Salat (Video)

The importance of salat in our life

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Have faith in Allah S.W.T

Is it true that God exists? "Dahri launch event argument.

"Indeed God does exist", said Abu Hanifa.

"If God is realized (figure), where is the place?" Dahri sound increasingly rising.

"God still exists and he has no place!" Obviously Abu Hanifa.

"Strangely, you say God exists, but where is God?" Dahri Protest throwing cynical smile to the audience.

"Ah, Just you look at yourself. Isn't in you, have a soul", Abu Hanifah began to argue.

People are starting to notice this trend of young scientists speech.

"Indeed I have  life, and indeed every creature that breathes there a soul!" Dahri said.

"But, do you know where is the soul or spirit is it? In the head, stomach, or whether at the end of your feet?"

Dahri moment snapped. People began to whisper among themselves.

After that, Abu Hanifah took a glass of milk and shown it to Dahri then said: "Is this milk contained fat?"

Dahri quickly answered: "Yes, of course!"

Abu Hanifah said: "If so, where is the fat? At the top or the bottom?

Dahri gasped again unable to answer questions such eloquent Abu Hanifah.



"Untuk mencari di manakah beradanya roh dalam jasad dan terletak di manakah kandungan lemak dalam air susu ini juga kita tidak berupaya, masakan pula kita dapat menjangkau di manakah beradanya Zat Allah SWT di alam maya ini? Zat yang telah mencipta dan mentadbir seluruh alam ini termasuk roh dan akal dangkal kita ini. Juga ciptaanNya yang tunduk dan patuh di bawah urusan tadbir kerajaanNya Yang Maha Agung!”

Sesungguhnya kita ini hanyalah hamba-Nya yang mempunyai sedikit pengetahuan.Pemikiran kita tidak mampu untuk mengetahui sesuatu yang diluar jangkauan pemikiran kita disebabkan keterbatasan akal fikiran kita.walaupun kita mengetahui sesuatu, itu semua datang dari Allah S.W.T

Cukuplah kita mengetahui Allah S.W.T itu wujud dan Dialah yang kekal selama-selamanya. 

(Quotes from lala rahim)

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Become so good at what you do, that you cannot be ignored.

Have you ever heard the saying “Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody wants to do the dishes”?

It is like this with some (not all, but some, of our Muslim brothers and sisters) – those who are essentially absent from the present, dreaming of the future, yearning for the past, but neglecting what has to be done in the present.

Consider, for example, how often we hear young Muslim men and women saying, “we need more Muslims in science!”, or “we need more female engineers, doctors, lawyers, architects!”, or “we need to cultivate our knowledge and rebuild our civilisation – look how behind we are from where we could be!” – yet we often find many of the same people unwilling to simply keep up in their studies, to focus on what opportunities have come to them, or to even support those around them who are striving in those ways.

Some may say, “we should not seek progress just for the sake of progress, as do many secular societies”. It is true that “progress” in of itself is not something to be worshipped. However, the difference for Muslims is that, for Muslims, we seek progress (e.g. improving technology, medicine, strength of resources) purely to serve our Creator, by fulfilling our duties to His Creation.

On a recent episode of Women’s AM (Islam Channel) that I appeared on, called ‘Islam and Science’, it was mentioned how many of the great engineers and scientists of Islam’s past were women, and how these extraordinary cases should be seen again. The thing is, women excelling in such fields was never a big deal in Islamic history – it was taken as a given that women could and would do those things – it was really no big deal. That is what made Islam so great – excellence was its standard. To achieve that standard again, brothers and sisters, we have to be present in the present. If you really want to see Islamic civilisation thrive once again, work hard on what you’re doing, and “become so good at what you do, that you cannot be ignored”.

(The Islam Channel episode discussing ‘Islam and Science’ will be uploaded by the Islam Channel team soon.)

-Quoted from Zara Faris blog.

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The true reason for us to study

 Based on the picture above, the man is neglecting his wife's demand because of football addict. Yes, there are many people addicted to football. 

 The truth is, I have also started to be addicted to football when I was in boarding school. The people: students, teachers, principal and even the school guards are addicted to football.

 I don't know why I'm writing this but I just want to tell that, football is nothing but distraction. Yes, Alhamdulillah I have realized it. I have realized it when I came to study in INTEC. Everyone here are actually don't care or give a shit about it.

 The best part is, I now realized that spending time to learn the true meaning of life is the most important in the world. The are too many things for us to study about. The knowledge about the presence life and the-after life. Yup, the things that I want to tell is actually related to religion and can be accepted by people world wide.

 We need to know who's our God and to literally know who is Him, we need to be receptive to change. Stop reading and watching things related to football. Start your day with Basmallah and may the guidance from God always by our side.

Importance of Education

In a society where religion and knowledge in general and science in particular do not go hand in hand, it seems necessary to briefly describe the position of Islam vis-à-vis knowledge, Islam, in theory as well as in practice, has always promoted knowledge. Distinctive mark of human beings over the an­gels is knowledge:

"And Allah taught Adam all the names…” (2:31)

The first verses of the Quran began with the word:

"Read. Read in the name of thy Lord who created; [He] created the human being from blood clot. Read in the name of thy Lord who taught by the pen: [He] taught the human being what he did not know." (96: 1-5).

The Qur'an says.

"Are those who have knowledge equal to those who do not have knowledge?!”(39:9).

The Prophet of Islam (peace be upon him and his progeny) has also empha­sized the importance of seeking knowl­edge in different ways:

(a) Time: "Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave."

(b) Place: "Seek knowledge even if it is far as China."

(c) Gender: "Seeking of knowledge is a duty of every Muslim"

(d) Source: "Wisdom is the lost prop­erty of the believer, he should take it even if finds it in the mouth of amushrik."

The Prophet did not only preach about importance of knowledge, he also gave examples of promoting knowledge. In the very first battle between the Muslims and unbelievers or Mecca, known as the war of Badr, the Muslims gain victory and caught seventy kuffars as prisoners of war. One of the criteria of releasing the POWs devised by the Prophet was that those who were literate among the pris­oners could go free if they teach ten Mus­lim children how to read and write.

What Type of Knowledge?

Knowledge in Islam is normally di­vided into two broad categories: there is a famous saying "al-'ilm "ilman: 'ilmu- adyan wa ilmu abdan - knowledge is of two kinds: the knowledge concerning religions and the knowledge concerning [human and physical] bodies." What has been mentioned above on the importance of knowledge refers to both, the religious as well as the secular knowledge.

The Quran has specifically talked about science also:

"In the creation of the heavens and the earth the alternation of the night and the day, in the ships that sail in the sea with their load…. in the rain which Allah sends down from the sky and thus revives the earth after its death; and then He spread in all kinds of animals; in the changing of the winds: in the clouds which have been left suspending between the heaven and the earth -in all these are clear signs for the people who understand” (2:164)

"We shall show them Our signs in the horizons and in themselves." (41:53)

The backwardness of the Muslims in last few centuries, as far as education is concerned, is because of the following:

• The Muslims lost leadership in the field of physical science and technology because of arrogance which led to stag­nation.

• The invasion by the Mongols, who were barbarians and did not appreciate the value of knowledge: they burned down the most prestigious libraries in Baghdad.

• In the nineteenth century, when the Muslims attempted to revive the process of education and knowledge in their so­cieties, they naively adapted the western secular system which had completely separated the religious sciences from the secular sciences. (Example of the Turk­ish reformers of the last century and also Egyptian intellectuals of the early twen­tieth century, especially Dr. Taha Husayn in his Mustaqbilu ‘th-Thaqafah fi Misr. We can also mention Sir Syed Ahmad Khan of India.) The Muslim world is still suf­fering from the dissection between the re­ligious and secular sciences.

Remember, our Imams have said that if you have to select between wealth and knowledge, go for knowledge: wealth can he stolen but knowledge can never be taken away; wealth decreases with us­age but the more you use your knowl­edge the more you increase in it.

Look at the examples of our Imams: the rulers took away the wealth but they could not take away the knowl­edge which had been bestowed upon them by Allah. In spite of all the bitter­ness between Imam Ali and first caliphs, the second caliph used to approach Imam Ali whenever he could not resolve a legal or Qur'anic problem.

We are in minority in this continent; when political stability and economic prosperity is there, we as immigrants or minorities are acceptable. But no one knows what will happen to the present tolerant environment when the economic indicator goes down or these countries lose their political stability. Look at the anti-immigrant, sentiments in Europe during the last two years. Our wealth may be taken away; but if we have knowledge, no one will be able to deprive us of it. With knowledge, we may regain our wealth; but with wealth, you cannot buy knowledge.

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Berdoa Dalam Bahasa Arab

       Kerohanian is all about feeling the moment of connection with God dan dasar kerohanian adalah pemahaman  . Tanpa pemahaman, seorang muslim atau sesiapa saja yang mengakui sebagai penganut sesuatu agama, hanya  mengamati  konsep taklid ( blind adherence without comprehension of the merit it constitute).  Tanpa pemahaman juga setiap ibadah menjadi kosong kerana hilang penghayatan sebenar yang ibadah tersebut ingin utarakan kepada pelaku nya. Seakan akan ibadah tersebut hanya dilakukan untuk memenuhi kehendak agama yang dianuti . Ibadah memerlukan keikhlasan dan keikhlasan hanya dapat diwujudkan melalui pemahaman. Ibadah kerohanian memerlukan pemahaman.

     

     Berdoa adalah sebahagian daripada ibadah yang berada dalam kedudukan murunah( fleksibel dan boleh diubah bacaaannya mengikut kehendak pembaca selagi berada dalam ruang dinamik nya) . Doa amat penting kerana orang yang meninggalkan nya seperti berlaku sombong kepada Tuhan. Doa menjadi perantaraan antara individu dengan pencipta-Nya, doa melahirkan rasa kehambaan dalam jiwa seorang muslim khususnya. Kita berdoa untuk mendapat rahmat daripada Allah agar Allah membahagiakan kita dunia akhirat.

    

      Doa tanpa pemahaman. Berdoa dalam keadaan tidak memahami apa yang disebut amatlah mendukacitakan. Kerana ingin memenuhi keafdhalan berdoa dalam bahasa Arab, masyarakat Malaysia khusus nya sanggup mengadaikan pemahaman . Malangnya hanya sedikit yang sedar akan keutamaan pemahaman mengatasi keafdhalan berdoa dalam bahasa Arab. Without pemahaman our direct hotline to God is being disconnected because the doa does not reach its goal that is to produce humility and ketawadukkan . Adakah doa yang tidak mempunyai ketawadukan dan humility akan diterima oleh Allah, padahal  itu adalah jiwa ibadah? So I would argue that pemahaman provides the means for humility, ketawadukkan, kehambaan, keamataan, dan penghayatan dalam doa dan tanpa pemahaman doa hanya kosong walaupun ia dibaca dalam bahasa Arab. Hilang kerohanian  apabila membaca doa tanpa pemahaman.

   

     Bahasa Arab dan Doa. Each and every muslim should take an effort to study Arabic dan saya tidak menafikan tanggungjawab itu.  Namun begitu,bila mengambil kira pelbagai faktor,  masa dan keadaan sekarang amatlah sempit dan menutup kebanyakkan ruang untuk mempelajari Bahasa Arab seperti keadaan kebanyakan  remaja sekarang termasuk diri  saya.   Alhamdulillah atas nikmat dan ilmu yang Allah telah berikan kepada orang yang berpeluang mempelajari bahasa Arab kerana latar belakang mereka yang tertentu. Tetapi , adakah bermakna penghayatan pemahaman dalam doa hanyalah eksklusif kepada orang yang belajar bahasa Arab? Pada pendapat saya tidak . Justeru itu , salah satu cara untuk menimbulkan pemahaman dalam doa tanpa meninggal keafdhalan bahasa Arab adalah dengan membaca doa dalam Arab dan diiringi dengan pembacaan terjemahannya dalam bahasa ibunda. Ini adalah satu solusi yang mengambil berat akan kepentingan kedua dua nya, a win-win solution.

     

         Doa jemaah. Oleh kerana itu, seafdhal nya adalah lebih baik bagi imam yang berdoa selepas solat tidak berdoa dalam bahasa Arab dengan penghayatan seorang diri. Since kita adalah satu jemaah, saya mencadangkan imam membaca doa Arab dengan iringan terjemahannya agar semua makmum yang berkemungkinan cetek ilmu Arab nya,  dapat bersama-sama menghayati doa dengan tawaduk berserta pemahaman. Ini secara tidak langsung juga dapat menyemarak kan kerohanian para makmum yang mengamiin-kan doa tersebut secara bersama.  

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My Passion

        Effort . I have struggle for UPSR. Scan books into my head for PMR, fall sick studying hard for SPM, but was all that worth it? Worth awhile i would say but not anymore. Some might point out, if i didnt get 5A's for UPSR i wouldn't get admitted into the best secondary school in Port Dickson, then i wouldn't get 8A's for PMR which got me into first class in upper secondary, which pressurized and push me into getting 7A+  3A's for  SPM and consequently got me a sponsorship to further studies abroad. They have a point to hammer home . Im not trying to brag here but i don't feel the knowledge and the education. I felt the achievement and the happiness of getting awarded though, but deep inside i know the truth that i was nothing but a guy who work hard, who burnt the midnight oil, wasted tons of papers writing notes and pasted it on the wall, and squander precious time on books which no further help me in my life and yet failed to feel the education . And now im in Intec doing my foundation for 2 years before hopely succeeded to be qualified and be accepted into the university in United States .

         Time and Dreams. I have change the motives of my education. Im not studying for marks any longer, i wont spend time on books just to score exam papers, quizzes and test (apparently currently i have 3 types of pressure cooker). Im building and carving the foundation of my life not my studies, I own my hourglass time not to exam, not to impress teachers and friends, just solely to my heed and my dreams. I regretted spending more time on studies than my dreams. Studies is just a tool, a mean to achieve your dream. Imagine a knife, it is created to cut through something, to make a hole, but if you keep on and on sharpening the knife just so it works better, eventually you will find out that while you were working on getting it sharp the thing that you want to cut had harden through time. If you had started cutting from the beginning, you would have make a bigger hole by now. We wasted our time on studying too much when what we should do is get into action already. Take lesson from our elders, they themselves like us now had previously study for 20 difficult years average and still have a hard time performing their job because that 25 years is 25 years of wasted time doing delaying things and most of them are against their real passion although they have succeeded theoritically in exam but reality is different. You are not going to work for papers anymore, you are gonna  deal with humans which are full of emotion and are judgemental. Dont waste your time anymore! Work for you dreams and heed your life, if your are not gonna build you dream, someone else are gonna use you to build theirs!

          Lifeworth.  I am currently forced to study computer science;  what the definition of output and input, memorizing how a hard drive works, how wires and communication devices speak to each other through standards and protocols. What is all this? I know i will not remember even the slightest of them after the semester ends, but i have to study it just to pass and get to the second semester. I am adding knowledge into my brain, but they are piling up in the future-trashbin department not in the future-might-be-useful department nor near future-useful department. How is that education? I acknowledge that there are some domains that although might not have input in my dreams but will be quite useful in life. For example religion and language studies, These are the types that would be life-worth studies! Sadly, most college students are required to give an amounting focus on  worth-awhile studies: studies that usually serves just as a complement to our CGPA. They are time-consuming and unnecessary.  

        Life and Stress. Man can move mountain. There is actually  a man who manage to move a mountain, im not joking, he single-handedly move a huge hill using just shovel, his name is Dashrath Manjhi. Before I proceed, I would like to suggest you to subscribe Sully Breeze , a youtube channel. I find it really amusing, motivational, inspiring and eye-opening. I am trying to enjoy what im doing in Intec. This blog is a fruit of my assignment and I make use of it as much as I can. I write journal too which part of my writing-assignment. I avoid as much stress as i can. My Precalculus and Computer Science results are not really satisfactory, and I know this change im trying to make will affect my results. But I wont succumb to this fear of change. Seeing my college-mates stressing over the exam and test compels me to write this article. We have the responsibility to be the best, yes i dont deny that fact, but the best is enjoying what you do while  producing good outcomes. 

         My Passion. Is to make myself significant in this seemingly impersonal universe. I dont want to live a normal life. I refuse to live a mundane life, i will fight for my rights to live my life to the fullest while making significant changes to the world and carve my name in the wall of honor and in the pages of history.  And my struggle ends here. I wont call this pursuit a struggle. From now onwards, there are no stress and no studying but learning, and enjoying.
 Study+dying= Studying. Learn+earning= Learning. Choose wisely. 

       

       

       

         

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Salat

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Can You Focus

Focus!

Attention works much like a muscle: use it poorly and it can wither; work it well and it grow.In Focus by psychologist and journalist Daniel Golemen contends that in this era of modern technology and era of distractions,we must learn to sharpen focus if we  are to thrive in complex world.He discover attention research in three catogories: inner,other, and outer.

Inner focus

“Inner” focus refers to self-awareness and self-management: how well we can tune in to our guiding values, for instance, or know our strengths and limits – which in turn gives us a realistic sense of self-confidence—and also handle our distressing emotions so they don’t interfere with getting things done, marshal our positive emotions to stay motivated in working toward out goals, and bounce back from setbacks.  

Other focus

“Other” focus describes how well we attune to people: our empathy, which allows us to understand how people perceive things, how they feel, and what we can do to help them be at their best. And tuning in to others this way provides the basis for skill in competencies like motivating employees, persuasion and influence, negotiation and conflict resolution, and — increasingly important – teamwork and collaboration. 

Outer focus

“Outer” focus has to do with how well we can sense the large forces that shape our world – whether organizational dynamics, like whose opinion matters most for a decision, or economic forces such as how a new technology will roil a market, or environmental trends like the new value placed on lower-carbon processes. Outer awareness allows a leader, for example, to formulate a winning strategy that anticipates what’s coming.

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Let's Discover Our Solar System

The Sun and the planet of our solar system

Solar System comprises the Sun and the objects that orbit it, whether they orbit it directly or by orbiting other objects that orbit it directly. Of those objects that orbit the Sun directly, the largest eight are the planets that form the planetary system around it, while the remainder are significantly smaller objects, such as dwarf planets and small solar system bodies such as comets and asteroids

The Solar System formed 4.6 billion years ago from the gravitational collapse of a giant molecular bond. 

Inner planet

The four inner or terrestrial planets have dense, rocky compositions, few or no moons, and no ring systems. They are composed largely of refractory minerals, such as the silicates, which form their crusts and mantles, and metals, such as iron and nickel, which form their cores. Three of the four inner planets (Venus, Earth and Mars) have atmospheres substantial enough to generate weather; all have impact craters and tectonic surface features, such as rift valleys and volcanoes. The term inner planet should not be confused with inferior planet, which designates those planets that are closer to the Sun than Earth is (i.e. Mercury and Venus).

Outer planet

The four outer planets, or gas giants (sometimes called Jovian planets), collectively make up 99% of the mass known to orbit the Sun. Jupiter and Saturn are each many tens of times the mass of Earth and consist overwhelmingly of hydrogen and helium; Uranus and Neptune are far less massive (<20 Earth masses) and possess more ices in their makeup. For these reasons, some astronomers suggest they belong in their own category, "ice giants". All four gas giants have rings, although only Saturn's ring system is easily observed from Earth. The term superior planet designates planets outside Earth's orbit and thus includes both the outer planets and Mars.

  

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Google company

History of Google 

Google

Mission	:	To organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful
Slogan	:	Don’t be evil
Founded	:	Menlo Park,California(September 4,1998)
Founders	:	Larry Page And Sergey Brin met at Stanford university in 1995.By 1996,they had built search engine (initially called Backrub) that used links to determine the importance of individual webpages
	:	The search engine they built “Google”,from a mispelled word  of “googol”,the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros. Google Inc. was born in September 4 1998,when Sun co-founder Andy Bectolsheim wrote a check for $100,000 to that entity – which until then didn’t exist
Key People	:	Larry Page(CEO),Eric Schmidt(Chairman),Sergey Brin
Headquarter	:	Googleplex,Mountain View,California,United States
Technology	:	Internet search engine,mobile phone operating system(Android)
Website	:	Google.com

1990s

Google started in March 1996 as research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Ph.D. students at Standford University. The project was nicknamed as “Backrub”. They were working on the Standford Digital Library Project (SDLP). The SLDP’s goal was “to develop the enabling technologies for a single, intergrated, and universal digital library” and it was funded through the National Science Foundation. Page and Brin had developed PageRank algorithm to rank websites in their search engine results. Originally the search engine used the Standford website with the domain google.standford.edu. On September 15, 1997, the domain google.com was registered. They incorporated their company, Google, on September 4, 1998 at Susan Wojcicki’s garage in Menlo Park, California. On August 31, 1999, the first patent was filed under the name “Google” by Siu-Leong lu, Malcom Davis, Hui Lo, Yun-Ting Lin, Guillaume Mercier, and Kobad Bugwadiam, is titled “Watermarking system and methodology for digital multimedia content”. The earliest patent filing under the assignee name “Google Inc”. By the end of 1998, Google had an index of about 60 million pages. The home page was still marked “BETA”. In March 1999, the company moved into offices at 165 Univesity Avenue in Palo Alto. Later, the company leased a complex building in Mountain View called Googleplex.

2000s

Google began selling advertistments associated with search keywords, text-based to maintain an ulcluttered page design and to maximize page loading speed. Keywords were sold based on a combination of price bid and click-throughs, with bidding starting at $ 0.05 per click. In January 2004, Google announced the hiring of Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group to arrange an IPO. The IPO was projected to raise as much as $4 billion. Google’s initial public offering took place on August 19, 2004. A total of 19,605,052 shares were offered at a price of $85 per share. The sale raised US$1.67 billion, and gave Google a market captilization of more than $23 billion. In February 2003, Google acquired Pyra Labs, owner of Bloggerm a pioneering and leading web log hosting website. The acquisition secured the company’s competitive ability to use information gleaned from blog postings to improve the speed and relevance of articles contained in a companion product to the search engine Google News. After the IPO, Google’s stock market capitilization rose greatly and the stock price more than quadrupled. On August 19, 2004, the number of shares outstanding was 172.85 million while the “free float” was 19.60 million. As of September 2013, Google operates 70 offices in more than 40 countries.

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You Are A Complete Schmendrick! Language is an Art.

       

 What is beauty? As a member of the male gender, I would say beauty is a girl who has an amazingly alluring outer appearance: the shape, the smoothness, the flawless skin,  the golden mean of her eyes, nose and everything else. Its all about the outer part isn't it? Pulchritudinous is the word for physical beauty. But the Greeks sees alot more to beauty than just a girl, they surely enjoy watching girls and their tenderness, but they are reluctant to confined and  narrow it down to 'girl's stuff '.They see an art as a beauty, a good deed as warmth as beauty is, an idea as capturing as beauty could be, and ultimately they see beauty in the language itself, Ironic isn't it? The noun beauty reflects its own constitution! The fact that in a language you have hundreds of words that could be use to describe beauty is the evidence of itself being beautiful. It doesn't end there, the words is one thing, but the genuine syntax of the words is potentially infinite in its versatility and scope. How many possible arrangement could you make from words in a language to make a sentence is the ultimate part of the beauty of language. And im currently learning English extensively so that it would someday be on par with my mothertongue.

                                                                                                                                                                   

          Urshprache meaning proto-language, is the first existed language where all of the language in the present day is its long evolved descendant. Yes its not just us evolving, so does languages, and they seems to be as much alive as we are. Everyday there's at least one  new word born in a language. In the formation of a word, there's alot of resources, English itself most of its words originates from various sources but most common of all are Latin, Greek, French , and Spanish. To get a better understanding or to be a good etymologist, we should know what makes up a word: prefix, root, and suffix. Thence, the diversity of a language makes it so debonair, imagine to use a loan word while conversing, say for instance in giving example we can say exempli gratia,  to speak  sincerely we can say ex animo, and thank you as gracias. 

         

         Complexity. In a language we have maxim, adage, proverbs and conventional wisdom in which each of  them helps to convey our message so effectively but at the same time indirectly. We also have vulgar and profanity, though we tends to avoid them (or do we?) , they are of a great weapon when we are in need of expressing our exasperation, anger and hatred. We have abstarct words like justice, love, kindness, egalitarianism and alot of other ism that carries an idea that only exist in our mind. How amazing is that! I just used rhetorical did you notice?? The question of how is not meant to be answered, it meant to state how amazing it is. Other than that, we also have aliteration, methaphor, hyperbole, exaggeration, satire, analogy, allusion, allegory, euphemism, dsyphemism, paradox, irony, oxymoron, and onomatopoeia.

         Language can be very subjective, Different people perceive a word differently. Take for example  the word ejaculation, it means a burst of anything , could be laughter, speech or lava, but in biology, the word is used specially for the occasion of male's orgasm. And the word squirt holds the same connotation for female but more as a slang than a biological term. Someone exposed to such usage of a particular word would only feel awkward when someone else utter it in a conversation. Connotation of a word makes it more complex, it makes your diction to be highly cautious not to choose the wrong word.

        I love language. But how poor the school or in fact any other education institution outlined the language in a syllabus could potentially makes anyone the worse protester of that language. I have a theory, if you are good at something you will eventually develop a passion of it. Vice versa. If you are bad at something, you will ended up resenting that thing as i have hate football because im not good at hand-eye-coordination. The school always potray your skills in a language as bad, They judge you, give marks and penalize you. Consequently you are destined to hate it but a fortunate few to be privilege with the right education would succeed in that system.

        Im not a scintillating wit at adolescent but i regret not taking a keen interest in language back then. You, instead, are a complete schmendrick to not believe me. I just learn the word and im practically in love with it as if that is all i can think of at the moment. : )
     
      Solve this conundrum if you are capable of it. What came first in a language, a word or  a sentence? if you say a word, how do you explain the meaning of a word without constructing a sentence first? Just a brain teaser. There's an answer!

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How To Deal With Intrusive Thoughts

According to Wikipedia, intrusive thought  are unwelcome involuntary thoughts, images, or unpleasant ideas that may become obsessions, are upsetting or distressing, and can be difficult to manage or eliminate. They are almost always created by anxiety and/or negative emotional experiences. They hinder your concentration, encourage you to procrastinate, distract you from the task in hand and inevitably increase your anxiety, which can lead to an increase in intrusive thoughts.

Daniel Wegner, a psychology professor at Harvard University, pioneer in the field of thought suppression and author of White Bears and Other Unwanted Thoughts, has shown that trying to supress thoughts leads to obsession.

Wegner offers several strategies to deal with your white bears :

1. Focus on something else instead! If you are cognitively engaged, it limits the ability of           instrusive thoughts to your head.

2. Try to postpone the thought. Write a list of things that are bothering you and then set it         aside to be dealt with at an assigned point later in the day. This means that you don't             have to told the thoughts in your memory and you know that you will deal with them later.

3. Wherever possible, avoid multitasking, which can reduce productivity by approximately 40     per cent according to some researchers, as well as increasing stress and anxiety.

4. Exposure. Allow yourself to think about the unwanted thought, so that it its less likely to         pop up unwanted at other times.

5. Meditation and mindfulness strengthen mental control and help to control unwanted               thoughts.

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Gemstones of The World

Gemstones of The World

Gemstones are minerals that had intrigued humans for at least 10,000 years. The first known, used for making jewelery, include amethyst, rock crystal, amber, garnet, jade, jasper, coral, lapis lazuli, serpentine, emerald, and turquoise.


Origin

Minerals can be formed in a various ways. Some crystallize from molten magma and gases of the earth's interior or from volcanic lava streams that reach the earth's surface (ingenous or magmatic minerals). Other cristallize from hydrous solutions or grow with the help of organisms on or near the earth's surface (sedimentary minerals). Lastly, new minerals are formed by recrystallization of existing minerals under gerat pressure and hign temperatures in the lower regions of the earth's crust (metamorphic minerals).


Facts

The hardest gemstone in the world : Diamond

Diamond is the hardest gemstone in the world in which the degree of scratch hardness (Mohs) is 10 Mohs. Diamond is not an element, it is a crystalline form. It is not the strongest material know. It is the hardest. Diamond cutters use copper wedges to "cut" diamonds. They are actually breaking the diamond along cleavage planes rather than cutting it. The copper wedge would not put a dent in soft steel, but because it deforms slightly around th diamond, it can apply the impulse from the diamond cutters mallet more uniformly along a line selected along the cleavage plane than could a steel wedge. Diamond might be the hardest gemstone in the world, but not for the hardest material. It lost its title to man-made nanomaterials some time ago. It is 58 percent more harder than a diamond.


Variation of Gemstones

Gemstones can be varied in many shapes, sizes, and colours. The diagram below shows some of the gemstones in the world.

Introduction to Gemstones

                 

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10 Signs You May Be Talking to a Liar

Shelly Hagen in her book, The Body Language Book which was published by Advantage Quest Publications states that, there are about 10 signs that you will face when you encounter a liar. The signs are :

1.  Wide eyes

2.  Flushed eyes

3.  Self-touches (touching the nose, rubbing the back of the neck)

4.  Lack of eye contact

5.  Excessive, won't-back down eye contact

6.  Excessive blinking

7.  Angling the body away from the acusser

8.  Hiding the hands

9.  Biting the lips or covering the mouth

10. Exaggerated movement of arms and legs

So, whoever possesses these signs, you need to be careful or you will become a victim of scammer.

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Mamak is more than ya'think!

         Mamak makes Malaysia Malaysia, without Mamak Malaysia will cease to be Malaysia. Mamak is an esssential element of Malaysia , they had leave a perpetual imprint upon this nation that if we were to extract them from the equation, what's left is no longer equal or near what we today call Malaysia. The gravity of their influences, quiescent as it might apear on the surface, is so strong that it pulls all the bits and bytes of Malaysia forming and intricate monolithic nation which priorly was a country that was at the edge of near falling into civil war  because of racial breakdown on 13 Mei 1969. Mamak can be depicted as the taylor who sewed back the rapport between races in Malaysia, and a doctor who successfully heal the racial prejudice that prevailed as an aftermath of sosioeconomic imbalance. Their contribution analogous to a silent war hero, often ignored, but the impact which they wrought on are impeccably undisputable and had allowed Malaysia to plumbs a larger depth in the investment of cultural and social economic delicacies. ( too much of self-praising verbiage here)

       Most Mamak owns a restaurant. My family themselves , nearly all of my mother's brothers, which are my uncles, owns a restaurant each to supply for their family. And my mother married my father who also now own a big restaurant in Port Dickson, It seems as though Mamaks revolves around food-serving industry. Its hard to picture Mamak and restaurant separately as two set of images. "Restaurant" had been implanted into our definition of the word "Mamak".  This is how Mamak has contributed to Malaysia, not just economically, but through this widespread tradition of opening a restaurant precint in strategically-interest area gathering all races under one roof to eat spices-based food are just magnificiently beautiful and harmonious scenery. Mamak restaurant had allowed and make shelter for cultural rapport to be swiftly establish and preserved and gradually shaving off the racial prejudice that exist between Malaysians. Chinese, Indians, and Malays had united into one new voracious  'sapu-tarians' through a process known as phyletic gradualism in evolutionary biology that takes place in Mamak restaurant, the only place where all the various distinct racial-based appetite merge into one type of halal food.

         

    Its not always just about the food. Its a place for Malaysians to appease their appetite is one thing ,but also where they get to sit down or 'lepak' with their friends and family while enjoying the tasty mouth watering taste of teh tarik.( that might be an exaggeration, but if you go to certain Mamak restaurant you would find it to be true on many occasion). Most often than we realize, Mamak restaurant often become the place for rendezvous. Official or not, Mamak restaurant is a strategic place to have a long tiring discussion and perhaps debate without ever need to wait for a pause to order food because Mamak seems to have a very discerning memory of what the regular customer wants though it could be thousand of them. There are times where I would just sit down without ever having the need to call for a waiter to get my orders done, they just knows what I want. Customers could resume their 'cerita kedai kopi' for hours (this is true, very true), talking about current  and future economic policy, who's gonna champ the election, dirty tricks and magical 'blackout', Proton's new car coming out and all other intense zeitgeist topic as if they were somehow deeply involve in and plays a major role in what gonna be the future. Perhaps the most brilliant of ideas in Malaysia lights up while taking a seep of hot teh tarik in a Mamak restaurant. What a public place to have a ' eureka moment'.!

     Mamak will keep records of your face so that in the future they could charge you for a regular-customer price if you are among the ones had visited the place often and spend quite a money( now would you get that at a franchise!) .But, money is never an account for hungry, starving horses who just want to fill their empty stomach. Try to analyze keenly the past records of your meals. Malaysians eats alot, but we throw money at expensive-franchise to get small meals. What a waste of money! Most college students, speaking in part of myself, budget their meals so that they wont get short of money very soon before the next allowances is banked-in and find it very handy to always have a Mamak restaurant a stone-throw away. You gotta admit, roti canai banjir when compared to a Macdonald burger is way way more cheaper but surprisingly tasty and makes you full. Mee goreng mamak to pasta . Milo Ais to pepsi. Kopi'o panas to cuppachino. Franchise against Mamak ? They will topple down by mere wind gust. Franchise's food is more healthier and ensuring,? Not really. They are just fancy looking . You would be surprise to hear some testimony of my friends who had work at a franchise. The point is, im not trying to degrade franchise, nor am i being higly of Mamak. Its just how we had set a different standard betweeen the two of them what makes me feel not right. We should appreciate and show support for our local entrepreneur in food-industry more than international franchise. Thats all i gotta say. Sorry if there is certain words that harsh or offensive.

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