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Emo Lagi?

Yes I am ;) I was enjoying this book but then, after I read this sentence, that's it - end of story. Tutup buku, simpan dalam beg, return kat library besok. Huish. : Chimpanzees, like young children , are behaviourists, confined to making sense of others only based on what they can observe. Patot ke?

Angguk Geleng.

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Years to come, the issue highlighted in this video may be the issue which will be hotly discussed by the Malaysians. The time is yet to come but are we well-prepared for this money challenge? When students have to over pay their education for a degree, I may say then, 'Dont further your education. Learn a skill and live with it'.  Boleh tak? 6 years tuition:                                      $186349 10 years payment plan at 6% interest:   $  61914 Total:                                                   $248263. Gila ke hape? The Funniest Fact from the Video. Some law schools are advertising that 90% of graduates are employed within one year of graduating. The unfortunate reality is law schools are deceiving their students with this ...

The Man with Two Brains.

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I was reading 'Out of Our Heads' when I found out about a film entitled, 'The Man with Two Brains'. My prediction about the film was it might be an inspiring film which I could learn a lot from it but it turned up differently. I learned nothing but laughing. It's about a horny neurosurgeon, Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr (Steve Martin) and his obsession with a disembodied brain.  However, after I watched the film, I refer to the explanations given by Noe about the film. Only then I realise that it is me who fail to understand the underlying messages of the film.  These are the comments written by him: We inhere in our brains. What makes us the kind of things we are - beings who can feel and reason and think and see - is accomplished in our bodies by our brains. (p. 11) Wittgenstein wrote that it is only of what looks and behaves like a person that we say it sees, thinks, feels. The problem with a brain is that it doesn't look and behave like a person. (p.12) Aft...

Ar-Rum

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And of His signs is that He created for you from yourselves mates that you may find tranquillity in them; and He placed between you affection and mercy. Indeed in that are signs for a people who give thought.

The Romans

When you feel like giving up, think about this: Apabila Kami memberi manusia merasai sesuatu rahmat, mereka bergembira dengannya dan jika mereka ditimpa sesuatu bencana disebabkan apa yang telah dilakukan oleh tangan mereka sendiri, tiba-tiba mereka berputus asa. (36) Mengapa mereka tidak melihat bahawa Allah melimpahkan rezeki kepada sesiapa yang dikehendakiNya dan Dia juga yang menyempitkan (sebagai ujian sama ada diterima dengan sabar atau tidak)? Sesungguhnya hal yang demikian itu mengandungi keterangan-keterangan (kekuasaan Allah) bagi orang yang beriman. (37)

Jean Piaget said:

Knowledge is not a copy of reality . To know an object, to know an event, is not simply to look at it and make a mental copy, or image, of it. To know an object is to act on it. To know is to modify, to transform the object and to understand the process of this transformation, and as a consequence to understand the way the object is constructed. An operation is thus the essence of knowledge. Intelligence is born of action . Anything is only understood to the extent that is reinvented.

The one narrative we all grapple with is the life we call our own.

Even though it has been days since I started reading a novel entitled, The Moment, I really dont have any idea on when I will completely finish reading it. But at least, I treasure something: I understand why many people enjoy reading novels. Yey! As what lyrics do, novels also contain: The words you cant speak; and The words you wanna hear.

Dyspraxia by Katharine Jones

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Dyspraxia  is a pain! It doesn’t hurt, I don’t look different. You can’t see it, Until breakfast. I can’t tie up my laces, and I always look a mess. My shirt is buttoned wrongly - I still find it hard to dress. I can’t hold my knife and fork yet. I spill my drink, my mind is all muddled. I know I am clumsy. I get flustered and befuddled. Dyspraxia  is a pain! It doesn’t hurt. I don’t look different. You can’t see it, Until I get into class. I can’t copy from the blackboard. It’s hard to concentrate. The teachers call me lazy. Keep me in and get irate. They say that i’m untidy - They’re very quick to blame me and don’t care to find out why. Dyspraxia  is a pain! It doesn’t hurt. It don’t look different. You can’t see it, Until I write. I can’t write very neatly And I can’t write very small, I get my letters backwards - I can barely write at all. The others say i’m stupid And they call me lots of names. They say that i’m a baby. They won’t let me share their games. Dyspr...

Bersusah-susah Dahulu

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Today, I went to the Park Building at noon since I thought that I can collect my assignments at half past 12, however when I reached the building, I noticed that the collection time was from 2 up until 5pm. So, I got more than an hour before 2pm. Instead of walking to the Commercial Road and have my Tom Yam, I preferred to go to the library. As usual, the most interesting section in the library is the Biographies. Initially, I was planning to read this book: But then, I found that the below book was rather more interesting: Yes. I did spent my remaining hour reading this book. Even though I did not fancy reading an autobiography written by a woman, I did chose to read this book due to fact that the book was about Jung. Reading the book or any book about him, one will discover that Carl Jung had had a what I can call as miserable life. However the best thing about him was that he learnt a lot from the experiences he had had and the surroundings he was in. Some of his sayings: Eve...

Novels

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I am not a person who fancy reading novels. I used to like it but it has been a very long time since the last time I really read any. My problem with reading novels is I can easily fall asleep despite the fact that the story is a beautifully constructed love story. However, this aftertoon I bumped into a book by Nicholas Sparks when I was in a library to return some books. Wah , it really brought me back to the years where I used to really read novels. Years back, I was really into Nicholas Sparks . I bought some of his early novels which are: The Notebook; Message in a Bottle; A Walk to Remember; and The Rescue. Even though I really like them, I spent a very long time to finish reading each of them. Reminiscing how I used to really like him and his novels, I decide to give another try to novels but this time, I will read the one written by other writers. So, in a pile of interesting novels written by a very la...

TORA datang lagi!

I am back! Done with school visits. Done with bundle of fucking ass-signments. The only thing left is the research project. Oh Yeah. So now I have mooore time to read interesting books. Wuhuu. But, Have to concentrate more on my research project. The title? To Investigate the Impact of the Nintendo Wii on the Handwriting of the Dyspraxia. Cool kan? Haha ;) See you very soon.