To have a friend, you must be a friend…

Whilst sitting at the Starbucks in The Gardens frontage, I was mesmerized by countless vivacious women in high sense of fashions, men in expensive cars with various predictable and unpredictable body languages as well as topics of conversations by group of strangers ahead and behind me. I was supposed to finish writing a paper to be sent to iUser where Alan Dix will be the keynote speaker of the conference somewhere in December and in MALAYSIA! I really want to meet him as I’ve been using his book as guidelines the past few years and there are so much still that I couldn’t get out of it. The deadline for the paper submission is less than 36 hours as this blog is being written. Unfortunately, the more I read about User Experience (UX) by Mark Hassenzahl, the more I feel that my previous writing was a total rubbish. When I reached the point of throwing away the whole Literature Review part, I started to eavesdrop on the three Chinese guy sitting about a meter or two away from me. They were laughing out loud on the ISO given to one of the selected universities as they proclaimed that ISO should stands for “Ini Susah cali Olang” place. With a quick scanned, one of them wearing  a Tag Heuer wrist watch (not sure if its original or not but the clothing looks very sophisticated) and all with iPhones on the table. I guess, Hassenzahl is right about the gap between practitioners/businessmen and academics in different context. When academics are struggling to get grants, write thousands of papers, working long terrible hours, living in their own world, thinking hard; some people are luxuriate in their after-work leisure time, tittle-tattle on how to get more money out of other people’s perspiration and looked-down on the academics whom perceived as good-for-nothing-only eccentric people thou. And I hope I am not classified as one.

As I flipped through a book titled “The Psychologist’s Book of Personality Tests” by Louis Janda, she mentioned that psychologist tend to be a negative lot. They spend more time focusing on what is wrong with people than on what is right with them. And I think I am merely a psychologist without the official degree. I am writing this post to share a very insightful story on discovering what’s exactly stopping you from living the life you long to lead – and what you can do about it. From the menu on this blog, you can see the “Tests” menu which lead you to test your own personality and intelligence capability. I gather the information from various bestsellers and reliable sources with references attached to it. As I am not connected to the internet at all time and that my brain needs to disambiguate from a serious academic writing, you need to wait for a quite slow update. But I promise to write on the tests which measure barriers that interfere with your interpersonal relationships and so much more. As a beginning, a fully functioning and happy people are able to connect with others, be straightforward and honest in their relationships with not only friends and loved ones but with strangers and acquaintances as well. I hope to share this writing and hope that you get what you want out of life.