This is "Kampong Senaling" taken in 2006. Has not changed since the 50s - gateway to Sri Menanti
'Kampong Senaling is approximately 5 kilometres from Kuala Pilah - on the Tampin trunk road'
" MAY PEACE BE UPON YOU "

22 March 2010

Thought 23MAR2010

THE ART OF CREATING IDEAS
Ideas are the beginning of all things. The world we live in today first existed as ideas in the minds of men... bridges, skyscrapers, automobiles, airplanes, religions philosophies, governments, symphonies, painting, poems... everything! Man's future is vast because God has given him unlimited power to create ideas. Man's greatest freedom is freedom to think. Man's mind has immense scope. "The mind," wrote Lewis Mumford, "is a power station, a storage warehouse, a library, a theatre, a museum, a hall of archives, a court of justice, a seat of government."

Ideas make men giants. The art of creating ideas is man's most challenging quest... First, a man must win the battle against his own inertia. "There is no expedient to which man will not resort to avoid the real labour of thinking," wrote Joshua Reynolds. Second, he will learn from Edison, who said, "I am more of a sponge than an inventor." He will sponge up all the data and facts about a problem, look at it from every angle, attack it with power and penetration. Third, he will harness the power of his subconscious mind. When intense concentration on the conscious level fails to reveal the answer, he will relax, play golf, fish, listen to music, or sleep on the problem. He will use what Oliver Wendell Holmes called "the underground workshop of the mind."

Fourth, he will keep alert to the stream of thought continuously flowing through his mind. Like a prospector panning for gold, he will watch the idea-nuggets that flash in his consciousness. Fifth, he will evaluate the ideas he receives. He will reject the inferior ones and polish and improve the good ones. Sixth, he will turn ideas from dreams into realities. He will make them servants of man. Millions of ideas are awaiting discovery by the minds of men ... ideas that will change the world, build the peace, conquer man's common enemies. Every man can contribute more if he will think more.
Winferd Peterson - Got this from S Vijayakumaran of AFFIN Bank; many many many moons ago
Gharusa gdida, kull ma tmiss kollu jfuh / Whatsoever a new bride touches is fragrant - Maltese Proverb
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Percussion Band (1964) - Kuala Pilah Padang

Percussion Band (1964) - Kuala Pilah Padang

Percussion Band (1965) - Kuala Pilah Padang

Percussion Band (1965) - Kuala Pilah Padang

Standard 4 (1966) - Tunku Munawir School, Kuala Pilah

Standard 4 (1966) - Tunku Munawir School, Kuala Pilah

Standard 5 (1967) - Tunku Munawir School, Kuala Pilah

Standard 5 (1967) - Tunku Munawir School, Kuala Pilah

Form 3 (1971) - Ampang Road Boys School, Kuala Lumpur

Form 3 (1971) - Ampang Road Boys School, Kuala Lumpur

THE WISE WAY - Parodoxical Commandments

  • People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centred; Forgive them anyway
  • If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway.
  • If you are successful, you will win some false friends and true enemies; Succeed anyway.
  • If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway.
  • What you spend years building, someone may destroy overnight; Build anyway.
  • If you find serenity and happiness, others may be jealous; Be happy anyway.
  • The good you do today, people may often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway.
  • Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; Give the world the best you got anyway.
  • You see, in the final analysis, it is all between you and GOD; It was never between you and them anyway.
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  • Written by Kent M Keith when he was 19, first published by the Harvard Student Agencies in 1968.