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This dream or more like a goal
has been set since last year 
but during that time my financial
status was still in debt 
so for now
my debt has been cleared 
and I am ready to approach 
my goal which is
BANGSAWAN PC

This new pc setup would 
cost me about 6K on the CPU alone
not including the monitor, mouse, keyboard etc
The main reason why i am eager to do this
is because the difficulty that i am facing
right now where my pc is slow/not efficient
enough to work for my operation.

I am intending to setup a studio
for either making video or photoshhot.
For the equipment, the main problem is the
camera because i dont have the budget 
yet to purchase a decent one that 
suit my requirement.

Back to the main topic,
my setup would be
Intel I7-8700K processor
Asus Prime Z370-P motherboard
Samsung 960 EVO Nvme PCIe M.2 250gb SSD
32 gb DDR4 ram
GTX 1060 6gb graphic card
2TB HDD
700W power supply
Cryorig H5 Ultimate Heat sink
and lastly
Tecware CPU casing

For those who want to know the performance
for this setup, I would like to
tell you that this setup can render 4K video
with a breeze and without a sweat.
Thats all for now.

May Peace be Upon You
May Peace be Upon You

Lately, exercise using roller blade have become a trend and I am one of the victim who fall for this healthy trend. It start since last 3 weeks ago where my friend invited me to go to the town field to try roller blade and to my surprise, it was pretty fun. Although it is hurt when you felt on the floor, but I am still feel satisfy whenever I dash quickly from one point to another and after that night I am determined to own one pair of roller blade for myself. So my journey to seek for a quality but can be bought at low price roller blade began since then.

First, I ask my junior technician several question because he played roller blade since last year. I ask many things and he was very helpful in explaining to me about the brand,price and skills of roller blade. So without further ado, I search online about the brand, price and shop location. Usually the price would be around RM200 to RM300 which is quite expensive but due to my perseverance in finding the greatest deal, I managed to get the price about RM180 including postage but there is a catch where I need to order 6 pairs for me to have that price. That is pretty troublesome condition to me but I will try to find the other person who want to buy together with me.

After two weeks of searching to find similar buyer like me, I manage to gather 4 people which mean I am short of one person but due to my eagerness of not wanting to wait anymore, I just took my luck by ordering 1 extra pair and I planned to sell it through online. The delivery time was fast, today I order to them, tomorrow I receive the goods.

For the extra pair, I try to advertise it through FB but sadly there is no response. So I try to advertise it through other media which is Mudah.my and Alhamdulillah, I manage to find a buyer who was eager enough to buy this extra pair, he is willing to drive to my hometown which take him about 1 hour to get here just to buy a pair of roller blade. Here's are the picture for my advertisement which I asked my friend to took it with his dslr camera:


 Front View

 General view

close up view

boot view 

side view

He had done such a good job in taking the picture and also edit it so that the image looks more sharp and wonderful. Probably I need to treat him to a drink to thank him for his work.That is all for this entry and I think I will start to post a motivational entry on next few weeks. Hope all of you have a nice day.

May Peace be Upon You
May Peace be Upon You

Alhamdulillah, last week was my birthday where 25 years ago was my first breath and from that day my life keep on evolving starts from my childhood moment to my teenage rebel period and right now as a young adult. So for this entry I just want to treat it as my diary where I want to write about my experience of celebrating my birthday from last year compare to this year. Next I want to list all the things that I want to do within next 5 years. Lastly, just a motivation word that I am currently try to apply in my life

Last year birthday celebration was totally the opposite situation from this year due to 2 reasons. First is the place and second is the people involve in it. For last year, I was in Japan due to my work commitment and at that time it was in Sakura Blossom period which was a very beautiful scenery. So the only person who was with me is just my coworker and my awesome Japanese supervisor Sone-san. For my present, I just bought my self a toy which is a "dashankuro" race car. 
Finally got a hand on this toy that I had wanted since I was 7 years old

On the other hand for this year, I am totally forgot when is my birthday until my mother wish to me and for my present, I bought my family a dinner at a fine restaurant. That was priceless compare to other present because family bonding is the most important for me.

Even I have hidden my birthday date since last year on facebook, my friend from my university year still remember my birthday and I am thankful for that because I know there is still friends who still concern about me even it is just a birthday date.

Enough of that, now lets move on to the list of things that I want to do within next 5 years:
  1. I want to perform Umrah either alone or with my family.
  2. I want to go on sky diving because it looks so amazing to me
  3. I want to be a better person compare to now in term of works, social and society
Lastly the motivation that I get from my cousin, Abdullah from last weekend meets is "In this vast world, whatever that you wanted to have or wanted to be. You just need to ask Allah sincerely for it and InsyaAllah you will have it and you will earn it easily. There will also be a moment that even you do not hope for it  but it will came to you just in the right time to solve everything you are facing.

May Peace be Upon You
May Peace be Upon You

Last year I decided to bought an apartment just for the sake of investment because I thought it is a good way to discipline myself from over spending my salary. I want to train myself to keep on saving as much as I can while I am being young and when I reach my 50's, I want the money do the work for me while I am sitting at home play with kids or go travel around the world making new friends. Finally, I managed to get one but my saving account was not big enough to pay for the down payment. So, I borrow some money from my parents and pay the money to the developer. Due to my lack of knowledge, I thought my job is done once I paid the down payment but actually it is only the beginning of my nightmare.

The first mistake that I did is just blindly follow what other people told me. The first thing that I should is gather as much as I can the knowledge about the step in purchasing a house and applying loan. Other than that I need to know the hidden charges that I may need to pay to proceed with my purchasing.

Second, I have not prepare enough money to pay all the items related to my purchase. My saving account money was not big enough to cover 20% of the house value.  Lastly, I need to know my limitation in applying loan based on my paycheck and must have good financial history.

For those of you who wanted to buy a house no matter it is just a terrace, semi-detach or bungalow, here are the things you need to know, things you need to prepare, and lastly things you need to do in order to successfully bought a house without feeling regret at the end of the day.


Let's take an example where the House price is RM 200,000.00

Things you need to know:
1. Which bank give you the lowest interest rate.
- The higher the interest rate means that the amount you need to pay to the bank each month will become bigger which make you lose more than pay to other bank who has lower interest.

2. What are the hidden fees that you need to pay
- There are 2 items that are compulsory for you to pay which are The Sales and Purchase Agreement Cost (stamp duty and legal fees) and Loan Documentation Cost. Total of this cost is about 4% of house value. So, 4% of house value is RM 8000.00 
- Another compulsory item to pay is to the Valuator. This brings about 0.3% of the house value
- Another fee is depend on the developer which is the Real Estate agent fee which brings about 3% of house value
So, if I accumulate all the hidden fee that you need to pay, maximum it could be is about 10% of the house value that you need to prepare beforehand.

3. The amount of loan you can easily get.
- You can get this info by going to the respective bank that you are interested or you can just search google about this.

4. How much money you are willing to sacrifice each month to pay the loan.
- Let say you are willing to pay RM 1000 each month, then you can use this calculation,
RM 1000 x 200 = RM 200,000
which mean you can bought any house that has value lower than RM 200,000.

Things you need to prepare:
1. Your saving account must have enough for you to pay the down payment and also another extra 10% of the house value. This money is for you to pay the hidden charge. If your loan is approved at 85%, then the amount of money in your saving account must be at minimum 25% of the house value where 15% will be used for down payment and another 10% is for all the hidden fees.

2. Time. This is important because you may need to go back and forth either to the bank or to the developer or to the lawyer's office to sign the paperwork.

Things you need to do:
1. Compare the interest rate for each bank that you plan on applying for a loan.

2. Make sure your loan is approve first before you pay the down payment. This is biggest mistake I did was I pay the down payment first and apply for the loan later. This is actually the biggest risk that you should not do because if you did not mange to get a loan in no matter what condition, then the down payment money that you paid to the developer will be a waste.

3. Ask yourself whether you really want to buy that property or not. If you feel halfhearted and lack of confidence, then DO NOT PROCEED with the purchase because later, you are the one who need to pay the consequence not anyone else.

That's all for this entry, I hope you can apply this to your real life especially to those who are trying to buy a house for their first property. Please remember to gain knowledge first, and do not listen to others. The only person you can trust is yourself.

May Peace be Upon You
May Peace be Upon You

Last week was a hectic week for me where I need to monitor and troubleshoot client's plant in Japan because they want to make some changes on how the plant needs to be run. What makes it more challenging is that I need to do the program changes on the spot while the plant is running and the only things that I can rely is my technician on site to illustrate the problem that they are facing to me while I try to solve the problem from Malaysia. Alhamdulillah, everything had been taken care of and the plant was running smoothly. 

Screenshot of what I need to monitor

Enough on boasting myself, actually for this entry I want to elaborate more about one of the most powerful method to be a very success person which is Law of Attraction through Visualization. You might be wondering what does this 'Visualization' really means. Is it the same as daydream which you usually do when you got nothing to do? or does this require you to sketch an image of you about what you want to be in future?

Both are partly correct but the actual meaning of visualization for this contexts is to imaging in your head while closing your eyes and start imagining what will happen to you or what you are going to do to achieve your goal. The most important things is that you need to believe 100% of it will happen to you sooner or later.

Let me gave you an example that actually happen to my colleague. Last three weeks, he post on his Facebook page about one product that he is trying to sell and luckily one of his friend text him to get more information about the product he sold. So, he give all the information and the price for the product to his friend.The first day after he gave all the information while sitting in his car, he tried to visualize that when he opened his Facebook page, there will be a notification and one of the notification is from his friend ordering 1 set of product that he give the detail off the day before. Later that day when he login into his Facebook account, the was nothing and not even a single notification or news from his friend. Next day, he tried the visualization process for the second time and there is still no result. On  the third day, he tried one more time and unfortunately there is still no feedback from his friend which make him to gave up on the visualization process. Then two weeks later, out of nowhere he received a phone call from his friend and receive an order which is 2 sets of the product. Without asking any more question, he just sell the product to his friend.

From this story, it shows that the visualization process works tremendously but only the effect takes time to happen. Next, about three years ago there was a time where I accidentally switch my television channel to Discovery Channel and it show a documentary about the power of human brain. It says that human brain is very powerful if you know how to manipulate it. A study by renown institute also was shown on that program which states that your brain will transmit a wave depend on your mood and determination. Let say if your mood is down and you do not feel like talking to anybody. So when you go to work, your brain will give a wave unconsciously to warn others to do not to talk to you. Magically, your colleague will not tried to talk to you the whole day. Quite a lousy example..my bad.

Although anything can happen if you earnestly set up your mind, but as a Muslim you shall not forget that everything happen is not only on its own but it is happen only after Allah permit it to occur. If Allah forbid it from occurring no matter how powerful is your brain, it will not give the result that you wanted. 

May Peace be Upon You
May Peace be Upon You 

How are you feeling right now?
Good?
Fabulous?
or just feeling down?

Nevertheless of what happen to you, I pray to all of you so that you will be in peace and prosperity the entire time. Today I just want to share about how to improve your motivation by follow what the most successful people did to improve their motivation in achieving their dream.

The most important thing that you must set in yourself is your intention. You must buried your intention deep down in your heart so that in whatever you do, you will remember about it. Next, the intention that you have set in your heart must NOT be solely purpose for you but it must be set for the sake of mankind. What makes it different between success people and extraordinarily success people is the purpose of their intention.

Let's take Bill Gates for example here. After 5 years Microsoft had been established he had set his intention "I want in every single house, there will be at least one computer sitting on the table". From here, we can see that he wanted everyone to be able to access the information easily at the tip of their finger. 

Next, we take our famous martial arts actor Bruce Lee. 

"I, Bruce Lee, will be the first highest paid Oriental super star in the United States. In return, I will give the most exciting performances and render the best of quality in the capacity of an actor. Starting 1970 I will achieve world fame and from then onward till the end of 1980 I will have in my possession $10,000,000. I will live the way I please and achieve inner harmony and happiness.
 Bruce Lee
Jan. 1969 "

Even he died four years after wrote this letter, he still succeed in achieving his dream and whats more interesting is that it exceed his goals where he gains more than 10,000,000 USD and had been considered the most famous Asian American Actor. Although his intention is for mankind, his retribution of effort also need to be done in such a way that it is equal with his dream. This is one of the knowledge that you need to absorb and practice.

There is also a video that I saw yesterday which states that "You reap what you sow" which means if you did not take any action, then there will be no outcome. On the other hand, if you work hard on it, surely you will get the outcome and even it can be more than what you can imagine. May Allah ease.

For the last example, I quoted from our prophet Muhammad P.B.U.H. hadith which is the first hadith from book of 40 Hadith.

"Actions are according to intentions, and everyone will get what was intended. Whoever migrates with an intention for Allah and His messenger, the migration will be for the sake of Allah and his Messenger. And whoever migrates for worldly gain or to marry a woman, then his migration will be for the sake of whatever he migrated for."

From this hadith, it states that if your intention is for Allah, then you will get Allah bless which you will earn his rewards but if your intention is other than Allah, then you will get it but you will not earn his rewards. So in whatever intention that you have decided, please fixed in your heart that it is for the sake of mankind and for Allah. May Allah ease your effort in achieving your dream.


Lastly, what I want to point out are
1. Your intention must be set for the sake of mankind benefit and Allah bless.
2. Your retribution of effort must be equivalence with your dream.

May Peace be Upon You


May Peace be Upon You

Praise be to Allah for making my mood today to be positive and I hope my positive energy can be transfer to you so that your motivation will be increase and become  a more productive person after you done reading this post.

For those who currently works as an employee either in government sector or private sector, laziness and lack of motivation surely make you to succumb to the gravitational force produce by only one layer of smelly blanket. It is excruciatingly hard for you to get out of the bed and surely if you're a Muslim, you Fajr prayer will be at the end of its time which probably will not be a quality prayer. So, now what I want to share is not how to get up early in the morning, but I just want to boost your motivation and consequently it will make you feel easy to wake up in the morning. Actually, this is kind a bit sway from the title but never mind, I'll try my best to stick to the main objective.

Illustration for a typical civilians who being control by their money

Nowadays, all middle class earner feels that the money they had is in their control but the truth is the other way round. How about the low class earner? surely they will be squeeze helplessly and just barely enough to keep on living. So, how to turn this situation upside down and what item you need to have so that you have the power to control the money? There is only one simple answer that everyone know but lack of solemnity to take which is the KNOWLEDGE.

Why does it is the most powerful item on earth? Because without knowledge, you can easily be trampled, cheat and mock due to your own stupidity. Here's an analogy for this situation, let say you want to buy a desktop or a laptop. Surely more or less you will look for information that you need to know such as the price of each component, how much budget you need to prepare, what performance do you expect from your item and many more. 

The reason you did your study is not just because you just want to know how the item look like but the reality is that you did not want the seller to trick you with higher price than usual or lower performance than you expected. With knowledge, you can easily see through the lies that the seller had set up for their own benefit and not just that, you can also help others by giving in your opinion if someone else need a support.

Next, how do you want to earn the knowledge? that was very easy because we human have our brain and intellect. You can identify that by yourself but let me classify on how you want to earn knowledge.

-Through reading
   You just need to keep on reading books or journal or whatever either online or offline. For me, I just pick the books that I want to read from my father's book shelve, He himself like to buy huge amount of books at one time and usually he just bought them when there is book festival like 'Big Bad Wolf'. For the genre, he like to buy motivational books because he need to keep on improving his networking. If you want to borrow books from me, just let me know. I can just steal from my father's shelves and give it to you.(Hehehe..I'm serious)

-Through those who have experience
   Try to take an initiative to talk to those who have succeed or more experience so that you will not make the same mistake that they had felt before. If you ask politely or treat them as friends, they also will treat you like friends. My boss use to say that, never be afraid to ask question that you do not know about even if you will be scold, because you will learn a lot by asking question to improve your own basic knowledge. When your basic knowledge is strong, the difficult and advance problem can be settle and maybe you can develop your own trick to easily solve it.

-Through your own experience
  This is a time consuming learning process because for every steps that you take, sometimes it will try to push you back to square one rather than push you forward but the lesson that you learn will be priceless. If you decided to take this approach, please set one thing in your heart first before anything else which is the determination to keep on standing back up again after each fall. If your determination is brittle and fragile, I suggest you to avoid this approach and just take above approach. This approach only suitable for those who are risk taker only.

You can choose any of these approaches you find suit for you and either way you just need to keep on improving your knowledge until you are confident with your knowledge. Please be remind, just focus only on one particular thing that you wanted to know and for example. marketing. So, you must try to learn as much as possible about marketing, then try to keep on develop improvement until your knowledge become the one that everyone else willing to pay to learn it from you.

For my schoolmate, we usually says this state is 'Moksha' state which means the most powerful person. Even the true meaning of this word is that your position is the same as god, but what I want to point out here is that keep on learning and develop your skills until no one else can beat the shit out of you. When you have beat your competitor, you can easily put the price for your product or service. From this point on wards, those who want to learn your knowledge surely willing to pay any amount that you demanded and that is the ultimate level of knowledge that you should have.

Actually, my idea for this entry was too many and if I continue to write, even until tomorrow it will not be done anf if I the time to write a new entry, I will write the second part for this topic. I think this type of entry is just nice for you to read and ponder about it and lastly, keep on seeking knowledge and keep on develop your skill until you reach "Moksha" level of knowledge.

May Peace be Upon You
May Peace be Upon You

For this week, I am going to share one knowledge that can be apply to all of those who are working either with government or private sector that earn fixed amount of wage on how to manage their salary by divided it into several part. This knowledge actually come from the books that I have been reading since early of this month. This knowledge is only applicable to those who are still single and for the married one, you can still use this knowledge but you may need to adjust some of the figure that I am going to share with according to your compatibility.

Usually within one week after receive your paycheck each month, almost 70%-80% of it had gone and you did not know when and where had it gone. So before you wasted your money, here's what you need to do to keep track your money flow and stay away from over spend. For this explanation, I will use the average salary for fresh graduated worker which is RM 2,000 after deducting EPF and Socso. What you need to do is you need to divide your salary into several portion or percentage. For me myself, I divided my salary into 7 portion which are

  1. 50% of salary for saving which means RM 1000 will be use for saving. What you are going to do with this money is up to you, either let it stays in your bank account or you can invest it. if you choose to invest it, you can invest it in unit trust or in gold. You can pick whichever you want that suit your desire. For the married one, you may need to lower this percentage as you may need to use more on spending for your family.
  2. 22.5% for daily spend which means RM 450 will be use for your daily expenditure including petrol, food, car loan and other stuff that you need to pay each month. If possible, try to lower your food consumption in term of snack. Even snacks price are cheap, but that is optional and you can choose not to consume it as it is unhealthy and wasteful of money. For those who are married, this portion need to be a lot bigger as you need to support your family food and need.
  3. 10% for charity which means RM 200 will be use for donating. You may lower or remove this portion if you think that charity is not important for you. Based on Islam point of view, the money you give to charity is your money and the money in your pocket is not entirely your money and probably it is someone else money. The more you give charity, the more you will get.
  4. 5% for travel which means RM 100 will be use to travel to your dream place. This does not mean that each month you will use this money for travel but this is the amount you need to save if you want to travel locally or abroad to loose you joint and escape from work stress for once a year. Let say you start saving the travel money from January to December, then at the end of each year you can use RM 1200 for travelling to whichever place that you want. If you are planning to go abroad, I'm suggesting this portion to be a lot bigger as the Malaysia currency now is still very low compare to US dollar.
  5. 5% for networking which means RM 100 will be use to established your networking either with your friends or coworker. This portion is very important if you are doing part time job that require you to have big networking.
  6. 5% for miscellaneous which means RM 100 will be use for unexpected item such as replacing your home light bulb, your car maintenance or pills and medication for your health.
  7. 2.5% for books which mean RM 50 will be used to increase your knowledge. There is a saying said " Knowledge is more powerful than money". Just buy any books that can increase your knowledge in whatever aspect, be it in financial planning, self motivation or even cooking books. The more knowledge you have within you, the wiser you will be in making decision.
That is how you spend RM 2,000 efficiently without losing track where the money has lost to. All of these percentage are not fixed and you can modified it so that it can be suit to your situation. The most important thing is you must be discipline to follow your own percentage so that you will not over spend the money that you had been allocate. 

So, that is all for this long post and I hope it is beneficial and can be implemented to improve your future. Before I forgot, this is one thing to ponder where if you can use 1 month salary to support you for 2 month of living, then that's mean that you are over spend and you must reflect yourself and change it before it is too late. 

May Peace be Upon You
May Peace Be Upon You

From this day onward, I decided to share to all of you what I had learn from my weekly meeting with several peoples who are eager enough to achieve 6 digit income  within 2 or 3 years, may Allah ease. I had been attending this weekly meeting since the start of this year and I hope my determination will not fade and keep on continue until I had reach my goal. So if I have the time to share it using the this blog, I will try my best to deliver it as exact as the knowledge that I received.

So the first knowledge that I wanted to share is the 'Success  Formula' which can be apply in any aspect of our life, start from salary, to ideal body shape/ health and also to our worship towards Allah. The formula are very simple which is

S + A = O

S = SITUATION , A = ACTION , O = OUTCOME

Situation  is a constant environment which you do not have the power to change it while Action is the actual work that you can do to receive the O or outcome. Here's an analogy that I can give to improve your understanding. Let say there are 2 businessman that sell the same product. called Uncle A and Uncle B. At first, both starts their business  but the location of store for uncle A is in rural area while for uncle B the store is in town. As you can see the situation  for uncle A was pretty bad and I decided to give mark for uncle A is 2 points, while for uncle B the mark is 5 point.

Let say at the beginning for their own business, both give the same amount of work or in this case I denoted it as A=action. So both uncle get the same value which is 5 points. Now let's go through this formula:

Uncle A : S = 2, A= 5 then the outcome will be 7. Next,
Uncle B : S= 5,  A=5 then the outcome will be 10.

At the beginning of their business, uncle B profit will be much higher than uncle A and he decided that it is enough for him to just stay maintain this way where as uncle A profit is much less and he was determined to keep on improving his work to keep his store much more well known. So after 2 years, due to improvement of each year that was did by uncle A to expand his business, his marks for Action now are 10 points whereas for uncle B it is still the same as 2 years ago and unfortunately his situation keep on decreasing due to competition from others which makes his situation, S= 3.

Again let's look at the formula

Uncle A: S = 2, A = 10. O = 12
Uncle B: S = 3, A = 5, O = 8

Now as you can see, income for uncle A is much higher compare to uncle B and probably uncle A will keep on earning more due to his spirit on improving his work while uncle B will keep on falling behind if he did not change the way he works. This is only for 2 years interval and what can happen in the next 8 years? Nobody knows what will happen unless you, yourself takes an initiative to change your future life. There is a saying which state that 'The result of the future depends on you work on now' and nobody can stop you to achieve you dream if you believe it and keep on improving yourself.

This is proven formula that was keep by the car manufacturer 'TOYOTA' which had dominate the world of automotive because they keep on improving their effort and performance without looking back. Even though there is a fierce competition from other car manufacturer, they still can stand high and mighty against others. That is all for this entry and I hope this not so valuable knowledge can be used by others to keep improving their life.

May Peace Be Upon You
May Peace be Upon You

Wow, it February already. I thought I wanted to post 1 entry in January but I am too lazy to do that and unfortunately my weekends was always full of event. So this post is going to be the summary of January 2016.


  1. I suffered Shingles for almost 3 weeks and right now the wound still wont heal completely. If you want to know how to recover fast from this virus, you just need to go to the pharmacy and request a cream for shingles. With these cream, within weeks the rash will dried up.
  2. My own laptop had drown. Probably due to my carelessness, half of 1.5 liter bottle of water had been poured onto my lovely red laptop. To make in worst, the laptop was inside the bag and the bag act like a water tank where it store all the water and let my laptop drown in it for about 30 minutes. So I need to reassemble all the parts and dried them completely by wipe and sun bath for 2 days before assemble them back. Luckily it run fine just like before it drown.
So that is all for now, later I will update numerous pictures of my brand new desktop that was custom built to fill my lust of playing DOTA.

May Peace be Upon You
May Peace be Upon You

As the year 2015 begin to close it's curtain, the new year of 2016 starts to emerge bringing a new hopes and dreams for those who works to earn it. This entry will mark as the end of 2015, and hereby I will stated my next year resolution.

  1. I will settle all my debts in term of financial statement.
  2. Helps the poor
  3. Improve my car
  4. Travel a lot
  5. Find a new side income
I think these 5 items is enough and achievable before the end of the year.

May Peace be Upon You
May Peace be Upon You

Since yesterday, I've been thinking whether it is wise to put a music playlist or not because I need to consider that some of you might dislike it but today I have decided that only 3 songs will be use for the time being as an experimental purpose. If you ever wondered what is the song that I had choose, here's the name of the title and artist :
  1. Unintended by Muse (band)
  2. Buat Sang Puteri by Spider (band)
  3. Let's not Fall in Love by Big Bang (group singer)
All above songs are a slow pace songs that I intentionally choose because I like the way gives me a calm , harmony and comfort feeling. If you dislike the song due to any reasons, you can either pause it or turn down the volume. All this step can be done on the playlist at the most top of the blog.

If I have enough determination in the future, I will change the songs and also the layout of the playlist to suit with the style of my blog. Other than that, I will probably change the HTML code for this layout so that it will appeared more simple and attractive. So that's all for now.

May Peace be Upon You
May Peace be Upon You



I just want to share one thing that is for some people it maybe an old story but for me,
it is a whole new story because why?
because I just got a new perfume named '1 Million' which is the same company that produce
'Black XS' that I bought last month.

In 2008, this fragrance had been denoted as the fragrance of the year and still famous until now.
I think the company had made a fortune through this product alone. So let me describe how
 does this fragrance actually smell:

1. It has fresh smell like the ocean
2. It has light smell like a flower
3. No powdery smell
4. Not to strong but not to soft fragrance
 and for me it smell calm and gentlemen
probably a bit smell of mints but without the stings.

For me personally, I really like the smell.
and if compare to Black XS, this one is cheaper.
If compare in term of quantity over price for 30 ml of Black XS, 
the price would be RM 150 while for 30 ml of 1 Million,
the price would be RM 84 only. So it is very worth to buy 1 Million.
For those who love soft smell, this should be one of your possession.

May Peace be Upon You
May Peace be Upon You

Such a simple sign board but attractive

This is the first time that I know my home town got a hipster cafe that only took me 10 minutes to get there. Before we go to my personal opinion, let me rephrase the meaning of 'Hipster'. According to google translate, hipster means a person who follows the latest trends and fashions and that only applicable to a person and not to a stall or shop or a restaurant. According to several anonymous philosopher, hipster cafe means the foods and drinks that serve at a hipster cafe taste like average economical stall or worse but the price charge is too damn high which means it is not value for money but just a way to spend money relentlessly.

For menu, you need to take a look at this banner 

a little bit of nostalgic here

Lets move on to the actual subject of this entry which is 'Akar Lima' or for kedahan we normally called 'Akaq Lima' using our dialect. For me, this cafe is under the hipster cafe category due to several reasons:

  1. The decoration and items around cafe are unique and full of nostalgic view.
  2. The dish serve can be classifies as tasty and appetizing.
  3. The majority are western food.
  4. Has it's own identity and signature dish
Chicken griiled, the taste was superb and perfectly marinate

Carbonara spaggeti with a branch of ulam raja or known as cosmos caudatus

Before heading towards the cafe, I have read some of the blogs that more or less elaborate about the cafe where the way they describe the cafe was too grand. Probably my expectation is too high so that is why I get a little upset after have a taste there but if you want to enjoy you dinner with village surrounding, then this is a perfect spot for you to dine but for me, I just want to be more objective in term of value for money and there is much more cafe around Kulim that have almost the same taste with more affordable price. Every cafe got its own good and bad points and it is up to you which one that you want to choose.
May Peace be Upon You
May Peace be Upon You

black and white like yin and yang like me and you..

Last weekend was undeniably full of excitement because I went shopping for some dishware with remarkably cheap price at one of the company near my working place called Miyao Toki. I assume this main company was from Japan because I can see some of probably the managers here are mostly Japanese. Banzai!!!

Throughout the year, they usually conduct a sales promotion once for every two to three month to sell their dishware. Their main product mostly are made from ceramic and as you all know ceramic can withstand high temperature, so the dishware are microwaveable. Other than that, their product cover from small item such as dip sauce plate to a big pot with unreasonably cheap price.

Usually they held this promotion for consecutively 4 days and the for last day, all the dishware become even cheaper than other days. On the other hand, the main attraction for this promotion was their happy hour event where all the dishware are usually half or quarter compare to the usual price. Let say a mug usually cost RM 8, so for this happy hour the price is only RM 2 each. The items sold during happy hour are separate from normal sales and the number of each product are limited, so you can imagine the situation is like black friday sales done by Walmart. With so many people wanted over limited amount of items, only the best will get many items compare to others.

As for me with developed skills through countless encounter with human being wave, it is like take a candy from a baby to get what I want. For a pile of mug containing about 300 pieces, i can easily get 50 pieces from it. I can take even more than that but greedy wont take you anywhere (Malay proverbs) which means do not be greedy, or you will suffer from an after effect. My hunting of dishware for 2 consecutive days, I manage to get 20 pieces of mugs, 10 pieces of plates and 2 sets of small pots. All these items just worth RM 100 for myself. and for my aunts, I managed to get them 50 pieces of mug and 3 sets of small pots worth RM 160 only.

For promotion conducted throughout the years, my target is just to spend maximum RM 100 on every single promotion so that when I am moving out from my parents house, I already got plenty of dishware and I will not be bother about not having enough dishware.

Lastly, all my thanks towards my siblings who willingly joined my quest to bought luxurious dishware with unthinkable cheap prize. 

May Peace be Upon You
May Peace be Upon You

Last weekend was an unforgettable moment that had knocked me out relentlessly (dush3!) where it had tested my mind and body to the limit where i had trapped in a traffic jam. Instead of 3 hours journey, it became 6 hours journey all thanks to the traffic light.

This is the first time in my life where almost 90% of the traffic light have more than 99 seconds waiting time and can you imagine that at all traffic light you need to wait for that much time for every 500 m freaking road. Actually i was on my way to my friend wedding feast, so I left the house around 10 in the morning, and i arrive at her's wedding around 4 in the evening. Luckily I went out early that day, and if I had depart an hour late surely I'm gonna miss the feast,

What are the things that make me feel so angry is the attitude of irresponsible drivers that are so selfishly drive with no concern of others. They just jump the queue through the emergency lane and sometimes using the opposite lane. This kind of behavior not only dangerous to themselves but also towards other drivers. I don't know by how much had I swear to them which ultimately make my deeds became less and less. If I I had a grenade by my side that moment,  surely I'll be pleasure to throw one into each car with a villain laugh..muaaahahahaha

On the bright side, I learnt that I need to plan every single thing if I want to reach to my destination on time especially during school break by reviewing which road I should take, estimate how long does it take for a single trip and prepare food supply beforehand in case to traffic jam. Lastly, for those that I had swore I'm very sorry about that.

May Peace be Upon You
May Peace be Upon You

Unlike any other country that have 4 seasons of weather throughout the year which is Spring, Fall, Summer and Winter seasons, Malaysia also got 4 seasons that happen every year which is travel season during school break, fruits season where you can eat as many types of fruits with low price, raining season particularly on eastern side and lastly wedding season where sometimes in 1 day, you got too many invitations up to 5 wedding feast. Usually when I get too many invitation, I only go to several of them and depend on the closeness between us. If I barely know him or her, probably I'll skip it.

Back then when I am still a student, I rarely went to my friends wedding feast due to restriction of money, time and willingness. Also the venue was too far as my university like a far far away kingdom from my hometown. Next, I did not have an appropriate transport to go to the wedding feast because all I have was my mushy pushy motorcycle with 100cc engine. But after finished with my study, I am willing to go to my friends wedding even they did not invite me to their wedding or the venue was astoundingly distant.

The desire to go to the wedding feast is only for one reason and that is to have mini gathering with my friends either from my school's year or my university's year. After graduating, we seldom contact between each other as everybody else was busy with their working life or pursuing their studies. When we get to meet each other, surely my mouth can't stop laughing until my heart's content. With all the throwback memory, surely all we can do is laugh at it as the moment already pass long time ago. Other than that, we still making fun of each other and I am completely sure that no one between us is affected by the mockery. 

Lastly, I am very sorry to those who I did not managed to attend their wedding feast even it was intentionally but I hope all of you will come to my wedding when the time's come and in my expectation, that moment will happen around 3 or 4 years from now. So you got plenty of time to prepare the gifts for my wedding feast.

May Peace be Upon You
May Peace be Upon You

After the 3D art museum, we went back to homestay to replenish our energy after all those exciting moment. On the way back to homestay, we had our lunch at Ikan bakar restaurant near the place that we had our breakfast that morning. The grilled fish was superbly appetizing and the taste was freakingly fresh and delicious. That evening after some rest, we went for a shopping at Jalan Pandak Mayah where I bought an expensive perfume for the first time in my life at World of Perfume shop while my mother bought huge amount of chocolate at Haji Ismail Group's store. The prize was cheaper compare to typical store in the mainland. I also bought some chocolate for my office mate as a souvenir. That night, due to heavy downpour we just had our dinner at HIG food court and then went back to tidy ourselves before went to bed.

Actually this is female perfume, but I love light smell rather than strong smell

Last Day:
Waking up with the clear sky and a sunny day, it sure is a good day to spend all the time left at Langkawi island doing some outdoor activity and we decided to visit Kilim Geoforest Park. It only takes 30 minutes to reach the destination and as always we had our breakfast before going in. Fortunately, the owner of the stall that we had our breakfast give the contact number of her relative and we get some discount for a sight seeing around the park that took around 2 hours on a boat.

Within 2 hours, we get to tour around Gunung kelawar (Bat's Cave) but I did not managed to meet batman, Gua Buaya (Crocodile's Cave) where you can only enter the cave in the morning due to low tide, Eagle's spot where you get to see several type of eagle feed on chicken skin, Pulau Kasut (Shoe Island) where the shape of the island is similar to the shoe and also act a a border between Malaysia and Thailand and lastly photo session with Kilim Geoforest Park signboard.


Next, we went to Air Hangat to soak our feet in the natural hot spring pool. Many people said that natural hot spring are good for your health due to high minerals in it. A person who suffer paralysis usually come to cure or minimize the effect of this symptom. For the next 2 hours, we travel around the island to empty out our fuel's tank before going back to homestay to have our last lunch, After finished packing our luggage, we went straight to jetty due to time restriction. and finally we arrive at mainland around 6 pm.


Before went back to home, we had some laksa (white noodle) and it was one of the most famous laksa in Kuala Perlis. The taste was quite funny and strange for the first bite because it taste completely different from typical laksa that I had taste before but after several bites, the taste become more stunningly delicious. Lastly, we went home with a happy emotion and memory.



I hope my next vacation will be more fantastic and filled with much more joyful memory.

May Peace be Upon You
May Peace be Upon You

As long as I can remember my family never ever manage to completely prepare any plan or schedule if we want to go for a vacation because usually we just go when our heart says we should go. The same thing also happen to our latest vacation which is to Langkawi Island, the land that was cursed for 7 generations. I'm not sure about the curse, whether it is true or not is still a myth.



Day 1:
We board a ferry at Kuala Perlis Jetty at 6.00 pm to Kuah because my father got a meeting that ends at 4.30 pm. Luckily our relative are nearby the Jetty, so we seek their help to buy the ferry's ticket where they went to buy the tickets just after dawn due to festive season. After arriving at Kuah, we went to get our rental car which is 2 white colour Toyota Vios where 1 new model and the other one slighly older version. The new model belong to my father and I get the older car. Soon the day getting darker followed with the sound from the stomach getting louder, we went for a dinner at nearby restaurant that was suggested by our rental car dealer. The foods and drinks was amazingly delicious besides the price are also cheap. For 8 empty stomach, with only RM70.00 it can fill up all of us. Next, with joy and full stomach we went to our free accomodation that was sponsored by father's friend near the Langkawi Mall. That night, we went to sleep early because we got many things to do the next morning. and as I stare through the window to see the stars, the winds swiftly blows to my eyes and whistle my ears to let me fall into sleep.

Day 2:
We got up quite early and the preparation to go out took about 1 hour and 30 minutes because there is only one bathroom and we need to take turns to clean ourselves The gents usually only take around 7 minutes while the ladies took about 20 minutes to get ready. I am still wondering what did they do to take a long time to get ready. Nevertheless, we still manage to go to our first destination before 8 am. The reason why we need to go out early is because when I went to pay for the dinner that we had last night at the counter, the cashier told me that we need to get to the cable car counter before 9 am because many tourist will be there. We had our breakfast at a small town before arriving to the cable car places. Even though we arrived early, many tourist are already there queuing to bought the tickets to ride the longest cable car in Asia. The ticket's price are varies for foreigners and locals, also varies for each package that you choose. I bought the package to enter skycab, skydome and 6D animation ride with  RM32 per adult. For those who loves nature, it is an exciting yet calm moment to be experience.

In my opinion, it is a good alternative to relieve stress from daily work apart from appreciate the miraculous creation created by our god. There is only one thing that I despised about the management here is when they trick the tourist or customer that come here by forcing them to take a picture with their duck mascot and charge them with high prices for an A4 size picture without any notice beforehand. I think this is a scheme for the management to acquire more income but the way they carry the job is inhuman and selfish.

Next when we got off from the cable car ride, we enter the 6D cinema in which for me not very interesting experience and pretty lame. First, the spectacle was too big and easily slide under the nose. Second, the movement of the chair does not synchronize with the projection. Third, the movie  story line was boring and not adventurous at all. Maybe I'm a bit sarcastic but I hope the ride can be as good as shrek 6D ride in Universal Studio Singapore in term of graphic, sound and synchronize chair movement.

After that, we move on to 3D art muzium where the art was painted by about 30 persons from around the globe. The fee was RM32 per adult but if you are resident of Kedah state, you'll get a discount and the fee become RM20 per adult. For the first time I am thankful to be a resident of Kedah state of all my entire life.

The handkerchief is on the table or under the table? 

This photos appears to move but actually your eyes have trick you 



For those who love photography, this is one of the place that you must enter because the art was diligently painted to give 3D effect on photos taken from a camera view. I think this entry is long enough so i will continue the blabbering of Langkawi trip in the next entry

May Peace be Upon You
May Peace be Upon You

During the festival of Hindu's believer which is last tuesday,
 I take an opportunity to take a break from work 
and go on a vacation with my family for 3 days and 2 nights at Langkawi island.

With almost all my siblings are on holiday, so
we decided on the spot to go to Langkawi due to several reasons
First, it is the nearest spot to go. Second, we can get a place to stay for free while at the island
and we can go shopping for some chocolate and perfumes due to duty free price.

For all the detail and picture from the vacation will be
in the next entry as I am too lazy to write about it now.

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