My Written Thoughts

With the Covid-19 pandemic spreading across the globe, causing countless countries to shut down, Malaysia is no exception. We implemented the Movement Control Order (MCO) on 18 March. Cases of infection went up, then it went down. But then it went back up again and from the looks of it, this damn virus isn't going away anytime soon. Before we know it, the year is closing to an end.   This is the first time humans have encountered such a threat. We've had our fair share of infectious diseases throughout history but never to this extent. We will be talking about this event for many generations to come. It effected everyone and everything especially the economy. A lot of companies went out of business. A lot of hotels shut down for good as the country closes its borders. So many people lost their jobs and for those who get to keep them, they had to work from home. Thank god I didn't lose my job but I had to work from home for 2 months straight, starting from March until May. W...

I have been working steady jobs for almost 12 years now. Prior to that I was unemployed, messing around with friends, partying, loitering and just living life in vain. I should be happy now, right? Wrong. I mean, I AM happy being a family man and all, but i detest at the very idea of having to be at an office 9 hours a day, 5 days a week, for the rest of my miserable life serving a cause that I don't believe is ideal to me. I understand that everybody needs to work in order to survive. We all need to work to earn money to pay for our food, shelter, healthcare, security and such. However, by doing so, I don't believe we were meant to become 'slaves' in the process 9 hours a day may sound like a short amount of time considering there are 24 hours in a day. Exclude the 7 hour bedtime, you practically spend the whole day working and by the time you get home, you're left with just a few hours to spare before you hit the sack. So you spend your life working from Monday to...

On 8 December 2019, I released a song and for the first time in my life, I made a music video to go with it. And the feedback, love and support i received from it were overwhelming. 80 views in 1 hour, 300 views in 24 hours and currently, after 2 months, the viewcount is in the 700 ballpark. This doesn't happen with my previous songs. Some have reached this number but never that quick. This simply goes to show that apart from the quality of the song itself, video plays a prominent role in engaging viewers' attention, even if the main content is the audio. Music video is new territory for me. I have been doing research on it since a couple of years ago and finally got to realize the vision through this song. The song was written in 2017 but i kept it away and it was put on hold as I was working on my previous project, the rap song called Dunia . Then right after releasing the rap song, I started vlogging. Vlogging had my full attention for two good years until the music bug...

So it's been 1 year since I last posted here. My last post was on 2 August 2018. Ever since I started vlogging, I kind of left everything else including blogging and writing/recording new songs. Only 2 months ago did I start to shift my attention back on music. Yes, I am in the midst of producing a new song. Still in the recording phase, and will then proceed with making the music video for it. For the first time ever, I will be releasing a new song which comes with a music video. I am really excited about it. Although I have zero percent experience in making a music video, I just can't wait to learn and explore this new territory and observe the outcome. Speaking of music videos, I have plans to start this huge project where I produce music videos for all my previous songs as well, and re-release them on my vlog channel on Youtube. But enough about that, though. Until the project starts to take shape, it simply remains just another 'plan'. So I have been vlogging for...

As usual, I haven't been doing any update on this blog. This time, for almost a year. My last post was in October last year. So I'm just gonna cramp in as much detail as I can as to what I have been up to since then in a single blog post. Bandung, Indonesia In October last year, me and the whole MAH team (Malaysian Association Of Hotels) went out on our annual staff retreat, this time to Bandung, Indonesia. Bandung was awesome but what was even more awesome was the trip that we took up an active volcano! The place is known as Tangkuban Parahu. Now, there wasn't any lava visible like you see on TV but there was a large crater (among many other smaller craters that we didn't have time to see) that literally has smoke seeping out of it. I was in total awe as we first reached the peak of the mountain. That was a sight you don't get to see everyday. Though the smell of sulfur was a bit overwhelming but bearable. The mountain was literally 'breathing' and the f...

I successfully left Facebook for one whole month, merely just as a personal experiment I have planned to do for quite some time. I have read a lot about it and even seen a few videos on people who have actually done it and thus far have concluded that one has to try it out himself/herself in order to witness its effects. But before I dive into that, let me just recap on what the whole deal really was. I came to understand that social media in general can be a poisonous thing to society, and may have a range of short-term and long-term negative effects on us on many levels, subconsciously or otherwise. Solving or identifying the problems associated with social media requires a person to leave it for good, or should that be impossible for some, simply leave it in a certain amount of time. And rather than leaving all of it cold turkey, one may choose to leave some of it, or even leave only one particular social network that he/she predominantly uses. In my case, it's Facebook. Ori...

The notion of leaving social media, I think not only scares certain people but confuses them as well. We all have and use social media and I don't think leaving them is something we ever consider. But after thinking long and hard, I have decided that I will be leaving it. But not for good. At least not yet. Just for a certain amount of time every now and then, to see how it goes. To see how it affects my life. It's something I have planned to do for quite some time now. And I believe it will benefit me in certain ways. I think everyone should consider trying it as well. But the important thing is realizing why, how and when we all should leave social media, and in what aspects. Undoubtedly, we have become reliant on these apps and updates. It seems normal, it seems harmless and it can be harmless, but it can also be detrimental to the way we view life in reality, outside of this access to the internet. If you are a spiritual person trying to meditate or simply just a person l...