Be yourself!

Yesterday, I got the chance to read a magazine but I can't remember what magazine it is. I read the letter to counsellor segment. It is quite interesting. There was a man who wrote that he is so confused with himself and he afraid that he don't know himself well which make him unable to predict what he will be in future. He also told that all of his friends know what they are doing and what they will be in future. But, when he looks to himself, he still blur about why on earth he still exist in this world. He said that he seems to be losing his self-esteem.


Then, the counsellor answered him by saying that it is normal for a human - wanting to know what the future holds and how our lives will turn out is a human obsession. It is a fact that most of people know what they want and they aim for it and they can know what they will be next. But, there are still several people who still in their searching mode of their hidden talent. All that we need is time to discover what we are good at. Some person know their talent since they was a child. However, not everyone is like that. It is a part of journey of discovering what we are good at. Just have to believe that everyone has a special talent.


For me, the best thing to know yourself is be yourself. Being yourself is celebrating you, as an individual - learning to express yourself and be happy with who you are. For some people, it's learning to love yourself, for others, it's not hiding who you are or changing things about you to fit in. If you can do it, you will realize within no time what things that are you enjoy in doing it and have a great passion in it.



Here are some pharases that I find interesting to be shared :

"It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had."

~ Robert Brault ~

"Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it."

~ Buddha ~

"Try to discover

The road to success

And you'll seek but never find,

But blaze your own path

And the road to success

Will trail right behind."

~ Robert Brault ~

Wow!

It been a very looooong time that I never open my blog. I can see that most of my friends are updating their blog regularly. Well, it is a fact that I'm not a type of person who likes to write. I'm really not so into this thing. And now, our Ms. Dil had asked us to maintain our blog. Then, that is what I'm doing now.

Still searching for more articles on the National Bureau Services or more familiar with the name of BTN (Biro Tatanegara). Is BTN benefecial to the person who went for it? Last year, it had been a debate on this matter. Currently, 2 states in Malaysia, Selangor and Penang, had ban it. Actually, this programme is made compulsory for any Malaysian student who are going to study abroad. But, people had argued that this programmes only promoted racism and hatred. And, it has to be stop before our nation unity become worse.

I find that it is difficult to find the articles about it in the magazine. But, fortunately, I managed to find it in the newspaper. So, after this, internet!!!! lol...

We cannot deny right, that most student prefer to search information in the internet rather than going through all the book which you need to read one by one. Ok, then. Hope that I am able to find all 15++ required articles for this topic. If you have any suggestion regarding this topic, feel free to leave a comment.

Just found this clip video about BTN. Quite interesting to listen to it.

LIAR GAME

Just taking a break for a while before continue reading MPW..

The exam is just around the corner.. But I know I'm still not fully prepared for it..

So scared... Hope I can give my best in the paper.. Gambate qila! ^^

This afternoon I had watched a japanese drama together with my friends. It was an interesting story. It really needs us to understand the plot of the story really well. It is actually about how a swindler [a person who trick somebody to get their money] teached a very honest person or in my hometown they called this type of person as 'lurus bendul' how to cheat others in order to avoid from being deceived. The person is a girl who is too good for herself. She always be kind to others so she is easily being fooled by her friends.

Matsuda Shota played the role as the swindler in this drama and he looks really cool... First time I watch his acting in the Hana Yori Dango drama. Well, in that drama, HNY, he just played the side actor. But, in this drama.. Ops, wait a minute.. I think I didn't mention the title of the story yet right? Hehe.. So sorry.. Well, the title of the story is LIAR GAME. The winner of this game will be announced as the 'King of Liar' and of course the winner will be rewarded with a big sum of money. Back to my incomplete sentence, in this drama he played the main actor named Akiyama Shinichi. He is really genius in the story where he managed to read people mind and observed people's behaviour really well to guess what they will do next. It was really fantastic!

I think the credits should be given to the script writer and the director. They are really brilliant to come out with such a complicated and tricky concept in the story line. Wow!

Well, we still haven't finished watching the drama yet. Still got the final episode to go. But, we had to stop first because my friend still not finished downloading the last episode. Cannot wait to see the ending.. Who will get the title 'King of Liar'? and I think the most important is just want to know exactly why such game was organize? Can't wait to see it!

POST [A]

Just finished searching MIDI songs. It was really a tiring jobs to do. ~.~
Actually, we need to do our own website by using front page. Talking about ourselves there, our family and a little bit about our education background. I just trying to make as simple as I can. Really don't want to think too much complicated into that.

Well, lately I see that a lot of my friends always update their blog. Certain of them I can say that quite everyday they will post something to their blog. Good for them but.. Hey, what had happened to me??? Qila, please wake up!!! After the Raya post I never open my blog ever.. Bad me... =(
So, today I want to post something. And this is it. Yeah...!

Just want to say here that this week I'm going home!!! Hoho..
And... I will be back to INTI the next tuesday which means the monday is a holiday for me.. ^^

Actually, I have reason behind it. I want to send my parents to the airport. They are going to Mekah to perform Hajj [ : an obligation that must be carried out at least once in lifetime by every able-bodied Muslim who can afford to do so]. They will be there about 45 days. So, around early of december then they will come back to Malaysia.

Fortunately, it is the end of the year. So, most of my siblings will have the semester break. So, we can take care of our youngest sister who are just in standard 2. I really don't know whether she can stand to live without my parents for about a month and a half. Hope she won't miss them too much. Btw, my parents had promise that they will call her everyday. So sweet..

Hope that their pilgrimage there will go on without any difficulties. Amen... God bless them..

So, came to the end of my post today... let me end it with a quote:

---It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it.---

Salam Eid Mubarak

Hello! It's been a long time since I never post anything to my blog. Btw, first thing is I would to wish "Selamat Hari Raya" to all my muslims' friends. May they forgive me for all my wrong doings which I had done to them before.

Well, Hari Raya is the most joyous occasion for Muslims. As a brief explanation, Muslims starts the day by wearing new clothes and congregating in the mosques early in the morning to perform Hari Raya Puasa prayers followed by visiting the graves of the departed. The young will ask for forgiveness from their elders and have open house for relatives and friends to come to their house. Plenty of traditional Malay delicacies are served during this festive season. Houses are thoroughly cleaned and decorated, and lighting of oil lamps welcomes the angels which are believed to be visiting the earth during the seven days preceding the festival.

The celebration lasts for a month but most of the celebration is concentrated in the first three days. Visiting Muslim homes on Hari Raya Puasa, you can expect to taste a wide variety of delicious spicy dishes. Some favorite dishes that can be found in Muslims homes on this special occasion are ketupat, lontong, nasi padang and beef rendang. The Muslims also give packets of money to kids when they go visiting. The packets are usually green in colour and children often look forward to getting these money tokens on Hari Raya Puasa.

This year, my family got colour theme for our 'baju raya' on this special day which is GREEN. Here are some pictures of us before going for the raya's prayer.

As a means of celebrating the Raya day, quite every year my family will make the ketupat. I means 'anyam ketupat'. Usually around 100 of ketupat. And, just want to say here that I am quite excellent in making the 'sarong ketupat'. =p

My moms cooked a lot for the day besides ketupat, such as 'rendang ayam', 'kuah kacang', 'kuah lodeh' and don't forget about the cookies. I really enjoying myself with all the food. lol.. As a result, my weight had increased quite a lot even only after the first day of Raya and this means I really need to have a strict diet when I went back to INTI to reduce my weight as before-well, fasting is the best way.


Here is me, my sister and my younger sister. This picture was taken when we went to visit the grave on first day morning of Syawal.

Although this time I did not get as much money as I get before-haha..., as I went back to INTI I really miss my home. I wish I could stay more longer at home. Just watch the television and telling jokes with my siblings. *sigh* -singing the 'Selamat Hari Raya' by Saloma. ^^

What a tiring day! T.T

Guess what, today my roommate, Kathy and I went out at 11 in the morning and just coming back to INTI around 11p.m! We went for shopping in Mid. Hehe.. Looks like a shopaholic right? No lah.. we just want to have some new outfits for the coming Raya Day. Actually, I want to find a new shoes and my roommate just want to look around. But, at the end I didn't bought any shoes. Maybe I will just buy it with my mom next week as I will go back home next weak. Yeah! ^^ Mid really doesn't have many shoes' shop. Don't you think so? Melaka is better. lol.. -melaka is my hometown.

Just don't want to make my visit-can I call it a visit?; to Mid a waste, I bought 2 shirts in Carrefour. There, Jusco is having a kind of Megasale as Raya is just around the corner. A lot of people in the store and of course most of them are woman. =p But, I don't know why I didn't buy any shirts there. The price offers is quite cheap-discount 10%, 50% and even 70%. Kathy had bought herself shirts there. Pink colour you know. =)

The time to break our fast was really an interesting moment. At first, we decide to have it in KFC. However, when we arrived there... OMG! It had already fulled with people. A long queue to order the food and even the queue was until outside of the shop. It really shocked me. =( Then, we went to top floor where the food court is located. And the same scenario there. All the tables were fulled. Not even a single chair were available to sit on. Once again we look around to find any food shops with free tables. But, it was really sad because most of the tables in the restaurant had been reserved. So, we really had no idea on how to break our fast. Then, we decided to buy some bread and performed our solah first. And after that we plan to go to KFC to have a meal-hoping that less people are left. Unfortunately, when we arrived at the surau, there was a long queue to go inside the surau. Oh, man! another long queue. Huhu.. After thinking for a while, we decided to take ablution in the toilet and straightly cut the long queue to perform the solah.. Thanks God! Things really went well. And we also succeed to have a meal in KFC. Yeah! at last.. =) Then, we straightly went back.

On the way back, we met with some AUP students. They also went shopping but in Jalan India-if i'm not mistaken. Then, we realised we are not the only one who come back late. Still in the bus, we met another senior who went to Mid also but we never encounter each other. lol.. -is it Mid reallly that big?

After having those all tiring day, now I'm writing it in my blog just to share my experience with others. The lessons is if you want to break fast in a mall, better for you to reserve the place first. Yes, that the main important lesson! Haha..

-AUSTRALIA-

I have just watched the movie ‘Australia’ and if I can rate it, I give it 3 out of 5 stars. It is not a really enjoyable movie but not a really boring one neither. We can just say that it is a movie rich with meaningful message. First, it is a travelogue of a wide brown land with sweeping plains and lofty mountain ranges; second, it is a glorious Mills & Boon style romance between an English aristocrat and her love interest of an Outback drover; and third, there is the gut wrenching social justice commentary of the wrongs wrought on the Australian aborigines. This movie was directed by Baz Luhrmann and is rated PG-13 for some violence and a scene of sensuality.

The story begins in AUSTRALIA, where Lady Sarah Ashley, a proper Englishwoman who journeys to Australia in the years before World War II reached the country's shores. She is determined to have her estranged husband sell his cattle ranch to a monopoly-craving businessman named King Carney, but when she arrives, Lord Ashley is dead, and her plan to sell the ranch changes when she sees an employee named Neil Fletcher cheating her husband's business and mistreating a young boy named Nullah because he is of mixed race. Urged on by both pride and a sense of justice, Lady Ashley wants to drive her herd of cattle to Darwin so she can sell them to the troops, but she'll require the help of an independent cowboy known as The Drover to get them there. The drover is not really a fan of Sarah's either, but they are forced together due to their mutual dislike of the competition. Of course, being that this is a romantic epic, they soon discover there is an attraction between them that can't be denied.

I would like to talk about The Drover which is played by Hugh Jackman. Drover, in the story is narrated as a muscular and handsome drover, with unshaved beard making him look fierce. He is the one who helps Lady Sarah Ashley move the cattle across the property. In the story, he is essentially an outsider; in his back story he was married to an Aboriginal woman who died. It was illegal to marry an Aboriginal woman back then, so he was not accepted in white society, however he was not fully accepted into Aboriginal society either because he is a white man. So he was truly an outsider. He became known just as the best drover around.

A drover is the Australian version of a cowboy and his journey involves taking cattle a long way across one of the most inhospitable parts of the planet for a long period of time. Drovers, these men who do this for a living, are as tough as you can’t imagine. Jackman had really done a good job in this movie.

Now, let's go through his characteristics in this movie. The drover is an independent person. He never depends on other to survive in his life. His works as a drover needs him to drive herds of cattle across hundreds of miles of brutal, unforgiving terrain. The Drover is a superb horseman who prefers to live under the sun and stars, a nomad and a solitary man. He is more comfortable out there with his horse and the cattle than he is with people. He doesn’t want to be beholden to anybody. He said once in the movie which described himself : “No man hires, no man fired”. He struggles by himself to live.

Besides that, The Drover hates the wealthy, land-owning establishment, and Sarah is the poster girl for the aristocracy. He takes delight in shocking and teasing her, because everything about her annoys him. She is arrogant, pretentious, frustrating and impossible in his eyes. Actually, The Drover has spent years trying to bury his anger over the loss of his wife, who died from tuberculosis because Aboriginal people were not allowed in hospitals. But those walls start to break apart as he comes to know Sarah better and becomes a kind of father figure to Nullah. At the end, under the awesome power of the landscape, transformed by the love of a child, Sarah and the Drover fall in love.

The drover is also a person who disagrees on the discrimination towards the aboriginal people. He never treats the aboriginal in bad ways as the other white men did. For him, it is easier to be friend with the aborigin other than the white men. Even his ex-wife was an aborigin woman. There was a scene in the story at the last part of the movie where he went to the bar after he knows that Sarah was bombed while working. With him is Magarri, one of his aboriginal friends, was first not allowed to be in the bar as the bartender refuses to serve blacks. But, he said “Just because it is, doesn't mean it should be.”- actually, it was Sarah’s word. He bravely stands up for Margarri. This show that he never agrees with the way the white men treats the aboriginal badly.

Next, we can see in the movie that the drover is the one who lead the journey to drive all the 1500 cattle-if i'm not mistaken, to Darwin. He possesses the great true-leadership skills in himself. To drive a big crowd of cattle with just a small group of people in not an easy job to do. But, he still managed to do it. They succeed to bring all the cattle down to Darwin and sold them to the army corporation.

The Drover is really an amazing person right? ^^