Another Time, Another Place...

A women needs a reason to cheat, a man just needs a woman.

noreply@blogger.com (Nurali) — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 10:57:00 +0000

Isn't it funny...

To tell you the truth, I was actually finishing my post on the title 'Is there life after work?' and all of the sudden, Wham! my laptop went blank. It turns out that the power cable was not plugged in properly and it just so happens that it took the time to go dead right as I was about to put the finishing touches in my post.

It WAS about four paragraphs long and I was just about to write something that is going to be profound which will make the whole post sweet and meaningful.

I guess even my own computer knows when to shut down when it sees crappy writing. And so it turned out that my very first critique happens to be my very own computer. That's life for you....

But isn't it funny that these kinds of things happen to us on a regular basis?

When you go of to work on a public holiday, when you met someone who you think will be the love of your life but turns out to be gay, when you have completed an assignment ahead of schedule only to find out that your doing someone else’s work, to zig when you should have zipped, to boldly go where no one has gone before and found out WHY no one ever went there in the first place and to always remember that one simple rule -

'If you want something done right, you don't do it at all...'

This is how it works...

noreply@blogger.com (Nurali) — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 10:40:00 +0000

This is how it works
It feels a little worse
Than when we drove our hearse
Right through that screaming crowd
While laughing up a storm
Until we were just bone
Until it got so warm
That none of us could sleep
And all the styrofoam
Began to melt away
We tried to find some worms
To aid in the decay
But none of them were home
Inside their catacomb
A million ancient bees
Began to sting our knees
While we were on our knees
Praying that disease
Would leave the ones we love
And never come again
On the radio
We heard November Rain
That solo's really long
But it's a pretty song
We listened to it twice
'Cause the DJ was asleep
This is how it works
You're young until you're not
You love until you don't
You try until you can't
You laugh until you cry
You cry until you laugh
And everyone must breathe
Until their dying breath
No, this is how it works
You peer inside yourself
You take the things you like
And try to love the things you took
And then you take that love you made
And stick it into some
Someone else's heart
Pumping someone else's blood
And walking arm in arm
You hope it don't get harmed
But even if it does
You'll just do it all again
And on the radio
You hear November Rain
That solo's awful long
But it's a good refrain
You listen to it twice
'Cause the DJ is asleep
On the radio (oh oh oh)
On the radio
On the radio -uh oh
On the radio -uh oh
On the radio -uh oh
On the radio.

Of love and other stuffs...

noreply@blogger.com (Nurali) — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 19:04:00 +0000

Funny...: “To die by your side is such a heavenly way to die.” -The Smiths.

What is love?

The question that has fascinated me till today and till the day I lay to rest. As there is no one answer to it and almost never the same answer given if you ask anyone the question "what is love?". I don't understand why people respond differently when asked this simple question, but what I do know is that you will find more relevant answers form people without even asking them the questions in the first place; all you have to do is sit a while, then watch and listen... and maybe you will come across conversations that reveals what love truly means:

Love is when you walk all the way to the other side of the classroom to sharpen your pencil in order to walk by him/her, then you realize that your pencil... is a BALLPEN.

# 2

" Tom had learned anything... it was that you can't ascribe great cosmic significance to a simple earthly event. Coincidence, that's all anything ever is, nothing more than coincidence... Tom had finally learned, there are no miracles. There's no such thing as fate, nothing is meant to be. He knew, he was sure of it now... or is he?" - 500 Days of Summer

# 3

Math tells us three of the saddest love stories:

TANGENT; lines who had one chance to meet and then parted forever

PARALLEL; lines who were never meant to meet, and

ASYMPTOTES; who can get closer and closer but will never be together.

# 4

There are 2 dilemmas that rattle the human skull:

"How do you get rid of someone who won't go..." and

"How do you hang on to someone who won't stay?"

# 5

Clementine: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon.

Joel: I know.

Clementine: What do we do?

Joel: Enjoy it.

# 6

Tom: What happened? Why - why didn't they work out?

Summer: What always happens. Life.

# 7

"The only problem with time mending things is that it takes a little longer."

"You lost the right to touch me when you left me."

"Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit." - Watermelon, Marian Keyes

# 8

Susannah: "Why is it that we can love so much that which only makes us cry?"

Irene: "Because it is that which calls us home to the heart." -By the Light of My Father's Smile, Alice Walker

# 9

Joel: [voice over] random thoughts for Valentine's day. Today is a holiday invented by greeting card companies to make people feel like crap.

# 10

"She said, 'I'm so afraid.' And I said, 'Why?' and she said, 'Because I'm so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.' I asked her why and she said, 'They only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something from you,' and I said, 'Hush up now. Enough of this silliness." - Kite Runner

# 11

"I think that there are some things you don't heal from. Not in this lifetime anyway," -Mad Dog, AW

# 12

"Tom: Ok but wait–wait. What happens, if you fall in love?

Summer:[she scoffs]

Tom: What?

Summer: You don’t believe that, do you?

Tom: It’s love, it’s not Santa Claus."

- 500 Days of Summer

# 13

"Summer: I woke up one morning and I just knew.

Tom: Knew what?

Summer: What I was never sure of with you."

- 500 Days of Summer

# 14

"Paul: Robin is better than the girl of my dreams. She's real." - 500 Days of Summer

# 15

Tom: I love how she makes me feel, like anything's possible, or like life is worth it.

# 16

Tom: Nobody loves Ringo Starr.

Summer: That's what I love about him.

# 17

Joel: [narration as Clementine acknowledges him by raising her coffee mug] Why do I fall in love with every woman I see who shows me the least bit of attention?

# 18

"I believe there is one soul in all our time on earth that just matches our own. We are always looking for it, moving in its direction, but so often it is never found," - Manuelito,AW

# 19

In life, you will realize that the people you meet have a purpose. Some were put there to test you, some would use you, some would teach you. And some would bring out the better if not the best in you. Some may even cause you pain and heartache but one must learn to move on. So let go of the people who can't treat you right and hold on to those who love you back and see your worth...

# 20

"There's no such thing as love, it's fantasy..." -Summer

Hotel Song...

noreply@blogger.com (Nurali) — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 14:53:00 +0000

Come in, come in
Come into my world I've got to show
Show, show you
Come into my bed
I've got to know
Know, know you

I have dreams of Orca whales and owls
But I wake up in fear
You will never be my...
You will never be my fool
Will never be my fool

Floaters in my eyes
Wake up in a hotel room
Cigarettes and lies
I am a child; it's too soon

I have dreams of Orca whales and owls
But I wake up in fear
You will never be my...
You will never be my fool
Will never be my fool

A little bag of cocaine
A little bag of cocaine
So who's the girl wearing my dress?
I figured out her number
Inside a paper napkin
But I don't know her address; I wade downstairs

The porter smiles to me a smile
I've bought
With a couple of gold coins
A sign that I've been caught

I have dreams of Orca whales and owls
But I wake up in fear
You will never be my...
You will never be my dear
Will never be my dear, dear friend
Dear, dear friend, dear, dear friend

A little bag of cocaine
A little bag of cocaine
So who's the girl wearing my dress?
I figured out her number
Inside a paper napkin
But I don't know her address

Come in, come in
Come into my world I've got to show
Show, show you
Come into my bed
I've got to know
Know, know you

I have dreams of Orca whales and owls
But I wake up in fear
You will never be my...
You will never be my dear
Will never be my dear, dear friend
Dear, dear friend, dear, dear friend

WHAT A RISK!

noreply@blogger.com (Nurali) — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 05:40:00 +0000

"Someone suggests that;

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out for another is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas, your dreams, before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.

You may avoid suffering and sorrow if you don’t risk,
But you simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love or live.

The greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

The person who risks nothing,
Does nothing and has nothing.

Only a person who risks is free."

Love is a temporary madness.

noreply@blogger.com (Nurali) — Wed, 11 May 2011 12:29:00 +0000

Love is a temporary madness.

It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.

You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part.

Because this is what love is.

Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are.

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin6. "Love is the beauty of the soul."
--St. Augustine

" The greatest pain that comes with love is loving someone you can't have."

The Next Small Thing : Why bigger isn't always better

noreply@blogger.com (Nurali) — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:25:00 +0000

Back to the Basics: How to use your (lack of) size to your advantage

Jason Fried, creator of some of the industry's most successful new Web applications, is the champion of an approach he calls "Getting Real." While developed with software companies in mind, Fried's principles can apply to any small business that strives to do more with less.

Underdo your competition: Businesses get caught up in a cycle of adding more features and services. Great opportunities exist for those who create the same products, but with more simplicity and ease of use.

Create services you would use: Few great product and service ideas come as a result of groupthink and committee meetings. Democracy is great, Fried says, but in the product-development arena, it rarely leads to great results. Great products are the result of solving problems for yourself—and then offering solutions to others.

Fund yourself: The more money you have, the more you'll waste, Fried says. He admits that outside funding is necessary for capital-intensive businesses, but for many service businesses—especially those utilizing technology or operating online—being able to turn your business concept into reality is getting less expensive by the day.

Take half: List all the features you'd like on your product and cut them in half, Fried advises. Then, cut that list in half. Being driven by time and budget rather than by your dream list of features will result in a much more solid, workable product that won't break the bank.

Call off the meetings: Fried is not a fan of endless meetings or documents filled with specifications and details that no one reads. He'd prefer to focus on the essentials—and those don't require a lot of meetings.

- By Rex Hammock, editor www.mybusinessmag.com
Full story @ http://www.mybusinessmag.com/fullstory.php3?sid=1413

Boys, Girls & Perverts - ChatRoulette

noreply@blogger.com (Nurali) — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:25:00 +0000

Infographic: ChatRoulette, "Nexting" by the Numbers

BY Cliff KuangWed Feb 24, 2010

Ladies really do have all the luck, and the perverts are a sizable minority, according to Casey Neistat's video study of ChatRoulette.

A month ago, we brought you an early look at ChatRoulette, and since then it's blown up, with coverage in New York, The New York Times, and even USA Today, of all places. But this is the first time we've seen anyone apply some science to the phenomenon.

The brave individual who took it upon himself to explain ChatRoulette in a single entertaining video is Casey Neistat. There are loads of stats, including the chart above. Notably, Neistat (a male) had only about a 5% stay rate--the rest of people immediately nexted him. But his pretty lady friend had exactly the opposite result:

Which is probably about the same result as you'd find on any old dating site. Except ChatRoulette is about a million times faster/awesomer/weirder.

WHY EMPLOYEES LEAVE ORGANISATIONS ? - Azim Premji, CEO- Wipro

noreply@blogger.com (Nurali) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:40:00 +0000

Every company faces the problem of people leaving the company for better pay or profile.

Early this year, Mark, a senior software designer, got an offer from a prestigious international firm to work in its India operations developing specialized software. He was thrilled by the offer.

He had heard a lot about the CEO. The salary was great. The company had all the right systems in place employee-friendly human resources (HR) policies, a spanking new office,and the very best technology,even a canteen that served superb food.

Twice Mark was sent abroad for training. 'My learning curve is the sharpest it's ever been,' he said soon after he joined.

Last week, less than eight months after he joined, Mark walked out of the job.

Why did this talented employee leave ?

Arun quit for the same reason that drives many good people away.

The answer lies in one of the largest studies undertaken by the Gallup Organization. The study surveyed over a million employees and 80,000 managers and was published in a book called 'First Break All The Rules'. It came up with this surprising finding:

If you're losing good people, look to their immediate boss .Immediate boss is the reason people stay and thrive in an organization. And he 's the reason why people leave. When people leave they take knowledge,experienc e and contacts with them, straight to the competition.

'People leave managers not companies,' write the authors Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman.

Mostly manager drives people away?

HR experts say that of all the abuses, employees find humiliation the most intolerable. The first time, an employee may not leave,but a thought has been planted. The second time, that thought gets strengthened. The third time, he looks for another job.

When people cannot retort openly in anger, they do so by passive aggression. By digging their heels in and slowing down. By doing only what they are told to do and no more.. By omitting to give the boss crucial information. Dev says: 'If you work for a jerk, you basically want to get him into trouble. You don 't have your heart and soul in the job.'

Different managers can stress out employees in different ways - by being too controlling, too suspicious,too pushy, too critical, but they forget that workers are not fixed assets, they are free agents. When this goes on too long, an employee will quit - often over a trivial issue.

Talented men leave. Dead wood doesn't.

Malaysia's 50 Most Influential Blogs

noreply@blogger.com (Nurali) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:05:00 +0000

This list of the 50 most influential blogs is taken from our friend Gaman in his website :

http://www.sabahan.com/2007/02/06/50-most-influential-blogs-in-malaysia

The stats form Technorati and also compared to alexa.com seem pretty accurate. Might be useful :)

Some stats first:

28% of the Malaysian Top 50 Bloggers write about personal stuff
16% write about politics
16% write about technology

No	Blog Title	Technorati Rank	Category
1	kennysia.com	Rank: 234 (4,828 links from 2,406 blogs)	Personal
2	SapiensBryan.com	Rank: 604 (2,676 links from 1,577 blogs)	Technology
3	Hemmy.net	Rank: 1,667 (1,862 links from 932 blogs)	Humor
4	JeffOoi.com Screenshot	Rank: 2,009 (2,824 links from 836 blogs)	Politics
5	LiewCF.com	Rank: 3,346 (1,532 links from 613 blogs)	Technology
6	Yasmin The Story Teller	Rank: 3,594 (1,026 links from 585 blogs)	Entertainment
7	Afdlin Shauki	Rank: 3,750 (874 links from 569 blogs)	Entertainment
8	PaulTan.Org	Rank: 7,360 (863 links from 369 blogs)	Auto
9	Alex Allied	Rank: 8,367 (589 links from 345 blogs)	Personal
10	Rocky’s Bru	Rank: 8,402 (1,015 links from 344 blogs)	Politics
11	Lim Kit Siang	Rank: 8,593 (826 links from 337 blogs)	Politics
12	Hot-screensaver	Rank: 8,976 (531 links from 323 blogs)	Personal
13	EVERiBODi LAFU ROJAKS	Rank: 9,411 (785 links from 310 blogs)	Humor
14	5Xmom	Rank: 10,439 (1,131 links from 297 blogs)	Personal
15	masak-masak	Rank: 11,717 (648 links from 269 blogs)	Food
16	smashin’ pOpstar	Rank: 12,698 (669 links from 254 blogs)	Personal
17	cheeserland.com	Rank: 13,733 (439 links from 236 blogs)	Personal
18	Kahsoon.com	Rank: 15,091 (427 links from 218 blogs)	Humor
19	minishorts.net	Rank: 16,256 (398 links from 202 blogs)	Personal
20	Patric Teo Tokkok	Rank: 18,289 (282 links from 182 blogs)	Personal
21	FriedBeef’s Tech	Rank: 20,119 (356 links from 168 blogs)	Technology
22	Amanz.net	Rank: 21,013 (430 links from 161 blogs)	Technology
23	Kickdefella	Rank: 21,251 (505 links from 159 blogs)	Politics
24	CyberHackz.net	Rank: 21,381 (558 links from 158 blogs)	Technology
25	SultanMuzaffar	Rank: 21,514 (324 links from 157 blogs)	Entertainment
26	Fireangel	Rank: 21,668 (348 links from 156 blogs)	Personal
27	Lagu Top Masa Kini	Rank: 22,088 (298 links from 153 blogs)	Entertainment
28	jasiminne anorexic penguin	Rank: 22,088 (264 links from 153 blogs)	Personal
29	Gobala Krishnan	Rank: 22,200 (365 links from 152 blogs)	Marketing
30	The Scribe A Kadir Jasin	Rank: 22,200 (269 links from 152 blogs)	Politics
31	A Gonzo Journal	Rank: 22,371 (381 links from 151 blogs)	Personal
32	As Suanie Sees It	Rank: 23,740 (457 links from 142 blogs)	Personal
33	Nizam Zakaria - Limau Nipis	Rank: 24,396 (269 links from 138 blogs)	Literature
34	Susan Loone	Rank: 25,146 (509 links from 134 blogs)	Politics
35	ShaolinTiger.com	Rank: 25,286 (337 links from 133 blogs)	Personal
36	Bibliobibuli	Rank: 25,921 (329 links from 130 blogs)	Literature
37	MichaelOoi.net	Rank: 26,568 (290 links from 127 blogs)	Personal
38	SaifulSham.com	Rank: 27,158 (386 links from 124 blogs)	Marketing
39	Faisal Tehrani	Rank: 27,639 (169 links from 122 blogs)	Literature
40	Raymond.CC Blog	Rank: 27,690 (276 links from 122 blogs)	Technology
41	RantingbyMM	Rank: 27,865 (241 links from 121 blogs)	Politics
42	Anwar Ibrahim	Rank: 28,570 (185 links from 120 blogs)	Politics
43	Eudcation In Malaysia	Rank: 29,571 (298 links from 116 blogs)	Education
44	SmartUsaha	Rank: 29,935 (298 links from 113 blogs)	Marketing
45	RotorBlog.com	Rank: 30,287 (170 links from 112 blogs)	Technology
46	Vincent Chow	Rank: 30,287 (158 links from 112 blogs)	Humor
47	Babe in the City - KL	Rank: 30,844 (398 links from 110 blogs)	Food
48	kyspeaks.com	Rank: 31,740 (261 links from 107 blogs)	Food
49	Irfan Khairi	Rank: 32,439 (398 links from 105 blogs)	Marketing
50	Aisehman.org	Rank: 32,858 (314 links from 104 blogs)	Politics

How To Nail Your Job Interview

noreply@blogger.com (Nurali) — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:17:00 +0000

In these tough economic times you are lucky just to be offered a job interview. So before you show up for the interview, make sure you are prepared. The list below will help you to be prepared for your next job interview. Please read it before your next job interview. Good luck in your search for employment.

An interview gives you the opportunity to showcase your qualifications to an employer, so it pays to be well prepared. The following information provides some helpful hints.

Preparation:

Learn about the organization.
Have a specific job or jobs in mind.
Review your qualifications for the job.
Be ready to briefly describe your experience, showing how it relates it the job.
Be ready to answer broad questions, such as “Why should I hire you?” “Why do you want this job?” “What are your strengths and weaknesses?”
Practice an interview with a friend or relative.

Personal appearance:

Be well groomed.
Dress appropriately.
Do not chew gum or smoke.
Go easy on the cologne/perfume.

The interview:

Be 10 minutes early.
Learn the name of your interviewer and greet him or her with a firm handshake while making direct eye contact.
Use good manners with everyone you meet.
Relax and answer each question concisely.
Use proper English—avoid slang.
Be cooperative and enthusiastic.
Use body language to show interest—use eye contact and don’t slouch.
Ask questions about the position and the organization, but avoid questions whose answers can easily be found on the company Web site.
Also avoid asking questions about salary and benefits unless a job offer is made.
Thank the interviewer when you leave and shake hands.
Send a short thank you note.

Information to bring to an interview:

Social Security card.
Government-issued identification (driver’s license).
Resume or application. Although not all employers require a resume, you should be able to furnish the interviewer information about your education, training, and previous employment.
References. Employers typically require three references. Get permission before using anyone as a reference. Make sure that they will give you a good reference. Try to avoid using relatives as references.
Transcripts. Employers may require an official copy of transcripts to verify grades, coursework, dates of attendance, and highest grade completed or degree awarded.

Article by Rick D. hourlycareers.com

Dr. Meredith Grey, famous quotes...

noreply@blogger.com (Nurali) — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:30:00 +0000

A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say. I don't know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I'd have to say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you're wrong? What if you're making a mistake you can't undo? The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost.

We can't pretend we hadn't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore.

Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying.

- Dr. Meredith Grey (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0413573/quotes)

One Year

noreply@blogger.com (Nurali) — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:38:00 +0000

It’s with a heavy heart that I leave for Tioman Island for work purposes, feels like I’ve done this once before, going to an island I mean... Can’t shake the fact that there’s still a lot of work that I must do at the office, work that seemed to need more attention and is more critical to make sure everything is done in order. It’s what I have been working my butt of for the past couple of months in the office making sure everything doesn’t fall apart. But I guess I’m getting all worried about nothing, because it’s not like I’m the only one who is doing it. But sometimes it feels just like that, sometimes.

Maybe I feel uneasy to go because it might be from the fact that a lot of other people should be going instead of me. People, who would appreciate, enjoy and could have more of an experience that I could possibly have. Maybe it’s because of that guilt; I’m having second (thirds, fourths and so on) thoughts of going. But then again, a lot of people have gone out of their way to enable me to go to Tioman and I should at least thank them for that. Thank you. It’s just in my absence of acknowledging my worth to the company that I fail to notice that others have a better view of my worth. In other words, they see for me what I can’t see for myself. For that I appreciate it.

In the end, I of all people shouldn’t complain about all of this. Like the saying goes; “never look a gift horse in the mouth”. Appreciate what has been given to you and thank those who made it possible.

Why you should ask the title is ‘One Year’? It’s because it seems that life has gone full circle again. If I’m not wrong, I think last year it was a trip to Tenggol island. Coming back from it wasn’t something to look forward to. Going there was for all the wrong reasons and I hope that this trip don’t end up the same way… That’s jut all. The playing pieces have changed, but the game still remains the same.

Fix You

noreply@blogger.com (Nurali) — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:36:00 +0000

Funny, when you listen you get more out of it... Most people tell me that I'm a good listener, never really know what that is supposed to mean. Maybe I have a knack at tiring my best at fixing things, a lot of things. It's my nature to find things that are broken, and fixing it the best I can....

When you try your best, but you don't succeed
When you get what you want, but not what you need
When you feel so tired, but you can't sleep
Stuck in reverse

And the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can't replace
When you love someone but it goes to waste
Could it be worse?

Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

When high up above or down below
When you're too in love to let it go
But if you never try you'll never know
Just what you're worth

Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

Tears stream down your face
When you lose something you cannot replace
Tears stream down your face
And I...

Tears stream down your face
I promise you I will learn from my mistakes
Tears stream down your face
And I...

Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

Q: What would you want to fix?

LOST AND FOUND

noreply@blogger.com (Nurali) — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:35:00 +0000

I believe that the only thing that will be truly lost are the things that you could never get to replace.

That's why I make it an effort to not lose these things. I guess that each of us has to decide for ourselves what thes things are as we each value them differently.

Because some of these things may not even be of value at all but will be the one that we will regret losing in the end. Something that we are willing to fight for, to die for, are exactly the things that we would give freely.

The principal of the matter is that in life, most of us take for granted the things that we would not have thought to be important in our lives until we have lost it. Trivial things seem to be for me, is the strangest things that I can’t seem to forget and sometimes not even wanting to remember.

We will lose a lot of things going thru life, but the things that we will be able to remember is up to us, to make it the most important things that we will never loose…

-there will be people-

noreply@blogger.com (Nurali) — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:35:00 +0000

there will be people who you will meet
there will be people who you'll never see
there will be people who lives afar
there will be people who lives where you are
there will be people of diffrent race
of diffrent age and look of face

there will be people who you will know
who you thought you might have fogotten before
and those you try your hardest at best
that you try your best just to forget

there will be people who you will change your life
there will be people who from that they gain
there will be people who will be greatfull

from those people who lives you change
for time may change and change may come
and it will effect not all but some
for change will change all that we know
all that we thought can't change before

The Ant & The Grasshopper

noreply@blogger.com (Nurali) — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:34:00 +0000

The constant and the definite.

Funny... I remember a story about the ant and the grasshopper a long time ago while watching the Muppet Show on TV. The Muppet Show version of the ant and the grasshopper was the best and I might say the most politically correct version as to date. It depicts the saga of the traditionally hard working ant and the unjustly stamped character of the grasshopper of being carefree and lazy. Though In my opinion they are more towards being dangerously volatile and destructive, but since it was a children program, I'll let it slide.

So coming back to the story, there was the ever so hard working ant working it's butt off day in and day out to store enough food for the winter. And yet I never did understand how an insect so small would want to do with a ton of food supply, I will never know. While in the distant background, there lays the ever so joyous grasshopper fiddling away with its violin having not a care in the world. Again I was dumbfounded by the portrayal of a grasshopper playing an instrument such as the violin which I guess was supposed to make it look either being happy and gay ('gay' which is referring to the 60's gay and not the 21st century perception of it) or jut that it has more talent than the ant, even though both insect poses the same logic processing nerves, ligament and tendon structure.

And as we all are aware of how the old story goes, the ant was trying to give its 2 cent to the ever so ignorant grasshopper about acting responsible and preparing for the future rather than just living for the moment. Seeing as the grasshopper was more a fan of 50 cent, thus telling the ant to go to the candy shop and buying a lollypop and sticking it where the sun don't shine. Eventhough the ant was only 48 cent short of convincing the grasshopper of his ways, they both parted tending to their separate agendas (and I thought ants are supposed to be good at calculus, go figure).

And so came the fateful day in which winter was upon the horizon. Yet to my surprise, something ironic happened:

"The grasshopper hopped in its convertible and went to California, while the ant got stepped on..."

The end.

As I was laughing away at the ending of the story, which was actually how the Muppet Story version ended, something profound came to mind. That story actually summarized the closes meaning to life in which I know of; There is no grater consistency in life than change, and no greater definite than death... That and also California is a great place to go in the winter.

I hoped that people would accept and understand that the only thing that is constant in our life is change while to remember that the only definite in life is death. Simple, yet true... The grasshopper know of the consistency of change thus moving on and yet the failure of the ant was not to the acceptance of change but the inability to remember that no matter how well you plan for the future, it won't stop the fact that you will most probably get stepped on in the end. Especially if you're an ant...

Oh, it also defines the logic on how the grasshopper could afford to own a convertible, because it knew how to play the violin, and you know a lot of people are famous for knowing to play the violin. Especially if you're a grasshopper...

Abducted By Aliens...Wish you were here.

noreply@blogger.com (Nurali) — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:34:00 +0000

Funny...
12th March 2007, 8:35pm. For some people, this will be a time where they could rest their heads sitting back at their sofas and watching their favorite TV programs while sipping a cool glass of water. For me, it's just one of those days staying back at the office, trying to figure out what am I supposed to do that I haven't already done for the past nine hours already.

It's just like where some people get abducted by aliens and tell of unspeakable experiments they have conducted and then erasing the memory of ever being into contact with them in the first place. Though, if you view the logic in it, how could they have remembered all that when they claim that they are supposed to forget about it?

Then again, I can't even remember half the things I do in the office even without being abducted by aliens. Though it would be nice to give that excuse to the client for not doing your job just by saying "I'm sorry, I was going to do the work, but I got abducted by aliens at my office. It actually happens most of the time too to the other employees..."

I guess sometimes it's better that we should try to get lost once in a while. From our daily routine, our troubles, sorrows, and most importantly our fears. Being lost to me is actually a perfect opportunity to 'Find' myself back again. Getting on the right track when we take a step back or off from the road that we were on. As for me I have absolutely no trouble in getting myself lost in so many ways. In thought, work, play, going to work, coming home from work and anything else in between. To sum it all up in a sentence, 'You will never truly find yourself if you are never lost...' or something like that. So in short, all I wanted to say to you guys is to GET LOST!!! %)

STRESS!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Nurali) — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:33:00 +0000

...Want fries with that?

Work, why it keep hanging on to your leg long after you have left the office? Should work be kept in the office? Like working in a circus and your position is the lion tamer. Imagine taking that kind of work back home with you... Its like I'm getting married and NOW of all time in the whole wide world; clients wants to have a meeting, contents for uploading comes in bundles like MAKRO having a year end sale and to top that off, I'm gonna miss the soft launch of the website. Tough.

Medium or large?

That's right, it doesn't come in small but you can always have it as side order and most of the time people have it 'To Go' which is usually a bad idea. But, there I was in front of the PC at 11:30 am, two and a half hours before my wedding tiring to key in as much data as humanly possible for the clients. Then again, being stressful is kinda good.

Just like fries.

Why? Cause it always taste horrid when it's cold. Leaves a bad taste in your mouth. But you can't seem to resist odering more. Why is that? Cos it's fries man, everybody loves fries right?

Thank you, come again.

Thankful

noreply@blogger.com (Nurali) — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:32:00 +0000

A word seldom used when filling up your car…(tank; full)

I lost my hand phone the other day. A careless mistake on my part. But it seems that I am getting more and more careless of my belongings these days. As I contemplated on my lost hand phone (contemplate - meaning I bang my head and cursed myself for being so careless), I am reminded of the saying “Never cry over split milk” and thought that it is quite true indeed. Unfortunately, we are not talking about milk is it?

Duhh…

Though along the way of me mopping over my precious ngage hand phone, an interesting thought came to mind. What if what I lost was more than just an ngage phone? What if I have bought one of those G3 phones and lost that instead? I would have been devastated and heart broken. What if that phone was still under instalment? Then that would mean that I would be paying something that someone else will be enjoying (which refers to the shmuck who found it). And what if I have lost something more than just a phone? Something more valuable like a life? Scary thought when the view is changed…

Thankfully…

I guess it only takes a change of view (and an empty pocket) to know that all things are not as bad as they appear to be. What seemed valuable at one time can be utterly insignificant when compared to more important things. Things like life, love, family, friendship and work (Haa, Ha, Ha, Ha Yeah right…work). We sometimes forget to notice that there are more precious things that are far more valuable in which it could not be easily replace.

That reminds me…

We should always be thankful of what we can’t have. For if we did get what we want (desire), then we will have to bare the probability that we will one day lose that what we wanted so badly. How would we handle that type of lost I wonder? Maybe it is better to not have what we want and be ever so thankful that we will never have to face the loss of it. That way we will be able to have hope of what could be rather to have regret of what had been…

Something like that lah…

Do what you hate...

noreply@blogger.com (Nurali) — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:31:00 +0000

...before you hate what you do.

Most people fail to see why life seems to repeat itself like a broken cassette recorder, going to the same routine day in and day out day after day, week after week thru the months and presto a new year comes smack in our faces.

Why?

Is it because that we are so comfortable with what we have and what we are doing that we neglect to do the things that changes that which is becoming constant to us (remember, there is no other constant thing in life except change and no certainty except death). Not tiring to scare anybody or nothing, but I guess that what I'm tiring to say is why we keep doing what we do is because that we just don’t want to do what is needed to be done simply to the fact the we hate to do it.

Isn’t that right?

...Sorry...

But that's just it...

We must do what is needed to be done even though doing what we hate to do in order to achieve life. That's right, in order to achieve life...why life? Because if not life that we live for, then there would be nothing left but death. So for those that seem to have life hard on them, should always remember that next to death, life is still a valuable thing.

So do what Nike do and 'Just do it'.

But don't go crazy adopting Adidas 'Impossible is nothing' idea cos that’s just crazy talk. Just imagine going to work and saying to your boss "I just got the work that you ask me to do and it seem to be nothing (impossible)". And imagine your boss saying "Good then I expect you to do everything that is nothing for the next week". And you go " That would be nothing!” Then the boss nods "Then I expect you to do that nothing thing right away...” So the next time you see a co-worker doing nothing, you should actually respect what they do because it is really nothing and are working hard towards achieving it...

Yeah right...

Happy mothers day...

noreply@blogger.com (Nurali) — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:30:00 +0000

'Mother....'

...Is the word that is spoken from every mouth of every child in the face of the earth...

Why is it? Is it because they have brought us into this world? Is it because that they have cared for us since the very beginning? Whatever the reason may be for you, the truth if the matter is that we all are in debt to our mother. If God is the creator of life, then mother is the barer of it...(9 months to be precise, give or take a few days maybe ;)

On this day, May 14, we celebrate mothers day with a thought. A thought that I hope will linger on in our minds for years to come to whom ever reads this ode to mothers everywhere.

Let the thought be of thankfulness, that we have a mother who we could call our own. For there are others out there who have and most probably will never know the joy of having a mother. Let the thought be of love, for there could not be a love more true nor caring other than that of a mothers love. Most importantly, let the thought be of hope for some of us will soon take their place as mother to our own sons and daughters and have the strength to carry out that responsibility.

I know that there will always be that saying, "Mother knows best". However, I feel it is always that mother knows best. But for you, and me, we all know that we will know better...

Sorry mom...
LOVE YOU!!!

From,
Your son..

My True Enemy...

noreply@blogger.com (Nurali) — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:29:00 +0000

Isn’t it funny…

Why is it that whenever we think that everything will turn out well for us in the future, suddenly it all collapses around us like a tonne of bricks. What has happen? When was this planned? Where has all the trust gone? Who is to blame for this?

But then come to think about it, it is not that much of a surprise at all. Only those who are ignorant will feel that they have been betrayed. The true enemy. I now know who you are, when you came to be, why you did what you did and what you will do. I know you for as long as I could remember. We were friends before, but now I must address you as my enemy. My true enemy.

Once, I looked up to you. I have trusted you for guidance. I have acknowledged you as my companion, my friend thru thick and thin. You were patient before, but now you have grown mean. I was happy for the moments that you gave me. I never thought of you the way that I have now. Now I know what you really want from me. What you truly give me in the end. What you have given to me in order to get what you truly desire the most. And the fact of the matter is, that no matter what I do, no matter how hard I try, in the end you will get what you want. That I can never deny. My true enemy.

But, you won’t get it without a fight. For I will fight for it no matter how futile it may be. No matter how hard or how long it will take me. Though I know I can never avoid it, I will fight. I will carry on no matter what. For I will always remember you. Now that I know who you really are, what you really want, and why you are what you are. Now I know what I must do, when I will do it and why I do what I do to you. My true enemy.

Thank you…

In denial we trust

noreply@blogger.com (Nurali) — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:27:00 +0000

Ah denial… what a wonderful word that brings joy to so many people around the world. Let us rejoice and celebrate the many splendours it brings for without it I know many of us would just up and die in a heartbeat.

Though one would wonder what would we do without it?(gentlemen, start your engines…). Why do we need it in our lives? And not only that, we seem to be in denial almost every single day of our pathetic non relevant insignificant grain of a sand in the infinite galaxy of beach we like to call life…

Can we live without denial? Can we be truthful of our feelings? Can a cat talk and a donkey fly? Yes my dear friends, only in the movies… So does that make our life a movie? If it is, then is it an action thriller? A romantic comedy? Or a sad, sad pathetic overrated, under budget, long winded no show?

The choice in that, believe it or not still lies for us to finally decide. For it is never over until the fat lady lands straight on top of us and makes instant pancake with our body. That’s right, so if any of you have unfinished business to take care of, any things that has not been spoken to that someone, you may regret it for the rest of your flat lifeless life…

I mean what’s the worst that could possibly happen? You loose a friend? Happens every day. You lose your dignity? That could only happen if you give it away yourself. Loose face? Hey there’s always plastic snuggery. So do like the Adam’s Family and ‘do what you want to do, say what you want to say, dance how you want to dance, play how you want to play…’

Cos notin last 4 ever…

Laughter Test

noreply@blogger.com (Nurali) — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:26:00 +0000

A work in progress...

If a chicken crosses the road, would you:

a) Wonder why it cross the road

b) Wonder where it’s going next

c) Wonder if you need surgery because your in a ditch at the side of the road for not paying attention to your driving

If a tree falls in the middle of the forest, would you:

a) Wonder if anybody will care

b) Wonder who is to blame for the deforestation of our forest

c) Wonder ‘Why in hell does this tree had to fall on me exactly when I’m walking under it?’

If you are going to see your clients for an important meeting, would you:

a) Prepare a good presentation note for all scenarios in the meeting

b) Prepare a good Q and A note session after the meeting

c) Prepare a good bye note to your boss while your jetting of home early

If you are designing a page layout and your boss argues about the design and try to give ideas, would you choose:

a) Using Windows98 and force the boss to give a better operating system

b) Using Windows XP and force the boss to give a better designing software

c) Using the balcony window and force the boss and his ideas out the window

If you happen to see one of your client get hit by a car in front of you, would you:

a) Run out and make sure that the client is still alive

b) Run and chase the driver who ran your client over

c) Run your client over again and thank the driver who hit him in the first place