Saturday, 3 December 2011

The truth is...

... tomorrow never comes.

I was an avid fan of football. Very much enjoying every time I had the opportunity to juggle with the football. Until I got into second year of university, finally fulfilled the requirement of using the reason "I'm too busy because of schoolwork", and I let it go. My body that was once strong and fit, was then a history of mine.

I realized tomorrow never comes. We always, always give ourselves excuses of not doing something. At the end of the day we would always regret of not doing something and get annoyed with rhetorical "what-if" questions.

"I wish I have 48 hours a day!"
I have heard this way too often from friends. The truth is, a 48-hour day doesn't necessarily gets you finish your tast any faster. You still spends about 25 minutes for cooking your rice.

Moving forward, I need to organize my life. Procrastination is what I think my biggest roadblocks towards a well-managed and balanced life. I have started working-out, getting on to a more regular study sessions, and of course, dedicated a considerable amount of my effort in my job.

Tomorrow never comes. Today is the day!

Friday, 18 November 2011

The blog

When I first started to think about resuming my habit of writing (a blog, journal, or what-so-ever), I was puzzled. Not that I don't know what to write, but I don't know how to name my blog. As silly as it sounds, it's the exact same reason that puzzled many fresh mothers who have just gave birth to the apple of their eyes.

For whatever reason I could and could not explain, I had a muse of using this number, 361. Not particularly a visually pleasant set of combination, nor that it's a ground-breaking, jaw-dropping constant from a rocket scientist. It's a number correctly reflects the intention and objective, the contents and topics, the soul and blood, and the bread and butter, of this blog.

To start the explanation about 361, you should have a circle in mind and one thin straight line at the horizontal position drawn from the top edge of circle to the centre of circle.

And now as you start reading the following paragraph just imagine an apple pie is growing from that thin line to one piece of pie, and eventually to a full cycle of pie.

Any angle less than 90 degrees is called an “acute angle”, at 90 degrees it is called “right angle”, greater than 90 but below 180 degree is called “obtuse angle”, 180 degree is called “straight angle”, above it is called “reflex angle” until it made a full rotation.

But what’s the name for one degree above a full rotation? What is a 361 degrees of pie?

Now look into the pie just now, is the pie now empty again or is there an extra bit of pie overlapping the previous first pie that appeared?

Many lives have itself contained within a set of norm. And that's okay, because I used to think 11 is the number after 10 until I learned binary, ternary and quaternary.

361 is a place for constructive argument; a place for me to express my thought. It's written to draw not only agreement, but disagreement. Many articles will be written to start a conversation, to stir your calm pool of thought, and to challenge your perspective.

Lastly, to kick off the fun, I intentionally made one mistake in the early paragraph. Let's see if you could easily spot it out and earn my credit of respect.