shadow

shadow is our past
silently be with us
try to run from it
is trying to run from yourself

u might hate it
and try to keep the light away
leaving yourself in darkness

it can't harm u
yet it can haunt u

embrace it
coz nobody can move on
by following their shadows.

JOB - Just Over Broke

How many of you wish you don't have to do anything, yet your income keep coming in?Almost all, I bet. Yet the idea of doing nothing is not as attractive as it might sound. You see, human have this internal feeling of doing sumthing, to have a sense of objective and goals to be achieved. We can't stand to be idle.

The basic flow of human life in this modern world is basically like this:

Birth--->Schooling years--->Working years--->Retirement years--->End

Along the way we get married, get children and granchildren...and all sort of things.

The thing is, too many of us have rigidly subscribed to this dogma of life. Child were emphasized,more often over emphasized to get good grades during their schooling years. Following that, the pressure to get a post in well established company...and cling to it until retirement. We talk about job security, benefits, climbing the corporate ladder,etc,etc.

We've been trained to this dogma and hardly to challenge it. Nowadays however, more and more 'rebels' has ventured into the unconventional road of life. I'm talking about materials, anyway. Today you can be a billionaire while merely finishing your school years. Period taken to amass millions of dollars seems to be getting shorter and shorter.

Whoever don't embrace this oppurtunity will be left behind. Sure, not all will get to the finish line, and there is just so much trophy to be given. It's a race, anyway.

The unrecorded day

Yesterday will be a missing history in my life. Why is it so? Because I sleep all day.Yup, the whole 24 hours..literally. This is my greatest achievement so far in the field of sleeping.

Why do I did it, there's no real reason really. I just feel the need to cut off from reality for a little while. It's been overwhelming this few days, my body is aching, and I've been thinking too much of all things (from the issues of Interlok novel to Amanah Hartanah Bumiputra to current affair of Tunisia to my grassy lawn etc2). It feel's good that I can shut it off for a little while and come back to look for it with a new perspective.

There's no side effect really...just some missed calls and messages on your hp that need to be attended to when you wake up. Maybe a little fight with your gf (if you had one).

Now I feel kinda dizzy...bit of hangover and jet lag...and still try to make sense of the day... -yawn-

met a four

If life was a ship, then every man is a captain…sailing through the sea of life. The sea’s sometimes calm; the other time it’s hurricane and tempest. Whoever handles it well, he’ll get where he wants…those who don’t, continue their journey with broken ship and doubts against himself. It’s more than a journey, it is destiny. And every man controls their own destiny.

The sea will forever, continuously push the ship. The ship needs it as it will make the ship stronger, faster and as a challenge to the captain’s skill. Some man has clear idea where he was heading. Some just let the sea lead him. And some don’t even realize they’re the captain; they just let other people control their ship.

It’s good to know where our ship is heading…but sometimes we just get lost. We take a path, move towards it…and the middle of it, we start to lose our vision, we started to wonder if the choice was right, our ship just dangling in the middle of nowhere. We lost the sense of time and direction. At this time, the sea hit the hardest. It pushes us everywhere. We struggled just to keep our ship from being shattered to eternity, buried in the unnamed graveyard in the darkest abyss where loser captains reside.

Take control of your ship. Get some idea of your whereabouts. Plan a new journey. There’s nothing worse than losing the motivation to move on. There’s no Jack Sparrow. It’s just you, your ship and the open sea.

Make yourself clear of what you were doing. You might go the wrong way, but, hey, what the heck, there’s always detour. At least you’re heading somewhere.

Sole's list of anything: 1 + 1 equals millions

Alright...so the economy might be down right now...but to this people, they are still counting millions. What I'm talking about is this Hollywood's couples...they are the ones who've made it last year. Here's the Top Five of the highest earning couples last year:

No 5: Brangelina (34 million USD)


Although they ended up at No. 5, this couples is said to be one of the most influential in Hollywood right now. Both of them were busy churning out movies last year; Jolie with Beowulf and A Mighty Heart, while her hunk Pitt in front of the camera with Oceans 13, The Assassination of Jesse James, and behind it with The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, A Mighty Heart and Tree of Life.


No 4: Tim McGraw and Faith Hill (35 Million USD)


Country music do make us rich; in this case, it's true to McGraw and Hill. Most of their income comes from their music activities, with their Soul-2-Soul concert tour provide them the big bucks. McGraw also had it from the double platinum album, Let It Go. Hill also recorded another album entitled The Hits, and also the theme song for the NFL Sunday Night Football.


No 3: David and Victoria Beckham (58 Million USD)


Beck's share was 50 millions, with his Los Angeles Galaxy salary of 5.5 million, he get more than double of it when the merchandising and sponsorship were counted in. There are also the lucrative endorsement deals with companies such as Motorola, Adidas, and Pepsi Co., which bring another 35 millions to his bank account. His wife, better known as Posh, top it up with another 8 millions with the Spice Girl's Reunion Tour and product lines.


No 2: Will and Jada Pinkett Smith (85 Million USD)


Well, any movie starring Will Smith has a high chance to rake in millions. He's one of the most bankable stars. Together, the movies he stars in last year; I Am Legend, The Pursuit of Happyness and Hancock, banked in 1.2 billion worldwide, which make him some 80 million richer. Jada pulled in another 5 million with her role in The Women and The Human Contract.
A lone survivor + a single father + a dazed superhero= 80 million. Not bad, uh?


No 1: Shawn Carter (Jay-Z) and Beyonce Knowles (162 Million USD)


82 million hip-hop brand plus 80 million R&B empire...then we got the No 1 in our list. He signed a 150 million contract with concert promoter Live Nation and releasing comeback CD, American Gangster. She raked in another 80 million in an entertainment empire spanning fashion, film and publishing deals, plus the 50 million concert tour, together with endorsement deals with L'Oréal, Direct TV and American Express, among others.

...so long two double zero eight

mm...how to start. 2008 had passed...i felt this year is so short. i can still remember 25th december 2007 when i came back to UPM for my practical training...my training was at MPOB's HQ to be exact.

and then somewhere in may 2008 i found myself at home again...traveled here and there quite a bit...i think late july or early august i got SMS from my friend of a vacancy to be Research Assistant back at my beloved faculty (duh). that time i remember hanging out with my buddy Pian at Sara Thai Tomyam Seafood Kuantan...we discussed quite a bit about it and since i'm doing nothing and quite worried of my growing tummies, i chose to accept that...

time: late august
place: somewhere in Serdang
situation: a nervous young man who just finished his degree (about 3 months already) about to be interviewed by a professor in one of institusi pengajian tinggi awam (IPTA)

it's not really an interview anyway..she didn't even look at my resume. and i don't even remember what the heck we talk about at that time. so anyway i got the job, rent a room in university's college (duh,again) and started looking forward to slim down my tummies...not really a problem anyway, since not long after that is fasting season...

then i raya a bit...i quite enjoyed it this year since i can give my anak-anak buah some angpow heh not much anyway. then back to work...somewhere around october, my convocation. quite messy time for me. OK only a few knew what i'm talking about...how we struggled hehe kinda remind me of our batch dinner...hm...my convo...not absolute fun. just a testament that we had finished the ride of campus life.

then i hu-ha again with my job...time flies when we're busy. or chasing datelines.

then in 25 december 2008, while i was enjoying my holiday, it kinda struck me that a year had passed. it's been quite a ride...and a slide show of 'what happened throughout the year in sole's life' started to play in my head...

so what 2008 left me, and what do i expect in 2009? well...the biggest milestone in 2008 is...2 of my batch mate already resigned from bachelorhood...haha. kidding. it is i finished my studies...and welcomed to the real world (or so they said).

and 2009?
it still kinda blurry for me...lots of hope and endless expectation. but i think i see the big picture...
anyway, this year will ROCK!!!
;)

Jonas Brothers - Love Bug lyric

Called you for the first time yesterday
Finally found the missing part of me
Felt so close but you were far away
Left me without anything to say

Now I’m speechless
Over the edge and just breathless
I never thought that I’d catch this
Love bug again
Hopeless head over heels in the moment
I never thought that I’d get hit
With this love bug again

I can’t get your smile out of my mind
I think bout your eyes all the time
Beautiful but you don’t even try
Modesty is just so hard to find

Now I’m speechless
Over the edge and just breathless
I never thought that I’d catch this
Love bug again
Hopeless, head over heels in the moment
I never thought that I’d get hit
With this love bug again

Kissed her for the first time yesterday
Everything I wished that it would be
Suddenly I forgot how to speak
Hopeless, breathless, baby can’t you see

Now I’m…
(Guitar solo!)

Yahow!!!

Now I’m speechless!
Over the edge and just breathless!
I never thought that I’d catch this!
Love bug again!
Now I’m hopeless, head over heels in the moment!
I never thought that I’d get hit!
With this love bug again!
Ohh oho

Love bug again