Graduation and beyond...

Sorry to MIA for a month or so, was pretty busy lately preparing and attending my graduation ceremony and at last, it was over. At least i have a little free time now that i am back in Malaysia.



Yes, graduation. It was something we all look forward to, when we are still studying that is. But when the moment comes, we don't really want it. At least i feel it that way. The ceremony itself was just at it means, a ceremony. No more no less. But i could see it meant a great deal to all our parents, they were pretty emotional during and after that. But for me, it was a pretty sad moment.

The mere glimmer of responsibility and endless pressure to work along with its uncertainty and detriment, kinda scares the shit out of me. Yea, so i choose to delay to accept the burden of working and supporting the family for a year and a half by taking a master course. But did i make the right choice? Who ever knows? Maybe i just made things more difficult for myself, but this is what i've choose and i'll stick with it.

After graduation, many path presents itself to us. And as the path diverges, we all take on different roads. I wonder if we will ever cross path again. And if we ever do, how will we all be doing eh?

Looking at the future through a sandglass.

A new look!

How time flies when we are having fun. Christmas is almost here already!

Many things will change after this Christmas, for it is the end of the academic journey for many of my friends and the beginning of the career path. As for me, i have chosen to stay a little longer at this academic path. Studying yet again in a new city, i walk this path alone. And taking a course i too do not understand well, rumored with difficulty and confusion. My path ahead is so foggy that it worries even my over-confident heart. Then again, it is a path i chosen myself, so i will walk it with no regrets, whatever it brings me to.

Yet in the face of such changing times, i was in need of a change as well. Actually it was more for the graduation, and so a new look for the new path i had chosen. Lets look at the brighter side!

The End is Near?

The End is near.

So the Mayans, and various other sources said.

In the latest movie, 2012, it depicts the ancient lore that the world will come to an end in the neat future - 2012. As with the many other disaster-type movies, it shows how a particular family going into great lengths to escape the world's destruction. Sound familiar? Somehow, i feel our main character here matches very similarly with that from the movie 'World of the Worlds'.

Trivial stuff asides, this movie have a rather expected plot just like any end-of-the-world movie. However, its plus side was it's numerous and continues lame jokes used along in the film which at first is a little annoying but after sometime, really, rather amusing. The added humor along the film gave a fresh view for this disaster movie as it make it not as gloomy and sad as the other.

And just as those typical of its type, the plenty of 'emo' scenes along the way! I found the whole story constructed rather ingeniously, by slip-slotting the humor scenes and the touching ones to create this great movie. In the 'emo' parts, it depicts the human, even at the very end of their time can be selfless and great. The also shows great family bonding and at the very core of human heart, no matter how selfish one can be, they are still willing to sacrifice for their family members. Bravo to that! The show also presents the moral values of humanitarianism, and the dilemma of the equality of all life.

Overall, its a worthy watch in the cinema along with its superb graphics. What i like about the movie is that it brings about a light, brightness and hope even for a disaster movie. Although it tells of the end is near, it does not rush you, it does not give you this sense of urgency to accomplish things. In fact, all it does it teach you to treasure what you already have, and live without regrets for when the inevitable end comes, all is but nothing.

If the end is really coming at 2012, what would you do? Would spend you days from now on trying to make history? Would you put your name in the records so that everyone remembers something great you did? Would you crumble and cries in despair? Or would you drops everything you are doing and wander around the world doing the thing you want most?

My answer is none of the above. We should live life just as it is. No more no less, and let nature take its course. If you were to live differently knowing the end is near means that you have not been living to your full.

To be granted a wish and wish for nothing is true living.

The Human world

It all started once again, just like how it began.

It seems like just yesterday that i had first came to Australia, and now the one year is about to end. It was an enjoyable and life changing experience for me, for i have learned, grow and matured. A little by little, i see the world a bit more.

I restarted this blog, for the exact same reasons i stopped it, but with a renewed flame, a different purpose and a different light. I had always been an observer. Taking the like to be in the sidewalks, out of the light, out of the box. Peering in through the old dusty window, looking, observing and wondering the why's and how's of the world. I do not enjoy being in the center of attention, for it is difficult to see anything from that angle. And perhaps i saw too much, like a muted seer, he sees but cannot speak, know but could now help.

The world is heaven by itself, for it housed many bizarre things and people yet living in a peaceful harmonic way that makes everything seems so, perfect. It is fun and enlightening to look at different people, how the behave, react and what they do in different situations. I came to realize that everyone did what they do for a reason. Because this is how the world works. But the problem lies within that reason for most reasons involves greed, pride, lust or some sinful desire. I am not an pessimist, but rather a realist. People tend to deny because they fear the truth, the fact that most people are selfish bunch lived for their own purpose. Of course there will always be exceptions.

It is pretty amazing what you can see just by sitting at the sidewalk. Recently, i just saw a situation, a scenario, that 6 people was involved in. And when the 7th ask for details, they all told different stories. I was fortunate enough to hear them all, i and laughed in disbelieve. For no many told the what really happened, or should i say, not many told what happened at all. What they say was what they thought had happened, because the added in views of their own, their own prejudice, their own perceptions and bias. And the way they could have shaped the story in their own manner putting them at the pinnacle of the situation is superb.

People are interesting. There is no right or wrong in that matter, just a matter of angle and perceptions. And the fact that when a opportunity presents itself, you can see the true nature of the person displayed at raw, unfiltered, unhidden, unmasked. Which promts me to this blog once again.

I stopped because i saw how ugly the world could have been, and i am unable to help, nor change anything. Then i realized i am not suppose to do anything. Because one can never change a human's nature unless he changes that of his own.

True change come from within.