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 "

31 May 2011

Thoughts 01JUN2011

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self - Cyril Connolly
Men expect too much, do too little - Allen Tate
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement - Alfred Adler

30 May 2011

Thoughts 31MAY2011

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws - Plato
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back - Abraham Lincoln
Politics is more difficult than physics - Albert Einstein

Thoughts 30MAY2011

Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short - English Proverb
Quite people are well able to look after themselves - Irish Proverb
Procrastination is the thief of time - Proverb of Unknown Origin

22 May 2011

Thoughts 23MAY2011

One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade - Chinese Proverb
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters - English Proverb (17th century)
Not wine... men intoxicate themselves; Not vice... men entice themselves - Chinese Proverb

19 May 2011

Thoughts 20MAY2011

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it - George Orwell (1903-1950)
He who knows nothing, doubts nothing - Italian proverb
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing - Oscar Wilde (1856-1900)

18 May 2011

Thoughts 19MAY2011

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value - Albert Einstein
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character - Albert Einstein
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws - Plato

17 May 2011

Thoughts 18MAY2011

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs - Henry Ford
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities - Christian Nestell Bovee
Education is hanging around until you've caught on - Robert Frost

15 May 2011

Thoughts 16MAY2011

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied - Arnold Glasow
If you don't ask, you don't get - Mahatma Gandhi
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving - Albert Einstein

12 May 2011

Thoughts 13MAY2011

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new - Albert Einstein
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it - Sir Winston Churchill
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up - Thomas A. Edison

11 May 2011

Thoughts 12MAY2011

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it - Thomas Jefferson
Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them - Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown helpless about them - Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987)

09 May 2011

Thoughts 10MAY2011

The wise man is astonished by anything - André Gide (1869-1951)
The most exhausting thing in life . . . is being insincere - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)

08 May 2011

Thoughts 09MAY2011

Small children give you headache; big children heartache - Russian Proverb
Praise the young and they will blossom - Irish Proverb
Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred - Korean Proverb

05 May 2011

Thoughts 06MAY2011

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time - Abraham Lincoln
Where you start is not as important as where you finish - Zig Ziglar
Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky - Russian Proverb

04 May 2011

Thoughts 05MAY2011

There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same - Chinese Proverb
Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get - Spanish Proverb
Politics is a rotten egg; if broken, it stinks - Russian proverb

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.