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 "

30 November 2011

Thoughts 01DEC2011

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength - St Francis De Sales
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill - Anonymous
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon ... everything's different - Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes

29 November 2011

Thoughts 30NOV2011

Change your thoughts and you change your world - Norman Vincent Peale
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm - Winston Churchill
Just because you make a mistake doesn’t mean you are a mistake - Georgette Mosbacher
In love beggar and king are equal - Indian Proverb

28 November 2011

Thoughts 29NOV2011

He that would be a leader must be a bridge - Welsh Proverb
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers - Ralph Nader
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own - Benjamin Disraeli

24 November 2011

Thoughts 25NOV2011

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race -Don Marquis
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong - Thomas Szasz
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home - Bill Cosby

23 November 2011

Thoughts 24NOV2011

Beauty is not so much what you see as what you dream - Walloon Proverb
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one - Elbert Hubbard
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy - Anne Frank

22 November 2011

Thoughts 23NOV2011

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely - Anonymous
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week - Anonymous
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done - Anonymous
A big shot is a little shot that kept shooting - Anonymous

21 November 2011

Thoughts 22NOV2011

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded - Michael Johnson
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling - Margaret B Runbeck
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart - Helen Keller

20 November 2011

Thought 21NOV2011

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good - Vaclav Havel
The only way to have a friend is to be one - Ralph Waldo Emerson

13 November 2011

Thoughts 14NOV2011

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance - Edgar J Mohn
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything - Mark Twain
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves - Walter Anderson
One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth - Chinese Proverb

03 November 2011

Thoughts 04NOV2011

He who has hope has everything - Arabian Proverb
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare - Japanese Proverb
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day - Indian Proverb

02 November 2011

Thoughts 03NOV2011

You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays - Professor Harold Hill (The Music Man)
The wisest mind has something yet to learn - George Santayana
Happiness itself does not stay - only moments of happiness do - Spanish Proverb

01 November 2011

Thoughts 02NOV2011

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else - Benjamin Franklin
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward - Thomas A Edison
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing - Theodore Roosevelt

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.