2013 NBA Final Game 6#

This is what a final should look like, I mean the second half and especially the last quarter, scoreboard is not adding points, lots of aggressive defense, turnovers from everyone, key rebounding and clutch shot. It is how it should be unlike game 5 which was just simply lopsided. It is so thrilling, the last quarter and overtime is really taking my breath.

I want to credit R. Allen for his astonishing equaliser at the final 5 second of the game even tough it is the only 3 pointer he made in the game. Who cares? We are talking about quality not quantity. Lebron has a great game, triple double and his burst out in the second half is detrimental to the result of the game though there are turnovers and missed easy shots, the rally to tie the game in the regulation is still attributed to the MVP.

Wade is quite silent tonight, no tremendous replays and no clutch performance but on the other hand he might sustain a injury from the collision with Ginobili.

The spurs is doing well in the regular time, persistence and stability, having the lead most of the time, Duncan is dominating the paint, neither Bosh nor Birdman can hold him.

Leonard is doing a pretty good tonight, showing fearlessness against Lebron and getting the ball in to the hoop when there is a turnover from the Heats, not fancy but effective. And his dunk in the face of Miller is just awesome.

Now what would happen in the determining final game of this season? Spurs of Heats, I hope it will be as thrilling and exciting as game 6.

lost in the jungle

There were a bunch of bothering stuffs that waited to be settled, plus there had been quite a long time I didn't  exercise a bit, so I asked my buddy to go for hiking in Bukit Jambul. It was a cloudy day, and after a rain the path became so slippery to walk in addition we were in our sanders only.

It was the first time he came here and I suggested him to use another route, a longer one, that I had tried once, descending, not going up. The air in the hill was so refreshing and may be because of the rain, the air was so rejuvenating and cool. The first half of the journey was just like the one that I used to take, lots of direction guide, nailed on trees and there were definitely fewer hikers we met.

Suddenly the path became ambiguous, the soil path was covered with fallen leaves and at some place there were even messy plants making path looked narrower, as if the path was abandoned  for long. This route was not a whole up, there were a few times we hiked up and went down hill before the destination. Then we started to feel some tiredness in our legs and I saw the grey sky, this was a usual sign of reaching the hill top.

But it happened to prove me wrong, and it surprised me actually we reached a top but not the one we wanted to reach. I asked every time when in doubt if we want to turn back, but he insisted me to decide, and I couldn't see worries in his face until we reached a steep down hill, it was even challenging with the fallen leaves and moist left by the rain. It was so slippery that we almost slid on our but for a couple of times. then the path became even more ambiguous, where it was almost sheltered by some plants and grasses. However we proceeded anyway.

Then we reached where there were some latex trees and banana trees around, and a wood shelter with a dog underneath. We hesitated a while and I equipped myself with used petrol container, just in case it chased us. Because I thought a dog with a master was usually braver. Then we proceeded with the dog did nothing but staring us passed by.

Then we came across a few junctions where we had to make a decision, and I chose on my instinct. Then the scene was becoming much worrying with the dusk was near and the path seemed like leading into a deep forest. We turned back to take another path at the last junction in haste. And finally, the environment became more familiar to me and thanks god we met some other hikers too and moment later we reached our destination.

What a horrible expirience

Two rules of being a modernPrimitive Man

There are two golden rules to become a primitive in the modern day:
 firstly, you must be disconnected to the rest of the world, you must be out of the loop, simply live by yourself
secondly, you don't shave, you let any kind of hair on your body grow messily and freely, it would be probably best if you have it frizzy.
as simple as that

Wind back to a few centuries back, when there was no cell phone or any means of communication and transportation, there might not even be a developed language for them to "hang around" how did they live, didn't them felt bored living in a extremely drab "neighborhood". However I guess they still managed to have some not so effective but ample communication with the other folks in a tribe, their community like gesturing and scowling when they got mad.

I have been practicing this kind of primitive life style recently. You know, it is the study week, my sole program in my itinerary is just studying and doing the goddamn boring revision. When I got bored, a laptop will entertain me well, movies and net surfing. I guess the past week the only person in my loop is just my girlfriend, I talk and text to no one else except her, until today I just encountered an rare opportunity to deal with something with a friend. Ya, but i was "moodless" to quite entertain them.

Trust me, I never doubt if I would be so craving for some interaction with anyone besides her. You see the whole idea is, I am quite a nerd, I don't prefer my life to be boisterously cheered with a a lot of people around me. I have hobby, and am interested in a wide array of stuffs in my life, even some trivial one. I don't felt like articulating all of these interests. Fine, but I am writing this not because the true nature of mine is not in line with what I just mention just now. seriously, an lively enriched social cycle is to me, subservient to my passion for those interests.

I have friend teasing me that I am a primitive, when I seldom show up in all those kinds of gatherings, hanging out. But his comment doesn't work, he actually guides me on how to define myself, I buy the idea but not the trick. I wonder this nerd propensity stems from lacking of joyous and cheerful occasion with a big crowd, it might because I have not tasted the fun of it. But one thing I confirm is that it has something to do with the "style" of my childhood.

But, day by day, I have became cognizant of that I have cross the line, i meant too disconnected to the world and the people around me. Just I even became lazy to reply message from a friend, most because I have been leaving leaving my cell phone alone these few days, late to notice those incoming text. You know, just feel like reluctant to apologize and following up with the things. Gosh, I know that it is not the way it should be. to sum up, I mean I at least I needa engage communications necessary to sustain my daily needs. ya that is, if i avoid that because of laziness, damn it is not a rules in my theory to be a modern primitive man, all I want is simplicity. Oh finally sleepiness consumes me, night.

A naively dishonest boy

I have never doubted my honesty and integrity
I actually dare to say I am proud with this innate qualities

But how would I feel when I was criticized to be a cunning and dishonest guy
This was  what I could guess from the riddles from him
If there was any

It was hurt to hear that
Especially when I knew from the cradle to the grave that I am born to be a gracefully kind man
All I could say was that I was too naive
All I wanted was just a better presentation
And damn it I did it worst man

May be he was right, when he refuted that
I didn't see the seriousness and the consequences from my own action
But
I meant it when I said that I had an average grade
And I had never been so desperate for an excellent grade
Or thinking of unethical methods to boost my grade
And I would not do something that was against my value to attain a better grade

Indeed it felt bad and it was disheartening to have someone misunderstood me
or labelled dishonesty on my forehead
but as the saying goes "Life goes on"
Still I needed to grit my teeth and humbly take the lesson
Think before you leap
Really important

I appreciated that there were consolation and company from my love
Thanks

Indolence

It was a good Saturday and I wasted it

watching 2 movies when I know that I shall not

taking a long nap was the main itinerary in the afternoon

When I woke up, it was already 6 45 pm

Come on, I got a lot to deal with

when will I be sober

And then I went for jogging with my friend

And after that it seemed better

I braced myself to fight laziness

Come on, maybe we should see things in another perspective

optimistically, it was great

it was a great way to relax

and let my distress abates like that 

doing nothing and enjoy a good movie

The end of a dark path is a hopeful bright sun

Malaysian Accent

"I like the way he speaks, his rebuttal makes you believe in his points, it is so convincing"
"You know I like the style he speaks also"
"The way he speaks has a very strong Chinese accent"
"It is nice to keep this accent you know"
"Rather than being too westernized"
This was the compliment that my English teacher gave to a very brilliant student after the debate
When I was a bit frustrated for not doing quite well
And this comment inspires me a lot
why should we talk like a westerner,
Imitating and emulating the accent of UK or US
We are Malaysian aren't we
We are commonly renown for our language ability
And it is also what makes us unique as a Malaysian
It dignifies us as a Malaysian

As for my teacher, she is kind of a localized English teacher
I know undoubtedly she can speak so well
But she has not any hesitation to use "lah, lah, lah" in the class

When I was admiring and jealous about how fluent, hasty and well another female classmate spoke spontaneously
This comment of my teacher had really twisted my thought
And I can agree more about this
come on lah, just speak like a Malaysian lah

Don't judge a book by its cover

We, people, seem to have the propensity to make a judgment based on what we witness with our very own eyes

Today I came across an incident that made me felt and agreed with the saying "Don't judge a book by its cover"

You know, I always moans that the shuttle bus service in my campus sucks
Actually I entailed this conclusion just based on my handful experiences with shuttle service
Cause I have my own Bike, seldom I take the bus
My grouse was those buses coming in groups
There is always a couple of buses coming in a roll at a same time
Why couldn't them have some gap between rounds?

But today, I understand the reason behind it
The time when I see the "Bus fellowship" is a time peak hours of the shuttle service
The time when most of lectures start
All the students are heading the the lecture halls
If there were only a bus at one time, it would be definitely insufficient, it could have been more complaints

So, I guess next time, I should have observed more and see more into detailed, before coming to a conclusion

The road not taken

Just suddenly felt like writing something
Looking around
there are various types of people passing by in my life
At the age of 23, not considered very old, but I guess I have seen quite a number of people in my life
I bet, as graduation is coming around the corner, me and my fellow friends and other undergraduates have reached at a crossroads
A time where one of the toughest and momentous decision that we need to make
Our path to our future, the career path
whatever choice we take, it will greatly influence the manner and the way we live

Recall the poem "The road not taken" in secondary school
At this point of my life, my situation just fitly depicts what is said in the poem
There is a bright, clear, and straight road
A path where I used to think as what am I supposed to take
I had this thought may because of there are many people with a similar background like mine have chosen it
We human have the propensity to decide by referring to others
And to some, there are even society and family pressure, where the poor fellow is coerced to take the road
But
Do they really enjoy the journey?

Thanks God that, I am born without any disability
And in a decent family, not loaded but at least I have no financial pressure
There are someone around,
even someone I know, needs to think about his what to feed himself for the next meal
If they are unfortunate, then me as the lucky one,
should I appreciate my luck by doing what I am thought or expected to do by the society?
Is making a decision blindly hinges on the envious feeling towards the successors a smart way of choosing?

Whereas it is completely different with the other route
There are distinctly fewer "risk taker" have tried this road
Because it is unconventional, unlike a the other roads where someone in his or her right mind should choose
I am exposed to less knowledge and information on how it could be to choose this road
The decision to take this road is sure to be contentious
There will be disagreements against it
And I might be said to have lost my right mind for ever thinking about it

"Don't judge a book by its cover"
should it be taken into consideration?
What others say
Is that the option that there are more people chose a definitely right choice
Even if I am aware of this vague road leads me to a destination that might be congruent with my interest, what I want and more importantly what I indeed enjoy spending time on.

I guess I would just literally like imprisoning myself with the views from people around
what generally a person like me should do and what they might want me to do
It could be true that following my heart is the means to extricate myself from this jail, the life long jail
Otherwise I'll just walking in their shoes at the end of the day

But why?
Why? still I'm stuck?
I am still indecisive and doubt

This just picture just conveys what I don't want to be

Structured

I love things to be in order, organized and structured

that is why sometimes I have my own quiet moment of introspection

Fantasizing quietly and devising a method of how to keep my things neat and structured

I feel like cleaning and tidying up my stuffs every time I sense that I feel spiritless and energy-less

It could be those past experience and retrospective unpleasant happenings that trigger the spiritlessness and low motivation

It is proved to be workable too

By clearing all the mess and organizing my various belongings in a cellular form

I feel revitalized and recharged inside

However, thing that I need to organized the most is myself, ain't my stuffs

The Rules of the Games

The week is the exam week of the 2 monstrous lecturers' subjects

These few days I have been studying like hell

I thought I could burn the night oil yesterday, but I fainted in bed

I was just washed-out because there were presentation and life saving duty yesterday

After reading reading and reading

A thought popped up in my mind

I agree with the statement that Learning is by no means Memorizing

I guess this is what an ordinary student does

Loading gigabytes of facts and theories and throwing them up in the exam hall

And if you ask him afterward, he'll tell he has forgotten about them

 

The exam oriented type of education is doomed to be failure 

Until a turnaround change in this edu system, it is only manufacturing memorizing machines

What I want to say is application learning is the rules of the game today

You suck if you can't apply the concept you learnt in your text

To apply you need to fully understand and comprehend what you have learnt

It could be called knowledge only if you understand them

As for the prevalent memorizing, it is only a means of understanding

It could be fun to dig, dig and keep digging a piece of knowledge

If you figure out your interest in it

Someone in our society must really called a halt to this exam oriented education

to extricate the students from the burdens of studying 

and start to produce thinking individuals

Environment for studying

A suitable place to study is always not in my list of concerns about studying

I used to think that a desk or a bed especially will do

But now I started to feel that studying environment is very imperative to encourage and motivate us to open the books

It could be because I was brought up in a decent family, my mum stressed us a lot on studying 

Though we are not rich, my parents have tried the best to provide us a souvend environment for studying

Therefore since secondary school, I would not ride down to the town deliberately just to get to the library or McDonald to read

I was wondering why can't they just study at home?

Is it necessary for them to take a long ride just for a space to study?

May be the air conditioner is cool attractive, but does it make a lot of differences?

But later on, I realized that I was so naive to have the perception that everyone had a decent place to study at home
Furthermore, outside with friends, they could chit chat a bit when it became too boring.

Thanks God for what I have and given by my parents, not everyone share an equal fortune.

In my tertiary education,  the external environment of having a suitable, comfortable ( with air conditioning or midnight), or quiet place to study has become a key for me to study. My productivity is at peak during mid night. Especially someone takes part in activities or joining any society, club or organization, the poor little guy just have inadequate time for them to study in the day time.

In addition, a very convincing reason, that is when I am apart from my laptop my effectiveness and productivity of studying can go staggeringly higher.
God damn, it is so true for people like me who is not pretty good in self-discipline, self-control, self-management, or self-whatever. 

Aside from these external and physical kind of environment, however, the intangible kind of environment plays a more prominent role to "lure" us to study.

For instance, the type of friends that you hang around in the class, are they the sloppy one or aggressive type, or the type of your lecturer, strict or lenient. 

Definitely, in an environment where you have aggressive friends and strict lecturers is more favorable if we are talking about getting good grade, it has a positive impact for us to feel pressure for studying hard. 

Just imagine that one of your lecturers is strict and very demanding, he assigns tests and pop-quiz in class relentlessly, and at the same time all your fellow classmates are so aggressive in studying in order to trample on those do not study well, then someone n this environment is so likely to be hard working as well. 

It forms a kind of aura of hardworking and engender pressure and reason for us to contend with other students. 

You know, human being is born to have a mindset of winning and may be we are pre-engineered to love winning over others. What a sad scenario.

But you know, learning should be fun, find my interest in the topic and I think being curious and interested can make learning lot of fun. This is the most powerful and strongest environment of studying, perhaps. 

Part Timer Life Guard

For sure we have heard of being life guard as part time as a student in the movie and novel so often
But now I am actually doing the same thing
To earn some pocket money I take a part time job to be a life guard in Prince of Wales Island International School
The paid is quite lucrative but just the distance is a bit too far, Balik Pulau
Anyway I think that the school is very nice and i must be a very good place to develop a student, as I can see the attitude of the students are far more proactive and sociable you know

This is my work place

The school is not very big, but it contains a lot in it

On my way back I have a chance to enjoy this beautiful sunset scene on a hill top

This my equipment that I found there

This is a welcoming stone, similar to the one in USM

I have a time of my life

I have a time of my life to do whatever I want
I shall not be too greedy
not just looking at the good side of others
and feel jealous
not to wish for everything
not to live how people expect me to
merely follow my heart
an easier life is always a happier life

"The Pursuit of Happyness"

This is a very touching, motivating and inspiring movie

The father, Christ has a hardest time in his life

Homeless, unpaid taxes and even parking

His wife has chosen to leave him

Despite all these miseries

Still he is steadfast to his belief

He is not defeated by all he has been through

He never changes his affection to his beloved son

Just like most stories

He got through all these

And finally 

He finds the happiness in his life

I have to be grateful

For my life is not pre-arranged by fate, as his

I have a better environment

The obstacles in my life may not be as torturing as his

But his spirit

His spirit should be my role model

I shall face them with a same attitude

same perseverance 

It deserves my respect, it is based on a true story of Christ Gardner

A Told Lesson

Last night I have learned my lesson
A lesson that I have been told before
But I did not take note of it seriously

I couldn't start my car last night
And the cause was because of the battery was dry
And it was dry because I did not take good care of them

Driving a car is definitely not as simple as filling up the tank
There are things like engine oil, water level of the coolant and battery, etc

When problems come
they are really troublesome
It is even worse if it were your first encounter

Maintaining a car car be very easy
It just needs a tiny bit of your time

Growing of "Love"

As I am getting elder, I am becoming more concerned to my parents and my family

Honsetly
I was a wild kid last time
Just like an ordinary teenager, looking for freedom
I was always out for basket ball, badminton and cyber cafe when I was a teenager
Even when I enrolled into University, seldom I will travel back home
And in my sophmore year I had made up my mind to stay in Penang after graduation
I was thinking that it was impossible that they will leave me one day

But now things have changed
I missed them more now
I travel back more often now

Because I guess this might be the last quarter of their life
If lucky enough, it might be the second half
But I can sense that it are not so long
not quite enough

I have to show my love to them
before it is too late
If I didn't,
I guarantee that I would regret for the rest of my life

When I was a kid and a teenager
At that time,
they were young too,
they had their dreams too
and things that they would prefer to chase after,
if there weren't me and my siblings

But they opted to raised us up first
They burned their adolescence energy to bring us up
They had chosen to enjoy their life after we can fly by ourself

Now they have succeeded

I have grown up
My wings are strong now, no more depending on them
They have fulfilled their "mission" to raise me up

Now should the time they get their rewards
They deserve to have a fruitful harvest now

However
they find out that things that nourish and cheerish their life are no more luxurious travelling or fancy cars any more
They are becoming used to be with us
Their children have occupied their world
Now their true joy is the time they are having around with us

As their children
I am one of the key to their joy in the rest of their life
It is so simple
Just have more good time with them
sincerely
Let them feel my affection

I could opt to act selfishly
My wings are strong now, I have the strength to fly freely and explore my life and my future
But I wont put my entire focus on it
I am making the right choice =)

I am so glad that I understand this before it is too late

Thanks to the advancement in information technology and Internet.

Accessing to internet is becoming easier and more convenient

However I guess sometimes the internet does teem with million, billion or trillion of info

The state of information overload when we are searching for a single piece of information

Because they are flooded and most of them are ambiguous

If you are not patient enough 

you will easily got upset 

because most of the time the link that you click is not what exactly you want

I think we should learn more about the behavior of your search engine and with better patience, you will get the information you are looking for.