ALHAMDULILLAH!  Praise be to Allah.  My Ph.D student, Wan Fara Wan Wan Fakhruddin, has successfully defended her thesis entitled Functions of Language in Forest Resource Report Genre from a Systemic Functional Linguistics Perspective on 28 August 2017.  She got a B! with minor corrections.

Money says “Earn me… forget everything”

Time says “Follow me … forger everything”

Future says “Struggle for me… forget everything”

Allah says “Just remember me … I’ll give you everything”

Generally speaking, those who are superior in military strength and weapons usually have an advantageous posture. But this is not universal. Sometimes one who is inferior can also be in an advantageous posture if he makes use of the situation and all the advantageous that he has.

For instace, in Southern China, there is a small animal, a kind of leopard, which is the same size as a cat. It is much weaker in strength than a tiger, but it often attacks a tiger when it sees one. It is as nimble as a squirrel and usually lays in ambush in a tree, and suddenly jumps onto the back of the tiger, gets hold on the tiger’s tail, and uses its sharp paw to vigorously scratch the tiger’s anus. The tiger jumps and roars from the pain, but it is unable to reach the leopard cat. The only solution is for the tiger to roll on the ground, at which time the small animal flees rapidly.

 The kingfisher is a small bird 15 centimeters long with green feathers and a sharp beak like a nail. It usually flies over water. When it sees a fish, it draws its wings in and dashes into the water with all its force like an arrow. Sometimes it can catch fish bigger than itself. The action of a kingfisher fully  illustrates what Sun Tzu stated ‘the momentum is over-whelming and attack precisely timed’.

Sun Tzu’s Art of Warrior, page 126.

While responding to a friend’s message, I stumbled upon the word backwards, I am used to say moving backwards, but why with an ‘s’. So, I searched the word on google and this is what I got.

-Both backward and backwards are correct, but most sources say that when you’re using the word as an adverb, backward is standard in American English and backwards is standard in British English.-

To read more go to

http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/backward-versus-backwards

I love this quote by Stephen Covey.

The main thing is to make the main thing the main thing

hahahaha

keep the main thing the main thing 😇

The power of Networking

The richest people in the world look for and build networks, everyone else looks for work

– Robert Kiyosaki –

More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject

– Peter Drucker –

The two quotes above remind me of my classmate, who became a successful businessman. He often posted his photos playing golf, having lunch and dinner with VIPs. It looked like his daily routine was socialising and entertaining clients. Above all, from the photos he posted, he seemed to have fun with his job besides being rich.

The trick in life is to do things that are fun all the time

– Warren Buffett –

The greatest danger is not that we aim too high and miss it but that we aim too low and reach it.

Michelangelo