Moving On

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Of fucked-up-ness

I think i messed up something. And i hate that. But if for some reason you think that it was not worth your time, fine.

Ideas and Laziness

Lately i feel like i don't want to do anything. Just wanna relax and enjoy every moment that i have. With 5 assignments waiting to be done, I'm quite sure that i actually was just feeling lazy. To add, ideas also don't come that often now. Haih.~ I'm starting to think that there must be something that change. Well, now i'm in the mood of writing something, lets hope that this post contain something useful for you.

It's 1030pm and i was walking with my friend, Nik. He's a nice man. As we was walking, he started a topic of conversation regarding my course of study. So i told him every moment that i could remember as a Petroleum Geoscience student. Field trip, field work, field camp, lecturers and also the technicians, these things are as close as how you can think of about your best friends. Yes, in our courses, our lecturers aren't just lecturers, they are friends with professional background and knowledge. I'm sure if you ask anyone from our courses, they'll say the same thing. I mean, can you get your lecturer to go picnic, lunch together and also, have him play poker card with you. *yeah that's right, my lecturers can do that*

But as far as how things are good between us, i wanna tell you guys that although you can treat your lecturers as friends, make sure you don't cross the professional boundary between you and them. To put it in a simple way, lecturers can be your friends, but don't forget they are still your lecturers. So whatever you do, please respect them. By respect i mean, not only as a lecturer but as the one who has more knowledge than you do in your academic career. Trust me, you may say that you respect the lecturers but your behavior tells otherwise.

You know, habit is one thing that is hard to change. That is why i chose to understand people by finding their habit and infer their behavior. For example, say you are late to class, for the first offender, i think it's forgiven. But if every time you arrive 10 or 15 minutes after class started, that shows that you do not respect your lecturer, you don't value time, and most importantly, this shows that you are weak in following orders, which is the key to be a great leader. I have tons of example that i can tell you but yeah, if i tell you all things that i know about yourself, you may not want to talk to me again. *yes, my mouth is harsh, and if you can receive my critics, than i salute you for that*

It is hard to change habit, but it is possible. Just make sure you have the right habit for in your career and you will start to love things around you more. I think my laziness has come, so i'm gonna stop here. Hopefully there are things that you can use here for yourself.

Thank you for reading.

Idea

Lately, my brain feels kind of empty. So it gets kinda bored. I think i need someone who can give a stimulating conversation. So far, i got nothing. But thanks to Muay Thai club, i kinda look forward to its training. So its not all boring cause i've something to look forward to. Still, i need my ideas.

Catastrophic Event and Advancement of Society

Hi. (sorry, the post about young generation still in need of ideas)

Recently, most of our sources of information describe about the earthquake that hits Japan together with the tsunami that came afterwards. Everyone seems very surprise about the news. Well, i think if you are a fan of Japanese drama you shouldn't be so surprised as in their drama itself, sometimes they mentioned about earthquakes that occur in Japan. But well, there are a few facts that lots of people didn't know.

#Fact 1

Japan's technology is in advance state where although an 8.5 in Richter scale earthquake hits them most of the buildings are still intact. (Need a few more clarification)

#Fact 2

Japan was located on an area where several continental and oceanic plates meet, that is why they got a lot of hot springs. But still, geologically, it is not a suitable place to live.

#Fact 3

Tsunami did a lot of destruction as compared to the destruction brought by the earthquake.

#Fact 4

Most people are idiot because they believe in whatever they read. I've read a lot of things and yes, there are some misguided information that was intentionally given to us.

Forget about the facts just now. As we can see, Japan is the most advance country in the world. And so it is important, politically, economically and etc for other countries such as USA and Malaysia. But if you look at how Japan is 100 years ago, you will not believe that they can achieve this much of advancement in merely 100 years.

Well, everything started after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Yes, the atomic bombs killed a lot of japanese people. In fact, it also destroyed many structures. But how come Japan can still advance to the top despite of many catastrophic event that led to painful death and destruction?

If you go to google and search about the history of earthquakes that hit Japan, i'm sure you'll find that almost every year, Japan was hit by earthquakes. Some of them may be a minor one. But as i mentioned earlier, the technology was so awesome they did not have any problems with earthquakes until now.

So the hypothesis was, a major catastrophic event can change a country. Now, whether the change is positive or not, that depends on the environment, sociology, people etc in that country.

If we look at Japan, obviously the changes were positive. If you look at Malaysia, i think the changes were neutral. I mean, in Malaysia people don't care. That's why it is neutral. I don't have an example yet of a country where catastrophic event brings negative effect but if for people, i think there are so many.

Anyhow, if we take every catastrophic event and turn it into superpowerful drive to get better, i'm sure we can achieve a lot in life. I'm not saying that we must be hit by tsunami everyday but sometimes, small things can also be our catastrophic event. We just need to find out what it is. Anyway, i do hope people in Japan can recover faster from this event and also hopefully they can achieve a much better environment than they have right now.

I think that is all, thanks for reading.

Nurturing Young Generation

Hi.

Today i'm gonna be a bit patriotic. Enjoy.

Last night i got a phone call. "Kal, jom balik, malam ni jugak." So i was like, ok, no problem. So i pack my things and waited about an hour or so before my friend come picked me up. But then he said, "Kita kena pergi hotel Seri Pacific dulu," the reason being was to fetch my other friends who was staying there for an event with a few "datuk" (datuk here is the title given to someone, usually rich man or someone who contribute something to our country idk). To make long story short, we couldn't go back that night because my friend finished their programme at around 2. So we just sleep instead of driving back to UTP.

Next morning, which is this morning, we drove back to UTP at around 10. But a phone call came in and my friends excluding me need to go to a hotel in Ipoh to finish their other programme. And i was like, damn, i need to go back to UTP you idiot! Yes, a bit frustrated but it's not entirely their fault, it was my fault too because i want to go back early and have to follow them. So i followed them to their programme and there i met with this one guy, i think he's a bit special because he does not talk much about nonsense stuff. Pretty much i'm sure you know which nonsense stuff i'm talking about.

At first, i was hesitate to join into this man conversation with my friend, who had had meeting with dato' earlier. But after i chimed in, i thought, hey this guy is quite good. He's like eddy

(my friend's name) when he's not talking nonsense stuff. Pretty much what we talked about was the programme that eddy was organizing, how he and his organization try to nurture young generation especially malays. He has organized lot of events, mostly related to leadership skills and business-minded thinking. I've joined one of his event and yes, it is good, in a way.

Back to the man i met earlier, he said he loved to organize event, firstly because it helps him to interact with young generation and second, as a teacher (he is a lecturer but i think the word lecturer does not gives the soft aura as the word teacher does), he hopes that by organizing an event or participate in a programme can somehow increase your value as leader. Well, you have to have a good people skills if you want to interact with people. And he sees these skills can be learn and develop if you are trying to develop it by joining event. Then we went off to talk about how chinese organization helps their people, like giving 30% of their income to chinese NGO and ask them to use it on chinese people. I mean, why can't malays do that?

The question is simple yet the answer isn't. It goes back far beyond the current generation that make the nurturing in malays quite impossible. I guess you all know the answer, yes, it is jealousy and the can't-stand-if-someone-is-better-or-richer-than-they-are-so-they'll-do-anything-to-make-them-suffer-and-fail problems. I'm not saying that all malays are like that but if this culture and environment can't be change, i believe it is only the matter of time before we, malays are wipe out in our own country. I get all this from a talk that i had with a man i met only a few hours earlier. So the question now is, how can i help or we help in developing young generation?

I'll discuss this in my next post.

p/s: if somehow i forgot about this please tell me. yeah, my mind kind of working on thousands of projects right now, so sometimes i may lost track about what i'm doing. XD

thanks for reading this post.

Friends. A Memory to Remember

I thought i tell you how bored i am by posting a lyric entitled "Secret" by one republic. Trust me, it is a good song. For those who said it wasn't, well, you aren't like me. I don't have that many friends to talk things to, so i think writing something for some strangers to read is far better than having a useless conversation. Well, enjoy your moment cause after this its gonna get boring.

FIRST STORY

Just now i got a visit from a friend. My coursemate actually. He's not the kind of guy i used to talk things to, but somehow when he came over, we just talk about things which i usually can't tell unless you are my close friend. We talked about our coursemates, our lifestyle, friends, gossips here and there and some other things. I really love it when i have someone to hear my story and share opinions about my story rather than just hear it without any feedback.

Few years back, i got a couple of friends that can give me a stimulating conversation. But one day, they just disappeared. Although their YM status is available, i got nothing back after i buzz or say hi to them. So i decided maybe they got other priorities but i think a few sentences telling "i'm busy" is not so much to ask, right? But never mind. Time marches on, things change and we are not the same as who we are when we were 10 or 15. And after having this short conversation, these memories came back to me and it was like bombarding every inch of my brain with old speculations and useless information. I hate this. Well, i hope that after i wake up tomorrow, all this things will be gone. Hopefully.

SECOND STORY

Yesterday was the birth date of my childhood friend, some from my high school and also my chemistry teacher. I wanted to post to their facebook wall "Happy Birthday" but i think if they aren't the type who open their facebook every 10 minutes, why bother having facebook at all? But suddenly, my recent news showed something that make me smile, even right now, i still smiling over the fact in my recent news. Obviously, its all about the girl.

She was tagged in an appreciation picture by her mother, in which makes me feels like i wanna browse the album even more. So i look at it and there she is, smiling, without any clue that shows she was not happy at the moment the picture was taken. I smiled too, when i look at that picture. For whatever reason she has while smiling, all i need to know is that she's happy. That's all that matters. And i do hope that she's going to smile even more and hopefully make this world a better place.

p/s: To someone who might understand what i said here, please don't do anything stupid.

Bored~

This is the song that tells u about myself right now.

I need another story

Something to get off my chest

My life gets kinda boring

Need something that I can confess

'Til all my sleeves are stained red

From all the truth that I've said

Come by it honestly I swear

Thought you saw me wink, no

I've been on the brink, so

Tell me what you want to hear

Something that will like those ears

Sick of all the insincere

I'm gonna give all my secrets away

This time

Don't need another perfect lie

Don't care if critics ever jump in line

I'm gonna give all my secrets away

My God

Amazing that we got this far

It's like we're chasing all those stars

Driving shiny big black cars

And everyday I see the news, all the problems that we could solve

And when a situation rises, just write it into an album

Seen it straight to gold

I don't really like my flow, no, so

Tell me what you want to hear

Something that will like those ears

Sick of all the insincere

I'm gonna give all my secrets away

This time

Don't need another perfect lie

Don't care if critics ever jump in line

I'm gonna give all my secrets away

Oh, got no reason, got not shame

Got no family I can blame

Just don't let me disappear

I'mma tell you everything

So tell me what you want to hear

Something that will like those ears

Sick of all the insincere

I'm gonna give all my secrets away

This time

Don't need another perfect lie

Don't care if critics ever jump in line

I'm gonna give all my secrets away

So tell me what you want to hear

Something that will like those ears

Sick of all the insincere

I'm gonna give all my secrets away

This time

Don't need another perfect lie

Don't care if critics ever jump in line

I'm gonna give all my secrets away

All my secrets away

All my secrets away

Isaac Newton Vs Gottfried Leibniz

Hi

I bet most of you know about Isaac Newton. Well, he's the second most influential people after Prophet Muhammad SAW. Most of his work revolved around one word "motion." Well, you learn about Newton's Law of Motion during high school so it's obvious if you have heard about him. Well then, who the hell is Gottfried Leibniz? Most of us don't know eventhough we learn about things that he invented during college.

Calculus. I know how scary this thing can be for most of us. Especially to those who wanted to be an engineer or a mathematician. Well, Leibniz also developed calculus, around the same time as when Newton invented calculus. Their idea is different, the approach used to solve the problem is also different. And yet both of them came out with one of the toughest subject for most of us. I can tell you about the background of this two inventors but for the fun of it, i want you to google and find out.

Now, what is so important about the inventor of calculus? Well, i am trying to say that there is a different approach that we can use in order to solve a problem. Say if a problem arise, what you want to do is to solve the problem. That is your target. But if you are using the same mentality as you use when you create a problem to solve them, then how are you going to solve it? Back to Newton and Leibniz, both of them fight for the title "inventor of calculus." The fact is, they both are the inventor of calculus. Two great mind is now fighting for one small title.

I obviously love the way Newton approach the problem, because it was valid. Leibniz on the other hand need further clarification but still he solved the problem. It's like the reason didn't matter, and all that matter is the result. To Leibniz himself, because he is a mathematician, result is important. Whereas to Newton, the way you solved the problem is important because to him, if you use the wrong way, then you cannot obtain a good result. Personally, i think that we should use both ways and apply it in a correct situation. I believe, if you have both of this personality in yourself, your work is guaranteed to be remarkable. Look at Newton and Leibniz.

Lastly, thanks for reading this boring post. Plus, since you did not google about Newton and Leibniz earlier, you might not notice that I was lying to you earlier. Go find out which one and tell me if you think you got the correct answer.

Savor The Greatness of Today

Quote for the Day.

Don't think about tomorrow, cause tomorrow is nothing but a dream. Don't think of yesterday cause yesterday is nothing but history. But do think about today cause since English language exists, we always call today as "present."

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What should i do?

Hurm. Its been a long time since i have this thought. But it's not like i can confront it because i got no free time before this. And now i have a lot of free time, i tried to give my mind a mental challenge and think about this stuff but well, it sucks! Anyway, we will get to what was my mind thinking, don't worry.

Alright, as i mentioned earlier, there are things from my past that shows up during my free time. First is my decision to convert from Bachelor of Engineering to Bachelor of Technology, which means i spend more time with computer and softwares. Sometimes i think that i should change from what i'm taking now to medicine. Well, because right now medicine seems a lot easier to me as compared to my program. When i asked those who take medicine, they said medicine is tough. And then i said, is it? Because the thought that medicine is a tough subject has never came across my mind.

The dilemma between medicine, engineering and technology is not the only think that i have. You see, my former self would just do what i want to do, but as who i am right now, i think a lot. Right now, my mind keep saying that i should call my friends to ask them about their well being, but it stops when i think about what i'm going to say, what they're going to say and stuff like that. Damn, I really don't like my self right now. Seriously. I feel like crap. But for whatever reason, I am who I am right now, for better or for worse.

Oh yeah. I got one question that i couldn't answer. Do my desire to take medicine is because of my hunger for knowledge or because of human factor ? I was thinking both, but i'm not so sure about my answer. And i do hope someday i'll come across something that can give me the answer. I have a lot of questions but unfortunately i don't have or don't know any stimulating conversationalist. I need someone like House, Lawrence Fleindhardt, Charles Eppes or Jason Gideon. Well, i do hope i stumble upon people whose attitude is like the character i mentioned.

I guess that's about it. I'm writing a resume and i hope i got a good place for internship this coming September. That's all. Thanks for reading folks.

Finding The Truth

Hi.

It has been a long time since my last post. Well, there are reasons for that. First, i don't have internet connection at home, i mean apart from what i did which was piggybacking someone else's wi-fi. Trust me, the connection sucks. Then new semester started so i'm busy with well, you know, stuff that normal student should do. Apart from that, i found this really cool guy who sell stuff that i love, but i need to wait before i can buy the stuff.

Forget about me, lets focus on what we have on table here. Recently, there has been an outbreak, riot or whatever you want to call it in Egypt. Lots of demos and crimes occurred there. I even heard that one Malaysian student was raped. Putting that aside, I'm not saying that none of this is not true, but i just want to see, how true is the news? Well, there's a few reason i raised this question.

First and the most obvious reason, they said that Hosni Mubarak cut all internet and phone connection. So, how did they manage to send email, facebook updates, calling family members? Say that they are able to do one of the above, how far did they know about what's going on outside when what they did was staying at home on hope? My point is, when telling a stories, there will always be some exaggeration made in order to stress about the situation.

Yes i know, I'm not supposed to condemn the people who tell the stories about what's going on in Egypt. But all i want here is to be able to hear the truth minus the exaggeration part. Exaggerations make the story believeable but cause some mistakes in decision making later on. As for civilians, it is alright to hear the exaggerated version of the story but imagine if the higher-ups make mistakes in deciding thing because of the exaggerated story?

I'm sorry to say, but most people only know some part of the stories, and they will fill the other part of the story with their version, depending on their knowledge, education background, environment and their attitude. Obviously a paranoid person will tell different story as compared to an optimist. What i want to remind to you people is to search for the right story, and after you confirm that it is the truth, then only you tell the others.

p/s: Hopefully everything is going to be alright. And to my friends in Egypt, be strong and do what you gotta do in order to survive. Thanks for reading.