Normally one would think the following is appropriate.
Happiness = You + Money + Job + etc
While , the truth is .
Happiness = You
the rest of this is just the enviroment or whole set of the pond.
You actually DOESN’t EVEN need any particular reason to be happy or to be sad.
It’s solely yours..
Your time , you yourself is the biggest gift / assest .
Doubt ? how about the following ..
how much would you like to trade your left eye for ?
.. how much would you like to trade for your arm ?
it’s a gift.. and its priceles.
Same goes to your time..
any waste in the world can be recycled except our WASTED TIME.
The good one learn from the own mistakes .. while the brilliant one learn from other’s mistakes.
but the one who keep repeating the same mistakes again and again… ~ *sigh*
p/s : so, am I wasting my time for being here today ?
Once upon a time ago, there is a boy who is always been actively looking for new thing.
He loves to experiment with new thing,and felt satisfied whenever he able to understand
about the new thing.
Doesn’t matter if that would cost him to be “grounded” later.
I.e Not allowed to play into the greenish grass-field for about a week.
That boy have nothing to lose, and he tend to be friend with someone or a group
of older boy rather the one at his own age.
He doesn’t care about the peer pressure as he doesn’t have ones.
He love to play a lot, and love to mix with senior people too.
And guess what, he can always easily meet the senior people every single day
as they’re going at one of his favourite spot every day — the mosque.
The elders would love to give “ceramah” about everything.
He just been there and listen.sometimes there are moment , he couldn’t understand a thing.
Which later he will profusely demand for explanation from either his father or his mom.
There are also time, both of would also ended up answering as
“later , when you grow up you will definitely undertand why those thing are like that”.
Especially whenever the given explanation doesn’t make any sense to him,
and he start making a lot of question.
He then start knowing, thing that is expected as “ideal” is not the case in the real-world.
Once he learnt how read, he started borrowing books from library and read all about the history.
Including the life of the Prophet, the “Sirah” of every single battle that is known to him.
One day, out of so many story he read, he choose to understand and rehearse the public talk with
“Sirah of Nabi Daud”. For one particular reason, Prophet Daud (p.b.u.h) is fighting with the ruler at
the age of 8 or 10. And he managed to kill Jalut with rotating stone.. was because Jalut is underestimating
his power and his will.
For what that matter, he win his first competition by defeating the 3 years experienced candidate for the first time.
and the rest become history. The prize is a big tupperware at which he gave that to his mom.
And little did he knows, after that event a lot thing become under some sort of highlight.
Bigger expectation, more competition, more challenge.. that made him more excited and strive hard for
better …regardless of how hopeless it may look for the others.
p/s : sometimes , history repeat by itself.. just observe and listen to the history.
There are times that we feel like being so busy , hence overlooking some of the important part.
Busy doesn’t necessary meant is progressing. Why?
You’re busy, but so is the cat that is chasing his own tail.
Sometimes it is a good decision to take the blame and responsible for the failure,
so that we can learn and focusing our energy to rectify the problem.
Rather being in denial mode or passing the buck to the next person sitting on table.
Which at times , will be time consuming but not toward solving the problem.
Nevertheless, it come with consequences such as probably damaging the perception of others.
But more accurately is actually altering the EGO or so-called self-reputation.
Well, victory is some reward for something “achived” to keep up the fight.
However, there are a lot of times that we need the small victory to keep up our morale.
Well, if you’re tough enough .. that wouldn’t be necessary.
Most of the time, we tend to forgot our own target , our own dream, whenever we don’t see any victory
for some period of time. It tooks a lot of courage and endurance to survice those hardtime.
Some wise advice are “breaking those big challenge to a pieces of small chunk of victories.”
So, there are some small “victory” to be celebrated for ourselves and reminding us
of the “target” is achievable. And eventually we hoped to reach there provided we’re on the right track.
That is where the plan come into the picture.
Dream alone , or target alone wouldn’t lead us anywhere without the action itself.
Series of action is planned ahead before the start button is even pressed.
There goes the another saying .. “Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.”
which would result the thing/idea/target wouldn’t even lift-off.
There are a lot of small chunk can be derived from the big challenge.
Just be creative and unlock those potential from within of us.
During my visit at Mandalay, (Myanmar) I managed to try the fresh honey collected by the villager there.
Without further hesitation , I bought one bottle to home.
I can’t remember how much it cost, I think is quite cheap over there.
It was fresh without packaging, provided the weather there at that moment is quite cold.
After few month, this is how its look like now.
Not much more left.. due to leak :)
Now I got some new stock from my friend ,who is now selling “Madu Tualang” as part timer.
small bottle cost RM35.. ~ 300gm
Let start with some question .. when was the your first house is built ?
1. the moment you signed the Sale and Purchase ?
2. the moment the bank approved the loan?
3. the moment you got the house key ?
4. the moment you settled all the payment ?
.. nah.. it is when you first imagine the house is yours.
That is when it is built. right there.
Then you takes the actions and all necessary stuff to make it happen.
you talk to agent to get the house price .. you meet the banker.
you see the law firm to get the sale and purchase drafted..
and many more details.. until you finally handed the house keys.
Same goes to the changes.. it start when we decided we want to change.
Not when someone else trying to coax you into their idea of change.
If you didn’t somehow accepting it.. nothing gonna change.
the proverb is similar to the ..
“You can lead the horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.”
I would love to tell that each of us have our own strenght, our own talent,
capability and all the thing that we need to soldier on this world.
However, sometimes there are time when we need someone else to point out..
“Hey , why don’t you use this and this.. ” which could spark some better idea
of how we handle thing in life.
Again, it is up to us…
the power of change is something somewhere at our own hand..
p/s : started the 90-days of self-test on myself.
day-1 25 July 2011..
day-30 will be on 25 August 2011.
day-60 will be on 25 September 2011.
day-90 will be on 25 October 2011.
Before the BIG event taken place , we normally have some time allocated for preparation.
Same goes to project implementation or on-site installation.
Normally not much time we have or rather some got immediate notice.
Nevertheless we got to be mentally prepared.
Some of the item I normally prepared before on-site installation work,
provided there are “unknown” thing like : whether there is reliable internet connectivity there?
I would need to access some crucial data online.
So what I would did is are :
1. I made a offline copy of my own domain gmail’s email (namran.net)
– because I have forwarded a copy of my work email there until recently company opted to Gmail services.
– at that time got GoogleGears which only work with earlier version of Firefox.
2. A whole set of repository from rpmforge , office , centos and whatever dependencies packages that I have known.
– this is to reduce on-site download.
– there are set of ISOs file that I would loop-mounted.
3. a set of working environment under VMware images.
– which I could possible simulate the thing to the closest possible scenario.
4. a lot of PDF file on manual, “how to” that I feel related that I could find.
5. .. the wiki pages , the blog and facebook content (Notes) that I feel useful !
– at which I made a local hosted copy to my laptop .. password protected , sit under different partition
6. sometime having some modification on laptop, BIOS password at one time I’d enabled.
7. Have faith !
8. Other thing beyond the technical part which I would ask my wife/someone else to prepare..
– i.e toileteries , clothing , and everything else.. 8-)
– ticketing / hotel / visa normally my admin would prepare.. just need a quick check on all item.
9. inform the most important person in your life about your trip.
– leave the un-necessary ones out of the list.
– also worth including the credit card/bank to the notification list
Then, I would just sailing as it goes.
Hope for the best,Prepare for the worst..
Regardless on how informative it could get before the event, most of the time a lot of “surprise” everywhere.
Enjoy most of it while riding the waves..
Good Luck.
p/s : Hmm.. normally on the last night , would be a sleepless.
Either preparing thing into the bag or been thinking what else is missing.
Remembering the time when going to umrah.. although was prepared earlier.
still the very last night, still can’t sleep and next morning still running errant settling thing.
There are times when we tend to prefer the past.. or appreciating the previous happy moment that we had.
Time when have something or with someone , or group of people in the past.
But that was the past.. we call it the memory ..
Then, at the other time we also look forward for the better condition in future.
Like having something that not yet under our possession or to be someone or group of people.
Be it future wife. future kids.. future supercars or whatever toy that we want..
we named it as the dream ..
However, there is another one that we somehow missed out to appreciate and realize it values is
the time NOW..
at this very moment..
how much money we have..
how much time we have..
whoever we have to spent time with at this moment..
that would be never come again in the future.
this REAL current time and situation only happening at this point of time..
that’s call a PRESENT .. or also equivalent as a gift .
this TIME itself is already a gift..
we don’t know what will happened tomorrow or next day..
but what we have now is what have now.
appreciate it.. enjoy it .. live with it.
love the moment ..
live life to the fullest.. which mean.. live the life the we are having now.
good or bad day.. is still a present .
whatever we’ve planned for future .. not necessary to wait until then to be happy.
or rather waiting until then to perform whatever to make you happy..
for example…
wanted more money so that ONLY can set aside some money for charity..
some money for family .. some money for parent..
having some vacation with family ..
some for ownself or whatsoever..
the question is what is stopping you to do all above by NOW?
with whatever amount of money that we have now..
we can still put aside some amount to be sent to charity .. family .. parent ..
spend for ownself.. having nice time with family ..
yes of course..
the main thing could be the money ..
but one could also realize that the TIME is also one of the biggest asset..
for example :
we are working really hard to earn a lot of money ..
waste no time to do anything else..
as time goes by will eventually having a lot of money
but the age by then is 90 years old already..
would it be really wonderful by then ?
and compare that scenario to whatever we are having NOW..
having the fun now..
being happy the life NOW rather waiting next 30 years to be happy.
really treating and accepting everything that we’re having NOW as a gift..
and say “Thank You”.. or would be better with “Alhamdulillah”.
I think is wiser to learn to appreciate the life NOW and
fully utilized whatever we are having now rather being waiting until tomorrow..
some said the key is “give more to get more..” :)
but i think is ..”learning to accept all the gift and more would be coming later.”