Little Paradigm

Salam alaykum wbt.. What a nice day we having today.

I may continue the writing without even care that I've left the blogging world quite a while (it's been really a while) with something interesting to be story on yet enjoyable. Well, I already planned to do so though so far any of my entry seemed tedious, long and non-productive.

Although, really, that while I've being through gives the chances for me to think deeply, vigilantly and critical about blogging or in other word, expressing my very fresh thoughts to be seen and inevitably, to be judged by the readers (they who have the interest).

For becoming a good columnist (for myself, in my own blog) several things should I take into my concern before letting my fingers run rythmically on the keyboard and eventually hit the publish button.

It's non of myself that really have the enthusiasm to yell to the others about myself, my personal life, my activities in a very detailed way, nor updating my current expression, mood and whatsoever. So, I'll let my piece of writing to be least personal and general.

Taking into consideration, I'll always like to mention something really significant out of the least important one.

Maybe it's going to be factual and straight.

Not a bogus piece, yet all from my very own ideas.

I ever though once, I'll never be a good blogger, and consequently, assuming that I'm not the one who have the talent in writing. At the same corner, a thought that compells me to do this always saying: It's worth trying than nothing.

Some good reasons came afterwards, as I ought to do something to enhance the better usage of it by practicing by myself due to lack of exposure in my institute academically.

Verily.

Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

Salam warahmatullah to all my dearest reader. I always saying this as I am starting a post: how pity my blog had been, being abandoned since so long. (I'm SORRY)

Now, I am back for a new thought(s). It came across my mind to write something here recently, actually as I've no idea what to look forward for my English II Paper tomorrow (4th March 2011). Then I decided to use my blog as an applicant for my skills in writing English. Okay-okay, I would like to write about 3R, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. This well-known quote practically been used for Green Earth Campaign, Recycling Campaign and many other campaigns which hoping that the deterioration of human consciousness about the environment can be upraised back. Actually, I saw something else behind the quote, new way of implementation of good things in our lives.

Reduce

For some context we can focus 'reduce' by reducing the usage of something which could lead to harm. For example in 3R campaign, plastic is the main issue. Cut the usage of plastic bags, plastic wrappings and many plastics, plastics and plastics from involving our daily activities, (especially for groceries) to retreat the environment from this hardly biodegrade stuff that always continue to pollute. Well, do you see something here? Reducing something could reduce something else. Okay, of course in order to lessen something lead to harm, apart from just stay do nothing as it doesn't make any changes in your life. It’s such a self-oriented thinking.

Implementation of plastics in our live here was about the properties of plastics itself towards the environment. Yeah, of course plastics don't do any hurts towards human (unless the plastics been given to your kids/younger brother or sister as a toy) but it created a slow but deep impact toward the Earth. 

We had Iman (faith) which was the environment that provides the place for living. Plastics were negative influences (sins, debauch stuff) that keep ruining the faith which put our life on the right path, from going distantly. We do feel pleasure, happy, and delightful with plastics but think, how about the environment?  As the environment polluted, then we could see clearly, physically (the behavior) the changes. Well, as I mentioned before, cut or reduce the usage of plastics to preserve your environment. Too many jargon here, so frankly speaking, preserve your iman for any sinful act, or at least control yourself by reduce the frequency of the doings. Believe in yourself, and vitally, believe in Allah, the One who had created you. Reduce here obviously bring something good to your life to prevent any destructive circumstances. You can make the change.

Reuse

Focusing in 3R concepts, well there, means by make something that had been used, to be used by for another purpose. Yeah, typical example, creating a lovely and simple flower vase from plastic bottle. Economically beneficial, in addition. Furthermore, we could transform the bottle into a vase based on our own well-build-creative thinking. 

Bottle, vase. Knowledge and implementation (reuse).  Maybe these will look a slight different from the concept of reuse but I'll try to make the idea actually doesn't have that difference. ‘Ilm (knowledge) was a prior thing to be looked or searched in a Muslim's life. Without any doubt also, knowledge was everything. It could lead to anything. You can call it anything, study, educate, learn, follow, etc. 

Why study? Why should you know this? Why you should know that? The answer was simple. To be use. Be an applicator and implementer. No such knowledge that was useless. It only comes out whether being implemented rightfully or in the other way around. Nowadays, we’re living in a brand new (I supposed) environment or trend: exam oriented (well, I’m narrowing the scope for students/scholars). Study for exam. For good credits, marks, and points considered study ONLY for exam. This couldn’t be right in certain way, certainly. Next scope, for Islamic Studies students, yes, they hold bigger responsibility to reuse everything they had absorbed in the class in the daily life, for role modeling themselves in the center of the society. And yes, you won't simply be a simplistic person to do these. Strength should be gained to make these a reality.

In addition, we're not alone in the path of fulfilling our nature requirement for living as a servant which pleasured by the God, Allah. As we're not alone, sharing is vital. Reuse your knowledge by sharing with friends and fellows. Don’t make it only beneficial towards yourself; for instance, use it  for others good instead. In the same moment you could contribute something useful as a friend.

Recycle

Transform into something new but in different patterns. I’m recently managed to set up a ‘Recycle’ in a program here, so I came out with an idea of putting a video of consciousness about recycle. I found out a video from YouTube™, showed a new way to recycle typical ordinary plastic bags: transform it into a hard pole for building frame in Kenya. Creative isn’t it? Make something used into something that was more beneficial. Saying that those were rubbish wasn’t a productive thinking.

Now here what I am trying to deliver was something that we could reflect in ourselves. Certainly, we couldn’t recycle any part of our limbs, or organs (if that was in your mind, no). We recycle by review, glance or revalue the quality of our humane quality. For sure both aspect should be considered, habl min Allah and habl min nas (link with Allah and other people), to be the most preferable human capital. Well, reflecting the self wasn’t that easy. We got ego, and ego plays its role to boast up the self, make the feeling of perfectness creep up inside ourselves. Consequently, lack of ‘recycle’ make the heart stoned and let the ego throne up. 

Conclusion

3R not only about the environment, Earth or sustaining our place to live, it also could be implemented by ourselves for being a better person. Aslih nafsak (improvise yourself) with this simple formula, 3R, Reuse, Reduce and Recycle. 

Some mumble or thought by you may be expressed if you had confusion on these. Okay, simple, these were my ideas and views. You could express yours below, practice sharing, then we could discuss together. 

Credit to: Wan Ahmad Furqan for be the early bird reader of this post. =)

9 Lives

1. Here we go again. Book overview.

2. This time I am about to type about 9 Nyawa (9 Lives) by Ramlee Awang Mursyid, No. 1 thriller novelist in Malaysia.

3. I've done reading this book for 3 days as at the same time I got classes and some revision on Maths.

4. First of all, for me this novel provide something which you could get it on your television screen. Drama based plot. Not less, the novelist often use flash back method in his writing on this one.

5. It's a typical dramatic kind of novel. Not mine I supposed.

6. Overall, for me it doesn't dissapointing but typical.

P/s: Cats wasn't the main role here.

Leadership

1. Leader came form the word 'lead' which could be meant by plumbum, pencil carbon or heading some group. The one that I want to highlight here is, to head a certain organization. yeah, leader. Or a head (not the organ).

2. Being a leader was not as easy as it sounds, nor as a piece of strawberry shortcake.

3. It compiled all the hardly-to-maintain characteristics such as responsibility, strength, inner or outer, the spirit, willingness, dedicate and stand.

4. For me, leadership depends on talent and training. If somebody who doesn't have any talent in leadership, how could he lead his group? And if he doesn't make through any training session for leadership, how could he knows the way of leading? For anybody had the talent, it's just an advantages for them, as they was gifted on their own interest. So, for me, for having talent, ones should have interest.

5. Since I was a prefect someday back, I learned by myself the way of leading. By observing the surrounding, the orders asked by the teachers, according to the books and not less, guidance that had been shared by my friends.

6. Then, when it turned into something even bigger, like being a committee of a program and in addition, being the leader of your group where you should take care all the stuff happen around you as long as the program being held, was something experiencing though.

7. Something challenging should occurs as long as you be called as leader. As your action being justified, hard critics even unpleasant feedback of majority decision be made by the minorities would be pointed to the leader.

8. A leader also should be strong in psychologically, as he would face those obstacles by himself alone usually without giving up, resign and let the downpour from your eyes. No, no, no. If you had these symptoms, you're not well-build leader.

9. Well, leader means risk. There were so many risk that one had to face on behalving his team.Unavoidable for sure. All had mentioned above.

10. Let me share some of my current experience for being a leader. As the monitor of my group, my so far I didn't had any bad situation, if I got one, it seems not hard to be handled. Yea, I supposed all of the members were easily accept me as their representative. Some problem occurred as one or two of us rather made their own decision and more preferable than the majority, so I couldn't do anything other than convincing them. After then, it's all up to them.

11. On the other hand, a friend of mine facing difficult times by having the post as a leader. The others seemed kept themselves away from holding the responsibilities. And the worst, as he elected, he had been bullied indirectly and even be blamed by not being a good leader if he done any mistakes unpurposely.

12. Even though these time was a quite a long post, perhaps it's the one which worth to be read. At least you know the way of my mind think about leadership.

P/S: The best way be a good leader, in my vision, is always be ready to sacrifice most of your things for your group (I didn't meant by being badly humble)  and consider each of your members' opinions in certain circumstances which need brainstorming.

Live Your Life.

Staying

1. Staying in the dormitory area at the moment where the others doesn't around was something new to me.

2. Quite, silent and sometimes seemed spooky well almost everybody went home. Even APIDS' themselves.

3. Ouh, anyways, why I'm staying? Because I'm APIDS' kids of course.

4. Well, as I told before we needed to sit for next 2 paper, Maths subjects for the next two weeks.

5. For the times in between, we only got several classes, and 3-full-day classes with lecturer from PASUM. Approximately, 3 days only, in total, 6 days of classes.

 6. So, the point is, what should we do on these leisure times?

7. Doing math of course. Am not that clever to let myself enjoy the ample moment by doing nothing for the next 2 papers.

P/S: Frankly, I like this silent condition. Tranquilling.