Ray Mak

Dear YouTubers / Visitors,


I've always been receiving really sad messages from lots of fans and friends telling about how situations are throwing shit at their lives, on a daily basis. About divorces, torn families, broken relationships, failed examination, unable to play piano, health problems, and the list never ends.


I do reply to most of them everyday with personal motivational messages that I wish could help them, but I can't reply to too many at times. On top of that, I don't have a remote control to help control your emotions and your lives. It's up to you to decide on how you see things and from which perspectives you see things. Therefore, I wish to share with you this very important message, some simple advice:


POINTS ON HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR LIFE

Personality:
1. Don’t compare your life to others’. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
2. Don’t have negative thoughts of things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment
3. Don’t over do; keep your limits
4. Don’t take yourself so seriously; no one else does
5. Don’t waste your precious energy on gossip
6. Dream more while you are awake
7. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need..
8. Forget issues of the past. Don’t remind your partner of his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.
9. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don’t hate others.
10. Make peace with your past so it won’t spoil the present
11. No one is in charge of your happiness except you
12. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn.
Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
13. Smile and laugh more
14. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.


Community:
15. Call your family often
16. Each day give something good to others
17. Forgive everyone for everything
18. Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6
19. Try to make at least three people smile each day
20. What other people think of you is none of your business
21. Your job will not take care of you when you are sick. Your family and friends will. Stay in touch.


Life:
22. Put GOD first in anything and everything that you think, say and do.
23. GOD heals everything
24. Do the right things
25. However good or bad a situation is, it will change
26. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up
27. The best is yet to come
28. Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful
29. When you awake alive in the morning, thank GOD for it
30. If you know GOD you will always be happy. So, be happy.

Dear YouTubers,

I've been going through a lot lately. I can say, quite a lot of things that made me feel stressed out and disappointed and mostly due to my own acts and the little wrong decisions that I have made in life. In some ways, some of these things have been adversely affecting my relationship as well. I have been brought up different, exposed to different cultures, and I do look at things from very different perspectives compared to others. It feels like I've been always going against the stream, choosing different paths, and ultimately, I do express myself in a different way which is very against the typical conservative Asian culture. That is how American speaks and I'm not in America. 

PS : How do I even enter America Got Talent when I'm 8,776 miles from Los Angeles and 9,399 miles from New York City!?

As for my career, I made myself unemployed since the closure of an unsuccessful limited liability business that my friends and I founded. I wish to return to employment immediately, but I do need to take a serious look into the companies that I will be joining because I know that I tend to be very, if not too, passionate towards groups or companies that I attach to. In short, deeply attached.



I wish for a change. Seriously! Which means going against core values, in some of the things that I believe and know I should change. 

Just when I needed some words of wisdom the most, this message was the top message waiting for me in my YouTube Inbox.

"From lots of your fans Dear makhonkit

as you can tell by the comments the people who watch your videos love the music. several people say they learnt to play piano simply because of you. so me and some others decided that the best and most practical way to thank you for keeping us happy with your music, we would send round a letter and get at least 20 people who love your music to sign it and send it back. thank you so much for your music.

signed: loopymoocow, justjess090, jonoave, jemimasixpence, hannibeat, killcool, rayzor46, bigbill, splintcellzora, hugenintendofan, shellyshocker, beardoish, smokerboy27, collin93, massa1990, maiisiie, cemflash1, flattyflatflat, trasknari, XpatriotsterreritoryX. there are many more but eventuly the letters title got way to long. thanks again for the music! =)"

Here's my personal reply, thank you very much my friends. I'm so speechless that I don't even know how to react to your message. But I know for sure that your messages made me happier than even if all my music combined to keep you guys happy. 

Sincerely yours,
Ray Mak

Wow... Guess what...

Tino Coury, the Artist who sang Diary posted on my YouTube Channel. Maybe to most of you guys, it doesn't seem like anything special. To me, it's kinda special. At least some of my songs get appreciated personally by the artists themselves besides all of you guys who are extremely important to me.

Here's the message :

tinocoury (1 day ago)

What up bro!! You nailed it! You did an amazing job with the song! I posted your link up on my facebook and twitter pages! Keep in touch for sure!

Tino

Please visit his Facebook or just listen to the Radio for his wonderful music, especially, Diary.

Cheerz!
Ray Mak

In one way or another, YouTube has made great changes to my Life. Watch this video and you'll know what I mean.

But you'll need to watch the one actually on YouTube for the Annotations that I've put in, then you'll understand =)


Ray Mak