Thorns with Roses....When A man loves a woman...

Where do I begin.....in between juggling the daily life and keeping up with what is happening around, there are times we are given a wake up call by HIM up there.

Ever since I found the true meaning of living and taken the step to be grateful in my daily life..still I've missed a few glanced and deeper meaning of living. As I said before, keeping with positive attitude is no more a requirement. It has become and essential tool in this modern challenging world. Its a required skill for one to continue striving.

As I arrived at work this evening my dear baby Joanna shared a blog. Insisted for me to read it like now ! now ! now!. Its a humble story about When A Man Loves a Woman. A great sacrifice from a man called husband for the love to his wife. By the end for several entries..I got tears rolling in the deep. HE up there really has a funny way of answering me every time my heart ponders and wonder about daily living.

These few weeks I was so tight up with family matters apart from work issues. My father is not that well, injured and thank god recovering now. Financial a bit tight for me these days...not because I over spend or anything...I choose to make way for my parent's sake. There was no burden or heart ache felt that's for sure....Praise to Allah, everything run smoothly. That's all that matters.

During these ordeal, small voice inside my heart did wonder how great a sacrifice can be for the name of love. As a child, to sacrifice for my own parent's well being ..for me is a great deal...it there anymore greater sacrifice than
doing it for your own parent. I did not relate any of it to husband and wife's relationship as it is often failed to meet the meaning of sacrifice. The usual story we heard is, upon anything happen to either of them...one will just walk away. The relation and bond of husband and wife can't be taken as example to measure a great sacrifice in comparison with parent to a child. There are even lesser volume of child to a parent.

In a way I felt good and bless as I manage to give away my well being in the name of my own parent's love. I felt good and a little proud.

It is said that when things that you did for praised achiever...there is no blessing in it. True enough, as I day dream away about the next thing I want to do for my parent....HE up there smack my face with an unexpected answer....whatever that I did for the love towards my parent is just like dipping my finger into the ocean.

There are greater love and sacrificed happen while I was busy staying afloat in searching for HIS blessing to make my day...while I was busy mending my own world. While I was busy running this busy life of mind....

I gave my full salutation to a man name Abil Fikri Ahmad (http://abil4fauziah.blogspot.com/)

In the name of love for his wife, who suffered a brain damage after an asthma attack he gave up full time job a year ago to tend to her. Agony and pain that he went through are beyond the conscience of realm. We as reader only read on the surface but to dive deeper into his heart..that is another story.

He wrote a blog for her....thousand of comments..majority positive and supportive. Visitors came to their aid from far and near. There are also comments that said he is seeking for fame and glamour.

My heart ache....why humans are so judgemental....tainted heart. If you have nothing to say just don't say it.
The greater your comment about him being fake and all..the greater blessing he gets that's for sure.

In my line of job, dollar and cent has not much value in humanity kind of way. It is valued based on what money can buy. One can really spend thousand of dollars on entertainment or to accessorize their life with branded stuff. How I wish that these humans that has pocket full with dollar and scent to waste it in the name of humanity.

Human are easily seduced and temptations are very hard to resist. Maybe if I myself fall into these A-List fame, I would be one of them. Just because fame and richness is not mind...I can say many things. Wealth is everyone wishes.

Its a good reminder and wake up call. My work path now is not the best in the world and it has taken toll on my daily life. I can choose to grumble and complain about it daily...but what good does it do. I will stay around and be at my best as long as I can take it. Several of my colleague had ventured out into another field. It is of course not any greener than here but they choose to give it a try.

Success of failure it is up to one self to determine. Our daily path is not a bed of roses for sure...like Abil his path has become a thorny ones...but still he able to enjoy the scent and beauty of roses among those painful thorns.

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The power of your thoughts can open any door and you can set yourself free.

It was from a friend that I learned about 9/10 principle. Of anything that happen in your daily life, bitter or sweet ...the choice is yours on how you want to react to it. Definitely it is easier said than done. Through the toughness of daily job and having to deal with emotional personal issue..it does take strong heart, mind and at times stomach to be able to still standing tall by end of that 24 hours.

Staying positive and afloat all the times has become an attitude for me. Of course I did lost it along the way especially if I m stumble upon half a brain human. I do of course dragged into their level especially during a tired mind.

On Thursday, I ended my day shift with super tired mind. All I want is just to go home and rest. Friday is a busy day for me, dinner with lovely sister..celebrating her belated birthday.

It was indeed a very long day. Full of request and issues from our normal caller. Towards the evening, there was unexpected call that sank my spirit deeply. Tired and mentally exhausted, I was caught off guard by abusive caller. Honestly, as much I tried to remain calm and crawling my way out from falling into his low level mind state...I failed. In between the call, I lost it...sincerely lost it. My throat chocked and my spirit sank deeper.

Two hours...that's how long it is for me to search for my spirit that sank...then I was alive and lifted up again.
Thanks to my colleague that day...he said to me...the road of life that we walk is like that. Take those who harm you as a barking dog. If you keep throwing stones at all those barking dog, it will delay your journey...
ignore it...

Took my own sweet time, crawl up to finished up what supposed to be done. Left the office quite late. My dear OM has to replace a colleague that suddenly on MC, pity him in away but what to do. Until our newbies are ready...hell break lose sometimes...

I manage to hailed a taxi, very senior driver in a brand new car. He drove at 40km per hour...owh my...what a day. Maybe he sense that I m kind of annoyed that he crawl like tortoise ...he asked if he should speed up..of course I said YES...hmmm 60km per hour. I just leave it.

Simply choose to react the other way around...this senior driver could have his own reason crawling at this speed on the highway...whats the point of me yelling and scolding him anyway...I just want to get home safely. Miracle I feel much much better there after...

Online shopping landed me ordering perfume all the way from US, after 12 days it finally arrived. As I was eagerly waiting for it to come to my office, instead I received a notification from local postal to come to them and collect it. No indication whatsoever if it has to be paid on sum clearance or not. So, call them up to clarify...same old story when dealing with the Government...nobody gives you an answer. Took a deep breathe and I said thank you and ended the call without wanting to damage my emotion. My day did not get any better after that anyway but the least I did not ruin someone else day.

We do at times proudly share that we scolded, yelling or verbal abuse someone just because the product/service is not up to our expectation. I used to be in that category as well..kind of tame down nowadays. For me, I felt miserable thereafter ...so I stop that attitude. Like me, they also earning a living.
Like me they also have own issue, like me they feel their issue are larger than life as well.

Thus, before we lashed out our words, pause ....think twice, think 10 times before lashing it out. Words wound beyond recall. At anytime if our emotion are not stable, just keep quiet...stay away from others...
Take a break...

There are days I would rather stay in quiet and lick my own wounds....




Soap won't wash away your shame.

Its 7.30am on this beauty cloudy Sunday in Kuala Lumpur. Awaits my colleague from the next shift. I love to steal a glance at major newspaper's headlines.

Though its too much politics and too many crime news..there are a few that able to catch my attention to read through. This one is a bit hard to digest as my face literally felt as thick as a concrete walls.

From Harian Metro - "PM jumpa pelajar tunjuk punggung". Owh my.... I can't help but to feel so embrasse.
Apart from cultural issue, if you read through this article you will notice that the one that insist to meet up with our dear PM and apologize is the boy's father. He wanted to see PM and personally apologize over his son's stupidity and then issue apology to the rest fellow Malaysian.

I can't imagine putting my own parent's through this embarassement. How could you ? This boy after all is 19 years old...not 9 years or 9 months.....19 years old. Was he borne retarded as his brain dis-located to his arsse ? His parent make such a journey all the way from south to see PM.....don't your heart ache over this.
Parent has to clean up...lucky for this boy neither of his mom or dad collapse of cardiac arrest.

The war marching drum of so called wave of changed has taken a huge turn. Probably they say this is just a small isolated incident in comparisson of what is happening around the globe. But then again, we are not build for this.

What goes around comes around....the butt dancing excercise for Ambiga, less than a year...like a tight slap..our own PM hits with it. As our Manglish said... "Do lar some more"

Am not so much into Politics, for this incident my heart goes deeply to the boy's parent. For Muhammad Ammar A Rahman, 19...carve your future wisely...don't follow blindly just because you heard the marching war drum for a wave of changed.

Our dear four father that fought for this country independent was after all equipped with knowledge and the least a varsity graduates...they are not some school drop out...

Again, knowledge and education plays a very important part....

 http://www.hmetro.com.my/articles/2012090902225620120909022256/Article

POKOK SENA: Satu pertemuan antara Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Razak dengan pelajar yang menunjukkan punggung ke atas gambar pemimpin negara itu, Muhammad Ammar A Rahman, 19, pada malam Ambang Merdeka, baru-baru ini, bakal diadakan dengan disertai ahli keluarganya.


Setiausaha Politik Perdana Menteri, Datuk Shahlan Ismail berkata, setakat ini, masa dan tempat bagi pertemuan berkenaan belum dapat diputuskan Jabatan Perdana Menteri berikutan perlu melihat kepada kelapangan Perdana Menteri.

Menurutnya, Najib sebelum ini sudah menyatakan kesediaan untuk memaafkan dan berjumpa Ammar dan bapanya, tetapi belum menentukan tarikhnya kerana sibuk dengan urusan rasmi negara.
“Sekarang ini pun beliau berada di Russia bagi menghadiri Mesyuarat Pemimpin Kerjasama Ekonomi Asia Pasifik (APEC) untuk membincangkan isu dua hala.
“Bagaimanapun, seperti yang pernah dikatakan Perdana Menteri sebelum ini, kesalahan tetap kesalahan dan kita tidak boleh berkompromi dalam proses undang-undang, “ katanya.

Beliau berkata demikian kepada pemberita ketika ditemui pada Majlis Jamuan Hari Raya anjuran Persatuan Ibu Bapa dan Guru (PIBG) Sekolah Kebangsaan Pokok Sena, di sini, semalam.

Shahlan berkata, masyarakat seharusnya mengambil iktibar terhadap kejadian itu dengan tidak melakukan sesuatu tindakan semborono tanpa memikirkan kesannya pada diri sendiri. “Masyarakat di negara ini harus lebih sensitif terhadap perkara yang menyalahi etika dan undang-undang serta berfikiran matang, “ katanya.

Terdahulu, Ammar ditahan polis di Cheras, Kuala Lumpur pada Selasa lalu selepas menyerah diri di kolejnya sejurus tiba bersama ibu bapanya dari kampungnya di Batu Pahat, Johor.

Berikutan itu, bapa remaja terbabit A Rahman Abdullah, 53, melalui media, semalam menyatakan hasratnya untuk bertemu Najib bagi meminta maaf secara peribadi.

Ammar juga menyatakan permohonan maafnya kepada Perdana Menteri dan rakyat Malaysia serta ingin bertemu Najib untuk menyatakan kekesalan itu.



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I see the world through his eyes....

Both of us owns a 'gypsy' bones. We share the same passion of travelling around the world.

Fortunately he is more gifted than I am ..holding the previliges to set foot in foreign land through his day job.

Yes, after a while it is tiring but then again....if we count our blessing against those who less fortunate we might look it differently.

Eat, pray and love..... :) Travels broaden your knowledge after all....


Buurrrpppp !..... :) hehehehee. My big bozz literally said Oooo lalalaa... :)


I never knew Polar bears can be this huge... :)


Speedy Gonzales..... :)

Heal the world...make it a better place...

Its a gruesome sight to read news about how a child died from abuse and torture. Of those many that happens lately, one this for sure it is all in the hands of a mother's lover.

Does a mother's love still can be call the ultimate love of all time. To be honest, when I see newly weds young couples, my mind can help but to wonder if those bairns from them will have a future to holds. Often we see young parent with kids, seems like their future as shady as their parent's faces.
I don't think parent like mine exist anymore in this modern world. Even if they do, probably 1 out of 1000 set of parents.

In local tabloid today, 6 years old girl die believed in the hand of foster mother's boyfriend. That guy owned multiple criminal records apart from substance abused. How can this be ? What does a child know ? They need protection and they are so helpless on their own. My heart ache so bad over this.

As a woman or a lady, being in love or living under a man's shadow is not an ultimate to live. Further more when you pick up someone from a trash can. You get maggot and soon enough you will be a corpse. The worse is your own offspring will walking dead corpse. There is nothing to it...

Of course it is easier to said then done. But if we determine to make a change and live lifes for the sake of our children, automatically the mindset changed. One wrackage marriage is not the end of the world.

I too walked a path of troubled parent..I too was a rebel in a way. But sooner or later it cames to my senses of what I wan tto do about my life, which direction I want.

I too was lost along the way, bottom line it is all about attitude. There is always rainbow after storm. Same goes to our lives.

As I said before, faith and religion is very important. We can't live a daily life just being positive and keep on strive. Life changed its path in so many ways. It does hit us at point of no return at times. Religion plays an important part for our soul...our inner ...our core.

New generation to date is a good as bringing a new life just to be buried. Crime, substance abuse and nothing practically good from them at all. If there is any still it is too few to applaud to.

My parent was not in pious category, but religion was very much equip for all of us. I lost my path for many years....up to the extend I don't feel good anymore after doing a good deeds.

Something is missing...until I decided to bow back to my creator. It makes sense and it does open up to many doors that was shut before.

Watching over news on TV nowadays is as equal as watching horror movie. What separates between these one is reality and the other is fiction. Too many tragedy of death surrounding our living nowadays.

To stay up and positive its not just to have a positive thinking anymore. You really need to exercises your brain and learn the art of it. One just cannot do it on its own. Guidance and professional training needed.
Constantly you have to equip yourself up to date with knowledge.

I remember my spiritual leader said, everyday after all his customer's left..he took a bath, clean the house and then set a pray before going to bed. There are too many negative forces around earth and our living days. Simple prayers just not gonna do it.

My routine nowadays, I ensure my house are clean all the time. Bathe every time I need to pray and my bedroom is for rest and sleeping purposes only.

My father said that, nowadays there are only human that is around. Not human and soul. There is not soul anymore. The off springs of new generation were born without soul, heart and mind.

Why all these happen ? Its all narrow down to what kind of food your bring home to your family. From where the source of that food.

I'd like to share a huge story of how nowadays God's punishment are 'cash on delivery'. Too many sin...within a year ..just wait and see...it will hit so hard.

This came from a close person to me. Huge organization, large share holder and I can say there are the one that churn the economy in a way...pump in money to our country.

So to begin, there is one high rank manager...full with attitude and love to harvest from his down line. His brutality and mind torturing are so well known that makes him feared by many. If you are in his way, he will make sure you will lost everything ...not even a penny left. He enjoy and harvest maximum on what that organization got to offer, in another word he does not really work a day in his life. His down line however ...its like Auschwitz camp.

Days goes by, one day he fell ill. The illness took him badly and at the end he was diagnosed with blood cancer. Time passed, his condition did not improved at all. Even after years of illness, he still alive and did not passed on.

The ultimate day came when his own sister came to his work place, meet up with all his staff seeking forgiveness on behalf of his brother. She even issued an email of apology request to the entire company. The family then held special prayers for him and invite all the staff...nobody came at all. Soon after he passed away.

My stomach turn to water upon hearing this. Then, continuation of it..one of his down line..sadly hold similar attitude. Another Hitler in the making, same path and same story line. Six months ago, she was diagnosed with lung cancer. Same thing, day in day one no visitor from colleagues or anyone from the company.

She passed away just last week. Among the conversation that I manage to pick up between her former staff...none of them ever forgive her for what she has done to them. They don't even attended the funeral.

Again my spine chilled. Oh my, what a lesson.

Now I am wondering for such a child abuser, what awaits them. Then again, the punishment is not for us to judge. We ourselves owns a sin book. Just because theirs seems heavier than what we are does not mean we have a confirm ticket to Heaven.

Looking back at my own family, the journey that we go through because of a bad heart...I don't think I will ever forgive them. Maybe later but not now for sure.

As heavy heart as I am now reading those news around, there are many goods Samaritan exist. Though the number are lesser and lesser it is better than nothing.

What drives a human is knowledge and of course right up bringing. Knowledge is the ultimate to it. So never tired of learning a new things. There are things we can't change but we sure can change ourselves. Equip ourselves with the power of knowledge.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.


Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.


Mother Teresa


Choppy heart often relates to being lonely. Everything seems to be there in front of our bare eyes but we just cannot associate it to fulfill our empty heart.

Its like there is something missing...a piece or maybe pieces. No matter how positive one mindset can be still unable to overcome that missing pieces.

I often have this feeling even I am surrounded by many of those in my love ones list. Troubled heart, empty days and blank mind stage. The more I tried to fill up to level with busy of life and work the more empty it gets.

Then, there was a piece of advice given to me by someone who are much much younger...she said, no matter what we do or who we are ...always pray. Life will be much much better once you start to pray.
I m not sceptical over this praying issue, its just too many excuse or I shut it away.

Did for the sake of doing it without venturing deeper into how powerful a prayer can be.

So to speak, without being too ambitious of becoming a Saint...I set my journey to find peace by praying to the creator. Not so much of asking HIM things but rather I start to thank HIM for giving me this life. Then, I start to seek HIS blessing for me, my family and my love ones. More to come, I just asked  HIM to ease my daily path and journey. That is all.

To date I am not there yet at the peaceful level. But my live has improved so much. It is good to bow to your creator. Not because you have something to asked HIM always but it is enough to thank HIM for such a wonderful life that we have all these while. It is not we are never grateful...just at times trouble and lonely heart speaks the volume that over shadow our inner peace.

I did not put high ambition to become one pious human to HIM..rather take a baby step to improve on what is essential. Slowly..learn and increase the volume to find HIS blessing.

Human are easily bored and often feels burden. If one is too ambitious ...boredom will soon invade and things will just left un-attended.

Set out a little pray...tell your creator how you feel and just let it go....at times it is much easier to confess to HIM rather than to another human. HE is after all Creator of All. Our deepest egoism core which at times too bitter to admit the truth, miracle... we can admit to HIM.

Be specific on what you want...be wise in asking HIM. Always be thankful on what HE has grand you for and be patient if HE did not give you yet. HE knows what is best. Have faith.

No matter what religion or believe you are in, pray....it makes a huge different in one mental state for sure. Don't just let your inner voice communicate with yourself...it does not lead anywhere because both are trapped inside a human body. Speak the volume with the soul creator itself..

Most important give your best in everything that we do, have faith and set a little prayer. We plan, we worked hard, we play hard and leave the rest to HIS hand....

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.


Abdul Kalam

I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.


Harvey Fierstein