Showing posts with label ramblings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ramblings. Show all posts

15.6.11

Beat these five enemies.. Get to know three FUN and important advantages: 1. An immediate channel to the marketplace to market products and services directly to family, friends and neighbours 2. Offer superior services to customers. Distributors provide personal service, product demonstrations and the convenience of home delivery 3. An opportunity for anyone to own a business

The greatest enemy of oneself is one own self. Not others. They are:
1. Fear of Failure vs Keep Trying even for the 10th, 100th, 1000th 10,000th of times...
2. Worry vs 100 minus 92 minus 8 minus 4 possibilities...
3. Our Guilt vs Other people's Guilt
4. Feeling of Unworthiness vs Grace of God
5. Feeling of Insecurity vs Belief and Stability
(Reference: Rich Devos Series)


This entry is a retrospection. I am slow. That's OK. *I will continue to do what I have started the best I can. The only thing I am sure of now is that: I can... I will... and I must... although I am slow... and I am late... but I hope it is never too late...

Misplaced modifier:
*I will continue to do what I have started the best I can.
--> I will continue the best I can to do what I have started.  

3.6.11

Diamonds are made under pressure.


 
There are times that you feel you have so much work to do, you have lack of sleep and rest, you press on because you know what you want and you want to achieve what you aim. You must go on because however hard things are, there is also ease -- God has promised that with hardship, there is ease.. Inna ma'al 'usri yusra. So you must never never never give up.
And you must remember, whatever happen, JUST DOn't quIT.

22.2.09

How many languages can a person acquire and be really good at?

Being able to speak a language does not mean that you know chunks of expressions to be used in several particular circumstances. It means that you know the whole sound, word and grammar systems of the language - that you'd be able to create and understand novel sentence structures in that language.

I wonder how many languages a 'normal' human is capable of acquiring/learning and using/functioning in? Perhaps if there's an inventory of people who speak many languages, we'd know the answer. As in case of a savant, Christopher, he is not a 'normal' person but he is capable of learning tens of languages, maybe up to 44 languages!

So this proves that one doesn't need a 'normal' brain to be able to learn and speak many languages.

On a personal note, I used to admire people who speak many languages. One person I know is a friend who grew up in Ahmedabad (in Gujarat, India). I mistook him for an Arab for his look and his Arabic. He speaks Malay and sounds like a KLite, as he has been in Malaysia for a few years, speaks Arabic and sounds like an Arab, because he attended college in Oman as his parents worked there, speaks Hindi and English, because he learned it at school and uses it at work and at home, and Gujarati, of course, as it is his mother tongue. I forgot to ask him if he knows the orthography of all of the languages. But I'm sure he knows the orthography of English and Hindi, being the languages he learned formally. So that makes him well capable of five languages.

Another person I admire is Munira, my niece who speaks two languages fluently at the age of 3+. She doesn't only imitate, she utters sentences appropriate to the occasions.

As for me, I speak Malay and English, and I speak some Arabic, and I know the structure of another language although I don't speak it - Urdu. I wish to learn more Mandarin this year. Another motivation is for health reason. Based on medical researches, if you know more than a language, the tendency of you getting amnesia is lower. So perhaps knowing many more languages can diminish the tendency altogether?

25.1.09

What makes you humble?

What is it that makes you humble -- is it your face, beautifully created but you think it is not as pretty or handsome as the other person whom you adore or you envy?
Is it your appearance which you have taken care of enough but still doesn't meet your expectation because you know you have to gain more in order to afford some form of treatment?
Is it your belongings...
Is it your furniture which is not as expensive as the ones in Ikea catalogues?
Is it your small house or your cheap car?
Is it your failure at making billions of ringgits per year?
Is it your lack of influence that makes people not to listen to you, ignore you or underestimate you?
Is it your performance that had never deserved a Noble prize?

What makes you humble is by not feeling proud when looking at other people who cannot afford what you can, and who have not earned what you have earned, and who do not have the position that you have, and who did not go through the education that you have gone through, and to look at them with kindness and respect, thinking and believing that your gains and success are not as important or no better than the humanity itself.

To me, not feeling proud is what makes you humble. But you have to achieve something first in order to allow you to remove the pride and to feel humble.

8.1.09

Why Doubting is a Must

For some people it's only natural to doubt things. But it's much more useful to focus on what we can do. Doubting things per se won't change a lot, or at all. If you doubt a concept, you've got to search the truth. If you doubt an action that is done, you've got to act so that it can be improved and won't be repeated.

However, when people do not doubt things, not many improvements can be made. I see people who push away doubts as wanting to be safe, and lazy to find out the meaning of the subject of their doubt; or making a change to progress further from the initial state. So, doubting is necessarily a first step towards making progress.

At certain age, if you are doubting a lot of things around you but yourself, you are basically normal. You'd probably see every single thing critically, judging its worth and more often you'll find things are not up to your expectation, and you know that things should be or have/had to be better than how they are/were.

You would probably also think that you don't need advice from anyone because you can think for yourself and you have opinion(s). Or maybe other people don't understand your complex mind... but, for what it's worth, listen, or at least, try to listen.

I doubted a lot of things at that age. However, as I didn't talk about it to the right person, I wasted my time criticizing things around me rather than doing something that I could do to make things better. The only consolation: I was focused on my studies. But the 'bad' thing was, I doubted my own faith. But that's another story.

When you doubt things, you exercise your evaluation skill. If you are doubting the education system, you are concerned about its effectiveness. So, do more than what is given to you, or demanded from you. Equip yourself with knowledge through reading a lot, and gain skills by getting involved with projects or activity that may help you live, work, function better in the years to come.

Whatever you think about an issue, work out some solution to it--if you become popular, contest in an election, and you may become a savior. You can't do much on a large scale if you don't have power in this country. But that should not be an excuse not to do anything on a small scale of course. And of course, again, that starts with yourself. And doing the right thing with integrity means that you'd still do it even though other people don't know it, and regardless of appreciation or recognition. Religions teach you that what goes round comes round, so pay it forward.. it is karma, and although the world is not perfect; god is perfect and just so there's life after life.

And, be patient, because you'll know and realize the truth about what you're doubting all in good time. The older you get, the wiser you'll become. Hopefully.

22.12.08

What better time it is...

Awal Muharram..

What better time it is to get on the optimal spiritual lane...

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