Paul Arden by My Father :)

Setiap tahun on my birthday, ayah saye akan hadiahkan saye buku..next year punye birthday pon confirm buku jugak..haha..honestly, tak tahu la nak happy ke nak sedih..haha..so in order to be fair, saye pon akan bagi die buku jugak la on his birthday every year..orang putih kate, "an eye for an eye"..if u tumbuk mate i, i tumbuk la mate u jugak..haha..

ok, enough babbling..

moving on..

*deep breath*

last night's book was:

Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite

by Paul Arden

ugly truth: Last night baru saye betul-betul bukak and bace buku ni (I'm not proud of myself about this) :|

*sigh*

*longer sigh*

beautiful truth: The book was schmacking awesome!!!

*happy mode on*

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on the first page of the book, Paul wrote:

Let us start off on the right foot by making some wrong decisions  

Paul continued on with an example: 

In 1881 George Eastman, a junior clerk, left his safe job in a local bank to start a photographic company..

But here is the interesting part..

Seven years later, he changed his company's name to "Kodak", an odd choice since it was meaningless and in those days nobody gave random names to serious products. His reasons for choosing the name were that it was short, not open to mispronunciation and it could not be associated with anything else..

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Beautiful quotes by Paul:

We try to make sensible decisions based on the facts in front of us..the problem with making sensible decisions is that so is everyone else..

A son said to his father, 'Dad, I'm in trouble.'
The father asked, 'Are they going to kill you?'
The son said, 'Oh, no, no.'
His father then said, 'Son, you don't have a problem.'

You can't afford the house of your dreams..that's why it is the house of your dreams..so either find a way of getting it or be satisfied with dissatisfaction.

Whatever decision you make is the only one you could make..otherwise you would make a different one..everything we do, we choose..so what is there to regret? you are the person you chose to be..

Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great..so let us put it to good use rather than try to deny it..life is all about ME anyway..

Conclusion:

Your vision of where or who you want to be is the greatest asset you have!

FAIL ONCE.

FAIL AGAIN.

FAIL BETTER.

In order to succeed in your failure, you have to think of your failed situation as a good place to start from..

Before & After :p

BEFORE:
     I used to think that driving was the hardest and the scariest thing to do..
     I didn't see the point of learning how to drive in the first place..
     I wanted a personal driver..

bits and pieces of my story:

bersumpah to NEVER EVER tukar lane

then..

ade niat untuk tukar lane tapi TAK PERNAH tukar betul-betul pon

then..

changed lanes sambil MENJERIT "AAAA!!!" sampai jantung rase macam nak pecah

then..

purposely BAWAK TEMAN dalam kerete so that die boleh tolong informkan when to tukar lane and when not to tukar lane

then..

berjaye tukar lane sendiri tapi dihon or dipandang 'panas' MULTIPLE TIMES by pro-drivers

then..

tukar lane sambil PUSING SATU BADAN instead of tengok belakang via rearview mirror

then..

SIMPLY tukar lane :p

AFTER:
     I still think driving is hard, just not the hardest..
     Learning how to drive is necessary..
     I still want a personal driver (if possible) but I don't care if I don't have one..

kesimpulan hari ni:

It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be :) 

Don't run out on your faith! always and always have faith in yourself and in what you do..you will only get better at something if you keep on trying aka PROGRESSION..insyaAllah you will get to the end safely..the major key is to ISTIQAMAHTAWAKAL..

even though something is hard, don't stop..

even though something is scary, never stop..

even though you don't think you can do it, just have faith..

insyaAllah everything will be ok..aminnn :)

***so today, I'm gonna try to pack chickens flawlessly..haha..

It's Beyond "Money" :)

One Day..

saye pegi giant dgn my dearest mummy..tibe-tibe saye ternampak ade sorg macik tengah stack tissues dekat atas rak..

I couldn't stop looking..

I went to another aisle searching for coffee..

I got my coffee and continued walking..

I turned back, she was still there..baju uniform giant tucked in, stacking tissues..

*sigh*

my heart sank to the core when i saw her ..not because of what she was doing, but because of her age..

macik tu dah tua..probably someone's grandmother..

*sigh*

all that I could think of mase tu was, "how bad can her life be until she has to do all that at her age? imagine kalau macik tu mak aku? imagine kalau satu hari nanti aku jadi macam tu? nauzubillah..mintak jauh la, ya Allah.."

yesterday I realized how selfish I was to be thinking that way..

sebab saye tak doakan untuk macik tu sekali..saye mintak diri saye dan family saye dijauhkan life yg macam tu and yet, macik tu is living THAT life..

my heart sank when i saw her..her heart must have sunken deeper..

kadang-kadang kite kene belajar hidup susah..our experience makes us wiser..wisdom is "beyond" money :)

kesimpulan kite today:

percaye pade qada' dan qadar Allah..Allah tak akan menimpekan ujian pade seseorang melainkan yg mampu ditanggung olehnye..

NOTE: berdoa tanpe henti..doa jugak adalah usahe kite >.<

Life Finally Got Interesting :)

Alhamdulillah, ya Rahman hu ya Rahim..

for:

     1. The time well spent nowadays :p
     2. The strength to actually go for it in the first place
     3. The patience to actually work for it and on it now
     4. Making people understand my random decision
     5.  Each feeling that You make and allow me to feel

Kesimpulan kite hari ni:

COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS EVERY SECOND OF EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY HOUR OF EVERY DAY! 

Always and always take the time to mengucapkan syukur kpd Allah SWT everyday di atas segale rahmat dan nikmatNya ke atas kite dan keluarge kite..Faham dan amati betul-betul this one basic human nature:

There ARE people out there who are much much more less fortunate than us in so many ways

 ::the list continues on and on::

*sigh*

A problem can be like a river so wide, it swallows you whole..

*sigh*

But ask yourself this: Is my problem more important than life itself?

Note to yourself this: While you're sitting down and worrying about all the wrong things, times fly by..

Now tell yourself this: Sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand. What you've been out there searching for forever is in your hands..all these..

OXYGEN

LOVE
FAMILY
FRIENDS
OPTIONS
OPTIONS
MORE OPTIONS

When you figure out that you actually have all these, it sure makes your problem seems so small..Therefore, no matter what the world brings you, just cherish what you have and LIVE..

Now I understand the hikmah behind my KFC :) insyaAllah..

Sudden Craving~

i suddenly have a mind-numbing-unable-to-breathe kind of 'craving' for this:

the giant white gate which separates malaysia and thailand..for me, it symbolizes:

F.R.E.E.D.O.M

haha..dramatic sangat statement..but seriously, this is the only thing that i can think about for these past few days..haha..well, ok..bukanla nak cakap yg saye tergile-gilekan structure batu ni :| i am craving for the idea behind it..the ability to break free! 

conclusion: sometimes the right decision is not always the best one!

I Need to Calm Down :|

ape saye buat hari ni?

watched a lot of tv + slept a lot of hours

it's honestly funny how i often ask myself this:

if other people can do it, then why can't i?

the answer is simple:

i am me, i am not other people

is my answer disappointing?

to me, not really

to other people, maybe

what exactly do i want?

*sigh* 

tak tahu la..i just feel like talking to someone at the moment..tapi bende ni takdela penting sangat sampaikan nak pakse orang untuk dengar my sob stories..huhu..hence, blogging is the next best thing :)

*sigh* 

i just wanna be me..i wanna do things that i like..i don't wanna do things that i don't like..if i don't think i can do something in particular, then maybe people should listen and believe me..as for my current state, i can't live up to people's expectations and i don't expect people to live up to mine either..you are you and i am me..if by any chance we become friends and make each other happy, then that is beautiful..if not, we tried and it couldn't be helped.. 

conclusion of the day?

i am officially DEPRESSED

Daddy in the Dungeon

since i wasn't doing anything at home for these past few months, i took the chance to reread some of my favorite books..

as for me, it was: quite entertaining~

as for my mom, it was: me being SUPER LAZY! 

as for my dad, it was: a sign of DEPRESSION!

*sigh*

honestly, moms and dads all across the universe can be very dramatic sometimes :s huhu..moving on with my new entry..

what's with the title of this post?
whose daddy am I talking about?
who is this daddy person? 

JOSEF FRITZL

One complex man and his 24 years of undetected crimes

The Crimes of Josef Fritzl: Uncovering the Truth

by Stefanie Marsh and Bojan Pancevski

he was once a respectable engineer from Amstetten, Austria..that was before he built the 'cellar'- the silent witness to a tragedy of prolonged incarceration and sexual abuse..

and this girl was his primary victim..his own daughter..

Elisabeth Fritzl

bits & pieces of the tragedy: