First choice of the day, whether we make a decision to wake up or keep snuck up in bed until the alarm snooze-off. Arosen from dreamland on a cold morning, the sun is already up but the rain keeps it cool... the April rainy season is here for another year.
Coffee or tea, do we order teh tarik or nescafe for that jolt of energy? that flows over during brushing of our teeth. As the morning progress decison decisons decisions. Little decisions we make each day stake-up to the choices we made or will make in life.
What we wear, the colour of our cloths, pants & shoes. Many would argue the importance of fengshui and how people preceive what's on our back, the car we drive & translate them into our behaviour, hint of our preference and what our future beholds.
What we've read in magazines, may in fact unconsciously bump our head into our action further down the road. Humanity is possibily the least of the things we worried about in the present tense, but after things fall into places and it doesn't suit our choice we suddenly realized, we hate it.
Mirroring what we do through our thoughts and controlling actions, as the seconds passus by we may not know what have happened. Until one day we suddenly awaken, "Is the mirror showing our true self or just a projection?" The face we see we must have forgotten, or the cataracts in our eyes, blurred our vision.
As life progress & profess itself all through the years, the world around it also changed & evolved, whether it's turning to better or worst... The things we do today tomorrow and there after, they all boil down to the choices we make, made & will make in our lives. Do we want others to make it for us? Can other people define us better than ourselves?
Who are to be responsible for our lives if not ourselves?
Who are to be blamed for our lives if not ourselves?
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Sunday, March 27, 2011
20110327: Of Food, Taste & Paying Respect to the Dead
5AM prep the food and stuffs for praying.
7:15 car pool with relative.
7:45 left for the cemetery.
This time we went earlier to avoid the crowding, traffic jam, smoke, etc... The weather was sunny though not as hot as today.
Cheng Meng is the time to pay respect to our ancestors and also a chance to meet up with relatives. Pray, cold food, hot weather, smell of joss stick, melting candles, colour papers, burning of hell notes, paper 7-series (as in BMW), LV accesories cloths and other stuffs. I have to applaude the creativity & skill of the people who hand made all the car, house for this occasion. Wonder if they have a blue print for making stuff like this? Or the skill is pass down from generation to generation?
About the food (whole chicken, the fish, some huat kueh cake, ang koo kueh, etc), since the time I was little, it's always have this strange taste after praying. The old saying goes that our ancestors had "blessed" the food.
1) The hot weather & UV rays from the sun might have add to the "mutation" of the taste.
2) The joss stick could have intercepted & blunted our sense of smell for the rest of the day.
3) The food might have been "aged" during the journey in the vehicle (instead of the usual 8 hours).
4) The reheating-up the food for eating later may have caused the taste to change, especially if cook with soya sauce and other stuffs.
5) Some say the taste was taken away. :-)
I'm not sure whether it's a torture or enjoyment to hear family gossips, & seeing some of my aunties, you do tend to realize that people do not change much, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree & it's not a Culture Re-Shock event. Some same generation relatives you haven't seen for a long time, even if you meet on the street also couldn't recognise them. Some mentioned of dream they had report?broadcast? from our ancestors.
In this fast-paced modern age, Cheng Meng festival provides a rare opportunity for that sweet and bitter walk down memory lane for all of us. Hopefully the fond memory will last longer than the viral ones. After all, remembering that catchy song tune: "We Are Family !" & the Blessed Food of course.
7:15 car pool with relative.
7:45 left for the cemetery.
This time we went earlier to avoid the crowding, traffic jam, smoke, etc... The weather was sunny though not as hot as today.
Cheng Meng is the time to pay respect to our ancestors and also a chance to meet up with relatives. Pray, cold food, hot weather, smell of joss stick, melting candles, colour papers, burning of hell notes, paper 7-series (as in BMW), LV accesories cloths and other stuffs. I have to applaude the creativity & skill of the people who hand made all the car, house for this occasion. Wonder if they have a blue print for making stuff like this? Or the skill is pass down from generation to generation?
About the food (whole chicken, the fish, some huat kueh cake, ang koo kueh, etc), since the time I was little, it's always have this strange taste after praying. The old saying goes that our ancestors had "blessed" the food.
1) The hot weather & UV rays from the sun might have add to the "mutation" of the taste.
2) The joss stick could have intercepted & blunted our sense of smell for the rest of the day.
3) The food might have been "aged" during the journey in the vehicle (instead of the usual 8 hours).
4) The reheating-up the food for eating later may have caused the taste to change, especially if cook with soya sauce and other stuffs.
5) Some say the taste was taken away. :-)
I'm not sure whether it's a torture or enjoyment to hear family gossips, & seeing some of my aunties, you do tend to realize that people do not change much, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree & it's not a Culture Re-Shock event. Some same generation relatives you haven't seen for a long time, even if you meet on the street also couldn't recognise them. Some mentioned of dream they had report?broadcast? from our ancestors.
In this fast-paced modern age, Cheng Meng festival provides a rare opportunity for that sweet and bitter walk down memory lane for all of us. Hopefully the fond memory will last longer than the viral ones. After all, remembering that catchy song tune: "We Are Family !" & the Blessed Food of course.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
20110201: Usagi!!! Usagi!!! (Wabbit! Wabbit!)
"Usagi !!! Usagi !!!", this is year of rabbit and another chapter of my existence on this planet earth. :P
I'm in Kuching. It's 2.16 am in the morning, and I'm still up. New year's not the same without sleepless nights like this. chuckle..
Ya... & checking facebook status & replying & poking people too. Haha...I've been quite adamant in protecting my fingers seeing dad's messed up fingers. Luckily I didn't saw off my left index finger while doing last minute woodwork just now (Onitofo...)
Preparing also clothing for New Year, felt relieved this year, somewhat. Comforting knowing that I'm shielded from unpleasantries tomorrow evening. Not that I'm not keen to handle it. "Bla.. me!" blatantly.
My room is still a mess as I manuever through it like the front lawn. Well, still a long way to go from completion, but I'm pretty confident that the mess will be gone come CNY morning. :D sort of a Santa TPK (Tua Pek Kong or another) mentality maybe.
Last minute clean-up procrastination seems to be a normal phenomena as long as I can remember. Usually things last until reunion dinner. CNY (Chinese New Year) is not the same without hectic disorientation like this.
It's a relief to be able to cherish memories of minor urusei-ness (noisy) like this. :p
Home is the best learning place for understanding our roots, and also the history and previous generation and how they made us who we are today. In past years, I usually used this time to do resolutions and stuffs, but this year, I'm going to CHANCE it & ACCEPT things as they come along. Like the saying, when life throw your cure ball, when life give you lemon, etc. Live life as 2012 as possible.
When i was younger, I get sick on the first day of CNY, then I slept through the whole morning :-p, sometime throughout the day until to the 2nd day, come to think of it, it's sort of solitary confinement. Now... I think I know why I do not feel the anguish or anxiety felt by others during a faraway from home CNY.
Poking people at 3.08am in facebook seems to be on the menu of fun these days. kekeke...
Still haven't finish my cup of coffee, hah another 11 minutes 8 seconds to go.
Oh well, Minor habits to reconsider:
1) Use pencil to write (many pencil lying around found during house cleaning)
2) Wear glove when handling things
3) Let the temperament flair
4) recycle rubbish into gold
5) Waking up early, preparing and getting ready
6) pickup, do, until finish, put down.
7) Sort of pick up where you left off
5:28 time to ZZZ
I'm in Kuching. It's 2.16 am in the morning, and I'm still up. New year's not the same without sleepless nights like this. chuckle..
Ya... & checking facebook status & replying & poking people too. Haha...I've been quite adamant in protecting my fingers seeing dad's messed up fingers. Luckily I didn't saw off my left index finger while doing last minute woodwork just now (Onitofo...)
Preparing also clothing for New Year, felt relieved this year, somewhat. Comforting knowing that I'm shielded from unpleasantries tomorrow evening. Not that I'm not keen to handle it. "Bla.. me!" blatantly.
My room is still a mess as I manuever through it like the front lawn. Well, still a long way to go from completion, but I'm pretty confident that the mess will be gone come CNY morning. :D sort of a Santa TPK (Tua Pek Kong or another) mentality maybe.
Last minute clean-up procrastination seems to be a normal phenomena as long as I can remember. Usually things last until reunion dinner. CNY (Chinese New Year) is not the same without hectic disorientation like this.
It's a relief to be able to cherish memories of minor urusei-ness (noisy) like this. :p
Home is the best learning place for understanding our roots, and also the history and previous generation and how they made us who we are today. In past years, I usually used this time to do resolutions and stuffs, but this year, I'm going to CHANCE it & ACCEPT things as they come along. Like the saying, when life throw your cure ball, when life give you lemon, etc. Live life as 2012 as possible.
When i was younger, I get sick on the first day of CNY, then I slept through the whole morning :-p, sometime throughout the day until to the 2nd day, come to think of it, it's sort of solitary confinement. Now... I think I know why I do not feel the anguish or anxiety felt by others during a faraway from home CNY.
Poking people at 3.08am in facebook seems to be on the menu of fun these days. kekeke...
Still haven't finish my cup of coffee, hah another 11 minutes 8 seconds to go.
Oh well, Minor habits to reconsider:
1) Use pencil to write (many pencil lying around found during house cleaning)
2) Wear glove when handling things
3) Let the temperament flair
4) recycle rubbish into gold
5) Waking up early, preparing and getting ready
6) pickup, do, until finish, put down.
7) Sort of pick up where you left off
5:28 time to ZZZ
Saturday, January 8, 2011
20110108: Beginning of a New Year
2011 is here, bye-bye 2010. Last year has been a cool, serene, quiet year. I enjoyed it a lot (maybe more so than I ever did), a journey of recovery, recycle, remixes, rebla-bla-bla...
Most of the people I know had a good year. So is me... =)
一开始.
Most of the people I know had a good year. So is me... =)
一开始.As the chinese saying goes, "It starts with one" (like the Linkin Park song), 2011 is the beginning of a new decade.
Past keywords:
Past keywords:
Regrets - definition of regret is the thing you wished to do but didn't do. Either I did not dig deep enough, it's buried too deep, or I just can't find any. It might as well just slip through the cracks. Oh ya, maybe the fact that I did not update my blog every month. As situation evolve, we human beings will always find a way to make better use and take charge of it. So, this becomes circumstances.
Circumstances - The deal is one thing I am quite pissed at myself is concluding, minding, seeing, smelling, rotating, reading, feeling, judging, saying, speeding, & other bla, being too emotional (over 50%? then what is a good %? 20 pa emotion 80 pa logical?)
Remembering that someone once said "Takes 10 years to know a person and took only 5 minutes to make a decision." So emotional (20/80?) is critically next.
Emotional - IQ, EQ, MQ & all the other Qs. I did a search & found so many Q-testing WTF. Anyways, 20 pa emotion 80 pa logical sounds good. Emotional is connected to the food we eat, bananas & chocolate are 1+1 of the food I love, so next on the card should be health.
Health - Health problems are bound to happen when you lease expect it. Be vigilant all the time no matter how healthy you are. One person may not agree with me that "Health is Wealth", but that's ok, I agree to disagree.
Agreement - Is it really worth the energy you use to open & move your mouth, the grey cells for that matter, the voice you use for karaoke, body muscle movement of any to convince people to get into agreement with you? I guess that really depends on what the win-win result desired. Is it really worth ones effort? While the other just spend a "No". Take a note on one worth.
Nett Worth - Concentrate on value added work, task and chores which will give a positive result or a negative result but a plus learning experience. Leave the grunt job when you're in a viral or estrange bad mood. See the value in time, but not so far as to make it one liability.
Liability - Those things that you pay but can only give you less (like insurance). One aunty invested 500k, but only got back 400k. One uncle entrust his money to his banker, but did not get any interest, because the bank never inform him properly that the interest is not guarantee one, now he is suing the bank.
LLL - Life-Long-Learning
RRR - Reduce Reuse Recycle
1 + 1 = 3
Looking forward to this new 2011 at full throttle.
Circumstances - The deal is one thing I am quite pissed at myself is concluding, minding, seeing, smelling, rotating, reading, feeling, judging, saying, speeding, & other bla, being too emotional (over 50%? then what is a good %? 20 pa emotion 80 pa logical?)
Remembering that someone once said "Takes 10 years to know a person and took only 5 minutes to make a decision." So emotional (20/80?) is critically next.
Emotional - IQ, EQ, MQ & all the other Qs. I did a search & found so many Q-testing WTF. Anyways, 20 pa emotion 80 pa logical sounds good. Emotional is connected to the food we eat, bananas & chocolate are 1+1 of the food I love, so next on the card should be health.
Health - Health problems are bound to happen when you lease expect it. Be vigilant all the time no matter how healthy you are. One person may not agree with me that "Health is Wealth", but that's ok, I agree to disagree.
Agreement - Is it really worth the energy you use to open & move your mouth, the grey cells for that matter, the voice you use for karaoke, body muscle movement of any to convince people to get into agreement with you? I guess that really depends on what the win-win result desired. Is it really worth ones effort? While the other just spend a "No". Take a note on one worth.
Nett Worth - Concentrate on value added work, task and chores which will give a positive result or a negative result but a plus learning experience. Leave the grunt job when you're in a viral or estrange bad mood. See the value in time, but not so far as to make it one liability.
Liability - Those things that you pay but can only give you less (like insurance). One aunty invested 500k, but only got back 400k. One uncle entrust his money to his banker, but did not get any interest, because the bank never inform him properly that the interest is not guarantee one, now he is suing the bank.
LLL - Life-Long-Learning
RRR - Reduce Reuse Recycle
1 + 1 = 3
Looking forward to this new 2011 at full throttle.
Saturday, October 16, 2010
20101016: This Strange Saturday
"Sometime we best take it easy on a Strange Saturday."
Somewhere amongst & in between,
words were lost and so it seems.
Disconnection early in the morning,
become haywired throughout the day.
Sound of birds' chirp awaken me,
my dream seems wer' interrupted,
not that I could remember.
Strangely I sat mosquito bit me,
between here now & all the grunt.
Turning to slack & laid back again
began the chores of growing up.
Somewhere amongst & in between,
words were lost and so it seems.
Disconnection early in the morning,
become haywired throughout the day.
Sound of birds' chirp awaken me,
my dream seems wer' interrupted,
not that I could remember.
Strangely I sat mosquito bit me,
between here now & all the grunt.
Turning to slack & laid back again
began the chores of growing up.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
20100909: Doing Something About It
Doing xxx about something & then doing something about it.
Rainy day and coup up in Kuching. Kuching weather is like this one, I witnessed a magnificent storm front chasing down the eastern horizon with no mercy a while ago. Then the rain came, flinging down all the cats and dogs from heaven to down below. I once read a book, written by Kuching people, the writer seems to be "female-dogging" a.k.a. b1tching about the rainy weather in Kuching, and here I am, also biatching about the rainy weather.
Truth is, I like rainy weather, if it floods, I don't have to go to school. Now that's really old-skool. Usually school don't flood in this millenium anymore. & i've been out of school for eons.
So... What to do in the rainy weather?
1) Write a blog log such as this
2) Watch TV? the dish might get electrocuted
3) Call up your Kuching friend who is also caught in the rain? las time I use to do this but now no.
4) Tidy up your room?
5) Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain (hmmm. . . sounds interesting)
6) ZZZ
Rainy day and coup up in Kuching. Kuching weather is like this one, I witnessed a magnificent storm front chasing down the eastern horizon with no mercy a while ago. Then the rain came, flinging down all the cats and dogs from heaven to down below. I once read a book, written by Kuching people, the writer seems to be "female-dogging" a.k.a. b1tching about the rainy weather in Kuching, and here I am, also biatching about the rainy weather.
Truth is, I like rainy weather, if it floods, I don't have to go to school. Now that's really old-skool. Usually school don't flood in this millenium anymore. & i've been out of school for eons.
So... What to do in the rainy weather?
1) Write a blog log such as this
2) Watch TV? the dish might get electrocuted
3) Call up your Kuching friend who is also caught in the rain? las time I use to do this but now no.
4) Tidy up your room?
5) Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain (hmmm. . . sounds interesting)
6) ZZZ
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
20100901: Clutter Let Go
I thought I'd learn of letting go,
but a tinge of meloncholy filled the air today.
The feeling surged like a whirlpool in my empty room.
I took a moment to taste the feeling I'd long forgotten.
Left behind not to be found again.
Until today, the memory lingers & seems to come alive
as I place each item into its compartment.
In another time and space,
remember that sleep deprived night
remember taking out tons of trash
remember cleaning up the closet
remember the coffee & the cold in the aire.
The sweet of joy in everyone's face
as they turn up to say farewell.
maybe this time, Do Not Let Go No More.
but a tinge of meloncholy filled the air today.
The feeling surged like a whirlpool in my empty room.
I took a moment to taste the feeling I'd long forgotten.
Left behind not to be found again.
Until today, the memory lingers & seems to come alive
as I place each item into its compartment.
In another time and space,
remember that sleep deprived night
remember taking out tons of trash
remember cleaning up the closet
remember the coffee & the cold in the aire.
The sweet of joy in everyone's face
as they turn up to say farewell.
maybe this time, Do Not Let Go No More.
Friday, August 27, 2010
20100827: Quote from Resuree
"When prune the roots, part of the greens will dry up & gone."
I don't do roots, usually, whether as in real life or metaphor, I don't know.
Just let it spread wild in the pots like none of my business, then finally one day it's in need of some re-rooting or change pot. At this instant comes the irony, whether do we just prune the roots only?
Choices time:
A) Let mother nature take it's course, Do nothing
B) Prune the roots & greens
C) Prune the roots & let the greens grow & then prune it like they do Jade
D) A perfect brew of the above
Sort of like molding an animal garden. Bla...
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
20100825: Something for the Pain
Wanted to write something about PEIN.
"Itami wo Kanjirou" - Feel the pain
"Itami wo Kangaerou" - Ponder the pain (the real Pein will not use contemplate)
"Itami wo Uketore" - Embrace the pain (the real Pein will not just use accept)
"Itami wo Shire" - Know the pain
From there I went in search of a pain song I used to listen to:
Bon Jovi's "Something for the Pain", then I saw "Someday I'll be Saturday Night"; one of my favourite songs of all time. Hmmm, think i'll include it in my marathon mix.
Hey hey hey. . . then I watched "These Days" on youtube.
Not sure what it is, I guess I'm having one of those moments. . .
"Ain't nobody left but us these days."
"Itami wo Kanjirou" - Feel the pain
"Itami wo Kangaerou" - Ponder the pain (the real Pein will not use contemplate)
"Itami wo Uketore" - Embrace the pain (the real Pein will not just use accept)
"Itami wo Shire" - Know the pain
From there I went in search of a pain song I used to listen to:
Bon Jovi's "Something for the Pain", then I saw "Someday I'll be Saturday Night"; one of my favourite songs of all time. Hmmm, think i'll include it in my marathon mix.
Hey hey hey. . . then I watched "These Days" on youtube.
Not sure what it is, I guess I'm having one of those moments. . .
"Ain't nobody left but us these days."
Thursday, August 19, 2010
20100819: To Be or Not To be, that is the Question
Shakespeare bores me, BUT... when a certain faction of my friends brought it up during the sort of engaging conversation done under casual circumstances, I was forced to search through my head for any form of connection with the Bard. Only image to come up is me hands on the cover of a Shakespearish book & yellowing pages, pan in for a closest encounter reveal my 2 fingers on the cover, didn't even read the introduction.
A deeper image would be Gilligan doing "I aught to be or not to be..." in black and white which totally doesn't take me there to the second verse.
Well, I found out that in some country, primary school children read Shakespeare in the extra school activity. And they will remember it the rest of their remaining lives. OMG, the trick is to impart the knowledge when they are young and let them choose their path.
After Hamlet, the "groupies" talk about Venice Merchant, hmmm... totally lost me there. I heard of Venice but never thought that Shakespeare could do rowing a gondola. Some keywords "happy ending", "pound of flesh", "ring".
Putting these thoughts aside, I need to find that book which is still somewhere waiting to be read.
LOL
A deeper image would be Gilligan doing "I aught to be or not to be..." in black and white which totally doesn't take me there to the second verse.
Well, I found out that in some country, primary school children read Shakespeare in the extra school activity. And they will remember it the rest of their remaining lives. OMG, the trick is to impart the knowledge when they are young and let them choose their path.
After Hamlet, the "groupies" talk about Venice Merchant, hmmm... totally lost me there. I heard of Venice but never thought that Shakespeare could do rowing a gondola. Some keywords "happy ending", "pound of flesh", "ring".
Putting these thoughts aside, I need to find that book which is still somewhere waiting to be read.
LOL
Sunday, August 15, 2010
20100815: Quote from Resuree
"You can always blame it on August."
August: Hot Summer season, I get sick easy. I always get those big sickness in August.
I get hungover without alcohol just the other day. That's August fault.
Dogs & birds pi55ed on my car more on August.
My eyes swell like those bubble eyes gold fish one August, thought I was going blind.
One August, I sprained my ankle twice, thought I was never gonna walk again (a bit exagerated).
rev: Thought I was gonna be a limpbizkit for the rest of my life.
The list goes on and on.
Can't wait for September. :-D
August: Hot Summer season, I get sick easy. I always get those big sickness in August.
I get hungover without alcohol just the other day. That's August fault.
Dogs & birds pi55ed on my car more on August.
My eyes swell like those bubble eyes gold fish one August, thought I was going blind.
One August, I sprained my ankle twice, thought I was never gonna walk again (a bit exagerated).
rev: Thought I was gonna be a limpbizkit for the rest of my life.
The list goes on and on.
Can't wait for September. :-D
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
20100811: This Letter
Wrote something during a Wait time of 20 minutes.
Dear R,
It's been quite a mad season of busyness for the past couple of years, to come to an end like this what could you request more of yourself? Did you reach for the sky and steal the moon?
If you had, it must be set quite easily.
What would you do to the rest your life? or another lifetime which ever comes first?
Is it already Xmas in August? Why do I see Xmas trees at Orchard? Strange season it may seems to have a pair of deer antler stuck on people's skull.
Now for the nextoff days of becoming, Do 10 things for the next 10 terms? Or until you get another zeroing like M meekly tweeted. Just for the kick of it and challenge vs needs.
So how fast can you deal?
Fast, Far, Fun & another bunches of "F"s.
HAH... this letter will self-destruct in 8 minutes.
Hold it, someone you know just sneaked by with a greeting.
Another 6 minutes of being bored perhaps.
"Kono tegami wo yondara sugu ni sutete hoshii"
BOOOMMMM
Dear R,
It's been quite a mad season of busyness for the past couple of years, to come to an end like this what could you request more of yourself? Did you reach for the sky and steal the moon?
If you had, it must be set quite easily.
What would you do to the rest your life? or another lifetime which ever comes first?
Is it already Xmas in August? Why do I see Xmas trees at Orchard? Strange season it may seems to have a pair of deer antler stuck on people's skull.
Now for the nextoff days of becoming, Do 10 things for the next 10 terms? Or until you get another zeroing like M meekly tweeted. Just for the kick of it and challenge vs needs.
So how fast can you deal?
Fast, Far, Fun & another bunches of "F"s.
HAH... this letter will self-destruct in 8 minutes.
Hold it, someone you know just sneaked by with a greeting.
Another 6 minutes of being bored perhaps.
"Kono tegami wo yondara sugu ni sutete hoshii"
BOOOMMMM
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
20100803: Exercise for Not Working
"Don't work for money, Money should be working for you."
Got this inspiration after some old pop song ran into my ear.
'She works hard for the money, dum dum dum dum
So hard for the money, teng teng teng teng,
She works hard for the money so you better treat her right.
So right."
(Rev 20100830: 78k & 100pcs of 50 dollar bill:
Went to the bank today, some guy next to me was preparing cash withdrawal from the bank, notes that so much until can fit those 24can beer cartons pack. the machine counting $1000, 78k, & also a stack of $50, siam to look at the figure at the counter... 100. walao, money money money, makes the world goes round and round and makes people crazy)
Got this inspiration after some old pop song ran into my ear.
'She works hard for the money, dum dum dum dum
So hard for the money, teng teng teng teng,
She works hard for the money so you better treat her right.
So right."
(Rev 20100830: 78k & 100pcs of 50 dollar bill:
Went to the bank today, some guy next to me was preparing cash withdrawal from the bank, notes that so much until can fit those 24can beer cartons pack. the machine counting $1000, 78k, & also a stack of $50, siam to look at the figure at the counter... 100. walao, money money money, makes the world goes round and round and makes people crazy)
Sunday, August 1, 2010
20100801: New Year Resolution rev0
http://resuree.blogspot.com/2010/02/20100215-happy-tiger-lunar-year.html
1) Changed :-D
2) Need to be specify my coaching skill (choose one skill to document each)
3) Need continue balance exercise, rest & diet in between
4) Travel still in planning, nobody willing to go Nepal. #$%^ too lokok
5) Spending less
6) Starting to learn investment
7) Got my 7D bling.
:-D
addition:
8) Write something (1000 words per week).
Saturday, July 31, 2010
20100731: Mud Art
Sailed back home to attend something sad.Weather of Kuching the day after,
Basking hot in the morning,
Heavy dog gone rain in the afternoon.
A short pause about 3 hours in between,
Sound of solitude in the refreshened air,
Atmosphere seems stunned by few rainless days,
I was muddling through the garden spade in hand,
when I realised I might have created my first oil painting today.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
20100728: Quote from Resuree
1) Once in a while, need to cut people some slack.
2) Need to cut everyone some slack once in a while.
3) Once in a while everyone need to be given some slack.
4) Everybody need to slack once in a while.
5) "Cut me some slack, boss."
6) "Boss, cut me some slack, I tired OreTi."
I have this thinking when the Sg hawker "forgot" my order & I was made to wait my food for 15 mins. The guy at the next table also waited another 10 mins. "25 minutes too late."
Should I order another stall next time? I've been ordering from this same stall and same people since I can remember.
Nah, then I thought of some quotes in the spare time (refer above).
I reminded again another guy from the same stall, he said the other forgotten, sheepishly. So I wondered what went wrong? Will they include "extra special material" in my food. I saw none, "phew" . . . sighed of relief. LOL ...
Another day passed us by & Life goes on.
2) Need to cut everyone some slack once in a while.
3) Once in a while everyone need to be given some slack.
4) Everybody need to slack once in a while.
5) "Cut me some slack, boss."
6) "Boss, cut me some slack, I tired OreTi."
I have this thinking when the Sg hawker "forgot" my order & I was made to wait my food for 15 mins. The guy at the next table also waited another 10 mins. "25 minutes too late."
Should I order another stall next time? I've been ordering from this same stall and same people since I can remember.
Nah, then I thought of some quotes in the spare time (refer above).
I reminded again another guy from the same stall, he said the other forgotten, sheepishly. So I wondered what went wrong? Will they include "extra special material" in my food. I saw none, "phew" . . . sighed of relief. LOL ...
Another day passed us by & Life goes on.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
20100722: Quote from Resuree
"Your mind, body & soul gotta be doing something meaningful (specifics like listen to music, etc), else all the sh1t (fatigue, emotional outburst) will come out beyond control."
Experienced & realised this from events & observation during on-going simulation.
Now is the chance to be more specific I guess.
Experienced & realised this from events & observation during on-going simulation.
Now is the chance to be more specific I guess.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
20100715: Golden Days
Hey old timer, what will you do after you get that pot of GOLD?
(A collection of options when I reach that age.)
1) Alone Ah Pek at terminal
Good after noon sir, are you traveling alone?
Where is your wife, children or grand children?
Are you waiting for your friend or sibling?
It's a sunny day today, the plane here & I'll be gone,
Have a good journey and Bon Voyage.
2) Tee Oo oo Obasan
This is the filial piety pledge shown in mass multimedia to educate the Sg people I guess. In the current society where the parents expect that the salary receiving teachers in school are resposible to teach their children everything, the National Something Society created this short film often shown in cinema & sometimes TV.
Opening scene, old grandmother carrying the picture of grandfather & move into the flat of the only son's three-some family.
Scene 2, grandmother complain chicken is too hard and vomit it out of her mouth "So hard wanna kill me issit." "Mother I go buy fish poridge for you to eat." While the daughter in law throw the hard chicken into the thrash, the only grandson slam chopsticks on table & grandma looks on apologeticly.
Scene 3, grandmother took her luggage & wanna moved to her sister's place in red mountain while the son tried to stop her. Keypo, neighbours looked on while annoyed grandson slammed door & listen to music on earphone.
Scene 4, doctor talking to son, grandmother got terminal illness.
Scene 5, in hospital grandmother is bed ridden, daughter in law going to toilet while asking husband to accompany the sick old lady, & also asking the grandson to accompany his father. Grandson say, "Grandma treat you & mother like sh1t, why you still treat her so good."
Then the taxi driver son start to sing Tee Oo oo to the mother. Memory recall that last time the son was sick on a rainy day, then the mother carry her in the rain from house to hospital all soaking wet, when arrived at the hospital, the missy ask her to wait "Everyone coming here is sick, please wait your turn." So the mother sing Tee Oo oo to the sick son to comfort him while waiting the turn to be served. Son open eyes and looks like feeling better.
Scene 6, son still singing to grandmother in hospital, she in coma and cannot open her eyes but tears stream down. while grandson looks on.
3) Kueh Tiaw Ah Pek
"If I hang up my wok, I'll die already."
4) White Shoes Ah Pek
"Today sure is sunny hot. Yesterday was a cloudy day, my game of golf went pretty swell."
5) Nice Aunties offering help
"Do you need some "hong ew"? I have it somewhere in my bag." :-)
(A collection of options when I reach that age.)
1) Alone Ah Pek at terminal
Good after noon sir, are you traveling alone?
Where is your wife, children or grand children?
Are you waiting for your friend or sibling?
It's a sunny day today, the plane here & I'll be gone,
Have a good journey and Bon Voyage.
2) Tee Oo oo Obasan
This is the filial piety pledge shown in mass multimedia to educate the Sg people I guess. In the current society where the parents expect that the salary receiving teachers in school are resposible to teach their children everything, the National Something Society created this short film often shown in cinema & sometimes TV.
Opening scene, old grandmother carrying the picture of grandfather & move into the flat of the only son's three-some family.
Scene 2, grandmother complain chicken is too hard and vomit it out of her mouth "So hard wanna kill me issit." "Mother I go buy fish poridge for you to eat." While the daughter in law throw the hard chicken into the thrash, the only grandson slam chopsticks on table & grandma looks on apologeticly.
Scene 3, grandmother took her luggage & wanna moved to her sister's place in red mountain while the son tried to stop her. Keypo, neighbours looked on while annoyed grandson slammed door & listen to music on earphone.
Scene 4, doctor talking to son, grandmother got terminal illness.
Scene 5, in hospital grandmother is bed ridden, daughter in law going to toilet while asking husband to accompany the sick old lady, & also asking the grandson to accompany his father. Grandson say, "Grandma treat you & mother like sh1t, why you still treat her so good."
Then the taxi driver son start to sing Tee Oo oo to the mother. Memory recall that last time the son was sick on a rainy day, then the mother carry her in the rain from house to hospital all soaking wet, when arrived at the hospital, the missy ask her to wait "Everyone coming here is sick, please wait your turn." So the mother sing Tee Oo oo to the sick son to comfort him while waiting the turn to be served. Son open eyes and looks like feeling better.
Scene 6, son still singing to grandmother in hospital, she in coma and cannot open her eyes but tears stream down. while grandson looks on.
3) Kueh Tiaw Ah Pek
"If I hang up my wok, I'll die already."
4) White Shoes Ah Pek
"Today sure is sunny hot. Yesterday was a cloudy day, my game of golf went pretty swell."
5) Nice Aunties offering help
"Do you need some "hong ew"? I have it somewhere in my bag." :-)
Saturday, July 10, 2010
20100710: Put Your Best Foot Forward
Worned out. . . settling down in bed, as I recount what I did this evening.
It has been a long while since I did any exercise, so I called up my friend this morning to arrange a jog session in the evening perhaps?.
As we were doing the last klik, my friend, a "hardcore" jogger got smitten by some heavy footer closing in from the rear & he went in all out to show who is the Alpha male. Leaving behind poor me smelling the foul stench left by his & his burning rubber shoes.
As my body exfoliate, sweat & salted, I experienced near lapse into a blackout not since a hard hangover. Maybe this is the Runner's High I heard of?
As I neared the "finish line", I felt a sudden bliss as this is the end. kekeke.
But noo noo noo... at this time we were joint by another seasoned veteran "hardercore" runner who saw what had happend & ":praised" my friend for the "kill". I too join in the talkokversation as so far, I think this was really a super good work out, partly due to I got the runner's high feel. :-D or maybe too much delifrance coffee I took 2 hours before?
As it turns out, we continued the jog at his favourite route, a mixture of uphill, downhill & traffic lights. We were climbing uphill & my friend started to talk about a nice coffee shop at that area. Being his favourite route, he knows all the lobang around there. OMG, as the fat in my body started to burn, my mind just couldn't process the taste of char kueh tiaw & char hey mi deliciously, what is happening to me? I guess less blood flowing to my brain made it haywired because I just couldn't reply, probably I also couldn't recognized me... looking like a zombie, out of breath & trying to keep up. Those short pauses at traffic light crossing became a really welcoming sight.
Caught a few breath and started to reply as my language ability suddenly came back. Making meaningful chats for a few seconds & we were off again. Jog jog jog jog, I don't know why but Jay Chow's catchy indistinctive rap tune started an army of ant-crawl moving in my head. My friend told me some form of focus & determination is needed at times like this. Who would have thought some Mpop rap tune would have this type of affect deep deep.
As we were doing some warm down exercise, my friend gave me some pointers & I tweeted: "I thought it was a good run". "Yeah, see you tomorrow same time, a few more of us is running." "Sure, why not. I'll beep you tomorrow if nothing come up." ... ... ... Sure something is bound to come up.
Nah, I think I need the exercise & it wouldn't be a bad thing too. Just no regrets & putting your best foot forward.
It has been a long while since I did any exercise, so I called up my friend this morning to arrange a jog session in the evening perhaps?.
As we were doing the last klik, my friend, a "hardcore" jogger got smitten by some heavy footer closing in from the rear & he went in all out to show who is the Alpha male. Leaving behind poor me smelling the foul stench left by his & his burning rubber shoes.
As my body exfoliate, sweat & salted, I experienced near lapse into a blackout not since a hard hangover. Maybe this is the Runner's High I heard of?
As I neared the "finish line", I felt a sudden bliss as this is the end. kekeke.
But noo noo noo... at this time we were joint by another seasoned veteran "hardercore" runner who saw what had happend & ":praised" my friend for the "kill". I too join in the talkokversation as so far, I think this was really a super good work out, partly due to I got the runner's high feel. :-D or maybe too much delifrance coffee I took 2 hours before?
As it turns out, we continued the jog at his favourite route, a mixture of uphill, downhill & traffic lights. We were climbing uphill & my friend started to talk about a nice coffee shop at that area. Being his favourite route, he knows all the lobang around there. OMG, as the fat in my body started to burn, my mind just couldn't process the taste of char kueh tiaw & char hey mi deliciously, what is happening to me? I guess less blood flowing to my brain made it haywired because I just couldn't reply, probably I also couldn't recognized me... looking like a zombie, out of breath & trying to keep up. Those short pauses at traffic light crossing became a really welcoming sight.
Caught a few breath and started to reply as my language ability suddenly came back. Making meaningful chats for a few seconds & we were off again. Jog jog jog jog, I don't know why but Jay Chow's catchy indistinctive rap tune started an army of ant-crawl moving in my head. My friend told me some form of focus & determination is needed at times like this. Who would have thought some Mpop rap tune would have this type of affect deep deep.
As we were doing some warm down exercise, my friend gave me some pointers & I tweeted: "I thought it was a good run". "Yeah, see you tomorrow same time, a few more of us is running." "Sure, why not. I'll beep you tomorrow if nothing come up." ... ... ... Sure something is bound to come up.
Nah, I think I need the exercise & it wouldn't be a bad thing too. Just no regrets & putting your best foot forward.
Friday, July 9, 2010
20100709: Silvering Days
Overheard on a bus, conversation between 2 silver hair people. From their attire, they are still contributing to the workforce. On the queue same as me, 2 buses came, they boarded the crowded one and was commenting about no place to sit, & how should have taken the other one. Old people tends to speak carefreely in company of their own like a coffee shop. One way to look at it, maybe he was thinking of the comfort for his buddy. As they continue to talk, some young girls sitting nearest offered them seats, but they declined. This hold true for the theory of refused to be "Reserved Seat"-ed. So they were continuing on that still have people offering seat on the bus, in the train XXX lo, they are the one who are giving up seat for people who really needed it. Only seat down when necessary, some people pretend to sleep, some hold up the paper high-high, some treat as invisible & also the price of bus ticket has increased since 4-July.
From what I see, as the population continue to "grey" & "silver" and current statistics of less children popping out, it just can't be help. When they are young, they think they can give up the seats & finally when they are old, they still have to give up their sitting comfort.
As I looked out, I saw a double rainbow, similar the one at Kuching the other day, minus the orange sky though. July = Rainbow month? I wondered: Where is the silver lining in the cloud? And is there really a pot of GOLD waiting at the end of the rainbow?
From what I see, as the population continue to "grey" & "silver" and current statistics of less children popping out, it just can't be help. When they are young, they think they can give up the seats & finally when they are old, they still have to give up their sitting comfort.
As I looked out, I saw a double rainbow, similar the one at Kuching the other day, minus the orange sky though. July = Rainbow month? I wondered: Where is the silver lining in the cloud? And is there really a pot of GOLD waiting at the end of the rainbow?
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