Steady, My Heart

يَا مُقَلِّبَ الْقُلُوبِ ثَبِّتْ قَلْبِي عَلَى دِينِكَ

Dive

Expectation: Water
Reality: Empty

Head first. So dumb.

Nouman Ali Khan

Happiness and contentment are two fundamentally different things. Happiness is moments. It never stays. It can’t stay. Contentment is a state of being. And if a person can reach that state of being. Then there are more moments of happiness. And the hard moments become easier to navigate. God says you can get contentment by remembering Him. But the truth is from what I can understand contentment doesn’t erase sadness.It simply makes it manageable. Nothing can erase sadness from life. It is part of what must be experienced here. But it cannot color our life. Make an effort to remember Allah. Make an effort to gain contentment. May Allah make it easy.

Amin.  So beautifully accurate.

My Sought-After

And the Hereafter is better for you than the first [life].

(Surah Ad-Dhuha 93:4)

Love is totally crazy

No one would believe how much you love someone until they go through it themselves.

Don't need to prove it, it's a sentimental load you carry it yourself.

May Allah guard my heart always.

Drop it like it's hot

Why am I so upset? This is what I wanted.

I thank Allah for listening and I am waiting for better things to come.  It is unfolding very quickly.

One thing at a time. 

Victory aside

So funny how the satisfaction of devouring on other's surrendering doesn't trigger any empathy. 

I am not involved with the accountancy of that conspiracy. 

What do you WANT?

You want everything in life.

But what you really need is God's Forgiveness...

May Allah guide us all.

What To Give For Teacher's Day?

Teachers are the second layers for the next generation.  The first layer should of course be the parents. 

Just as much as we have to respect our parents, teachers need to be honoured too.  So we pick one day to celebrate the Teachers.  And usually this is the day children will be giving gifts to their favourite teachers.

But what do you give?

Enough with the mugs and Tupperwares, I'm sure they have tons of them.

So I had a tip from a teacher and she really appreciates gifts that are consumable.  Such as sandwiches, fried chicken, cakes, cookies, chocolates and fruits.  I think that's a great treat for them. 

So, go on, bake your favourite butter cake.  Share them with your kid's teacher.  Who knows you'll even start your very own business from there onwards.

Happy Teachers' Day!

Berniaga Produk di Bulan Ramadhan

Tapak Niaga RM6k..

Dulu-dulu macam releven la nak ketuk sampai ribu-ribu, sbb buying power ok lagi 5-10 tahun lepas.

Nak nasihat sikit la pada yang tak pernah berniaga buka kemah, dari online nak lompat ke tapak, dari jual suka-suka nak berpeluh-peluh melayan customer... dengan RM6k modal tapak aje (ingat ye ni kira bagi free-free terus RM6k dah babaiii dulu sebelum pasang mentol kat tapak, citer pasal mentol, mentol sebiji dalam RM50 untuk jenis kemah niaga tu, belum besi ranting, canvas, dan apa2 la hiasan nak tambah kasi menarik tapak kita.. mesti over bajetnye)

Roughly modal kena keluarkan selalunya berganda 3 ke atas.  And untung u kena dapat haruslah 2-3 kali ganda harga modal barang.  so kalau modal niaga u RM10k, forget it beb.  Baik u simpan RM10k tu, and enjoy your raya with modesty.

Kita selalu dengar niaga puasa nnt dpt income RM30k, 100k.. boleh beb percayalah memang boleh... kalau kau dah mmg otai and kakak/abang kawasan.  Dorang ni respek tabik pada dorang, lama bertahan, kental berjuang.. tapi peritnya Tuhan je yg tahu dari bawah dorang merangkak.  Modal untuk puasa jgn ckp berkepuk-kepuk dorang kuarkan.  Strategy niaga dah tulis kat buku.  Target nak jual berapa, nak upah orang harga berapa, nak top up ke tak bila dah separuh jalan puasa tu, ehhh big volume kena la prepare kan... macam nak masuk perang.

Itu kalau meletop salenye.. kalau krik krik?

Krik krik la sampai 5 tahun akan datang memikirkan camne nak bayar hutang (kalau berhutang), apa nak buat dengan stok lebihan, dan mengungkit la cerita sad story sewaktu berniaga bulan puasa selama forever and ever and everever...

Kepada yang dah bayar tapak, I doakan memang meletop la salenye.. yang masih memikirkan nak ambil tapak tu, carilah mentor sebelum tersalah langkah.

Nota: Personal view for niaga barangan bukan makanan dan minuman.

Happy Anniversary

The past was too beautiful
And too painful
To look back
I'd live it over and over again
I know that I can never be so much in love
Like how I loved you
13 years past
And what we had slowly fading
The joy and the pain
12 years of matrimony
I'd pick every grain
If only I could relive
That moment again
Deep down in my heart there's a hard rock sunken
That anchors all my feelings
Hardly expressing
Because time has taken away my past
Only left for us to see forward
Grasping the darkness looking for that path
That leads us back as one
And in the darkness I seek the light
That reflects the past and future
The hope and relief
And through it I wish to see you
Once again and again and again
That again that never ends
And I will see your face
What time has almost erased
I will feel you
I will live in your heart
Lasting longer than eternity
Because that is the only place I wish to be

Happy Anniversary b-Fyzal

Goodbye Copywriting

I've always wanted to be a copywriter. In the past few years I became one.  And now I realised I hate being a copywriter.

The fact that people don't know how difficult it is to create even a sentence that is attractive, catchy and interesting.  Probably some copywriters have that ability to just flow it out. I finally found out I am not that creative.

The second fact is, like any artist, copywriters demand payment.  It's not something that is done just for free.  Copywriters need to sit down and think and plan out what to write.  We are the same as musicians, painters, carpenters, programmers and whatever else there is.  In my country, paying for art is stupid.  Musicians are thought to be playing for free.  Designers can design in two minutes.  What a load of bull crap.

That is why I am quitting this copywriting job.  When it works it's because of their product.  When it fails, it's because the copywriting is not powerful enough.  With the money they pay us they expect 100 times in return. 

So goodbye to copywriting.  I'll just stick to professional selling.