what a day!

tadi kak ngah tepon abah, dier cakap... "dedeq nk dapat adeq..." heuhuehue.. ade ke patut dah 4 bulan mengandung skrang baru kak ngah tau.. been quite some time i've been asking her.. "tgh mengandung ka  perut besaq sgt nih" dia cakap tak... skrang tgk!! masin sungguh mulut gue loh.. haha.. kak su pon nanti kena pi check.. kot2 ada sorang lagi pulak...

just last weekend my parents n i went back to penang.. and for the first time ever watch euro2008 match, italy vs romania with my cousin.. and italy lost! haha (maen mcm malaysia je aritu) erm, masa tgk tu terpikir gak seronok tgk football match ni but still not thrilled enough to keep me awake till the morning light..
and about penang, the current bridge is undergoing massive construction building the third lane.. i really think the third lane will be adequate enough to support the current traffic.. yet the boleh land primier still wants the second bridge.. and they are also building a convention center in the much congested-hard to breath penang... the saddest part is they are building it on bumiputra's land.. it's not about that i'm racist, just sad that seeing the Malays in Penang are being almost wiped out from the city.. maybe ade la sikit2 kat balik pulau..tp entah brape lame bleh tahan..

hurmm..anyway, it's an exciting day.. i'm gonna be an uncle to another lil baby soon.. insyaAllah...

berjimat cermat

demi menyahut seruan kerajaan untuk berjimat cermat. i'm just thinking to myself.. what can i do.

• naik basikal dtg ofis; the ride is about 3km only plus i get my daily exersice! tp kalau ada keje kene amek n angkat barang semua.. kene la bawak my car gak
  
• kalau tunggu dalam kereta for anything no more pasang enjin lama2 (except it is a extremly hot day)
• makan full meal only once a day; nk kata jimat kat sini takleh sgt sebab amek herbalife for the other two meals.
• makan sayur banyak2; for now harga sayur tak naik lagi
• no more fast food; this will be easy to do (hopefully)
• nak beli motor~~~~ ; mcm dah takde harapan
• aircon kat rumah kene kurang2kan; pasang timer elok2 so that lepas dah tido lena aircon pon tido same
• kurang2kan budget beli handphone;hehehehehehe.. i don't think so (evil grin)
• tanam sayur2 kat rumah, bela ayam, bela lembu..kalau duduk apartmen tanam hidroponik; ni kalau ikut kata menteri (don't think this fit my entry subject as it'll be impossible for me to do it)

i think ada banyak lagi we all can do, because the prices will rise and yet our kuasa beli still is the same. arini malas nk bebel dalam blog about what's on the news. just please everyone, open up ur eyes, ears and mind to what is happening around us. This is our country and our home. She needs us to take care of it. Please don't ignore her.

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

hurm, i just finished reading the short book The Last Lecture and now i wanna share my thought on it.

firstly, the book is about an educator/teacher Prof. Randy Pausch who have been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and got only months to live. apparently the book is a compilation of the last lecture he perform at Caenege Mellon (when he say the last lecture it is really is the last)

he face his cancer (and death) like no other (at least that i know of) and want to live as much as he can with the little time given to him. he still manages to smile and even crack up jokes about it. he said that he is not in ignorance about it, it's just there no reason to live the remaining of his life mourning about it. 
Life is for living.

"We cannot change the cards we are dealt,
just how we play the hand"
- Randy Paucsh

the quotes given in the book gives me inspiration to carry on going with whatever is at hand. be thankful with everything that u had and have. 
it's not the situation that determines the way our live is going. 
but how we deal with the situation given is.

he always says in the book about seeing our problem like a brick wall that only let pass people who really wants it and work hard enough to get it (blocks away the others as well). though it is hard to climb the wall but when u've work so hard on it, even a little achievement will give u sense of fullfilment. and even if u don't succeed, all the trials u have gone through can make u a better person.

actually, the whole lecture is for his 3 young children. he thought that he want to leave something for his children to remember him by. he wants to share his thoughts, memories, lessons he have learned, his pride, joy, tears, regrets and basically his life. the thought of having his children grown up without a father is just unbearable to him. so, he do this lecture for his children plus some video tapes and letters. for example an advise for his 18months old baby"don't start dating til u r 30, and when u r dating, don't listen to what the boy is saying , look and see on what he do"

lastly i would like to highlight something that seems very interesting. people nowadays always invest on life insurance to ease the burden on their love ones, not that is is not good.. but we should not left out the emotional insurance. how dreadful life would be to losing one of your love ones with a feeling of regret for not being with each other when there was time. (i donno if i've said this the right way, but reading the book will give u some sense of what i'm talking..huhu)

so, i don't think i can manage to write all of my thoughts about the book. just go to MPH and buy one aite. It is worth it!

--Time is precious and it is more precious when u have so little of it left.--

--a friend is somebody that u don't mind being with when u wanted to be alone--

good day

it's a feel good day for me today.. got my k850i balik dari kedai (aritu rosak).. got my work on the 2 pumps done as well, and tested it on the ship.. alhamdulillah, all ran smoothly..

nothing to say really right now, i'm just greatful for today.

anyway, i will review a book that i'm reading later "the last lecture" plan to finish it tonite.. a good and inspiring book.. be sure to catch my review on it because i will surely quote a lot from the book, it may help us to have a greater and indepth view of life. chiow