Potentials

What makes you different from the others?

Did you ever take some time to analyze your potentials?

Did you ever take some time to think of ways to utilize these potentials?

How far have you pushed it?

and,

How frequent do you analye your weaknesses and put efforts in overcoming them?

Mistakes bound and intrinsically motivated, I am. And I shall be.


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Comedy

Renung-renungkan dan selamat beramal

Hi

I woke up to a good humorous video this morning posted by a friend on facebook. I'll post it here later. It was a compilation of videos of an actor making parodies of the famous Malaysian councellor, Mr. Fazilah Khamsah (my apology if I spelled it wrong).

It was quite funny, haha.



Just now, while browsing through a book trolly (you know, the trolly that the librarian asked people to put the books they read on, instead of putting them back straight to the shelves themselves - I have this habit of checking them out sometimes just to see if I could find anything interesting). So, I found this book entitled Comedy Writing Secrets by Melvin Helitzer.

My eyes caught this one liner;

Plagiarism : the unoriginal sin.
-Roy Peter Clark

I thought it was kinda cool. I know I can't come up with something like that. Creative people.

I had breakfast with a couple of good friends about an hour ago and one of them was talking about the book he's currently reading - something about a study on the successful people.

There's more to it, but in short, apart from efforts, there are many other reasons for one to become successful in one's particular field. Interestingly, the book sounds like these 'factors' are even more important than the efforts you put in. Be it wealth, physical condition, birthday, the connections to the people around - there are many kinds. And they were discovered statistically.

Being smart helps you, but being little less smart and having these right 'factors' helps you more.

Good thought.

 

Teh Tarik

I'm having a conversation with 2 creative friends over 2 teh tarik at Mak Teh.

10 years from now, if I still can remember what we talked about tonight then I am awesome.

On a seperate note, I've got one of the highest coursework marks for the subject Engineer and Society.

Yeay, I'm awesome.

P/s : Mengarut gila. Jangan tertipu. Jangan koya. Jangan perasan. Belajar Raf belajar!

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Shisha

I don't smoke and I don't do Shisha. The last time I smoke most probably during the primary school. This is a call for those who smoke and definitely for those who do Shisha.

To me, no it ain't cool. It's a waste of my money and bad for my lung.

none of the tests we did showed anything other than shisha is hazardous to health

LONDON, April 27 (Bernama) -- Smoking a shisha pipe is as bad for people as smoking tobacco, the Department of Health and the Tobacco Control Collaborating Centre has found, Qatar News Agency (QNA) reported Monday.

The research revealed that people who smoke shisha, or herbal tobacco, can suffer from high carbon monoxide levels.

It found one session of smoking shisha resulted in carbon monoxide levels at least four to five times higher than the amount produced by one cigarette. High levels of carbon monoxide can lead to brain damage and unconsciousness.

Shisha is a water-pipe in which fruit-scented tobacco is burnt using coal, passed through an ornate water vessel and inhaled through a hose.

The Department of Health said it is difficult to know exactly how much carbon monoxide one cigarette produced, due to the differences in smokers' inhalations.

But measuring carbon monoxide in exhaled breath showed a normal non-smoker's level to be three parts CO per million parts of air (ppm) (less than 1 per cent of blood not working properly), a light smoker to have 10 to 20 ppm (2 to 4 per cent of blood not working properly), and a heavy smoker 30 to 40 ppm (5 to 7 percent).

The study found shisha smokers had 40 to 70 ppm of CO in their breath - affecting 8 to 12 per cent of their blood.

Dr Hilary Wareing, director of the Tobacco Control Collaborating Centre, told the BBC's Asian Network she was shocked by the results of the research.

"Our mouths opened at the level of harm - none of the tests we did showed anything other than shisha is hazardous to health."

Paul Hooper, regional manager at the Department of Health, said the findings made the dangers of shisha a "major issue".

He said many people regard shisha "as not even smoking".

(Source : Bernama)

Copyrights, trademarks and patents

Found an interesting articles while doing my revision on Engineer and Society. Thought it's a good read.

Some people confuse patents, copyrights, and trademarks. Although there may be some similarities among these kinds of intellectual property protection, they are different and serve different purposes.

What Is a Copyright?

Copyright is a form of protection provided to the authors of "original works of authorship" including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works, both published and unpublished. The 1976 Copyright Act generally gives the owner of copyright the exclusive right to reproduce the copyrighted work, to prepare derivative works, to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work, to perform the copyrighted work publicly, or to display the copyrighted work publicly.

The copyright protects the form of expression rather than the subject matter of the writing. For example, a description of a machine could be copyrighted, but this would only prevent others from copying the description; it would not prevent others from writing a description of their own or from making and using the machine. Copyrights are registered by the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress.

What Is a Trademark or Servicemark?

A trademark is a word, name, symbol or device which is used in trade with goods to indicate the source of the goods and to distinguish them from the goods of others. A servicemark is the same as a trademark except that it identifies and distinguishes the source of a service rather than a product. The terms "trademark" and "mark" are commonly used to refer to both trademarks and servicemarks.

Trademark rights may be used to prevent others from using a confusingly similar mark, but not to prevent others from making the same goods or from selling the same goods or services under a clearly different mark. Trademarks which are used in interstate or foreign commerce may be registered with the Patent and Trademark Office. The registration procedure for trademarks and general information concerning trademarks is described in a separate pamphlet entitled "Basic Facts about Trademarks".

What Is a Patent?

A patent for an invention is the grant of a property right to the inventor, issued by the Patent and Trademark Office. The term of a new patent is 20 years from the date on which the application for the patent was filed in the United States or, in special cases, from the date an earlier related application was filed, subject to the payment of maintenance fees. US patent grants are effective only within the US, US territories, and US possessions.

The right conferred by the patent grant is, in the language of the statute and of the grant itself, "the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling" the invention in the United States or "importing" the invention into the United States. What is granted is not the right to make, use, offer for sale, sell or import, but the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, selling or importing the invention.

(Source : Lawmart)

Let bygone be bygone

Actually I'm not really sure if that is grammatically correct. Not gonna check it out now :P

Opportunity cost. Picking an option meaning letting go the others of 'some' value. A very simple term, yet carries deep meaning. I like it. Too bad it's economic's.

Exam is just around the corner, very close, in less than 2 weeks. I'm not even at 20% done with the preparation. God bless me.

Consciously realizing that there has been little time I spent on having thoughts on you, Almighty, is giving me a deep sense of guiltiness. I'm all yours and I always will be.

Life is treating me good. Family are far, but close, and it has been 2 months. Friends are around and enemies, well, not that I know of  :) Nurul is somewhere out there. There were times when I wondered if she's okay. Lets be honest, I have moved on. I appreciated you friends who asked me to put more efforts in this, I really do, but I'm not doing it. Not for her good. I saw her a couple of times this week and I was sure I don't miss her anymore. The other thing I know is I was wooing at that one cute chick next to her :D (Cocu. Dancing Performance, a few days ago, Indoor Court). Ahh....life's fun.

I really need to continue downloading the past years, why the heck am I blogging?

To Radzi, Selamat Maju Jaya. Majulah jejaka untuk negara. Kudos on completing your degree. (Read this again after the graduation, your welcome)

p/s : I make the blog public again. Hate the re-login thing..haihh.

Sape rase dia hebat?

Tiba2, tengah2 buat keje, kol 6:31 AM, Adhwa tanya aku : "Ko rase dalam banyak2 tempat kat MMU tu, kat mana yang orang rasa dia hebat?"

Aku jawab : "Entah. Aku...ko....entah".

WTF??