LIFE, MONEY & RELAX

Enjoy the Arts

2009-07-02T14:16:00.002+08:00

Its Been a While

2009-05-27T18:43:00.007+08:00

Recently was my big brother's wedding. One week have been fulfilled to prepare what needed. From painting the house till sending the wedding reception card. From tidying the house to messing it up with all the goodies for the reception day.

This is the guy who was messing with my room

All my relatives helping for the wedding pooled in my parent's house. And I have this little cousin of mine who's very cute always wanting to play games in my room and what do you know. He messed up my room. The pillows were all over the place. Sweets were scattered in my room. This kid can't sit still. He had his adrenaline rush when entered my room. He climbed up my double decker bed up and down.

Love to see all the relatives gathering together. Updating their lives. Harmony I can say. And actually, I still need to paint my house. Some part still not finished. Oh my...

David Blaine

2009-05-09T17:05:00.002+08:00

With the power of your mind. Nothing is impossible...

Demanding in Time

2009-05-09T15:46:00.008+08:00

I haven't write for a while and i miss it. I miss my writings. Haha. I love to write and it seems something is not right if i don't write. I will feel not fulfilling my day, my hunger. And another problem is my internet connection. I can't connect to the internet during the night. I hate it. Anyways, it is not the end of the world. Find my time to use it wisely.

Last week, I had a very tight schedule. It took lots of my time and that hinder me from writing to my lovely blog. Time goes by very quickly nowadays. Need to enjoy every second of it. Do something that boost my adrenaline.

Some people think that they are so busy that they don't have time to do something that they love. Or do something with someone they love. Hang out with friends. Networking with people around town. This is not true. We all have the time. Its how we use our time effectively and efficiently.
How to increase your time though we know that we all human has 24 hours a day. Maybe a few tips I write here can benefit you a little.
1. If you are to do something that other person can do as effective and efficient, delegate it.
2. Prioritize your activity according to what you want to achieve.
3. Do something that can give highest value to you and sacrifice things that is not important.
4. Train others to do things that you want to accomplish by other people efforts.

Hope you all enjoys applying these tips.

Different View

2009-04-29T15:51:00.011+08:00

Now, we are living in a different level of lifestyle. It is different from what our ancestor had gone through and our parents gone through and what we are going through now. It has lot of different.

Modernization, technology and civilization change this world dramatically. Young people become more creative in mind. New technology emerge. Things are simplified. We are now connected in every part of the world.

The only concern is that majority of our believe system and our mind is lacking behind. It stays with the old believe. We are following our parents trend of life. We are afraid to change. We are locked into that believe because we are too comfortable with the life that we are going through now.

To live in this challenging world we have to learn or follow those who live in their dreams. We cannot live in other people dreams as why most people watch movie or tv to live in other people dreams. We become lazy and we feel very comfortable to what we are doing or what we have now.

All in all, life is great. Whatever it is, it is just a way of how we see it.

Literature in Life

2009-04-22T19:12:00.011+08:00

We can see people everywhere. Their behavior is so unique with one another. People waiting for bus. People walking through mall. People eating. People chatting. People talk to the phone. There are a lot of things that going on every second in this lovely planet called earth.

People gesture with different style in different culture and custom. The way people eat is different in each culture. The food is also different. People talk in their own language. People speak in their own language. Sometimes we think that what the other people say is rude but it is actually normal in their culture. We can see the beautiful of it when we open to see what is in others.

Everyone has their own purpose of life. Some live to help others. Some live to be famous. Some live to just for the sake of living. We are so different in the way we are thinking. And also we are actually different. We have unique finger prints. We have unique DNA.

Culture may affect way our judgment. Custom may affect the way we see things. Its beautiful as to say that this is how we live in this world. So just have fun and have the journey of life...

Money - Financial Quotient

2009-04-20T12:02:00.022+08:00

Most people try to save money for retirement. They think money is hard to get. That is why they work hard for money. Their believe to have more money is to work more hours or to have more than one job. I'm not against in working hard. All we need is work hard with smart strategy. For them the only way to earn money is to go to work. The mentality of 'money doesn't grow on trees' makes them believe its hard to earn money. Life is hard. No time. Tired of working.

They cannot think to earn money in different form. They cannot have that vision of money in terms of investment, money in terms of passive income or assets.

Rich people invest for retirement. They don't save for retirement. They create passive income from assets. They buy or they create assets that can generate money without their involvement in the money generation vehicles. They know how money works.

We don't have to be smart to have money. We don't have to have a Phd to have financial security. We just have to learn. Change the mindset. Re-educate yourself. We have all the information we need in this modernize world.

Money - Fundamental

2009-04-19T11:51:00.015+08:00

Money as of our understanding is the medium for exchange of something in value. As in history money is in the form of something that can be trade of. Early civilization, they use barter trade as a form for exchange goods.

In Islam, we use dinar and dirham which has the standard gold and silver for trading. This is the best standard money for trading because it is not influence by any speculation or anything.

The paper money we have now used to be backed by gold. But now our money all over the world is influence by its currency. The faster the money move the more value is the money.

When money is printed with no control, the money will have no value or the value will shrink. That is how money works. In economy its about supply and demand. When more money is printed, we are flood with money that we don't own. Hence, the overall value of money will decline.

That is why in this modern civilization, saving is not the best way to increase your money. You have to leverage and multiply your money to grow what you have now. We are now living in a capitalize and very volatile world. This is how people with money control the economy. Those who only work and doesn't feel to improve in their financial strategy or financial knowledge will be left behind.

John Legend - Everybody Knows

2009-04-17T14:36:00.006+08:00

It gets harder every day, but I can’t seem to shake the pain
I’m trying to find the words to say, please say
It’s written all over my face, that I can’t
Function the same when you’re not here
I’m calling your name and no one’s there
And I hope one day you’ll see nobody has it easy,
I still can’t believe you found somebody new
But I wish you the best, I guess.
‘Cause everybody knows, that nobody really knows
How to make it work, or how to ease the hurt
We’ve heard it all before, that everybody knows
Just how to make it right, I wish we gave it one more try
One more try
One more try
'Cause everybody knows, but nobody really knows

I don’t care what the people say
They're probably lonely anyway
Baby don’t fill up your head with he-said, she-said
It seems like you just don’t know
The radio’s on, you're tuning me out,
I’m trying to speak, you’re turning me down

And I hope one day you’ll see nobody has it easy,
I still can’t believe you found somebody new
But I wish you the best, I guess.
‘Cause everybody knows, that nobody really knows
How to make it work, or how to ease the hurt
We’ve heard it all before, that everybody knows
Just how to make it right, I wish we gave it one more try
One more try
One more try
One more try
‘Cause everybody knows, but nobody really knows

Oh I wish you’d understand
Oh, just an ordinary man
Wish that we had known
Everybody knows, but nobody really knows
And I know one day you’ll see, nobody has it easy
I still can’t believe you found somebody new
I wish you the best, I guess.

‘Cause everybody knows, that nobody really knows
How to make it work, or how to ease the hurt
We’ve heard it all before, that everybody knows
Just how to make it right, I wish we gave it one more try
One more try
One more try
One more try
‘Cause everybody knows, but nobody really knows

Falling Slowly

2009-04-17T13:09:00.002+08:00

I don't know you
But I want you
All the more for that
Words fall through me
And always fool me
And I can't react
And games that never amount
To more than they're meant
Will play themselves out

Take this sinking boat and point it home
We've still got time
Raise your hopeful voice you have a choice
You've made it now

Falling slowly, eyes that know me
And I can't go back
Moods that take me and erase me
And I'm painted black
You have suffered enough
And warred with yourself
It's time that you won

Take this sinking boat and point it home
We've still got time
Raise your hopeful voice you had a choice
You've made it now

Take this sinking boat and point it home
We've still got time
Raise your hopeful voice you had a choice
You've made it now
Falling slowly sing your melody
I'll sing along

Fastest Car on Earth

2009-04-17T10:25:00.006+08:00

Max speed of 407km/hr

Literature (cont)

2009-04-17T08:54:00.011+08:00

Literature also can be related to life. Its very subjective. Life which will unfold when we go through it. We paint our everyday life to what we want it to be. It is how we react to situations that what will come next into our life. Our action in everyday life will result what we will become.

We plan, we do things but sometimes what we don't get what we want. Why sometimes or many times we don't get what we want? Its true because life is like a test. Its only a test whether you fit to get what you want. Its whether you act on what you want. When you show your attitude towards what you want, the higher the chance you will get it one day.

Sad, happy, fear, angry, love and lots of other things are affecting our lives. It brought together a lot of factors to create this very interesting moments that we have now. We are now is the product of how we brought up when we were small. Our respond to circumstances has a lot to do with how we learn to react on it when we were kid.

Life is very interesting. We make it interesting. Its how we perceive it. Its how we unfold it. We don't know what will happen tomorrow. But we can paint it what we want it to be today. Tomorrow will come as a continuity of today.

Fastest Way to Park Your Car

2009-04-15T21:02:00.000+08:00

Book Review

2009-04-15T08:50:00.014+08:00

This book How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie contains the secrets on how to communicate with people effectively. This book gave the insight on how to communicate with respect without hurting the other party. At least we can minimize the damage to the people we communicate with.

Human nature wants to feel appreciated. People tends to want that feeling of important. People love to be praised. And even you too love to be flattered. This book tells how we can show appreciation and gratification to other people. How direct critisism will have diminish effect of respect.

In this book, you can learn the effective way to convey your thoughts and words to people. Even there are ways to ask people to do things for you. This book is a must read book for all. I really recommend it.

Fastest Way to Fold Your T-Shirt... Only 2 secs

2009-04-14T15:08:00.008+08:00

Japanese Style

Russian Style... is it more practical? you tell me...

Book Lover

2009-04-14T12:42:00.008+08:00

Hooray!!! For book lover... Good news for you...

MPH warehouse sales. Lots of books from the distributor itself. From 28 April '09 to 3 May '09 at Jln Bersatu, Sec 13/4 Petaling Jaya, Malaysia... Time from 9am to 7pm... Don't miss it...

Sales at all Times bookstores in Malaysia... hurry until end of April... Lets get some books...

Literature

2009-04-14T12:00:00.001+08:00

I came across to this topic in my life when I was a teenager if I'm not mistaken. Its about literature. I learned it at school but I didn't take it seriously. I didn't see the importance of this subject to me until I entered into my working days.

At first I don't really understand why people learn about it. Why learn about literature? Yeah typical of me until I learned it myself that life is all about seeing what we cannot see. Literature as for me is something like that. Something that is subjective. Something that have no one correct answer. One word has multiple meanings.

"Literature is the art of written works" quoted in Wikipedia. And also its like a culture or a custom where it is a very subjective in nature. How its written is influence by this type of nature.

But then, I found out that this topic is very interesting. People should know about literature and learn about it. Even though I never studied deeply into this topic, to look at it differently studying literature gave me the understanding to think out of the box. And even life that is changing all the time. The future that we don't know what will going to happen.

One of the books in literature that I read is written by Paulo Coelho and it gave me the insight of what world and life is like. The writer puts the words in a beautiful and organized manner. One of my favorite is The Alchemist.

After all our mind can create anything out of it... can't it?

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2009-04-13T11:52:00.007+08:00

A Woman and a Guy

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Great Day

2009-04-13T09:01:00.039+08:00

The Concierge

Yesterday was great. The audience were very supportive. The ballroom was jammed packed with more than 600 people. The audience were so excited. Noise echoing from the people chatting all over the place before the function started. Introducing and knowing each other. Shaking hands with each others. Meeting with old friends and friends who stayed far away. Here we gather with one purpose. To get the very best from all of us and to bring out the very best in ourselves. They talked about their work, their plan, their free time activity and so on. The people dressed smart like VIPs.

At 10am the seminar started. We dance before the presentation started. It was lot of fun. Then the speaker was called and along the course, the audience supported and greeted the speaker by shaking and waving their hands. Even there were some hugged the speaker. It was a great moment. The speaker was once held a managerial position in one of the prestige company. The audience listen with enthusiasm. Sometimes the ballroom was silence, only the voice of the speaker echoing inside the ballroom. The speaker shared his experience and knowledge in organized manner. The speaker was seemed prepared thoroughly before his speech. The participants absorbing as many information and knowledge as possible. And most of the time, the audience gave feedback to the speaker and the ballroom roared like at a football stadium when Liverpool scored unto MU (no offense to MU fans... huhu).

We had our appetizing lunch at the hotel. Chicken, fish (but i didn't know the name of the dishes) and much more. I love the fish as for you to know. It was like finger licking good. We, the committee, were like the food tester as my other friend said because we had our lunch earlier than the participants. So we had our insight on how the food taste like before others can taste it.

After lunch, again we had our dancing play for the food to digest (is it really true?) so that we won't feel sleepy when the speaker gave his speech. This speaker was once a chartered accountant. There were a lot of emotions involved in his speech that gave a good effect to the audience. And the audience listened and touched with his speech. Sad, happy, funny and enthusiasm what they were all got from it.

At around 5.30pm, we had our high tea outside the ballroom. The seminar was over. Everyone went home with ideas and high in spirit inside their human body, mind and soul. It gave so much impact to all of us on our future.

The bedroom

It was a great place to overnight though. Just to show how beautiful it is (Beautiful isn't it?). I slept at home as for you to know.

It was a great experience and the seminar ran smoothly. All in all it was great and was very fun day. I enjoyed every second of it...

Artistic

2009-04-11T12:10:00.016+08:00

The pictures above were taken at the right angle. Picture below was how it looked like when it was not taken at the right angle.

Creative isn't it. Cool. Good job...

Public Speaking? Can I?

2009-04-10T15:06:00.030+08:00

I never thought that I can speak in front of a large crowd. I had a low self esteem before this. Talk to no people was my life. Love to spend my time in my room play games and surf the internet. Maybe this talent of mine not talking to people made me an engineer. A profession that does not required much talking. Only talking with machine and report. That's it. Even when I had to do presentation to my boss, there were butterflies in my stomach.

I'm not a speaker in nature. Some people I met were born with this sort of talent of too much talking. I have no talent in giving speech. I wondered how people can talk and talk for hours and even in a very large crowd. How they have confidence in giving and adding values to others. Debating certain topics as to give facts that one can't lose. But anything can be learned. And talent will come out when you want to learn about it. It was always inside you.

And with all these, I was thinking how I can do it. I need to challenge myself and see whether I have it naturally. Challenge is good for me because it makes me wiser and more mature. New skills to be learned. Great leaders have this skill of speaking in public. This is how the leaders show their confident and influence people.

I now can speak in front of a large crowd with enthusiasm and I love it. I feel the adrenaline rushing in my vein to give the very best. For the people who listen to my ideas, experience and knowledge. I learned so much from people who has experience in public speaking and read about it too.

One of the great leader and speaker

Public speaking is one of the most fearful thing that people don't want to do. That people put it best to avoid it. It needs courage and confidence to give a good speech. In my humble opinion when you can overcome this fear, you can have more confidence in your life. Your will even have the ability to control your fear.

This Sunday I will stand in front of a crowd of more than 600 people. I feel great to have this opportunity and given a chance to give my very best. Its a great experience to talk to a large crowd and touch them in their heart.

Here I want to share a few tips that maybe you can use to overcome the fear in public speaking and the preparation before you speak. This tips maybe useful when you have to make your presentation to your boss or your lecturer.

1. Know what you are saying
2. Understand what you are saying
3. Talk in a language that people can understand
4. Imagine that you are great
5. Preparation is vital
6. If you feel uncomfortable in looking into the audience eyes, look into the crowd in general or look in between a person eyes. It will look like that you are looking into that person eyes
7. Don't think of what people think about you standing in front of them because there are not thinking of you
8. Practice practice and keep practicing
9. Be yourself. Have your own style of speaking

One of the suggestion is that if you can mind map of what you are going to say it will be an advantage to you. A mind map can make things more organize and you can remember the points you want to say more clearly.

Hope this will help a bit for those who want to develop their confidence in public speaking. And even in other areas of life. I took this advantage of public speaking to develop my self confident and not to let fear control me.

Have fun...

Globalisation, Technology and People

2009-04-09T10:22:00.012+08:00

Globalization and technology has shrunk our world tremendously. We are now connected to every part of the world. Communication is efficient and travel time is reduced significantly. Even car has the speed of a small aircraft. These are how our world has changed. How company now can operate in various countries with high in efficiency. How we can send parcel to the our relatives thousands miles away in one day.

How the events in other part of the world can affect how we live in our country. And how it affects the economy in every part of the world. Even a kid is more literate in technology than their parents. This shows that how fast our world is moving now. Take handphone as an example. In every 3 months there are new models come out.

This is how the way of thinking has also tremendously changed. We can't afford to stay in old style of thinking in this fast moving world. We have to change. We have to adapt to new ideas. We have to adapt to new way of life. In a good way of course.

I still remember, when I was a kid watching Star Wars. All the lasers, hologram and space travel. And robots not to forget, R2D2 and C3PO hehe... Now we have all that. Even now there are research on antimatter. I don't really know what it is but I know if the technology exist the energy it dissipate is very huge.

We have to adapt to this new way of life. We must not be left behind. Its an interesting world and life here we have now.

How Emotions Affect Our Life

2009-04-08T10:08:00.005+08:00

I believe we all have come across to various kind of emotions through out our life. And even confronted with emotions that change our life forever. Emotions make us human. We can't live without emotions or else we will be like robots. Emotions sometimes can do harm to ourselves if we do not control it. Our emotions and our physiology are interconnected. We can't separate these two things.

When someone feels sad, we can know. Its in the face. Its in the physiology of that person. The face can tell that. If someone is in happy state, also we can see that in the face of that person. We can use our physiology to get the feeling we want. If we feel sad, force ourselves to smile. Then we can get more positive feeling from it.

Emotions can make us angry, happy, sad, fear, feel appreciated and etc. So it is important to control it before it'll do more harm than good. Before it do permanent damage to ourselves and others.

It is good if we can learn to manage our emotions. Can we learn to manage it? And actually the answer is yes we can. Here are few tips that somehow can manage your emotions.
1. Always smile.
2. Mix with people in positive environment.
3. Think positive.
4. Think problem as a challenge for you to solve it.
5. Sharing with your close friend.
6. Change the physiology of the state that you want.
7. Do things that we like
8. After all we are human...

This is what you can do if you want to live your life to the fullest. To be extraordinary in anything that you focus on. Nothing is impossible...

Books

2009-04-07T10:08:00.006+08:00

Few years back, I've started having this habit of reading books. Its a habit that everyone must have. Maybe its too late for me at this age to start liking to read books. Anyways who cares. Better late than never.

I started reading when I was working in oil rig few years back. Living in the middle of the vast sea, there was nothing much to do except watching tv or movie, play games on playstation, went to the gym, jogging around the helipad, fishing (even though its against the law), eating and chatting with the crews.

To fill my free time i brought 2 books to read on my first experience to offshore. I finished reading those 2 books. I still remembered the title I brought that day. "Think Like a Billionaire" by Donald Trump and "Digital Fortress" by Dan Brown. I like it. I love these two authors and I have more. More authors that I can share with you.

I'm not that good in reading. I'm a slow reader. I don't know why. Maybe my speed reading skills haven't come out to surface yet. But I'm happy though. I will sharpen my skills everyday. This month alone which only in one week I have read 4 books and now going to the 5th book this month. I'm maintaining a habit of reading min 50 pages a day and sometimes more than 200 pages a day.

Reading books inspire me and give me ideas and knowledge on everything. Books give me the experience of other people and journey of the people before us. The lessons of people before us. History that we do not want to repeat.

I also learned that very successful people read a lot. It also makes my brain working and open to ideas.

I like this picture of library. I want to own one. One day perhaps... One day...

Life

2009-04-06T08:37:00.005+08:00

We live in this world with purpose. To live life to the fullest. We have to do the best out of it. Life is full of wonderful journey. We just only have one life. Why waste it. Why not do something good out of it. Something for other people to remember. Something for other people to cherish. Do whatever you want to do.

Life is about love. Love yourself. Love who you are. Be thankful to God you have eyes to see beautiful things, you have your legs to move around, you have your ears to listen to beautiful songs, you have your hand to help other people and be grateful to what you have now. There are so much to be grateful of.

Control the fear in you. As it only holds you back. Fear only hold you from enjoying your life. Fear is nothing but a way of thinking and believe. Don't be afraid to change. Don't be afraid to do something that we haven't done before. There's only outcome to what we have done. We can correct it. We can change it. We can learn out of it. We are in prison of our own thinking and believe.

Be free. Feel free. Free from what we are afraid of. Free from what has prison us. Free your mind. Free your thought. Freedom release your true great potential that has been hiding in you all this while.

Money

2009-04-05T14:49:00.004+08:00

Is money important to us? Some answered yes and some answered no. There are people who say money can't buy love... money can't buy happiness... While money is used in our daily life, many of us take it for granted in a sense of how to manage money and how money works...

A friend of mine said "I'm not into money. What I have now is enough". I'm not against this kind of feedback. Everybody has their own believe. What money can or cannot do. It is just most people don't look the importance of money and what it can do or affect their future.

With no money its hard to be happy. Happiness is doing something that we love to do. Most of us love to relax. Love to shop. Love to go for holiday. Love to watch TV all day without going to work. Spend time with love ones or family. But with no money, life will be miserable...

Majority of people has a lot of debt. Most taking years to settle. This is the reality for most people. People believe its hard to earn money. Money doesn't grow on trees. This is what our parents used to tell us. We need to check our mindset again. We have to re-educate ourselves.

We all can learn to generate money. In this fast moving world, we cannot afford to be left behind. Inflation rate is rising, globalization makes job insecure. Recession kills the believe in the security of jobs. It will again occur in the near future. We have to make a move. We have to make a change in our lifestyle. A move to have more security than ever before. We have to do something for ourselves. Don't wait until desperate time comes but prepare for the worst.

Bermulanya...

2009-04-02T20:34:00.008+08:00

Teringat saya masa saya mula-mula kerja dulu. Tak tau bagaimana nak bermula. First time memegang title Jurutere ataupun lebih dikenali sebagai Enginaye (Engineer). Sebab terlampau tere, yelah jurutere la katakan, takut kalau salah buat habis rosak barang-barang yang beratus ribu harganya. Barang-barang elektronik yang mahalnya boleh beli satu keta persona. Itu hanya cardnye saje...

Mengambil tugas yang di pertanggungjawabkan untuk menyiapkan tugasan mencabar dengan pengalaman yang tidak banyak memang perasaan ragu-ragu itu ada tapi demi tanggungjawab buat aje. Yang penting keje siap...

menaiki basket untuk ke platform...

inilah platformnye...

Permulaan itu hanya bersifat sementara. Bila sudah biasa semua akan berjalan lebih lancar. Cabaran itu memang ada. Kita hidup perlu melawan cabaran ini. Setiap perkara mesti ada permulaannya.

Kita perlu bermula untuk menghabiskannya...