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Signs that You are living in a Digital world

I know we are living in a digital age, we have arrived at the digital world. But, this serve to remind us how things used to be different, our formal priorities, our formal relationships, mean so much more than the swallow meaningful digital world could bring us.

Sign # 1 You care more about the appearance and tidiness of your blog than your house
You spend more time and resources tidying and sorting on your blog and you actually could tolerate the house to be messy or untidy. You would let the recycle materials pile up in your garage where all passer-by could see. But, you would meticulously tidy and sort out the blog main page and items display in the layout design. You will spend time to download fantastic Java Script to have fanciful icons on your main page to make it look attractive and professional, even though your blog is simply personal and not for marketing or have any commercial value ! 

Sign # 2 You spend more time on facebook, twitter, whatsapp and social media than any other hobby  
Everything that is good must be reposted, twitted, mentioned in your facebook wall or twitter page. Sharing is caring. In fact, you probably spend more time in social media updating than all your other hobbies combined !

Sign # 3 Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is knocking at your door and you deny it
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is characterized by unreasonable thoughts and fears (obsessions) that lead you to do repetitive behaviors (compulsions). It's also possible to have only obsessions or only compulsions and still have OCD.

With OCD, you may or may not realize that your obsessions aren't reasonable, and you may try to ignore them or stop them. But that only increases your distress and anxiety. Ultimately, you feel driven to perform compulsive acts in an effort to ease your stressful feelings.

OCD often centers around themes, so in this case, it is the fear of not having your social media updated or that the world is left behind of your latest endevour. So to ease your fears, you may compulsively check and recheck your social media (Blog, Twitter, Facebook, Watsapp) page a hundred times until it affected your performance in other works and chores. 

Despite efforts to ignore or get rid of bothersome thoughts, the thoughts or urges keep coming back. This leads to more ritualistic behavior — and a vicious cycle that's characteristic of OCD.

Sign # 4 You would hold up shower and toilet break, just to write a blog post or facebook status update
This is true of today's netizens, social bloggers and alike, we have more important things to do than to visit the toilet. Everyone is trying to leave a mark in the digital world which we live under the illusion that it will outlive us and its permanent and forever. But we have seen many blogs shut down or top Apps just closed down overnight. Most times, they will give you an option to migrate over to another platform before the shut down. But so much  has been blogged about in internet, I do not think its even possible to copy them down for our own records or reading.

Sign # 5 You take Selfie at weird moments (regardless you post or not)
Selfie kings and queens and we take them because we like them, whether we post or not, that is our business. From selfie, we have divert to Eye-fie (taking the eyes part only), Wefie (just us), and many more. 

Yo Yo Poem

I came across a poem on Yo Yo and I remember the tiny game that we used to play as kids. But I was never good at it, my siblings did much better than me. 

I am not sure if in the ancient Greek, there was yo yo or not.

Mastery of Yo yo is serious matter.

Japanese Yo Yo Champion BLACK made it to TED Talk and did an amazing performance with standing ovation by the audience at the end. 

Yo Yo Poem

Lord I am a yo-yo
And you hold the string
When I am low
You pull me up again
Sometimes it seems
You don't pull hard
Cause I don't go up very far
Then I hang
Suspended in time
While the string
Slowly unwinds
One day I'll make it
To the top
Keep pulling LORD
Please don't' stop
Problems get in my way
The string gets a little knot
But with you in control LORD
The knot comes untied
Keep on pulling LORD
Help me to climb
This long and hard string of life
For when I've made it
To the top
I know I've made it to YOU!!!

copyright ©Donna Golden 

Growing up pain and injury

Our dear Bel had a fall during early morning basketball practice session on 27 March 2015, form teacher called me at 7:20 am saying that she has been crying after the incident for quite some time and suggested that I took her home or to bring her to hospital.

It was a small fracture on the radius bone of left arm, tiny fracture but yet it has to be set in a cast. After review by the specialist on 30 March with another Xray taken, doctor concluded that she only needs to be in a cast for three weeks. This is a relief.

Sport injury is part of sportman's adventurous journey. Growing up pain does include fracture. All these are part of growing up journey.

Growing Wings and Flying soon

All the years of parenting, all the years of caring, tutoring, fetching, learning by both kids and parents, all have a singular purpose which is to see our kids ready to grow their own wings and flying off the nest. Oh, the nest, it shall be empty soon, well, half empty.

 One does not quite get prepared for this, no matter how much you plan or pray about it from the time that they were born and little. This day was just too far away, too long a journey to fathom as possible to have completed, too distant a destination to have arrived. There was a time, they seem to be so little, and that they were attached permanently to our apron's string, they just would not let go, but slowly and surely, one fine day, they cut the apron's string off and declared independence and they do not need us that much anymore. They asked for space, private space and to be left alone. There were dinners they did not want to join; holidays they rather be somewhere else with their friends and own kind; movie they declined to be with us. 

Our two boys who are in their teens will leave home for further studies soon. So much planning has been evolved around this. We realised that the parenting journey of hand-holding and coaching will come to an end, at least the part where we are coaching in person, living in the same house scenarios. We will begin the mentoring and away from home coaching stage soon.

Where have time gone ? Where have our youth gone ? In the midst of all these parenting and growing and nurturing our kids up, suddenly the next few years will be the summation of our parenting goals, the peak of our existence and the reason of our beings (as if we live just for our kids). But very soon after that summation and peak, is a steep slope where we cannot follow and just have to let go and let them try their own lives. It will also be a instant draining of our financial savings and planning.

There is a quotation about the bird having its confidence not on the branch that it sits that it will not break but should the branch breaks, it can trust its own wings to fly away. The moral of the quotation - always believe in yourself. Well, in this case, we have to believe in our kids to have grown a strong pair wings to fly away from home, fly higher above the storm and fly further to achieve their full potential in pursuit of their dream and fly off to start their very own life journey. 

We wish our dearest flesh and blood, a very good journey full of mercy and grace from God, protected and always in His love and care. And mum and dad will also have to embark on another journey where we have to learnt to live without you at our sides, to have a part of us living away and far from us, to have more time to ourselves and learn to cope with new challenges.

Photo Make Over - Once a while

Photos taken by Cosway program 16 Nov 2013.

Rukun Negara - A Declaration of The National Philosophy

They said the last one was screwed by the Generation Y voters.
They said they are the ones that have forgotten their roots.
Perhaps, history was taught too shallow,
and they have become unpatriotic,
and become ignorant of the nation's fore-fathers' sacrifices and contributions.
With a stroke of the pen, they have voted out the long-time popular guys.
That was 2008 as the political analysts reported after the GE12.

Today is 2013, we are going through GE13.
What has happened in the past five years ?
We have a Prime Minister who is determined to reach to the Generation Y.
He started a Facebook account.
He started talking to the people (Rakyat).
He set up Think-Tanks for education
and they advised him to make history a compulsory subject to pass in 2013.
History in SPM exam will be 3 papers and 6 hours 30 minutes long.
This is serious business, and his team believes this will work.
To turn the Generation Z around since we have lost the Generation Y.

To make the kids more patriotic,
kindergarten education was reformed
and the Prime Minister's wife got a PhD for promoting early childhood education.
The advisors are very serious,
that Rukun Negara (declaration of national philosophy) be taught from age 3 onwards.
The results are hilarious, some kids are still saying Malaysia has a lot of prawns.
They read : Kedaulatan "Udang-Udang" (Prawns) instead of "Undang-Undang" (Law).

GE13 will see the youngest of GenerationY starting to vote.
This is the third time that Gen Y will be voting.
In the coming GE14, Generation Z will start voting,
they are the ones that will be forced to sit for 3 papers of History.
I guess the kids will not forget.
They have good memory of what the government has been doing.

 National Philosophy that Malaysia is built upon

The Idealist's Malaysia

Its hard enough to memorise all five of the Rukun Negara, 

to say them with convincing conviction is harder.

https://www.facebook.com/najibrazak?fref=ts
The Prime Minister of Malaysia's personal Facebook Page.
Todate, he has 1.6 million Likes for his page.