Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Good-bye 2008, Welcome 2009..


and tomorrow is first of January 2009. Looking back all those years, life has been kind to me despite the uncertainties of path to be taken in the beginning. Syukur saya kepada Allah Yang Maha Besar lagi Mengetahui akan segala Rahsia kejadianNya.

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

I am at Desaru today..



Sudah tiga kali aku ke sini atas tiga sebab yang memenuhi kehendak kekeluargaan. Tidak perlu aku terang sebabnya kerana tujuan aku menulis ini kerana hendak komen sikit pasal hotel ini. Tak tahu kenapa, potensi hotel ini aku categorikan kepuasan keseluruhannya adalah 4 dari 10. Masih ada perkara yang mana potensi tidak disedari sepenuhnya. Masalah besar yang selalunya dihadapi oleh perniagaan hotel adalah pembiayaan. Saya dapat rasakan hotel ini sedang mengalami masalah kewangan. Kalau ditengok fizikal bilik saya diami, nombor 111, ianya sangat mendukacitakan sekali. Tak hendaklah cerita apa, tapi sudah pasti ianya tidak menepati piawaian a 5-star hotel. Bidang pemasaran memandang berat pasal kepuasan pengguna. Daripada dua atau tiga sudut memanglah memuaskan, tapi masih banyak lagi perkara yang perlu disedari dan diperbaiki.

Till next time, happy holiday!

Sunday, December 28, 2008

Tidak ku miliki...

Di sebalik bukit yang gersang dan air yang mengalir dengan penuh kelesuan, ternampak dia keseorangan meraba raba sedang mencari tongkat.
Walaupun hingar bingar kota metropolitan kedengaran nun jauh sayup di bawah, sayang sekali itu semua bukan miliknya lagi.Apa yang terpampang adalah wajah wajah yang masih hidup dan juga yang sudah bertemu Illahi, ada yang mengukir senyum yang sangat indah tapi ramai lagi yang bermasam muka sebabnya diselubungi misteri dan teka teki.Kedengaran juga laungan keramat pusaka bangsa dan tidak terkecuali suara sumbang hendak membela, bermadah berjela jela, mengetepikan tangisan dari saudara sepupu sebangsa.Lantas datang malapetaka menimpa diri dalam bentuk tsunami dan runtuhnya pangsapuri, adalah cerminan diri angkara lupa apabila sudah menjadi kaya dan bergelar pula hasil memberi..Bila jatuh papa, ditimpa tangga pula, ditanya mengapa, maka jawapan yang diberi adalah sama belaka, `aku difitnah dan aku dikhianati,' menuding jari kesana kemari. `Aku banyak memberi tetapi aku dianak tirikan.'Baik tidak bertempat, jahat dinobat, kaki rayau merempit bingit kapal terbang pusing dunia, hanya ternampak bila `robohnya kota Melaka.'Tapi segalanya sudah terlambat, kesemua itu tidak dimiliki lagi. Sokong membawa rebah, tongkat digunakan kerana bebanan wajah yang tidak berbin dan berbapa.Sayang, seribu kali sayang, dibuang pahit ditelan sayang, lantas hidup bertongkat dihantui bayang-bayang.

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Rahsia tersingkap di seblik tabir hari...

Ada orang hanya menunggu hari berlalu. Bila hari berlalu maka dapatlah apa yang dipuja. Kalau kereta baru yang di idamkan, maka penantian merupakan satu penyeksaan kepadanya. Ini kerana dalam penantian itu, segala pengetahuan lain yang harus dan patut dipetik dan dimiliki telah diketepikan begitu sahaja kerana keghirahan yang menggila. Kalaulah kereta itu kereta yang ada nama (berjenama), maka dalam penenatian tadi timbul perkara perkara yang ada kaitan dengan perangai seorang `periak' (riak dan takabur).

Orang muda (tidak terkecuali juga orang tua) selalunya terjebak dengan riak peristiwa yang palsu. Penantian dan mainan mereka amat banyak sekali sehingga ramai diantara mereka lupa bumi yang kita pijak ini keras dan tidak punya pandu arah. Bumi yang dipijak tidak menjanjikan kestabilan berpanjangan dan berterusan dan berkemungkinan retak itu memang ada dan akan berlaku bila bila. Ini terbukti dengan terjadinya peristiwa runtuhan tanah di bukit antarabangsa Kuala Lumpur.

Rahsia tersingkap di sebalik tabir hari. Di sebalik tabir hari tidak menjanjikan senyuman seseorang akan berterusan hingga kehari esok. Bagi mereka yang berfikir, melihat gelagat manusia yang beranika rupa dan perangai, mereka optimis, pelajaran tidak hanya dibangku sekolah, tetapi berlanjutan dimana jua kita akan berada.

Allah Yang Maha Besar lagi Mengasihani, terselit di setiap peristiwa adalah berupa pengajaran yang akhirnya mendedahkan rahsia sebenar di sebalik tabir hari..

Friday, December 26, 2008

Kehidupan dan Persepsi...No way out...

Katakan apa sahaja seperti:

Kita telah dibohongi,
Kita tersalah tanggap,
I suka sangat kat dia..
Ingatkan begitu, rupanya begini..
Indah khabar dari rupa,
I am not how I look,
You look like a crook,
Muka garang tapi hati baik,
dan lagi, dan lagi, dan lagi
dari hujung dunia ke hujung dunia yang lain,
ada sahaja yang hendak dikomen..
yang pastinya kita mungkin tertipu atau diri kita menipu diri kita sendiri.


Whatever that is perception at its best...macam mana nak keluar dari kepompong persepsi ini? Kalau hendak keluar secara mendadak mana boleh? Tapi itulah kehidupan, semuanya bergerak secara perlahan...tapi yang penting ialah kita sentiasa sedar akan peranan persepsi ini.

Dalam ilmu pemasaran banyak dikupas pasal persepsi ini. Ini kerana ianya ada kaitan dengan penerimaaan jenama sesuatu barang atau perkhidmatan. Yang sebenarnya barang tak pernah menipu, tetapi pemikiran kita sebenarnya menipu. Ini kerana kita memiliki ciri kekyusukan yang melampau sampai lupa siapa diri kita yang sebenarnya.

Itulah persepsi. Itulah kehidupan. Memang ada jalan keluar...tapi tak semudah itu.. kata orang cinta itu buta. Kata P.Ramlee, apabila sudah suka, serba serbi indah belaka..haha

Till next time ye..?

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Dakapan...

Pengetahuan baru dapat juga difahami dari ungkapan kata `dakap.' Banyak lagu yang meggunakan istilah `dakap' seperti `dakapan senja.' Dakap membawa erti satu pegangan atau pelukan yang tidak bersifat aggresif tetapi penuh dengan emosi kasih sayang, tidak keras tetapi penuh dengan kelembutan. Ibu mendakap anaknya yang baru lahir dengan lenangan air mata kerana kasih ibu yang tidak berbelah bagi terhadap anaknya.

Dakap juga mebawa unsur terselamat dari marabahaya. Pabila dakapan begitu mesra dirasakan `dunia ini ana yang punya.'

Walaupun ungkapan dakap sentiasa diperkatakan, dalam perniagaan ianya merupakan indah khabar dari rupa. Ini kerana akitiviti pemasaran yang tidak ada atau tidak menampakkan substantif kemanusiaan dan kelahiran manusia yang tulen. Penuh dengan pura pura, so to speak. Indah iklan dari apa sebenar yang dijual. Ketampanan jurujual hanya untuk memikat dan apabila barang sudah dibeli barang adalah `hampas' yakni barang koman atau tidak menepati piawaian kata modennya.

Apa yang mendakap saya ketika ini saya sendiri tidak tahu. Tetapi dapat dirasakan didakap oleh perasaan yang halus dan dapat meluahkan ini semua.

Allah yang Maha Besar lagi mengetahui. Berusahalah supaya akhirnya kita dapat merasai dakapan dari Yang kekal dan Abadi, Yang Maha Esa dan Berkuasa terhadap Segala-galnaya tidak terkecuali Segala Rasa dan Perasaan. 


Allahuakbar.

Sentuhan hati dan perasaan..

Di dalam satu satu peristiwa terselit satu perkara yang boleh menyayat hati dan menyentuh perasaan. Tak kiralah peristiwa itu besar atau remeh. Tak kiralah peristiwa itu ada kaitan dengan manusia atau bukan manusia. Sebagai seorang manusia yang memerlukan satu sama lain untuk segala keperluan, kita mesti pandai mengesan benda benda yang terselit dalam satu peristiwa dan di olah mengikut apa apa kepentingan tetapi hendaklah menepati rukun hidup yang aman dan damai. Jika kita antara golongan yang beriman kepada Allah, sentuhan hati dan perasaan adalah juga sentuhan yang boleh mendekat kan kita dengan Pencipta Yang Maha Agong ia itu Allah Subhanawataalla.

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Asking questions or being dependent?

Psychologically I am without an answer. It just occur to me of category of individuals when comes to attitude in asking questions. Some are just without words despite having not seeing each other for so long. Don't care type or to him or her life is full of secrets. Or just heartless to anything. Life is just nothing. Life is only himself, not even wife, husband, or children.

Then comes the romantic type or the caring type, very dependent for something they already knew. For a friend who needs to occupy time, it is okay. A home can be a very happy home with this individual.
Then comes a person who ask for information as well asking questions for things he or she doesn't know. This category of individual is a person who wants to go forward and hate to be in a static position. To him or her it is either move or being removed.

Depending on individual needs, all those categories of individual are welcomed in life. But the one I am somewhat wary of is once the fear is eliminated after getting an answer, the one who has given him all the help he wants is forgotten for ever till....

I am a lecturer, and I have experienced life with all those category of students. But life without making mistakes is not experiencing life the proper way.

To err is human, to forgive is superhuman!

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Diskaun cinta..Ghosts roam the town..

KUALA LUMPUR: “Saya menempuh penceraian ini bagai menjalani hukuman mati. Apa yang berlaku adalah ketentuan Allah dan sudah tertulis dalam qada serta qadar-Nya. DERITA NORMAN

Can't help writing on Norman and Abby. They are created not equal. Too young and too `miang' to understand life. They perceive love on a wrong foot. Thus love to them is not 100%. It depreciates by the day. It has become a commodity that is given with a discount. Haha. Wonder, all the years together, they don't feel the wind blows, and the river flows and the music playing the songs of the heart. Love to them is just hugging and kissing and with lust let the body system works wonder when the bodies need to be one. Then comes the three children. The hugs should continue not with one but with four bodies but with a different, it is now with the heart and soul. But alas! Love of children remains, a heart-felt love, no substitute, no switching. But the love for the wife can be discounted and discarded. Because out there there is another cinta with another attractive discount.

Diskaun cinta...diskaun cinta..anybody?

Friday, December 19, 2008

Fear rules the day..It unites, it divides.

Neighbours. Friends. Even your closest loved ones. In Stalin's Russia, everyone was an informer. And as a chilling new book reveals, one word from a resentful child was enough to send you to the firing squad.

Have you ever being presented with a list of characteristics possessed by a successful person? Being a follower of those list, you might go all out to buy a book that explains the characteristics own by known personalities. What is more interesting is that sometimes we forget our true self and thus the worshipping of those characteristics forgetting our qualities are being created equal. President-elect Barack Obama has been reading a lot on Abraham Lincoln who believes in diversity in opinion when comes to a discussion. This is reflected by the diverse background of his cabinet team. He even nominated Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to the post of State Secretary despite the `clashes of titans' in the campaign before that.
Have you ever experienced sitting besides the so-called successful persons but fail to feel they are truly great? They are just there warming up the seat and dare not to venture into something that is more than just a smile. Judging from what the media says and written about them, the same individuals who sat beside you are hailed as truly great from characteristic A-Z. But why the silence and not even asking questions that portrays the characteristics in the mentioned list? Do they have the sense of curiousity?

For quite sometime, I have been bothered by the obvious discrepancies of books and realities. Not anymore. What I noted is that a person who is truly great rises himself beyond partisan of all sorts and of all kinds. He can become a man of the hour anytime he chooses to be one. He is nothing but a true, brave,and kind person at heart.

As for the individuals who sat besides me, they appear successful not because they possess all the characteristics required, but they have cunningly displaying the short-term behaviour of partisans at best. If they feel you are nobody, they just ignore you and only focusing on someone they are familiar or someone who has position socially.

The one and only characteristic that manifest in the pretender is fear. Fear is a characteristics that originates million of years ago. The gene of fear is real and can contribute to being good, being bad, or being evil. In other words our actions can be construed as primitive and barbaric, or modern. In each and everyone of us resides the gene of fear and what is feared it can become dominant and it rules the day. It also locks a person into a characteristic that does not allow us to be lighter and free as a bird. Instead it hardens by the day till something tragic happens and shall put the gene of fear away for ever. Till then, fear shall rule the day.

Students, by and large, exhibit the gene of fear which can make their life miserable.Their movements are being dictated by fear resulting in partisan of all sorts and kinds. Their movements are slow and dragging and appear lacks of direction. The university has laid out both academic and non-academic program in order to tap their potentials. Do they really care? We complain about inconsistencies display by the student failing to see what is reality and fantasies. We might be wrong in passing the judgement. They are indeed consistent in displaying their behaviour. Their likes and dislikes, love and hate, etc., etc., all centered around the word `fear.' They study hard for fear of failure, they run away from university because they fear of losing their boyfriend or girlfriend, and they are sick because they fear of not being able to manage things as expected of them.

What about those students studying at Harvard, Yale, and Oxford? Are they a different breed of people that defies the rule that has commonly associated with students in universities that have no ranking? And this also applies to leaders that comes from univeristies of lower ranking. Do they display the true spirit of leading the society they are entrusted with responsibilities? Or they too are just great pretenders?

Till I found out more on this topic, by and large, `fear still rules the day
.'

Thursday, December 18, 2008

once upon a time million of years ago...

...and they have to live in fear ever after. That is when fear originates. It is normal if the fear is to discipline life the way it should be. We talk so much on other positive human characteristics but lacks the knowledge of its true tangible role of unity and unification. It still boils down to an unanswered questions of why, what, when, where of something indicating the yet to be discovered solutions to problems beset mankind and humanity.

to be continued...

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Walla, it works...Congratulations..!

It is an art or it is a science? Is it based on the correct code or is it based on chance? I don't have the answer to your question. Well, I am sorry today is not your day. Congratulations, you have make it! Good luck, you have been chosen. I am, why? You have succeeded and with flying colours! Well, what did he say? He says yes! Oh my, I am sure he would not favour with what I am doing..What? You love me?

Those are expressions of life! Everybody have experienced it at some point in their life. But it all depends on what, when, how, and who. What about you? Has anyone ever said that to you? Could be all this time you have been pressing the wrong buttons. Change it!

To those who have been successful, congratulations!

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Urban heroes v.s Desert Heroes



Which life is easy? We still have that jungle fear in us despite living in a very much urban atmosphere. Haha. We are now and should be very much urban in everything and in knowledge, but still harbouring and displaying the jungle sentiments in strategies and tactics.
Far from a joke, many in the Mideast saw the act by an Iraqi journalist as heroic, expressing the deep, personal contempt many feel for the American leader (George Bush) they blame for years of bloodshed, chaos and the suffering of civilians.

Monday, December 15, 2008

Surging forward...splashing through

I am leaving behind a thought stigma that has long been sticking like leeches, surging forward and after splashing through mud and murky water. A sigh of relieve and higher sense of freedom erupts through my blood vein the moment daylight breaks after experiencing a long silence of walking in the daylight of darkness...

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Natural Habitat and Remote Sensing..

The world is a vast area of land and seas. That is a common knowledge and can be remotely sensed by any human beings with the proper upbringing. The infinity and distances of the vast kingdom of what is beyond, and the mind and heart cannot see, are still miraculously explained by the common people and remotely sensed by technology. We can categorise it as knowledge of the `higher ground.' What about knowledge in the category of `lower ground?'

Despite the`vastness' of creations, surprisingly we have yet to deal and try to understand man in its common ground and common form, the intricacies of their relationship that does not explain the obvious sharing of elements in their natural habitat of needing water, electricity and the oxygenated air. They seem to have a remote understanding of the ties that can mutually bind human and humanity together. We remotely understand each other. A very sad situation indeed despite the so-called success in the field of science and technology.

And today I shall be attending an event that shall be attended by Minister, the Adun's, and other respected community leaders from the district. Since we are so used and confident in a remote control in controlling our TV program channel, but when dealing with real situation of interacting with other human beings in its natural habitat, my innate remote control seems to sense the event is still by and large control by knowledge in the category of `lower ground' so to speak. In other words, the `higher' rules of politics and politicians, the rules of local and culture inclinations , must be upheld at best, thus defying all the things I have said earlier. On occasion of this nature, do we still have to depend on remote control to go round? Ideally, no more technology, it is now left to the mind to take over and control the occasion. The distance does not require remote sensing anymore..but instead mind and mental sensing.. and that explains the true power in the natural habitat..and yet to be understood..!