Monday, October 25, 2010
A little too late
peace.. Just love the weather today. cloudy and windy and its a sunday. Probably going out later, currently its 5.04pm and the weather is very calm and relaxing(thank God). Today's entry is going to be a short one. Its a short study that I was doing months ago. This same topic had become my choice for my school project under professional profiling. Its a great experience to bring my own case to the accessors for the first time in my life. Its very similar to what a lawyer does, however a lawyer is trying to defend his/her client and for my professional profiling project I have to defend my claims.
Anyway just so you know the topic is on declining birth rate in singapore. Let me give an introduction to why Im selecting this topic. You might realize that I do not say anything good, all the entries and everything that is coming out from me is bad. You might even be thinking that im a negative, big-headed, ego person. Maybe I didnt explain my intentions well enough.
I am being taught in Islam to remind others and to bring them back to the straight path to the best of my ability. Even if I only know one word from the Quran, it will be best if I convey and not hold back thinking that I dont have enough knowledge to teach others. Im just making it a practice to convey the message to the best of my ability. Ofcourse I still love the world, even for all the bad things that has been done. I still love the people around me thats why im bothered to fight and kill the negativities in us. Although its not an easy task i would say, definitely i will not give up this task, because i believe that God and the believers are and will always be with me, to help assist me as all the believers are moving to the one same direction. See my job here might be seen by others as being firm and stern, but thats the only way it works.
Aite, back to the topic. Im quite sure that every single one of us living in this country can sense this problem, but im not too sure if you people can source out the problem of declining birth rate which is the main topic. Can you see that we have shortage of labourers, we need them and we got them from foreign countries mainly china, bangladesh, philippines, indonesia, india, ect. Without them i doubt this country can function for one day. Imagine what happens if WW3 occured and those foreigners have to return to their homeland, whats left of us then? These are setbacks we have to consider when being totally dependent of foreign workers.
There are so many problems that arises when the topic of foreign workers is brought forward. Many of the locals here are also unhappy because employment becomes more competitive, but the goverment do not have much choice either. Thats because its "A LITTLE TOO LATE" to change the situation. Let me provide you with some insights on the study of culture development.
Research has shown that for a culture to maintain iteself, it needs to have a minimum fertility rate of 2.1 per house-hold. Meaning the minimum requirement of fertility rate every singaporeans must have to maintain our culture is at-least 2 children per family. It continues... No culture has ever managed to bounce back if the fertility rate per family drops to 1.9. And once it drops until 1.3, its impossible to reverse because its an indication that something is really wrong with the country. It continues... During this time, it takes 80-100 years for the affected country to correct itself(meaning to throw the old system/culture and inherit the healthy one).
Above is a very good indicator to tell us where we are now. Im not too sure if you people have been keeping up with the news on incentives provided by government to increase fertility rate here. I have to tell you, our leaders are really worried on this problem, I should consider this as one of singapore's major problem. However the seriousness has not gone into the hearts of its people unfortunately. I can elaborate on why the incentives are not effective, it is a sub-topic, but will take quite a-while to explain. Maybe on the next one, insyahAllah.
Let put the indicator to the test and we use ourselves as the example. I am not too sure on the fertility figures in the past(you can check with your parents or grand-parents), but i am certainly sure that back then the fertility rate was way higher. It was 2.2 if im not wrong, back in the 50s and 60s. Than it droped to 1.6+ in the 70s and 80s(new policy of STOP AT ONE by government). 90s dropped further to below 1.3(government seen the potential threat). Since 2000 it has been 1.1 and below, it is steadily dropping but there was at one point of time where it gone up by just a fraction, however it plungged down quickly afterwards.
The figures differ when you look at different sources, however just stick with one, it will be roughly some-where around there. Either slightly above 1.1 or slightly below. So take the round-up figure of 1.1. Think of all the solutions that you wish to think. That is what the experts in this country has done. I would say that none of the solution will work as long as the government does not re-shuffle the whole system. It has gone below 1.3. it will keep dropping and more and more problem will arise such as, unemployment, slow development rate(in the past singapore was developing very fast, now seems to be slower),extinction of culture, threatens the safety of the citizens and many more.
At a larger scale most of the developed countries around the world is also facing the same problem. The affected developed countries are like france, england, greece, germany, italy, spain, japan, south korea, hong kong, singapore and many more. Developed countries should have roughly the same standard of living i suppose. Its a cycle if you people figure it out. Once a certain country attains a very high standard of living it will crumble back to ground zero and start all over again as a new begining.
Friday, October 22, 2010
Who decides whats good and whats bad??
peace to all. Have you ever wondered who in the world should decide what is good and what is bad for all? Do you think that there are groups of people who decides what is good and what is bad? Do you think they possess a great power among the 6 billion plus people? If yes or no why is that so?
Lets go into our practical life to see if the claims have already taken place. Take a look at yourself, look at how you dress, how you speak, what you see in public, what you see at home, look at your siblings, how are they similar or different from you and what causes it, look at your family and see how have they influenced you, look at your parents and recall what they have taught you since childhood, who influence your parents, which era does your parents belong to, how was the people like back then, now do you think they are some-how affected from the external factors(outside your home), obviously yes they are.
Before moving on to the external factors, what is the rational for external influences itself being unavoidable. Everyone has a mind of their own, in it is a very efficient and powerful medium that has the potential to make drastic changes to the world. It is the power to decide, unlike any other inhabitants on this planet, humans are the only species who has the ability to decide what is good and what is bad, what is wrong and what is right. Animals and plants only reacts by their instinct and survival needs.
Alright now lets try to list out the external factors that I was bragging about. Starting of with a young child, probably a baby. As a baby, their minds are free from the world thats why we always say babies are innocent. In fact they are, they have not develop the ability to distinguish what is right and what is wrong, all they can do is follow. The first few people that they would follow are most likely the people closest to them, probably parents and siblings. So readers do take into consideration when you have a child in future because you are the first influencial figure for your child.
The main issue that I have with parents who is bringing up their children is they are unaware of the things that their child are pick up as they grow. Have you ever wondered how a child at a very young age becomes very rude and crude. In actual fact they are not rude, they are just mirroring what they see, because young kids just follow what they see without knowing if its correct or wrong. I can tell you this, the television is one of the biggest culprit to your child's upbringing. I will post on that topic if I have the time, "the media".
As fot the topic that above, the main emphasis that I want to point out is, humans have gone too far in tying to control the world. Some of you might think that there is no problem with trying to control the world. As we can see today, different people from different places have different way of thinking. For example in terms of modesty. In different culture modesty is viewed differently. For some culture in the west wearing mini skirts are modest but not for others in asia for example. For some culture its modest to have intermingling between opposite sex, however in other region staring between opposite sex is considered as immodest. So the big question is who decides what are suppose to be considered modest and what are suppose to be considered as immodest? Keep the answers at the back your mind.
The answers that you would have at the back of your mind is actually the character that you believe in to have the highest authority in your life. If you think that the government should decide what is good and what is bad hence they(government) would be the one you look up on. If you think that the UN(united nations) should decides what is right and what is wrong, hence you look up to the UN. If you think that US(united states) should decide what is good and what is bad, hence they are your head figure. And if you think that God should decide what is good and what is bad, hence you are the follower of God. Is that simple, so main differences that sets human apart is the way we think and accepting or rejecting peoples prespective.
Well my choice is God, I fully submits to his will when I recite the kalimah(the words), that there is no other god but Allah(the one God), and Muhammad may gods please and blessing be upon him is the messager of Allah. This is also what every other muslims believe in too. This is my choice because the Quran which is the words of God(I will prove it to you in next entry) is the only book that speaks about the whole truth. And no other books or scriptures has the most accurate and most factual content as compared to the Quran.
There are many verses in the Quran that refers to science, astronomy, biology, zoology and many more. In those verses the Quran describes on the expansion of the universe, and movement of the sun and the moon very accurately. The strange thing is that those discoveries were discovered only recently some dacades others one or two hundred years ago, as we know the Quran was produced and completed about 1400 years ago. Certainly during that time they dont have the technology to venture the space with their naked eyes. This is only one example, in the Quran there are hundreds of verses similar to the example that I gave. At the moment there seems to be zero scientific errors in the Quran, there is also no contradictions in the Quran. I believe that there will never be any error since the day of its completion until the end of time.
Lets go into our practical life to see if the claims have already taken place. Take a look at yourself, look at how you dress, how you speak, what you see in public, what you see at home, look at your siblings, how are they similar or different from you and what causes it, look at your family and see how have they influenced you, look at your parents and recall what they have taught you since childhood, who influence your parents, which era does your parents belong to, how was the people like back then, now do you think they are some-how affected from the external factors(outside your home), obviously yes they are.
Before moving on to the external factors, what is the rational for external influences itself being unavoidable. Everyone has a mind of their own, in it is a very efficient and powerful medium that has the potential to make drastic changes to the world. It is the power to decide, unlike any other inhabitants on this planet, humans are the only species who has the ability to decide what is good and what is bad, what is wrong and what is right. Animals and plants only reacts by their instinct and survival needs.
Alright now lets try to list out the external factors that I was bragging about. Starting of with a young child, probably a baby. As a baby, their minds are free from the world thats why we always say babies are innocent. In fact they are, they have not develop the ability to distinguish what is right and what is wrong, all they can do is follow. The first few people that they would follow are most likely the people closest to them, probably parents and siblings. So readers do take into consideration when you have a child in future because you are the first influencial figure for your child.
The main issue that I have with parents who is bringing up their children is they are unaware of the things that their child are pick up as they grow. Have you ever wondered how a child at a very young age becomes very rude and crude. In actual fact they are not rude, they are just mirroring what they see, because young kids just follow what they see without knowing if its correct or wrong. I can tell you this, the television is one of the biggest culprit to your child's upbringing. I will post on that topic if I have the time, "the media".
As fot the topic that above, the main emphasis that I want to point out is, humans have gone too far in tying to control the world. Some of you might think that there is no problem with trying to control the world. As we can see today, different people from different places have different way of thinking. For example in terms of modesty. In different culture modesty is viewed differently. For some culture in the west wearing mini skirts are modest but not for others in asia for example. For some culture its modest to have intermingling between opposite sex, however in other region staring between opposite sex is considered as immodest. So the big question is who decides what are suppose to be considered modest and what are suppose to be considered as immodest? Keep the answers at the back your mind.
The answers that you would have at the back of your mind is actually the character that you believe in to have the highest authority in your life. If you think that the government should decide what is good and what is bad hence they(government) would be the one you look up on. If you think that the UN(united nations) should decides what is right and what is wrong, hence you look up to the UN. If you think that US(united states) should decide what is good and what is bad, hence they are your head figure. And if you think that God should decide what is good and what is bad, hence you are the follower of God. Is that simple, so main differences that sets human apart is the way we think and accepting or rejecting peoples prespective.
Well my choice is God, I fully submits to his will when I recite the kalimah(the words), that there is no other god but Allah(the one God), and Muhammad may gods please and blessing be upon him is the messager of Allah. This is also what every other muslims believe in too. This is my choice because the Quran which is the words of God(I will prove it to you in next entry) is the only book that speaks about the whole truth. And no other books or scriptures has the most accurate and most factual content as compared to the Quran.
There are many verses in the Quran that refers to science, astronomy, biology, zoology and many more. In those verses the Quran describes on the expansion of the universe, and movement of the sun and the moon very accurately. The strange thing is that those discoveries were discovered only recently some dacades others one or two hundred years ago, as we know the Quran was produced and completed about 1400 years ago. Certainly during that time they dont have the technology to venture the space with their naked eyes. This is only one example, in the Quran there are hundreds of verses similar to the example that I gave. At the moment there seems to be zero scientific errors in the Quran, there is also no contradictions in the Quran. I believe that there will never be any error since the day of its completion until the end of time.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Confession of an Extremism
My peace greetings to readers. Such a great world that we are living in full of wonders and mysteries. Have you ever wondered how long have the earth been around before time. Try to imagine the first man who step this earth until this point of time. Think of the changes that has taken place through the ages. Now just bring those thoughts to nature, knowing that in nature everything has its beginning and its end, how about earth? Will this world come to an end.
Dont relate what i have just pointed out to what you see in television, 2012 and all of that non-sense. Seriously, most of the information that we get from the media particularly on entertainment section are fiction, but people tend to relate it to the real world. I will share with you on that issue some other time, as it is not part of the topic, im pointing this out to draw the line so you will know the direction that we are heading.
Back to nature, the world as we have known has change so much. We humans have slowly and steadily become more and more advance. This is a wonderful phenomena for human race. Can you imagine how much science and technology has contributed to our standard of living. Everyone should be grateful of our achievement so far because we have struggled to make earth a better place for all of its inhabitants.
In todays entry, i will not discuss a-lot on the great establishment of mankind, but rather i would like to discuss on the danger of extremism. Well the main platform that i will be using is on science and technology. I choose to write on this subject because im concern with the growing influence in our society. Notice that i did not reject or condemn the idea of having science and technology as part of human development. However i do reject and condemn the idea of "extremism in science and technology".
Personally i condemn any form of extremism. Extremism in religion, culture, tradition, practices on and on. By definition extremism is, "the holding of extreme political or religious views or taking of extreme actions on the basis of those views". In wikipedia it is, "the actions of ideologies of individuals or groups outside the perceived political center of a society or claimed to violate common moral standards. See so its not only me who opposes the idea of extremism, according to the source that i have provided, even the society claimed that it violates moral standards.
Let me share with you why extremism is dangerous. In the example which i have provided earlier on, "science and technology are accepted by the society because it is a part of human development”, must be supported because those people are striving for our sake, however there are another group of people who becomes to obsess or extreme with the superiority of science and technology that they leave everything else behind. To them they are god or greater than god with science and technology. This is one of the many confession of an extremism.
Is it true that you can have all the power of the world if you have all the science and technology? Not an easy question i would say. Definitely you will be some-one great if you control those two field. You will have the power to control many things. However you must remember that even those two fields have its limitation. Now science cannot control the sun and the moon. Science cannot control the rotation of the earth. Science cannot control how you and i think. Science cannot control the future. And technology needs science to develop. So now we know that science and technology is not all powerful after-all.
Now it is my concern to my fellow man that has gotten the whole idea wrong. What we should do is remind each other and bring all those who transgress back to the correct path. For those of you who is suffering from the problem of extremism, let me tell you what it can cause. In the case of science and technology, if you are an extremist in that area, one of the problem that you might face is becoming an atheists(somebody who does not belief in God or deities). Why atheist? Well in most cases an atheist would come into thinking that science has reach the position to over-write every single ideology on earth.
There is a big problem that will surface if you become an atheist. Its the code of conduct that will be the problem. The one thing that is missing is the authority. You see when you dont belief in God hence you would tend to think that nothing else is greater than you, which means you do not need to comply to anything else. Its not much of a harm if only one person practise it, however its a big problem if a whole community, society or country practise it. If this happen, the whole community can have barbaric life and instead of moving forward they will be moving backwards. Get what im trying to say? There will be no such thing as murder. You can be naked in public places. No dis-respect to atheist, but this is one possibility that can happen in our society, unless we dismiss it ourselves.
Now in the case where an atheist still thinks that it might not be that bad if they adopt the good practices from all the different ideologies but still not belief in God. A hybrid atheist i suppose or some might say atheistic religion. Definitely it is still not safe, because now they can decide what to take from the sources. They can structure their code of conduct to their advantage. Trying to be smart ah! But you can out-smart the Creator.
See what they are doing is playing with THE system. They are deciding whats right and whats wrong for them. Now i urge readers to find out who should decide what is right and what is wrong? Give me your answer and reasoning, one correct answer and good reasoning will be rewarded with a copy of the Holy Quran.
Ok at this point of time, an atheist friend would want to defend their belief of no god by pointing out the disadvantage of all religions. They will say, as for them they do not need to belief in a god which is above them which can neither speak nor hear what they pray for, so to say that belief in god is just a waste of time. Well dont argue just smile and say if thats the case you are missing something very important in life, guidance.
Dont relate what i have just pointed out to what you see in television, 2012 and all of that non-sense. Seriously, most of the information that we get from the media particularly on entertainment section are fiction, but people tend to relate it to the real world. I will share with you on that issue some other time, as it is not part of the topic, im pointing this out to draw the line so you will know the direction that we are heading.
Back to nature, the world as we have known has change so much. We humans have slowly and steadily become more and more advance. This is a wonderful phenomena for human race. Can you imagine how much science and technology has contributed to our standard of living. Everyone should be grateful of our achievement so far because we have struggled to make earth a better place for all of its inhabitants.
In todays entry, i will not discuss a-lot on the great establishment of mankind, but rather i would like to discuss on the danger of extremism. Well the main platform that i will be using is on science and technology. I choose to write on this subject because im concern with the growing influence in our society. Notice that i did not reject or condemn the idea of having science and technology as part of human development. However i do reject and condemn the idea of "extremism in science and technology".
Personally i condemn any form of extremism. Extremism in religion, culture, tradition, practices on and on. By definition extremism is, "the holding of extreme political or religious views or taking of extreme actions on the basis of those views". In wikipedia it is, "the actions of ideologies of individuals or groups outside the perceived political center of a society or claimed to violate common moral standards. See so its not only me who opposes the idea of extremism, according to the source that i have provided, even the society claimed that it violates moral standards.
Let me share with you why extremism is dangerous. In the example which i have provided earlier on, "science and technology are accepted by the society because it is a part of human development”, must be supported because those people are striving for our sake, however there are another group of people who becomes to obsess or extreme with the superiority of science and technology that they leave everything else behind. To them they are god or greater than god with science and technology. This is one of the many confession of an extremism.
Is it true that you can have all the power of the world if you have all the science and technology? Not an easy question i would say. Definitely you will be some-one great if you control those two field. You will have the power to control many things. However you must remember that even those two fields have its limitation. Now science cannot control the sun and the moon. Science cannot control the rotation of the earth. Science cannot control how you and i think. Science cannot control the future. And technology needs science to develop. So now we know that science and technology is not all powerful after-all.
Now it is my concern to my fellow man that has gotten the whole idea wrong. What we should do is remind each other and bring all those who transgress back to the correct path. For those of you who is suffering from the problem of extremism, let me tell you what it can cause. In the case of science and technology, if you are an extremist in that area, one of the problem that you might face is becoming an atheists(somebody who does not belief in God or deities). Why atheist? Well in most cases an atheist would come into thinking that science has reach the position to over-write every single ideology on earth.
There is a big problem that will surface if you become an atheist. Its the code of conduct that will be the problem. The one thing that is missing is the authority. You see when you dont belief in God hence you would tend to think that nothing else is greater than you, which means you do not need to comply to anything else. Its not much of a harm if only one person practise it, however its a big problem if a whole community, society or country practise it. If this happen, the whole community can have barbaric life and instead of moving forward they will be moving backwards. Get what im trying to say? There will be no such thing as murder. You can be naked in public places. No dis-respect to atheist, but this is one possibility that can happen in our society, unless we dismiss it ourselves.
Now in the case where an atheist still thinks that it might not be that bad if they adopt the good practices from all the different ideologies but still not belief in God. A hybrid atheist i suppose or some might say atheistic religion. Definitely it is still not safe, because now they can decide what to take from the sources. They can structure their code of conduct to their advantage. Trying to be smart ah! But you can out-smart the Creator.
See what they are doing is playing with THE system. They are deciding whats right and whats wrong for them. Now i urge readers to find out who should decide what is right and what is wrong? Give me your answer and reasoning, one correct answer and good reasoning will be rewarded with a copy of the Holy Quran.
Ok at this point of time, an atheist friend would want to defend their belief of no god by pointing out the disadvantage of all religions. They will say, as for them they do not need to belief in a god which is above them which can neither speak nor hear what they pray for, so to say that belief in god is just a waste of time. Well dont argue just smile and say if thats the case you are missing something very important in life, guidance.
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Scarily Strange
Peace to all. People, we got to start wondering why things happen. There is no such thing as system, concept, rules or regulation that are made ,so just comply. Come on, dont fall for the trap so easily. My dear readers, all these systems were created for a particular reason, please start opening your eyes. You might not understand what im trying to convey here so please stay close. Dont ever think that we are living in a free world, if you do, you are lagging behind. Wake up. Learn, see and understand that mankind would want to overcome each other. One man would like to make another man think the way he thinks for his own benefit. Try to zoom out and look at a larger scope, you will see what im trying to say. I call this programming, not the computer term, but the idea of psycho-ing others to think in a certain way so that they will buy the story and become a puppet.
That is exactly how these systems operate, what it actually does is that it manipulate your thinking in a certain way. Once you agreed and inherit the system, you will be one of the followers. Now these systems are nothing without numbers, its main aim is to create a population of its own to make the system stronger. So dont follow systems blindly, understand its agenda. Im not saying that all systems are corrupted, but we have to start searching, because there is only one way, one system that is the right one. Please ask me if you are interested to know, im willing to share.
So you will be wondering what kind of system am i refering to. Lets be direct, im referring to system such as democracy, communism, secularism, socialism, confusionism, hinduism, buddhism, judaism and the list goes on and on. Now im telling you guys out of those in the list, there is only one which is the truth. Not only me, there are many people before me who have done the same thing too. I do urge readers to do a small homework to find the truth. Its very simple, do some search and understanding of the systems that i have been talking about. Along the way, while you are searching you will reach at a point where you realise that all the systems have no answer to life, you will find that all the systems are manmade and its created to fulfill the desires of mankind. Except for ONE. There is only this one system that is different from the rest.
The one system that i was referring is the only system that is suitable for the whole of mankind. People from the west to east, north to south. From the young to old. From the rich to poor. For the wrong and the right. For the good and the bad. It is more than a religion, more than a law of the universe, more than system,concept,principle all put together.
Now if you are paying attention you would notice that im being vague. You would be wondering why am i beating around the bush and not going straight to the point. I will tell you why, im in the process of putting the readers mind into a thinking state. Im not telling you the answer just like that, but im hinting and hinting to make you understand what is the true reality of life. Dont think too hard, take in only what your mind can accept at the moment. I got to tell you that my job here is not easy. haha. Seriously!! This entire blog really needs a good structure and planning. hey but i love challenges, so im still enjoying although its tough. Slowly ok. Hopefully through my hardwork, we can reach our destiny together.
Back to business. OK, the system that you are following, what-ever it is, be it democracy, be it nationalism or christianity, it is not easy to give it up for another. In those system, there is a pulling factor that attracts the followers. What you got to do is find its weakness, one would be that the system brings no benefit to you. Unless you have found the right system which i was talking about, then there is no need for you to find another. Once you have reached the state you should go deeper and deeper.
Alright i am suppose to settle some unfinish business if you have been following me from my previous entry. So how has education here in singapore got anything to do with systems? Its very simple to catch the knot here. Thanks to my explanation earlier. Just observe singapore's education system. Lets roughly go through singapore's education system. Every singaporean needs to have an education level of at-least primary school level. Why is that so? why cant we have our own choice and paths for our children. What if i want my child to have a special skill where he/she needs to work for it from a young age. As you can see the education system leaves us with no choice but only to comply with it. Let me tell you why the system is as such. Like i have pointed out earlier on, there is a pulling factor in every system, so the education system needs to make use of the primary school life so that we wont get diverted into other areas. The process that we go through during our primary school lifes are actually an important stage of the aducation system to tke control of our mind. try to give a thought about it.
That is exactly how these systems operate, what it actually does is that it manipulate your thinking in a certain way. Once you agreed and inherit the system, you will be one of the followers. Now these systems are nothing without numbers, its main aim is to create a population of its own to make the system stronger. So dont follow systems blindly, understand its agenda. Im not saying that all systems are corrupted, but we have to start searching, because there is only one way, one system that is the right one. Please ask me if you are interested to know, im willing to share.
So you will be wondering what kind of system am i refering to. Lets be direct, im referring to system such as democracy, communism, secularism, socialism, confusionism, hinduism, buddhism, judaism and the list goes on and on. Now im telling you guys out of those in the list, there is only one which is the truth. Not only me, there are many people before me who have done the same thing too. I do urge readers to do a small homework to find the truth. Its very simple, do some search and understanding of the systems that i have been talking about. Along the way, while you are searching you will reach at a point where you realise that all the systems have no answer to life, you will find that all the systems are manmade and its created to fulfill the desires of mankind. Except for ONE. There is only this one system that is different from the rest.
The one system that i was referring is the only system that is suitable for the whole of mankind. People from the west to east, north to south. From the young to old. From the rich to poor. For the wrong and the right. For the good and the bad. It is more than a religion, more than a law of the universe, more than system,concept,principle all put together.
Now if you are paying attention you would notice that im being vague. You would be wondering why am i beating around the bush and not going straight to the point. I will tell you why, im in the process of putting the readers mind into a thinking state. Im not telling you the answer just like that, but im hinting and hinting to make you understand what is the true reality of life. Dont think too hard, take in only what your mind can accept at the moment. I got to tell you that my job here is not easy. haha. Seriously!! This entire blog really needs a good structure and planning. hey but i love challenges, so im still enjoying although its tough. Slowly ok. Hopefully through my hardwork, we can reach our destiny together.
Back to business. OK, the system that you are following, what-ever it is, be it democracy, be it nationalism or christianity, it is not easy to give it up for another. In those system, there is a pulling factor that attracts the followers. What you got to do is find its weakness, one would be that the system brings no benefit to you. Unless you have found the right system which i was talking about, then there is no need for you to find another. Once you have reached the state you should go deeper and deeper.
Alright i am suppose to settle some unfinish business if you have been following me from my previous entry. So how has education here in singapore got anything to do with systems? Its very simple to catch the knot here. Thanks to my explanation earlier. Just observe singapore's education system. Lets roughly go through singapore's education system. Every singaporean needs to have an education level of at-least primary school level. Why is that so? why cant we have our own choice and paths for our children. What if i want my child to have a special skill where he/she needs to work for it from a young age. As you can see the education system leaves us with no choice but only to comply with it. Let me tell you why the system is as such. Like i have pointed out earlier on, there is a pulling factor in every system, so the education system needs to make use of the primary school life so that we wont get diverted into other areas. The process that we go through during our primary school lifes are actually an important stage of the aducation system to tke control of our mind. try to give a thought about it.
Friday, October 15, 2010
Essence of Knowledge
Peace greetings to fellow readers. There are many things which I would like to share with others, some how it takes time to pick the different subjects that I want to share. So it would be great if people can trigger some problems for me to troubleshoot, however I cant promise you that i'll get the answer. Here are some insights about me, I really really love to have dialogue and exchange pointers with other. I do this a lot with friend in school and outside, so far i've enjoyed the experience because some of them poses question which i really cant answer; clueless. Im the kind of guy who would always wonder how things happen in a certain way. You can call that dreaming, however i think that although it may seem that im dreaming, the fact is that im finding answers. Well as we know to find answers we need knowledge.
Now let me express how knowledge becomes useful. See, knowledge by definition is awareness of information, facts, ideas, truths or principles. So everyone must understand that knowledge is a precious gift from an infinite source( because scientist havent discover the source of knowledge ). Please understand that knowledge is precious, loving knowledge will only turn you into a better person. If you love yourself, you got to love knowledge. To summarise the points, Knowledge would becomes useful when one connects it to his/her life, if not the knowledge serves no purpose.
In a simpler term, you got to spread your knowledge to others so that it will continue and others can appreciate it. Once you stop practicing it you can say that the knowledge is busted.
Looking at todays context of knowledge, there is a big misconception going on. My intention here is to express my views on this matter. From the times of our childhood, we have been taught, reminded, programmed by teachers or parents to have a mind-set of attending school to reach higher education level in exchange for a good qualification to become successful in life, now wait a minute... Where has the value of knowledge gone? Go to school to be successful? Lets do some correction, we go to school to learn and understand things around us so that we can make use of the knowledge in our life journey. Dont feel awkward upon seeing the correction version of going to school, want to know why? Its because we have been taught of the wrong version since the day our mind start thinking.
I will try to make it clearer. Try observing the people around us. They are actually working very very hard because they want to have a good qualification as they believe that it is the key to success. They are mirroring what their teachers told them decades ago, thats how influential people can be, they can change people's life with words. However, we got to think rationally and logically, this terminology is totally untrue, what we are seeing today is, if you are concern about your life you will be successful regardless of whether you got good education or not. This is a simple fact, if you know psychology it would be easier. Its all in the mind. If one tells himself to be someone worthy he will find the means and way to reach his goal. Ultimately every individual has his/her perspective of being successful. I can say, to me having a stable income monthly although not too high would be a form of success for me, while others might think otherwise.
These are simple examples that i have given to refute the idea of study hard to be successful in future. At this point of time, my elaboration of the topic have led us to another question, but it is not a part of this topic, so i'll move on to part 2.
Now let me express how knowledge becomes useful. See, knowledge by definition is awareness of information, facts, ideas, truths or principles. So everyone must understand that knowledge is a precious gift from an infinite source( because scientist havent discover the source of knowledge ). Please understand that knowledge is precious, loving knowledge will only turn you into a better person. If you love yourself, you got to love knowledge. To summarise the points, Knowledge would becomes useful when one connects it to his/her life, if not the knowledge serves no purpose.
In a simpler term, you got to spread your knowledge to others so that it will continue and others can appreciate it. Once you stop practicing it you can say that the knowledge is busted.
Looking at todays context of knowledge, there is a big misconception going on. My intention here is to express my views on this matter. From the times of our childhood, we have been taught, reminded, programmed by teachers or parents to have a mind-set of attending school to reach higher education level in exchange for a good qualification to become successful in life, now wait a minute... Where has the value of knowledge gone? Go to school to be successful? Lets do some correction, we go to school to learn and understand things around us so that we can make use of the knowledge in our life journey. Dont feel awkward upon seeing the correction version of going to school, want to know why? Its because we have been taught of the wrong version since the day our mind start thinking.
I will try to make it clearer. Try observing the people around us. They are actually working very very hard because they want to have a good qualification as they believe that it is the key to success. They are mirroring what their teachers told them decades ago, thats how influential people can be, they can change people's life with words. However, we got to think rationally and logically, this terminology is totally untrue, what we are seeing today is, if you are concern about your life you will be successful regardless of whether you got good education or not. This is a simple fact, if you know psychology it would be easier. Its all in the mind. If one tells himself to be someone worthy he will find the means and way to reach his goal. Ultimately every individual has his/her perspective of being successful. I can say, to me having a stable income monthly although not too high would be a form of success for me, while others might think otherwise.
These are simple examples that i have given to refute the idea of study hard to be successful in future. At this point of time, my elaboration of the topic have led us to another question, but it is not a part of this topic, so i'll move on to part 2.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
The Supporting Wing part 2
the revelation from God through the angel known as Gabriel/Jibrael. Those revelation that prophet Muhammad receives were recorded and revealed through words of mouth or written down by ink(Al-Quran). Prophet Muhammad continue receiving the peaceful message through-out his prophethood life of 23 years. More of the insights of the prophet Muhammad would come along the way, as for now I would move on to another area.
As for a great man like Prophet Muhammad pbuh, it would be unfair to write a brief description of him to have a good understanding of who he really was, so readers please keep up with this blog as I would try to the best of my ability to tell you more as I go along.
Skipping on the long introduction that I've made, I would like to share the character of prophet Muhammad. Back then there was a say of "the Wing of Islam". This term was referring to the caliph/leader of Islam after the death of the prophet. It was specifically referring to Abu Bakr as Siddiq and Umar Al-Khattab, the first and second caliph of Islam respectively. They were the companions of the prophet during his life time. Such titles were attributed to them because if you were to talk about Abu Bakr r.a., you'll end up talking about Umar r.a. That was how close they were to each other. It was written in a hadith(saying and deeds of the prophet), that if you were to see the prophet walking, he will be accompanied by Abu Bakr and Umar by his side, and when he leaves accompanied by Abu Bakr and Umar, he will return with Abu Bakr and Umar still by his side.
If we were to put ourselves in todays context, one would be wondering why a man with the status of messanger of God would still have a great connection with his companions? As for ourselves, knowing that we are no-where near to the greatness of a prophet, staying together would be more important for us. We cant walk this earth alone, not even the prophet of God, because we must still remember that he is still human and humans have limitations, so the prophet still rely on others just like us.
As for a great man like Prophet Muhammad pbuh, it would be unfair to write a brief description of him to have a good understanding of who he really was, so readers please keep up with this blog as I would try to the best of my ability to tell you more as I go along.
Skipping on the long introduction that I've made, I would like to share the character of prophet Muhammad. Back then there was a say of "the Wing of Islam". This term was referring to the caliph/leader of Islam after the death of the prophet. It was specifically referring to Abu Bakr as Siddiq and Umar Al-Khattab, the first and second caliph of Islam respectively. They were the companions of the prophet during his life time. Such titles were attributed to them because if you were to talk about Abu Bakr r.a., you'll end up talking about Umar r.a. That was how close they were to each other. It was written in a hadith(saying and deeds of the prophet), that if you were to see the prophet walking, he will be accompanied by Abu Bakr and Umar by his side, and when he leaves accompanied by Abu Bakr and Umar, he will return with Abu Bakr and Umar still by his side.
If we were to put ourselves in todays context, one would be wondering why a man with the status of messanger of God would still have a great connection with his companions? As for ourselves, knowing that we are no-where near to the greatness of a prophet, staying together would be more important for us. We cant walk this earth alone, not even the prophet of God, because we must still remember that he is still human and humans have limitations, so the prophet still rely on others just like us.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
The Supporting Wing
My word’s of peace to fellow readers. Have you ever wondered what would happen if you try to accomplish everything in life on your own. It’s impossible!! Today I would like to share some of my opinions on the beauty of togetherness in all of us. Before I begin, I would like to share an incident which happened earlier today. Well today was my first day in a new class, it was also a new module known as management info system (it is how businesses fuse into the IT world; basically it is the transition state where a raw business enters into an IT world). Quite interesting, but tough to draw the line between IT and Business. Btw these two fields work pretty well, I mean for today's standard of business, IT is a must. Back to the incident, so as usual in school I had to work in a team for the whole day and at the end of the day all teams have to present their understanding of the topic. I was working with two other individual, a guy and a lady, at the start of the day everything started well, the two fellers including me were smiling as we work, we were also getting to know each other. I was thinking in my mind that this must be a great day as we are all motivated. I really have high hopes for my team. As we work along the true colours start appearing, I seriously can’t imagine how at one moment I can think so highly of someone and the next moment is totally the opposite.
We got kind of busy later during the day but the team was still holding on, there’s still togetherness at this point of time. Then its break time... came back from break guess what, the worst thing happen. I don’t know for some reason, my team member the lady refuses to work together. hahax.. I was calm and told her that it is a team effort and everyone has to contribute, she replied, "oh I’ve completed the whole PowerPoint", so to say that everything’s done by her, I’m not sure if she wants all the credit or she dislikes working together, for some reason I did not get to contribute or even see the PowerPoint. Not until about 5mins to the start of the team presentation. Too late, we just presented what we had and the facilitator was unpleased with the presentation at the end. See sometimes as human we love to get recognition to the extend of becoming self centered and ego. Those are our weakness which can lead to failures in life.
Now I would like to share about the history of a man whom I believe is the prophet of God and prophet to the whole of humanity. Btw Prophets are man just like you and I who has been appointed by God for a certain mission or task to guide mankind to the way of truth. Allah(The God) does not neglect on His creations(man), and has sent prophets after prophets to guide us to the straight path. Prophet Muhammad(pbuh) was the seal of all the prophets before him, hence no other prophet would come after him. The prophet Muhammad(pbuh) receives
We got kind of busy later during the day but the team was still holding on, there’s still togetherness at this point of time. Then its break time... came back from break guess what, the worst thing happen. I don’t know for some reason, my team member the lady refuses to work together. hahax.. I was calm and told her that it is a team effort and everyone has to contribute, she replied, "oh I’ve completed the whole PowerPoint", so to say that everything’s done by her, I’m not sure if she wants all the credit or she dislikes working together, for some reason I did not get to contribute or even see the PowerPoint. Not until about 5mins to the start of the team presentation. Too late, we just presented what we had and the facilitator was unpleased with the presentation at the end. See sometimes as human we love to get recognition to the extend of becoming self centered and ego. Those are our weakness which can lead to failures in life.
Now I would like to share about the history of a man whom I believe is the prophet of God and prophet to the whole of humanity. Btw Prophets are man just like you and I who has been appointed by God for a certain mission or task to guide mankind to the way of truth. Allah(The God) does not neglect on His creations(man), and has sent prophets after prophets to guide us to the straight path. Prophet Muhammad(pbuh) was the seal of all the prophets before him, hence no other prophet would come after him. The prophet Muhammad(pbuh) receives
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