Self-Awakening Last Sunday, I saw an old man collecting tin cans and plastic bottles from a trash can. For people who had never seen this thing would sound bizarre at first but the real reason for his action is just simply an act to stay alive. Selling those empty tin cans and plastic bottles is one way to make a living than lowly counting on someone else begging on the streets for money. This incident made me realize something. Something that gave me an impact on how I’ve lived my life so far. In my whole life from the day I was given birth till today, I’ve never imagined how lucky I’m to be where I’m here today. My everyday meals are under a scholarship so I don’t have to spend even a cent and still be alive for tomorrow’s day to come. Moreover, clothes were bought by my parents eventhough I have enough money to buy them on my own as I’m near my twenties by the way. With all of that being owned, I still wish for more. Hoping to buy new cell phones, laptops, or even games; the usual things you would’ve expected a teenage boy would buy if given a little of allowance every single month. And so from here on out, I want to say “Thank you God”, for being blessed with everything I have in my whole life right now. I would not selfishly spend my money on things I don’t need and be more focus on what’s necessary only. If there are a lot of them, maybe donating it for charity is the best way to use them as it will bring not only joy towards others that need them more than me, but also happiness within their hearts for the rest of their life.

We Are Aliens To all of the animals out there, we are kind of similar to aliens. Like how in the movies the aliens want to take over the planet by destroying the humanity and what not, there are quite the similarities going on about in there. When we need more space to fulfill our kinds a place to settle in, the animals were outcast away from their homes and force to search a new one instead brings about the whole nature of aliens that we frequently see in the movies not to mention the chopping of trees and the disrupting of the whole stabilized eco-system since the Ice Age in the process. With heavy machinery and big photon cannon like saw coming down clearing the forest up from its natural origin until our needs have come true. And with all of that being done, a simple ‘sorry’ haven’t been given by us towards those runaway animals and also to the Mother Nature itself. True the world we live in now does have its share for animals to live in harmony and roam freely without us bothering it but was the past like this? It was way much better in the animal’s point of view and so hereby I say, "sorry dear animals".

Poem: The Lady Covered in Red *Try reading it with Barney Stinson's intonation in mind. That would make the poem sound much more interesting. :) 'Twas the time that class had started. I laid on the seat looking in my sleep, 'Twas wonderful at first but boy I was fooled. A lady in red stood before me grinning as I see, Before I could speak a voice came closer “Get out”, she said as the time ticks at 2. Without further a due my legs move forward, Quiet it was owh so have I felt. But then came a sound with a smell that was terror, Knowing like that I turned my back facing the lady, I said, “Won’t you join me?” following a cracked. And thus ends the tale of the lady covered in red.

New Semester, New Determination, Same Companions Now it had started the new semester in my university. Although the breaks of one month were short but well studying is my top priority in gaining my future dream and that’s why this semester I would give my best a whole lot more than before. It’s fun seeing my friends again who have struggled with me for the past half a year with all the tears and body-breaking events from failing and doing school work but all of that hard work were worth the effort given. We all have being through those events and again this time it would happen also in the new semester. It is tiresome to do it all over again but with different new things being learn each day with all of my loving friends standing by my side, each day is a blessing indeed. :D

What Video Games really are Children these days are attracted to video games. Why? It’s because of the pleasure they get when they try it that they can’t get anywhere else. In video games, anything can happen. You can be a general of an army and battle the forces that stand in your way or you can be a pirate of the seven seas challenging the high tides in searching for the greatest treasure in the world beyond their wildest dream. The boundaries are limitless and that is what kept them coming back for more. It’s a medium to express ones internal desire of being free from all the rules of the world and also to spread ones imagination across an imaginary 2D or 3D environment while keeping your actions intact and your body out of harm. And by these meaning no harm are being done in the world over. That is being good enough rather than being doing robberies or racing down the streets full of (unrelated with the racing) families and friends who just wanting to go back home and end their day with a good night sleep. That action could cause death and despair to everyone else and also it’s a public menace that disturbs even the hobo. Moreover, the mind of a child can expand in knowledge as strategies are being introduced to that child in a number of ways as they’re cracking the problems they faced in the journey towards success. Also new words and vocabularies can be learn in the language the games are being played in not to mention the effect it will bring in their studies such as English, Math and also Physics. Many people don’t know about importance in this thing especially grownups because they never had even played Mario (or Tetris maybe). Other than that, it soothes the mind, the emotion, and makes you go to a place where the real world couldn’t possibly ever reach in a million years. It is place where all is one where you got to strengthen up bonds, meet new peoples, stumble across new ways of thinking and above all be who you ever wanted to be. May the force be with you. :D

Real Success Begins at Heart Every point in life, choices must be made in order to move on to the next one. Either you sink or float, it all depends on what you really want to do rather than what everyone else wants you to do. You will be happy and at ease if you just stick to your heart. People may provoke you to choose this and that choices but think for a moment of what you really want the most. You can only achieve real success in life if you pull it together mentally and internally all the way around with your own power as the power borrowed from the encouragement of friends and family (only) doesn’t last very long though that same encouragement can help you in the making of your own power. From that moment on, the power you have gained can overcome any obstacle you’ll stumble across upon. Although sometimes you fail or you fail again and again but if you have the power, you can climb back up again and so nothing would be impossible. If you just gave up and left your battle mid-way through then nothing can change. Just think about it if Thomas Edison gave up on the light bulb after all that failure he have experienced (about 1000 times), can we use light bulbs right now? We would still be using candles like the old ages if that what he has decided back then. Remember nobody can change who you are. ”You are the pilot of your own life”; it is only you yourself that can change for who you want to be. All in all if you are satisfied with your own choices, then what’s there to lose?

The Best Moments Ever Being Relive Last weekend, I visited my friends in my previous university which is University of Malaya. To go there, I have to take the bus for 1 hour, aboard a train, standing for at least another hour and use a cab which consume another 30 minutes of the day. Although the road trip towards it was long and tiresome but seeing them again makes it all worth it. At that time around, they were busy preparing for their final semester exam for next week. Seeing them working hard like there’s no tomorrow makes me wonder, what about me? I’m also taking an exam but it is in 2 months time and I see it like it’s still too far away. Even though that, 2 months isn’t really that far away as day by day, sooner or later we will truly feel the date line. And so I search for my notes and start reading along with them although we have different subjects to cover for each of our exams. During that time, some of them discussing about questions that they weren’t quite fond of seeing them like that makes me want to just help them out a bit easing their pressure of the upcoming exam. Truth be told, I can’t do a thing towards them and this sickens me. I wish I could help them out but with the different syllabus currently studying, I don’t think I could assist them. But still, some of the questions I still manage to help them out, as before I was studying along beside them. It feels great being able to that although it’s a minor one. We’ve started our studies at 9.00 o’clock p.m and ended it around 2.00 o’clock. Eventhough it was late at night, we were still continuing sitting in the Cafeteria of KK12 (although one of us wanted to call it a day) telling among ourselves various stories and opinions in their lives such as previous school managements and the daily lives we have there. It was totally a fun and lively moment and it lasted a surprising 4 hours until day breaks. It was a nostalgic feeling as I was a part of them once again. Laughing and telling off one another was the best thing that I could ever get in my life and I wish it didn’t end ever. The next day on Sunday evening, my visit ends there. Parting them again saddens me but we will surely meet again and again in the near future. Whenever the world is still a whole, a meeting is possible if Allah The Almighty allow us. Amin……..

Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, Forever Every now and then, our fates will change for the better or worse and being cross upon one and another whither we like it or not. Even so, the bonds we have formed in our journey that we call life, will never fade away as long as we cherished it until the end of time. With it brings me a place to express my inner feelings and a place of sanctuary from the mischiefs and hardships that fall upon my life with all the supports that had been given to me and it brings me the strength to move on forward despite the bitterness life itself could bring towards me. A place where all my worries will vanish before me, the second I’ve met them and told them what I were lacking off the most at that moment. And that is a place that I called, CLOSE FRIENDS. They are my backbone in succeeding life whenever I’m and wherever I were. Who won’t take a friend’s problems as someone else’s but like their own. Who would stand beside me through thick and thin, laughing and crying together through ups and downs in any means necessary. Other than that in their presence, they’ll bring my life more meaning with each passing day from early daybreak to the late of the night that arouse a sense of joy in me along the way and make myself wanting for tomorrow’s day to come around. They are the ones that form each of my personalities into the way that I’m now. Without them around me, life would be a dull and boring one and I’m very grateful to be able to meet each and every one of them eventhough the time we’ve spent together was very short indeed. If I were given one more chance in this world to do anything that I want, it is to be able to stand beside them once more. There are no substitutes that could replace them and whatever they gave me, will always be in my heart forever. Now as I stand in front of a window looking towards the starry black sky, all that I could think of is that we can surely meet each other again as long as God is willing to make that come true. ~Dedicated towards my friends whom I can't see as much as I used too.

The ‘If’ Word When you have just happen to experience a downfall in your action, usually you would say “If only I’ve done that instead of this,” or “If there was some way I could turn back time, maybe things will be much better,”. With these sentences being spoken off, it seems like you don’t appreciate the way things are and the effects of it. It happens because of your own action and on your own free will without anybody forcing you to do so. So why do you feel regret about it? Everything in life happens for a reason. For instance, you have done an examination and the results of it got you into a university other than the university of your choice. Then here and there ranting voice could be heard. “If only I’ve had tried my best in the exam, I would be studying under the roof of my dream university by now.” It would be a ridiculous thing to say for an event that had happen in the past in the present! During that time studying under an under grade university (as what you want it to be), you would eventually meet new friends and gain a whole new different perspective on things as well as gaining a lot of experience along the way. Ain’t that a blessing. So what was there to be regreted about? Have you ever thought that for a second if your life went in the direction that you’ve always wanted to be, you won’t be encountering others? Think about it and appreciate what the course of life had been drawn upon you for every step you take, lies in the action that you do. A friend of mine had told me the significance of this word and so here I passed it down to all of you to stop regretting the past and relive the future that we can reach and grasp in our hands.