iPad Air 4th Gen + Smart Keyboard

 Assalamualaikum & hey friends,

Yesterday I just newly bought an iPad with Smart Keyboard. Actually, it’s been long time already since I planned to buy but due to constraint budget, so I keep delaying until yesterday. My wife and I are so happy to have another device from Apple. Other than this, I’m owning iPhone 11, iPhone 12 Pro Max, airpod, Apple Watch whereas my wife is owning iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 12, airpod & Apple Watch.

Seriously, once you bought an apple item, you will tend to buy more due to its profusely ecosystem. Personally, I fond of its ecosystem. But, of course to get Apple product, you might need to sacrifice some money due to its notorious expensive product.

This entry is not a review about this product, but more towards my sharing only. Here I will include the device price (after discount) together with smart protection plan (kind of insurance) just for your info (the price maybe will be a bit different if got any offer; like mine I got RM50 discount)

1) iPad Air 4th gen : RM2449.00

2) Smart Keyboard Folio : RM719.00

3) Smart Protection Plan : RM159.00

Total : RM3327.00

Nowadays, you don’t have to be impressed with people who got apple devices even with premium price. For example, you can easily find people who are using iPhone 13 pro max (latest iPhone ) because of below easiest own method :

1) Installment plan up to 2 years by apple authorised seller

2) Installment plan using mobile plan also up to 2 years

So, don’t assume people with apple devices are rich and vice versa. For me, whatever I bought from apple is something I will fully utilise it and of course the decision to buy will be after series of thinking and brainstorming with my wife.😜

Book : Atomic Habit

 Assalamualaikum & hey friends,

I just finished another book few days back and here is the snippet which I can share with you

📚Book

Atomic Habit by James Clear

📜3 Things in summay

- Habit is compound interest of self improvement ; 1% improvement we develop for ourselves for each day will result in almost 38 times better self (compare to our current self) in a year whereas 1% degradation in ourselves will lead to almost zero

- Habit either good or bad will be always in a continuous cycle of "Cue - Craving - Response - Reward "

- 4 steps to create a good habit is 1. Make it obvious 2. Make it attractive 3. Make it easy 4. Make it satifying

💵Price

Super affordable price I got from shopee is around RM19.

📃Pages

271 (exclude notes/reference section)

📖Other related contents 

 - the best way to start a new habit

- the secret to self control

- how to make good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible

✅Advantage

Usually I will put disadvantage section here ; but since I don't find any which turn me into exasperation, then I will highlight its advantage. One of the fascinated things about this book is at the end of each chapter, the author had included a summary or crucial points. For me who just read few pages for each day and not in a 1 shot to finish the book, I find that this is kind of interesting approach by the author to strengthen his points to the readers and as a recap session to us as a reader. Due to this, I can declare that James Clear is one of my favorite author.

⚜️Suggestion

This book is highly recommended to those who want to improvise their daily habit, those who want to eliminate their bad habits, those who love to be productive in their daily errands etc..

🖋Overall rating

9.5 / 10

Close Contact Covid 19

 Assalamualaikum w.b.t & hey friends,

Recently, it can be seen that there is almost 30k thousands for daily new cases for covid 19 in Malaysia (6 Mar '22 update : 27,181 cases). It looks very bad situation where Omicron variant spreads vigorously than previous variants. But, the effect is milder compare to the rest which is good news to us. Honesty, I am not so sure the milder effect due to majority of people got vaccinated or due this Omicron variant properties itself. Let the people in this field answer this one as I am not in medical field.

Back to the main topic of this entry. Actually, my wife and I currently under self quarantine due to close contact with my mother in law who is positive now. Last week, we went back to my wife hometown and everything looks well. But, on Saturay night, our mother started to feel chills and not feeling well. But, none of us suspicious anything because during that night, the surrounding environment pretty cold due to raining. 

However, last night (Sunday night), our mother did swab test (RTK) and it was positive. So, all close contact need update mysejahtera apps and now all under quaratine due to no booster jab and having symptom. For current info, anyone who has been classified as close contact but aready get booster jab and no symptom will no need to quarantine anymore. I would say from day to day, the SOP start to be less stringent compare to before. But, let the government and Ministry of Health do their work.

Lastly,  I hope we will fully recover and return to good health condition back and do daily routine as per normal. Amiin. See you in my next entry.

Motion VS Action

Assalamualaikum w.b.t & hey friends

Currently I am reading Atomic Habits by James Clear. It's almost 50% of the book I have completed. Among the ideas that has been presented so far, I find something interesting (other ideas are good as well) which is motion and action.

In my own understanding, motion is the stage where we plan, strategize and learn whereas action is the stage where we put into practice. Usually, we tend to focus more on the motion instead of action because we scare of critism and failure. In the other word, we are always focusing on the motion stage as a medium to procrastinate failure since only action will have an outcome either success or failure.

Motion does not give any result unless we put it into action. Thus, it is very important to take action rather than being in a safe mode like in motion. By being in motion for a long time, we are deceiving ourselves that we are making progress but the truth is nothing unless there is an action.

For example, I am planning or brainstorming on the topics to write any entry in my blog where I am in motion mode. I can take whatever amount of time to plan and learn any topic to write. But, if I don't take any action to actually write the blog, then there will be no result at all.

The idea here is not to convey that motion mode like planning, strategizing and learning is not crucial, but action must be taken after motion mode then only we will see the result. Thus, after spending some time in the motion mode, then we need to transmute motion into its equivalent action for result.