The Baby Elephant Syndrome

cute baby elephant syndrome

Hi, here's a quick one.

I need to start doing my assignments and catching up to my studies. I just hate it when I spent too much time on having dinner with my guys. No offence, but it's kinda waste of time sometimes. 2 hours for dinner every night, sigh...there are truckloads of works to do..

Anyway, have u guys heard about "baby elephant syndrome"? My Electronics 2 lecturer, Dr. Marinah brought it up this morning in her lecture. Quite a good thing to share :) So, have u guys heard about it?

No? lemme explain.

Imagine a circus, the usual fun fare we have around. In there, lived a baby elephant. This baby elephant has been living in captivity since it was born. During the captivity, it is tied to a small tree with a thin rope every night. Due to its nature to roam free, instinctively the baby elephant tried with all its might to break the rope but it wasn't strong enough at the time to do so. For years it tried and tried until at some point, it realized its efforts are of no use and it finally gave up and stopped struggling. After that point, the baby elephant never tried again for the rest of its life.

Years later when it grew bigger, it was still tied to the same small tree with the same thin rope. It could easily free itself by uprooting the tree or breaking the rope but because its mind has been fully conditioned by its prior experiences, it never made the slightest attempt.

Poorly, the powerful gigantic elephant has limited its own present abilities based on its thought on its limitation of the past - the Baby Elephant Syndrome.

yes yes yes

We, as human can be exposed to the same condition except for one thing - we could choose to re-discover our own abilities and believe in ourself and break free from our thoughts on the limitation of the past. Be honest to yourself, when we put our mind into it, there are many things we might have wished to do in the past but at that time, we were limited by external factors of some kind. We stumble into things in daily life and for a few seconds, we wanted to do something. Seconds later, comes the thought "...I can't do this because in the past.." - you realize you have been in the similar situation in the past. That's it.

Now that you have heard about the Baby Elephant Syndrome, take some time to find out your list of reasons why you are not having or doing what you want.

Are any of them merely excuses rather than legitimate reasons?
Is any of them just an elephant rope holding you back?

P/S : It's an analogy used by Dr. Marinah to persuade us to realize that Electronics subject wasn't that difficult. That's true. It is not naturally difficult, you see. But, when we don't study...

hey

The girl with the white black scarf,

I know you'll be reading this.

I'm telling you, my past is the past. I have moved far away from them.

Trust me.

At least, try. I know, it's gonna be difficult. Hang on there.

You know me better than anyone right now, I'm sure of that :)

and thanks. I'll give you more. Promise.

Sorry

I'm sorry. I am. I'll work it out okayy.

Dah la.

Not in the mood. Esok la sambung electronics. Not that I did anything pon tonight. Aiya.

Kenapa takut sangat ni? :(

Old but still awesome

If you are a fan of old Malay movies like me, you would probably know this song. I was heartlessly doing my electronics assignment when it hits me, why do some people would chase antiques over the new modern stuff? Why eh?

Well, my 2 cents do not constitute the world's opinion but to me, it's kinda like the same way I feel about this song.

It feels "nostalgic". It brings some kinda feeling of "peace". It makes me wonder how the people in those era feeling about how good the song was, about the way it's played, about the way the singers sang it, about anything at all related to those people's perceptions towards the song. And I can't help to think that those people must have loved the song. And when I think about that, I can't help but to love the songs too.

Try imagine the same kinda song played by a decent modern young singer. Not the same feeling, eh?

Random ramblings, my bad. Now, what the heck is h-parameters?

Do I believe?

Senang2 jadi heartless je kan?

I'm not sure what to think after last night, really. All what she said were true. Well, because all of that is from her point of view. She feels mad when I said I love her because she thinks that I'm just making it up and trying to be romantic with her. I guess she feels like being cheated on. She said all the words of love coming from me is the same thing that coming from me when I was in love with my ex before and thus, it is nothing special.

It hurts hearing that from her.

But I never cheated on expressing my love to them. And  I'm most certainly not fooling around with her. I am just being as honest to her as I am to my ex before. Heck, they are the one who taught me to be honest with my feelings.

About what's she doing.......I'm not sure if I can live with that. I mean, this are the little things that perhaps I shouldn't be worried about. But...what if from these little things, I can see the way she really is and have a change in heart? Ya Allah. All I'm holding on to is this straight-forward optimistic thought of mine. Yes, I'm not sure to even call this "trust". But if this is trust, I am definitely gonna hang on to it.

What am I thinking? what should I do? I have no idea.

After all, there's only one thing in my mind though. I would probably never again be crossing path with someone as awesome as her. Life have taught me to appreciate what I currently have. Life taught me if I want something so much, I should work for it.

And trust me, this is one of the most wonderful thing that ever happened to me since years.

I really really wanna work this out.

Love you, pancake :)

Merry Xmas 2010

An attempt to create a snow angel

The holidays are here. There are Christmas decorations in almost every window. It's freezing outside and the huge amounts of snow is glittering in the sunlight. The park is all white. Snowmen are everywhere. People are throwing snowballs. It's not just another day in London.

When I was a kid, I've always thought that celebrating Christmas means celebrating a Christian's festival. It kinda feels like I'd be part of them, part of the religion. Well, why not. At that time, all I know is that Christmas Day is a Christian holiday celebrated on Dec the 25th every year to commemorate the birth of Jesus Chris. Celebrating it would make me conflicting against my faith as a Muslim. To me, celebrating Christmas was wrong.

But that was then.

After two years in London, I kinda understand now how those people feel about Christmas. Some practicing Christians are really honoring the birth of Jesus. While for some, celebrating Christmas is not really about participating in the religious traditions. It's a great day to spend with their family and friends. It's just the way we Muslims celebrate our Eid. Friends and family. Great foods. Chats and laughters.

While being particular with what we do in relation to our faiths is good, rejecting everything that sometimes actually bring good is not. That's what I think. Ah well.

Merry Xmas. Ho - ho.

Arduino

Been looking around to land my hands on some actual electronics devices outside the lab and I found this.

Arduino Uno

I want one! RM175.00 Anyone wanna give me this as a gift? :D

Midterm exam finished

It's my 4th semester here in MMU and everything is just fine. Alhamdulillah :-)

The Electronics 2 test we had just now was pretty bad, haha. But lets face it, no hard work, no gain.

Today was awesome. Because I spent the entire 12 hours with an awesome girl. No, not a date, not yet. We were studying, really. And that what makes today really special, kinda.

She's awesome. I wish I could let her feel what I'm feeling now.

comeback

Kinda busy now. Just to put a note : All headers are not linked correctly for now. Will fix them later.


Fixed. and now with my bro's pc, I can start writing again. Yessss! :D