Summary – Time with a sense of humor

I was checking the calendar to check out this week’s charity at Darul Izzah Bangi (Deliberately written to persuade you going hehe), when I suddenly realize that today is already the 23rd of Rejab. It seems like just yesterday, I notice of the coming of Rejab. Counting… there is only 36 days left to Ramadhan.

(Rejab and Ramadhan are Islamic months. Muslims all over the world will be performing the fasting during Ramadhan.)

If you notice, time sure fly faster when you are not paying attention.

• When we are just so busy with works, We will not even notice that we’ve just missed lunch.
• When we start fasting when we were children, we are holding a clock and see every second goes by. The longest time is the last 30 minutes 🙂
• When we got stuck in a meeting with the boss talking so slow, you can hear your stomach.. time feel like stopping. and yes you are hungry..
• and many more examples of this

I guess when it comes to time, it really depends on your mind whether to pay more attention to it or let it pass you ignored.

Funny right? If we dreadfully hated what it is we are doing, we are doomed to “enjoy” every seconds of it and time move so slowly, you would check whether there’s something wrong with the watch every 5 minutes.

And if you love what you are doing, before you even begin to enjoy it, it’s already sunset.

heheh time really has a good sense of humor. Don’t you think?

————— Personal Note ————————–
I remember very clearly the day I started fasting. Our “Abah” (Father) could see that we were going to lose the battle when we started going to the kitchen observing what new food magically appear on the table. He then took us out to the “Bazar Ramadhan” (A place to buy food to break the fast). There we were rewarded with RM5 of our choice of food and drinks. We really feel energetic then. With so much money, we bought a lot of food. I can still remember it covered almost the whole table. When we came back from the bazar.. it turned out only 30 minutes gone by. We still need to wait another 1 hour or so. All the energy previously had, had now vanished. And there we were looking “terhele” (very tired) with an alarm clock by our side. hehe

So what’s your first day of fasting looks like? There’s got to be funny stories in each of us 🙂

Summary – Leave the pointless question alone

There is one question as old as the time itself. It had been discussed again and again in each generation of mankind. But still nobody can come up with a satisfying answer. The question is – Which comes first, chicken or egg?

You may think it is funny but yes, it was really asked again and again when the person asking know exactly that there is no answer to it. So my question to you now, why do we need to ask the question in the first place?

To be funny? Acceptable, but to what end?

For the sake of science? Unless you have better option or supporting prove, it is better to leave the question alone.

So if I think that the question is not supposed to be raised, why do I raise it in this blog? Aha!!!

My point exactly. There are a lot of pointless question out there. Those without any satisfying answers. One that I want to highlight is the favorite question of which is better, man or woman?

Let’s assume we are not taking any side in this. For once, we are not defending either man or woman. What is the question supposed to achieve? to prove that one is better than another? Then what? Yes, there is a lot of male chauvinist and feminist out there. Are we going to be one of them?

In my opinion, these people are no different in term of stupidity than a racist. Why I call them stupid? Because when they were born, were they the one who choose to be a boy or a girl? If the choice is not theirs to make, who give them the right to to say one gender is better than another.

It is very true, that even now, one gender is treated as if it is inferior to the other. If this happens, by all means fight for your right. But please don’t go to the same level as the stupid people who consider themselves superior.

It is very true, that there will be bad apple in a gender group. Have a look at ourselves. Do you think it’s fair if you were called a thief, simply because there is a person next to you who is caught stealing? In the end…. it all boils down to the individual.

A man killed another man. Is it fair to say all man from the beginning of time have the tendency to commit murder?

A woman killed another woman, Is it fair to say all woman from the beginning of time have the tendency to commit murder?

Conclusion – Sexist are far worse than a racist, sexist consider themselves superior than the other half of the world. You hate racist? Then hate sexist even more. Don’t be one.

Summary – If the world is listening, what would you say?

I was invited to become one of the contributors for World United Bloggers (which generally means I can submit entries there). I take this as an opportunity for me to make more friends and expose myself to the many different ideas or point of view from the representative from around the world.

I’m still monitoring how the whole blog is being run. What’s the blog strategy to achieve what’s aimed. As I earlier stated in my post – Tips for first day at work, we cannot started trying to change everything. We must first observe the culture, adapt and learn as much as possible before anything.

I am curious though… Please tell me what you think.

If you were given one chance. Only one chance to talk to the whole world. And not only that, the whole world is listening. What would you say?

Are you going to promote Malaysia? or you will attempt to talk about peace, and love? Or you will try make friends first? Really… please think about it and enlighten me.

I’ve already submitted my first post there. The same post is attached below as I really think you, my fellow friends deserve the same appreciation, if not better.

Title – Connecting in BlogGreeting.. This is my first post as a contributor. I’m banji from Malaysia and it’s an honor to be here with all of you. Don’t worry I’m not going to bore you with my details.

First of all, compliment to the blog starter, the idea of one blog to unite us all is amazing. So what else would I say in a first post?1) I salute all of you
If you can see me typing this, I’m actually giving all of you who read this a standing ovation. You each is authoring your own blog, but in the name of unity and love, you took the time to write for WUB. Not many people around the world want to do this.2) WUB is all blessed NOT ONLY by people who blog, but those who leave comments.
Every body can blog, you just create an account, type away.. But not everyone reads, take the time to understand the message and connect to the author by leaving comments.Kudos to all WUB members, you are all actively participating. This is not an easy thing to do. Most of the time, entries are very hard to understand. But you try your hardest to figure out the message. This itself shows that you are very committed to achieve what WUB’s aim. Not only you do that, you appreciate the author by leaving comments. Appreciation or acknowledgment is in my opinion, another key to unity. As this will allow every one of us to connect with each other.
Conclusion – It is my humble opinion that connecting with each other is one of the many ways to unity and love. It doesn’t always need to be comments to entry, a simple hi at the shout box will be more than enough.

Summary – “Nafsu” is not a bad thing

A very busy day… Too busy that I don’t even have time to check my phone and reply the shoutbox. Again, I’m very sorry.

Still, while working one thing come to mind. let me share it with you. And maybe you can further develop the idea with me

So why do we work? There are a lot of answers to this question but in general, it is because we want more for our life. More money, more excitement, more experience, better status etc. This feeling of wanting more is better known as desire or “nafsu”

The thing is people almost always like to think that desire is the path to corruption. People want more money, so they received bribe. Teenager curious about sex took the wrong path. “Desire” were blamed for all these.

Then these people who blame “desire” started doing extreme thing to repair the damage. People who used to take bribe, suddenly realize the sin he committed.. then decided to throw away all money, because according to him, money corrupts. His family is now in danger of starvation, and his children left unschooled.

Then there are also people who get fatter because of their love for eating. They were convinced that they look unatractive by their friends. Trying to be thinner person, they stop eating entirely in the name of diet… perhaps die in a week or two.

What the examples are showing are how people tends to blame their desire when something bad happened. In my opinion this is partially wrong. Meaning… desire is not entirely responsible for the corruption. Let me explain..

I remember this saying back in high school. Human is claimed by Allah in Surah AtTin to be the best of his creation. (sebaik2 kejadian). Why not the animals? Because they have “nafsu” (desire) but no “akal” (the ability to think).Why not the angel (malaikat)? Because they have “akal” but no “nafsu”.

If an angel is assigned to manage the rain all over the world. He will do it until the judgement day without objecting. He will not trade his assignment with other angels for the fun of it or because his job is getting boring. That’s because he doesn’t have any desire to achieve more.

Human are the best creation because we are given both “akal and “nafsu”. Then we will strive to better ourselves motivated by our “nafsu” but we know exactly when to stop, because of our “akal”. It is when we do this we will be the best of creation.

In the same time, if we continue to satisfy our “nafsu” ignoring our “akal”, like killing our own flesh and blood because of shortage of money. or having sex with prostitute without thinking of Allah’s wraith and of course STD. Aren’t we then the worst of creation?

Conclusion – Don’t blame desire for everything bad in the world. It is almost always because of the “akal” is being ignored. Wear them both proudly and of course equally balance. Come to think of it, “nafsu” if used in balance with “akal” is what make us a better.

————— Personal Note ————————–
As you know in a palm oil mill, we strive to extract as much oil as possible. For the past few days, the amount of oil extracted is declining. Yesterday, by calculation, the amount of oil extracted is just 16%, which is very low. Upon investigation, we found where the problem lies. You see, there is this one big tank which we used to separate water and oil. Technically, we just pour in the mixture and as we all know, water and oil don’t mix. So with time, the two separated naturally. This is where we suspect the source of the low percentage. To make things short, almost half the tank is full with fine sand and soil. This will prevent the mixture of water and oil to separate properly because not enough time. Cleared everything… Let’s see how’s the figure tomorrow.

ehehe My attempt to explain what I do 🙂