After the teh tarik session, we enjoyed our evening till midnight at Iris Studio. Our tuak master, Agus presented us with his home made tuak. We had our tuak testing and practise session for the coming Borneo Gala Night.
Tuak is the welcoming drink for the Dayaks. Tuak is a traditional Dayak brew generally made with glutinous rice, yeast, sugar and water. It is similar to Chinese rice wine and Japanese rice wine. Tuak is served during the harvest festival, called Gawai Dayak by the native Dayaks in Sarawak. It has extensive purpose during any merrymaking which includes weddings, thanksgiving dinners and parties.
Seeing our guitar hero @ Andy and tuak master @ Agus, made me relialize something:
There’s a difference between doing what you love and loving what you do.
Doing what you love is taking a passion you have — maybe your only passion, maybe not — and making it grows. Andy loves talking about music and enjoys playing his guitar. Agus is so passionate talking about tuak and sharing his passion with tuak testing with friends.
But loving what you do involves taking something else — plucking from somethings that you already enjoy doing — working hard on it, creating a professional pathway, seeing it to a lucrative end and being happy because your love for it grows. This is the kind of career that will grow with you. Like Andy with his musicianship grows as his career, Agus who commercialize his self production of tuak.
You’ll realize that fame, fortune, attention, whatever it is that comes with wild success for doing what you love, will not make you happier. The only happiness is in the doing.
