Moulding THE Future Human - WHO's job?

WHO knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themSELVES? WHO knows ... ? WHO knows of the possibilities of love when men and women share not only children, home and garden, not only the fulfilment of their biological roles, but the RESPONSIBILITIES and PASSIONS of the work that creates the HUMaN future.

Source: Betty Friedan (1963), The Feminine Mystique, Penguin Books, England, p.331

Way to Live

Source: Arnold Toynbee (1970), Cities on the Move, Oxford University Press, p.247

About eight thousand or perhaps ten thousand years ago, our ancestors transformed themselves from vagrant food-gatherers, hunters, and fishermen into sedentary tillers of the soil and breeders and sheperds of livestock. Their survival of this previous testing transformation is a precedent that offers us grounds for hope that we, in our turn, may be going to survive our own ordeal. ... Since our ancestors rose to the occasion, we, their decendents, are presumably capable of emulating them if we display the courage, vision, and inventiveness that were our ancestors salvation.

shh....Let's Listen

Source: Mary King (1999), The Intuitive Voice: Your Guide to Successful Living, Ringwood, Victoria: Brolga Publishing. pp. 19-20.
Intuition and logic are two sides of the same coin. There's a place and a need for both. We need to LEARN to accept each side. Letting go judgement is the key. Judging or criticising can stop us from hearing our intuitive voice.

Let's Look

The real voyage of discovery consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes

- Marcel Proust

NoThing is IMpossible

Source: Sheila B. Kamerman and Alfred J. Kahn (1984), Societal Learning in Work and Family: Changing Roles of Men and Women edited by Patricia Voydanoff, Palo Alto, California: Mayfield Publishing Co. p. 345

It is POSSIBLE for adults to work and still build strong families. It is POSSIBLE for mothers and fathers to share work and home responsibilities. It is POSSIBLE for them to draw upon extensive child care services to help them in this, without sacrificing any of their rights and duties as parents. All this POSSIBLE, but only if the work world, along with government and communities ADAPTS and COOPERATES

InDaH hari U & Me

Andai kasturi hilang harum,
Mawar tak berkuntum,
Cinta tak bersambung
Biar emas setinggi gunung,
Kan ku peluk rimbun ampun
Rahmat yang Maha Agung


Sebahagian lirik lagu Nyanyian Serambi oleh Ramli Sarip

Mother Earth ... whose responsibility?

Source: Victor R. Savage (1984), Western Impressions f Nature and Landscape in Southeast Asia, Kent Ridge: Singapore University Press, p.13

... Included in this landscape concept are both the natural landscape such as mountains, rivers, seas. swamps and jungle, and the cultural landscape, which comprises the signature of human activity and creativity such as settlements, towns, cultivated lands, ruins and transportation networks.

The qualities and properties of the environment are a product of human consciousness. It is human beings who differentiate nature by defining it, colouring it, feeling it with emotions, systematizing and ordering it, and giving it meanings.

Hope & wisH

Ref: Jerry A. Jacobs and Kathleen Gerson (2004), The Time Divide: .. Cambridge, Harvard University Press. p. 6

In the BEST of all possible worlds, neither Mothers nor Fathers would be penalized for taking care of their children. And surely such a world would not penalize women more than men.

... Mothers and Fathers alike fear that family-friendly workplace policies come with significant strings attached.

changing TIMEs

Ref: Arlie Russell Hochschild (1997), The Time Bind: .. New York: Metropolitan Books (pp: 257-258)

The TIME experiment at ESI, Xerox, and Amerco involve modest, practical adjustments whose true lesson is that our time bind is not an immutable given but something we could alter. To make such changes, however, we have to DARE to want to change.

One thing we can learn is that small groups of people can bring about changes in culture and habit that an individual would NOT dare to attempt alone.

Any successful movement for social change begins with a VISION OF LIFE as it could be, with the notion that something potential could become REAL. So let's imagine ...

Let's imagine PTA meetings to which a large majority of the parents came, libraries where working parents can afford to devote their spare time to reading or literacy programs, and community gardens in which they and their CHILDren have the leisure to grow fresh vegetables. Picture ...

BUT vision alone will not be ENOUGH. ..

Proceed nexT leVel

Dear lady can you hear the wind blow.

And did you know

Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.

And as we wind on down the road.

Our shadows taller than our soul.

There walks a lady we all know.

Who shines white light and wants to show.

How everything still turns to gold.

.. . part of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" lyrics, lyricists: Robert Plant and Jimmy Page

REAL teachERS

Teras ke-5 Pelan Induk Pendidikan M'sia (2006-2010) adalah "Memartabatkan profesion keguruan bagi memastikan profesion itu dipandang tinggi sesuai dengan amanah yang dipertanggungjawabkan dalam pembinaan generasi masa depan." (petikan dari akhbar Utusan M'sia 21/1/2007).

TEACHing is certainly a noble profession and everyone of us is playing the teacher role in some way or other in our daily life. Moulding the young minds to become useful, responsible beings on this earth needs teachers who not only have lots of passion and patience, but also uphold outstanding moral virtues. Jgn jd spt pepatah melayu yg mengatakan "seperti KETAM mengajar anak ... "

REAL Dreams

My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Til then I walk alone
Im walking down the line
That divides me somewhere in my mind
On the borderline of the edge
And where I walk alone
Read between the lines of what's
screwed up and everything's alright
Check my vital SIGNS to know I'm still ALIVE

Part of Greenday's BLVD of Broken Dreams Lyric, Lyricist: Billie Joe

SINARi lah

... Dalam kesamaran ku rempuhi ranjau
Biarpun payah ku teruskan
Siapa memandang tidakkan ku hirau
Biarpun pedih ku tahankan
Menjelmalah bintang, Beri daku sinaran
Semoga hati ku cekal

Akan ku teruskan walau harus ditelan
Seribu nista di tangan
Terbanglah hai unggas bebas di awan
Agar kan tercapai sinar gemerlapan

Tuhan ku inginkan secebis harapan
Hanya padamu ku serahkan
Apakah kan ada ketulusan jiwa
Yang menilai ku seadanya ...

Petikan dari lirik lagu Secebis Harapan nyanyian NORA, penulis lirik: Noor