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 "

29 April 2013

Thoughts 30APR2013


Improvement begin with "I" : Arnold H Glasgow

Every artist was first an amateur : Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment : Anthony Robbins

28 April 2013

Thoughts 29APR2013


It doesn't matter where you are, you are nowhere compared to where you can go - Bob Proctor

The more you take responsibility for your past and present, the more you are able to create the future you seek - Celestine Chua

Remembering you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart - Steve Jobs

17 April 2013

Thoughts 18APR2013


Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness : Chinese Proverb

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate : George Burns

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away : Maya Angelou

16 April 2013

Thoughts 17APR2013


Don't aspire to make a living. Aspire to make a difference : Denzel Washington

I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it : Serena Williams

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action : Benjamin Disraeli

15 April 2013

Thoughts 16APR2013


We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by : Will Rogers

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something : Elizabeth Gilbert

I wish the whole world could see what I see. Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are : Felix Baumgartner

14 April 2013

Thoughts 15APR2013


Life is like ... a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use : Charles M Schulz

Life is like ... an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep : Carl Sandburg

Life is like ... a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can : Danny Kaye

11 April 2013

Thoughts 12APR2013


Lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at you - David Brinkley

I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours - Henry David Thoreau

One has to live in the present. Whatever is past is gone beyond recall; whatever is future remains beyond one's reach, until it becomes present. Remembering the past and giving thought to the future are important, but only to the extent that they help one deal with the present - S N Goenka

10 April 2013

Thoughts 11APR2013


Don't go round saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first : Mark Twain

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience : Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time : T S Eliot

09 April 2013

Thoughts 10APR2013


A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it - Marcel Proust

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years - Abraham Lincoln

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success - Napoleon Hill

08 April 2013

Thoughts 09APR2013


Your goals are the road maps that guide and show you what is possible for your life - Les Brown
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach - Benjamin Mays

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life - Greg Anderson

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.