Wednesday, August 29, 2012

What's With Your Arrogance?

There is ups and downs in life.

You are not always at the top and you will fall to the bottom of the 'food chain' eventually if not now maybe later. You will experience your downs somehow somewhere. The thing about life is that it will always tests the ones who are arrogant by giving them the goodness in life first before dragging them down the road to the most horrifying place where they will realise that they are not the best and there are people who are better than them.

I have not always understood people who are arrogant and snobbish. I see no point of being such due to the fact that you will never know what the other persons are capable of. They might be better than you in one if not all aspects in life. There must be something that they are better than you. Therefore, being arrogant and snobbish is not the way.

You will have to teach yourselves to the humble and down-to-earth most of the time. Yes, I did not say all the time because there are circumstances in life where you do have to act snobbish and arrogant. When? You will know when to use it when the time comes.

I have one thing that I am not in favour of that is person who is acting like they know everything but in fact they do not even understand what they are talking about. Never had the guts to ask. Never had the intention to learn and never had the urge to be intellectual. This is what we call, in Malay language, as Bodoh Sombong. 'Bodoh' is Stupid and 'sombong' is snobbish. It means someone who do not know anything but acts as though he knows everything and do not have the guts to ask questions. In addition to that, they are very very arrogant.

Another type of arrogant is when the person is having so much fun and joy flattering their titles to others. For example, he had just become an important person to a company and little he know about the actual fact on running a company, he showed-off to everyone about his role in the company, for example, a Managing Director. There is no need to show-off your title when you just got it.

Apart from that, when you are involved or about to get involved in a business or you are dealing with experienced persons, you, as the new kid, must be humble. You are not allowed (the rule) to talk BIG! You are not allowed to show your attitude as though you know everything about business. You are dealing with persons who have years of experience, a degree in business and an experienced accountant. You possess no bragging rights whatsoever.

I called these new people who are getting themselves involved in business as 'chicks which had just came out from hatched eggs'. You are THAT new. Therefore, you did not have the bragging rights. What you have is the game card to impress these people. Impress them, catch their intention, make business, make money and then bragging rights will come in. Even with all that, arrogance will not bring you far.

STOP being so arrogant and STOP being snobbish. STOP being the person who allegedly 'knows it all'. Just STOP! You are not bringing any good to yourself or other people. You are just wasting your time!

Love,
Marl

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Get Ready to Pack

I would say this year is the year where I travel most. I've been to so many different places in one year and that is my first step in becoming the TRAVELER!

I've been to places which I have not imagined myself going. I've been to places where I have dreamed of going. I've been to places where I've been for so many times and I've been to places where taught me a lot about life.

I have said this in my many posts. I have repeated this a lot of times that I love travelling. Travelling is my one medium that keeps me sane. I am grateful that my family loves travelling as well and I could say that my parents trained me to be as such person. It all comes from how you were educated at home, right?

I am going off to another place tomorrow. Place where I have been to once and going again for the second time. Yes, I am excited but I know what to expect when I am there. I know how it is there and I know how is the people there. So, there should not be any hardship to adjust and adapt to the whole situation.

I would really like to go to someplace where I have never been to and I have no idea what to expect just like when I went to India. I did not have the experience being in India and I have no idea what to expect to happen there. So, I can just whack everything up. LOL. India has taught me a lot about life and I will never forget the experience. If God permits, I really want to go back to India to experience the life, culture, scenery of India. It was a priceless experience.

Apart from that,

My point for this post is in fact, I am not in the mood to pack my stuff. I was excited, I am excited but I am just not in the mood to do the packing and stuff. I have not even list down things to bring which is my normal routine every time I am travelling somewhere, oversea.

Going to have to get the mood now.

Love,
Marl

Why Is My Life-Graph Going Downwards?

As I read my previous posts, I realised that my English, previously, was better than my English now.

Why is this happening?


His name is Thomas McDonell



I just found out about him after watching the movie 'Prom' on Astro. 
His bad boy look and long, silky, shiny hair make him look Wuishhh~ 
LOL~ 

Saturday, August 25, 2012

H.A.P.P.Y

Happiness is what people look forward to in life.
Happiness is what people are hungered for in life.
Happiness comes in and out of our lives.
Happiness comes in many ways.

You may gain happiness when you just fall in love
You may gain happiness when you achieved something in life.
You may gain happiness when people you love are happy.
You may gain happiness just by enjoying your life to the fullest.

It is said that happiness is sometimes cruel
because it gives us false hope
We thought that we are truly happy but the truth is..it's just a lie
We thought that happiness would come in our way but it never came.

Once we thought that we are happy
Once we thought that we have it all
Once we thought that love is there
Suddenly, it all disappear

How can that be?
What had just happened?

We laugh, we smile, we giggle, and we cry
for happiness
The happiest thing in life is when we are ourselves happy in and out.

Love,
Marl
(sounds like its incomplete. I apologize)

Thursday, August 23, 2012

English

I have never been excellent in language

I have never been excellent in English nor in Malay

I have never been good in structuring sentences

I have never been good in grammar

...and without more practice, it just makes my English worse than EVER!

Moral of the story: I have to start writing again. More writing and more writing! 

As You Get Older, These Questions Will Haunt You Down.

21 years old

This is the age where the questions will start haunting you down

This is the age where everyone will ask you the same questions

If you are in the same situation as I am right now, you will know what type of questions are FAQ.

I, personally, am uncomfortable with the questions

They make me question myself

They make me question the qualities which I might not have

They make me question my own personal appearance

They make me INSECURE

21 years old

The year where others have their past experiences

The year where others have their 2nd or 3rd partner

The year where I get more and more questions

Honestly, the questions do not so much influence my eagerness to have one partner but they make me question more about myself

the word INSECURE comes to play

the word SELF-CONFIDENCE comes into the picture

the word NOT GOOD appears

When I am back in my hometown, the first question asked by the elderly is

'Do you have a boyfriend? No? Why haven't you have one?'

As I said, these questions do not make me want a boyfriend more but they affect my inner-self  as I will start to question my self. Due to this, my SELF-CONFIDENCE sheds day by day

The question WHY? WHY? WHY? comes into my mind.

It gets to me and it has knocked me down once.

I need to stand up straight again and held my head high once more and just hope for the best in life.

ALLAH KNOWS BEST!

Love,
Marl 

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

When Ramadhan brings us Luck

We have never expected that we will go that far. We have never expected that with so little time to prepare we would be able to get a place in the quarter-finals. Well, maybe it was just me. I did not expect that I will have to moot in the quarter-finals. Honestly, I did not put so much hope for the break-ins.

BUT

ALHAMDULILLAH! Luck was on our side.

Hello everybody,

Its been a long time since I last wrote a post. Kept on forgetting and there was so much to do during the semester.

For your information, my team and I went to Hong Kong exactly one week ago for a competition called International ADR Mooting Competition.

From left: Ellena, me, Hannah and Bam

Amongst participated teams were from the USA, Australia, India, China, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria and Hong Kong. We were the only Malaysian team participated in the competition and it was our first time participating in this kind of mooting format which includes both mediation and arbitration. 

Day 1

The Claimant had to go for the first round against Shanghai team, respondent. It was a little rough, as what they said, but I thought it was a pretty good round. It was just nerve, I guess, cause it has been a long time since they last mooted. But, all in all they were awesome and the judges loved them. 

Day 2

Its my round now. All I have to say is that I was so freaking nervous before the round because the last time I mooted was exactly one year ago which was in Law Asia moot. I did not participate in the IHL nor other moots so I was a little bit rusty. I had troubles during the training and I was scared to go for my first round but managed to keep everything to the down low and I managed my tension. 

The round went pretty well, I can say. Of course, Hannah was great, as usual, but I was a little bit shaky. All in all, it was alright. 

Day 3

Its time for the Claimant's second round. Both looked more confident compared to the first day. Both were awesome in the round. Judges loved them. 

Day 4

Its the Respondent's second round. My mood was a little off this day and I did not perform well. I admit, I did not do good in this round. I was so shaky. I was scared. I did not sound confident and I was out of my focus-zone. 

But, thank god. The judges still liked our performance. and...the most epic thing happened during this round where Hannah snatched my pen which I was holding when I was speaking cause I was playing with its cap. It was the most epic moment ever! The judges saw it and they complimented saying that that was a good teamwork. I laughed and tried to hide my face. It was good though.

After our round passed, we had to wait for the announcement for break-ins into the quarter-finals. I, personally did not expect anything especially when I thought about my performance during the rounds. I honestly thought that we had no chance advancing to the next round cause of my stupid mistakes. 

BUT

Our team name was called!!! We're in the QUARTER-FINALS! All of us were speechless. All the other teams were cheering, screaming, crying when they found out that they made it to the next round but our team....we did not say a single word to each other nor did we react to one another. We were stunned and speechless.
The most epic moment during the competition. The time when we found out we were in Quarter-Finals
After 30 seconds we finally come to our senses and started cheering and hugging and reacting to one another. We were surprised by the whole thing. QUARTER-Finals babeyh!

After the announcement, we had to choose whether to go as Respondent or  Claimant for the next round. We did win the coin-tossed and we chose to go with the Respondent. Meaning, I have to moot in the quarters.

Back home, Hannah and I managed to rewrite our points and brainstormed for new points and etc.

Day 5

Its QUARTER-FINALS day.

All I can say is that my performance was better than my second round but worse than my first round. I tried my best to answer all the questions but I stumbled along the way. It was a hard round for me but it was worth the fight. At least, that is what I think.

We did not manage to get into the semi finals but we knew and we know that we already did our best and luck was just not on our side for the semis. We were happy for where we were at the point. We did not even cry and none of us were really really upset. Its a lie if I were to say that we were not disappointed. Who won't be disappointed when they lost? That's crazy. We did feel upset and disappointed but we are matured enough to take the whole experience as a learning process and we did not get over-reacted.

Day 6

Went shopping the whole day before the final dinner at night

Dinner time

We were all dressed-up for the dinner and one by one categories were announced.

Our achievements:

Hannah Nasir, our anchor, won 5th Best Oralist in the General round

Our team, team 008 won 4th Best Team in the General Round!! 

WE ARE NUMBER 4 out of 20 teams!

Are you freaking serious?

I am still trying to absorb these facts till now.

Just imagine, if there was no need for quarter-finals, we would have been in the semi-finals by now! How cool is that?

Alhamdulillah. with all our hardwork, we got something in return. We are so thankful for whatever we have achieved in this competition.

We hope that we make everyone proud. 



with Professor George Barmann from Columbia Law School
I, personally, would like to thank everyone including the Coaches, Miss Ummi and Sir Irwin for helping us with all the trainings and points. Not to forget, thank you too to Mdm. Mazlina for handling our paperwork and budgets.

To my seniors, Fikie and Zharif for being there giving us the support we needed

and lastly,

to my beloved team mates, thank you for everything and love you guys so much!