Rich or Poor?

By definition,

Rich is having wealth or great possessions; abundantly supplied with resources, means, or funds; wealthy: a rich man; a rich nation.


Poor is an adjective related to a state of poverty, low quality or pity.


But how can we exactly define it in term of happiness? Do rich people happy being rich or do paupers sad being poor? How do we relate money with smile? How do we relate treasure with laugh?

These questions have been initiated from a sustainability lecture by one of the lecturers here. Ever since, I've been thinking of what was she saying. How does David Beckham live? What is he doing daily since he is not actively playing football now (not that I know)? How do billionaires spend their money on? How many clothes do they actually want to wear? They don't even know what to spend on anymore since there are a lot left. The commoners eat one plate of rice at least, and they are full. The commoners have the same type of body system with those what so called always-having-extra-large-amount-of money-left-and-don't-know-what-to-spend-on people and of course those people will eat quite the same amount too, right? Okay, maybe those riches will eat extra bit more or even have the most expensive rice in the world, but still, aren't the simple requirements of living thing the same for everyone?

Sometimes, I feel like, it is good to have less money, so you know you need to always work harder and smarter to gain and improve more and more, rather than have more money and don't have to improve or gain anything as if the current properties will be everlasting and not depleting. This relates to satisfaction in life. We gain satisfaction by doing something with our own passion and free will, not from others'. This will then bring the happiness of ones' lives as they are fulfilling what their needs and necessities are. But I'm not saying those riches are lazy and not happy. Of course with money, we can almost buy every physical things which actually bring the happiness, even so humans. But to what extent do we really need money? To what extent do the money cycling in the economy? To which extent is the money really valuable?

These questions will not be ended as new questions will keep emerging. Subjective can never be objective but objective can always be subjective. Paupers can always improve their lives with their own strength and riches can always have the possibilities being bankrupt if they don't know how to manage it. Life is a cycle, you can be at the bottom or the top, you can be sad or happy, it's all depending on how we see a life, our perceptions.

Try to be happy no matter how hard the life is as every cloud has silver lining. You deserve what you should deserve. Work with times and always and always remember that Allah will be always there for us.

1st week of exam

Few days before the exam started

I was studying and revising the same stuffs again and again till I felt that I couldn't digest more on them. But I was scared that I might just feel that was enough but actually, in reality, it wasn't. I did something else too such as photos editing, eating, cleaning up the room to get rid of the boredom of studying. I called him and we talked for 4 hours on the phone rewinding the past memories we had along the relationship, picking up the left over memories and digging few secrets. The situation I had before the exam started was like I didn't have any exam to sit. Too 'chillex'.

I was all prepared mentally and physically. And the exam day came...

Wednesday 19th January

ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS

The paper was just fine, perfectly fine with only 6 questions, but the period given was not fine. We were given only an hour for that paper, and of course my handwriting was super horrible. I scribbled here and there, number 2 looked like z, i looked like 1. I hope I would still get a first regardless all the careless mistakes I made. Ameen.

Thursday 20th January

PRINCIPLE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

This paper was quite fun only with the subjective questions. I was not that confident to answer the objective question as there was option for impossible to know or lack of information. OMG. It really tested my basic. I used to study all those subjective answers, so, in my mind, was just all solutions to that particular kind of question. I did mistake by focusing only on that section. And again, I hope the marks would not be too bad, first class,Ameen...

Right after the exam was over for this week...

Maryam and me went straight to Metro centre and did some shopping. Okay, this part was fun. Sales were everywhere, we went in shop by shop, boutique by boutique, aaaaaaa melt melt seeing the price. I couldn't stop myself to shop even after making a promise to myself to stop shopping for a year. They were all tempting. Both of us went crazy. Luckily I still remembered that I've to save money and stop being wild eying. If not, I'm sure I've to start thinking of renting a ship to bring back the stuffs. (joking2). Oh, we watched Saw 3D in the evening. The movie was disgusting and stopped watching it half way and started watching korean drama entitled My Princess. That's even better. =p