New experiences

The past few days had been incredible.It started with the 6th World Islamic Economic Forum where I met influential Muslim world leaders (both of the past and current ones) and talented young Muslims.Took home (IIUM) 2 of the artists to talk to students and show their short films and play their music.IIUM.fm also interviewed them.Some 50 students turned up at the talk/screening of the short films/musical performance held at Career Resource Room (thanks to Tanja and Sheena who assisted me in my absence.Everything was short notice but one has to be clever in seizing opportunities and my two colleagues saw that.Some people would complain,saying it's short notice.Due to Sheena's and Tanja's far-sightedness, our kids benefitted from such a rare opportunity to listen to two Muslim artists from New York City). Mohsin the younger brother was a Fulbright scholar who did some work with street kids in Morocco, empowering them through film production (the kids wrote, acted and directed their life stories and the short films were later screened to some 400 people ~ rich and poor who ended up respecting the kids and stopped spitting at them).

I hope IIUM kids will be inspired to do the same with our street kids/stateless kids in the city.

The whole office had an IEEP retreat in Kelantan and while we were there, the Industrial Networking team worked on internship opportunities as well and the Alumni team organised a reunion dinner for alums in Kota Bharu.Prof Kamal was the speaker for the dinner talk.We got 7 pioneer alums (first batch) Mahal tu! We have made plans for the future.Prof Kamal spoke in Kelantanese most of the time.Truly hilarious but his students missed him so much.One lawyer macam nak nangis as he was leaving, punya sayangnya dia kat bekas cikgunya.Quite touching.

Yang scary was our NLP experience.Everyone seems to embrace this NLP culture.I told Faisal (our coordinator) one has to integrate Islamic values in the prog.Silap2 boleh syirik cos' the prog trains you to believe in your power of mind.Pernah one Puan Sri who had problem sleeping said, after the success of NLP, "Saya dah buat semua, baca yassin, baca Quran, semua tak jadi tetapi selepas buat NLP, baru saya dapat tidur." Sepatutnya she added, "Dengan izin Allah."

It's a dangerous prog, easily subject to abuse.Maybe that's how I lost my RM50K to a therapist! He had NLP-ed me.Baik memang baik but I think he over-charged.

Likewise in KB, we were shown the power of our mind as we passed our energy to a bulb and this bulb was dropped on a thick glass.The glass broke! A colleague who visualised driving her dream car in 2012 could not lift her leg to return to 2010 cos' she had gone to live in 2012! Two other colleagues had to lift her back to the 2010 station, baru dia sedar.Really scary!

I'd say be careful with NLPers (Obama is said to be one of them)