I think it’s just sad that drunk people forget everything even their identity. Don’t you agree?

So how about us? Do we really know who we are? This is one of the biggest question in our life. And I can guarantee you that writing about it will require more than just a page on a blog. However… being big doesn’t mean it can’t be discussed right?

So I present to you what I think the best way to know ourselves. And we have been doing it for quite some time already 🙂

As bloggers, I’m sure you have all been asked to write memes in your blog. Usually it will be questions about yourself. Things you like, things you don’t like, your dream etc etc.

Memes / question is one of the best way to know yourself. Now open up a notepad, and write question you want to know about yourself. It is true that it is pointless since you were asking question that you know the answer. Well that’s the point. Write 10 questions you want to know.. and then answer them. You don’t need to show this to anyone. It is for you to know yourself.

Make it a habit to write down one additional question every day and answer them in the notepad. It’s not much but you are beginning to know yourself so much better. 🙂

An example of the 10 first questions
1) What’s your name? – (Introduction)
2) Close your eyes, can you describe your physical self? – (Physical)
3) What will make you smile instantly? – (Emotion)
4) Who in your life, you willingly give up your life so that he/she will live longer? – (Important person in life)
5) What do you think your strength? – (Life optimization)
6) What do you think your weakness? – (Self improvement)
7) What do you need to have/do/achieve in 5 years? – (Life planning)
8] What’s your religion? – (Spiritual)
9) In term of percentage, how do you rate yourself as of now? Why? – (Review)
10) What’s your favorite food? – (Trivia)

I don’t expect you to answer those question here in the blog. The answers are for you and for you only. These are all examples on how the questions should look like. It should be about all aspect of life. The most important thing is we must know what we can gain from the question. Happy answering to yourself

– I wonder –
How about you add more questions here? 🙂

———— Personal Note ———–
I am 30 years old this year, and I’m still in the process of knowing myself. Of course I must excuse other people who still can’t figure me out. right?

If only there’s a way to be reverse the aging process :p

Summary – Defining New Year

It’s 2008.. Happy New Year everyone! It seems like yesterday when my friends and I was waiting to be seated in the Pizza Hut in Ipoh trying to celebrate 2000. 🙂 Where were you 12 am 2000?

Another interesting question for you.. What is new year for you?

Some associate it with hundreds of resolution to be done. Some look at it with hate since the coming of a new year can only means we are one year older. Others may start looking at the Fengshui of it. So again.. what is new year for you?

For me, when somebody mentioned new year, the first thing that pops to my mind is the phrase “Turning over a new leaf“. Basically means the opportunity to restart everything in life.

If you are not doing great in your career, this is the time to review back and change that attitude. If anytime people come looking for us, they immediately find us on a couch last 2007, this 2008 is the year we will get up from the couch and start catching up on other things in life.

All the fireworks and celebration is meaningless if we don’t have any definition to new year. Define yours now. nobody will do it for you.

Time is slipping away guys… like leaking pale of chocolate flavored ice cream. The ice cream will always melting, and it drips our of the pale continuously. We can enjoy the dripping show.. or we can enjoy the ice cream. Your choice… nobody will decide for you

– I wonder –
Where were you 12am today?

————- Personal Note ————–
My personal note today is dedicated to aRa. Her birthday is today 🙂 The whole world is celebrating… and I’m very sure you will be able to find joy and happiness wherever you are, be it in KL, Kuantan, Sabah or Sarawak.

Why… because it has always been in you 🙂

Summary – Working with mind – relax, help and force.

How to write a post in 30 minutes.. Not just any article, an article which is beneficial to those who read it.

First of all, we need to acknowledge that the biggest problem about writing an article / entry in a blog is to know what will it be about. I know that coming up with a good post can sometimes be hard. It happened to every blogger I know. So this is my way of solving the problem, writing an article on it.

As always, we need to redefine the problem. Why are we not getting any ideas to blog?

1) Tired so rest
If you’re tired, then there’s only one way to solve it. Take a rest. Being tired is like driving with a punctured tyre. Yes, you can drive.. but it will be very slow and equally painful. If you take the time to change the tyre, you will arrive faster than people who drive with the punctured tyre. So go to sleep.

2) Eliminate distraction
Your mind is trained everyday to do thing in multitasking mode. You study, while listening to music, your feet is dancing in its place, and your mind is remembering the recipe for Rendang Daging you just learnt. Still you get good result. We do this all the time.

The truth is, our mind will work more efficiently if we physically eliminate the distraction. Logic says.. that if two computer is using the same modem, both people will share 50% of the internet bandwidth.. period.

Don’t try to eliminate that background music in your head. It’s plain impossible. Eliminate what you can eliminate. Like instead of writing your enty in front of television, go inside the room and really start typing (That’s what I’m doing right now hehe. That Preity Zinta is really a distraction)

3) Educate your mind
This is the harshest method. Our mind is very creative, believe me. If not we will still be in a cave hitting people’s head with a club. The only way we can get the juice from oranges is really by squeezing it. The same goes to our mind. We need to squeeze the idea out every other time. Just looking at the oranges will result in.. well a very good looking orange 🙂

Don’t do this everyday. The mind will adapt to the pressure and simply resist better. Do this in an alternate day. Sit in front of your pc, with the cursor blinking and your 8 fingers in its position, ASDF and JKL: and type away. Don’t move until your ideas start flowing.

I finish this post in 20 minutes 🙂

– I wonder –
Care to share how you handle mental block?

———— Personal Note —————
I was introduced to computers when the computers still use DOS diskette to operate. I believe I was about 8-9 years old then. My father always give me article to retype in the “Wordstar” (the word processor at the time) and force me to type using all 8 fingers. But of course I would do that in front of him. When he’s not around it will resort back to two finger typing 🙂

I have to say that I start learning to type with all 8 fingers fast when I was about 18 years old. All thanks to IRC 🙂 addicted to it for quite a while

Summary – Daily resolution

Including today, there are still five days left in 2007. What are you going to do with it?

Resolution is actually what we aim to get with a one year work. We can plan in full detail on what to achieve. But whether or not we can achieve it will always remain a mystery. Why? because usually we will only know whether we had achieved our target (weight loss, promotion etc) at the end of the year.

But by then, it will be too late to do anything. Even if we had the time, we will lack the motivation to do so. So what should we do?

The only thing we can do is to not only come up with a one year plan, but to also come up with a daily plan, or a weekly plan. This way, we will know immediately the effectiveness of our plan every week and we can improve and review it accordingly.

I prefer a weekly plan because too much things to do to fit in a day.

– I wonder –
What are you going to do today which will help you in achieving your goals? This is the most important question we need to ask ourselves.

———— Personal Note ————
As promised yesterday, these are my resolution for 2008

Islam wise

• Never miss Solat. All missed Solat must be Qadha within the same day
• To download Islamic preaching and listen to it at least once every two days
• To finish reciting the Quran (Khatam Quran) within the year, that means at least one page per day.

Family wise

• To visit dearest grandmother in Kedah as often as possible (at least every 3 months)
• Most importantly must learn as much as possible about parenthood, since there will be a new member in the family this coming May InsyaAllah. Need to buy a book on this.

Career wise

• To study and sit for the steam certificate examination by July 08

Health wise

• To restart jogging / power walking at least thrice per week

/end list

These 4 are at the moment the most important things need to be done. I’m sure you have a similar resolution. Let’s pray we will be able to achieve them 🙂