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At some point in time we face certain changes. Sometimes good sometimes not so good. Circumstances like seeing a friend leave, experiencing a failure etc. You can name it yourself.

But i'm always encouraged by the saying that goes : " You can choose to go through hard times either with a positive state, or a negative state". Which goes to tell you that : "Hey! With sadness and self pity, or with confidence and optimism, you can still go through hard times". So why not choose positivity when we go through hard times? Isn't it better? Besides, positivity can heal you faster than negativity.

So always be positive. I know it's hard. But...try, ok?

Respectable Footballer

I don't usually write about football stuff here. But one incident happened made me not just to think about it but to write it.

New FIFA World Player of the Year, Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite, or better known as Kaka, is one exceptional footballer.

Previous winners of this glamorous award such as Zidane, Cannavaro, Ronaldo, or Ronaldinho, are still great footballers and have earned my respect. But for Kaka, i can't help but to give him a double salute.


I was watching the FIFA Gala Award Ceremony, and saw how Kaka won the award. I listened to his short less-than-one-minute speech and i felt really amazed. Kaka said nothing but - " I only dreamed of playing for Sao Paolo and play just one international game, but the Bible says God does things more than our expectation, and that is what happened to me". That's it! So what did he say in this short speech? - I am just a nothing but God is my everything.

Kaka's dream was just a sand in God's eyes. Instead, God gave Kaka every football award under the sun : World Cup, Champions League, Serie A titles, Club World Championship, European Player of the Year, FIFA World Player of the Year, and many more.

I can see that what Kaka did was just 3 things. In his heart the priorities in sequence are : God, Family, Football. That's all. No parties, no clubbing, no advertisement or public glory can interest him. He only focuses on technical skills and not advertising skills like Beckham (who can't play any football nuts). He plays simple football such as simple passes, simple dribbles, and shots. Unlike other footballers who want special skills and tricks.

Kaka is one exceptional footballer on and off the pitch. The future evangelist is the footballer that i respect the most. More than Shevchenko or Ronaldinho.

Bravo Kaka!!

Good, Bad, Ugly?

People these days are very good at marketing.

I was at the PC Fair, just walking around looking for laptop with my dad. There were so many people and that place was crowded.

But what was amazing was that, most promoters put on very very sexy clothings, and they actually could attract some customers. Some even wore just a short tube and very tight shorts.

You can argue that it was a terrible thing to do. But let me remind you that it was an effective way of getting customers to you. Most of the customers actually responded to them, and they were "busy" promoting their products (PC stuff lah!!).

So is that a good thing to do? Let me remind you again, it was an effective way that those people used to do great promotions.

The verdict is yours. Ethical or unethical, you have your own answer.

Went to watch Beowulf yesterday night. Boy, it was fantastic! Except that it was all graphics and animations. If they were real people, i don't think they would be able to do all those 'unrealistic' stunts.

However, what i didn't like about that movie was, there were Christian elements included in the movie, which were used in vain. For example, the defamation of Jesus Christ that was unable to help the people of the village, and also using of the "cross" to protect themselves from the evil one in the movie, which obviously didn't work for them.

I don't understand why would people keep using Jesus Christ and include Him in their movies. And most of the time it was used in vain. There are so many "gods" such as Buddha, Siva, etc, but why is Jesus Christ always used in movies?

I believe these people do know that Jesus has the power to cast out the devil, but i think they don't know it is not by physical cross or whatever sort that Jesus casts out devils. It is by the heavenly authority that devils are cast out.

Just in case producers didn't know, using of the Name in vain is a sin. I don't mind if movie producers use the Name of Jesus in the movie, but if they use it incorrectly, then they have to pay the price.

AIDS

One of the subjects i'm taking for this semester is International Marketing. I've learnt alot of things from this subject. I prefer subjects like this rather than subjects that are dead, such as human resource or accounts.

In one of the class sessions, we learnt something about Africa. Africa is a country filled with AIDS victims. That is one place that you want to be extra careful when you go travelling there. What i've learnt about it was: Why are there so many AIDS victims in Africa?

Firstly, can't deny it, sex. Many parts in Africa have prostitutes that offer...free sex!! Men in Africa can pick any girls they want to have sex with, and some, for free! Imagine the value that girls have there in Africa, basically nothing. And how sinful this can become. No reason why AIDS is not a number one killer in Africa.

Secondly, hospitals in some parts of Africa, are dirty! Doctors do not burn or change the needles when injecting. They use used needles to treat different patients. That's why some rich people would take flights to go other places in Africa to see a doctor.

A victim with AIDS

This picture scared the daylight out of me when i first saw it.

Children with AIDS. Poor thing.

Mother and child with AIDS

I can't figure out if this is a woman or a man. But anyhow, a victim with AIDS.

I'm not sure how Africa can help themselves with this problem. I'm not even sure how the world can help Africa in this. But my heart was deeply sad, and a sense of compassion that overwhelmed me, when i heard about this in class.

As much as i would say God bless Malaysia, so will i say, God bless Africa.

Misinterpreted?

It's funny what blog can do to you. I'm starting to get the feel out of it. LoL

Look at the comments that i got from my previous post.

Whether peaceful or not, demonstration can still bring lots of disadvantages to the nation. There was a tremendous lack of security that shadowed our nation. I understand we have the freedom to do so in our democratic country. But what benefits do we get from demonstration?

In order to disperse the crowd, there was violence. Police hitting people. People got injured. The government may say they dispersed the crowd in a polite way. *yeah right* So what benefit do you get?

We all know that Al-Jazeera exaggerated our condition here. Yes it can be their fault. But that's what other people see us from outside. Did we give a good image to the world outside?

Like i mentioned, if the bad outweighs the good, then no point doing it.

Rioting

From my own opinion, the intention was there, but the action was wrong.

I have to admit, there is no perfect government, no perfect country, and to be smaller in scope, there is no perfect system in this world.

Whether or not what these people claimed was true about our election system, only God knows. But to show demonstration is such a stupid and unreasonable act.

I know they wanted to show something and to prove something in our political system, but the way to do it was wrong. Just like our dear friend Wee Meng Chee with his Negarakuku song. What he said was true, but he did it in a wrong way.

There are many ways to object our government policy. But not to the extent of creating havoc and causing massive traffic jam and giving trouble to innocent people. Let alone this kind of action would disgrace our Malaysian name.

So what is my stand on the recent riot? Okay maybe i would give credit for their intention, maybe there REALLY WAS a problem in our government and election system. But i would not comment on that. So i would sum it up by saying : doing right thing, the wrong way.

However, riot can be beneficial. It creates an alarm to our current government that somebody is watching their actions. This makes them careful and put on their guard at all times. Otherwise power abuse would happen.

So everything has good and bad. But if the bad outweighs the good, then better not lah.

Brain Matters

Pause. Trying to take a break. Sticking my head out of the water filled with presentations, assignments, and tests.

Short semesters are terrible. Everything is double-paced. Hardwork must also be doubled. The hard part is, hardwork doesn't speed up easily. So how? Now struggling lo.

We've probably heard this many times, and i heard my lecturer said this again: We humans are using only 10% of our brain capabilities.

Which means..if we are to segmentize our brains..we only use where the red circle is


Crazy ah! Now we're only using 10% also we get tired easily. I mean mentally tired. How to use 90%? Oklah, how to use 50%?!

I wonder whether one day we all will have a brain detector. Where everyday we can measure how many percentage of brain capabilities we have used. Like that we can make progress each day. Sounds good eh? Scientist wanabe's, take note of this!

So ya, that's my proposal. Please someone create a mobile brain usage detector so we can all...use our brains more... *w00t*