Sunday, December 24, 2006

Week Fifty Two

Monday,25th Christmas Day 2006 is the start of the last day of the year.
Week No. 52.
I have yet to get myself a Diary. Come to think of it, do i really need one. For this year i have only filled up the organiser part of the diary,i.e. the Monthly planner..filling up every small things on the small space....
The pages of the diary is still fresh and blank....and to think that i have been carrying the diary in my briefcase throughout the year...just another weight in my daily carrying of objects ranging from the laptop,the pda, the handphone and the camera...plus the wallet off course..
Maybe for next year, i might just as well remove the pages of the month in the diary and only use the monthly planner or better still use the one page yearly planner...
What is the use of a diary if you do not fill it up.
Likewise my Nokia 9300i complete with u-name it, is still under utilised...still have not got used to jotting down everything....
Maybe a simple hand phone is just what i need...which i have actually,... the second cheapest Nokia with the FM radio which i use for my cycling...using another number off course only known to a handfull for emergency purpose...
Likewise this laptop that i am using at the moment...is still under utilised...mostly used in the bedroom or sometimes out of office...
So, after 52 weeks, i have realised that i have been carrying unnecessary baggage!!!
Maybe in Week One of 2007, i will carry less...maybe just some memories of 2006 and not the liabilities....
It is wise to start with Light and Easy....warming up first..
So Week One will start on MONDAY, but then again Monday is a Holiday. But then again Tuesday is yet another holiday, a replacement for the Sunday Hari Raya Haji overlapping the Sunday Holiday and the Monday New Year Holiday.....
But then again when it comes to holidays, nobody's complaining...overlapping holidays are zealously adhered to..as opposed to overlapping work days!!!

Friday, December 22, 2006

Another new year,another new beginning

2007 is just round the corner. Another new year, another new beginning.Nevermind if the ending of 2006 has not been to your satisfaction,you can always begin again in 2007.
After all everything starts with Number 1, and every new calendar starts with January.

Once you get your new diary, one of the first thing that you do is jot down the important dates,the holidays, birthdays, anniversaries and other important dates that is relevant to your life.....
Your bornday is one of them, not so much as a reminder but out of curiousity you just want to know, what day it will be...whether it is over a weekend or in the middle of the week.
I know mine will be on a Monday...

However, it has never crossed your mind, when your goneday will be in the new calendar...
Obviously, you do not know unless you are serving a death sentence and the date has been fixed!!!!

Why am i fussing about this because, over the last few days i was having my A-musings of Second Thoughts on death by cancer.
Yes the BIG C, you never know when it will strike and when you know, it is too late...
I do not know and have never seen the sufferings of a cancer patient, so i cannot say anything about it. Thank God that, thus far none of my family members have succumb because of that...
I was told that the pain is unbearable....

But comparing cancer death to death in a road accident, the consolation in cancer death is that you will have some time frame to make amends and seek forgiveness before you finally bunk off.

That might be the only consolation, despite the fact that you are counting the days, when the day will come...

Oh what a thought to ponder on, whilst awaiting the new year!!!

So my new year's resolution this time is "Please God, help me be nice to my dear ones , if i have not been that nice all this while,
make me a simpler person to be with and take away all my prejudices and stereotyping of other people...in simpler term...make me make less comments on other people....they are entitled to be what they want to be, even if it is the most idiotic thing....."

It is not too late to make another new beginning, because every moment is a new beginning, until death...when the old compulsary questions are asked...questions which you have been told over and over again in your life time...there is no new question or booby trap questions...just the plain simple question....beginning with "Who....?

Let us begin a new beginning...good luck..

Saturday, October 21, 2006

Finally!!!!

Thank goodness, after a year of creating this blog, i am able to write in thanks to OP Ee Van, who showed me the way.
My A-Musings of Second Thoughts aims at looking at things in a different perspective.
It is not meant to be abnormal, but just an avenue of letting the right side of the brain do some work. Being under utilised, it is a shame that we do not use it as often as possible.
Today is Deepavali or Festivals of Lights or Good over Evil and celebrated by our Hindu brothers.The Lights here is a way of showing a clearer picture or a brighter outlook of life, after being blurred by Evil. There is a story about this according to Evil being overtaken by Good.
Likewise the Lantern Festivals of the Chinese too has similar meaning...celebrating Good over Evil.
Muslims celebrate Hari Raya Aidil Fithri as an end to the compulsory obligations of the month long of fasting during Ramadan.
We are taught that Aidil Fithri is not a celebration of having to fast for a month, but more of a signal of ending the month long fasting and we are encouraged to fast another 6 days after the one day break of the month long fast...
There are some that fast 3 months before Ramadan begins and some that fast every Monday and Thursday...
The connection of Evil here in this case is the Evil that ONE has in ONESELF....
It is not the Evil of others.
I find this very true because the Evil in ONESELF is normally worst than the Evil of others...
Do i make sense here?
If i do please give some feedbacks and that will encourage me to write more...in the future..
Azudin O Fuad