Its time to get serious.

Two weeks into the semester have passed, yet I am still just browsing through papers, not getting serious enough. I got an end in mind, yes, a final year dissertation. Here she is:

Exciting, yes, but how to get there? In the words of cake,  “I got all my love to give” but if she doesn’t love you, then you’ll end up living in pain, just like any other love story… But while you can walk away from a girl, you wouldn’t wanna walk out of your dissertation if you have “all your life to live”. heh…. ok lame jokes aside.  So you ask what project am i working on. I don’t wanna burst the bubble now, haha, but  here is how mrs azhar for the next 1 year  kinda look like (in beautiful portrait form):

I know, she’s not that beautiful, but she’s all I have now, so nobody can break my heart anymore, ok bubbly wifey? hee hee hee….. and a dedication to all:

Live Your Dreams – Athena Cage

- order of sequence of the books of the Shafi’i Madhhaab (tareem)-

1. Ar-Risalat Al-Jaami’a

2. Safinat An Najaa

3. Al-Mukhtasar Al Lateef

4. Al-Muqaddimat Al Haadramiyyah

5. Matn Abi Shujaa

6. Al Yaqoot An-Nafees

7. Az-Zubad

8. Umdat As-Saalik

9. Minhaaj At Taalibeen

#1 -Fly (Hillary Duff)

#1 – Losing Yourself  (Eminem)

Craziest Semester Ever… no doubt about it; for a simple reason that although it was recommended for us to take 5 modules, I simply decided to go against the “recommended” and took 6 instead, lol. The design module took up a lot of our time, right up to the reading week. The management module video take up at least a week full of filming and editing.  And the time I had left for revision in the end was far less than the previous semesters. Yet, I felt that this is one of the most satisfying semester ever… =)

fAVORITE module of the semester? hmmm, I can’t really pinpoint to one unlike the previous sem but I think now is a good time to conclude the loose ends that I left behind in the previous posts throughout the entire semester……

disclaimer: Its not that I agree with the following ideas, its juz “application” of what is taught, you know its an attempt to get the essence  of the learning moment of the  modules taken kinda thing…..

Finding The Right One

In Economics, everything boils down to cost-benefit analysis. You don’t make “mistakes” and settle down for something that in the end will give you a lower utility than what you actually can maximize an optimize. So in other words do all you can till you can really really find someone who can give you the highest utility. However the manner the professor showed the idea of utility in “finding the right one” may be offensive to some. He say, imagine that person DY-ING… how much are you willing to pay? 1 million dollars? That means if the operation costs 1 million and 1 dollar you say: Go and Die!…hahahaHAHAhaha……. SOooo in other words,  wait for “the one” who you are willing to pay the most of your money according to economics, otherwise your have a large opportunity cost, and you are not being economical in that sense.

Now that we know we should find “the one” that gives you the highest utility, then how do you value people? She can cook, so okay, I’ll pay a million dollars for her, ouh, wait the other lady can drive too so hmph, 2 million then. Does this make sense? Then her beauty? According to dating experts, the common man go crazy over beautiful women, so in other words, the more attractive a lady is, the higher her demand, and the higher her demand, the higher her “price”, so does this mean you should choose an ugly wife, so that the opportunity cost is lower?

According to the Contemporary Malays module though, if you ask the local Singaporean Malays, the number one priority that they look for I guess given their general religious orientation is “ta’at” i.e. the more loyal you are as a wife, the higher you are valued. Does this makes sense? Hmph…. I don’t know… Up to You to decide, lol. ( I beg to differ though, hahaha)

My management module on the other hand, illustrates that human beings are boundedly rational; they try to be rational but due to their limited attention, they tend to satifice rather than optimize i.e. they are not homo economicus!  When it comes to finding the “right one” for example, they stop when they found someone “good enough”. I remembered how prof David quipped that the day you propose to her you should be totallay open about it and tell her ….

Marry Me Please, Cause you are really, Good Enough For Me!!

So don’t stop till you get enough!! He says… Go and date every single lady possible and choose the best. Bad Advise? you decide.. hahaha… But I guess the moral of the story is, don’t give in to your heart too easily, and like what my CSM in the army always say ” don’t be so calculative!”, satisficing is sufficient at times after consultation, and observation, cheh… I don’t take I am making sense… hehehe

The Intellectual Property (IP)  Dilemma

Engineering Professionalism though only touches on the general idea of how to register a patent, what makes your work copyrighted and the whole idea of a trademark, I now understand the importance of I.P. While at the individual level, you may be noble enough to disclaim any IP rights to your own work, at say national level, without IP rights, people and firms won’t put in money into R & D to develop new technologies, tools, software and hardware that will in the end benefit mankind as a whole.

There exist religious teachers who denounce the idea of IP rights completely. I wouldn’t say they are wrong, but the contemporary Malays modules will tell you that the existence of such “modes of thinking” is attributed to the traditionalistic religious orientation of the religious elites, who cherishes so much of the past. No where, they say can you find in the old books an evidence that say that there is such a thing as a copyright! I do recall that a segment of a book (that I recognized) was photocopied and stapled, with a front cover that did not even mention the original work being distibuted and “sold” by one of the local [religious] groups. RIght or Wrong, again you decide.

I feel that the entire issue here goes back to how you frame what is right or wrong.  I remember how one of my teachers taught me to not claim your own “rights” , but when it comes to others, be very aware of what their rights are. I think even if someone do not believe that IP rights exist in his/her religion, he doesn’t need to be so legalistic but look at things from the point of concern, and care for the feelings of other individuals. make sense? hehehehe, like what the eng prof lecturer will say, you don’t just grab your friend’s trousers and wear them, but you do that all the time with people’s intellectual property!!

Okay, I am tired now… perhaps I’ll continue with this post some other time, or maybe I’ll leave this alone………

I know, i breached people’s copyrighted images in this post already, now for the record, a video hahaha :

2:17 onwards is deadly…..

[translation courtesy of oriee]
نسيم هبت علينا من حمى المصطفى
A breeze breathed on us, from the chosen prophet’s (Al Muhammad) land

نسيم فيها الهنا فيها الدوا والشفاء
a breeze that have joy, have treatment and remedy

بشمها يصلح الظاهر لنا والخفاء
By breathing it, the exterior and interior is fixed

يا بخت من للنبي في كل حال إقتفى
How lucky the person, who follows the prophet in all conditions

على قدم صدق مع أهل الهمم و الوفاء
With believers, who are the owners of energy devotion and loyalty

هم الرجال الأكابر هم هم الشرفاء
They are the men with pride, they are reputable

هم أهل الاسرار هم أهل النقا والصفا
They are the kindered of purity and serenity

يا حادي أسجع فحالي بالنبي قد صفا
Oh singer of camels rhume, my condition with prophet is clear

إذا بدت عين جود الله عنا عفا
If Allah generousness comes, Allah will pardon us

ألله حسبي ونعم الحسب حسبي كفى
Allah suffices me, how good my suffinciency, Allah is enough for me

منه المواهب ومنه العافيه والشفاء
from Allah all the grants, good health and remedy

يا واسع الجود ربي خير عافي عفا
Oh my God, the generous, my God is best who heal, he forgives

أمنن علينا برفقة عبدك المصطفى
Please Allah award us with the company of your servant, the chosen (prophet Mohammad)

أسلك بنا نهج من لهديه إقتفى
let us follow the way of whom followed his right way

نثبت بديوان وراث النبي الخلفا
And make us steady by the holy book and the followers of the prophet

بجاه أحمد حبيب الله كنز الوفاء
for Ahmad (prophet Mohammad) sake, who Allah loves, the treasure of loyalty

عليه صلى إلهي ما الحيا وكفا
On him my Allah prayed for the rest of the life and enough

والآل والصحب ما برق السما رفرفا
And the family and associates as long as the sky lightning keep cominga

a secret formula :

( 1 MegProS + 1 CheaS + 1 ModAns + 2 QuRe)  = ExS,

EUREKA!

What a classic!!

You have so many relationships in this life
Only one or two will last
You’re go through all the pain and strife
Then you turn your back and they’re gone so fast
And they’re gone so fast

Oh so hold on the ones who really care
In the end they’ll be the only ones there
When you get old and start losing your hair
Can you tell me who will still care
Can you tell me who will still care, oh care

Mmmbop, ba du ba dop
Ba du bop, ba du ba dop
Ba du bop, ba du ba dop
Ba du
Mmmbop, ba du ba dop
Ba du bop, Ba du dop
Ba du bop, Ba du dop
Ba du

Plant a seed, plant a flower, plant a rose
You can plant any one of those
Keep planting to find out which one grows
It’s a secret no one knows
It’s a secret no one knows

Mmmbop, ba du ba dop
Ba du bop, ba du ba dop
Ba du bop, ba du ba dop
Ba du
Mmmbop, ba du ba dop
Ba du bop, Ba du dop
Ba du bop, Ba du dop
Ba du

In an mmmbop they’re gone
In an mmmbop they’re gone. In an mmmbop they’re not there
In an mmmbop they’re gone. In an mmmbop they’re not there
In an mmmbop they’re gone. In an mmmbop they’re not there
In an mmmbop they’re gone. In an mmmbop they’re not there
Until you lose your hair. But you don’t care

Mmmbop, ba du ba dop
Ba du bop, ba du ba dop
Ba du bop, ba du ba dop
Ba du
Mmmbop, ba du ba dop
Ba du bop, Ba du dop
Ba du bop, Ba du dop
Ba du

So hold on the ones who really care
In the end they’ll be the only ones there
When you get old and start losing your hair
Can you tell me who will still care
Can you tell me who will still care, oh care

Mmmbop, ba du ba dop
Ba du bop, ba du ba dop
Ba du bop, ba du ba dop
Ba du
Mmmbop, ba du ba dop
Ba du bop, Ba du dop
Ba du bop, Ba du dop
Ba du

Can you tell me
No you can’t ’cause you don’t know
Can you tell me
You say you can but you don’t know
Can you tell me which flower’s going to grow
No you can’t ’cause you don’t know
Can you tell me if it’s going to be a daisy or a rose
You say you can but you don’t know
Can you tell me which flower’s going to grow
No you can’t ’cause you don’t know
Can you tell me
You say you can but you don’t know
You say you can but you don’t know
Don’t know oh, You don’t know oh

Mmmbop, ba du ba dop
Ba du bop, ba du ba dop
Ba du bop, ba du ba dop
Ba du
Mmmbop, ba du ba dop
Ba du bop, Ba du dop
Ba du bop, Ba du dop
Ba du

Can you tell me
No you can’t ’cause you don’t know
Can you tell me
You say you can but you don’t know
Can you tell me
No you can’t ’cause you don’t know
Can you tell me
You say you can but you don’t know