opened a computer to resign my letter

(laughter)

I made a letter of resignation

I can’t pay for it

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday

It’s a pain

Because Friday I will reply to the TV station.

But the people around me said to me:

“You’re crazy! You read engineering for so long.”

and then? You haven’t read any political department or news department now.

TV production has not been repaired

You are not even the Chinese Language Department

Why do you do news reporters with others?

So that is a fear

They think: How can you have a future when you do this as a journalist?

Then the value is not worth it?

Because you were originally in the Department of Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering.

So we always feel very scared for these things

But fortunately this time my phone rang

It’s my mom calling

My mother told me

(applause)

She said: “I have discussed with your father these days.

If you really want to do it, then go ahead and do it!

We will help you find ways to debt.”

(applause)

In this way, I handed over my life’s first letter of resignation.

From 1999 until 2016

17 years today

I did not turn back

I want now

Why do we have the courage to make this decision?

My parents’ income is less than 1500 blocks

If you really want to pay back

We really haven’t come yet

But my mom, because they love me so much.

As long as I am happy

They don’t think too much about anything

Don’t think too much what does it mean?

In fact, it is under a state of unthinking

Your most basic and relaxing

Not thinking too much without thinking about your gains and losses

But your heart wants to do

Do not want to do anything

Maybe just because you think it will be happy

That’s good

Why happiness is so important

Because when you are happy

You can also bring happiness to people around you

(applause)

It’s been 17 years.

I still keep my…

I’m still doing one…

Strictly speaking, I’m still a TV reporter

Although I was talking about food

Many people think of me as a food show host

But actually I’m a reporter

I’m still doing this job

And I love this job

And I’m very, very happy

I even know very well

My happiness is not a kind of happiness and enthusiasm faded in three to five years

Nor is it a pleasure to play a horse ticket today for 35 days

After happy is not happy

I know this kind of happiness very much. It’s a calm happiness.

It has always been

No matter what happens no matter what setbacks you meet

It is a kind of sustainable happiness

My happiness does not actually come from

Because I host a food show

Because some friends told me:

“Of course you are happy! You eat, drink and play all day.”

(laughter)

But I want to eat, drink and drink every day

Not necessarily happy

And 17 years ago, even from small to large

I never wanted to be a food show host

In fact, there was one thing that affected me when I was very young.

My grandfather, he is operating a canteen

Not the late night cafeteria, it is the school cafeteria

My mom sells curry noodles in the cafeteria

I remember for a while I often saw her from morning till night

Then may prepare 200 bowls of curry noodles

Sometimes it will sell a lot

Sometimes ten bowls, twenty bowls or even fifty bowls are left

I remember I once asked her:

“Hey, you’re left with a lot of waste like this

And can’t stay until the next day

Why don’t you sell less and you’re ready to go less!

Then there is no loss! ”

We are very concerned about this kind of gains and losses

We do not want to lose ourselves

We want to earn

My mother said to me: “It can’t be Jesus!

Because some students suddenly thought of eating curry noodles today

You are prepared so little

He didn’t have to eat. He was late. What should he do? ”

This sentence impressed me

I always remember this sentence because he reminded me

The original meaning of food is to make people feel full

Give food and clothing

After getting food and clothing

You feel good and happy

So food it to others

It’s kind of good, it’s a kind of love

Food is more than good and delicious

It actually covers a lot

So when I had a chance to make a food show

I watched many food shows around the world

Discovered most of the original food programs

Their perspective is

Cut in from the perspective of a food-eater

I think at that time

In addition to this food eater’s point of view

Say this delicious and delicious food is not delicious, how about the taste

Can we also give the audience another perspective

That is from the perspective of food producers

From the perspective of a diet worker

Because food is actually our life

One of the most important content

Covers a lot of space

Can we let the audience see

Some people are paying for these foods on your desk

What is the relationship between food and people?

What are the memories of food and people?

When you think of this food, who do you think of?

This is an emotional memory

In addition, food also has some links to the ground

For example, some local people have some kind of common emotion.

How must he eat this food?

What material must I use?

What is the link between this material and the earth?

What is the relationship with the local customs?

So it actually covers a lot

So in my program

I rarely say: delicious and delicious

(laughter)

Why are these stories so important?

The reason is simple

These stories are our stories

We do not record, we do not listen

Who will record it?

We cannot rely on official resources

Official resources used to record official history

Official history, sometimes we know

It is a history through filtration, landscaping and bleaching

But the story of civilians, it is a true history

It is a history of how people survived

Is a human record

This kind of record is like our body’s calcium

Its constant loss

After five years, ten years

There may have been a lot of personnel changes

But because you recorded it

Later people can have reference to the possibility of tracing

So this is a pleasure that my job gives me

It has been allowing me to calm down and listen

Quiet to record

Do not make any judgment

Do not say delicious, not delicious

And it’s just the record of the safety score.

Truthful record

In this age of embarrassment

The age of social media

Many people can speak

Many people can publish

Many people can criticize

But not necessarily, some people are willing to listen and follow records

I remember I had interviewed a fried hawker

He frittered for twenty or thirty years

He is an ancestral business

Passed from father’s to father

Then pass on to his children

Business is good

Every minute you want to go there

You may have to wait for an hour to eat his fried dumplings

But his face is stink

(laughter)

It seems like someone owes him millions

I have been waiting hard for him

Want to talk to him

I went for many days

Eating his fried oyster strips and smiling at him all the time.

But he still has a bad face

I finally waited for him one day

I asked him: “What are you upset about?”

He said: “How can my life be happy?

I originally wanted to be a designer

But I’m now frying twenty or thirty years

And it’s also doomed probably for the rest of my life

I’m going to fire it.”

He didn’t want to take over the fry

But everyone around him is jealous of him:

“You’re not dutiful, you didn’t use it.

The fried dumplings that your parents and your father-in-law gave you

Their hard work, you don’t want to pass on! ”

As a result, he was married for many years

Later when he decided to take over the business

He started to be smashed again:

“Oh, it was delicious in his father’s time.

The child is not good now.”

(laughter)

As a result, he was paralyzed for decades.

How can such a person be happy?

If you ask me to host a food show for about 10 years

I learned the biggest from this job

And what is the best thing that can help me in my life?

I think I learned how to accept the difference

We are on the table sometimes

We put our own taste buds values

Live has become a powerful

As if I know how to eat, where do you know how to eat?

I learned to eat, I know which one is delicious

Where is that delicious?

You give me food, I do not want to eat!

Eat to dogs, do not eat dogs!

But you turn around and look back

The whole family shop is eating in the locals

Are those people not people?

(laughter)

We sometimes have our own personal preferences, personal preferences

Right or wrong, as if living a world truth

It seems that you think that it should be the truth of the world

As if you think bad, it should

Damn, you should give me something

You should hurt me

It seems like we are right or wrong.

Allow us to hurt a person

The same is true for people

We are often in our daily life

Because this is good or bad

We don’t know how many people hurt

We see a person

I don’t like his attitude

Hey, I hate him.

It seems that his attitude is not in keeping with your values

You have the power to hurt him

But this is obviously just a difference in values

Under the sun, each of us is unique

Everyone has a difference

Even twins will have different

I also like not to eat

Because we are all born out of different parents

We grew up in different places

Our different origins, different localities

Westerners and Orientals are not the same

Difference is the most reasonable thing in the world

The most natural thing

But we often because of this difference

We look down on others

Think for yourself:

“Oh, it’s hard to eat half dead

I have a high taste

The taste of superiors puts others down

But we don’t know

How much harm have we done to the lives of others?

Some people have his life

Not necessarily like Yang Jiaxian

He can choose

And he was allowed to be his happy life

However, he is not allowed to fire hawkers.

Maybe he’s frying

Smelly face

It is already inside his life resources

Life resources inside

Show the best

We hate someone

I think he’s bad enough to do something bad and half dead

But this may also be inside his life resources

The best he can present

Because everyone…

I believe no one wants to show him the worst

Everyone wants to present his best look

I am 43 years old this year

This is not a time when there is no emotion

And then maybe I think there are still many

There may be times when the emotions

There may be times when you are not happy or happy.

But I often tell myself at this moment

You want to calm down

Then think about it

What are you used to doing these days?

Then I wrote it down

I am used to complaining

Complain about this, complain about that

Complain about this, everything can complain

Bad lighting

Can complain about anything

It seems that only you are the victim all over the world

Others are injurers

I often used to compare

Compare this good, this bad

This pair, this wrong

Like my values, I’m the judge

But in fact, we are not judges of others

Everyone’s life

Everyone is only the owner of his own life

We do not have the right to judge the lives of others

Then I also used to calculate

Calculate profit and loss, I am the most powerful

It is not worthwhile to calculate this matter

Is there any harm for me?

I am used to calculating

In fact, I do not understand these habits

In the end, I was just talking to the emotions I just said.

Or is it happy or unhappy?

What are some of the direct relationships

But since I have these habits

This period of time

I’m not happy, I’m not happy

Is that going to look back?

If I escape these habits

If I allow myself

Habits do not have these habits

This is a happy and unhappy condition

Is there a chance to change?

You see, I’m still accustomed to falling into this kind of

Rational analysis of the head

But fortunately this time

the phone is ringing

My mom’s phone

Her friends pass this WhatsApp

Record a message to her

She is still as always

Very happy, answer while listening to a message

And it’s an instant answer

Very enjoyable

I didn’t stop her again

Because just like 17 years ago

She allowed me to be my happiest self

I also hope that if this life

You have to choose one and do something very useful

I hope I can continue learning

How to allow others to be happy

Allow others to be happy

Perhaps it is the greatest compassion for the lives of others

(applause)

4 minutes timeout

(laughter)

I wish you all a Happy Diwali

(Laughter) (Applause)

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