green day was superb!
that was six years ago and they still rocked the concert 6 years down the lane. for being in the scene for 2 decades, surely they have fans from two generations at least. i cant help noticing fathers and sons bonding @ a concert.
and listening to green day is just not the same anymore after listening and watching them live.
now perhaps in seven habits we have what we know as sharpen the saw… simply said practice makes perfect. but all i’m thinking is to start sharpening the mind with these on the list:
childhood education
best teaching methods
religions
be up to date to news (i have taken for granted and not watch or read the news properly for the past year!)
sharpen my fiqh, read up my tauhid, and everything related to it
and yes, definitely read up those books unread as of yet!
and as have learnt, assert: I HAVE TIME
and yes i will start today.
i wanted to blog, but actually, i couldnt stop myself from reading The hour i first believed. i started reading the book weeks ago, but had to put it away because time doesnt allow me to and now that today, for once, i got a whole sunday and i just cant stop reading it.
there’s a number of storyline in the novel but am now at the part where the main character caeluhm’s wife was in the library when columbine high school shooting rampage happened. and then it went to how maureen the wife had to deal with the trauma,(while at the same time, caelum was mourning for his aunt’s death who practically raised him and the loss of his friend who was one of the victim of the shooting rampage)….and i had to pull myself away from the book.
just one week into 2010, first day of madrasah was better than what i expected (i had imagined worst) and although there a glitches, those are bound to happen, has there been perfectness in anything? so i’m learning. always.
like how we need to constantly be in communication with parents because one whole month of holiday and they got disoriented….i feel like we need to have newsletters now. i really think so, and with three fulltime teachers, this should be some work to do.
and if last year i experimented with group agreement, which really worked at some point, this year i’m trying out ‘trainer’s expectations’ and i hope this can create better learning experience. and i had a spiritual awakening yesterday when i shared with my students my expectations from the classes this year. it’s like a zap of light in an instance the moment i mentioned the word. it goes straight to the heart.
there’s a lot of things to improve. and plan. and decide.
it’s going to get busy definitely.
oklah, maghrib oredi…signing off.
and a whole sunday rest…i’m loving it.
what does 10km walk and cycling around pulau Ubin have in common?
They both hurt my legs!!! haha!
but i enjoyed and loved the whole experience of them both.
the walk from macritchie, treetop walk and surprise, surprise, all the way to bukit timah’s peak, i never know i had it in me to endure the walk, the whole journey!!! seriously. exhausted definitely, but we just walked on and on and the nature made me forget at times the tiredness. walking to work may now seems like a very very easy feat. only that i need a good shoe~
i really love the walk, makes me sweat (what’s with all that sitting in the office) and my eyes enjoying the green green and more green (without specs nor lens)and it amazes me really that you can go from one place to another through this nature trails, away from the road. and especially when i found out that from bukit timah to macritchie, we had to take two different buses!
and if you’re wondering, of course i didn’t walk alone. there’s the master of walking himself. i love it, i mean, u. 😉
and after a one day rest, went to pulau ubin for a cycling adventure, as my little bro called it, he was so excited about it! but cycling was much harder than walking, for me la. even with all the 15 min cycles i did every day to work. but i must say i may have improved than the last time i cycled at pulau ubin. when was that? i knew that first time i really could not take it.
despite the cramps, i enjoy these outdoor days.
only….i saw the news tonight and cyclists on pathways can get fined if they are caught! does that mean i cannot cycle to work anymore??? but i just started to love cycling…and i cant possibly cycle on the road, can i? that would be more scary and yes the fact that it’s dangerous!
why do they have to take away the joy of cycling; it lets busy people like us have the chance to have some fitness routine (while cycling to and from work), and less pollution with all them cars, and less time consuming when we want to go to places around the neighbourhood. and the fact that it saves money to cycle. why do they have to make simple cycling difficult??!!
or perhaps i misunderstand the news? (ok got to check again!)
and then it’s “turkey”(bowling term) for malays in the singapore idols!! three in a row!! 😀
oklaaaa, few more days before the year ends. got to meet the girls one of these days and wow, a new year begins, exciting 2010.
are you blogging?
yes i am
like for how long since you’ve last blogged?
hmmmm 10 days ago?
so i’ve purposely missed to blog the past few days. my mind has been preoccupied with work (duhh what else?) and realising that i do need to recharge before the 2010 starts. i;ve been counting days and contemplating exactly which day i will have some time to spend by myself, some quality time with my family and fiance. i mean i did go out with them but i feel like it’s more out of necessity, rather than really spending time with them. and i do need to spend one whole day just reading and lost myself in another world before getting back into reality. but december’s ending and i don’t think i have the luxury of doing items mentioned above.
but i do treasure those times, no matter how short it was with these people who mattered the most to me. like the time when we got to spend one day with your family and then mine, even if its unplanned, and the weddings day and yes, a trip to bottle tree park, although i wished we could have stayed longer (it was our one year after all)…and for that matter, i don’t think i’ve had chance to chill out with the girls this month!! except for weddings~
but in conjunction to the new islamic year 1431. i pray for the guidance, wisdom and patience to face the new challenges, what have them, work sense. it’s going to be exciting, yes, but a lot more to be done with triple the number of students and triple the number of teachers to handle. my Lord, i need to be strong and smart. more than ever.
and for being knowledge-ly stagnant, i need to go to talks and read more! speaking of which, i do have a queue of books waiting to be read.
and then 2010 is THE year. got to start counting the days~ 😉
a lot is going to happen. i pray for health! indeed.
another worth talking about is Avatar the Movie. watched it with dear and my siblings. and i think i might want to watch it again since siti baby didn’t get to come along being away at vietnam. engrossed and indulged in the pandora world of trees and magnificent creatures. it almost makes me want to live in such a world. so connected to nature and strong sense of belief, of oneness and love to all beings. very fantasy. i love it. i see you 😛
so with 7 habits trained and understood, i want to apply those and perhaps change for the better.
with you and my family. i think i can go through all this.
work is always about moving from one task to another. always and seemingly neverending. believe me. last week was all about korban. this week was all about orientation. the amount of physical and thought energy it took, not forgetting the utter nervousness i had all week, knowing i had to conduct this round of orientation by myself!
so this morning was the orientation, i stayed up quite late last night, rehearsing to the slides, which thankfully was prepared for all mosques. i just had to understand what the slides are all about and remembering exactly what to say, but knowing me, i ended up talking impromptu, whatever script i wrote or tried to memorise went out the window.
of course, i still need alot of improvements. A LOT. there are times when the word just don’t come out and then some points which i missed out to mention. but alhamdulillah, it went well, teachers who came to help were on automotum, registration, activities for the children, although a bit quite messed up, because we weren’t expecting a WHOLE AUDITORIUM FULL OF PARENTS.
next time must always expect the unexpected and prepare with more precise details. i was nervouse prior to the session,, but once i was on stage it’s like do or die. i hope i get to do better orientation next time. only i didnt know why i suddenly had a runny nose in the middle of the presentation, and i had to catch a lot of breath.
thank you Lord, at least this went well. now on to what’s next on the list!
yes…it’s been a whole year. with you.
suddenly being reminded of the creed’s song my sacrifice…
despite all the late nights, the late meetings, the lateness of the kambings arriving at our mosque 🙂 we pretty much had a smooth operation of korban. ALHAMDULILLAH. really. with the vendors’ expertise and some very good mmbs on the ground, we made it. our very first korban. and yes, definitely the volunteers who practically spent the WHOLE day at the mosque. may Allah bless them for all the good work they did.
of course there are bound to be some glitches, but alhamdulillah, if there are problems, it was overcame quickly and diplomatically. what’s important, the people are happy with the service.
and so i pray, that Lord, please give us strength, patience, sincerity and wisdom in this line of work we are doing. please save us from fitnahs and evil eyes. please.
let every word that comes from my mouth be the truth.
eid mubarak~
15 strands of signs of stress and i hope everything goes PERFECT tomorrow.
so help me God.
first it was living life. with the hopes it can bring a smile and some sort of motivation. yes it did bring a smile.
now it’s just…i’m NOT in a good mood, a huge headache residing….terribly a mess. i hated these peak seasons.
period.
let’s get these things done and over with. please. i’ve had it.
and i don’t enjoy gilbert’s as much as i thought i would.
and the talk i went to on friday was depressing. will relate on that later.
living seri 