Fifteen Minutes

How many fifteen minutes do you have in a day? How difficult is it to spend 1/96 of your 15 minutes in a day thinking about nothing? No thinking, but only feeling – feeling your breathing rhythm. That’s meditation for beginners.

It’s quite difficult. The untrained mind is a wandering mind – lack of concentration, full of self-doubt. The first few times are the hardest because you feel like you are not making any progress. But you will be rewarded for your perseverance. Concentration – that’s the key.

With concentration, comes mindfulness and with mindfulness comes insight. An insight into life, into the paradoxical world of chaos and peace – an insight that will give you the answer, help you understand and lead you to acceptance of everything in this world. It is then you will achieve tranquility of mind.

Try it. It’ll only take 15 minutes of your day. I’m sure you have lots to spare. 

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“There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.” Buddha.

Mission Possible: Agent 41299

All set for D-Day tomorrow

PLACE: UTM Campus, Jalan Semarak

TIME: 0900 hours

And……..

 

Licence To Kill

“The Art of War”: Super compressed version of Law of Tort notes for last minute revision CHECK

“M-16″: Pilot G-2 pens – highly recommended for non-stop smooth writing for 3 hours CHECK

“Ammo”: Refills. Gonna need lots of them CHECK

“Time bomb”: Stop watch. Gotta watch your time.  CHECK

“Licence to Kill”: Examination docket. Can’t do anything without it.  CHECK 

 

 

Sorry, Thank You and Well Done

Sorry Rafa, better luck next year.

Thank you Wenger, you made my day.

Well done Manchester United.

Champions again for the 3rd time in a row; and 18th time in the League’s history.

Gift of Life

Death is uncertain in the sense that we cannot conclusively tell what will happen to us after death. Death is certain in the sense that we know that everyone of us will experience death. It is this combination of uncertainty and certainty of death that makes us feel so fearful of death. Clinging on to life when death is inevitable makes death even harder and more painful. Accepting that one has to leave this life and move on to another existence makes death more bearable. Part of accepting death is accepting the fact that nothing we owned in this world can be brought to our next existence. Part of accepting death is to let go.

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Now that the depressing part about death is over, let’s talk about the brighter side of death. One would ask, how can death be bright when it is so sad and miserable to oneself and also to others? Death can bring light to the lives of others through making the ultimate gift of life: organ and tissues donation. The commonly transplanted organs are kidney, heart, liver, lungs, pancreas while transplantable tissues are eyes, bones, skin and heart valves. Thus, a single donor can save the lives of many people. We know that death brings grief and sorrow to our loved ones, but if the death has already occurred and cannot be reversed, why not make it worthwhile and meaningful by saving others lives and prevent the same grief and sorrow to their loved ones?

Err.. I thought green ribbon's a symbol for environment

One recurring question in pledging your organs will be the fear that your hospital treatment will be affected once it is made known that you are a donor i.e. that hospital will be less likely to go all out to save your life in view that your organs can be harvested if you die so that it could be donated to others. This is however a myth. It is a doctor’s duty to undertake all known measures to save your life till the end. Only when brain death has been confirmed will the issue of organ and tissue donation be discussed with your next of kin.

We will never be certain of what is after life until we experience death, but there are certain things about death that I would like to presume as that will make me accept death easier. I would like to believe is that death is not painful. It does not entail physical pain, because our consciousness is no longer with our body, and it does not entail psychological pain if and only if we accept death by letting go of our attachment to our possessions.

So people, pledge your organs! How? It’s as easy as 1-2-3.

1. Get your lazy bump off your chair now.
2. Hop on to your car and drive to the nearest hospital.
3. Scream to the receptionist that you would like to MAKE A GIFT OF LIFE  

Just joking.

For those of you who are in KL, make your way to the National Transplant Resource Centre @ Hospital Kuala Lumpur. For those of you who are not in KL, I was serious about going to the nearest hospital.

Upping the Ante

Headaches. Those things just don’t have the same effect anymore. They’re like drugs ya know, or for some they are drugs . The more you take them, the more you want them. The less you take them, you’ll end up like me. Headaches.

I have been having them regularly nowadays. Regular coffee and tea just don’t work anymore.

Starbucks IV

 I need to up the ante. Get a Starbucks IV attach to my veins. Rich caffiene flowing through my blood stream with the smell of freshly brewed coffee. That sounds oh….so…..tempting.

Pardon the deadpanned post. It’s my subconsicous Id working.

picture courtesy of  www.gearsandwidgets.com

 

Stardock

For those of you who have been suffering using Windows XP/Vista inferior interface, but yet do not have the ka-ching ($$$) to buy a Mac, let me introduce you to your saviour:

Stardock.com - Say goodbye to boring Windows!

From their website:

“Stardock Software is the world’s leading developer of software that enhances the look, feel, and function of Microsoft Windows. Stardock is the go-to innovator for companies such as Dell, Microsoft, AMD, nVidia, and countless others when it comes to creating and delivering software that enhances the user experience. Stardock helped popularize concepts such as “skinning”, “widgets”, “gadgets” and other terms now used commonly.”

It’s seriously so cool, considering how they could make Windows XP look like Mac OS X  :). I can’t find the time to experiment all their free downloads yet except for ObjectDock, which is a customizable animated dock sitting at the bottom of your desktop where you can place your shortcuts. It looks quite promising.

Highly recommended if you’re a software freak like me

The Last Mile

We are all running the last mile of yet another triathlon. This year’s run was shorter compared to last year but it is definitely tougher which calls for a combination of ability to do short sprint and stamina befitting of a long distance runner. There were more hills to climb compared to last year and we had to carry more weight in our backpack – thank goodness we did not fall off the cliff. Some of us were on the verge of drowning while swimming through vast ocean, only to be kept afloat by those buoys. 

I was referring to the incoming exams.

We had lesser time to prepare this year, which means we had to pace ourselves, yet preserve enough energy to last till the day of the exams. The syllabus is no doubt bulkier this year, and many of us felt like giving up at one point or another. There were so much information to digest and we were all drowning in the sea of information, but thanks to the buoys (revisions, lecturers, and friends), we were able to pull through and run this last mile.

Now, we’ll run to the finishing line, together, hand-in-hand.