Summary – Ask question.. and be forgiving

Reading previous post by Ms Azuwachan, kept me thinking… we really don’t actually know who we are. don’t you think? Yes we know all the basic stuff, name, dob, favorite food etc etc. But we will only know our true self if we think about it. For example, by asking what’s the reason Azuwachan is a quiet girl, she will learn more about herself, maybe that she like to have control of her feeling, she observe and learn from things and people around her etc.

Which lead to a more interesting question, do we know who we really are? Do I know whether or not, I am a humble person, or an egoist? what makes me angry? What makes me smile? Even if I make a list of 1000 things that make me smile, I can guarantee you that the list will never end.

So a conclusion I can make is

• We really need to know about ourself, and the only way we can do that is by asking question. Ask question like, what kind of people I like or hate, or when people beg for money, what’s the condition that I will spare him/her some change?

• The answers to your question will give you a clearer picture of who you are. and it will act as a guide to you living your life.

• The answers will be a never-ending list. It doesn’t need to be perfect. As long as you know yourself better… you will do just fine 🙂

An interesting scenario very related to this – Let us assume a girl is 25 years old, and she has a boyfriend. One problem with the couple is that they always quarrel with each other. And when asked, the girl will say that the boyfriend never understand her. It can be the other way around, the boyfriend claimed that the girl never understand him.

According to the idea presented, that we will never completely know ourself, don’t you think the girl should give the boyfriend a break if he misunderstoof her sometimes? I mean, for 25 years the girl is learning about herself and still doesn’t quite know who she is. How can she expect a mere mortal that she just knew for 2 months to completely understand her.

So please give your spouse a break if he/she misunderstood you. He/she is definitely trying his/her best. And I really think that deserve to be appreciated, at least by a simple forgiveness once in a while, don’t you agree? 🙂

A question for you… what do you think is the most important question we need to ask ourself? Can I know your thought on this?

————– Personal Note ————-
Just an update, dearest mother is getting better. Yesterday, the bp had dropped from 193/120 to 140/94. She was discharged from the hospital and now is staying with me resting. Thanx to all wishing and praying for my mother’s health. Only Allah will repay your kindness.

Another good example for today’s entry, we never know our blood pressure unless we go see a doctor and check 🙂

Summary – Incorporating exercise in daily chores.. A vow

An update on my mother’s condition. Yesterday, I went to KL and brought her over to my place. We then went to the hospital in Kuala Pilah, and she was admitted into the hospital for observation. I will be going there every day to check on her. The last BP check (just after I left the hospital) showed 150/120. Still relatively high.. but hopefully a good sign.

Many factors affected blood pressure, One of which is regular exercise. Exercise does not necessarily means you put on your jogging shoes or hit the gym. The more efficient method is by doing exercise when you are doing house work.

A good example is to avoid using remote control. You will have to get up from the sofa and hit the button manually. I get this example from a tv show “Downsize Me” on Discovery channel. I then started to think of other way to do exercise indirectly at home. Maybe you can add to the list, and together we try to do the items on the list one at a time.

• Avoid using remote control, get up and switch the channel manually

• Set up rules, that when you enter your bedroom, you must do 5 push ups.

• Wash car yourself.. It’s a good exercise. Remember Karate Kid?

• When you touch a keyboard to blog, set your timer on your handphone for 30 minutes… When the timer rings, you take your skipping rope and do 50 “skipping”. If you forget, no problem.. just do it when you remember.

• Choose 5 clothes every week and wash it manually. Maybe you can choose those with stubborn stain on the neck area

• Mop the floor and play some music… maybe you can dance to the music while mopping, the whole work will take a little more time, but you are going to have more fun.

• Pick one 30 minutes sitcom every week, and exercise while watching the show non stop. You can do crunches, or just some air-punching. Anything as long you sweat and enjoy the show.

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I’m very sure that you guys have more creative ways to incorporate exercise in our daily house work. Care to share them here?

————— Personal Note ——————-
I admit that I don’t practice the items in the list. But that is exactly why I put it up here. I will try to do all the 7 items, one for every day in the week.

Monday – remote control day | Tuesday – push ups room day| Wednesday – Wash car (today I’m going to wash the car) |Thusday – 30 minutes of keyboard, 50 skipping | Friday – Wash clothes | Saturday – mop the floor | Sunday – sitcoms

A vow made… come join me 🙂

Summary – List of ways to generate ideas for blogging

I’m curious.. how do you guys find ideas for your blog? Do you actually spend time thinking of what you want to write, or you just run the notepad program and start writing away what ever come to your mind. Do share ya… I’m very interested to know.

This however is a list of what in my opinion the best method to find ideas for my daily blogging. 🙂 I’m sure your methods will make a great addition to the list

• Camera – I’m using my handphone as a camera, so whenever there is interesting event, I will be able to snap it. They did say picture is better than a thousand words 🙂

• Write away – Like I said just now, run the “Notepad” program and write away. This is my favorite method, because most of the time, I will end up with 3 to 4 posts altogether. They don’t necessarily be finished, but the ideas will be there to be continued at another time. The secret is to never stop writing. Even for backspace… just write away. Try it..

• Read your previous post – Most of the time, the entries in this blog are all related. For example, we write an entry about a recipe. Wander around with that topic in mind. Some topics that immediately come to mind are like how kitchen can kill you (Safety tips), how to eat and still lose weight (always a popular post), recipe to a full life etc etc.

• Monitor your categories/label – For readers, categories will be a great way to browse through your blog, For you, you can see which ones you haven’t done. Like myself, sometime I can see that certain categories have fewer entries than another. So write about that category. Taking this blog for example, Scam Awareness is a very new category so I will need to focus more on populating that category

• Television – Do you know how many people were behind the scene of every tv series in the tv? Writers are meeting all day long to come up with a good or original story. So sometimes when it may good to watch some tv and not only enjoying the story, but try to come up with more stories from it. For example, I love the sitcoms like Everybody Loves Raymond.. Definitely we know the drama behind every character in the show. And from that alone, we can blog about relationship between in-laws, or the natural jealousy between brothers etc. The world is there for us to learn from.

Believe me that there are thousands of way we can develop our ideas. Sometimes, we wait for it. Sometimes we have to work to get it, And the same as everything else, in order for a machine to work, we need to know how the machine work first. That goes the same thing to ideas generation.

I kept the list short not only to to keep my entry short.. but I would like to hear how you develop your ideas… Where do you get them? family? dream? Do tell 🙂

————- Personal Note ————-
Never underestimate our mind… It can go far and it can go there (showing to about one meter distance) 🙂

Summary – Appreciating Islam

One thing about me, I easily remember stuff. But another thing about it is that.. most of the time, that stuff does not really that important. Those important ones I forget hehe…

I remember one line from the movie “Incredibles”. You know the cartoons. The bad guy actually said – “When everyone can be superheroes.. nobody will be one” or something like that la. (let me try to give you the excuse why I watched the cartoon… My niece and nephew totally love the cartoon, so everytime they watched, I watched.. sometimes it’s the other way around hehe)

I think that line has some truth in it… Let say, everyone on earth is given one million dollar each. We can all say that we are all millionaire. But the truth is, nobody cares anymore at the time. Everyone is a millionaire. The fact that we are all given the money makes being a millionaire is worthless. We really are still a millionaire, but the thing is nobody will see and appreciate that anymore. Unless of course, we earn that million dollars than we will know the actual value of the million dollar

So if we say that we are unique. I believe everyone in the whole world think of himself as unique, don’t you think? If that is so, then according to the quote, nobody will be unique. Truthfully we are still unique, but the thing is nobody will see and appreciate that anymore.

So.. who must appreciate us when we become millionaire, or when we are unique? No other that ourselves. We are the one who must recognize and appreciate what we are or have, especially what we earn. Other people can say what they want.. it should not matter. You are what you are, you earn what you work on..

So guys.. any other thoughts to add?

I guess maybe that’s the case with all the muslim in the world. Most of us are all born muslim, so maybe for some, we don’t appreciate us being a muslim. We acted like Islam is just some title we have. I really respect those who embrace Islam willingly. For them, Islam is the only valuable things in their life. Directly the opposite to most of us. *sigh

I pray to Allah so that the mrs and I will be given the “hidayah” to stay committed in Islam and so that we will never forget to be thankful to Allah for having Islam as our way of life.

———– Personal Note ————
Have you ever day dreaming (berangan) of having a million dollars? I have… 🙂 but why ya? it usually end up the same way as any other people, it usually started with
– settling the bills and debt
– buy a car, buy a house, marry
– perform Haji
– go travelling

Nobody want to buy an Island? or build that “Airwolf” (the high tech helicopter) etc. 🙂