Happiness

Are you happy every day? Are you happy every hour? Are you happy every minute? Me neither..

Happiness is not about wearing a 24/7 grin across your face.. I cant imagine if that happened to every one in this world.. :D

Happiness is about being comfortable with who you are and where you are, and feeling that your life is good.. Hmm to tell you the truth, you really really need to be Gratefull for every single thing you own, every single second you've been through.. Well, sometimes we forget about it.. :D

There is room for frustration in happiness.. There is no room for being ruled by frustration..

There is room for sadness in happiness.. There is no room for being ruled by sadness..

There is room for anger in happiness.. There is no room for being ruled by anger..

Something Called 'Life'

Sometimes the self-help world tends to look at life as a problem to be solved.. That's natural, since so many people seek 'help' to solve a 'problem'.. But often the problem is that we can too easily fall into that trap of seeing life as a problem..

Life is an event to be experienced.. If we need help, it is to solve the problem of seeing life as a problem.. Self-help should be a means to free people to experience life..

We might figure out that life is not easy.. Is that true..? I think it is.. For starters, it gets pretty complicated to figure everything out, and by the time we get it all figured out, we've pretty much run out of life.. aww.. Sounds not too good.. Keep on reading..

Life does take effort.. enormous effort. There's so much more than just sitting back to enjoy the view.. Hmm.. but life is a joy.. Life is a thrill.. And it's so much more of a joy precisely because it is not easy.. Precisely because it's complex, with all sorts of wonderful twists and turns.. Precisely because it takes effort, and forces us to be part of it..

Not every challange is welcome, but every one has its purpose and most of them make life so much richer.. Life just would not be living if it was easy.. Break the chains.. Rush out into life and experience it.. Do something we've always dreamed of.. Do something we've never thought of.. Do something we've never done before.. Here's to a life full of challenges and opportunities..

Awareness

Why are we doing what we are doing?Ask this of ourself often. We learn so much about ourselves when we understand our motives. Maybe we'll discover we don't know why - that much of our activity lacks purpose. This is a great way to become more aware of how we are using the precious time of our life! And awareness brings change, all by itself.

How can we free up more time for ourself? All of the great masters counsel that we need time daily for solitude and stillness. And if we want our life to be meaningful, then surely we need some free time to explore our inner landscapes and uncover our passions. What activities can we say 'no' to, to give us more growing room?

How deeply do we trust our own guidance? Always trust that we know what's best for us. To move forward in our life, gather information from the 'experts,' consider how their advice relates to our situation and then act only on what feels right for us. We are the only expert for our own life.

Running on an empty tank? When we sense we're not good enough or that we don't have enough, we feel driven to be better and to have more. But whatever we do takes effort because there's no fuel - we're working with an empty tank. When we feel abundant, however, the energy flows naturally. When we act out of our own inspiration, anything we do feels almost effortless. Isn't this how we'd like to move through life?

Write our way to freedom! When we're stressed, unhappy, resentful or afraid, the words of our distress circle around and around in our minds, keeping us stuck in our misery. But if we take a few minutes to write or type the words we're thinking, this breaks our mental and emotional obsessing. And if we read the words we've written, we gain a new perspective on them - we can begin to see new possibilities. When we release our superficial chatter, we can access the deeper wisdom inside.

Choose love, not fear. When we are afraid, we put up our defenses and pull back from life. When we love, we open to all that life has to offer with acceptance and even passion and excitement. In any moment, we can ask ourselves: Do I choose love or fear? Do I choose to back away or move toward? And when we choose love, our lives transform! - Those are just a simply question, but for sure, I guess it a little bit hard to answer and commit it.. :)

What do we dream of? Our dreams clearly reveal our own unique spark, our own special purpose in this lifetime. If we've lost sight of our dream, go find it. And find some way to bring it to life. Dreams don't materialize without some effort on our part. But the beauty is that working on our dreams brings us to life too! - Never stop dreaming :)

Warning Signal or Whatever

Day after day.. the lighthouse stands on the perilous rocks.. warning ships to keep away from dangerous waters.. The ship captains know better than to ignore them..

Day after day, we each are warned by lighthouses all over the place.. starting with a tiny things to the huge one.. too bad, many of us ignore them.. -including me sometimes :(-.. for example, headaches or stomach pains.. we don't go to doctor because hoping it will go away.. -and eventually it will, one way or another-..

Like those close calls on the freeway.. we don't change our driving habits because "I haven't chrased yet"..

Like the escalating arguments with friend or at home.. we don't make the changes necessary to return to a loving relationship.. until the decision is out of our hands.. until it all too late..

Isn't it time we listen to the warnings, signals or whatever it called we are given?

Learning

As a child, we were forced to go to school.. Learning was compulsory..

But now we are all grown up and living in the real world, where learning is not compulsory..

It's all up to us now.. but anyway, our day to day activity in life make us learn about something..

Will we remain roughly the same person who graduated from school.. Or will we learn..

Will we learn about ourself?
Will we learn about people around us?
Will we learn about history, philosophy and science?
Will we learn about the things that happen to us?
Will we keep expanding our mind?
Will we learn from our mistakes?

When we are wrong, when we make a mistake, we have the wonderful chance to learn and to improve ourself.. It is both our right and our responsibility to make the better of us..

YOU

There's no other word except Alhamdulillah.. You always by my side.. keep me warm, healthy & strong .. and also constantly keep my soreness away and never let me down.. More over You keep me to be a better better better person..

Always listen to all my wishes as well as the gripes.. Always know what, who, when, where and how are best for me.. eventhough sometimes it's a little bit late for me to realize it.. in spite of this, I always grateful for everything You gave me..

May You always be my light in the darkness.. May You always be my fire in the coldness.. May You always be my guidance in the vanished.. And all I always hope for is Your blessing in every path I take and every single thing I do.. for the rest of my journey.. Amin..

The Client

Urgent meting on Monday at 7 pm.. wuaaakkss why can people choose a better time execpt Monday? But what can i say.. duty is duty.. give the best service to the client.. I'm not complaining, just need some words to express my concealed expression since last night..

We agreed to set a meeting at 7 pm on one café in south area.. That was okay, the place was not too far from office, even though it took more than 30 minutes driving in traffic hour.. Arrived about 7.10 pm and thought that was still a tolerable time to be late.. I sent a SMS, informing that i took a table at second floor.. After ordered and enjoyed my dinner, i started wondering where the hell this client was? It almost an hour since I arrived. I made a call, but no answer.. What a typically person! Then i sent a SMS (again - I'm not an impatient person type when it comes to wait for something or someon, unless you give me a note that you'll be late, that's fine with me).

Waiting is not my favorite task, either for anybody else i guess.. Especially in full stomach condition.. The sleepy was starting to haunt me.. hahahha.. What a typically 'melayu'.. I couldn't stand to hold it and fell asleep for a few minutes.. Thanks God! It's only a few minutes, and the client's still not show up.. Tried to calm myself by turning on my notebook.. Playing majhong magic tile is always the best friend to kill time.

It was 8.50 when the client came without any regretful expression. What can i do? except turn the smile face on which didn't come from the heart of course! Tonight's gonna be a long hard night.. we started to discuss the plan in detail and other things that might happen..

I know exactly that the café closses at 10.30 in week day.. the waiter keep on looking at us as the clock is ticking and he asked us for the last order we want to make.. but the client kept on talking and talking and talking as if we were in our own office.. Luckily, i was one of their regular customers, so we could continue our discussion another half hour, instead we could get kicked by the closing hour.

The point of that meeting was still waiting for the foreign talent in a few couple days.. so what make this meeting so urgent??? I really didn't get it.. Hopefully, it won't ruin my next days in this week..