A Watched pot never boils

"A watched pot never boils." Now imagine a tiny, quantum-size "pot of water" being heated on a really tiny stove. We all know pots of water boil, given a few minutes or so. You would certainly think the watched quantum pot would also boil. It turns out, however, that if you vigilantly watch the pot, it will never boil. In fact, all vigilantly watched "quantum pots" never boil, even if they are heated forever. The only requirement for this to happen is that observers must have the intent to see the object in its initial state. This intent is determined by the frequency of their observations. The observers must look repeatedly in very short time intervals to find the object in the same state. Suppose physicists don't watch vigilantly, or suppose they do, but with the intent of seeing the quantum pot boil naturally. Then what? If the physicists look intermittently, expecting it to boil eventually, the pot will follow its natural course and will boil. Infrequent observations have little effect on the result. Or if the physicists wish, they may vigilantly observe the object along its natural evolution and will observe the same result. In other words, a watched pot boils if you intend it to.

Finally, there is another bizarre aspect to all this. What if you want the watched pot to do something weird? If your intent to observe that occurrence is vigilant enough, the object actually will follow the strange path. Hence a watched pot boils on a cake of ice, if you intend it to.

Here I need to point out that "intent" and "intentions" are not the same thing. By "intent," I am referring to a person's active observation. To make what you desire come true you need to pursue your vision vigorously, not passively dream about it and hope it will come true. If this "watched-pot" theory turns out to be correct at the human level, then our desires and accompanying actions are what actually govern our daily lives. Luck has nothing to do with it.

Fred Alan Wolf is the National Book Award-winning author of Taking the Quantum Leap.

Assalamualeikum wbt

Menemui sahabat-sahabat yang diingati selalu….
Dah lama rasanya tak berkomunikasi either secara messenger atau face to face kan? Jadi macam mana semuanya? Harap semua dalam lingkungan rahmat-Nya serta aman dan sejahtera selalu.

InsyaAllah panjang umur, murah rezeki tak lama lagi dpt la kita ‘berjumpa’ dengan bulan Ramdhan yang mana ialah satu bulan yang penuh dengan kerahmatan dan satu bulan dimana syaitan-syaitan ‘diikat’ supaya membolehkan kita beribadata dengan bersungguh-sungguh dan membuktikan bahawa setiap perbuatan kita adalah dari kehendak dna ‘nafs’ kita sendiri, betul?

Persiapan menyambut Ramadhan? Sekadar ingin berkongsi pengalaman berpuasa di Madison tercinta ini…

Sekarang bulan Syaaban, disunatkan berpuasa (ada bermacam-macam hadith berkenaan tuntutan sunat berpuasa dlm bulan ini, boleh rujuk sendiri). Masih ada masa beberapa hari lagi tapi jangan pula berpuasa pada hari syak nanti (iaitu 29 Syaaban) yer.

Bagi yang duduk di dormitory, susah nak berbuka yer? Kesian… ada beberapa option utk berbuka puasa, antaranya:

1) mendaftarkan diti untuk Iftar di Islamic Center (dekat dgn rumah Gavin dan Sollihein) yang mana juadah berbuka disediakan hampir setiap petang (kecuali hujung minggu) – keterangan lanjut akan menyusul beberapa hari lg!

2) Bagi hujung minggu pula, bolehlah mengikuti perkembangan semasa tentang majlis-majlis berbuka puasa PERCUMA anjuran either MISA, MSA atau Islamic Center sendiri. Jangan lepaskan peluang merasa daging kambing, nasi beriyani dari middle eastern countries and also from Pakistan, heh.

Solat terawih – antara perbuatan-perbuatan sunat dalam bulan Ramadhan. Kalau di Islamic Center memang tiap-tiap malam insyaAllah diadakan solat terawih, juga di masjid As Sunnah. Kalau rajin boleh tunaikan 21 rakaat penuh, kalau kurang mampu bolehlah dibuat beberapa yang mampu.

Persediaan mental dan fizikal – hussshhhh.. payah ni! Tp naseb baik sekarang cuaca dingin dan waktu siang pendek (bertuahnya kita kan!?). Minum air banyak-banyak, kalau dah tahu tak mampu nak bertahan disiang hari, bersahurlah walau hanya dengan seteguk air. Harap gunakanlah dengan sebaik-baiknya, insyaAllah…

Kalau ada yang belum habis ganti puasa tu, cepat-cepat la ganti yer (ditujukan kepada kedua-dua kaum tidak hanya satu). Kalau ada perkara yang ragu-ragu, eloklah bertanya kpd yang lebih tahu atau berbincang sesama rakan dan buat rujukan bersama-sama.

Itulah sahaja coretan kali ini.

Moga diberkati-Nya

assalamualeikum wbt

It is Sunday afternoon and I am suppose to study but I don't! heh... what a confession eh? I'll have Anthro exam on Monday -- May Allah make it easy for me.... insyaAllah

Atok is leaving to Pasir Puteh, Kelantan Monday night along with Pak Lang! iskk.... hope he could stay a little bit longer at mak's house and grow fatter! hehe... At least atok made his round trip to visit all of his relatives! gud atok! you're an achiever! hehe... How's my cute little niece doing? hope she's doing fine insyaAllah...

I think the MISA's comittee reallly having a critical situation reagrding members involvement via website and mailing list until bro Hakim need to explain his experiences! I don't know if that is going to help or not since the mailing list is still 'quiet' shame on me, shame on me....

my mak want me to experiment sth la... but I insisted not to because I don't think I am that strong to face the consequences... but I would try it soon! hehe... thanks mak! hehe... (mother-daugther secret nih!) hahahaha....

why do I laugh so much today!? hmm... I'm really into Mazu's lasagna maybe... It really made me want to sleep though I ate only a piece of it! it taste very2 good! everyone should taste it la.... hehe...

meow meow... aum aum... nyam nyam...
Aseks, who is anim? new girl eh? gud2! at least u're moving on! am happy for u! heh... history will always remained.....

that's all for today! If I write another line, it would be about gender which I don't want to! heh....

wish me luck for exam! thank you.

assalamualeikum wbt

nuthin' much to say except that I have exam this coming Friday -- Math 441. May Allah make it easy on me... ameen... My grandpa visits my family back in Jerantut. He asks my mom to bring him to Negeri Sembilan because he wanted to meet his reltives and friends there. I think he misses my arwah grandma and her grave is in NS. That's why he wanted to go there.... 'Allahualam....

I am still here...
Oh, I already wrote the reflection paper! It's 3 pages long and it is NOT intresting, seriously! heh... I just mumbled and wandering off the topic but I like it... at least I did understand the story. BTW, the title of the story is "Women in Fear" by Inaam Kachachi and Iranian journalist who is now living in Paris.

Today we had 2 presenters on 2 stories from Iranian writers too! The titles for both are "The Native Boy" and "Love". Both are 20 pages long, so I didn't really read all of them, instead just jumping right to the end and made my own conclusion which is not quiet as sophisticated / complex (hahaha...) as others in my class.

How do you deal with a drinker, well a Muslim drinker? How would you go to him and ask him to stop drinking and at the same time make him understand that I am doing so for his own sake? Howwwww...?

What is the meaning of LOVE and SURRENDER ?
(Why did I ask the meaning of both word at the same time?) I don't know myself but both words seem to relate to each other, but I don't know how and where. For example,

I LOVE MYSELF
I SURRENDER MYSELF

hmm.. is it making any sense at all? I don't think so. What about

I LOVE GOD
I SURRENDER GOD

hmm.. 'Allahualam....

I don't have any article for today, but I do want to emphasize that I AM A MUSLIM alhamdulillah.... :-)