1 year after graduating from university

The letter for fresh graduates, 

Congratulations for you, especially for those who strive hard in university life, actively engage in all events, at the same time have to maintain the cgpa in studies. This will definitely be the greatest memories in your life that you will never forget and it will also be a great training for you to prepare you before stepping into the real world. 

If you were to struggle in deciding which path to go, do not give up in searching. Start something instead of doing nothing. It would be great to begin with internship, it doesn't matter whether it is a well established company or a small business company. From there you get to understand more about your ability, your area of interest and from there you get to know more of your weakness and strength. Some colleagues may share you their experiences, you are able to learn knowledge and experience on how you look at certain problems and situations. At the end of the day, you will finally realise effective communication also place a very important role in our part of life. 

A year ago, I feel fortunate to met such a great colleagues, boss, especially my senior. (Only get to know her during internship). They helped me well in sharing how to get things done in a correct way and  guided me when I am in doubt and do not know what to do, it wouldn't be that easy without their support. This wonderful internship experience only last for 14 weeks. After the internship, one of my colleagues introduced me to her friend's company as they provide some head count in several departments. I sent my resume to her, she then helped me to forward it to the respective department for further procedures. 

After a week later, I got a call from the company for interview. Yes, I went to the interview. Two tall and big man interviewed me. Asked me some questions on how to handle rare situations. I tried my best to answer all the questions with confident base on my previous working experiences. Finally I got the call from HR that I got the job in two weeks time. The first three months of working may not be a favour for me, due to the huge transition from an instore sales became on field sales, from waiting customer to approach you became you approach customer face to face. The travel distances may not be that near too. That's why the first few months has been a  quite challenging months for me, but I can finally say that I already get over it. Now I finally confirmed and getting used to the working pattern. 

Do not give up, do not give up, and do not give up so easily! Is what keeps me going. I always gratitude to those who helped me and support me along the way. Thanks for everything my family and friends as well as my pretty girl friend that always believing in me. 

All the best to you too. 

Life is short, so do something that you will thank for yourself in the future! 

Inspire and Be Inspired

Today is the second day of  Raya! Most people are spending their holiday with family and friends in this special occasion. Yesterday, I saw a bunch of foreigner (guessing they are either from Indonesia or Bangladesh) in the public transport, all get dressed-up nicely and tidy to enjoy the first day of holiday!.

Have a sudden thought of how wonderful, if I were to be the same like them to have holiday with family for a special vacation together again. Since the day I came back from Labuan until now almost a month time, I have never had a chance to even eat with whole family together. Anyway, I still need to work on this holiday.

Currently, I am working in a toys shop "PHOENIX COLLECTIBLES". This shop is basically selling hot toys and sideshow toys which are made from Hong Kong and US. There are various types of toy such as Spiderman, Superman, Predator, Iron man, General Zod and many more of the figures you might be familiar with, perhaps they are one of your favourite character too? This job is an easy going job, what I needed to do is mainly to stay in the shop and wait for people to come in.( such a lifeless job). Yeah, is quite lifeless and I am bored to hell now. Luckily, they provided me wifi, so that I can access to internet just to fill up my time when there is no customer. Many people tend to ask, especially all my friends that come over and when they look at the price, they automatically will started to ask me " what!? you kidding me? This little toys can get up to RM100? You must be crazy! Got people buy one ah?" All kind of reaction and questions they will make after they saw all the prices. HAHA. All this toys is for two types of people to buy, first is those who really like the figure of it. Mostly they started during teenagers time, around 12years old an above.( For sure they have no financial problem and which their parents are afford to buy for their wants). Other than that, they are surely the second types which is they buy all figures for keeping purpose to invest for some benefit. They make this toys as an investment, in hoping they can sell to others in a much higher prices in future. Some may even says that it is better of buying this toys than going for clubbing or smoking, which is a good hobbies and investment for their life. Different people has different kind of perspective towards all these toys. In my opinion, if you are happy in doing things that you like and it will not affect other people, then why not?

By the way, now I would like to share something about a video that I had watched in youtube. This video has more or less inspired me and I think is good for us to reflect and practice this together in making the better world to live. There are two young man was searching for two unemployed people for a shooting. They found men, one black and one white. This two unemployed men are required to arm wrestle and see who wins. The winners is rewarded a 100 dollar. (but they are not told the loser is going to have a 50dollar too). After telling the rules of the game and reward of it, they started the challenge. At the end, the black man has won the game and being rewarded the 100 dollar! Who knows, soon after he got the 100 dollar, he then give his 50 dollar to the white man. The white man was reluctant to accept it at first, because he accepted the facts that he has lose the match, but the black man insisted to give him the money. This is what I am really inspired of. How many people are willing to give the others when they have got the money, if you were the black man, will you give you 50 dollar to the white? That man don't even have a money, he even told the two young men that the most he will get to beg is 6 dollar a day. Imagine, he could have get a better clothes or even eat better after getting the 100 dollar. But he choose to share the half of it to the other person. This shows that, there is still love, courage and compassion people that live in this world and he had showed us that it's possible to have a win win situation. The world is enough resources for the man in this earth, but not the greed of a man". Every day is a day to inspire and be inspired. 

Selamat Hari Raya

On the way to work, had a conversation with the taxi driver. 

Me: hey, tak balik kampung?
Taxi driver: Tak balik kampung nie. Tahun ni buat kat rumah di Puchong.
Me: Oh, Puchong dekat je. Kampung kat mane? knapa tak balik Kampung? 
Taxi driver: Sebab semua adik-beradik pun tinggal kat KL, lebih senang. Klau balik, kena jam lagi. Tambahan pula rumah tua sudah tiada dan tiada orang tinggal sudah. 
Paling penting sekali, orang tua sudah tiada. Oleh itu, tahun ini tak balik.
Me: Yea la. Walaupun sama-sama tinggal kat KL, pun jarang berkumpul ataupun berjumpa terutamanya apabila orang tua sudah tiada. Raya ialah hari yang special dan peluang untuk bersama ahli keluarga, kawan kawan dan jiran.
Taxi driver: yea la tu. Saya taxi driver, tak payah mengambil leave. Bila-bila boleh balik rumah utk meraih.
Me: Bgus tu. Saya kena kerja lgi.. Semua kawan sedang cuti.
Taxi driver: ok jugak. Raya banyak customer, orang banyak shopping.

One of the big reason why people "balik Kampung" is because they wanted to visit the old one. Your father and mother or your grandfather and grandmother. Usually with their existence, going hometown is a must, because you don't always go back for no reason. You will take this opportunity to go back to the place because they are still around. But once they are no longer exist, balik kampung just seems lacking of something. Is something we call" home". Some may no longer taking this chance or opportunity to go back for this special occasion with your family. I am not trying to emphasize on whether you are going back or not. What I am trying to say is that the balik kampung feeling will be different when they are not around. No matter how, whether the old one still alive or not. Take this opportunity to go home for them. I know, its not possible for some people, due to they have to work for a living and there may be some other reasons where you can't go back for it, but at least a call or even a message of wishing can make them happy. Treasure your family and friends when you are still alive, because you may never know when are you leaving this world.

Therefore, whether you are balik kampung or not, or you still need to work on this holiday, enjoy your day and have a great day! Wishing everyone Selamat Hari Raya, especially for the Malays!:)

Every stories behind

Had a chat with my boss this morning. He shared about how his friend had influenced him all the way when he was in high school back then. He was dealing with anxiety, where he was extremely afraid of people around him and he was refused to make friends with all the classmates when he was in his lower form( form 1 until form 3) back then. Despite of that, he met a friend, without knowing the reason why he doesn't afraid of being friend with him. He told me that that friend was the only friend who he can ever accepted at that time and when they hanged out together, the friend was the only one who will talked by himself and laughed by himself. My boss will remained silent all the time seeing that fellow laughing at his own jokes all the time. That friend has brought a big impact to my boss's life, because of his friend's effort, my boss started to open-up his heart to accept the people around him and he even started to make friends with them. I could feel how grateful my boss towards his friend that had help him when he was at the most suffer times, regardless of how he treated him from the past. He may have ignored him, but his friend had never once giving up to cheer up him, until he was fully recovered and became a cheerful person. Since then, their friendship's bond stronger and still counting on. From his story, it reminding me that each and everyone of us have our own stories in life, regardless of whether we are in the state of happy moment or we are feeling sad at the moment, you must believe that everything happens for a reason. You are born to be happy. Despite all the suffering, it can bring you to be a better person. When you are suffer, you have got the chance to understand others, when others are experiencing the same situation or same state of mind. You may be able to help out the person who are dealing with the similar suffer. Only with that, we have that compassionate heart, we learnt to care for others, we learnt to help others when they are needed. Life is full of happiness when each and everyone of us started to care for others and help each others. Only through a sincere dialogue, we can understand more about someone's deep in the heart, breaking the invisible wall in our heart, to open-up and gain that trust in between. With this, can make make a better and happy world.

So, let's start to dialogue with a friend today!:)

Seeds of hope

Time flies. The last post was posted during the first sem for first week of orientation and settled down in Labuan. Now, is already the second sem and sooner to say hello for second year in UMS. Studying in a university is still a dream, which I never even thought of it and it seems like I'm still in dreaming in a flash of an eye. Everything seems going on too fast that I can't feel how great is this environment and how much I am growing to be a better person.

Currently, we are doing an exhibition "Seeds of Hope" in UMSKAL. We have some well-trained narrators from students in UMS to bring out the essence of the exhibition to the whole UMS student as well as lecturers and staffs. " It starts with one" is the theme of the exhibition. "You may never know what the outcome will be with your action. But, if you do nothing, there will be no changes."quotes from Mahatma gandhi.

I have joined this exhibition for twice being a narrator. Every time I narrate, I have different thought and feeling. It is  really a great exhibition that encourages us to never give up on doing the right things. Only through perseverance and working tremendously hard that enables us to achieve our goals. Not only that, only through success that we can be the inspiration for others to strive for a better living.

Through all these activities, it does inspire me to work better, to stive and start to take action on taking challenges in life.  Therefore, today is the last day of exhibition to bring out the "hope" to each and everyone in UMSKAL.

Super Random

It has been so long that I've never update my blog and this blog has becoming so so so so so dead. I don't know why I just feel like blogging at this time , this moment and this second. There are many things that we just can't describe in words when you just feel right to do something for example "feeling". When I ask a girl why are you choosing that guy instead of choosing a better looking, more rich or a taller guy? and many many more why. But they will never manage to give you the answer. Most of the girls will end up be telling you that "Feeling is not something that you can ever describe, when the feeling comes, there goes our relationship gets started". So, the long elaborations is just for the purpose of telling you that, there is no reason when you just feel like doing something randomly. Life is full of random, you may plan to study, but you will never know that you will be end up going out with friends or watching your favourite movies or even decide to sleep.

So, now I am being very random that I feel to write something. Blogging is a way of expressing your own feelings and thoughts that you can write as many as you like, as many as you wish like nobody business. You are not following the format just like what you have learned in your  english lessons, one essays have to be in 5 paragraphs. Blogging is the way of how you use the words to expressing yourself without limitations, is how the way you use the beauty of language in your own ways. That is why I just feel right to blog now, when you have the inspirations to write, just do it. ( Nike slogan" Just Do It").

Sorry for being bullshiting around. Lol! Okay, just  briefly write what is going to happen after this week( after 7 days). Guess what? STPM is just NEXT MONDAY! NEXT MONDAY!!?? To be honest, I don't really know what have I done for the passed one and a half year in form 6's life. The only things that I can differentiate the life in Form 6 and Form 5 is that we are now have more priorities, freedoms and craziness compared to form 5's life. I am still the lazy me, super super super lazy. Chinese quotes:" The stages where there are no ways to cure the laziness of me". But still, I am trying very hard to change this bad habits and I know telling this wouldn't make me better. Is only through actions can change ones habits. After today, there are only 6 days left. Wish me luck then! I will do whatever ways I can to study as many as possible. That's the only way, no turning back and keep moving forward!
FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT to the END!

坚持

考试要到了，我渐渐觉得自己缺乏坚持和信念。
很多时候都是因为抱着过去，不好的经历，所以一路以来都是对自己缺乏信心，有时会觉得自己什么事情都办不到。

有时，也会给自己借口不去做自己应该做的事情。
我到底想什么？连我自己也不知道。

下定决心的时候，这把热火也只是三分钟热度，没起很大的作用。

自己不努力，而只会埋怨父母，埋怨环境。这不是应该有的姿态. 可是，这就是我的弱点。

为了找回那股信念，才让我想起自己通过纸飞机测试时所写的稿，从中找到“坚持”这篇稿。所以决定重看，来鼓励自己。

这就是我所写的稿，希望除了能够鼓励自己之外，也能够鼓励到正在想放弃的你。加油！

《坚持》

我们往往只关注企业成功人士令人羡慕的成果，却忽略了他们背后所付出的巨大代价和心酸经历。但因着强烈的动机，以及清晰的目标，他们凭着极大的忍耐与毅力逐步迈向今天的成果。

1982年纽约市举行的马拉松比赛，出现了一位传奇人物——琳达.唐恩（Linda Down）。 琳达是一位先天性脑部麻痹患者，由于缺乏协调平衡能力，必须依靠拐杖行动，行走很不方便。这位天生挠性麻痹患者在成长的过程中所面对的拦阻和挑战，绝对是旁观人难以想象的，但琳达一直以来又一个梦想：希望能够像正常人一样参加马拉松比赛。

二十八岁那一年，琳达报名参加了纽约马拉松赛跑，身边的朋友都觉得琳达一定是疯了，但她却希望借着这次经验告诉自己和身边的人：忍耐到底、坚定不移的精神能够帮助我们完成许多旁人认为不可能的事。靠着坚定的毅力和一副拐杖，他用了十一小时又五十四秒的时间，完成了23.2公里的马拉松赛程。事后在记者的访谈中，以下一段说话更激励众人：

我为这场比赛准备了整整一年的时间，其中有好几次我都觉得自己真的做不到。我最好的一次训练成绩是维持跑了七个小时，此后就一直无法突破这个纪录——最多也只能跑七个小时了。我曾经想：“我做了参赛的决定实在是愚蠢极了。”但我最终还是坚持到了终点! 我实现了自己的梦想! 我跑完了全程29.2公里。

我预想比赛的结果会糟糕透顶，而且我猜想所有人大概也都这么们为我最多只能跑几步而已。这种悲观的预测反而消除了我的后顾之忧，因为对我来说，无论跑多远都是一种成就。起跑之前，我完全不知道自己能否坚持完成全程，只是一直想着往前冲。结果，我用了一时半刻恐怕没人能“打破”我所创下的这一特殊“纪录”了! 

琳达一出生就已经或在对她极不利的处境，但种种不利因素并没有把她击垮，反而磨练它形成异与常人的坚毅个性，以另类方式向世人宣告：每个人都有权利追寻属于自己的理想。

然而，对于我们所立下的目标，下定决心要努力的时候，这份坚持的热度不能维持，无法持之以恒。因为这样也许会开始对自己没有信心，想放弃的念头越来越肯定。

可是池田先生有说过：人大多是这样的。虽然如此，“下决心”这件事本身就是前进的证明。就算是“三天打鱼两天晒网”一再重复的话，结果也很可观。

还有“再多努力5分钟”这心态也很重要。想停下来，要休息时，再多努力5 分钟。 比别人多努力5 分钟的人是了不起的，会取得胜利。这就是人生。