Post raya ...

Untuk semua,

terima kasih diatas ucapan hari raya. Maafkan saya tak dapat reply satu-satu. Tak sempat nak berinternet kebelakangan ni.

Seminggu saya beraya dikampung. Kemeriahan and kesibukan kunjung mengunjung sehingga tidak berkesempatan untuk berinternet. Lagipun dirumah dikampung tak ada sambungan internet.

Setelah pulang ke KL, masuk ke pejabat...terus ke workshop sana sini. Sekarang ni dah keluar negara pulak. Tapi tak jauh. Hanya 2 jam penerbangan. Termiss lagi raya gathering bersama kawan-kawan di KL disebabkan kena travel masa hari minggu.

Semalam makan di restoran Sari Kuring bersama kawan serta sepupu. Terlupa nak ambil gambar makanan. Dah habis makan baru ingat. Ni kes lapar sangat. Yang tak tahan disini macetnya. Tapi nasib baik tak kena "macet total". Balik ke hotel, ada internet. Jadi sempat jugak tengok-tengok blog yang dah berabuk ni selepas masuk ke email pejabat. Akan berada sini hampir seminggu. Menghadiri conference juga berinteraksi. Semuga dapat mencari apa yang baru serta bertemu kawan-kawan baru didalam industry ini. Kalau berkesempatan nak jugak pergi spa pada malam hari bila tak ada apa nak buat dihotel. Dah lama tak ke spa.

Oh ya, semasa raya gathering office minggu lepas, ada jugak tolong buat persembahan sketsa SATU HARI DIHARI RAYA. Itupun sangatlah impromtu. Cuma ada setengah jam untuk fikir concept, pilih lagu, cari orang, praktis 2 kali. Terus buat persembahan. Semuanya express. Yang penting nya spirit.

Saya kembali bila berkesempatan.

October 29, 2007

p/s terlalu lembap untuk upload photo. Tunggu balik KL.

Setulus ucapan

Untuk semua rakan-rakan bloggers,

Ramadhan hampir ke penghujungnya. Bulan yang mengajar kita erti kesabaran, keredhaan, ketabahan....

Izinkan saya menyusun sepuluh jari mengucapkan ampun dan maaf seandainya ada yang tersalah ucapan, terkasar bahasa...diharap jangan simpan didalam hati.

Selamat menyambut hari raya Aidil fitri.

Berhati-hati didalam perjalanan. Semuga selamat sampai ke kampung halaman. Yang diperantauan, semuga bergembira memeriahkan suasana Aidilfitri.

Salam aidilfitri dari,

Anggerik Merah, big man & lil man.
October 7, 2007

Tranquility

I had a good sleep in the 12 hours flight. I slept like a baby.

The first time to have iftar with a complete family after 4 years being away. Also having sahur in the morning. With my jetlag I stay up at night and sleep half day during day time.

I am longing for that peace of mind I had experienced last weekend during my stay back at nite in the office. Very calm mind. Tranquility….

Hectic & chaotic life disturb tranquility …

AM

The quest for beauty

It has been 2 weeks I was back to my old place. In a couple of days I will be back home again.

Capturing what had I accomplished:

1. Pre-tested the prototype before sending back to our office back home for evaluation. Approximately 2 days was spent on that.

2. Continued correcting my T. and discussed important point related to some data which I had some reservation about its validity and decided the best approach to tackle it.

3. Spent 1 week to attend course by my sup. Something that I wish I had the opportunity to attend earlier. Finally, I had chance to do that too.

4. Spring cleaned my stuff…papers, reports, references etc in the office

5. Was together with others in a big crowd to pay a last respect (2 minutes silence) to the demise of renowned Prof from our department. A very sad moment for everyone who knows him.

6. Met my second sup in front of demise Prof’s office while writing memory in the book. A shocked to also know that he had just had operation for prostate cancer. He helps me a lot in scrutinising my thesis layout and content some years ago from the perspective of very experience professor. And he is very fatherly too. I owe him much. 8 months ago, before leaving this place, the last word he said to me was “ May God help you”.

7. Attended a majlis berbuka puasa with Malaysian community here. Met many friends who know me and the new comer also.

8. Had iftar at my sup’s house to meet his lovely wife and cute 5 month old son.
Etc etc

My life is revolved within office area. The place I do my work, pray, sleep and eat. Make me realise the basic necessity in life!

I know that I will miss this memorable time of my life journey. Especially having some friends who I had a strong relationship and understand well the process that all of us going through. Share our happy and sad moments in life. I know that I will never do this again yet the experience had shape me to be what I am now.

The quest for beauty...which I captured at the Changi Airport on my transit to Cairo last 2 weeks...

Till then...goodbye for now!

Anggerik Merah

September 29, 2007

Unlock Your Creative Inspiration

Article I received on how to snap out of 'stuck states' and unlock your creative inspiration!

Plus interesting pics I took at Changi Airport, Singapore during my transit to Cairo two weeks ago.

My escapism from energy drain out...

Enjoy it..

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"Unlock Your Creative Inspiration" Copyright: Colin G Smith http://www.nlptoolbox.com/

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You know the human mind, your mind, is truly awesome. Everything we see around us, incredible architecture, paintings, wondrous machines and the amazing musical master pieces of the ages all started in someone's imagination! We all possess this creative mechanism. Sometimes though we become, "stuck in a rut" or start to,"see blank", or we "hit a brick wall." These are common phrases used by people that are in 'stuck states.'

Their mind is unwilling to go else where. Just what is this state of mind and more interestingly how can we discover proven methods to ease out of it, swiftly and smoothly, into inspired and creative states of being?! If we were to look inside their mind we would likely discover that their 'stuckness' was in fact a bit like a video loop. It would be as if they were repeating a shortclip of a movie over and over: Hit a brick wall... back to the beginning and... repeat...

So how can you snap out of these loops?

Here's a lickety-split way:

Switch Representational System

It's easier than it sounds honest! Look at that person over there. She looks like she's in a bit of stymie. "Hey how'stricks? You look like you could do with some creative inspiration?! Ahhhh ok, Lisa, let's see what we can do then..."

First of all notice where and how you feel that stuck state. Where on/in your body is that feeling? I bet it's not in your little toe or is it?! Good.

Now switch representational system by giving that feeling a colour. 'As you notice that feeling what colour represents that best?' Just go with the first colour. And if you wish you could now give that feeling a sound. 'What sound represents this feeling?' Great, well done! You've done the main part.

What you have done is to access a different part of your mind by representing the feeling in a different sensory system (Visual/Auditory.) If you wanted, just for fun, you could even represent the feeling as a smell or taste! 'What does this feeling smell/taste like?'

With that you have instantly accessed multiple resources from different brain centres, allowing the creative process to emerge.

What you can do next is to explore the new representation in it's own sense system. So for example let's say the feeling you had, looked like black foggy cloud and sounded like a dull and distant tinny sounding radio.

The next step is to PLAY with these images and sounds. For example what happens if you 'paint' a silver lining around the black clouds? If you were to imagine bringing that radio closer how would the sound quality alter? Turn the dial?

I think you get the basic gist by now, so go ahead and give it a go and get wild and wacky because humour is always good for a laugh isn't it?!

So what happens now when you think about the 'stuck state'? Your feelings have changed! This process enables your mind to have more choice. Instead of getting stuck in a 'dead end' pathway, you have numerous ones to choose from. And more choice equals more flexibility, which equals more creativity.

Creativity is just a state of mind that can be triggered with specific mental strategies and can be enhanced by exploring other perspectives using a variety of tools. And the great thing is, the more you practice creative thinking, the more creative you become! Simply by learning to use our brains in more diverse ways we can discover the master keys to unlocking the power of our creative imagination!

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Author Bio:Colin G Smith is a licensed Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and author of 'The NLPToolBox',

Drain out moment...

My energy drain out...

Feel like I want to sleep all the time. Blame it on the weather? But I told my brain not to think about weather. Even if it is forecasted to be 1 degree at nite, I feel fine as I am all the time in the building. Not been to outside much.

My officemate also complain the same. Maybe we had been too much exerted our energy last week. We slept in the office during weekend and keep doing the same thing. Our energy drain out and our productivity drop and we drag ourselves... What choice do we have? No..no...choice.

Why must I loose this marathon?

Must find ways how to handle this enery drain out...

Focus...focus...focus... is what I need at this time.


Anggerik M,
September 26, 2007
4.25 am.

You will remain in our heart forever

I was talking to friends on Thursday that I must go and meet this Professor before leaving. He was the one who introduced me to my supervisor. I owe him much on this and I will always remember him.

In every opportunity I had chance to have discussion with him, I knew that he is a down to earth, honest and humble person. And a very knowledgeable and respectable in his area of expertise. He is no doubt, one of the well known contributor to the knowledge in our industry.

Sad news we received yesterday on his demise at the age of 59 years old. I only came to know that he suffered from brain tumor and had operation last 2 years. He passed away in his hometown in Iran on Friday, September 21, 2007.

Today, we pay a visit to his office to say goodbye and these are remain:

May his soul rest in peace and he will always remain in our heart forever.

Anggerik M

September 25, 2007

Note:

Generally from my observation, a good person don't leave too long in this world. He/she will be called back earlier in their life.