Born to Lead…

Hype you guys! Miss me? Ah, save it to yourself, I don’t need it. Haha, back to the title, you over there, are you a leader? How about the other you? No? Not sure? Murtabak ah? Just kidding, how you guys define leadership? Is it Mr. President of our club a leader or just a manager that tries to look good in front the public? Come, let us see few opinions and mine as well.
Alan Keith of Genentech who said "Leadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen."(Hmm, sort of). Other than that, leadership has been described as the “process of social influence in which one person is able to enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task”. There have been a lot of related theories regarding the true definition of leadership but for me, leader is actually a person that led not only a group of people but himself to accomplish something big in his life. You see, a leader should not only be in a big organization but it’s already in yourself as you can exhibit the quality of a leader.
It is just damn hard to be a true leader, why you ask me? It is because there are no real guidelines (or Leadership for Dummies book) for us to determine the pathway of a leader to grow and develop. In lament term, there is no benchmark for us to see who has the potential of leader among us. Nevertheless, we, of course, have 2 kind of leader in this world. One, he or she will like to see us in suffer just to fulfill his or her wishes. The other one will try his or her best to reduce the impact and maximize the profit for not only him or her but the rest of us.
Besides, I believe a leader should know the value of right, wrong, good and bad. It is totally wrong when you equate the value of right to good and wrong to bad. Somehow, you feel in certain part of your life, there are things you done are good but it is wrong and vice versa. A leader should know about this more than anybody because it is going to determine your status of leadership. Of course, this also another aspect that separates a leader from a manager.
A leader also has to touch the heart of other people because they are capable to do that. My father always said to me, a leader is a good listener. Leader has the tendency of being street counselor whom most people will get the help from him or her regarding any problem. The leader that done this before throughout his world conquest is Alexander the Great who always visits his soldier camp to hear them out and compare number of scars in the battlefield. This also shows that he has a great social skill as well. I think that’s all folks or I’ll be late for my class. Yikes, chow first!

You Design What?

We meet again, I have to do this post straight away as to replace my ‘missing post’ for last week. Now, if you don’t mind, the title reflects on architecture in depth. It also branches from engineering, actually. The word architecture even derived from Latin, architectura which means master builder. As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and constructing buildings by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter. A wider definition often includes the design of the total built environment, from the macro level of how a building integrates with its surrounding landscape to the micro level of architectural or construction details and, sometimes, furniture. Wider still, architecture is the activity of designing any kind of system.
Now, I read in Wikipedia that a good design should obey these 3 principles; that is durability, utility and beauty. It can also mean that the design should remain in good condition at all times, useful and can raise other people spirit when they see it. Architects can obtain this valuable piece of information from the earliest written work (De architectura), by the Roman architect Vitruvius in the early 1st century CE. According to Vitruvius, the architect should strive to fulfill each of these three attributes as well as possible. (Hah, I know it’s going to be hard for the architect, so I truly respect to all architecture students. *salute*)
The progress of architecture can be divided into several era; classicsm, medieval, renaissancism and modernism. (If I’m not mistaken it is from the architecture board in KBU International College). Each parts of the era show how architecture develops into one of the well known field in the world. From religion to basic necessities of human being, architecture has become a medium for human being to express their feelings and ideas on something. In my opinion, if you ask me, architecture is more to the manifestation of the designer’s mind to the society. Whatever it is, only a creative person has his or her own way to define this magnificent field. Oh yeah, the building that I like so far is the National Centre for the Performing Arts (China) as it comprises psychology onto its design. Not only that, it also has a great sound system which really has the impact on the audience and completely transforms them into a new person as they leave the place. Thanks to its architect, Paul Andreu whom is a French citizen that started the construction in December 2001 and the inaugural concert was officially held in December 2007. That’s all for today, folks. You want to find it more, google and yahoo are always there for you. Fielen Dank, everybody!

Happy-Go-Lucky...

What’s up, your guys? How’s everything? I’m good, nothing much to be mentioned about myself. Ok, skip to the point, are you happy now? I mean, do you happy with your life? No? I heard some say yes. Whatever it is, I’m very happy with my life. Or maybe, I think I am the happiest person in the life (either one). Haha, you want to know why? This is my own definition of happiness.
My first happiness started when I was born to this world, crying with tears of joy. I believe it’s because the God has given the opportunity to me to face endless obstacles and enjoy the benefit of powerless human using everything of what do you have and acquire in life. Other than that, I considered myself that time happy because my parents also happy that they can finally have the values and experiences they learnt before they got married applied in our family. Until now, they still strongly united and I’m very grateful for their teachings on me because that’s the ultimate prove of love towards me.
Secondly, I’m very happy because of my teachers (and lecturers) has enlightened me with wonderful things in this world. They did a good job in opening my eyes to the positive and negative side of the world. From kindergarten to college, I’m too scolded by them but it’s all for reason behind it. In addition, I’m also happy for my brother, sisters, relatives, best friend and anybody directly and indirectly related to me. Again, why? It’s simple, they are always there for me regardless of the situation. Although I have been hurt by my enemy, backstabbed by my own friends and betrayed by lovers-to-be, I’m still really really really ok cause God has replaced all of them with better ones in the future.
Thirdly, I’m happy because every single hardships that I face has changed into good things so far. It’s even better when I see other people happy, I don’t know why, maybe it’s my character that always supports others. I don’t get it when people kept complaining about their mishaps until they get depressed about it and talked to nobody especially to the person he or she dislikes, hoping they can get ‘erase’ the person from their life. Face it, God will put you everyday confronting that person, physically and mentally. At the end, you blame your mishaps wholly on fate, whereas it’s their choice that determines their level of their misery. Perhaps, for me, God also wants me to accomplish my objectives in life and becomes stronger in the future. Somebody said to me, ’What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger’. That buddy is damn right. Trust me, it doesn’t matter how much more obstacles you are going to face but it is more to why. And be optimistic as you can’t imagine what the destiny stores for you. Again, it’s up to you to decide. Thank you for your happiness.