GOOD LUCK!

1. transactional and transformational leaders

2. charismatic leadership

3. leadership and management

4. leadership styles

EID MUBARAQ!

Happy eid mubaraq!

SEMESTER BREAK

Salam. Some blogs have posted entry saying that UiTM Shah Alam is closed for one week starting next week. This is not quite true.

UiTM Shah Alam isnt actually ‘closed’. It is actually ’semester break’ for the whole system and only meant for the students.

For the purpose of coordinating the whole system nation-wide (since 4 of the university’s campuses are currently ‘closed’), UiTM has decided to bring forward the semester break which was initially scheduled approximately in 2 more weeks.

Cheers.

HISTORY & PROGRESS

"THE reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man"

- (G. Bernard Shaw).

Must we ask further why history needs to be re-interpretated over and over again?

AS IT IS INDEED

I was with a group of technical people from an agency this morning. We spent the whole morning talking about National Development Plan; from the General Development Plan of Malaya (1956) to RM9. It was a fruitful morning indeed. Jaafar, Fauzi and Thiru to name a few, were simply great. At one moment, we mentioned "Bob", an old friend of mine during our college days back in MU Lembah Pantai, simultaneously. P.S dont ask me about how good the food at the hotel was. I didnt bother.

My apologies to a close friend "Arr" for not being able to reply messages the whole morning. In fact, i have not been replying the messsages at all since yesterday. I chose not to. Give me some time to reflect on a few issues that have been bugging me these few days.

It is not everyday that we get the impression that all fingers are pointing at us for something that we do not really clear of what actually is going on. Thus, we keep on asking questions, until we realise that the time has come to stop figuring out the reasons why. Never mind. Leave it as it is.

DO YOU STILL REMEMBER?

Do You Still Remember

Do you still remember
The moment
I placed a beautiful flower
In your hair

Do you still remember
It is a dream
That you will never forget
Do you still remember

Do you still remember
How we never stopped looking
For that elusive rainbow
How we finally got drenched in the rain
Do you still remember
Do you still remember

Do you still remember
That beautiful flower
In the palm of my hand
How it wilted

So I held on to it tightly
And it turned to dust
You will never forget it

Do you still remember

SINISTER - A RE-VISIT

1.Feudalism
You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.

2.Pure Socialism
You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. You have to take care of all the cows. The government gives you all the milk you need.

3.Bureaucratic Socialism

Your cows are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and eggs the regulations say you should need.

4.Fascism

You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and sells you the milk.

5.Pure Communism
You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of them, and you all share the milk.

6.Real World Communism

You share two cows with your neighbors. You and your neighbors bicker about who has the most "ability" and who has the most "need". Meanwhile, no one works, no one gets any milk, and the cows drop dead of starvation.

7.Militarianism
You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.

8.TotalitarianismYou have two cows. The government takes them and denies they ever existed. Milk is banned.

9.Pure Democracy

You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk.

10.Representative Democracy
You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk.

11.BureaucracyYou have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.

12.Pure Anarchy

You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to take the cows and kill you.

13.Pure CapitalismYou have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.

14.Capitalism

You don't have any cows. The bank will not lend you money to buy cows,because you don't have any cows to put up as collateral.

15.Political Correctness

You are associated with (the concept of "ownership" is a symbol of the phallo centric, war mongering, intolerant past) two differently - aged (but no less valuable to society) bovines of non-specified gender.

SLOW DOWN?

Slow down, take it easy. "Rome wasn't built in a day." Impatience is one of the killers of enduring success. We are different, so why bother about looking or even fighting for similarities? Can't we just appreciate the differences and treasure the journey of our own until patience becomes a fixation?

I chose not to hate politics.

ANIMAL FARM

1. Che Det puts it reasonably well. Language is not all about language per se.

2. He says, "Yang boleh meningkatkan taraf dan kemajuan bahasa ialah matapelajaran bahasa itu sendiri dan diperingkat yang lebih tinggi mata pelajaran sastera."

3. Again, this is about making choices. While some people feel that PSMI should be re-visited, there are indeed many people prefer the policy to stay put.

4. I opt to stay put.

Perak, again

There is a clear indication that something is happening in Perak. The public at large is waiting for an official statement which is believed to have been released by the authority this afternoon.

perak

The Nasaruddin's case is disturbing. Why? Because it involves one of the states that holds/portrays precious historical glimpses. I love perak because its where I come from. I wish that whatever is happening there at the moment is only temporary. Politics is not all about speculating and strategizing. There are many ways of getting to the end means. It is about the "people" who are entrusted to preserving the state of harmony of the polity system by not acting God.

idle

Dear all, this blog will be left idle until further notification. I will however, read - and respond, if it is necessary - messages that come in. Thank you.