Showing posts with label 2cents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2cents. Show all posts

Friday, 15 April 2011

Normal blog post - Top Gear Philosophy

This is a normal blog post and not a meme. Just a thought that came to mind this morning.

I was thinking about Top Gear episode shown on tv last week. The challenge that week was Classic Car Rally. Jeremy, James and Richard had to acquire a classic car each by bidding. It was hilarious.



Then I was reminded of Dieya's Talkative Tuesday topic1 and topic2 regarding singletons, choosing a mate and marriage.

Is it too extreme for me to say that choosing a mate is like choosing a car?

What is your 'philosophy'?

  • Is it like Richard Hammond's - "I'm doing it early like I always do in Yorkshire. Get the first one you can."
  • Or are you like Jeremy Clarkson? - Play bidding with several cars, and finally decided on one he liked and had to fork out extra money for it?
  • Or are you too choosy like James May that you let all the cars pass by until you are forced to bid for the last one even if you don't liked it. Is patience rewarded?

Sunday, 20 February 2011

Perihal pokok yang tumbang

Orang kata, kalau tiada angin, masakan pokok bergoyang. Apa yang terjadi kalau ribut? Pokok yang tumbang. Itu yang berlaku beberapa hari lepas, ada ribut yang kuat dan banyak pokok tumbang.

Gambar sekadar hiasan. (credit goes to the original owner of the pic)
Pokok2 yang tumbang kebanyakkannya pokok yang dah besar, 10-20 tahun atau lebih tua lagi. Pokok2 tu banyak berjasa kepada manusia, tempat kita dan haiwan2 lain berteduh ketika panas terik dan hujan. Kereta pun kadang2 berteduh bawah pokok tu juga.

Tiba2 terlintas difikiran saya, ada beberapa perkara yang dapat diambil iktibar dari kejadian pokok yang tumbang:
  • kalau pokok yang gah berdiri berdekad2 di tapak yang sama pun boleh rebah ke bumi dalam sekelip n mata. Apatah lagi kita manusia yang kerdil ini? Rezeki, keselesaan dan hayat yang kita banggakan selama ini boleh ditarik balik oleh-Nya dengan sekelip mata saja. Adakah kita bersedia? Dapatkah kita redha?
  • pokok besar yang kita ingatkan selamat dan kuat untuk jadikan tempat berteduh dan bergantung selama ini, boleh rebah ke bumi dengan tiba-tiba. Kadang2 kita terlalu bergantung sangat kepada 'orang diatas' yang memberi perlindungan kepada kita (pemimpin, boss, ketua gengster, dsb), sedangkan kita lupa yang sebenarnya kita hanya perlu memohon perlindungan dan bergantung harap kepada Allah SWT kerana Dia juga boleh menjatuhkan 'orang2 diatas' tersebut. Contoh paling ketara - Presiden Mesir dan Tunisia yang tumbang akibat revolusi rakyat, pastinya kroni2 yang perpuluh2 tahun bergantung rezeki pada mereka sakit kepala sekarang ni.
  • pokok yang besar dan gah berdiri, ada hari ini, esok tiada lagi. Kita sebagai manusia kenalah sentiasa rendah diri, jangan bangga2 dan rasa diri besar dan hebat dari orang lain. Mungkin hari ni kita hero/heroin, esok entah apa akan jadi?
Saja nak berkongsi buah fikiran mengenai perihal disebalik pokok yang tumbang. Have a good day!

Friday, 11 February 2011

Kids nowadays...

I was listening to the morning radio show and the DJs brought up the topic of 'Kids nowadays are taking things for granted'.

So I stopped to think and I do agree. For example:
  • when I was a kid, I looked forward every fortnight for our family outing to Komtar just to eat at McD or KFC. Sometimes it's just once a month. Nowadays, some kids are eating McD on a daily basis. (Fact: 1 in 4 children in Malaysia is obese!)
  • my brother and I scrimp and saved our allowances, did a lot of extra chores and aced our exams to get some money so that we could buy our own toys. I remember we washed my dad's van every weekend and got paid RM5 per wash and ate peanut butter sandwiches packed from home for many many days just buy the Atari game console. Now their parents throws in a Playstation 3 on their birthday and hands them a Nintendo DS, just in case they got bored. No strings attached.
  • cartoons only aired at certain times of the day. Saturday mornings and 530pm on weekdays. For the spare times, you just have to find something else to do to fill up your day. Nowadays, kids could tune in the cartoon networks to themselves and watch tv until they throw up.
So I wonder what they look forward to now? How kids nowadays values things? Are these 'things' ruining them?

But then again do you remember when we were young we heard our parents telling to us that "You kids had it easy nowadays, when I was your age, I had to _____ (fill in the blanks)" .

(*had to walk 2 miles to school wearing worn out shoes)
(*nasi lemak costs only 5 cent and sirap 1 cent)
(*it took us 15 minutes just to set up a fire to cook food)


So I guess things have a way of going around, right?