24 February 2013

Sedalam fikiran manusia

Berapa dalam fikiran manusia? Allah telah pastikan pada kita fikiran manusia terbatas.
Terbatas pada yang ghaib. Terbatas pada nurani level tinggi.
Hukum adat manusia dilahirkan mengikut generasi terdahulu, tanpa menyoal.
Sesetengah aspek kehidupan bernilai untuk dipersoalkan, nilai jawapannya tidak terhingga.

10bulan bekerja sebagai brand ambassador, satu aspek kehidupan yang amat bernilai untuk diterokai adalah fikiran manusia. Elemen paling penting dan dekat dengan manusia. Cara manusia mengawal fikiran dan mengolah energi kepada emosi dan perlakuan. Perbezaan manusia boleh dilihat melalui apa mereka luahkan dan perbuatan yang cuba mereka sampaikan. Perbezaan ini orang bijak pandai gelar sebagai taraf energi fikiran. Lebih tinggi taraf energi fikiran seseorang, lebih elemen positif dan berwibawa akan diluahkan.

Latihan untuk meningkatkan taraf energi ini? Berhenti, ambil nafas dan fikir sewarasnya. Fikirkan solusi dan kurangkan masalah sebanyak yang mungkin. 

17 February 2013

Momento fikiran manusia yang unik. Semakin diterokai, semakin botak kepala sendiri.
Persepsi manusia berbeza-beza, berdasarkan pemahaman dan penerimaan masing-masing.
Orang kata lumrah manusia cari keburukan orang, mungkin benar tapi mungkin terjadi begitu kerana mencari kebaikan diri sendiri. Adat merendahkan manusia lain dan meninggikan diri sendiri ke tahap yang orang bijak gelar syok sendiri.

Ada sebab mengapa Allah menyuruh kita merendah diri. Tidak ego, tidak bangga tak bertempat. Ada sebab mengapa Allah berkata diam itu lebih baik, dan bercakap hanya bila perlu. Dunia zaman sekarang sudah penuh dan mungkin sedikit tercemar dengan unnecessary words yang hanya mencari pasal dan melambangkan tingkat bijaksana yang maaf, rendah.

Botak kepala boleh tumbuh semula dengan Yun Nam Hair Care. Botak ilmu boleh tumbuh semula dengan analisis dan pembacaaan yang progresif, pemahaman yang adil dan keputusan yang bijaksana, setelah memikirkan kesemua perspektif berbeza. Common Sense hanya perlu berhenti, berfikir dan langkah sewajarnya.

Rasanya PRU13 akan mempersembahkan kita dengan aksi-aksi rakyat Malaysia bergaduh dan bertikam lidah kerana obsesi, bukan kerana fakta dan bijaksana.

12 February 2013

Curiosity and Exploration

Bangun pagi, pinggang sakit. Mandi, sejuk, menggigil.
Naik LRT, kelibat lelaki bertongkat di pintu.
Papah, tiada siapa mahu bangun, semua pandang pelik.

LRT bergerak pada had purata 60KM sejam. 
24 stesen dari Kelana Jaya ke Gombak.
29KM perjalanan secara keseluruhannya.

Manusia secara purata mampu berlari sepantas 12KM sejam.
Maksudnya aku boleh tiba di KLCC dalam masa kurang 30minit dengan berlari.
Tetapi campur kesan nafas dan kawalan kaki, mungkin jadi 45minit.

KLCC dibina dalam jangkamasa 5 tahun.
Purata manusia menjadi matang dan boleh berfikir secara realistik adalah semasa umurnya 10tahun.
Tetapi kreativiti dan eksplorasi bermula sejak umurnya...0tahun.

Manusia mula berfikir secara linear dalam purata umurnya 25tahun.
Kreativiti dan eksplorasi memerlukan manusia berfikir secara tidak linear.
Mungkin atas sebab ini imaginasi semakin runtuh tatkala umur meningkat.

Otak manusia secara purata mempunyai kuasa pemproses 100 juta MIPS (sejuta arahan komputer sesaat).
Bermaksud secara purata otak manusia setanding pemproses Pentium 168,0000 MHz.

Unik? Lihat ironinya. Manusia masih lagi membunuh. Masih lagi membuang bayi. Masih lagi mengarut yang bukan-bukan.

29 January 2013

I am truly grateful that people in this world are still capable of producing good movies just like last year's Cloud Atlas. It's amazing how they generated the main idea, the intelligent script and characters.
Just to share on several of memorable quotes from the movie that intrigue my heart and mind:

All quotes retrieved (a good word for copy and paste) from: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1371111/quotes

Javier: What are you reading? 
Luisa Rey: Old letters. 
Javier: Why do you keep reading them? 
Luisa Rey: I don't know. Just trying to understand why we keep making the same mistakes... over and over. 

Timothy Cavendish: I will not be subjected to criminal abuse. 

Haskell Moore: There is a natural order to this world, and those who try to upend it do not fare well. This movement will never survive, if you join them you and your entire family will be shunned. At best you will exist at pariah to be spat at and beaten, at worse to be lynched or crucified. And for what, for what, no matter what you do it will never amount to anything more than a single drop in a limitless ocean. 
Adam Ewing: What is an ocean but a multitude of drops? 

My favorite two:

Sonmi-451: Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others. Past and present. And by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future. 

Sonmi-451: Truth is singular. Its "versions" are mistruths. 

And one quote that touches my heart:

“You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.” 

It just means you're human. That's the exact thing S.Senior mentioned to me before.

28 January 2013

I am not a photographer. Rasa tak layak sangat. Photographer produces outstanding results that touches the human hearts.

I am just a self-proclaimed time freezer and memory builder.
Thaipusam 2013.

Since i got 2 more days for my holidays, I grabbed my camera, took the first LRT in the morning and went straight to Batu Caves without hesitation. I've been missing my cameras so much that I went out for a date with both of them, although most of the time D70s was in my bag, resting himself.
The iconic statue of Lord Murugan, one of the famous Hindu deity as what a local said to me.

One of my favorite shot. 

Also an iconic feature of Batu Caves, the Pigeons. Haha

Hindu devotees with Paal Kodam on their heads.

In pain, I guess.

I guess smoking does help in reduces the pain they feel.

Epic guy. Lifted up a 20kg pole through the 272 steps of Batu Caves' stairs.




Marching towards the caves.

Painting body as a spiritual marks in their sacred journey.

Flowers and other ornaments too.

Epic guy resting.

Epic guy rise again. He sealed his mouth and he reminds me of Bane.

Some of the Hindu devotees in trance.

Epic guy is epic.

Shaved heads.

Going down into the caves.

In pain.

He stood in front of a Kavadee like a Guardian or something.

Blessings.

More blessings.

Several more images inside the caves.

While most of the devotees are in pain, she was always smiling.

Proud Hindu devotee in the caves.

Lord Murugan Statue from behind.

Cheerful fella.

A metal pierced through his lips.

More pictures right after I went down to the entrance. It was hot and thousands of people are still flocking towards the stairs to the caves:
















Fuss Ro Daaahh!




Hey, that's me inside the cave with thousands of Hindu's devotees.