Library

Hee, I have an issue. My issue is i am interested in many books but since money is a limitation for me, i can't buy books that cost more than MYR 50 at a particular time. So far i managed to buy these books:

1. Revolusi IQ,EQ,SQ by Taufik Pasiak
2. The Antioxidant Miracle by Lester Parker and Carol Colman
3. Great Wall by John Man
4. Live, Laugh and Learn pt 12 (Forgot the author)
5. Power Mind (I'm not sure it's power mind or mind power. The word mind is true though)
6. (Forgot the real title but the small description says "How does your brain arrive at a decision" or something like that)
7. A Dictionary

Now these are few books that i hope i can get for free.

1. Speeches that changed the world by Simon Sebag Montefiore
2. Islam in History by Bernard Lewis
3. Yakjuj dan Makjuj, Bencana di sebalik gunung (forgot the author)
4. The merck manual of medical information
5. 50 high impact speeches
6. The Psychology of persuasion
7. Gerakan Freemasonry, Musuh dalam menghancurkan Islam

If I am going to buy all 7 items here, it will cost me around MYR 300++ I'm not saying that i don't have that kind of money, i do but I certainly hope if there's any place where i can read anything i want and return the books anytime i want. We all have limited knowledge thanks to the prize of these books.

*Selaras dengan usaha kerajaan untuk memupuk budaya membaca, saya berharap agar lebih banyak perpustakaan awam dibuka di tempat-tempat yang tertentu. Kemudahan meminjam buku dan memperbaharui pinjaman buku secara online juga harus dimajukan seiring dengan kemajuan jalur lebar di Malaysia

p/s: I just want to read books without having to pay anything. Can't i?

Seeing The Unseen

Well, in UTP seeing the unseen means the oil and gas exploration in which they will use a sophisticated technology to determine whether there's a potential hydrocarbon in that area or not. But i am not going to tell you about that although i know some of you might want to know how do we explore thing that we can't see.

As it sounds, i'm going to talk about things in which it is not exactly the way they are. We usually thing it is because we are limited by the knowledge that we have, together with information needed in order to view something in its correct angle. Its the same principle used when we look at this picture.

Heh, i'm quite sure most of us look it as a couple doing a foreplay but if you show this picture to a kid i'm sure that he/she only sees a few dolphins swimming in the bottle. You see, this is because our mind has been corrupted with this kind of things, so automatically when something like this shows up we will think about this instead of looking carefully and see that there are seven beautiful dolphins swimming in that jar.

Dolphins in this case is the unseen whereas the couple doing a foreplay is what is obvious. My point here is, whenever something shows up, you don't just bang them, try to look on the other side instead. I think i already said something about looking at different angle in previous post but i don't know, maybe you guys just don't think its useful enough.

Recently, there are few cases in which we might want to look in different angle. First of all, race issues in Malaysia such as Hindraf, then about the scholarship in which the portion of non-malay races has increased, one Malaysia, the gambling issue and recently, i heard about the 40% of the real estate property in Kg Baru will be open for non-malay. Lets try and view this in different ways shall we?

When problems about different races rose, our PM immediately launched the one Malaysia concept where in this concept, no matter what races you are, you will be called a Malaysian. Of course this goes with a few condition or what i called it a bargain such as the scholarship's condition. Well, as expected there are things that we called "Memperjuangkan Hak Melayu" things going on but in my view, this is for groups that afraid their son will not get any scholarship because well, generally speaking, chinese in indians in malaysia gets better result than the malays. We can view it this way, the PM was very clever that they opened the scholarship for non-bumiputra so that there will be a competition here, they hope malays will try and compete with the chinese and indians, not just thinking like this "Takpe, aku melayu, konfem2 kalo ak apply ng result yg kurang ok p0n ak dpt".

Then there is the gambling issue. Well, i know most of us opposed it because Islam says gambling is prohibited. But i think the PM mention something about monitored gambling and no Muslims are allowed to take part of it. The license will only be given to non-muslims, so i don't see where the problem was. I get it Islam says we must not involved in gambling, and also there's hadith that admonishes us to change a wrongdoing by hand (power), tounge (advice), and hate it by heart. The problem that i see is, yes you are right but if the government does not give the license, there will be a lot of illegal bets going on and since it is not monitored, who knows maybe your brother is involved. Besides, we are not yet a muslims country as we do not implement hudud. But since we are multi-races country, if we implement hudud all of sudden, there will be an outbreak of laws, especially by non-muslims, this is because their knowledge about hudud is limited, plus, i haven't seen any methods that effectively bring these non-muslims closer to Islam.

Just so you know, I am a Muslims and i only think base on the information and knowledge that i have. I did not say that gambling is legal but given the circumstances of our environment right now, legalize the gambling issue to non-muslim only is good, and all of the thing that our PM right now proposed is something that is actually good for both malays and non-malays. We just need to view in other side. Do not, I repeat, do not view things only on one side because you are tend to base your judgment on your side.

*Remember, whenever you do something, Islam is still your religion and think by grounding your thinking to all information that you have and Islam.

A Question and An Answer

Today, I am going to talk about how we view our information by raising a question and getting the answer out of that question. Well, human being always have a question. Whether it be about time, study, work, relationship, or whatever and i am not gonna explain in detail about those particular thing but rather in general.

Question is raised usually when you don't know about something or when you have some trouble or problem yourself. An answer is called an answer when you got a statement or explanation that satisfy your needs. How does this two related? Well, I know that you know the answer. It's simple, a question is raised and an answer is needed. However, in some occasional event, there will not have questions, or answers and sometimes both. For example when scientist raise a question, the answer may not be the exact answer, that is why scientist proposed a "theory" as an answer.

Now, let say that you have one question in your mind together with one answer that satisfy you the most. Are you sure that that is the right question to ask and the right answer that you get? Some of you may say yes and some may say no. Well, the trick is to view the question from all possible angle, not only in the way they are. For example, your boyfriend dumped you. First question that you might wanna ask is "Why". And you seek the answer from your boyfriend. I believed that in this situation, whatever reason that the boy gave to you, you will not believe it as you think it is just an excuse to be with another woman. So, you end up crying a lot, sad, angry and other possible things you might do when you were dumped by other people.

The reason is because you view the answer as an excuse although sometimes it doesn't. If you view it in terms of freedom, i believed your tears will be a tears of joy. Or if you view it in terms of religion, you might want to be grateful. Else in terms of money (for guys usually) you might want to scream and said "At last, my finance is stable". See? Rather than being sad, cry, angry bastard you end up being happy about something that is actually sad. That is the beauty of human perspectives.

To view something in different angles is not an easy task. You need a clear and open mind despite of how hard the circumstances that you are facing is. A question is all about something that you want to know while the answer is always something that you wanted right. Sometimes you might get an answer that doesn't satisfy your question although you have tried to view in other angles. In this case, the simplest thing to do is change the question. The great mind often is recognize when they pointed out a great question. That is just how it is.

*A question is all you need in order to become a great mind

**An answer reflects on how much knowledge that person have

Misi Mustahil 2010 (part 2)

Hi/Salam

It has been a long time since i updated this blog by myself (instead of copy and paste whatever i received from my friends). Well, its because i am too busy with my life now. Right now is exam week but I managed to clear up some time just to write something here.

Well, i'm not gonna talk about exam papers here but instead since right now we are almost in the middle of 2010, i would like to review my mission that i set up december last year. Here's the "Misi Mustahil 2010" post, you can read it or put it in new tab, i don't care. Below is my comment about my mission. (Number 1 for mission number 1 and so on).

1. So far, this is the thing that i like most. But sometimes, i feel like what i know is useless when it comes to final exam. But still, so far this is good.
2. This is also my favourite thing. I am not yet a master but I am so good at writing c++ code. I also started to learn how to use the adobe after effect and database programming. (Can anyone tell me what's the name for OOP compiler?).
3. Haha, this one, I can tell that it will change but only a little. Well, because out of 4 paper that i answered, only 2 i think is quite good. The other two, hancusss..
4. Only in January and some days in February. I sleep at 1 if i got class tomorrow morning but if there's no class like today or yesterday, I sleep at almost 3. This is the problem because i didn't wake up for subh prayer. Sigh~
5. O yeah. I have not started any puasa sunat yet but right now eating only lunch and dinner (if i want to) is good for me. I do feel a little bit hungry sometimes but living in top level in which we need to use the stairs to come down, nah, i feel the hungry is not worth the sweat.
6. Hurm, this one is good. But lately (in exam week probably) my friends always left me with my roommate alone while they enjoy studying and hanging out.
7. This one got no progress. Sigh~~
8. I don't think i've made some progress on this. Maybe i do but...
9. I managed to save RM100 a month which is actually good. But since my mission stated only half, well, i think i need to work more on this.
10. So far so good until i don't have any shoes left to be used in game. Well, i think of buying one but i'm gonna wait for sale or something. (kasut futsal cm ratus2 je tp kasut biase cepat rosak lak, haih~)
11. I don't even know what this means right now. But if i think its okay when i said i've moved on.
12. Hoyeah. This one is also my favourite. Haha, i can do a backflip from a cliff as high as 5~7 meters. My friend climbed the cliff first but he hesitated whether or not he should jump. Then i climbed the same cliff, went in front of him and there you go, a backflip. Mwahaha.
13. This one works sometimes. Hee, the moment i clear up my table and my bed is when i'm going home from UTP. H0ho
14. This one is good until i got my hands on one piece anime, Numb3rs and How I Met Your Mother. I seldomly watch movies but lately, the seldom change to often. Haih~
15. This one, is a secret. Hee

Well, as for the overall performance in the first half of 2010, i think im doing good. But just wait until december then only we know whether im doing good or not. Hee. Thanks for reading.