Reboot. Restart. Shut Down.

Every once in awhile, it is okay to just reboot and remove the negative in your life. Smile!

Restart: To more adventurous days ahead! 🙂

Rabbit!

Blessed evening. Got kidnapped at  11pm from my work desk and I couldn’t have asked for more.

“It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But those things don’t matter at all, because once you are real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”

Real. Youth. Aged. Wisdom. Genuine.

And so it is…

A break from the real world and people. Into the unknown… 

Of Sufferings

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Nobody can make you happy, nobody can make you unhappy. You are only invited, constantly, to meet what remains unmet in yourself, to touch what you never wanted to touch in yourself, to explore the field. Making others responsible for how we feel is the beginning of all violence, both internal and external, all conflict between people, and ultimately all wars between nations.

Let others off the hook. Honour what is alive in you right now. Learn to hold your own feelings like beloved children, however intensely they burn and scream for attention.
Celebrate the aliveness in your hurt, the vibrancy of your disappointment, the electricity of your sadness. Kneel before the power in your anger, honour its burning creativity.
From this place of deep acceptance, you do not become weak and passive. Quite the opposite. You simply enter the world from a place of non-violence, and therefore immense creative power, and you are open to the possibility of deep listening, honest dialogue, and unexpected change.

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In suffering you become small. In love, anything is possible. Anything. Hence, always choose love.

because of a few songs

Words cannot describe how thankful I am, not for what i have in this life rather who i have. They may stay or leave, sometimes even popping up once in a while but that is okay. Because I am slowly being reminded that I do not own anything or anyone. Nothing is permanent and learning to let go is one of the toughest yet relieving mental abilities one can have. Lately, I am in love with all the amazing souls who have constantly shape me into being the best person I can be. No matter what time of the year it is, always strive to be better than you were!

One thing i have learned is to trust your heart. Listen to it because it does not lie. The heart always know 🙂 Busy days ahead, wish me luck!

Thank you for believing and supporting me always

constant reminder to self

Always, always, always be honest. Even if it cuts like a knife. Because dishonesty cuts deeper! Never hide from anything. Good or bad because the best feelings in life always come from unwavering honesty

Good weekend folks. Keep breathing!

Bravery in Being Soft

 

Heres wishing you a wonderful year and hoping you’ll dream dangerously and outrageously,and that you will always be kind.

GWS

Anything that you cannot control is teaching you, how to let go. 🙂

 

Gap

We tend to stick to our own age group when socializing, mingling and meeting new people, so it’s surprising that i found a good friend that is more than a generation older than me.

Despite the age gap, we have quite a lot in common and pretty much have the same sense of humour. I can talk to her about almost anything, and our talks range from discussions on the best halal place in orchard to planning the next cultural trip to deep and philosophical musings, like whether a child should be ‘taught’ art at all.

Im thankful for having a friend who is older and wiser than me that keeps me sane with all the chai and coffee breaks.

ps: also thankful for a friend that is a lot younger than me that keeps me balance 😉

Of hope and expectation

Every once in a while, we all feel like like we are the only one who is frustrated, who is wrestling, unfulfilled, barely getting by.

However, we need to remind ourselves that this feeling is momentary. Because, if we just hang on, just find the guts to face it all for another day, someone or something will find us and make it all okay.

Lets face it: we all need a little support every so often – someone to help us hear the music and the waves in their world, to caution and remind us that it won’t always be this way. Perhaps, that someone is out there. And that someone will find us eventually. And will we reach out to them?

 

 

 

Happiness

And so I stop caring. The End.

Journey

Fret not where the road will take you. Instead concentrate on the first step. Thats the hardest part and thats what you are responsible for. Once you take that step, let everything do what it naturally does and the rest will follow. Do not go with the flow. Be the flow.

Of Adapting

Trying not to resist the changes that is coming my way. Allowing my life to live through it. Not worry about my life turning upside down. How do i know if the side that i am on is better than the one to come? Change is constant.

Humbly Obedient

“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame. That says something very important about the condition of the ethical life: that it is based on a trust in the uncertain and on a willingness to be exposed; it’s based on being more like a plant than like a jewel, something rather fragile, but whose very particular beauty is inseparable from that fragility.”

― Martha C. Nussbaum

heal

in our own ways

we all break

it is okay.

to hold your heart outside of your body

for

days.

months

years.

at a time

self portrait

rather than love than money than fame give me truth

for whats its worth

you are missed 😉

threshold

Everything in life will runs it course. Time to move on.

I sleep at 4 in the morning

The day is when you get busy and the night to think.

Options. Choices.

silent tapes

Board a plane back to Skype.

Je suis Zaki

The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.

Guess what, i am 25. My feelings and my thoughts? Just blessed 🙂

Cheers fellas

WARUNG SENI

Lately, i have been working on this little project of mine which i started almost 2 years ago. I still remember Adeline contacting me and asking if i am available to teach both her daughters drawing twice a week for 2 hours per session. Well, time flies eh. Two years on, it is still a work in progress and there are a lot more to be done. Okay, back to work! Yes, its 5am in the morning now.

Anyway folks, hows the logo?

mixed rice

“And of His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth and the diversity of your languages and your colors. Indeed in that are signs for people of knowledge.” (30:22)

reflection

this past few months have been very busy for me.

On a random thought, i feel that there are too many ‘institutionalize’ people around. Need to get out

grateful & blessed

Never underestimate the power of social media…Its amazing how social media play such an important role today. I am pretty much lagging behind this whole wave that is about to wash us all. Hoping that a purchase of a better smart phone can help me play catch up. How idealistic of me 🙂 Actually this is what i am afraid of all these while…the idea of me getting a phone packed with a data plan and what not. The idea of being ‘plugged-in’ on the go… in trains, in meetings, during a social gathering, at the dining tables and even in the loo. Conforming to the habit that i been a harsh critic of. Am i finally conforming?  

In other news, i am taking my time to see the possibilities of where this could go. Clearly, i am not too sure about it too. As for now, i shall keep working hard and improving myself before somebody take notice… I am really grateful for how this is going thus far but its time to roll my sleeves higher and work harder for now. Later!

the man and his batik

Always keeping it real. Regardless of the circumstances. Keep it real.

In other news, happy birthday ma Cherie. Smile always and stay beautiful inside & out.

osmije

I have been away for way too long again. It seems that i have this habit of going into a disappearance mode these days. Tsk

We’re leaving Ramadhan behind in a few days time and i can already feel the sadness… Perhaps, it is not that we’re leaving Ramadhan. Rather, Ramadhan leaving us. May our hearts experience the sweetness of this blessed month in the months to come.

volim te

darkest of nights

There is a piece of flesh in the body, if it is reformed, the whole body becomes good, but if it gets spoilt the whole body gets spoilt; indeed it is the heart.