Thought repositioning...

Never again to leave it wide open. Don't be an open book. Has to limit my mental presence. Unconsciously others are doing that. They thrived the onslaught of time thinking the world is made for them. You shall be missing the old behaviour but thought repositioning shall be best for you and the days ahead. Even the world is with its ozone layer due to the fact of so much openness to everything. And the world and the inhabitant has never been kind to their provider. The abuse is getting worse by the day. The question is can the belated good thoughts and openness be a saviour to what is happening?

positioning...

once positioned and after a while it creates its own story. And if the story aligns so well with the perceptual need of the customers, then the product can make money. But money can't last forever. The customers tend to get bored with the story. Then we have to think of repositioning the products that aligns well with the present whims and fancies of the present generation. We must come up with another story. And that is the idea of positioning strategy. We have to change with time..and time can be very cruel to those who don't understand it...So start doing the positioning or repositioning..!

All alone..a page turned one after the other..

Nothing can really make me feel that I am with them. It is a small realisation and consciousness but it has a greater and vast impact more than the atomic bomb. The only difference is that the particle wave of the atomic bomb destroys everything along its way. My small realisation of something creates ideas one after the other. It produces. Nobody likes the idea of being alone. But 90 percent of one's existence is turning the pages that reflect loneliness and only 10 percent of our life time are being spend with `others.' Just walk into something and somebody and the feel is still of something. It is a feel of something but not of somebody. I am all alone now and a page is written one after the other...

It has to be right...

Nothing doing. Not the first time but after many attempts then we are assure of its perfection. Even that they must be a minor mistake here and there. But sometimes we refuse to admit the mistakes we have been doing. There are students who just don't bother to know what mistakes they have been making. They don't ask what was wrong with their answers. And for some, they just don't bother to come and see me and get their test paper back. How often they do that? I have lost counts. If I were to conclude on my experiences, I don't know whether I am right or wrong. Statistically, it has to be right..

Silence...

I don't really hear anything of substance from them except my own voice in all its knowledge dimensions. I am doing all the talking. And they don't give a damn as to what has been said. In another words they don't learn. They love the process of learning but they don't really put their heart and thoughts into it. They love classes in their own personal way without books and without argument and without quality production of assignment. And they love cancellation of classes. I did ask them to buy a text book for the course. Till today I keep asking. And I shall be asking for the last time when they are back from their break. And after that I shall stop asking. And at the end of the semester I shall be doing the assessment and the grading. And with this writing as a reminder, I shall be really looking for a commitment in terms of thoughts and positive contribution to process learning. Till then I shall still be asking, `till when it shall be all silence..?'

merentasi masa...

Sebentar tadi aku mengalami peristiwa yang belum pernah aku rasai sebelum ini. Apa dia ye? Aku telah merentasi masa ke suatu tempat dan dirasai aku di situ tanpa keizinan. Soalnya perlukah aku meminta izin? Rasanya tak perlu. Tapi aku begitu sangsi akan anjakan yang sedemikian rupa? Lantas membuat aku tersentak dari lamunan yang dirasakan agak keterlaluan. Apakah aku telah mengalami peristiwa merentasi masa..? Tapi mengapa masih aku memerlukan keizinan?

old thoughts being polished as new...

What is new? Walking from yesterday into another new day and that is today. Despite the ferocious speech full of vigour and spirit, there is nothing new about that. What is actually new is today. Back to back with what we are actually facing daily. Back with our own skin, bones, and the road plan ahead. A lot of thoughts, so called new thoughts are a recycle thoughts (some are from suspended thoughts) being presented differently or being presented differently by another person at another new place to a new audience. And yesterday UiTM Jengka welcomes the Chairman of KFC Malaysia Tan Sri Ali Hashim who spoke for almost 2 hours on being the person we really are. Nothing new but just old thoughts being polished and repositioned as new..

Nota: 135,000 ayam disembelih sehari untuk jualan KFC Malaysia dan jualan setahun sejumlah RM2 bilion..! That's news to me...But it is not something new..

Being supportive of others...

Not too often we discuss on things that has to do with supporting others. Instead we are busy in looking at the `greatness' in ourselves. In our own way, we are created great and there is no doubt about that equality. But one has to represent the community in realising the greatness in each and everyone of us. In politics, social events, cultural events, and in the competitive world of education and economy, one person or one group are sure to be capable than the rest. And by principles of community survival, majority should be supportive of the deserved ones that are more capable and intelligent than the rest. In other words, we must be supportive. I dare to say, in my own small understanding of others, our society lacks that ability in supporting others where it is due. We break things unnecessarily and to the point of making other nation and community an undeserved winner. Are we?

Sunday's freedom..

See life differently. See things in two dimensions. One, see world without the people but only in its raw form, only in the trees, mountains, rivers, and the animals. The night and the day, the sunshine and the moonlights, the fresh air and the wind. And another, see life in its modified form after it is inhibited by human being without being truly the kind of people we are. We create borders in anything , everything, and in nothing. Let us shift our perception for a while. A Sunday's freedom...in the people and the planet earth, somewhere in the galaxy of milky way..

Eh.!...............................................No hard feeling...

It has never been anybody's intention to have all the buildings brought down. It has been a curse of time all along, so to say. Acheh experienced it. Bukit Antarabangsa has a small feel of it. And now Haiti with 220,00 death. Mankind has never experienced a continuity of a loving kind for a long time. They say it but they have never meant it. They might say it categorically, emphatically with the backing of the United Nations, we will come and help. But they are the cause of it. All words and very little actions. No money, no love, and no tears. Hatred breeds hatred. Days have become hotter and hotter. Can we still live to see the catastrophic of destruction in everything? By the way, no hard feeling..!

Kampus tempat jiwa dihalusi, perasaan dimengerti, dan pengetahuan dikecapi..

Dingin. Aku mengharapkan sesuatu yang baru dihujah dan dikecapi dari kuliah yang dikendali dan assignment yang diberi. Malang dan kecewa. Malang untuk negara dan kecewa untuk aku. Tidak nampak pemikiran yang berpotensi berdiri; tidak terasa hati yang bergelora, nafas yang pendek semacam mengejar dan mencari, apa lagi hujah dan tulisan yang tidak nampak mencabar dan dicabar. Kelu, kaku, tidak bermaya. Adakah anda ingin hidup 1000 tahun lagi? Tetapi jangan rasa kaki terpijak sesuatu yang tidak bergerak lagi...

Would they respond..?

Nobody does and nobody cares. They are just lost for words, actions and decisions. Nothing seems to please them except the dollars and the sense. All in the name of short-term good and bad. Disciplined of a destructive kind. They come for food. And if they do not get it, they will be leaving the place for good. Who are you? Well, I know who I am. But the problem is not who I am but rather who are you talking to? Enough of words being uttered to them. Have they be responsive? Mere physical presence, but lost in time ...

Identity unknown..

If the world is to last 2 more million years or more, then who are we? If that is the case and if it is going to be true, naturally we are a very much an unknown being with an unknown identity of all sorts and kinds. Are we only good for the garbage in the world history of mankind? Are we a good listener? Are we a loving kind whose sorrow ought to be shared and distributed? We write with our pen and not with our mind. We say things with words of notorious kind. We split opportunity that can split the world into pieces. Who are we? For now identity unknown....

Could there be another you...?

No! So believe in yourself and exercise the confidence that is meant for you. Earlier in your life bad experience still haunts you till today so much so the decisions are from a man of yesterday. Life is a process of transformation from nothing to something, from no thought to a bigger and purposeful thought. You owe life a purposeful life. So buckle up and play your given role..

Antara jiwa dengan jiwa...

Sempena Hari Wilayah Perseketuan, 1 Feb 2010, rancangan TV di isi dengan perbincangan hal hal bersabit dengan bandar bandar yang ada jiwa dan yang tidak. Sudah pasti Kuala Lumpur telah dibandingkan dengan bandar bandar lain di dunia. Oleh kerana saya sendiri telah banyak menjelajah ke bandar bandar Amerika Syarikat, maka apa yang dibincangkan telah mendapat perhatian saya untuk menyertai perbincangan ini di blog saya dan dari sudut pandang saya yang bukan pakar dalam hal proses perbandaran ini.

Ada ahli panel yang telah lmembandingkan Singapura dan Kuala LUmpur dan merumuskan bahawa Singapura lebih memiliki jiwa bandar berbanding dengan Kuala Lumpur. Betul ke? Kuala Lumpur baru merangakak walhal Singapura sudah memiliki jiwa global kian lamanya.

Semasa saya menulis ini, terbau bandar Whitewater di Wisconsin dimana saya telah memperolehi ijazah sarjana saya. Whitewater merupakan bandar yang begitu kecil tetapi ia memiliki segala gala yang menyebabkan sedar tidak sedar saya dapat bertahan dan sangat menyukai bandar tersebut. Apa sebabnya?

Bandar kecil tetapi segala galanya berjiwa dari sekecil-kecil benda kepada sebesar besar perkara. Small town but it represents a world that moves towards perfection in terms of arts, sciences , and material possession. Bayangkan bandar sekecil itu boleh dikatakan setiap minggu dihidangkan dengan persembahan theater yang bermutu dan menjadi tarikan kepada penduduk disekitarnya untuk menontonnya. Appreciasi saya terhadap persembahan theater berputik di bandar tersebut. Mengapa tidak di bandar Malaysia?

Adakah antara faktor penjiwaan bandar disebabkan penduduknya yang sentiasa peka dan perihatin terhadap sejarah bangsanya atau disebabkan benda benda lain? Atau kita mempunyai jiwa tetapi jiwa yang kita memiliki adalah jiwa yang tidak diresap dengan penjiwaan sebenarnya satu satu peristiwa itu? Atau boleh disimpulkan antara jiwa dengan jiwa sememangnya ada keunikannya tak kiralah negatif atau positif...