Invictus: The Power of Believing

 


             Every now and then, I post something on my blog, and all of you must be wondering what triggers me to write these posts, because certainly I don't write on a monthly basis and all... I write when there is a need for me to write, the need to express myself, to share my feelings and thoughts, and in this case, the burning of fire spirit burning away the sorrows and dismay..
The situation I am now is quite the depressing situation as what I had planned to be happening now, isn't happening... but what keeps me going is that, I am holding on, stronger than ever to my faith, my believe, of what is the real aim, the finishing line of this long marathon... and this strong believe is the thing that will drive me there, towards the real success, even through the toughest moments... So now, I'm telling to those who are reading this, that DON'T STOP BELIEVING   (better than Justin Bieber's Never Say Never..Haha) because the Power of Believing is the only power you'll ever need.

             To have confidence in something you desire in your life is easy but when all odds proves otherwise, it deteriorates your confidence to the point that you stop believing that you are able to achieve your desire. Cheated, defeated, or even by the lack of luck, it turns you down. It made you think again, whether what you desire will ever happen. On whether your goals actually is impossible to be accomplish, on whether are you good enough to be able to meet your desire in the first place. Well, I say screw those questions because nothing could stop you from achieving your goals, not the people around you, not the lack of luck and especially, not a piece of paper that says u failed. Because god made you, the great person that you are. Great and special in your own ways..You could do anything in the world, as long as you keep on believing, believing that you can achieve what you desire for in life. The more you believe, the more you want for your believe to happen.. It all starts with a simple believe.. And not to believe or to give up on your belief is the worst thing you could ever do. Don't let the world deny what you are capable of, as you are capable of doing what you believe in, strive for what you believe in and deny the world that turned their back on you.

         Challenges and obstacles are unavoidable in every journey.. But remember this, each and every obstacle makes you stronger, stronger than any of those who didn't face the challenges you face, you are stronger, better than them. And when you GET BACK UP, and keep on believing in your desire, nothing can stop you then. Not even the universe. Every time an obstacle hits you, get back up and strive and strive again towards your believe.. because you want to make your believe, your dream, a reality. An achievement that you will always treasure. And at the end of the day, you gain more than those who got the easy way, and it makes you better than any of them. Never give up, never stop believing in your dreams because giving up will result to nothing. But when you believe in your dreams, it makes you stronger, and the believe will drive you towards your dreams, crushing all the obstacles that lies in your way. Nothing can stop you when you believe in  your dreams so strong. You will do whatever it takes to achieve your goal. It's the only power anyone needs, the power to keep on going no matter what it takes and no matter what blocks your way. It's the power that STRENGTHENS YOUR MIND and your will to success.The strong believe ignites the passion in you, makes you want to fight till the end in order to make what you believe you can achieve, a reality. Remember , why you set foot on this quest in the first place, on why do you want to do , what you do... which is to achieve your dreams... And again, it all starts with a simple, strong believe. That is why all religion requires you to believe, to have faith, in any circumstances.... as to believe or to have faith, can and will direct you to the right direction... And the stronger the belief is, or the faith is, the clearer and easier the journey will be. 

                    

        

          Exams, assessment, test and all of those crap are the things that are often be the things that judge you whether you are good or not. And often these craps are the thing that crushes your dreams. They smack you in the face saying that you are not good enough for them and show your bad result. It hurts so bad that you lose hope of achieving your goal... ha ha, too bad for you.... It hurts doesn't it??... Well, I just went through that stage.. I sat for a major exam and I didn't get the result that I wanted, not even close... The result crushed my dream.. After a day or two of mourning (haha), one thing kept bugging me, my belief that I can be successful in the future still stand strong though my results prove me otherwise. Then I realized the BIGGER PICTURE, and that this silly exam is actually nothing, and it won't stop me from achieving the success that I believe I can achieve.  And though given a hard task to be executed, the power of believing didn't fail me.. I   made researches, ask around, a little reading and I found a clear path that will bring me to the success that I believe in. Though it is not the best path, but in the end, it still delivers the same thing even if I scored the exam. What is important is that I will get what I want, no matter how rough the road may be. The strong believe will drive me through any challenges that lie in front of me.. (FYI, I'm taking ACCA which is actually a very good thing).. This purely shows that I didn't need the perfect score for my exam, I didn't need any scholarships to achieve my dream, all I needed was the will, to not stop believing in my dreams , as the power, will bring me towards my success. The failure? Just suck it up and move on, make the best out of it. If I didn't believe in my dream and hold on to it, I will be just the same as those losers who gave up and stop believing in their dreams, having nothing but regret.... My advice is, don't be like those losers, and continue believing in your dreams because that simple believe will bring you to places you never imagine you'll be... It will drive you ON AND ONWARDS 

        The power of believing had helped me for as long as I can remember, and it had brought me to where I am now... It might not be the best of place, but I'm surely on the right track towards my success... This simple yet great power can and should be applied to each and every single one of us.. Be it in a debate, coaching a debating team, an election, an exam, an interview, in jobs, in a relationship, you say it... all of it can be what you want it to be, as long as you believe in it... Trust me, I learnt from the best, myself, because there is no one better to teach you than yourself... All of those who have achieved success, they all started with the simple believe, and it will grew to something bigger..Be it presidents, scientist, inventors, or even billionaires... Some even succeeded when everyone else thinks it's impossible, nobody would believe the creation of telephones, aeroplanes or even internet back in the days, but the simple believe of a few people made it happened... the owe it first to their strong believe that they can prove everyone wrong and that they can succeed..It all start with a simple believe....In the end, when you have mastered the power of believing, you actually had grasp the most important thing, which is to BELIEVE IN YOURSELF, and when you have attained that, you can set sail to wherever your goals may be... You Are The Master of Your Fate, You Are The Captain of Your Soul..

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

                               - William Ernest Henley (1849–1903)  -

Do What You Believe in & Believe in What You Do,

                                                            - Lat, Kampung Boy -

pending : Invictus : Great Powers Comes With Great Responsibilities

B.O.N.D.S

It's been a while since my last post, more than a year, but something urged me to write this post. Something that is very much important to me as it expresses my heart and soul . It was leaving the prestigious college, MCKK that made me realize the importance of writing this post, to express to the world, something that I cherish the most, after going through the life of a Malay collegian.... It is the bond that was created along the way. The bond was very much special, rare and could not easily found elsewhere..

Learning chemistry taught me a thing or two about bonds (better use it

now or never), it is that everything consist of matter, and that matter contains particles that are attracted to each other through the formation of bonds. It is the bonds that kept the particles attach to each other to form a chemical compound. the stronger the bond, the stronger the compound will be ( Thank you to Puan Les for the Chemistry lessons) The theories of the existence of bonds was proven through experiments after experiments by many well known scientist throughout the world like Sir Isaac Newton...The differences between these chemical bonds and the bonds that i am writing about, is that it could not be proven through any experiments and this kind of bond could not be broken down.... it is the bond between human beings , a strong bond of friendship , it is the thing that holds us together and unites us into becoming a very strong compound, an unbreakable compound.

Innocent and young boys all over the country, with different backgrounds and different attitude, gathered at the prestigious school to be educated and to live the same life together. Going through the joy and laughter together, and also, going through the hardness of life together. We learn to live together, we understood the roles we have in this community and most importantly we understood each other. Through all of those, we became a huge family with the bonds keeping us together, tighter than ever. Very childish we were when we all first met, we cried to go back to our real family; little did we know that another family awaits us. Surely we all cried but more importantly we help each other to loose the sadness, to feel comfortable again, and to feel as if we were with our family, a new family, a family of of friends. We were taught that UNITY IS STRENGTH and unite we did. We united in everything we do and we did it together. And with the strength we had, we went searching for glory.

Being good and innocent did not last long as being naughty and nice was our thing. By the second year, we already did so many wrong things and we did it together. Learning from our mistakes together . Pulling a huge metal steel ( roller ) and cutting out grass as a punishment was a memory we all share, it is for us remember and to laugh. We explored every inch of life we could together from playing JAMBU and BETIK (though some didn't claim their doings until now) to leading the community and the college. We did those entire things due to the bond we have, connecting us to one another. We were KINGS for a year, a great year, the last year,and we did what any kings would do, we defended our territory and conquered the world. From having the best cheering ever for our teams and even created the longest one ( a cheeringfor a cricket match ) to organizing

events for our people, and leading the way for everything, we did justice to ourselves and for the people, as for the bonds are meant for us to help each other and develop each other. Living in a family with even by three brothers could be miserable for some people, with the annoying fights over the most simple of things (thank god it is not my family ) is

very much disturbing, but with more than a hundred people being gathered , not having any blood ties, we learn to adapt. We adapt to the hundreds of behaviors and attitude, we tolerated and accepted our

differences and we became a very great family. Though sometimes, there

were disturbance to the compound, mischievous acts done (virus) which is unavoidable in any community, we successfully develop our own defense mechanism to the point that we develop immunity to the virus (essence of Biology, thanks to Mr. Khaidzir) and solved each and every single problems peacefully without harming the compound. It is through the bonds we created amongst us, the bond of friendship through the understanding we have amongst us and the respect for the bond that we have, THE BOND THAT WILL LAST FOREVER.

The huge number of friends of the same age was not the only bonds that I created, I also created a smaller yet nothing less of another kind of bond, I created a bond with intellectual and bright friends who also became a family of mine. These people help me to become who I am now. They taught me to be mature, wise and confident. To be able to think both sides of the coin (idioms, thanks to sir. Syed) and to be able to speak in front of hundreds of people, which I never imagined that I would be able to do. I owe them so much for what I have become as i hope i have done and will do the same for those after me. This bond is very important to me as without it, i am nobody. They coached me to become a man, a wise and mature man. The bond I share with these people through debating is very much rare and shall i cherish for the rest of my life.

The challenges going through the life of a malay collegian and also a debater had granted me brothers, not of blood, but of bond. The bonds of these two brothers of mine are very much strong and I believe nothing can brake that bond that we have created. We went through so many challenges together, sometimes we fail and sometimes we succeed but in any cases, we were still together in any ups and downs. We ever cried together, sharing the same sadness that we have, holding each others hands and continue with the journey that life and fate has put upon us. Though coming from different background and attitude, we started by having the same interest, and through the hardship of life that we had to go through together, we develop the bonds of a brother, so strong that any challenges that lies ahead of us will neve break our bond.

They were always there for me, in sickness or in health. They are none other than my comrades in debating, they are the ones who are beside me in anything I do, and i'm sure they will always will be, maybe not in person but always in my heart. They mean so much to me,the experience I have in the college would meant nothing if they were not there to be experiencing it with me. Nothing can ever replace this kind of friendship, the friendship that i truly cherish the most. THEY ARE MY BROTHERS, NOT OF BLOOD , BUT OF BOND.

THANK YOU MCKK

THANK YOU TEACHERS

THANK YOU SIXTEN

THANK YOU COACHES

THANK YOU DEBATERS

THANK YOU ABG RAF

THANK YOU SHAHIR AND ADAM

FOR HAVING THESE BONDS WITH ME AND HAVING WONDERFUL MEMORIES WITH ME

Momentum = mu + mV = 0

Readers, today we will learn about physics a bit. And on how it can relate with my life. It's on momentum. The formula stated above is the formula for explosion. It is on how the initial momentum plus the final momentum will equal to zero. The relation of this formula with my life is that in the preparation for a competition or almost everything that relates to me. In this case, the most recent one is the Prime Ministers Trophy ( or other people would call it HKSBP which sounds so lame) . We (me, Shahir, Adam ... & mia) were assigned the job to debate for this tournament. So, the initial momentum was just okay for a newly born team. Then, we were drilled with much training. As Abg. Raf (THE coach) says it, we were pushed to the wall. It's almost seemed to me that the coaches came almost every week. We build the momentum every week, every minute, every second. (Maybe a bit exaggerating, but you'll get the picture) So, at the competition, the momentum should have been quite high due to the initial plus the final momentum would be high. We firstly fought against SEMESTA and the motion was advertisement is a bane to the society. It was quite scary to debate at that time because it was the first debate. Plus with the hot weather, we were sweating like on the way to hell. Then, the motion was ACCEPTED which means we won. Obviously. Then , it was the debate between the Maroon 3 versus the Green Ladies due to we wore maroon blazers and they, the STF, wore green blazers( for the readers information, green lady is a myth told by people about a lady ghost who glows in green color, & she tries to find her lost child). The motion was the advance in science & tech helps in improving humans’ health. The motion was obviously true which was on our side, and I believe that we did well, better that the first debate, but the judges said otherwise, we LOST. Although the crowd said otherwise (the ones I knew and a few other students from?????? Said that we should have won, maybe the professional judge saw something wrong.) Then, it was the last debate in the preliminary round, against SMSS. The motion was 'open house' practice in Malaysia should be encouraged. The judge was multicultural i think (one of the judges was either a Malay or an Indian) and it suits the theme for the debate. In our group, SMSS was the only team who won both of the previous debate, so, they were considered good. But, when they debated against us, I think we were better, and we won. Their faces were all ready for the defeat.haha. So, it was a tie between 3 schools in our group which was STF, MCKK and SMSS because all of us won 2 debates. Unfortunately, we did not get to represent our group, it was the lucky STF. So, our journey ended there. It was neither a lost nor a win for me because we won, 2, but we did not make it. All of these, equals to Zero which proves the formula mu + mV = 0. But there is something else behind this formula. The thing that explodes will end up having more momentum after Zero phrase. Thus, meaning we do get something out of it. we got knowledge, fun, add more velocity to the momentum meaning we are better, a lot i must say and all the things I’ve stated in my previous post ( the world of Db8 ) . And the formulae that we will use next is the conservation of momentum, mu + mV = mu + mV. Which means the result of the total momentum will be the same as the total momentum. In this case , we will work harder and build more momentum. And win the trophy next year, our last year, and hope after the explosion phase is over, we will get the end product of our efforts. This is just a post to express my memory, a history to be remembered, where we fail, but we will stand up and fight again till the end. Sorry because there is not much of a inspiring things in this post as my previous post (well, i like to think it that way)

Thanks to ADAM , SHAHIR and not forgetting MIA
Thanks to Abg. Raf, Abg. eD, Abg. Rashad,Abg.Fendy Abg. Fido, Abg. Zuli , Puan Sharifah ninti Syed Zainol Khodki ( miss Sherry), And All of you who helped directly or indirectly. May god bless you all.

to be updated.....

The Direct & InDirect Winning

our goal or our target in everything is of course to win or to be successful. But winning is not necessarily being the best or number one. Although being the best among the best is the best thing you’ll get, you can still be winning in a way which is indirect. Let me illustrate it in a form of examples which happens to me these few months. This happened a few weeks ago during the KPKM election or Student Union. I fought with this guy who represents the pure n good guys. I was neither good nor bad. A middle person is the term for me. . He proclaims that he will fight the evil with his pure heart (although he has darkness in him, e.g.: he steals, he still breaks rules and such, not to bad mouthing (writing) about him, but the fact is, no one is pure or good enough to talk bad things about people and claiming that you are good) He had the back up from the “Head Prefect” who in a way campaigned for him which is against the rules. I played fair and square, campaigned with my true identity without the help of big people or even criticizing people. But I lost. But I won something. I won my votes fairly. And the fact that my batch supports me 100% makes me very proud of my batch. I won my friends heart, they believe in me. I’m so lucky to have them. although I lost( with a person who got boo when he was announce), knowing that my batch supports me n that there are people out there that still supports me, makes me feel so lucky. That’s the indirect win for me, which I think is better than winning with thinking even my batch does not support me. Just be yourself without portraying what you are not and fight fair and square. You’ll feel a lot better that way. But if you had won, it is twice the happiness. I felt this way when I won the debate SBP North Zone (not to brag but to give you an example). My team had the indirect challenge from the coaches. They in a way said that we could not win by saying “it’s okay to lose” although we always aim to win. My team and I improved ourselves (although it is not enough).We worked twice as hard. People say practice makes perfect, so, we practiced, a lot. And then god shall give you what you have earned. So, we won. But there are still holes here and there, therefore we will never stop practicing and improve ourselves until there is nothing can be improved. The bottom line is, the direct winning is the best you can have, but it needs a practical way to really feel proud about it and although you won, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you should stop improving. And for those who lost in anything out there, if you had done your best with a clean sheet, you had won something (think about it) and god has something bigger for you in the future. God works in mysterious ways. “Never give up, be strong and always believe In Yourself”

To Be Updated………………………………

The Promise

I WILL HOLD ON TO THIS PROMISE

Saying a promise is a very easy thing. Keeping or holding to that promise is one of the hardest thing to do (depending on what is the promise). The greatest man alive once said “the heaviest thing to carry is responsibility” n a promise is a responsibility. If you promise to your parents to study very hard, but in the end you don’t. It’s a crime, a crime to you. you not only lied to your mother but most importantly, yourself. Lying to yourself is one thing but most importantly, you defeated the purpose of having a promise which is to do something good or to improve yourself. You failed. The benefit is lost. Zero for you. The one who hold or keep their promise has a bright future ahead for himself/herself and others that is related to him. To keep to that promise isn’t easy, you need commitment. Let’s say you promise yourself to build a sky scraper, but if you don’t do anything, that building won’t come rolling to you. You need to do something in order for it to happen, and that is called commitment and handwork. The 2 most important values that is needed to be learn. The real reason on why I’m writing this is because i made a promise to myself, teachers, n coaches, that i will improve myself. the two big things that i need to improve is my English and my knowledge (facts). And i promise to myself to read a book or novel once a month (not a small book) and this blog and the ones who read this is my witness that i will do that. And the ones who read this, i want your help to always make sure i will take the promise i made seriously. I WILL HOLD ON TO THIS PROMISE …………………..

The Real World of Db8

I am a debater. And I’m proud of it. After going for a few competitions, many things came to my mind abou things in debate that can be applied in the real life and some times have similarities in life. Firstly, the world is very hard. Why, well, i can see that to win something, or to have something, A lot of effort is needed and some times you might be tense and some times, it doesn’t end up like what you want it to be. In my years of being a debater, we slept at 1 or even 2 just to memorize our text and finishing it. It’s hard, very hard. And what disappoints me is that we didn’t win. But we tried our best. that will also be applied in our life, we need to have effort to do something, even if we have to sleep late at night, we have to because even though we lost or not having what we want, we know that we have done our best and we will feel better about it, and that is what we need in life, not just luck. Secondly, winning or losing is part of the game. We can see that not everyone will win. Normally the best will win. So, if we loose, don’t feel bad. That is why we need effort to make us feel better as we have done our best. So, in order to win, we must be the best. When we loose, there must be why, normally it’s because we lack something’s, we must have a feedback and see what is wrong. Improve on your weakness. And some day, you will win. Loosing is just a learning point. And winning is just a prize. The experience and the knowledge that you have or learn is the real prize. Next, is on the life that is reality but should not even be in this world which is bias. In life, not everything is fair and the way you want it. Sometimes, you maybe the best but you still lose are some times because of bias. You do your job very well, but maybe because of the judge don’t like you or like the other people more, you’ll lose. That is true fact. These things cannot be changed. I had this situation, and it isn’t nice at all. But what to do complains we made, but were not taken. It’s life. But, find ways to take back what you deserve. There is always a new chance. The next time the competition, if the bias judge is still there, what to do. What is important is you know that you should win. and again, it’s not about the prize, it’s about the knowledge and other important things, winning is just a bonus. (to be continue) well, the reason why I wrote this is because, an old boy of MCKK, abg raf(rafizi) taught me that he trained us not because of he wants to win, but, to prepare to the outside world, to make us success in the real world (and a lot more ) and winning is just bonus. (To be continue )

My Form 2 LIFE

My Form 2 LIFE

My life as a form 2 started well, i went to a new place(New Hostel). I picked a bed under a fan.It was cool. I had a good bedmate(Zam). I also had a good dormate who were very friendly and kind.At class, i sat in front with two gentleboys. It all looks like a very bright beginning at that time. I was good, hardworking and many more at that time. It lowers(not completely) my attention of getting out of that school(MCKK)….My routin for that time was, at morning, I will go to class early, have snack during recess, and went back to hostel after the school ends.After that, i will have my lunch(which until now the food taste like crap).Then i’ll pray and go to prep(go to class & supposed to study but i don’t).After that, I’ll go back to my hostel, pray and play sport.At night, i’ll pray and go to prep.After prep, I’ll go back to my hostel, pray and go to bed before the curfew(11.30).That is my routin at the beginning of the year.After sometime, I learned to be brave, independent and soon, basicly about life.I day, my prefect decided to make an election for my batch’s community.The election was done at night and about 20 people wasn’t there(the band members).That wasn’t the only slacks that happened that night. Well, the other day, I discussed with a friend of mine and tought of to make a reelection.A better one.and on that Saturday, my prefect’s(Anif,Amir,Akmal,Zuhairy, Rashad) announced who’s our batch community. The President is Imran, the secretary is Shahir, the tresurer is Amar Aizat. The ajk’s are Arip,Safuan , Idzri, Hafriz and Ikhwan. Well, for me and more of other guys aren’t satisfied actually.our Prefect’s said that there will not be any reelection. But me and my friend will not let our disatisfaction go like that just because our Prefect’s said that. Me and my friend are just the one who are brave enough to make a reelection while the other’s just said "what to do", and afraid to join me and my friend. So, on that day, we went to town. We made reelection paper work. We put on a few reason’s. 1st, not enough voters, 2nd, not enough time to think who is the best person and so on(cannot remember). The next day, we sent it to our Prefect.Well, we did nit gave it hand by hand because we were afraid, we just slip it under his door. We waited for a reply but non came to us. So, we made a decision to take charge. We go and take names on who agrees with us. A lot agreed but few are brave enough to put their names. That sunday night, a chaos happen, a very huge debate between us and those who didn’t ageed.the people who agreed did not support us because they are afraid. Well, at that time i could rebut all their poits but i realise that it was getting noisier and other people were looking at our block.So, me and my friend ran away.Many hated us at that time. sec, min, hours, days, and weeks past by waiting for an answer from my prefect.That was a difficult time being hated and so on. After a week, people stop hating us and so on. We still waited for a reply from our Prefect. one night, the Prefect called us. We went to his room. We discuss , some he agrees and some don’t. At the end, he diceded not to make the reelection.What to do. He told us to help this batch community. We only hope for the best for my batch.enough with the reelection.back to my life. Well, i changed after a few month, I slept late, I odered food at night, i escaped prep and so on.. So people don’t know. Well, all of that were actually fine to me accept for the part where i got very lazy. I was o.k at that time. but as the time past by, more problems occur to me and it’s also the result of my doings.some problem i can’t solve. I handle this problem step by step until the end of the school year. That’s basicly what my Form 2 life is made of. It’s not full it’s only what i remembered now, i’ll insert more things as time comes by.overall my form 2 life taste sweet,sour and salty.