I keep on thinking why I'm living such a depressed and boring life, without knowing the fact that I'm actually blessed. Blessed, because occasionally, throughout my life, I've been surrounded by ever-so talented people around me. My mum, she is an enthusiastic business woman. Even though making curry-puffs is the only thing she is skillful at doing, she put her 100% passion at it. She always put this smile of satisfaction on her tired, wrinkly face, that I always cherish whenever I am looking at one of those.

I have this friend, a blooming singer and guitarist, who is very keen on making her own art and never get tired of doing what she does best, every night and day. Behind her, I could see this shining, sparkling shadow of joy and triumph, a bright future she is heading to. The unseen confidence she is hiding inside herself - she need to have a stronger faith of her own, unique talent. If I can see it, why can't she? 

There is a guy, a potential photographer, who always has this very straight-forward, clear, serious visions in his life, which he is slowly able full-fill them one by one each day. Before this, he is just a casual photographer, only using a common gadget of RM500 or so to capture the best moments of his life. During this period, he always admire people who are better than him (in terms of gadgets and skills), but behind this admiration, he is determined to be one of them. And just so you know, recently he bought himself a DSLR worth RM3200. He did this by saving his salary for 5 months - he is a part-time tuition teacher. Could you imagine how on earth did he do that? Oh, what a satisfactory, victorious achievement! I was there all along this process, seeing his enthusiastic, shiny eyes; hearing those determined, eager voice of him whenever he talked about photography. I'm so proud of him. May he becomes a successful photographer in the near future :)

Another friend of mine, a writer, is full of thoughts and wisdoms in her life (well, sometimes she acted weird and blurry haha). People might think she is one of those nerds, the nobody, but people don't know, behind her baggy Pashmina (her favourite style of wearing the hijab nowadays) lies a successful writer, having her book sold all over those book-stores in town. Then there is also another guy of a skinny, bony figure, and with a glance, people might think he is a drug-addict or a drug-dealer something like that; but the truth is, he owns a printing shop by which he worked real hard for a few, struggling months for his dream to come true. How amazing they are, aren't they?

These people, they might not be as brilliant as Einstein, but they do something they are really good at, and they do this with continuous hard work, determination and dedication. If in any way your life is surrounded by people like them, be thankful and proud of yourself, because through them, you have gained the will of living and surviving the hard life of yours, for they are always be there as your daily source of inspiration. You have a wonderful life which others out there are dying to have. I'm blessed, same goes to you. Alhamdulillah :D

People say when we want to fight the problem, we need to keep our head positive. A point to ponder, what about if the negativity is all over the positivity? There is a saying, "Disebabkan nila setitik, rosak susu sebelanga". You can relate with that if it is plausible to you (for me it is). Being positive can be thought in mind, however the negativity could be shown through lack of mental and physical involvement in survival activity. Our body will react towards what our mind thinks. Sometimes in the reversal way. Is there any way to hide this weakness? No one was born to look perfect. Neither do I.

How do you guys feel whenever you watch this short clip? For me, it is inspiring enough (especially the background music, the jazzy rhythm is very soulful). In fact, Nescafé is one of the powerful brands which successfully persuaded me this whole time, and shapes my thinking, at least for some goods, outsmarting "viruses" in my mind. Hehe.

Mr. Jamil: Name a toiletry brand you are using. Quick, quick, name me one.

Us: Shokubutsu!

Mr. Jamil: Then Shokubutsu already "had" you. We are all being "had". We are all being persuaded.

All right Sir, then I am already being "had" by Nescafé. What contributes to Nescafé's triumph in persuading me? Was it the ads on the TV? I'll take that as the first point. If you observe the video closely, you will get the message - a cup of Nescafé in the early morning will make your day. It's obvious ya know. If you have noticed, the background music used in the video was a song "Lovely Day", sang by the lovely voice of a talented Malaysian singer, Yuna (the original singer is Bill Withers). Let's observe the song lyrics:

When I wake up in the morning light, The sun is at my eyes, Then I look at you, And I know Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day (2X)

Make Nescafé, make the moment.

Brighten up by Nescafé.

Simple ads, simple song, simple messages, but the meaning behind it, is huge! The ads is actually trying to portray the good side of consuming Nescafé in the early morning  (which I already explained above), and the pictures used in the video is alluring (especially to a lomography maniac like me). So these are the things that persuaded me to consume Nescafé.

I never thought of something like this before I started consuming Nescafé. I mean, I didn't really think that coffee could lift up my gloomy morning. It is actually relies on yourself, the way your perceive the day is totally up to you, and not being controlled by some sort of food or drinks. It's like the placebo-effect - if your mind tells you that you are happy, then you will be happy, that's the power of mind. But then people around me kept telling me (through ads, radios, printed media) that, "Hey let's start the day with coffee, it has caffeine in it, it can boost your adrenaline, lift up your mood, and yada yada....". So then I thought, "Oh so that's the way it goes!", then after frequent exposure to these messages, especially through ads on TV, I began to believe what they said. Slowly, every day, I began to adapt the goodness of coffee (Nescafé) in my mind, adjusting it with my physical and emotional needs. I began to believe that the reason I was so sleepy during the morning class was because I haven't had my Nescafé yet. So when the class ended, I went straight to the café, got myself a glass of Nescafé, and poof! I'm not sleepy anymore, becoming quick-witted, motivated and such.

Why this happened? Simple. Our brain is unique. We see and hear many things every single day in our life. Sometimes our brain tends to get confused between the inferences and the real thoughts in the context, as well as what is "true" and what is being "perceived", because we are relating things we saw and heard with our life experiences, thus making our belief on the inferences becoming more powerful than the truth.

However, despite of me being persuaded by Nescafé, I'm aware about it all the times. I'm always keep on telling myself to completely stop the Nescafé drinking habit, but I'm incapable of doing so. All I could ever do is to reduce the intake, because despite of the goods, there are also some bad effects of it. For example, after the intake, my heart begins to beat unstoppably like a racing car, which difficults me to sleep; and a forbidden assumption of Nescafé for quite some times will make me feel depressed.

As for the conclusion, we should be aware of the persuasive things around us, in order for us to keep our conscientiousness about whatever things we are consuming throughout our daily life :)

I have decided to write tonight. Not that I was urged by certain people to do so (they did successfully influenced me at certain extents), but then I think if I keep on being lazy to write, I'm afraid I might lose my interest in writing, forever. It's now or never. Not writing for more than two weeks doesn't mean I'm being dormant in this cyber world. My blog reading habit still remains intact (kudos to my blogger-mates, they wrote such great posts I never get bored to read!). Sometimes I wondered maybe they enjoyed blogging more than I do, by which I'm so proud of them to have such long-lasting interest span :)

Just to let you know, the new semester has started for three weeks now, yet I'm still in the honeymoon mood. Hehe. Sorry dear lecturers and friends, if I ever bored you in any way during the whole time I spent in the class. As usual, I'm starting to receive the "Scroll of Madness", from the superior ones. Urgh, inescapable. Same routines will come and go. The total full stop is when the last paper of the last subject is being handed to the invigilator. The feeling to face the busy, restless student life, again, is like you are out of the food heaven and then suddenly you have to enter the fat factory. Oh, no, no, it is unarguably does make sense. Believe me.

I've got to go now, but before that, I want dedicate this to all people who inspired me. Enjoice!