The Engaged Idealist

Engaged Idealists like you are extroverted and helpful. Others find you to be very congenial and inspiring - especially as you are always willing to see the best in the other person. Your humour, your energy and your optimism attract other people. Engaged Idealists are very good at communicating and are good at convincing and firing on others. That is why it is a matter of course that you often take over the leading role in groups. Your personality type often produces very charismatic persons.

Engaged Idealists have an unusually strong ability to empathise. You are tolerant and generous towards others; you sometimes tend to idealise your friends. You always try to suit everybody and want your relationships to be harmonious and satisfactory. To achieve this, you are prepared to invest a great deal and to put your requirements last. As Engaged Idealists are very considerate, there is the danger of you sacrificing and overexerting yourself for others. In your job, you therefore have to be very careful not to develop a burnout syndrome.

As an Engaged Idealist you are one of the extroverted personality types. You enjoy working in a colorfully diverse group of people who interest and inspire you. Working in a “secluded room” is not your thing. You enjoy emphasizing with those around you and soon everybody senses the high priority and importance people represent to you. Therefore a team-oriented project is just right for you.

Your insight into human nature, your feel for your colleague’s and/or subordinate’s positive sides and potentials and your preparedness to encourage and support everyone around you to the best of your ability quickly brings them closer to you. People like to ask you for advice, appreciate your caring ways and appreciate to be taken under your wings. Within your means you are always available to others who need you because you yourself enjoy the ultimate gratification of being able to help others to make the best of themselves and to be successful mediating conflicts among people.

You are well suited to be an executive: It is difficult to resist your charisma, your enthusiasm and your ability to excite and motivate others. Authoritarian management attitudes are not your thing; it is your way to convince others of a project’s reason and significance who will then look forward to follow you voluntarily. You place a lot of value on creating the willingness to cooperate in others and with your gift to motivate that usually comes easy to you. You do not enjoy conflicts, need harmony and invest lots of energy and time in a good working climate and a harmonic relationship of your colleagues among each other.

You can take the Test here

My comment: Well, quite true, quite true. I know myself best than anyone else right? :P 

I tend to love pleasing others. I wanted people to be pleased with me, then only I'll be pleased with myself. This is one of my major flaws. LOL. 

I used book vouchers to buy books online

Specifically, how to buy books from MPH Online- Where the Bookstore Comes to You. 

My experience:

1. Just order whatever books you wanted from MPH Online. Your purchase must be a minimum of RM100 if you wanted to use the 1 Malaysia Book Vouchers. I bought:

a) Dina Zaman's 'I am Muslim'. Just finished reading it. An enchanting read indeed. :)

Price: RM30.00

Dina Zaman's one of my favourite journalists. People might perceive her as someone liberal (not really, in my opinion) and this book features some people who practised liberalism in Islam. Non-practising Muslims and all. Strangely, this book makes me love Islam more. Haha. I love this book. 

b) Yasmin Mogahed's 'Reclaim Your Heart', which is not available is any of the bookstore I have frequented, and that it is freaking expensive for such a thin book (168 pages only!) ;( and so I use the book voucher to buy it instead of my own money. xD

Price: RM 81.80 >_<

Yasmin Mogahed is one of my favourite Muslim speakers. She's a journalist too. I read her articles on her website, listened to her podcasts,watched youtube videos about her and subscribed to her facebook page and I ADMIRE HER! I really wanted to get my hands on this book. Dear Yasmin Mogahed, I love you and your writings, but why does this book have to be so expensive? :(( . For us Malaysians at least. 

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2. So, the total purchase amounts to RM111.80. I decided to just use RM100 out of the total of RM250 of book vouchers and I have to pay the remaining RM11.80 when the book arrives.

But you're going to pay it using ONE MALAYSIA BOOK VOUCHERS! It's not as easy as the conventional Maybank 2u Online Banking! Well, here is how it goes.

Yesterday, I received a call from IIUM Kuantan Customers' Service Department (Have no idea this department exists) and she directed me to the IIUM Kuantan's Pos Malaysia Office, which is located at the Kulliyyah of Medicine building.

The very cool Post officer said that a parcel had arrived for me to collect it and to present my book vouchers and give the remaining money to him.

What? Do I really have to go to KOM (Kulliyyah of Medicine) to collect it? Pfftt.

What's more, he said that I need to have the official stamp from my kulliyyah. MPH Bookstores required me to do that, as a proof that I'm a student of IIUM. LOL.

SUCH A HASSLE, RIGHT? I regretted using the vouchers to buy books online. Well, only for that brief moment.

And so, as my 2 hours of Ethics and Law in Pharmacy *yawn* class starts at 15:00, I had to walk from my mahallah, under the hot scorching sun to Kulliyyah of Medicine to retrieve the parcel. The awesome Post Officer gave me two forms. One of them yellow in colour, the other pink. I need to have them stamped with the Kulliyyah's official stamp/cop mohor whatever la then only I can go back to KOM and get my books.

Again, I had to walked to KOP from KOM under the burning heat of the sun. 

From KOM to KOP to get the stamp: 1x

From KOP to KOM to collect the parcel: 1x

From KOM to KOP to attend the class: 1x

A total of 3 times. Ok bye.

3. So, that's all. It might seems like a hassle, but if you have your own car/means of transportation other than your own pair of sturdy legs, it would be okay.

Notice that I do not offer a detailed guide or steps on purchasing books from MPH using the book vouchers. For more info, just log on to www.mphonline.com.my

4. I'm thinking of buying more books through MPH Online. Books that I could not find in real bookstores. *sobs*. 

5. I have RM150 left. I'm thinking of buying Dr. Farish A. Noor's books

a) What Your Teacher Didn't Tell You: The Annexe Lectures Volume 1. It's like a true history of Malaysia or something. I'm a history buff, in case you didn't know.

RM40

b). Qur'an and Cricket: Travels Through the madrasahs of Asia and other stories. 

RM40

c) Tina Fey's Bossypants

RM35.90

But Maybe, just maybe, maybe I should take the pleasure of roaming around a REAL bookstore first and see what they have to offer, and thus, spend my remaining vouchers there. If I do not find any book that interests me (I highly doubt it), then MPHOnline again it is! 

MPH Bookstores belongs to Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary- Awesome Post Officer told me. 

May Peace Be Upon Us All! :) 

An Old Joke...

Because I tend to spend my time rambling on twitter, and looking at beautiful Korean celebrities reminded me of a joke my parents once told me. xD

Read from bottom to the top. And pardon the grammatical errors and incoherent sentences. :P

Gong Xi Fa Cai!!! :D 

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Instead of 'Please  Look After Mother' by Kyung Sook Shin, I bought this: 

 I was pleasantly surprised when I saw this book residing at the lowest shelf of the 'Young Adult' section at MPH Bookstore Amanjaya Mall. I have been looking out for this book for ages! (This is an exaggeration of course xD).

And so, I have made a firm, unwavering decision towards buying this book. What triggers and entices me to get a hold of this book is due to its collection of old-fashioned, black and white pictures. Those pictures are so mysterious and they hold some 'dark', eerie, macabre elements that are fascinating to people like me who loves ghost stories and mysterious stuffs. xD 

Having gotten used towards reading contemporary fictions and literary fictions to the likes of Tan Twan Eng and Haruki Murakami, it took quite some time for me to familiarize myself with the generally cliche and predictable storyline of this young adult genre. I have this unyielding conviction that the reason this book becomes an international bestseller (as what claimed on the front cover) is MAINLY due to, like I said; the unique collection of pictures that were attached together in these books, which served as visual aids. 

Ransom Riggs, the author of this book had initially arranged the photos and wrote out the story based on these photos. This is not an original idea but his effort should be well applauded because this is the first time I ever came across such book. 

I am currently in the midst of reading and finishing it. So far, the plot is quite average, to my disappointment; and it failed to evoke the sinister emotion that R.L Stine had successfully instilled in his readers through his 'Goosebumps' and 'Fear Street' series.  I hope that the story will get better as the plot progresses. 

I found a movie/book trailer of this book. It is said that Tim Burton would direct/is directing it. 

What about 'Please Look  After Mother'? My roommate happens to possess it and I decided to just borrow it from her. I am a fast reader after all. :P 

With that, may peace be upon us all!