Success: The truth about it.

(Pic from: here)

I was indeed too busy since the last post that I've made, still busy. Yes, there could be people who are busier than me but for them it might not be a big issue. I would rather describe this phenomenon as the process of learning and adapting to a more 'congested' environment i.e. too many matters to be worried about while coping with increasing responsibilities and duties.

Alhamdulillah, I still manage to steal time to express some of my thoughts while indulging myself in the pleasure of writing. We could sometimes learn a word merely in less than a minute but sometimes it really takes decades or even a lifetime for a person to truely understand a word and the entire concept behind the single word. Hence, one of the most significant and could be also a mysterious word for many people is the word "Success".

Other than the usual dictionary meaning for this word, there could be many different meanings. But, not in anyways I'm going to describe this word as how its mentioned in books nor other media. Just try to run a simple search on Google for this word, you'll find lots of books and articles on personal and corporate success stories and .... tonnes of it.

So, what is success is all about?! Before I start, I would like to clarify that I'm writing this based on my CURRENT understanding on this matter in which I might change in future. 'Success' could be an event, process, state, status, achievement, object, person or almost anything that we humans wants to 'get' individually or in a group, in fact it could be even an entire nation e.g. 1Malaysia and vision 2020.

See, the fact is that success varies to everyone. So, how could books like "The Habits of Successful People", "The Secret of Success" and all these books could explain about success? Actually, those books only documents people's success stories, analyse the cause of their success and tries to prove some concepts of success. However, the truth is that no one can tell you what is success and how you can get there. Over the time, individuals have to identify and recognise their own path of life, what we really want and which one has higher priorities. From that point onwards, we have to determine, configure and set our mind towards getting there.

No matter whatever concept or techniques you may derive from any books pertaining to the so called secret of success, the ultimate path to get there is through hardwork. A quote to be always remembered: Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration by Thomas Edison. Noting comes easy in this world even if it may sound easy. But please do remember, hardwork alone is also useless, there are other factors as well such as techniques, confidences, knowledge and possibly luck, yet hardwork is the main key.

So, whatever you are working on or trying to achieve, I wish you All the best! Even a simple sentence could be your swiss-knife, "use the right tool at the right time for the right purpose" and never forget to put your whole effort, add a pinch of interest, few spoons of confidence and voila!

No cannot! That’s Impossible!

Inventors always have one problem. It is the people surrounding them. The first time, Wright brothers said they wanted to fly in the sky, people said they were fools! But, come on! They did it!

It's a norm for inventors to always receive objections until they are bored with it and sometimes don't care if people around them says that they are really crazy! :P But the problem is, people rarely understand that it's not always difficult to break the rules!

On the other side, what happens if the surrounding people responds positively? When someone says something extraordinary which others might have never thought of, never say "no cannot! That's impossible!". Specially when young minds says that. If you realize, indirectly you can be the first motivator for an inventor to realize a brilliant idea!

Anyhow, the inventor should not be de-motivated when someone objects their ideas but for young minds like kids or youngsters, it might take a longer time for them to build and strengthen the determination and courage in them.

If you are free, just get a wacky idea and think how to really do it! Only two advices I can give. First, think how you can break the rules! Second, imagine what type of positive benefits it will return.

Btw, co-incidentally I bought a book on last Friday (2nd May 2008). There was a great event that lead me to buy the book. Since, it was quite cheap compared to other management books, somewhere around RM 20. The title is Weird Ideas that Work. Some of the ideas a really crazy but again never say it's impossible. Even if you say so, it might be impossible for you but not necessarily impossible for others. ;-)

So the next time your friend (or Ihsan) says something different PLEASE don't say "No cannot! That's Impossible!". ^_^

Have a nice day checking-out the new world of innovations!

Further readings:
Malaysian Invention & Design Society
Young Inventors International

Water pollution in Malaysia: How serious it is?

Fyi, I'm publishing this post inconjuction of the "Blog Action Day".
(15 Oct 07)



Before I proceed let me brief you on this Blog Action Day thingy. To be simple, it'a a one-day program where all the participating bloggers will talk about environment related issues to raise the awareness of public on this matters.

All the while, we have been listening to all the TV and Radio advertisements on river pollution in Malaysia. Sadly, most of us are still naive about it until government have to find other funny-but-effective methods like the song "Sungai Oh Sungai" by a little girl which is frequently to air on local radio stations.

To be honest, once I get to know about this Blog Action Day, I was interested to join this campaign and contribute something. But the problem was I couldn't find any suitable topic to discuss. Furthermore, as most of you know, I rarely talk about environment related issues. Eventhough, I had some trouble in publishing this post, Alhamdulillah finally I found something.

There were lots of websites I've been in the quest of finding a suitable topic. Some of the sites are:

• Department of Environment, Malaysia


• EarthTrends: Environmental
  Information


• Ecology Asia

Finally, I found a site. The name of the website itself might attract you. It is:

sungaijuru.com

This website is dedicated speciall for a river located in Penang. It has been badly polluted until this website have been launched to get the Malaysian's attention on this serious matter.



See, what else can be bad-er than this? This problem surely would have damaged the whole ecosystem in that area! It's all because of us, humans! Even tyre can get into river!

Well, I'm just speechless. (>_<) Take a closer look by yourself here at:
http://www.sungaijuru.com/en/pollution.php

How to overcome this problem? First, lets stop throwing rubbish into DRAINS because when we throw trash into drains near our homes, it all will finally end up at this kind of rivers. So lets learn to throw rubbish into trash bins. This is the most important step in order to stop this problem.

Secondly, we have to clean those rivers. But Alhamdulillah,in Malaysia, we just have be aware and help the government in preventing problems because they are also doing their job well. Take a look at this.

Lets keep our earth clean! But all you need to do is, keep your housing area clean first. If everyone does that, there is no need to raise hell on these issues. :-)

Further reading:

• Water profile of Malaysia


• May be you can print and stick this in your room/office.

Eid-ul-Fitr: Mubarak ! or Mubarak?

Assalamualaikum and greetings to everyone.


As I've said many times before this, time and environment can change anyone to anything. I still remember how fun Eid were celebrated when my dad was around. :(

Well, Eid means Hari Raya and mubarak means happy. So, shall I be happy on Eid? or let the past memories slowly 'eat' me?

Actually, why shall we Muslims be happy on Eid? Well, as we've known it's not because of new dress and getting the freedom to eat during daytime. It's all about victory! The joy of winning ourselves by controlling ourselves strictly. The joy of being able to perform the prayers and remind ourselves that we are the slaves of Allah S.W.T .

Of course, the memories will be there forever. Compared to last Ramadhan, this time I spent most of the time lonely. Breakfast alone, work alone and went for shopping to buy some simple clothings for my little sister, also alone. Even today on first day of Eid itself, I went for Eid-Ul-Fitr prayers alone... I even did not visit any of my neighbours, friends or relatives because I don't have the real mood of doing it. I just spent my time as a normal day perhaps a bit relax by updating this blogsite and watching some inspiring documentaries.

So, this question of Happy Eid! or Happy Eid? had made me to sit and talk to myself for a while. The difference is the exclamation mark and the question mark which reflect the expression of the "Happy Eid" statement. Finally, I feel that it should be Happy Eid! Because Alhamdulillah, on this Ramadhan I managed to increase my prayers activities compared to previous years. To add the hapiness to make my self calm, all I need to do is just continue my prayers for my father's peace, thats where I can get satisfactions.

Obviously, life will never be always the same. However InsyaAllah, we can always find the peace of mind through prayers and the satisfaction of completing our responsibilities.

Once again, Eid-Ul-Fitr Mubarak!

50 years of improvements? Yes!

Yahoo! Its my country's 50th independence day!

Well, its one of humans' natural behavior to always give negative comments rather than focusing on the positive side of a matter. However, this is due to the will that always says, everything must be excellent! All of us wants to be perfect, even though we can't we can at least get nearer to perfection!

I'm very proud of my country and always looking forward for further developments of my beloved country.

I'm very amazed by two of the semi-government agencies that I've visited recently. The first is the Companies Commision of Malaysia (SSM) I was very impressed by their online interactive system at http://www.ssm.com.my/en/services_eLodgement.php which reflects a good and a bit of practical usage of IT infrastructures to communicate with the public. However, their crowd management concepts still requires lots of improvements to avoid people spending half of their day to get things done.

Secondly, the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) really has a very efficient way of handling 'big' crowds. Arming themselves with a VERY informative website, I would say it's one of the BEST government agency website.

I understand that there are lots of negatives comments are there in everyone's mind same like what I've expressed about the crowd management at SSM. However, I feel that at certain point it's also important for us to stop and look behind to realise that we do have improvements compared to previous years while NOT FORGETTING that there are countries which is far away ahead then us and indirectly might be a threat for us too.

Therefore, the thruth is over the years we've gone through LOTS of developments and it's extremely important for all of us a citizen of this wonderful multi-racial country to constantly remind ourselves that we can contribute to every success of our country.

If everyone does their duty properly there will be more improvements!

No matter whoever you are, be good in it. Be a good student, father, businessman, employee...etc

Happy 50th Indipendence Day!

Advices for a son...

Well, it's father's day today! (",)

Since my father is not physically around, he still remain in my heart and constantly asking Allah to show me the right path in life. I've really learned LOTS of things from him, he is a Do-It-Yourself type of person, getting his hands dirty on some cool stuff at least once a week is something interesting for me as well, from setting up Buglar Alarm system, CCTV systems, fixing electrical distibution boards, setting up backup electical generators, writing computer programs until fixing those water pipes around a premise.... he is really my guru in every discipline.

Performing one of his technical task...

However the most important is the lessons of life, the experiences that a father has gone through. Hence, I was just thinking about what are the best way that a father may teach the lessons of life to his son... So what crossed my mind was one of the best artwork ever produced, the poem "IF" by Rudyard Kipling.

I sincerely feel that my father has thougt all the things mentioned in this wonderful poem as I've said, he is my greatest hero.

Therefore, what I did was I edited the poem and prepared a printable version of it. Then, printed it, make a photocopy to enlarge on an A3 paper, then laminated it. So, I would like to suggest that you should do the same and stick it in your room or office.

Click here to download the poem which I have prepared.

Happy Father's Day...

Please try to SPEND LOTS of TIME with your father, the lessons that you may learn from him is INVALUABLE and not always you can get back the moment...

My GREATEST Hero

FYI, my father had been called by Allah, on 23rd April 2007 at 1230hrs in CRW, HKL. Al-fatihah

For those who wants to contribute an Al-Fatihah, my father's full name is Saiyed Abu Thahir Bin Mohamed Shariff.
His mother's name is Mariam Ammal

My sister and father

It has been a very long time since I updated this site it was about 3 months ago. Within the last few months, there were lost of ups and downs in my life. In fact, it was a direct lesson from Allah to my mom and me. My father passed away in Hospital Kuala Lumpur.

He was admitted for more than two months in the General Hospital in Kuala Lumpur. The initial problem that he had was too much of diarrhea due to a quite rare disease called Ulcerative Colitis. On the 6th day in HKL (20th Feb 2007), co-incidentally he had stroke (blod clot in his right brain) which paralyzed his left hand and leg. At the moment of the storke attack, he also faced problems in breathing. Therefore, he was admitted in ICU twice.

However, I'm very unsatisfied because he had successfully recovered and finally was in a very critical stage due to a bacteria infection called Pneumonia. Based on my own research and interview with some of the top specialists in HKL, they claim that the factor to this problem was the long-term stay in hospital or liquid/food bits went into the lungs. (due to some openings in larynx). Finally what really had at the last minute (around 1145hrs), he heart stopped and the doctors tried to restart the heart by doing CPR more than the normal procedural timeout, they tried for nearly 25 minutes. I feel extremely sad because I wasn't be able to be with him at the moment, the doctors and nurses in CRW doesn't let me enter the ward.

Then, we brought him to our house and kept him until the next day. On 24th April 2007, around 1100hrs, we started to bathed him and prepare him for burrial.

Alhamdulillah, we managed to successfully leave him in peace at the Cheras Baru Muslim cemetery around 1230pm on 24th April 2007.

However, my confidence exceeds my sadness because my father had brought me up in such a positive way.
I'm very extremely proud of him.

He was a GREAT familyman.
He was a GREAT father.
He was a GREAT businessman.
He was a GREAT friend.

I really respect him.

May Allah bless my father.

Please feel free to contribute an Al-Fatihah for my fathers peace in the eternity life.

If you know my father, please forgive him if he had ever accidentally insulted you in anyways.


Btw, I would like to say thanks to:
1. All my relative/family friends/shop staffs for helping and guiding me to manage the funeral as well as gave me motivations.
2. Dr. Thomas, Dr. Ganesh, Dr. Thien, Dr. Melvin Raj, Dr. Kanmani, Dr. Sabihin and some of the ICU & CRW specialist for trying their best.
3. The sister (Chin Au Siang) and nurses of the ward 26, HKL.
4. The Imam of Nurul-Hidayah mosque.

Wassalam.