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 🙂

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! 🙂

I’m actually spending the night reading back my previous entries. Trying to come up with a list of ten of my best entries. I end up with 36 entries, each is equally special to another. Now that is not a top ten.

So for my fellow friends who are a bit free today, can I ask you a favor? This is only if you have an extra time helping me.

Kindly check the archive of this blog, and maybe just go through the list of articles there. All I need from you are your favorite articles among the 206 articles there..

You can give me any number of articles, and I am not expecting you to read all the entries. Even though, I’m sure you will enjoy them 🙂

This survey will not only help other friends to benefit from your favorite articles, it will help me to produce better topics in the future.

Again, I understand if everyone’s busy. But for those who aren’t, please help me ya 🙂 I will be forever appreciating it. Thank you dear friends

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