Recently, my friend posted a blog about his resignation from his current working job and pursue what he likes doing...it was not a bad move really...pursuing what you actually liked to do. And then he was saying about how he's getting better offers after his resignation. In my opinion, in one way, he should leave as the company only gave him offers only after he decided to leave, and even if he doesn't leave, the company may and may not further the same offers to him. And he said that his decision is final and final is final, nothing can change that. I do respect him for being steadfast on his decision.
Yes, indeed I would ask too, "Why would you quit from your high-paying job?". Its a stable income, even in these economic crisis times, your still not retrenched and such. Many of those from my class would gladly stay if they were in the same position as my friend...but I guess they're not him....In fact, I would too. Yeah, he doesn't want a "simple" life.....but I do...I don't aim for too much...to be rich and gain lots of money....just that I have savings to last me through a comfortable old age and there's money whenever I need to put into my pocket will do...there's no such thing as "That is the amount of money I want to earn...."
Before you even reach the target, your mindset begins to change and aim for higher...and there's never an end to that. Seldom have I seen rich people using "truthful" tactics to gain money / profit....even Bill Gates has his tactics...even the Boss of Genting is gaining profits from a "People Harming Way". But I guess, when people have a significant financial upper hand on the rest of the crowd, they tend to think differently, in a more "I don't care way, It's my Way". So, in the end, there is never enough money and a target with a good cause suddenly becomes a greed for more money and this greed may never stop at anything. No one can say that they can control the feeling, after all, we're all humans...we all sin....
And dragging God into decisions you've made in life is no way to reinforce the decision. Imagine if that someone decides to murder somebody and he's saying that "I need to kill that person for your sake, to purify him / her of sins...So, God spare me of any punishments and may all be Godspeed". Did God chose for you to make that decision? No. It is the human mind that is playing God and reassuring himself that there is someone out there to correct your mistakes on the way. Its like there is a "Plan B" going on that will guide you through decisions...The concept that God will follow through all your decisions just isn't right....
After all the long-winded talk, I think in the end...It's His Life and Not Mine...there's suddenly no point of making any sense out of his decision for my own understanding. In certain things, we probably of different wavelengths.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Monday, March 9, 2009
The Education - 9th March
Recently, I came across my friend's blog, the one talking about the education state in our country. He was talking on how the quality of education in our country is deteriorating, how students in our country are memorizing and spilling them out again during exams. No doubt that this is in fact reflects the larger population of the student world at this moment. But, I cannot resist to make a number of points here in which I hope that he will take time to consider the truth of life and that there's no point stating how frustrated you are.
In my country, the general idea would be gauging a person's clever levels / success in education / future success in life is based on your achievements in exams (especially in public exams). This happens also in other countries such as in China, Japan and more severely in Singapore. The question here is: What do you expect from the students? We can't just blame the student for memorizing, or the tuition centers or the ministers. The fact is that: The society rules all!
The society dictates what is success. The society says that their language is not given the proper treatment. The society says that so and so shall be the yardstick to measure a person's value. Everything is on the society...If they don't change, why should the government or the students?
And in our country, the education system is exam-oriented. The system do not encourage creative thinking (they have got strict marking schemes to follow to check on public exams). It does not even encourage thinking. Who is to blame? Us - the society.
The education system in the country in fact does not encourage learning for the sake of learning. If you learn for the sake of learning...you'll probably be an outcast of the society. In my country, ask anyone on the streets...have you ever ever read notes from school, right before exams, just for the sake of learning and not for the exams. Don't be surprised, not even one will give you a 'yes' answer. Exams in my country is the one of the measures for success, the more "A's" you get, the more people would look up on you...even if your personality is blacker than coals...
Furthermore, the environment in class is in fact never conductive. Try to talk and the teacher would reprimand you for talking during lessons. Which is why students could not give an answer to a teacher when he asks his students. Nobody wants to be wrong or reprimanded wouldn't they? And the daily routine of classes are notes and more notes to copy. Teachers cram pages and pages into a 1-hour period and expects them to copy them without even explaining what is it all about. How would students want to study? Interests of topics beyond what is taught in class is quashed by the "follow the syllabus" rule. How would this encourage learning? We are being taught to be robots in class and therefore, this is also being brought into the outside world.
A student who is not keen on studying but more on practicalities, is being labeled as "stupid" and "useless". Humans are born with different personalities each, but the education system demands that he does well or suffer the consequences in later life. People without education are considered to be the bane of the society. What justice is there for us to label them as such? Should we blame the students for having a class that does not promote learning? The person to point the fingers at would be us - The Society. It is us that dictates how the future shall look like...
In my country, the general idea would be gauging a person's clever levels / success in education / future success in life is based on your achievements in exams (especially in public exams). This happens also in other countries such as in China, Japan and more severely in Singapore. The question here is: What do you expect from the students? We can't just blame the student for memorizing, or the tuition centers or the ministers. The fact is that: The society rules all!
The society dictates what is success. The society says that their language is not given the proper treatment. The society says that so and so shall be the yardstick to measure a person's value. Everything is on the society...If they don't change, why should the government or the students?
And in our country, the education system is exam-oriented. The system do not encourage creative thinking (they have got strict marking schemes to follow to check on public exams). It does not even encourage thinking. Who is to blame? Us - the society.
The education system in the country in fact does not encourage learning for the sake of learning. If you learn for the sake of learning...you'll probably be an outcast of the society. In my country, ask anyone on the streets...have you ever ever read notes from school, right before exams, just for the sake of learning and not for the exams. Don't be surprised, not even one will give you a 'yes' answer. Exams in my country is the one of the measures for success, the more "A's" you get, the more people would look up on you...even if your personality is blacker than coals...
Furthermore, the environment in class is in fact never conductive. Try to talk and the teacher would reprimand you for talking during lessons. Which is why students could not give an answer to a teacher when he asks his students. Nobody wants to be wrong or reprimanded wouldn't they? And the daily routine of classes are notes and more notes to copy. Teachers cram pages and pages into a 1-hour period and expects them to copy them without even explaining what is it all about. How would students want to study? Interests of topics beyond what is taught in class is quashed by the "follow the syllabus" rule. How would this encourage learning? We are being taught to be robots in class and therefore, this is also being brought into the outside world.
A student who is not keen on studying but more on practicalities, is being labeled as "stupid" and "useless". Humans are born with different personalities each, but the education system demands that he does well or suffer the consequences in later life. People without education are considered to be the bane of the society. What justice is there for us to label them as such? Should we blame the students for having a class that does not promote learning? The person to point the fingers at would be us - The Society. It is us that dictates how the future shall look like...
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Anger Makes Victory - 5th March
Recently something just came up to my mind and I wonder how many people would say that this theory is true. It goes like this: When two person interact with each other, there is bound to be times where there are disputes...so, when either one of them gets angry first and not saying it, he would generally have the final say over the dispute and most of time, things would swing to his way. This is because, the person who gets angry first creates an impression that he's right and the other is definitely definitely wrong no matter what...and the other is forced, whether to like it or not, to apologize and make up...even, even if in fact, the person who did not get angry was not even doing anything wrong...well, at least to him...when a person apologizes, its like saying that the angry person is right and correct. Who wants to differ an angry person?
Won't this promote an unhealthy way of thinking? The person actually doing wrong is being admitted to be doing right while the other would question himself and he wouldn't know whether he was actually right.... So, the fact is that, to gain the upper-hand in a dispute would be to gain support from other people, say things louder like you're right, get angry first and always make the other person look like a fool with nonsensical arguments that may seem to make some sense. Well, that's the way of life: The Survival of the Angriest...
Won't this promote an unhealthy way of thinking? The person actually doing wrong is being admitted to be doing right while the other would question himself and he wouldn't know whether he was actually right.... So, the fact is that, to gain the upper-hand in a dispute would be to gain support from other people, say things louder like you're right, get angry first and always make the other person look like a fool with nonsensical arguments that may seem to make some sense. Well, that's the way of life: The Survival of the Angriest...
Saturday, February 28, 2009
1st Bad Day in Blog - 27th Feb
As usual, I went to work on a normal Friday, it was raining earlier in the morning and it has stopped quite a while...I parked my car in a spot and went to look for the parking ticket machine...found and went to one...inserted some coins and suddenly...the machine "spit" out all my coins amounting to Rm3.50...that's strange...that's not supposed to happen..and went to another machine and the same thing happened...went to another and again it happened while in fact I didn't do anything wrong. In total, I changed machines for around 6 times...I was wandering around the area round-and-round without any purpose. I did give a thought to not paying the parking ticket but the fines was too heavy too bear....no matter what, I had to pay the ticket! Finally at the 7th time and the 3rd time at the same machine...I got it to work...the trick was to insert the coins as fast as you could and the as the machines permitted...But, I still think I had a bit of bad luck there.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Indonesia's Hatred - 25th Feb
Recently (again) horrifying pictures of Chinese people, young ones especially filled my email when I checked it one day. I was again shocked and horrified. The pictures were taken in Indonesia (time unknown), showing chinese people without bodies, they were beheaded and used as trophies. There was one where there was this small kid's head raised up high by man, sort of leading the mob...they were cheering...it was like they were happy with what they have done...
Another one showed the picture of a pretty lady (supposedly pretty as the inset picture claims the body to be) lying in the middle of the road, naked and it was said that she was also raped...some showed their heads on top of racks (with hair still intact) or lying on the roads....And guess what? They were also raped...Kill and rape? What could be worse than that? These pictures were indeed disheartening, until now I could still imagine the pictures in my head....and I'm glad that I'm still alive. These beheadings just makes no sense...did the chinese people act selfishly? Did they harass the locals? Did they betray the country? Can anyone out there, especially those depicted in the pictures care to explain their actions? Do the victims deserve to be beheaded like that? Are the chinese people even worse than animals to be treated like so?....Sad...
But it makes me wonder, is it the Muslim side in these people that hates the chinese or is it the Indonesian people themselves that hates the Chinese? Even here, we are not spared from the prejudice my the supposedly "local" people. No doubt, you can chinese people almost anywhere on the globe. And they work hard for themselves, but why all the hatred? Its not that we cant be tolerant...but sometimes, all we want are just a fair treatment...is that so hard? No one can say that they are the original inhabitants of the place...no one can claim so...But it seems, especially in Muslim dominated countires, the chinese are always dispised....why?
(I chose to have the pictures omitted to avoid disheartening the reader...)
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Another one showed the picture of a pretty lady (supposedly pretty as the inset picture claims the body to be) lying in the middle of the road, naked and it was said that she was also raped...some showed their heads on top of racks (with hair still intact) or lying on the roads....And guess what? They were also raped...Kill and rape? What could be worse than that? These pictures were indeed disheartening, until now I could still imagine the pictures in my head....and I'm glad that I'm still alive. These beheadings just makes no sense...did the chinese people act selfishly? Did they harass the locals? Did they betray the country? Can anyone out there, especially those depicted in the pictures care to explain their actions? Do the victims deserve to be beheaded like that? Are the chinese people even worse than animals to be treated like so?....Sad...
But it makes me wonder, is it the Muslim side in these people that hates the chinese or is it the Indonesian people themselves that hates the Chinese? Even here, we are not spared from the prejudice my the supposedly "local" people. No doubt, you can chinese people almost anywhere on the globe. And they work hard for themselves, but why all the hatred? Its not that we cant be tolerant...but sometimes, all we want are just a fair treatment...is that so hard? No one can say that they are the original inhabitants of the place...no one can claim so...But it seems, especially in Muslim dominated countires, the chinese are always dispised....why?
(I chose to have the pictures omitted to avoid disheartening the reader...)
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Thursday, February 19, 2009
The Real Truth of Life
Recently, a fiend of mine (Hiromi) sent me an email titled: "Natural...without make-up & touched". Before opening it, I knew from the title that it is something about people or actors and actresses without their make-up and touching up. I was prepared to face the truth, of how they looked like when they did not apply their make-up...it wouldn't be that bad...was my first thought. Next thing, I was scrolling down, looking at the pictures of various Asian Stars in their all natural glory....
My first expression: OMG! Some of them looked like the old people selling things in the pasar malam (night market) near my place. Although, some still maintain their looks even without make-up (real natural beauty) but some...short to say, I was totally overwhelmed with horrid.
The list made up of popular female actors such as: Qi Qi, Karen Mok, S.H.E, Rainie Yang, Gigi Lai and some I forgot the name. Here's one of the more horrible transformation ones:-
Whats her name? Forgot...but gosh...she looks way old..
Jolin Tsai? Is that you? (But the left pix looks kinda "off" to me)
Some looks just a bit off:-
Karen Mok...looks the same..
Rainie Yang...still ok...
S.H.Who? Selina..ugh...Hebe...ugh...Ella still maintains
Looking at them, it does make me wonder...people we sometimes idolize, or want to be like them, public figures, do they all actually hide the truth from us? Are they actually mocking that life is never perfect or it was never even pretty. Things we thought are pretty, turns out to be quite normal...or are they telling us that, pretty things are just in fact an illusion and cannot be achieved? But, I do not know who put up or found these pictures, but the intention was clear: to defame these people....in fact, some of the pix looks "doctored".....while some looks like taken from different time frames...is it a true photo?
My first expression: OMG! Some of them looked like the old people selling things in the pasar malam (night market) near my place. Although, some still maintain their looks even without make-up (real natural beauty) but some...short to say, I was totally overwhelmed with horrid.
The list made up of popular female actors such as: Qi Qi, Karen Mok, S.H.E, Rainie Yang, Gigi Lai and some I forgot the name. Here's one of the more horrible transformation ones:-
Whats her name? Forgot...but gosh...she looks way old..
Jolin Tsai? Is that you? (But the left pix looks kinda "off" to me)
Some looks just a bit off:-
Karen Mok...looks the same..
Rainie Yang...still ok...
S.H.Who? Selina..ugh...Hebe...ugh...Ella still maintains
Looking at them, it does make me wonder...people we sometimes idolize, or want to be like them, public figures, do they all actually hide the truth from us? Are they actually mocking that life is never perfect or it was never even pretty. Things we thought are pretty, turns out to be quite normal...or are they telling us that, pretty things are just in fact an illusion and cannot be achieved? But, I do not know who put up or found these pictures, but the intention was clear: to defame these people....in fact, some of the pix looks "doctored".....while some looks like taken from different time frames...is it a true photo?
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Memories From SRK Sri Petaling
18th February 2009
Its been almost 13 years since I last saw my friends from SRK Sri Petaling where I had my Primary education. Its just today that I saw the pictures of Adrian Yong, Winnie Boey and Diane Goon. Especially Adrian, we were considerably close during those years (1994 i think to 1996). I was always with the Yong's, my pal: Yong King Lee and Adrian Yong. I remember Adrian to have always brought bread for recess. It sure does make me smile thinking bout it...Time flies really fast and now Adrian doesnt look so much as he was before in Sri Petaling..he looks more mature now and more like a Dad....
As for Diane and Winnie...they probably dont remember who I am. Probably because I did not stand out as much as Vi Lex, Ze Han, Sau Choong, Syazwani etc (these guys are the pros in Std.6 at the time, pro in studies, more on the pretty side in terms of looks and...pro in sports, almost a perfect match...everyone wanted to be like them)...and I too have blurish memories about them. In fact, I know them by name and looks (I was particularly shy at the time to talk to girls...haha...). Diane used to be one of the tallest personalities in Std.6 while Winnie was one the prettiest girls around...A lot of guys used to have a crush on her...haha..but that excludes me...I wasnt as she was really a haughty girl to me and not worth my attention....lol.
But, seeing them makes me wonder, where are the rest of the people? I managed to catch back some names which was ong forgotten but some, totally out...Names I could catch: Ivy Tan, Syakira, Michelle Ong, Azzahir, E.Lynn, Dinesh....I could remember the faces of the rest, but...haha...probably I wasnt very close with them. I was wondering maybe we should organize a gathering of some sort....There's probably a lot of catching up to do.
Its been almost 13 years since I last saw my friends from SRK Sri Petaling where I had my Primary education. Its just today that I saw the pictures of Adrian Yong, Winnie Boey and Diane Goon. Especially Adrian, we were considerably close during those years (1994 i think to 1996). I was always with the Yong's, my pal: Yong King Lee and Adrian Yong. I remember Adrian to have always brought bread for recess. It sure does make me smile thinking bout it...Time flies really fast and now Adrian doesnt look so much as he was before in Sri Petaling..he looks more mature now and more like a Dad....
As for Diane and Winnie...they probably dont remember who I am. Probably because I did not stand out as much as Vi Lex, Ze Han, Sau Choong, Syazwani etc (these guys are the pros in Std.6 at the time, pro in studies, more on the pretty side in terms of looks and...pro in sports, almost a perfect match...everyone wanted to be like them)...and I too have blurish memories about them. In fact, I know them by name and looks (I was particularly shy at the time to talk to girls...haha...). Diane used to be one of the tallest personalities in Std.6 while Winnie was one the prettiest girls around...A lot of guys used to have a crush on her...haha..but that excludes me...I wasnt as she was really a haughty girl to me and not worth my attention....lol.
But, seeing them makes me wonder, where are the rest of the people? I managed to catch back some names which was ong forgotten but some, totally out...Names I could catch: Ivy Tan, Syakira, Michelle Ong, Azzahir, E.Lynn, Dinesh....I could remember the faces of the rest, but...haha...probably I wasnt very close with them. I was wondering maybe we should organize a gathering of some sort....There's probably a lot of catching up to do.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
UM Life Begins - 17th February
Started to go to Universiti Malaya (UM) here in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 17th Febraury. My first location was the UM library. Afetr registering, I proceeded to floors above me. In total, the main UM building has 4 floors, each housing different articles / books / documents. had to take an elevator as I couldnt find the staircase. 1st impression = OMG! Its huge and lots and lots of space. Much much more space than the one they have in UTHM back when I was studying Degree there. The strange thing: I got lost there and I did not know where are everything.
Walked around looking for the books, and I finally had to ask the people there, but at first, still dont know where. I was standing there resting when I looked around, I finally saw the book shelves. 4-storey full of it. Had to climb up to look for my books. Bad thing is: no-air conditioning...It's really hot and stuffy up there...I was swaeting away while looking for my books. Later went to the thesis area to search for my supervisor's theis as referene. Agiain, lots of it.Lunch time came, but didnt eat anyhting as I still do not thea eating places, no proper signs for eating palces....In short, the experience was soomething really different for me compared to UTHM.
But, finally I've stepped into the place that I've always wanted to enter!
I'm really looking foward to my experience in UM!
Walked around looking for the books, and I finally had to ask the people there, but at first, still dont know where. I was standing there resting when I looked around, I finally saw the book shelves. 4-storey full of it. Had to climb up to look for my books. Bad thing is: no-air conditioning...It's really hot and stuffy up there...I was swaeting away while looking for my books. Later went to the thesis area to search for my supervisor's theis as referene. Agiain, lots of it.Lunch time came, but didnt eat anyhting as I still do not thea eating places, no proper signs for eating palces....In short, the experience was soomething really different for me compared to UTHM.
But, finally I've stepped into the place that I've always wanted to enter!
I'm really looking foward to my experience in UM!
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