Life is a Sunday: February 2008

Friday, February 29, 2008

Tennis and why we play them

Tennis has always been a favorite past time sport. It all started after I watched Ivan Lendl (kids, pls look it up if you don't know who Lendl is) on telly. He was such a gracful player of the sport. Those we the years when the baton of tennis supremacy was passed on from the Conners, and McEnroes to the Lendls and Beckers. Becker of course took center stage when he captured the winmbledon title at the tender age fo 18. That was the dawn of teenager on slaugth at the worl top 20 ranking. After Becker, nothing was the same anymore. Now back to Lendl, he was a Chezchlovakian (no longer in world map) and now resides in Florida (where else). While you would bet that his kids (he has 4 girls) would follow his footstep and enroll into one of many tennis academy in Florida, but that is not the case at all. Instead, his girls are showing of thier skill on the fairway and greens of America's junior gold circuit and they are great at it. Good enough for one of them to win all american junior tourney. This bring us to whole point of this posting, which is to high light yours truly very own experience. Playing tennis and then switching to golf and now playing both sport. While the level of participation of the Lendls' is too high to even be spoken inthe same conversation with that of yours truly, it is nevertheless worth contemplating the similiarity.

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Dari Bangalore ke Hyderabad #3

There are reasons why Leela Hotel is known as Leela Palace

Dari Bangalore ke Hyderabad #2

Breakfast at Leela's - fried rice, vadai drenched in dalca like gravy, roti, scramble egg and coconut chutney

Lunch at Daba's - Briyani with chicken and boil egg.

It was so good that I had the same breakfast the next day.

Monday, February 25, 2008

Election#2

Kubu Perdana Menteri

Mandi Bendera

Mandi Poster
Mandi Janji

Mandi Sumpah

Kubu Perdana Menteri

Tak risau kalah

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Dari Bangalore Ke Hyderabad

Hidup ini terbelah dua lorong

Susah dan senang jalan seiring

Berpegang tangan

Meminta ehsan

Friday, February 15, 2008

Election #1.

Election is here again. While the politics will takes center stage, the other side shows tend to excite me more. The poster, flag, banner war is a sight to behold. Millions of ringgit is thrown into it. For some political parties, this is the only means of campaign with radios and televisions are out of reach.
Having the experience working with SPR as a temp during year 2000 election, I am more than capable of articulating and dissecting this very symbol of democracy.

Let’s start at the very bottom of the party machinery, the party cadres. They are the loudest lot and the most hardworking at every party campaign makeshift HQ. They are the one that will put in long hours and in some parties, make a quick ringgit or two. Cadres usually will work their buns off once given a free party t-shirt. Cadres will take time off from work and will leave family and friend, especially from an opposing party, for two weeks. Cadres love the attention and thrive on having surprise visit from party big wig especially at 2am when they are preparing another poster onslaught.

Life and Love

In most human interaction physical attraction is the spark that starts relationship between a man and a woman. A woman physical attractiveness manifest it’s qualities in many forms, so even in a burqah, her physicality is still evident. Many would consider physical attraction as being superficial and plastic but it too has its inner strength. Hence the age old dictum, beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. Some might argue that the beauty-is-in-the-eyes-of-the-beholder theory is a fallacy because our society has put its own barometer on physical perfection. However, we are not here to debate on that notion.

I am more interested to further dwell on man-woman relationship and how physical beauty contributes to such endeavor. A friend is about to start such endeavor. Seeing how he struggle with his emotions, I just had to write it down for further analysis. Not being particularly interested with the whole idea of kiss and tell, I will not put down my own past exploit as example but rather adhere to the matter at hand.

As the heart grew fonder, the desire to be close and to know each other grew bigger. This would develop into a meaningful relationship. The word desire may have sexual overtone but at this phase of a relationship, sexual feeling are some what suppressed, in my book at least.

As time passes, a relationship will either grew closer or will be saturated, feeling wise. A relation ship that fosters mutual understanding will blossom to love, which is a matter of the heart. Love is also a physical state of mind that influences the whole emotional gamut of a person. In my religion, all of these will translate into marriage. Insya Allah, marriage of such pedigree will last a life time.

One may feel all sort of emotion upheaval in these early stages, mainly from the uncertainties. A long list of uncertainties. How do you know if the girl even likes you? How do you fancy your chances with other man of similar or even better qualities? You ask your self 100 questions that will challenge your own self belief. A person with confidence would brush away all these uncertainties with bravado, but then over confidence can some time spell disaster. A person with chronic inferiority complex would continue to ask this question for ever so long.

My advice is to throw caution to the wind and proceed with confidence. Build a strong friendship as your base, learn each other thoughts and mechanics. From there, both will learn each other strength and weakness. Only then, the relationship can guide itself through the blissful state of being in love.