1 Months. No Lunch. 52 dollars of cash.

gym workouts on monday, thursday, friday (the unbusiest evening of my weekdays). Lets see if I can survive this.

p/s: damn i'm so inspired by Julia Child right now. haha

Between Confrontations and Arguments

Apabila manusia dilanda situasi berkonfrontasi, tipikalnya disebabkan oleh argumentasi antara manusia yang berlainan pendapat, cara berfikir atau interaksi. Kelainan ini dah selalu aku amati. Perbezaan pendapat itu bukanlah salah. Tetapi, cara menghadapi perbezaan ini sering dilihat sebagai satu resolusi yang tidak akan di'consume' ataupun diterima oleh sesetengah individu. Takkan nak biar diri berargumentasi sedangkan ianya tersedia untuk diselesaikan? Pada aku, argumentasi itu memang tuhan jadikan untuk kita selesaikan, bukan biarkan ia berlanjutan seperti racun dalam darah.

يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَاكُم مِّن ذَكَرٍ وَأُنثَى وَجَعَلْنَاكُمْ شُعُوبًا وَقَبَائِلَ لِتَعَارَفُوا إِنَّ أَكْرَمَكُمْ عِندَ اللَّهِ أَتْقَاكُمْ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَلِيمٌ خَبِيرٌ
O mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know each other (not that ye may despise (each other). Verily the most honoured of you in the sight of Allah is (he who is) the most righteous of you. And Allah has full knowledge and is well acquainted (with all things). (49:13)

Baru-baru ini, aku merelakan diri menghadiri talk daripada salah satu tokoh intelek popular di kebanyakan negara barat dan timur tengah, Tareq Suwaydan, yang telah memberikan satu intipati yang aku rasa cukup masuk dalam situasi day-to-day aku untuk mencari jawapan kehidupan. Beliau menceritakan dialog antara manusia yang perbezaan pendapat, samada antara muslim itu sendiri, mahupun dengan non-muslim. Ini mencetuskan satu idealisasi penting dari perspektif fikiran. Aku melihat perbezaan itu sebagai satu tarikan langsung untuk melanjutkan perbincangan yang lebih menarik. Bukankah bosan kalau segala yang wujud antara kita hanyalah persamaan? Bukankah buntu persoalan kalau semua yang hampir antara kita hanyalah penyerupaan? Kalau bukan sebab hikmah tuhan, kenapa dia jadikan kita semua berlainan warna kulit, bangsa, agama, cara berfikir dan lain-lain? Di antara konfrontasi dan argumentasi, sepatutnya wujud satu ruang perdebatan. Perdebatan yang patut dilegasikan untuk mengwar-warkan jawapan sebenar dalam persoalan yang ramai orang bertanyakan.

Tapi sesetengah individu lari dari konfrontasi. Sama ada tidak senang untuk berbicara secara terbuka, ataupun tidak suka dengan attitude pihak sebelah sana. Lari adalah satu cara yang mudah. permanent solution for a temporary problem. Ibarat suicide. Probability untuk bertemu kembali dengan masalah adalah close to zero. Persoalannya, berbaloikah mematikan intuisi hati daripada mengambil tahu akar umbi argumentasi tersebut?

Perdebatan dapat menyelesaikan konfrontasi dan argumentasi. Mungkin statement tersebut agak overrated bagi sesetengah individu hari ini kerana banyak perdebatan yang berlaku hari ini tidak betul-betul menyelesaikan masalah pun. Perdebatan yang functional hanya boleh terlaksana jika disertakan dengan sistem yang mantap. Ego dan sensitiviti tidak berasas ketika bertukar pendapat perlu diketepikan. Persamaan perlu dicari dan perbezaan perlu diterima. References, ataupun sources of facts perlu di dalam konteks yang sama dan relevan. Konfrontasi perlu untuk menyelesaikan argumentasi melalui medium perdebatan. Akan tetapi, perdebatan itu sendiri akan menjadi sama sekali useless kalau salah satu, atau kedua-dua pihak tidak reti-reti lagi nak buka minda tu. Kalau masih dibawah kongkongan dan di takuk yang sama. Kalau sebelum nak debate, dah tahu dah dia sorang je yang betul. Hmm, mungkin ego dan penutupan minda tu sendiri root problem yang membuatkan orang malas nak berkonfrontasi?
Masih mencari jawapan.

propaganda

winter ticket flight.mahal gila kot.damn.tak jadi makan nasi lemak telo goyang kat mamak time toronto snowy2.haish.simpan duit beli lens je la

research 101: cara berfikir

i was procrastinating with facebook while there's a draft essay due tomorrow and i came across something: a debate between mr A and mr H. its really ironic in terms of the way they exchange their thoughts. Oh, believe me, i may not know mr A that much, but at least i know what he's good at; religion. and from what i heard from peeps around, mr H do have 'a huge chunks' of knowledge of religion too. but he's kinda, ill say 'liberal', in the way he thinks about stuff. or God. or not. i dont wanna have preconceived judgments.

And so mr A talks about advertising by putting 'hot chicks' besides a product. well, i know his trying to point out that these ads are trying to take advantage of human's weakest point - nafsu. he compared these and that and so on. and so mr H tries to rebuttal by saying that even toothpaste have different colours of packaging or something. probably something conservative in a way that the purpose of those ads are just simply being attractive ads! well. if thats the case. theres nothing wrong with putting pretty woman with huge breast on ads isn't it?

Well i think that the way we think probably is the best 'gestures' on how we interact with opinions. If you put religion, as in, Islam, or maybe Quran, or whatever, as your medium of judgment or thoughts, then your preconceived ideas would be totally different than thinking the most logical way of how things work. Dude, i mean, really, like, seriously? you cant even live in this world with sanity if logical is your benchmark of thinking. i mean, okay, how does the earth forms itself? like, did it just happened? did it just coincidentally form due to some big bang theory? google that up if you must. but i must say that science doesnt tolerate with everything that past us by. while logical thought is just another word of extrapolating your conscious mind without taking faith into consideration.

Bias or perhaps immatured thoughts does have its ruling in how we think. or act. i mean, when you judge something, do you open up your thoughts? or you're just like, dude, im-not-taking-faith-into-this-mess-cuz-i-dont-even-believe-in-that-kinda-shit kinda thinking

really, i may not know you, but lets not point up fingers. perhaps as im writing this up, even i do have biases on that piece of crap. who knows? we live under metaconscious ideas that really shape up our thoughts. i hope you find your way through hell. or heaven. whichever you want to go. or if u ever believe in it.

the truth is..

that i'm so pissed off for not having to go to turkey with my family next month, that im gonna spend like hell in winterbreak.brazil? usa? argh!!

p/s: i love getting busy every week doing 3 assignments, 2 midterms, 3 problem sets oh and an essay.lets do that again next week! yippee love sarcasm.and sociology sucks