The Big Tree

Salam.

This is the 21st day of the year..and most of my Chinese friends are preparing for their New Year.
As I am writing this, I am on KLIA Express on my way to KL Sentral. KL, a place where I belong.

I was out of town to another state for almost a week. In between my tight schedule over there, I managed to squeeze an opportunity to go to a smaller town outside the state's city centre.

No doubt , it is full of greens and the view was picturesque! Nonetheless, it pinched me also to think what could have triggered a culture shock.

For quite sometime I always wonder, will it be a big adjustment from someone out of the city to come over to the capital city Kuala Lumpur. Apparently, I learnt that there are a lot to adjust.

From quiet and tranquil environment to the bustling busy city life..from the scenic green view to concrete jungle..from a quiet night to a city that never sleeps...from ferry to lrt..from local dialect to another dialect...and more importantly, from staying with family to staying away from family

Living on your own is a test on whom you really are and what you want in life. Are you easily influenced..do you still carry the values being taught at home..did you turn into a person that is not whom you really are..

No matter how strong the current is, I believe we should stay strong with our own principles in life. Never feel inferior about our ownself. Where we come from, our background, our family..

Life is a lifelong journey. It is good to have a strong hold to our roots.. With a good heart,together, one will be strong enough not to let it be destroyed from the inside also from the outside.

We can never change how we started but we can change how it shall end. In the course of going up the social ladder and lifestyle, there should be no reason to forget or ditch where we came from..

Take a look around,what nature has shown to us...A tree that can stand tall and live longer..are the ones that have a very strong root that goes deep on the ground. Come to think of it, even The Big Tree is still around! ;)

Have an awesome holiday everyone!

* The Big Tree is an iconic tree that has been around at Malay College Kuala Kangsar, one of the oldest school in Malaysia established in 1905.
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Doa Solat Dhuha

Salam

Yes, it had been 2 months since I last posted something in my blog. I really wish I could write more...but anyway, that shall be new year resolution now :)

Just to share, here's a short translation on doa for Solat Dhuha. Hope it's helpful.

Hello Sayang~

Hello.. Hi sayang!

It is such a relieved to hear the person on the other line’s voice. Be it your love one, a friend or just someone that you need to call and talk to. Last night, I have a good chat with one of the closest person in my life that is currently thousands of kilometres away from me.

It is amazing how communication connects you with the world. Phone calls..internet..you name it, as long as it helps you to communicate, that is what communication does best.

Telecommunication is a very beautiful field that not much known to many out there. From every successful call connected and internet connection connected, there are many unsung heroes behind the scene that made it possible.

Lets look at it from a different view all together…

I always put it this way, no matter how complicated a guy can be, communications is even more complicated.

As we are sleeping soundly at night…having the sweetest dream you ever wish for… There are people that are very wide awake to get upgrading, migration or planned maintenance work on your network done and successful. Time is limited, the work is a lot, and mistakes...are unwelcomed. Everything must be on time to ensure that the next day when you wake up, you’ll be able to call…you’ll be connected to the internet as if nothing happened.

When Malaysia started to lay out the fibre to the home services, many made remarks on why it was not available to whole Malaysia. Getting the hair-like optical fibre to the home, it is not as even like pulling a hair from a haystack...from setting up the local exchanges to the open cutting some of the roads, there are definitely souls that worked day and night, just to ensure that everything goes according to the schedule and more Malaysian will get to enjoy the magic of high speed broadband.

Your modem, your setup box, your phone, everything supplied by the service provider are all tested the compatibility with the current network. For these tech geeks, their working environment is mainly at the test beds which are generally cold with no windows. Armed with sheets of test plans and procedures, with weeks of meetings and planning to finalise the test plans and requirements, this army will then work hard like a bee to go through each test items.

I may be sexist at some points, but as unpredictable a man can be, so does the network. When it is kind, it makes everyone’s day…it can be choosy as well, not every equipment brought to the lab will be compatible with the network, no matter how sexy it could be ;)

Your painful wait to get your connections installed is also a killing worry to those involved. From working late and skipped meals, from a radiantly young to accelerated aging, from nightmare to sleepless nights…even Marvel superheroes may not be able to stand the challenge!

No doubt many service providers has not a favourable customer service but I wish everyone to just take a short break and look at telecommunication from another point of view all together.

If you ask me, honestly speaking, if there’s a major strike to happen, pray that it does not come from the telecommunication sector. Imagine a day with no phone calls, no internet, no communications also no flight in/out , you shall be totally cut off from the world. That is craaazy!

Truth be told, minus the drama, the tears, the sweat and the sleepless nights behind the scene, the goal is always one: To get you connected. It made me smile whenever someone appreciate the video call session with their love one overseas, the late night chats and the abundance of knowledge transferred across the web.

Everyone Connects! J

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Hello Sayangs~

Somehow I bumped into this post that I wrote quite sometime ago and left in my notebook without posting. So here you go sayangss ;)

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Good Relationship

Taken from one of the lecture notes I have...

KEYS TO DEVELOP GOOD RELATIONSHIP

S - Stop talking

A - Adopt active listening

R - Reflect content or feeling

A - Act with empathy

H - Handle the subject matter

Petua untuk mencari bakal suami yang baik

Petua untuk mencari bakal suami yang baik

1. Pilih yang baik dan beragama – agama nie penting kerana ia mendidik kita untuk menjadi insan yang lebih baik. Kalau takde agama, takdelah pegangan dalam hidup, kan? Nak didik anak bini pun susah. Lelaki yang beragama nie bukan sajer boleh memimpin dirinya sendiri, bahkan dia juga boleh jadi pemimpin yang baik kepada isteri dan anak-anaknya. So, sebelum melihat kriteria2 lain, lihatlah dulu pegangan agamanya, okey dan boleh tak si dia membimbing kita ke jalan yang betul kelak…

2. Cari yang sabar dan penyayang – semasa tengah berdating, mungkin you all dah dapat detect perangaiboyfriend korang kan? Penyabar ke atau pemarah? Cuba uji… misalnya berpura-pura buat bende yang dia tak suka ke, time tu la nak tengok dia melenting ke tak. Kalau dia marah tahap cipan, sah2 dia panas baran. Jangan pilih lelaki camni cik adik oii, kalau tidak, seksa hidup ko nanti.

3. Jangan nilai pada rupa – ‘don’t judge a book by it’s cover’..ataupun jangan nilai buku melalui kulitnya sajer! Sebab kecantikan luaran nie sementara ajer. Mungkin rupa si dia nie macam rupa orang pecah rumah, tapi mungkin hatinya baik. Kalau muka tu sehensem Tom Cruise, tapi perangai tak senonoh, nak buat aper, kan? Ingatlah nanti kalau kita tua, tua samer2. Kedut pun, kedut sama2 (melainkan ada salah sorang yang pakai botox…huhu :-) )

4. Hormat orang tua – sememangnya kite nak calon suami yang bukan saje taat pada mak bapak dia, tapi juga hormat pada orang tua kita, kan? So, kalau si dia datang ke rumah, perhatikanlah tingkah laku dia pada mak bapak kite pulak. Dia hormat ke atau kurang ajar?

5. Cari yang boleh mendengar dan mendidik – penting nie sebab kalau kita ada problem, ada jugak insan yang sudi mendengar luahan hati kite, betul tak? Bukan tu jer, kalau ada bende yang kite tak tau, si dia juga boleh mendidik kita khususnya dalam bab2 agama. Jangan 2×5 sudahler…:-)

6. Lihat pada family dia – nie biasanya dipraktikkan masa zaman mak bapak kita dulu. Masa nak cari jodoh untuk anak-anak diorang, mereka akan ‘melihat’ pada keluarga si lelaki dulu. Kalau semernya baik2 ajer, dapatlah ‘green light’…sebab ‘ke mana tumpahnya kuah kalau bukan ke nasi’nya, kan? Mak bapak kitalah juga yang membentuk kita untuk jadi insan yang berguna atau tak satu hari nanti. Tapi ada jugak yang mak bapak kurang baik tapi dapat anak yang baik…:-). So, nilailah betul-betul yer.

7. Pilih yang (ikhlas) sayang kat kite – maksudnya pilih jejaka yang betul-betul sayang kat kite. Jangan pulak pilih lelaki yang kita sayang tapi si dia plak buat endah tak endah je kat kita. Ada jugak kes di mana si lelaki nie berpura-pura sayang kat si gadis kerana hanya nak main-mainkan dia. So, kalau anda di dalam situasi di mana anda kena pilih di antara lelaki yang anda sayang dan lelaki yang sayang pada anda… sebaik2nya pilihlah option yang kedua tuh…:-)

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Reminding myself and those who needs it :)

Credit to:

http://setelkahwin.com/blog/7-petua-cari-calon-suami-yang-baik/

Salam October

Time flies~ it's already the 10th month of the year.

Going through the tough , rough, hustle and tussle of life, sometimes we forget to check and balance how do we actually spend our daily life.

Life has changed a lot for me. Alhamdulillah, it had been more peaceful in the inside. Umrah was quite a spiritual journey for me and of course, last Ramadhan was the most meaningful Ramadhan till date. I thank Allah for showing the path that I should.

Sometimes we felt that it's too late to change, to do something or to just give ourself a try onto something new. Trust me, it's never too late. You'll end up regretting not trying than regretting failing after trying. Of course, when you have given your very best,if it is stilll not good enough...it is time to move on.

This month is a wedding month I should say. Looking at my Facebook events invites especially, thanks for all the wedding invitations. Honestly, I might not make it to all.. but no worries, Insyallah, you have all my doa for a healty,peaceful and happy marriage life :) I wish you all the best and yes, do pray for me too :)

There's many things I wish I can share.. will do my very best to share. As much as I learnt throughout my life, I do wish to share with all of you too :)

Have a good October! Have fun :)

Roller coasters ride anyone?

The memories were still clear…it was one of the unfortunate days it had been; my car’s AC was not working. It kept blowing hot air rather than cooling my car. I was on my way to my grandma’s place, for kenduri arwah. Traffic was moving like a snail, I was caught in the bad crawl that supposed to be just a 20mins journey to my grandma’s place. What went wrong? A bunch of people were protesting back then with bright yellow t-shirt.

July 9^th 2011, the same epic was tried to revive by the group. They call it 2.0, yeah, the second instalment of the epic that went on a success that took 6 months for my country to gain its tourism industry and not forgetting, the amount of money lost by businesses and small sellers that were on that fateful day. This year, it is the same game, demanding on a clean and fair election.

Honestly speaking, I have nothing against bodies, individuals or whoever that would want to claim the right to a fair and clean election. Everyone would wish for that of course. After all, do not just look at the current government, we also have a long serving Menteri Besar of particular state that needs a lot of catching up to do. He might have been really naughty to have been winning all the elections over the years when no significant changes had been made in his state. Worst still, his counter parts in Penang and Ipoh Timor are also long serving parliamentarian that had been winning elections for 37 and 42 years respectively. That’s simply too long man! These guys must have been super duper clean y’all~ yes? no?

Back to the dirty election thing, the current ruling party must be out of their mind for giving out FIVE states in the last election. I remembered really well during the last election results hours…my hand turned cold when knowing that my state was losing to the opposition. Many claimed that change is needed, but quoting Tun M; change isn’t always for the better. Truth be told, 3 years of ruling, not all the last GE manifestos were met and worst still, for some strange reason, massage parlours seems to bloom well in my state after their winning. That may be coincidence but that is just part of my observations.

Back to the main story, the main organizers of 9^th July rally wanted a rally to send a memorandum to YDPA. Here are some facts pertaining about it:

1. She got the audience of the King and memorandum wasn’t sent

2. The rally could have been done in a stadium but they refused to do so

3. Let’s do some simple logic:

a. Stadium merdeka could fit 20k people

b. Stadium Shah Alam could fit 80k people

c. Why choose Stadium Merdeka again?

Freedom of speech and expression is well shouted by many, but others have the freedom to lead a life too. SPR has already given their reply to the 8 points proposed, why is the rally in the town still needed? Some will say to create awareness. OK, then why not in stadium? Coz it’s not chaotic enough..?

About the 8 points raised, honestly speaking, I don’t oppose all. However, that is not the vital solution to the so-called clean and fair election that you wanted. I would not want my fingers to be inked, just to mark that I have voted. euwww. Worst still, if I were to have my engagement or wedding a few days later. I’d rather used my thumbprint as suggested by SPR. Another thing is yes, the right to vote and the right to choose not to vote is part of our democratic process. Even in USA, voters must register themselves to vote in the election. Excuse me, do not force me to vote or register me as a voter, it is my choice, my right! So what is the big deal?

In my point of view, it is good that there are suggestions to improve our electoral system. Having said that… suggestions may and may not be followed. However, there is no need to go to the streets, there are stadium and of course and with the audience by the King the memorandum should have just be passed. No chaos.

Unless the main objective to create chaos by all means, 9^th July , you got what you wanted. Businesses were closed, tourist couldn’t go for their day tour and not forgetting, weddings were empty. Many may not feel what it feels like to be in that situation, do not wait until it hits your own family to have the empathy onto others. That’ll be just too sad.

From my eyes, 9^th July illustrated how selfish one may be… Some had fun taking pictures and updating their social network sites celebrating the freedom of speech…some may also are excited to be a newbie in a rally. I still wonder whether all the 68 bodies that supported the memorandum were there during the rally, I know one of it texted their members NOT to join.

At the end of the day, the question remains, who were the MAJORITY of the people that joined the rally last Saturday. Were they members of the 68 associations, clubs and bodies that supported the memorandum or are they the hardcore supporters of political parties?

For those who claimed that they are apolitical, what were you preaching for, especially when the crowd started to chant Reformasi ?

Never let ourselves to be taken for a ride…

xoxo

eyem3

Cell phones : Reducing risk

Salam All,
was reading newspaper this morning and I came across this article in The Star newspaper.
An international panel of scientists says that cell phones are a possible cancer risk, despite earlier studies that were inconclusive.

Ways to limit potential risk fron exposure to radio frequency (RF) energy from cell phone use:

1. Use a wired headset
- or speaker mode to put more distance between your head and the cell phone's antenna, thr source of RF energy

2. Consider texting
- rather than calling;again, that puts more distance between your head and the antenna

3. Dont carry your phone in your pocket or on your belt
- Carry it in your bag or coat; put it on your desk when it's not in use

4. Dont use the phone as an alarm clock
- RF energy is being emitted by your cell phone even when it is not taking calls


Take Care everyone...

xoxo
eyem3