I started my day yesterday lazily. Very tyical routine, when suddenly a woman stopped me while I was riding my motorcycle to work. She is the teacher of the local kindergarten here.

Not that she is interested to know me, she actually wanted to tell me that there is a breaking and entering at the kindergarten last night.

I was shocked. What could the culprit possibly assume to find in a kindergarten? Money? Computer? guess what, the only thing missing were the stationery of the children – pencils, eraser, color pencils etc.. I’m not even sure if they can make money from that.

Another guess would be that they just feel like terrorizing someplace. And the kindergarten is unfortunately that someplace for the night. Can you believe this… people damaging other’s property simply because they feel like terrorizing?

Believe me, things will only get worse. The cuplrit possibly will upgrade their vandalism to other object, house or vehicles maybe.. and later on maybe on people and hence the raping or the mugging.

Now, we can’t change other people. But we can change ourselves. Make a conscious decision to avoid doing anything immoral, however little it is. All things bad started that way. An example, You make a habit of throwing rubbish everywhere. Soon, you will start thinking that the rubbish bin is of no use. It is better used as a mean of communication, and so you use that talent of yours to draw cryptic messages on the bin.

After a while, it seems that the cryptic message is just too cryptic, nobody understands it. So you changed them to a more familiar language, insult or cursing words.

That will lead to an angrier you, always cursing and swearing, and the thing you are most angry about is the rubbish bin. So you vandalise it, thinking that you are just making a good use to an unused bin.

You now eyed at other things… hm that kindergarten look interesting to vandalize, nobody will be harm, right?

/end example

It ALWAYs start with the most ridiculously small thing. What we can do is to stop right there. Stop throwing rubbish everywhere, Flush your toilet after use, Say thank you to the waitress attending to you etc.

It starts here

– I wonder –
What other small habits can we start right now?

It’s proven, I don’t have any artistic bone in my body 🙂 Give me a machine and I can tweak it around until I know everything there is to know about it. But trying to come up with a beautifully designed header graphic is a near impossible task for me. So do excuse any poorly designed graphic here. It’s the best I can come up with :).

Allow me to welcome you to the new face of the blog. Hopefully it will be an improvement from the previous ones. There are so many reasons I had to resort to change the theme, but I don’t want to bore you with the details. Suffice to say, that the change is necessary.

So again I will have to apologize today, for not posting today. A lot of things need to be tweaked. However, I really appreciate it if you can help me see if there’s anything else I can improve on. I might miss something.

thanx friends..

Guys.. this just comes in, I’ve to undergo an interview on 3rd of January.  Not that I’m looking for another job. It’s just a routine quiz for engineers in my company. So if I ever want to be promoted, this will be my chance 🙂

Thus… I will be away for about 2 days (There will be no post on 2nd and 3rd of January). It is because, I need to restudy all those manual and notes. Wish me luck!! 🙂

p.s. Yes, I know… it does feel like I’m back in the university hehe

Yesterday, I asked a question on what are your favorite articles here in LessonInLife.com for 2007. I’ll try to compile the list of 20 must read articles for 2007

1) Do You Know Uncle Pareto
2) Things About Ramadhan You May Not Know Series
3) How To Make Decision Series
4) Secrets To Remember 50 Items In Any Order
5) Relationship – Pisau Cukur Ockham
6) Mind Reading 101
7) One Way To Handle Difficult Customer
8] How To Forget And Move On
9) A Personal Letter For You & The Conclusion
10) Two Great Love Quotes That Contradict Each Other
11) Personal Blog The Hidden Bonus
12) Tips For First Day At Work
13) 2 Steps To Realizing Your Dreams
14) 13 Tips To A Happier You
15) How To Know He/She Is The One?
16) The Secret To Washing Dishes
17) 2 Route To Freedom In A Relationship
18) 5 Top Methods How Blog Ideas Generated
19) Secret Of Happiness (To Be Read By Couples)
20) 4 Uncommon Ways To Escape From Pervert

Statistics
Altogether there are 207 post in 2007 🙂 Good number. Comments are recorded at 1632, half of it are most probably mine, so statistically it was 816 comments overall. That’s about 4 comments per post. I personally would like to thank you all friends visitting for continuously supporting the blog. It has really been a pleasure writing for you.

Achievement
Just to highlight some of the achievement of the blog this year. An article “Unbelievably Arrogant” had been chosen by the editor of “Prasasti” (an online magazine) and was published in the July issue. That really was a boost in my motivation. Not long afterward, the blog had been nominated by dearest Noushy and won the World united Blogger Award. It was however awarded to the previous blog which is Immortal Wisdom. The person I owed gratitude for the success of this blog is none other than you guys. Thanx again!

Personal Note
The year has been a very good year for me. One of the most important event is the Charity at Darul Izzah, held on 12th of August. I’ve also found my long lost friend, Nur Syikri via blogging :). We had been separated for 15 years . On the negative side, My mother had to be admitted into hospital due to hypertension on 13th of August. Alhamdulillah she is now doing so much better. The last important event worth mentioning here is when I had to represent my family and discuss the engagement of my brother,DaPocket on 21st of December. Life’s surely treating me good this year.

Conclusion
I now bid farewell to 2007. And welcome the new 2008. Let us make this coming year our turning point in life, to become the best we can be. And hopefully sharing your ideas here in LessonInLife.com will catalyze the change. So keep on pouring your ideas here ya..

Happy New Year everyone! 🙂