the late effect.

i have always hated people who are late for appointments. this explains why i dislike being late for any scheduled appointments.

let me explain why.

when an individual does things slowly, it does not affect only to him/herself. it affects dozen of other people around that person. don't get me wrong. i have no problems with people who do things on a slow pace because he/she is not capable to do it fast or when it does not affect other people.

it is only a problem when a person does things slow because they 'feel' like it and it affects people. let me give you an example; a person decides to get ready slowly by lazing around, walking extremely slow and doing tonnes of unnecessary things before actually getting ready to fulfill the promised time of appointment.

then, when he/she actually gets into his/her car, he/she decides to take his/her own sweet time to turtle his/her way to the destination eventually resulting being late.

to many, it does not seem like a problem. but let us see where the time leakages are.

if this person is meeting 4 people, it means these 4 people's time are wasted. and it does not just stop there. due to the slow paced driving, it slows the traffic down. let just say he's slowing 4 cars down around him, these 4 cars which are being slowed down are slowing other cars down. so, if one car slows 4 cars, 4 cars would be slowing 16 cars (4x4=16). imagine the other 16 cars slowing other cars as well? (16x64x?xgoes on). he might even have created an after-office-hours jam!

okay, back to the initial 4 people that he's meeting. lets say 4 of them have errands to run after the meeting. i shall name these 4 people A, B, C and D.

A: goes to a bank to bank in a cheque but found out that it just past the cut off time of the day (wednesday) and affecting the receiver not able to get the money by friday due to the 2-3 days of process time. he/she will only get it on monday.

B: goes to a post office to send a parcel over to the business partner but to find him in-line behind of a guy who decides to take his own sweet time to fill in a form which resulting a long queue (remember the x4 concept?)

C: rushes to meet his parents for dinner but to find himself stucked in jam by people who 'feel' like 'turtling' on the road. (again the 4x4 concept?)

D: rushes to a meeting with another 4 people. (okay, you get the point)

okay, this may sound like a ridiculous exaggerated example. that's because i have not talked about the slow paced employee in bank processing the people in line requests (example A), the person who takes 10 years to get his car parked congesting the carpark in post office (example B), the others who decide to crawl on the road and other entities with their time leakages that may play a part in those 4 daily lives.

in the real life society, there are too many entities that play a part in getting things moving. it is like a network that moves and it is inter-dependent. unlike the first block that crumble on a chain of blocks in domino effect, it is like a multi-domino series being dropped.

so next time when you decide to laze around for the couple of seconds/minutes or to service a person slowly whether in bank, restaurant or etc, think of the multiples of 4s people you're affecting.

you might be just affecting the country's development.

In chase of power, certain lose some basic values.

long ago, there was a concept borned in this world.

a state to be ruled by a government or domain known as kingdom.

the story of my kingdom starts off wrong from the very beginning. being lost and filled with insecurities, until now, i'm not sure whether it was a mistake..

in this nation, different people has different roles to play, different skillsets to offer to the society and different level of powers to delegate or control the minorities.

everything seems pretty simple and incomplex. everyone seems happy to be doing what they do daily, from commercialized business to planting own vegetables at the back of their houses.

people get along fine. of course, minor conflicts do happen around certain people but it wasn't such a big problem. maybe i was just too naive. and being as naive as me, i have a set of beliefs and principles in life that resolves around the words; harmony, respect and friendship.

after a decade passed, things were not how i saw it before. maybe it was there all along that i was just too naive to see it. well, during the process, i anticipated and predicted it would happen. but always hope it would never happen the way it did.

all sort of discrimination was brought on by the people in power including the king. Heck, even some learned and educated were discriminating the citizens by constantly looking down on the less-skilled ones. it was as though the word 'respect' did not exist in the dictionary.

they would impose ridiculous taxes to the lower-graded job related citizens, reward their favourite pets and ignore the calls and voices of the citizens.

of course, in all governments, there are some good generals. the problem with these generals is that they're always outnumbered by the bad ones. revelation is always harder to achieve by minorities some may say and it always been proved true, sadly.

they fight, they try and they struggle for the benefits of the citizen(s) but their voices are often suppressed by the people who sit in powers.

gamble.

how cliche is "life's a gamble"?

well, no matter how cliche it is, there is some truth in it.

my dear, you can not gamble on something hesitating and being afraid of losing. if situation forces you to make the bet, result solely depending on where the ball would fall on the roulette bowl, then so be it. have the courage to place the ante and hope for the best.



the result is not going to change if you hassle the croupier. the result is not going to change if you hesitate. and the result is not going to change even if you bet slowly.

at the end, you would either win or lose. and if situation forces you to place the bet, what is a better choice than to place it somewhere where the bet history favors you?

my love, do it with no regrets or pull out.

The Road.

Everyone has a road.

From time to time, we move along our road. Whether it's bumpy, curvy, smooth, packed or whatnot.

Not everyone or almost not everyone chooses the right road at the first attempt. Halfway through, some may change path, some may make a U-turn, or some may even stop trying.



For me, I've always lived with the concept of adapting to the road rather than finding the right road for me. So whenever i commit to a certain road, i will truly appreciate and try to take good care of it.

However, due to certain circumstances, i've changed roads few times in my life. All those times, i never wanted or was reluctant to do it. But, some of these roads that i've gone through has either abandon me or turned out to be un-drivable.

Some of these roads promised so much when i was at it. Being naive as i was, i really thought it was going to take me all the way.

It hurts so much when the road decides to come to a dead-end making me almost impossible to make a U-turn. It is almost like the situation we face when we're in a very narrow road trying to make hundreds of reverse-front movements to get the 3-point turn successful.

From now on, the road is not gonna decide my fate. Cos i'm gonna own the road, like i used to.

a series of traffic lights.

Have you ever come across the situation where you have to go through a series of traffic lights which turns yellow 100-200 meters upon reaching? The distance is just somehow not enough for you to push harder on accelerator and beat the lights. You have no choice but to stop and wait.

You wait 1-2 minutes patiently with the rest. Either mind drifting away, sipping a cup of coffee, looking around with a great deal of curiosity or maybe just counting away the seconds left.

So, green light. Great! Here we go again, the journey begins. You accelerate away. Just when you hit the optimum speed, you reach the next traffic light. It stops you by turning yellow 100-200 meters upon reaching again. The distance is just right at the point where you can not beat the light.

Again, you’re waiting for the 1-2 minutes.

The same sequence continues for the next few traffic lights ahead. There is when you just stop and wonder, “How nice would it be if I came out of my house 10 seconds earlier?”.

How often do we encounter that? Actually, this event has some similarities with life. In life, there will be hiccups along the way. These hiccups will always be packaged together and hit you at a period of time consistently. Just like the stops before each traffic light.

Hopefully, our sequence of traffic light stops will end soon and we may be able to go through a just-in-time-before-it-turns-yellow series of traffic lights again. You know why?




Cos that feeling is the greatest.

life outside.

Life's just on the downhill, rolling away.

The longer it rolls, the more speed it gathers.