That old game....

Last two weeks we started to play back a game which we didn’t play for a very long time. The boys (from KBU) and me played rugby. I think that I did not touch a rugby ball for one year plus. Although I used to play this game before, as I was in the secondary school, I don’t have the guts like I used to have during those golden days anymore. It was rather frustrating. I don’t have the confidence to tackle the others anymore. I hesitate every time I try to tackle someone. My confidence is just not with me anymore. Anyhow, my catching ball skill is still inside me. It was very useful for me as I played as a fullback back in those days. I use my chest as I catch the ball and during the first day we played this game, my chest were killing me as it was not as hard as it used to be. That was a disappointment to me as I realized that.
The other element that is vital for every athletes which I used to have was stamina. Every muscle in my body slowly becoming ‘softer’ just after the SPM as I play less sport just after I left school. It’s not easy to build back the stamina especially when we don’t practice self-discipline. It’s easier to lose our stamina rather than building it, just like building. It’s easier to demolish one rather than building one. A building can be demolished just in a few hours or even in a few minutes but to build it, it took years of careful planning and efforts.
I only touched on one type of sport that I used to play by not considering the other type of sports like athletics, volleyball, handball and etc. Hopefully I’m not totally ‘paralyze’. For those athletes who are still active, keep up and always maintain your stamina at the optimum level so that you won’t have to ‘look’ for it once it is lost.

I still remember...

Guess what…
Last Saturday was my 19th birthday. Birthday is something that we should enjoy and most of the people do enjoy their birthday. Yes I did enjoy my birthday although I don’t really celebrate it. This whole birthday thing made me thought, that aren’t we suppose to give presents to our parents as they struggled hard after all this years in raising us up as a token of our gratitude towards them? But the other way round happens. Parents usually give presents to their children. I’m not questioning it, but it’s just something to think about. Who should appreciate who?
This year I’ve got a Nike T-shirt from my dad. That reminded me about an Adidas T-shirt from my mom 2 years ago. She drove all the way from PJ to Banting just to wish me happy birthday and give the shirt to me but this year, my dad was from Penang but he has his own objective coming down to KL during my birthday, unlike my mom. She came by surprise as at that time, during my 17th birthday, I represented my school in an athletic event in Jugra Stadium. I took part in a 100m run. On that day, there is only a qualification round for 100m event and I was placed in the second qualification run. I was in the third place at the time as the participants reached the final line. She called and shouted my name soon after the race finished as at that time I was gasping for air. I saw her but didn’t notice that she was there since the beginning and she watched me all the time. It was the most surprising birthday surprise I ever had. Guess what… The next day, I won the 100m race. I gave myself a gold medal and I admit that, the gold medal was the best gift I’ve ever got from me myself.

Look at the brighter side....

Life is harsh. I admit that it’s hard to keep on living but I also totally agree that ending one’s life is not one solution to escape the hardness of life. It’s boring though when we live in a perfect world without problems and challenges. It’s them that make us to feel alive. If we never know pain, than we would never feel joy, If we don’t know sad, then, we don’t know happy, and if we never fail, we hardly enjoy success. That makes our life colorful and teaches us a lot in living life. That’s life my friend. You need to be at the both side in order to experience it yourself. If you stay only at one side, you’ll never understand the other side and we always put a negative perspective about something that we don’t know. Understanding is power.

Life also is something to thank about. O whom should we be grateful? Of course to the Almighty. Have you ever wondered? Why was I brought into this world? What’s the purpose? What if I were not born at all? That’s not a type of questions that we human have the right to answer. For sure, the Almighty knows better than we are, but in my opinion life is the greatest gift that God have ever given to us. Don’t be so pathetic to ask the question why, especially about life. Just live your life to the max and experience it as we only live once and believe me my friend, that is also what the God wants us to do. To live our life to the max!! It expresses our appreciation for the greatest gift ever given to us and we should fill it with great experiences. Think again, why on earth would God creates beautiful places here in this for and for whom is it? It’s for us humans!! Explore this world, go out and make something meaningful to your life. Do whatever you could before you lose the ability to do it later. Do anything, or perhaps everything!! But of course, as long as whatever we do, it doesn’t contradict with our belief and do something that is not against God.

Ibn Sina once said: I would rather live in a short life and having great achievements and experiences rather than living a long life but do nothing.