Time Flies!

Time does fly. The cliche is validated yet again.
This blog was created in November, a lapse, and suddenly it's almost mid-January.
In the meantime, Adam celebrated the Id-al-Adhar, 2 new years (hijra and gregorian), moved house (albeit weekdays only), and gone to pre-school.

The first week to pre-school was a display of amazing progress.
Adam cried for Ummi (mum) the first day. It was teary eyes and excuses in an attempt to go home on the second. The third started with a little rubbing of the sad eyes. But Adam greeted friends with "give-me-five" hand slaps on the forth day. On the fifth, Adam startled the teacher with a naughty wink on arrival.
Education is swift and efficient these days!

Easy

Another hectic weekend: Seminar on Capitalism (doomed like Communism?), grooming the 37 year old 115 brought back to life last week, readying the apartment, ....
Similarly hectic Monday and beyond follow.
No easy time. No life-made-easy gadgets for these.


Talking of gadgets, the handphone which most people own and many with multiple units, is one of the many gadgets which are generally so cleverly designed. They are so intuitively easy to use. Use of a phone-camera by 3 year old Adam doesnt even seem a huge achievement.
He takes snap-shots at the breakfast table (right: empty koko-crunch bowl), he takes them at weddings (lower right: beaming bride), albeit from afar.


Credit should go to creators of such gadgets.



On reflection, it should also go to all those who make our environment what it is today, which allows ...kids to grow up smarter, sooner than most of us did; ...and allows production and businesses to be so much more efficient : the educationists, technologists, inventors, marketers, business and financial managers, et al.


Adam may not be too creative in his photography, but his inclination to regularly borrow the phone-camera and record everyday things like these pics is testimony to this.

Wednesday 081119

Work and Success

It has been a hectic weekend; and Monday,
both play and work.

Heard on the radio on the way to work the other day:
...success to the Americans is unlike what it is to the English.
The English seek the freedom of not having to work
and having the ability to just do things that they like
(Not work surely!).

If this is true, it can be taken that the English generally dont like to work
and would rather have others working
(Some people have to work to get the world going!).
So, physically colonising others had been a way they escaped work (at least, net work).

Not at all a bad idea, although not nice.
But in modern days, there are subtle ways...

2008/11/10

Learning is easy and comes naturally, if...

Still on Adam...he was at his growing kid's sterling best last night.
He displayed the learning prowess of a free mind.

When pressured to change his clothes fast for a birthday dinner outside, he grabbed his hair in both fists and sighed,"Ah, pening aku!"/("Ah, this is too much for me!").

He seems to be picking up lots of words and expressions, and using them on the right occassions and in the correct sense.

Sometimes the time lag between picking them up and applying them is just a matter of minutes, like when it backfired on me once:
Adam heard when I said, "Sombong!" / ("Snob!"), to a family member who wouldnt want to go out in my 37 year old Merc but in the Proton instead.
The next minute Adam asked if he could sit in front, and he shot back "Sombong" when I said it was dangerous. :)

I can believe when I heard the radio said this morning that the human mind is capable of learning a trillion something (bits? bytes? whatever) of new things everyday. But surely, we have to keep it free...of preconception, prejudice, bias, and such, like Adam's.

2008/11/07

Obama wins, Adam ponders

Adam greeted me with this look when I got home from work yesterday, the day when history was made.

Yesterday, Barack Obama became the first African-American President of the USA.

This could have been taken to be behind Adam's pondering look if not for the fact that he's only 39 (months, and 29 lbs).

2008/11/07

blogging preserves the mind....i hope

X popped in from the HO this morning; complained about being miserable at work, for lack of clear direction, and lack of progress in the business.

::waban:: incidently, had thots to share with X 'cos he has been equally disoriented lately:
personal productivity has been shameful, the fire in the belly is almost extiguished;
inactive mind is indeed harmful.
The situation has to be arrested.


::waban:: started his "blog.unplugged", on his PDA, a long while ago
~ a thot a day, in 6 sentences; but that died an unplanned death.


Perhaps, just perhaps, this real blog could be more fun and sees a natural death.



2008/11/06 (...lotsa birthdays this month!)