DAYAK - EVERY ONE IS HYPOCRITE!

Those who judge others as “hypocrites” are hypocrite too. As human, we were never born perfect!

Do you think born as an Iban a perfect native species among their own and other native ethnics?

Often we condemn others for being hypocrites. But most if not majority of us are hypocrites.

This is because we do not understand ourselves and we do not understand whether others understand us not!

Actually it is impossible to “know” “ourselves” and also “other-selves”!

The “self” of every one of us is beyond intellectual definition and concrete and constant identity.

It is not even possible to understand our own and others’ perceptions, feelings, instincts and needs; because they are not too subtle and rapidly changing!

The hypocrite is the person who refuses to apply to himself/herself.

A person who call others hypocrite is hypocrite himself/herself.

Namely, the hypocrite is the person who applies to others standards that he/she refuses to apply to himself/herself and those who refuse to accept or understand other people opinions. Yet allowing others to see his/her true colors of reflection?

“Cakap lain – Buat lain” and worse “Cakap tak serupa bikin”…..

A courageous and confidence person will not be afraid of his own shadow nor will he/she afraid of “Atas Pagar” if he/she is very sure of his/her strength and self-belief. Same goes to “hypocrites”!

People aren’t always hypocrites because they sometimes violate standards they say they believe in.

If you correct past negative behaviors and, without shaming, encourage others to do the same, you are NOT being a hypocrite.

If you mess up occasionally but are consciously making efforts toward improvement and/or produce solutions, you are still NOT a hypocrite.

When you lie about, overlook or minimize your own actions or deny others, but attach all of your behaviors to someone else and not yourself, you are being a hypocrite. See if you’re in such category!

In other words, you might think people don’t change. I think the only people who believe that are the ones who haven’t yet.

JUDGE YOURSELF FIRST BEFORE JUDGING OTHERS

WHO ARE LIKELY "ATAS PAGAR"

• Independent candidate/voter
• Partyless citizens
• Senior citizen voters (pensioners, retirees, veterans, etc)
• Government civil servants
• Postal voters (Police, Military, etc)
  

I feel DBs don’t need “Atas Pagar” or “Bawah Pagar” opinions and/or recommendations herein this weblog because they can talk or solve anything above the sun by themselves.

Therefore it is best for “Atas Pagar” or “Bawah Pagar” to stay away from giving their input or support in this weblog so that DBs don’t have to worry watching their backside or backyard anymore.

I presume DBs and/or PR don’t need “Atas Pagar” votes too in this coming election and/or any election.

I also presume DBs want “Atas Pagar” voters (Dayaks and non-Dayaks) to alliance and swing their supports to BN in this GE and/or any other future election.

I also presume DBs want “Atas Pagar” to stay out from blogging in this weblog and to support all BN government blogs, policies and national plans.

I also presume DBs do not want any support from “Atas Pagar” to help them creating new initiatives to uplift Dayak’s well being in economics, education, equity, healthcare, housing, finance, and etc.

I also presume DBs want Dayak to become more divided by rejecting “Atas Pagar” Dayak voters.

If that is your wish...your personal belief system then I am sorry for DBs.

What say you....DBs?

DAYAK - WHAT KIND OF HYPOCRITE ARE WE?

• Do we pretend to be a really nice person but we’re not nice at all?
• Do we want change but we instigate others; kaban-bejai-kaban, kaban-makai-kaban, kaban-kapapas enggau-kaban, kaban-ngelesey-kaban?
• Do we want “Dayak Unity” but divide Dayaks by conspiring with others?
• Do we want “Beserakup” but we blame all our Dayak leaders and blame other native ethnics?
• Do we want to maintain good rapport with our voters and/or the rakyat but pointing finger at them “hypocrites” because they have a difference personal belief system?
• Do we want equality but we blame others?
• Do we want development but we opposed it?
• Do we wear a smile but are filled with envy, anger and hatred?
• Do we do nice things for others knowing the only reason we do them is to get gain for ourselves and fulfill our dreams and self-interest?
• Do we want to win an election but blaming others because they do not favor you or they not part of you?
• Do we cheat on our income tax and/or coming late to work or for a meeting?
• Do we manipulate others to get what we want?
• Do we willfully break the commandments with no remorse?
• Do we make excuses for ourselves when we know we are doing wrong?
• Do we use whatever authority we have unrighteously?
• Are we a church leader who takes advantage of our position to exploit God’s children who trust us?
• Do we go to church; all dressed up and pretend to be a good mother/father but go home and abuse our family or annoyed our neighbors or do something negative?
• Do we pretend to be a good Christian but use “foul” words and/or language?
• Do we claim to be a Christian but cheat on our mate; kaban-nipu-kaban, kaban-ninggal-kaban?
  

If we don’t want to be a hypocrite, we must repent of our sins and come unto Christ and be pure and clean.

On judgment day everything we thought we were concealing will be made evident. The punishment we will receive for being a hypocrite will not make any sin worthwhile.

It is better, in this earth life, to be pure and clean so we can offer our righteous life as a gift to God on our judgment day.

Remember this. Even a hypocrite can be saved. Heavenly Father loves us all and wants us to return to Him.

Isaiah 9:17 “Everyone is a hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this His anger is not turned away, but HIS HAND IS STRETCHED OUT STILL”.

God forgive all our sins.

IBAN - NO BODY ELSE BUT YOU!

Don't spend valuable time asking yourself why isn't the world a better place to live in. Or why interior/rural Dayaks are still poor?

Thinking about it will only be wasting your time. That is fact you cannot change the world. But you can change yourself.

The questions to ask therefore are these:

• "How can I make the world a better place to live in?"
• “How can I help others if I am poor and helpless?”
• “Can I turn-back the clock so every Dayaks are rich?”
• “Is politics the only way to uplift the Dayaks from poverty and backwardness?”
• “Is venturing into entrepreneurism an alternative avenue to uplift Dayak well-being?”
• “How can Dayak be at par with others?”
  

To that there is an answer. I believe that we all can learn something about ourselves and that’s by helping ourselves first. You can see others but have you walk-the-talk?

• Every single things start from you.
• Everything is pointing at you.
• Every charitable cause begins from you.
• Every action starts with you.
• Every change is your change.
  

And if you really care about helping the poor, go and find opportunity, and get rich!

Stop relying on others. Once you build your wealth, you can allocate your desired amounts to help those you wish to help.

The only way to help the poor is not to become one of them!

Thank you.

IBAN – COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITY MINDED PEOPLE?

This is what I want to add-on “The Opportunist”

• Enti enda diatu, Kemaya?
• Enti ukai kitai, Sapa?
• Enti ukai nuan, Aku?
• Enti ukai aku, Nuan?
• Enti ukai sida, Kitai?
• Enti ukai kitai, Sida?
• Enti ukai DB, Sapa? So on....
  

So who is who wanting to take advantage over the other?

Now do think you’re “self-centered” or “opportunist” or “self-centered opportunist”?
Does taking opportunity equivalent to playing soccer? You don’t score goal, they will! Unless you take your opportunity….

Do you believe that you’re self-centered because you’re an opportunist?

Or are you reading this to reassure yourself that you’re not? Because we all know that being self-centered is bad, right?

Not that we’ve established exactly what we think the term means. Maybe we don’t even share the same definition.

In my personal opinion, “Opportunist” is different from “self-center people”; they know how to identify, invent, undertake and develop opportunity.

“Self-center people” are more like “Self-obsessed people” only measure the world in “me”, “I” and “mine” (nobody else but me).

They think that they have achieved some knowledge of the world and spirituality, but they act like a selfish-child.

Children only know “I”, “me” and “mine”, because they are children. But are a child or a mature adult?

Guess “Self-obsessed people” still live within their ‘box’ while “Opportunist” can see beyond the horizon….

Another, when someone feels “creepy” they welcomes fear. Do you feel creepy when seeing a spider or centipedes or crocodile or snake?

A person who is fearful has a low self esteem character and tend to be extremely self-obsessed; they spend most of their time thinking about themselves and forget to look around and really notice the people around them or the world surrounding them.

Clock s ticking every bit of a micro-second and that's opportunity!

• Don’t you want to score and achieved your goal?
• Don’t you want to be rich or remain poor?
• Don’t you want to see development or remain rural and underserved?
• Don’t you want to win or maintain status quo or choose to lose?
• Don’t you want get out of the box or remain in the box?
• Don’t you want to be at par with others or remain where you are now?
  

Don’t you want to take opportunity and take advantage of the opportunity?

Maybe Dayak (particularly the Ibans) are not “Community Opportunity Minded People” not like the Chinese, the Malays, the Indians and other minority ethnics (like the Melanaus, the Singh, etc) of Malaysia. Thus, allowing others to take advantage on them.

These could be what others maybe thinking to take opportunity and advantage on the Dayak Ibans:

“Maybe it easy to going fishing at a pond where you can find fish concentrated in one place, and in a worse case scenario you just poisons the pond or drains the water out of the pond and let the fish lifeless.....before you can catch it”

“Maybe it easy to extract timbers and other mineral resources from the Ibans’ territories (native lands) and in a worse case scenario just build a “big project” or “dam” or “infrastructures” to resettle the Ibans to a designated areas or leave them landless.....before you can extract their timber and other resources”

But have Ibans ever think of taking opportunity to develop their own land or others to uplift their living standard? Or awaiting others to change them? How would you see “others” taking opportunity on you and your weaknesses and/or your fragility?

Have the Ibans take any opportunity to pool their expertise together to create win-win or win-win and win situations to become self-determination? Or they choose to remain “self-obsessed people”?

Lu pikr-pikir la sendiri…..

DAYAK - IF JUST TALKING & LOOKING – NO ACTION

• If you just looking at the interior without personal action, nothing will happen
• If you dream and talk without personal action, nothing will happen
• If you just talk 'hanky-panky' without personal action, nothing will happen
• If you just blogging without personal action, nothing will happen
• If you care for others without personal action, nothing will happen
• If you depend on others without personal action, nothing will happen
• If you seen an opportunity without personal action, nothing will happen
• If you shout for change without personal action, nothing will happen
  

If you “ngisi kantung” for others for free then you’re not helping or paying yourself and/or your immediate family. But if you “ngisi kantung ka diri empu” with personal action, it will surely benefiting you, your family and the people working with/for you.

Being pity (for the poor), help no one. You must first boost-up your self-determination to create self-betterment for others.

So what is self-determination? It simply means in clear terms, to be able to stay determined by oneself without expecting any external human effort or support/help. Stand on your two feet and move on!

Self-betterment is about creating “social scheme for a better world” for yourself, your family, your friends and others.

We have no rights to stop others to do or walk their path; we have to walk on our own path. We have to create and design our own destiny.

The best way to move forward is to take your own personal action and don’t wait for others. If you act personally and others act individually on their part, we create momentum of activities.

And if those activities are for Dayak then that is ACTION!

Have a nice day!

DAYAK - WE ARE ALL CREATURES OF OPPORTUNISTS?

• Stay away from politics because we (Atas Pagar) are opportunists!
• Stay away from PR because we are opportunists!
• Stay away from BN because we are opportunists!
• Stay away from rural because we are opportunists!
• Stay away from city because we are opportunists!
• Stay away from business because we are opportunists!
• Stay away from women/men because we are opportunists!
  

Opportunity is just as much dependent on external circumstances as it is on our views and attitude about the world surrounding us.

When we actively change our thinking, vision, hope and perception toward a more opportunistic mindset, we can actually invite more opportunities into our lives.

Opportunities are always available for us to grab every seconds, it’s been there all the times.

Opportunities can be shared, free, earned, negotiated, bought, assignable, transferable, divisible, swap or offset.

Opportunities may includes our rights, privileges, sovereignty, quotas, equity(s), stakes, allocations, equality, promotion, job, business, laws, ideation, knowledge, research & development, technology, education, monetary/non-monetary assets, lands, and other human needs/wants, etc

If you fail to identify and/or find opportunity, you fail to optimize any opportunity available to/for you, and you allow others to grab it. Opportunities come and go, and there are plenty for everyone (domestic, regional and global)!

• Have Dayaks succeed in identifying, securing and/or taking advantage on various opportunities available to them since independence?
• Have Dayaks failed to understand the meaning of opportunity?
• Have opportunity(s) left Dayaks behind?
• Have Dayaks discover opportunity on a daily basis?
• Have Dayaks seen opportunity to develop their lands?
• Have Dayaks deny and/or ignore opportunity within them?
• Have Dayaks build “Opportunity Experts” and “Community Opportunity”?
• Have Dayaks plan any opportunity for their next generations?
• Have Dayaks invented new opportunity (tactic, technique, technology, etc) for them?
• Do Dayaks aware of opportunity(s) available to them today and in the near future?
  

Many people are perfectly capable of understanding and discovering opportunities that greatly benefit their lives, but they unknowingly ignore these opportunities. This is because opportunity is just as much based on our way of seeing as it is based on external circumstances.

Opportunities are a lot like self-fulfilling prophecies....don’t You?

If we keep our eyes open for “loopholes”, “the unknown”, “gray areas”, “coincidences” , "incidences" and new ones, we are more likely to spot them when they actually pop-up in our lives.

But if we never look for opportunities, we often don't see them even when they are actually there waiting for us or in front of our own eyes.

Of course, opportunity has a bit to do with timing, hard-work, struggle, luck and chance, but it also has a lot to do with our beliefs and perspective.

Think and think of it for a second.....