I remember many years ago, I attended a weekend workshop organized by my previous previous employer
“who moved my cheese??”
(ya, it’s a book)
……
The company that I’ve just joined in this March, is currenly undergoing lots of changes… all in aim, to be more efficient…
Being new, there’s pros and cons…
Cons, is for me
Pros, is for the company… ^_^ (ie. Since company wants to have changes, it’s best to have new blood rather than retaining old blood that’ll resist change)
Ie. I’ve to fight with people who resist to adapt to the changes…
Basically… I’ve to fight with my colleagues in the northern region who resist to comply with the new organization chart
And also to fight with vendors who resist to the very same way…
In fact, to me it’s fine…
I had a heated argument with my colleague over the phone late last night…
cos, my job is to keep all information in 1 centralized place… however, there’re still stubborn souls out there, who resist to work in this format…
they prefer to take things in their own hands…. Again, that’s fine with me…
but then… suddenly, they decided to put me in the loop…
without asking them long questions and elaboration, I asked them one simple word “why??” (they know what I mean)
and they… actually gave me a long long explanation… of why they initiated certain nego and queries directly to those vendors…
serious, that’s fine with me…
as most of the internal people may think that, my department is to ‘control’, which in fact, IS
but I make my services to them, as to ‘help’, rather than ‘control’, and maybe it’s only me, having this motto…
however, there’re still bunch of people, especially the northern region people, who just seemed not to understand the whole point of this new organization…
after giving me the full length of ‘explanation’, she told me, “that’s why I keep you in the loop mah!!” (ya, like half way in the middle of nowhere, when you haven’t realised that you’ve been asking the wrong person, for the wrong thing and there’s still no response…)
I seriously told her that, it’s fine, and she didn’t even have to put me in the loop…
Cos, by putting me and my department that I’m reporting to, in the loop when it’s already half-cooked… meaning, they sense that, something’s going to go wrong and they need more people to help them to clean up the mess…
And for the second/third time I told her this, “I know you may not like the change, but it’s not matter if you like or not like, the change is already there, and you just have to work in according to that!!”
Ya, then, she said, she’ll ask her boss for opinion…
And ya, as if I’m scared, I seriously couldn’t give a #%#!%#%^#@ about it
And anyway, their “resistant behaviour” has already been notified to the management, and it’s not just this particular person… but nearly the whole northern region office…
There’re just people, who… I don’t know if it’s because they don’t understand the change, or they just don’t want to understand… or the worst thing that can happen to anybody is… they’re already lack of the capability to adapt to the change…
Hey… that’s when “changes” sucks… @_@
2007-07-28
Process
Well… everybody knows I’m back to work… since a few months ago…
Anyway...
I’ve been wanting to write something here but couldn’t find time…
However, I guess… after yesterday’s event, it’s time for me to start my session here…
Sessions about my work…. Sessions about my colleagues, sessions about my office and so on…
My work…
Don’t ask me for details what I do…
When I reported myself to work in the 1st March this year, I couldn’t tell what department I’m reporting to… ^_^
Then, I slowly learn that, I gotta do pricing and costing for my internal colleagues…
That’s fine with me, but something that I hate doing I’ve to take on… which is nego, and bargain…
However, don’t get me wrong, I’m not a purchaser ^_^
Gradually…
I found out that, I’ve to help on marketing event, cos, I’m answerable to those vendors that I deal with...
I found out that, I gotta follow up on project (which is quite ok, cos I’ve done it before)
I found out that, I’ve to help the sales people to close the deal within certain timeline… again, cos, I’m answerable to those vendors that I deal with
I found out that, I’ve to basically take up those jobs that nobody’s a clue who’s the right person to do…
In the end, I realised… it’s all because what my department is called and it kinda sync with our company’s vision ie. “to be the partner of choice” and my department is called “partner management”, a.k.a…. everybody is our partner, and that we’ve to help… the vision sound great and grand… but the work is not easy…
However… it’s all fine with me ^_^
Maybe it’s because…
Well… frankly… I don’t really need to work (ya, don’t tell him about that ^_~)
I choose to go back to work, cos, I want some satisfaction and inspiration…
And the funny thing is, I actually put this in my CV… one of my line is, “to get inspirsed and to inspire others”
ya, I know, you don’t get to see things like this in a proper CV… therefore, I’ve always told people my boss is a brave woman….
She dared to take me up and out, after my 3-year hibernation and irregardless of my CV ^_^
… to be continued
Anyway...
I’ve been wanting to write something here but couldn’t find time…
However, I guess… after yesterday’s event, it’s time for me to start my session here…
Sessions about my work…. Sessions about my colleagues, sessions about my office and so on…
My work…
Don’t ask me for details what I do…
When I reported myself to work in the 1st March this year, I couldn’t tell what department I’m reporting to… ^_^
Then, I slowly learn that, I gotta do pricing and costing for my internal colleagues…
That’s fine with me, but something that I hate doing I’ve to take on… which is nego, and bargain…
However, don’t get me wrong, I’m not a purchaser ^_^
Gradually…
I found out that, I’ve to help on marketing event, cos, I’m answerable to those vendors that I deal with...
I found out that, I gotta follow up on project (which is quite ok, cos I’ve done it before)
I found out that, I’ve to help the sales people to close the deal within certain timeline… again, cos, I’m answerable to those vendors that I deal with
I found out that, I’ve to basically take up those jobs that nobody’s a clue who’s the right person to do…
In the end, I realised… it’s all because what my department is called and it kinda sync with our company’s vision ie. “to be the partner of choice” and my department is called “partner management”, a.k.a…. everybody is our partner, and that we’ve to help… the vision sound great and grand… but the work is not easy…
However… it’s all fine with me ^_^
Maybe it’s because…
Well… frankly… I don’t really need to work (ya, don’t tell him about that ^_~)
I choose to go back to work, cos, I want some satisfaction and inspiration…
And the funny thing is, I actually put this in my CV… one of my line is, “to get inspirsed and to inspire others”
ya, I know, you don’t get to see things like this in a proper CV… therefore, I’ve always told people my boss is a brave woman….
She dared to take me up and out, after my 3-year hibernation and irregardless of my CV ^_^
… to be continued
Transformers 3x
Haha!!! Yep, went to watch this show 3 times…
Of course, I won’t allow it to beat my “batman beginis’ record, ie. 4 times… christian bale must always stay at the top…
In fact, I couldn’t bother to really watch it when the movie was released in m’sia… but I guess that’s the whole reason…
That week, IBM invited business partners for this show… ie. It’s free…
After those who’re supposed to be there, turned down the chances one by one (5 seats per company) I went to fill up the slot…
Before, I went… my colleague, who’s supposed to go and eventually turned down, told me like this,
“I’m not going, you can take the seat and go… in fact, I watched it once last week already, and I plan to watch it again this Friday”
Woo~~~
So, I asked, “so, how’s it?”
AWESOME is the word…
Ya, later I saw one of my other friend online… his ‘signature’ was “Transformer – Awesome, funny and …”
“awesome” is the word I rarely use, however, it seems like awesome is the tagline for Transformer ^_^
Ok then…. I won’t talk about the movie much…
But then… I was err… ‘captured’… by whatever reasons, or factors that they put in this show, while some shows nowadays, do not have it…
2 days, later, when he came back from business trip, we went to queue up for movie tickets again…
But, the sound system was crap and half way throughout the show, the visual went blurry … ie. From this half-way of the show, towards the end… we couldn’t see a very clear picture… damn that cinema!!!! For your information, it’s Sunway Pyramid’s new cinemas…
Coming out dissatisfied…
We aimed to have another round… till last weekend…
Went to cineleisure…
We planned to watch all the shows in 1 day... ya, call me crazy…
So, we managed to get tickets for “Harry Potter – the Order of Phoenix” and “Die Hard 4.0” for that night… but failed to get “Transformer”
Cos, even after 2.5 week of showtime in the theatre, seats are still limited if you don’t act fast…
… we managed to get the next day’s ticket, lunch time…
Yep… after this… you won’t expect me to be going for movie for a long long time… what else is there…
For all the metals, and machines, and speed, it’s already maxed-up in Transformer already, the rest… just seem to be too ‘baby’ from now onwards…
Of course, I won’t allow it to beat my “batman beginis’ record, ie. 4 times… christian bale must always stay at the top…
In fact, I couldn’t bother to really watch it when the movie was released in m’sia… but I guess that’s the whole reason…
That week, IBM invited business partners for this show… ie. It’s free…
After those who’re supposed to be there, turned down the chances one by one (5 seats per company) I went to fill up the slot…
Before, I went… my colleague, who’s supposed to go and eventually turned down, told me like this,
“I’m not going, you can take the seat and go… in fact, I watched it once last week already, and I plan to watch it again this Friday”
Woo~~~
So, I asked, “so, how’s it?”
AWESOME is the word…
Ya, later I saw one of my other friend online… his ‘signature’ was “Transformer – Awesome, funny and …”
“awesome” is the word I rarely use, however, it seems like awesome is the tagline for Transformer ^_^
Ok then…. I won’t talk about the movie much…
But then… I was err… ‘captured’… by whatever reasons, or factors that they put in this show, while some shows nowadays, do not have it…
2 days, later, when he came back from business trip, we went to queue up for movie tickets again…
But, the sound system was crap and half way throughout the show, the visual went blurry … ie. From this half-way of the show, towards the end… we couldn’t see a very clear picture… damn that cinema!!!! For your information, it’s Sunway Pyramid’s new cinemas…
Coming out dissatisfied…
We aimed to have another round… till last weekend…
Went to cineleisure…
We planned to watch all the shows in 1 day... ya, call me crazy…
So, we managed to get tickets for “Harry Potter – the Order of Phoenix” and “Die Hard 4.0” for that night… but failed to get “Transformer”
Cos, even after 2.5 week of showtime in the theatre, seats are still limited if you don’t act fast…
… we managed to get the next day’s ticket, lunch time…
Yep… after this… you won’t expect me to be going for movie for a long long time… what else is there…
For all the metals, and machines, and speed, it’s already maxed-up in Transformer already, the rest… just seem to be too ‘baby’ from now onwards…
2007-06-04
Backward, is my name…
I am here to complain, just to let you know ^_^
Well.. not really complaining.. cos, I don’t like to complain.. but then… when what you see and what you know it’s just too much in your head… you just have to let it out…
It’s about the toll… the bloody stupid LDP – sunway toll…
Forget about the super duper horrible morning jam before and after the toll.. and after + after the toll… whatever…
Let’s just look at the toll itself instead of the jam…
Why are the tag or the touchngo lanes less than the cash lanes???
Does anybody wonder why??? Why a system is done this way, and why… why… why…
In the morning, or afternoon, or, even at night, the jam is practically caused by the cash-payer…
Ok… it used to be RM1.00, which you only need a piece of RM1.00 dollar note, but then, it’s already RM1.60 now, I just do not understand why anybody is willing to prepare or not prepare but wait for the change and keep using the cash-lanes…
If I’m the authority, I’d had force all lanes to be either tag, or card, and only leave one single lane for cash payer…
While the law or whatever stupid law enforcers try to enforce some other nonsense in other aspect, whoever is in charge of this highway toll thing… is probably soaking his head in the toilet bowl everyday…
While HK has the smart and easy Octopus card, which one can use on the transport system, and even 7-11, or the local grocery stores… oh ho!!! We can’t even fully utilise it in our toll system…
Oh ya… remember my old blog? God saves the Malaysian!!!! #$!@#%^@$&$*^#^$%!@#@!$#@
Ya, I forsee the TouchNGo will only reach the ‘status’ of the HK Octopus card, 100 years from now…
Serious!!! I seriously do not see the point of keeping sooo bloody many cash-lanes in any toll booths…
While the majority don’t learn (to use the card or the tag, then, pls, just let them queue up pathetically at the 1 single cash lane, I’m sure the next day, everybody will be using the card/tag, what more to say, nowadays… minimally, getting a card, it can be done at most of the kiosks everywhere in town), those who claim to have the authority should at least have the manhood guyts to take the ball and roll!!!!
Done with my complaint, case close!!!
Well.. not really complaining.. cos, I don’t like to complain.. but then… when what you see and what you know it’s just too much in your head… you just have to let it out…
It’s about the toll… the bloody stupid LDP – sunway toll…
Forget about the super duper horrible morning jam before and after the toll.. and after + after the toll… whatever…
Let’s just look at the toll itself instead of the jam…
Why are the tag or the touchngo lanes less than the cash lanes???
Does anybody wonder why??? Why a system is done this way, and why… why… why…
In the morning, or afternoon, or, even at night, the jam is practically caused by the cash-payer…
Ok… it used to be RM1.00, which you only need a piece of RM1.00 dollar note, but then, it’s already RM1.60 now, I just do not understand why anybody is willing to prepare or not prepare but wait for the change and keep using the cash-lanes…
If I’m the authority, I’d had force all lanes to be either tag, or card, and only leave one single lane for cash payer…
While the law or whatever stupid law enforcers try to enforce some other nonsense in other aspect, whoever is in charge of this highway toll thing… is probably soaking his head in the toilet bowl everyday…
While HK has the smart and easy Octopus card, which one can use on the transport system, and even 7-11, or the local grocery stores… oh ho!!! We can’t even fully utilise it in our toll system…
Oh ya… remember my old blog? God saves the Malaysian!!!! #$!@#%^@$&$*^#^$%!@#@!$#@
Ya, I forsee the TouchNGo will only reach the ‘status’ of the HK Octopus card, 100 years from now…
Serious!!! I seriously do not see the point of keeping sooo bloody many cash-lanes in any toll booths…
While the majority don’t learn (to use the card or the tag, then, pls, just let them queue up pathetically at the 1 single cash lane, I’m sure the next day, everybody will be using the card/tag, what more to say, nowadays… minimally, getting a card, it can be done at most of the kiosks everywhere in town), those who claim to have the authority should at least have the manhood guyts to take the ball and roll!!!!
Done with my complaint, case close!!!
2007-05-22
The Blunt Elephant
2007-05-19
I know I’ve been blunt…
It happens like this…
One fine day, oh… one fine evening, when I was still at work, suddenly this chat window pop up… oh… it’s from one of the “long-lost”… acquaintances… long as… when did I last see him??? I think, it’s about 1994… ^_^ before I went (or we all went) to UK for our study…
First thing he asked… “ you’re married with Mak right? Got kids already??”
I answered, “don’t ask stupid question”
He asked, “I don’t know, that’s why I asked you, is that a stupid question??”
I didn’t reply to this, I just told him, “yes, I’m married to Mak, and no kid!!!!!”
Next question,
“how come you’re not on the exmsmkl yahoogroup?”
“you wanna join? I’ll ask XXX to send you the invitation..” (ya, I appreciate the thought of it, but, no, thanks!!!)
I told him, nowadays, people don’t use YAHOO Group anymore (it’s either, you move to an online forum database, or blog)
I told him, I’m using multiply.com, and it’s good… (I put my photos, I write my blog, I write my whatever insignificant life there… ^_^, and I did see him there, I suggested if he’s time, he can go have a look… (ya, then, I won’t be asked stupid questions… sorry, I know I was very blunt!!)
Then, he said, he seldom use multiply.com, and the majority are THERE ie. Yahoogroup… (oh, come on!!! Give me a break, I don’t want to sound like “as if I care”, but ya… hate to say this sentence, “as if I care”… again, I’m not trying to be really THAT blunt!!!!!!!!! But then… I always have a theory… or, that’s my personality, my point is… if there’s something I really mean to do, I’ll do it, I don’t like to be asked to do, especially from a… a… err…)
Majority???? Who????????
XXX will send me invitation????????????
I told him, I won’t and nothing should stop him/XXX to send anything to me, worse come to worse, it may just drop to the junkmail folder, just like some of my mails may drop into the junkmail folder…
Then… I told him, about the whole point… even though, he’s been trying to tell me about this MAJORITY thing!!!!! (sorry, I guess, he doesn’t know that, I don’t follow crowds… I follow my intention, I follow my will, I follow him, I follow HIM, and I follow friends, but I don’t follow THE MAJORITY)
I told him, the minority is happy, using multiply.com
“but the majority is there!!!!” (oh!! Come on, give me a break!!)
Then, I told him… well… after being so ‘harsh’ for a few minutes (which is a good ‘mental exercise’ to get a break from work, ya, I was still working in front of my PC, in the office during that time, evening…) I was trying to, err… be nice… well.. in a way…
However.. ironically, my explanation to him is…
“I’m not a nice person”
Then, he asked me, “what did you do??”
Haha… when I saw this question, my mind immediately wandered away… suddenly thought about all my CSI storylines, where, when somebody said these similar sentences, and another person asked “what did you do?” and the expected answer is, “oh, I killed somebody”
Oh, I’m sorry, I really do have problem of concentration, and my mind wander off very easily…
So, back to this online conversation with him
I told him exactly the same thing…
“you expect me to say, oh, I killed somebody??”
“no, I just don’t want to be a person who always try to be a nice person”
The response from him is,
“I can see that from this conversation… scared to say anything already”
Oh… suddenly, I felt sympathetic… well.. it’s really not my intention to be THAT blunt!!!
I was just trying to… mm… be loud and clear, and straightforward…
Life is short, I don’t want to waste time on things that I can simply promise with my mouth(if I want), but I know very well that, I won’t and cannot do later…
And I don’t want to waste time in doing what majority is doing, but not what I really want to do
And I don’t want to engage in a conversation where,
I’ll have to say words like…
“oh well.. it’s not bad”
“oh, thanks for asking”
“ah ya, that’ll be great”
“oh, nice talking to you”
At the end of the conversation, probably I’ll be drowned by my own puke!!! (oh!! Gross isn’t it??)
Anyway, since I actually blog this conversation here and now… I’ll say that, I’ll rate this conversation, much much more higher than the “oh well” type of conversation… even though it’s BLUNT!!!
(00:53)
Ah… “The blunt elephant”, ha! Actually I suddenly thought about one commercial that I saw many years ago… it’s an animated commercial… I found it extremely cute… however, I cannot remember what that commercial was about, I think, I saw it when I was in UK… mm… could be a brit commercial… ^_^
It went like this
A small little ant wanted to go pass an elephant, so, the little ant, with its little voice, was saying “excuse me!! Excuse me!!!”
Then… without saying anything, or having any response, the elephant just “BAM!!!” step on top of the little ant…
^_^
(2007-05-20)
I know I’ve been blunt…
It happens like this…
One fine day, oh… one fine evening, when I was still at work, suddenly this chat window pop up… oh… it’s from one of the “long-lost”… acquaintances… long as… when did I last see him??? I think, it’s about 1994… ^_^ before I went (or we all went) to UK for our study…
First thing he asked… “ you’re married with Mak right? Got kids already??”
I answered, “don’t ask stupid question”
He asked, “I don’t know, that’s why I asked you, is that a stupid question??”
I didn’t reply to this, I just told him, “yes, I’m married to Mak, and no kid!!!!!”
Next question,
“how come you’re not on the exmsmkl yahoogroup?”
“you wanna join? I’ll ask XXX to send you the invitation..” (ya, I appreciate the thought of it, but, no, thanks!!!)
I told him, nowadays, people don’t use YAHOO Group anymore (it’s either, you move to an online forum database, or blog)
I told him, I’m using multiply.com, and it’s good… (I put my photos, I write my blog, I write my whatever insignificant life there… ^_^, and I did see him there, I suggested if he’s time, he can go have a look… (ya, then, I won’t be asked stupid questions… sorry, I know I was very blunt!!)
Then, he said, he seldom use multiply.com, and the majority are THERE ie. Yahoogroup… (oh, come on!!! Give me a break, I don’t want to sound like “as if I care”, but ya… hate to say this sentence, “as if I care”… again, I’m not trying to be really THAT blunt!!!!!!!!! But then… I always have a theory… or, that’s my personality, my point is… if there’s something I really mean to do, I’ll do it, I don’t like to be asked to do, especially from a… a… err…)
Majority???? Who????????
XXX will send me invitation????????????
I told him, I won’t and nothing should stop him/XXX to send anything to me, worse come to worse, it may just drop to the junkmail folder, just like some of my mails may drop into the junkmail folder…
Then… I told him, about the whole point… even though, he’s been trying to tell me about this MAJORITY thing!!!!! (sorry, I guess, he doesn’t know that, I don’t follow crowds… I follow my intention, I follow my will, I follow him, I follow HIM, and I follow friends, but I don’t follow THE MAJORITY)
I told him, the minority is happy, using multiply.com
“but the majority is there!!!!” (oh!! Come on, give me a break!!)
Then, I told him… well… after being so ‘harsh’ for a few minutes (which is a good ‘mental exercise’ to get a break from work, ya, I was still working in front of my PC, in the office during that time, evening…) I was trying to, err… be nice… well.. in a way…
However.. ironically, my explanation to him is…
“I’m not a nice person”
Then, he asked me, “what did you do??”
Haha… when I saw this question, my mind immediately wandered away… suddenly thought about all my CSI storylines, where, when somebody said these similar sentences, and another person asked “what did you do?” and the expected answer is, “oh, I killed somebody”
Oh, I’m sorry, I really do have problem of concentration, and my mind wander off very easily…
So, back to this online conversation with him
I told him exactly the same thing…
“you expect me to say, oh, I killed somebody??”
“no, I just don’t want to be a person who always try to be a nice person”
The response from him is,
“I can see that from this conversation… scared to say anything already”
Oh… suddenly, I felt sympathetic… well.. it’s really not my intention to be THAT blunt!!!
I was just trying to… mm… be loud and clear, and straightforward…
Life is short, I don’t want to waste time on things that I can simply promise with my mouth(if I want), but I know very well that, I won’t and cannot do later…
And I don’t want to waste time in doing what majority is doing, but not what I really want to do
And I don’t want to engage in a conversation where,
I’ll have to say words like…
“oh well.. it’s not bad”
“oh, thanks for asking”
“ah ya, that’ll be great”
“oh, nice talking to you”
At the end of the conversation, probably I’ll be drowned by my own puke!!! (oh!! Gross isn’t it??)
Anyway, since I actually blog this conversation here and now… I’ll say that, I’ll rate this conversation, much much more higher than the “oh well” type of conversation… even though it’s BLUNT!!!
(00:53)
Ah… “The blunt elephant”, ha! Actually I suddenly thought about one commercial that I saw many years ago… it’s an animated commercial… I found it extremely cute… however, I cannot remember what that commercial was about, I think, I saw it when I was in UK… mm… could be a brit commercial… ^_^
It went like this
A small little ant wanted to go pass an elephant, so, the little ant, with its little voice, was saying “excuse me!! Excuse me!!!”
Then… without saying anything, or having any response, the elephant just “BAM!!!” step on top of the little ant…
^_^
(2007-05-20)
2007-04-23
Everybody has a Ground
Recently I noticed… well… I’ve posted a similar topic in Chinese before, however, that’s when I heard some little short story on air, and then, I felt it, I wrote… however, today… ^_^, again, I noticed…
Everybody has a ground, regardless how smart/stupid, great/small we think we are, or, as hard as we try to be opened-minded, we still have our own ground.
We thus, will always judge with our own standard, by our own understanding, our own knowledge, our own KNOW, THINK, AIM.
And we thus, will consciously, or subconsciously expect the others to fit into our ‘ruling’…
“By right…. Bla bla bla”
“he/she should have… bla bla bla”
I’m very easily irritated by tonnes and tonnes of complaints, to me, it’s either “take it or leave it”, (ya, sadly, but truly, that’s my ground) and “do it, or quit!!!”
I really will not have patient entertaining cry-baby who whine and whine and non-stop…
And the most I couldn’t careless, is when there’s somebody who likes or have the habit to impose their own knowledge, understanding, to others…
Anyway, maybe I should just stand firm on my own ground, cos, we all can’t leave the ground anyway, and… keep quiet ^x^V
Everybody has a ground, regardless how smart/stupid, great/small we think we are, or, as hard as we try to be opened-minded, we still have our own ground.
We thus, will always judge with our own standard, by our own understanding, our own knowledge, our own KNOW, THINK, AIM.
And we thus, will consciously, or subconsciously expect the others to fit into our ‘ruling’…
“By right…. Bla bla bla”
“he/she should have… bla bla bla”
I’m very easily irritated by tonnes and tonnes of complaints, to me, it’s either “take it or leave it”, (ya, sadly, but truly, that’s my ground) and “do it, or quit!!!”
I really will not have patient entertaining cry-baby who whine and whine and non-stop…
And the most I couldn’t careless, is when there’s somebody who likes or have the habit to impose their own knowledge, understanding, to others…
Anyway, maybe I should just stand firm on my own ground, cos, we all can’t leave the ground anyway, and… keep quiet ^x^V
2007-02-28
Girl From Hell!!!
“… When ONE person is cursed, TWO graves are dug…”
Ooh… don’t be frightened… ^_^
It’s a manga/anime story… I’ve never read/watched one before, even though I did hear “good” comments about this anime…
Even the broadcasting company had already produced a short series based on the anime, of course, acted by real human!!
Japanese title, “Jigoku (hell) Shoujo (girl)”
Since I’ve only watched half episode (which is half of half an hour, ^_^) I can’t stay much about the story… the part that I watched was about this little girl who hated her so-called best friend soooo much, due to some incident (which I didn’t know what it’s about) so, “jigoku shoujo” appeared in front of her, gave her this little grass doll (those that people use to do curse) the price is… you can send the other person to hell immediately, but when you die, you’ll go to hell as well… oh!! In the end, one big happy family… +_+
I wouldn’t know whether there’s any ‘message’ that were to be relayed through this anime, however… ya…
I like it when the creepy voice said quietly “when one person is cursed, two graves are dug”… ^_~ how true!!
Here’s another quote
“ 闇に惑いし哀れな影よ・・・ 人を傷つけ貶めて罪に溺れし業の魂 ・・・ いっぺん、死んでみる？'
"Pitiful shadow clothed in darkness.Thy actions cause men pain and suffering. Thy hollow soul drowns in thy sins. How would you like to see what death is like?"
”
— Enma Ai.
Ooh… don’t be frightened… ^_^
It’s a manga/anime story… I’ve never read/watched one before, even though I did hear “good” comments about this anime…
Even the broadcasting company had already produced a short series based on the anime, of course, acted by real human!!
Japanese title, “Jigoku (hell) Shoujo (girl)”
Since I’ve only watched half episode (which is half of half an hour, ^_^) I can’t stay much about the story… the part that I watched was about this little girl who hated her so-called best friend soooo much, due to some incident (which I didn’t know what it’s about) so, “jigoku shoujo” appeared in front of her, gave her this little grass doll (those that people use to do curse) the price is… you can send the other person to hell immediately, but when you die, you’ll go to hell as well… oh!! In the end, one big happy family… +_+
I wouldn’t know whether there’s any ‘message’ that were to be relayed through this anime, however… ya…
I like it when the creepy voice said quietly “when one person is cursed, two graves are dug”… ^_~ how true!!
Here’s another quote
“ 闇に惑いし哀れな影よ・・・ 人を傷つけ貶めて罪に溺れし業の魂 ・・・ いっぺん、死んでみる？'
"Pitiful shadow clothed in darkness.Thy actions cause men pain and suffering. Thy hollow soul drowns in thy sins. How would you like to see what death is like?"
”
— Enma Ai.
Aftermath...
Last weekend (Saturday) we gathered in one of our friends’ house for our annual gambling session (during Chinese New Year)
…
Let me deviate a little bit…
The other day, I was wondering, ah… when did we start such session… at first, I thought I cannot recall… then, I realized, it’s when her family moved to this new penthouse condominium… ya, that year, when we visited her parents (her parents are super friendly and opened… I mean, they don’t poke their nose into our business, they’re cheerful, oh, super cheerful, also her sis, and of course, SHE!! ^_^;; even when the father decided to “poke his nose” into our business it’s when he wants to be part of us, in the game… see!!! Where to find this type of parents!!! Kakaka!!! And then… oh… maybe I’ll sound very impolite and manner-less a bit… and we’re used to her kitchen and fridge… ie. She’s always welcomed us with her food and drinks in her kitchen and fridge… so, tell me, where else to go… ok… I’ll say, I’d do the same things to my dear friends as well… well… cos, I’ve stayed with her family zillion years ago, mm… when my car was involved in a minor accident and need to be sent for repair for a month, and that I stayed with her and family in their old house, for a month, I ate and dined with them, and she sent me to and from work… oh!!! What else can I say!!! ^_^)
Oh, back to the track…
That year, when we visited her parents, and somehow, a card game got started… from then onwards… every year, after we’re back from our different hometowns to KL, we’ll gather in such place, to err… ok… exchange $$$ hahaha!!!
I’ll have to admit, most of the time, I enjoyed the companion rather than the game… though, I do like to play card games from time to time… ^_^
Our game, started from big-D, to later.. the easiest one is blackjack… then, this year…
Oh, horrible… one of us introduced this “in-between” no-brainer game… (but shame to say, I kinda enjoyed it, again, I guess, it’s mostly because of the companion… this year, we’d an extra crazy gambling buddy!!! Though 1 usual couple quit, and 1 new couple joined… ha… people come, people go!! ^_^)
Ok… the aftermath was…
That night itself, I’m not sure if it’s solely because of my sitting position during the entire game THAT LASTED TILL 3 A.M. (we started from about 10 P.M.) my lefthand suddenly gave me this super-duper uncomfortable irritating pain, like it’s coming out from the bone… or some sort.. and it lasted me for 1.5 days… well… it could be because of my posture, or, because I carried my handbag (one that’s like doraemon’s front pocket, that contains a lot of things, ie. Heavy!!) with that hand the whole of that day…
The problem was… I woke up in the middle of the night of Saturday (well… not so middle of the night, it’s about Sunday morning already, since we only got home and got ready for bed around 4 A.M.) due to this pain in my left hand, really couldn’t sleep at all… I’ve never experienced this before…
Then, on Sunday, he’d another small gathering in his colleague’s house in the afternoon… so, I played my TAI-TAI part… trying to social-social with the rest of the TAI-TAI… with my painful lefthand… and lack of sleep…
Until after I talked to my mother about my ‘condition’ only I realized that, I should have put a salonpas on it… so, I did…
The next day, Monday, I went to pick up my letter of offer, and they asked me to go for a simple medical checkup… gosh… my blood pressure was high… which I couldn’t believe… cos, usually (well… the last check was in 2005 thou, when he’s still working in s’pore) OK… plus this and that, with some possible infection, on top of that I was still in the midst of recovering from my flu, which… oh!! Which I got when my dear husband went out till 3 A.M. still hadn’t come back to ‘blanket’ me… ^_^ that I caught the cold that day!!!
I was not satisfied with the result, so, I went to my own clinic, the one that I did my last check in 2005, result still come out similar, but then, the doctor bothered to explain a little bit more, which gave me a peace of mind…
Oh, anyway, these are all side-track stories… the point is I’m telling you, I HAD A PAINFUL LEFT HAND FOR 2 DAYS, due to the crazy “in-between” card game!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, then, what’s this game about… basically it’s really a no-brainer game… each player was given 2 cards, opened… and the next card that you’ll draw is your bet, you bet if it’s a card in between your existing 2 cards, with a sum of money… you’ll basically win/lose the amount you bet… or to the maximum of the pool of money in the middle…
See… the point is… we all are very stingy people… so, our base bet is like RM1.00 only… so, the superduper game was dragged for such superduper long duration of time… compared to previous years, it’s because this year, there’re 1 + 1 superduper crazy gamblers where the 2 superduper crazy gamblers basically won the most money… as they’re willing to bet to the max… m~_~m huh!!
Ah… before we wrapped up… one of us (in fact, most of us, the male basically, who’re always lack of patience!! ^_^) insisted on raising the base bet, ie. RM10.00… for the final round…
Ya, the pool got to about RM100.00 at one time… however, as the amount was big, so, crazy people got less crazy (oh, that proves that, afterall, they’re not that crazy, ^_^) and in the end… I’d say… no loose no win…
The difference in our hands, from the real winner to the real looser, probably was about 10 odds to 20, something like that…
Ah!!! Sounded I wasted my entire night to gain a painful lefthand!!! Heh!!!
…
Let me deviate a little bit…
The other day, I was wondering, ah… when did we start such session… at first, I thought I cannot recall… then, I realized, it’s when her family moved to this new penthouse condominium… ya, that year, when we visited her parents (her parents are super friendly and opened… I mean, they don’t poke their nose into our business, they’re cheerful, oh, super cheerful, also her sis, and of course, SHE!! ^_^;; even when the father decided to “poke his nose” into our business it’s when he wants to be part of us, in the game… see!!! Where to find this type of parents!!! Kakaka!!! And then… oh… maybe I’ll sound very impolite and manner-less a bit… and we’re used to her kitchen and fridge… ie. She’s always welcomed us with her food and drinks in her kitchen and fridge… so, tell me, where else to go… ok… I’ll say, I’d do the same things to my dear friends as well… well… cos, I’ve stayed with her family zillion years ago, mm… when my car was involved in a minor accident and need to be sent for repair for a month, and that I stayed with her and family in their old house, for a month, I ate and dined with them, and she sent me to and from work… oh!!! What else can I say!!! ^_^)
Oh, back to the track…
That year, when we visited her parents, and somehow, a card game got started… from then onwards… every year, after we’re back from our different hometowns to KL, we’ll gather in such place, to err… ok… exchange $$$ hahaha!!!
I’ll have to admit, most of the time, I enjoyed the companion rather than the game… though, I do like to play card games from time to time… ^_^
Our game, started from big-D, to later.. the easiest one is blackjack… then, this year…
Oh, horrible… one of us introduced this “in-between” no-brainer game… (but shame to say, I kinda enjoyed it, again, I guess, it’s mostly because of the companion… this year, we’d an extra crazy gambling buddy!!! Though 1 usual couple quit, and 1 new couple joined… ha… people come, people go!! ^_^)
Ok… the aftermath was…
That night itself, I’m not sure if it’s solely because of my sitting position during the entire game THAT LASTED TILL 3 A.M. (we started from about 10 P.M.) my lefthand suddenly gave me this super-duper uncomfortable irritating pain, like it’s coming out from the bone… or some sort.. and it lasted me for 1.5 days… well… it could be because of my posture, or, because I carried my handbag (one that’s like doraemon’s front pocket, that contains a lot of things, ie. Heavy!!) with that hand the whole of that day…
The problem was… I woke up in the middle of the night of Saturday (well… not so middle of the night, it’s about Sunday morning already, since we only got home and got ready for bed around 4 A.M.) due to this pain in my left hand, really couldn’t sleep at all… I’ve never experienced this before…
Then, on Sunday, he’d another small gathering in his colleague’s house in the afternoon… so, I played my TAI-TAI part… trying to social-social with the rest of the TAI-TAI… with my painful lefthand… and lack of sleep…
Until after I talked to my mother about my ‘condition’ only I realized that, I should have put a salonpas on it… so, I did…
The next day, Monday, I went to pick up my letter of offer, and they asked me to go for a simple medical checkup… gosh… my blood pressure was high… which I couldn’t believe… cos, usually (well… the last check was in 2005 thou, when he’s still working in s’pore) OK… plus this and that, with some possible infection, on top of that I was still in the midst of recovering from my flu, which… oh!! Which I got when my dear husband went out till 3 A.M. still hadn’t come back to ‘blanket’ me… ^_^ that I caught the cold that day!!!
I was not satisfied with the result, so, I went to my own clinic, the one that I did my last check in 2005, result still come out similar, but then, the doctor bothered to explain a little bit more, which gave me a peace of mind…
Oh, anyway, these are all side-track stories… the point is I’m telling you, I HAD A PAINFUL LEFT HAND FOR 2 DAYS, due to the crazy “in-between” card game!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, then, what’s this game about… basically it’s really a no-brainer game… each player was given 2 cards, opened… and the next card that you’ll draw is your bet, you bet if it’s a card in between your existing 2 cards, with a sum of money… you’ll basically win/lose the amount you bet… or to the maximum of the pool of money in the middle…
See… the point is… we all are very stingy people… so, our base bet is like RM1.00 only… so, the superduper game was dragged for such superduper long duration of time… compared to previous years, it’s because this year, there’re 1 + 1 superduper crazy gamblers where the 2 superduper crazy gamblers basically won the most money… as they’re willing to bet to the max… m~_~m huh!!
Ah… before we wrapped up… one of us (in fact, most of us, the male basically, who’re always lack of patience!! ^_^) insisted on raising the base bet, ie. RM10.00… for the final round…
Ya, the pool got to about RM100.00 at one time… however, as the amount was big, so, crazy people got less crazy (oh, that proves that, afterall, they’re not that crazy, ^_^) and in the end… I’d say… no loose no win…
The difference in our hands, from the real winner to the real looser, probably was about 10 odds to 20, something like that…
Ah!!! Sounded I wasted my entire night to gain a painful lefthand!!! Heh!!!
The Best Scheduler in town… ^_^
Recently, there’re many changes around me, around us… we’re coming back for good, but there’re friends who’ll be leaving the country… for a while (hopefully not for good ^_^)
Anyway… life still goes on, I still surf my internet, still watch my TV, and still download my favourite TV series (oops!!)
mm… what I’m trying to say is… there’re changes in our lives, there’re up’s as well as there’re down’s… both compensate each other, to form the beauty of life…
^_^
We went back to his hometown Butterworth for the Chinese New Year… and since he’s changing his job (so that it’ll be more ‘localized’) we drove his car (THE satria) back… after nearly 3 years “sitting” there at home…
We’ve scheduled to come back on Friday as we’re having our usual Chinese New Year gathering with our friends on that Saturday…
On Wednesday, we went out to penang island, and his brother suggested us to go up the hill… err… that hill with the big big temple up there (“Kek Lok” temple)… we’re driving his parents’ car… and went up the temple, came down, no problem…
The next day, when he went out for a morning walk with the parents… the car had some problem… where the clutch went “loose” or “light”… so when we went out again, we’re all in his satria… (which supposedly have been sent for service just very recently)… we had our brunch and then went to buy the new bottle of clutch/brake oil… while waiting at the road side, we heard some funny “knocking” sound coming out from the front of the car… while seeing the temperature indicator kept going up… OH!!!~~~ apparently the radiator got overheated and the rusty water (cos, the car’s been dormant mode for the past 3 years and that the inside of the radiator got rusty…) kept pouring out and hit on the cover of the bonnet…
Immediately we “dragged” the car to be checked…
Rusty pipeS were detected, checked and changed… we sent the car in the afternoon, supposedly to be able to pick it up in the evening, however… till 8pm, the car was still not ready…
We waited till the following day, the day we’re supposed to come back here… till 11am only we managed to pick up the car… (on the way, we’re forced to stop for about 3 times, as the radiator still got heat up, AFTER HE SPED!!!!!!!!!)
Anyway… the whole point is… how perfect and “graceful” of all these happening events that I’ve experienced…
If the clutch went wrong a day earlier, we could have been stuck on the steep slopes up on the hill in penang… stranded there for the whole night…
And if the clutch didn’t go wrong at all… we wouldn’t be using the satria at all until the day we’re supposed to drive it back and discovered that the car had such big problem!!!
If…
Same goes to my job-search experience… there’re many ‘if’s and ‘or else’s… and the timing…
I do feel, the zillionth time, the scheduler has done HIS work again, perfectly…
Yes, ^_^ the best scheduler in town, the best scheduler in our life…
While I was considered rejected by company H, I was… I’ve to admit, I was a little bit down, cos, they gave me so much false hope by getting me all the way to meet the country manager (I suspect, the one who’s reluctant and ‘slowed’ the process was the centre manager ^_^) and turned out, hesitated, reluctant, skeptical… etc…
mm… I have plans for myself… I plan this and that, I schedule this and that…
but I think, I, (I’m not sure about the rest of the people) am definitely not the best scheduler even for myself… we’ve plans, but on and off it comes out sour or rotten, or screwed up… or it’s just not too perfect…
Lessons learnt…
Sometimes, we don’t know why we’re doing this, but we just have to keep going… you’ll see the result one day, which you’ve never thought of, or imagined before…
Sometimes, blessings do come in disguise, or late… ^_^
Anyway… life still goes on, I still surf my internet, still watch my TV, and still download my favourite TV series (oops!!)
mm… what I’m trying to say is… there’re changes in our lives, there’re up’s as well as there’re down’s… both compensate each other, to form the beauty of life…
^_^
We went back to his hometown Butterworth for the Chinese New Year… and since he’s changing his job (so that it’ll be more ‘localized’) we drove his car (THE satria) back… after nearly 3 years “sitting” there at home…
We’ve scheduled to come back on Friday as we’re having our usual Chinese New Year gathering with our friends on that Saturday…
On Wednesday, we went out to penang island, and his brother suggested us to go up the hill… err… that hill with the big big temple up there (“Kek Lok” temple)… we’re driving his parents’ car… and went up the temple, came down, no problem…
The next day, when he went out for a morning walk with the parents… the car had some problem… where the clutch went “loose” or “light”… so when we went out again, we’re all in his satria… (which supposedly have been sent for service just very recently)… we had our brunch and then went to buy the new bottle of clutch/brake oil… while waiting at the road side, we heard some funny “knocking” sound coming out from the front of the car… while seeing the temperature indicator kept going up… OH!!!~~~ apparently the radiator got overheated and the rusty water (cos, the car’s been dormant mode for the past 3 years and that the inside of the radiator got rusty…) kept pouring out and hit on the cover of the bonnet…
Immediately we “dragged” the car to be checked…
Rusty pipeS were detected, checked and changed… we sent the car in the afternoon, supposedly to be able to pick it up in the evening, however… till 8pm, the car was still not ready…
We waited till the following day, the day we’re supposed to come back here… till 11am only we managed to pick up the car… (on the way, we’re forced to stop for about 3 times, as the radiator still got heat up, AFTER HE SPED!!!!!!!!!)
Anyway… the whole point is… how perfect and “graceful” of all these happening events that I’ve experienced…
If the clutch went wrong a day earlier, we could have been stuck on the steep slopes up on the hill in penang… stranded there for the whole night…
And if the clutch didn’t go wrong at all… we wouldn’t be using the satria at all until the day we’re supposed to drive it back and discovered that the car had such big problem!!!
If…
Same goes to my job-search experience… there’re many ‘if’s and ‘or else’s… and the timing…
I do feel, the zillionth time, the scheduler has done HIS work again, perfectly…
Yes, ^_^ the best scheduler in town, the best scheduler in our life…
While I was considered rejected by company H, I was… I’ve to admit, I was a little bit down, cos, they gave me so much false hope by getting me all the way to meet the country manager (I suspect, the one who’s reluctant and ‘slowed’ the process was the centre manager ^_^) and turned out, hesitated, reluctant, skeptical… etc…
mm… I have plans for myself… I plan this and that, I schedule this and that…
but I think, I, (I’m not sure about the rest of the people) am definitely not the best scheduler even for myself… we’ve plans, but on and off it comes out sour or rotten, or screwed up… or it’s just not too perfect…
Lessons learnt…
Sometimes, we don’t know why we’re doing this, but we just have to keep going… you’ll see the result one day, which you’ve never thought of, or imagined before…
Sometimes, blessings do come in disguise, or late… ^_^
Bitter Sweet Symphony
Yatta!!! Yatta!!! (Tribute to Hiro in Heroes!! ^_^, he just loves saying this words, it means “I DID IT!!”… ya, when he finally managed to teleport himself or even other people, other things from place A to place B, and when he managed to stop the time, ya, Yatta!!)
^_^V
Tomorrow I’ll be starting work again, back to office, after… err… nearly 3 years(??? Come to think of it, I stopped in Mar, 2004, I kept thinking it’s only 2 years…) of hiatus… -_- and tomorrow, I’ll be a pretty cute OL in klang valley again!!! Kakakakakaka!!!
mm… in fact, my job hunting experience since last December is not considered THAT smooth… (ya!!! After being nearly 3 years of housewife, what does one expect huh??)
my very first interview, was with company F, went there, had a nice chat, but in the end… only discovered that, they’re looking for young and attractive ladies (sounds like looking for bar girls? ^_^ nah… but they’re looking for freshgrads) and I was thinking to myself, why called me then, didn’t I state my age CLEARLY on my online resume?? Fine then…
Then… when I was returning to my hometown, waiting in the airport, another company called me (company M) , I told her I’m on my way back to Sarawak, then, she said, she’ll check again with her manager… fine then…
When I came back from my break back home, company H called me… ^_^ it’s a big and prestigious MNC, and for people from my line, I think, that’s one of the ultimate place to work in… well… I suppose so…
First round, with my “possible” direct supervisor, another nice chat session..
After about a week, second round with the centre manager, well… not so nice chat, cos, she’s very very skeptical with my consistency in my job… and mm… she striked me as a very conservative and careful (a little bit too careful) person…
Then another week plus to wait… called me in for the third round of interview with the country manager, oh!!! Lasted for only 10 min, in San Francisco Café ^_^!!! (OK!! Fine!!)
Followed by this, came another period of waiting, till I couldn’t wait any longer, and I wanna show how much and how serious I want the job, I called the headhunter… his “advice” --- keep my option opened…
Oh, ok!! I know what it means…
Then… unexpectedly company M called me again to schedule an interview… well… I’ve to admit that, that’s not an employer that’s in my priority list… however, I still went for the session… another nice chat session with my future direct boss (a very cheerful lady)!!! The horrible thing was, I was given some IQ and maths test… (which err… I thought it’s not so related to the industry… I thought they’d had given me an aptitude test or some case study, but none!!!) and the test… gosh!!! Looking at the fact of how my brain got rusty throughout these 3 long-vacation years… I really really really felt that something inside my head was stuck and twisted and couldn’t function for a few time during the tests… the end was… I didn’t finish any of them, only did the best I could…
1st IQ test was something like, arrangement of alphabets and then you guess the next sequence, for eg. b c k l m d e k l m…
2nd IQ test (as well) was worst to me… it’s those little-little round, rectangular, triangular, shaded, half-shaded, halved, etc. of patterns, and I need to figure out the NEXT pattern… and GOODNESS!!!!!!!! SOME OF THE PATTERN SEQUENCES REALLY DIDN’T MAKE SENSE AT ALL MAN!!! I’m quite sure the person who created the questions is somehow PSYCHO!! ^_^
3rd Maths test… ok… I’ve to admit, this was my strongest part… thou still didn’t manage to finish in time…
However, overall… I’ve to say, the TEST session was quite fun…
After this… my headhunter called me again, maybe he’s extra helpful, or maybe he’s obligated, or maybe as a job agency, you really will get lots of rewards by successfully introducing an employee to a company… he suggested sending my resume to company I (competitor to company H) however, this time, it’s not a sales job that I’ve always wanted… but I told him, well… sometimes, it doesn’t matter… cos, I just want to join an MNC ^_^… and I thought I can handle the mentioned job after he’s described to me…
A week later, I got to meet up with my little friend who’s back from tokyo, went to karaoke… when I was happy karaoke-ing away in the room… the HR called me for the second session… ok… so, I went and met up with the director of the department, another nice friendly err… balding guy (oops, no offense ya!!). This second interview somehow provided me to opportunity to evaluate their company… ya, I evaluated them.. (at the same time, they evaluated me, of course!!) I came to a conclusion that, they (the company) comes to be quite a “clean” company… who earned their businesses through merit, rather than… arrrghh…
So… the day before we went back to his hometown for Chinese New Year, my direct boss (the cheerful lady) called me, asked me how’s the session with the director and bla bla bla… then, she told me, they planned to give me a big “ang pow”… and later briefed me with the benefits and stuff in the company… Yatta!!!
In a way, I am glad that, I was not taken by company H that immediately, cos, the office location is downtown, parking fee is expensive there, and probably even limited… I was even contemplating if I were to get employed, I may need to consider taking the public transport, otherwise, I’d have to start my journey at about 6.30am everyday, cos, the office is horribly located right in the centre of jam place, and the traffic here IS getting more and more horrible after all these years…
As for company M… ooh!!! Hehe… it’s located in just another 2-3 neighbourhood away, at the same part of the city… Yatta!!
So, I thought, when I was not considered by company H, it’s a blessing in disguise, and for the employment from company M, it’s a blessing that came unexpectedly and late… ^_^
However… the “symphony” didn’t end there, immediately I got off the phone, my headhunter called me, asked me why I was engaged and told me that company I wanted to “have a chat” with me… and bla bla bla… then I told him (err… in fact, I didn’t plan to tell him until I officially sign the letter) I’ve just accepted a job offer verbally… and since I know I wouldn’t change my mind, I told him to help me to err… “turn down” the “invitation” for me “politely”… (I didn’t want to burn the boat, so, I thought, it’s better to turn down the “chat session” than after a few rounds of interview only tell them that I’m not interested… or, if it’s another way round that I’ve to reject the “verbally-accepted” job… I felt quite bad, cos, err… my direct boss was err… kinda excited when she’s talking to me… in the aspect… haha!! Well… HE said, usually boss won’t call the subordinate directly, it’s the HR job, ie. She either is damn free, or she likes me so much ^_^, well… however, I think she’s a very nice lady)
Then then then… tomorrow… I’m supposed to start work already right? My headhunter called me AGAIN (courtesy call) to tell me that, the offer from company H has finally come… still briefed me through the details of the package (well… I’ll have to say, it’s a sales job, the commission is very good, but not the basic, however, I wanted it badly cos, it’s a BIG company!!! Kaka!! Funny mindset huh??)… and of course, the result is still the same…
So… now, I guess, my bitter sweet symphony has finally come to an end… Yatta!!
^_^V
Tomorrow I’ll be starting work again, back to office, after… err… nearly 3 years(??? Come to think of it, I stopped in Mar, 2004, I kept thinking it’s only 2 years…) of hiatus… -_- and tomorrow, I’ll be a pretty cute OL in klang valley again!!! Kakakakakaka!!!
mm… in fact, my job hunting experience since last December is not considered THAT smooth… (ya!!! After being nearly 3 years of housewife, what does one expect huh??)
my very first interview, was with company F, went there, had a nice chat, but in the end… only discovered that, they’re looking for young and attractive ladies (sounds like looking for bar girls? ^_^ nah… but they’re looking for freshgrads) and I was thinking to myself, why called me then, didn’t I state my age CLEARLY on my online resume?? Fine then…
Then… when I was returning to my hometown, waiting in the airport, another company called me (company M) , I told her I’m on my way back to Sarawak, then, she said, she’ll check again with her manager… fine then…
When I came back from my break back home, company H called me… ^_^ it’s a big and prestigious MNC, and for people from my line, I think, that’s one of the ultimate place to work in… well… I suppose so…
First round, with my “possible” direct supervisor, another nice chat session..
After about a week, second round with the centre manager, well… not so nice chat, cos, she’s very very skeptical with my consistency in my job… and mm… she striked me as a very conservative and careful (a little bit too careful) person…
Then another week plus to wait… called me in for the third round of interview with the country manager, oh!!! Lasted for only 10 min, in San Francisco Café ^_^!!! (OK!! Fine!!)
Followed by this, came another period of waiting, till I couldn’t wait any longer, and I wanna show how much and how serious I want the job, I called the headhunter… his “advice” --- keep my option opened…
Oh, ok!! I know what it means…
Then… unexpectedly company M called me again to schedule an interview… well… I’ve to admit that, that’s not an employer that’s in my priority list… however, I still went for the session… another nice chat session with my future direct boss (a very cheerful lady)!!! The horrible thing was, I was given some IQ and maths test… (which err… I thought it’s not so related to the industry… I thought they’d had given me an aptitude test or some case study, but none!!!) and the test… gosh!!! Looking at the fact of how my brain got rusty throughout these 3 long-vacation years… I really really really felt that something inside my head was stuck and twisted and couldn’t function for a few time during the tests… the end was… I didn’t finish any of them, only did the best I could…
1st IQ test was something like, arrangement of alphabets and then you guess the next sequence, for eg. b c k l m d e k l m…
2nd IQ test (as well) was worst to me… it’s those little-little round, rectangular, triangular, shaded, half-shaded, halved, etc. of patterns, and I need to figure out the NEXT pattern… and GOODNESS!!!!!!!! SOME OF THE PATTERN SEQUENCES REALLY DIDN’T MAKE SENSE AT ALL MAN!!! I’m quite sure the person who created the questions is somehow PSYCHO!! ^_^
3rd Maths test… ok… I’ve to admit, this was my strongest part… thou still didn’t manage to finish in time…
However, overall… I’ve to say, the TEST session was quite fun…
After this… my headhunter called me again, maybe he’s extra helpful, or maybe he’s obligated, or maybe as a job agency, you really will get lots of rewards by successfully introducing an employee to a company… he suggested sending my resume to company I (competitor to company H) however, this time, it’s not a sales job that I’ve always wanted… but I told him, well… sometimes, it doesn’t matter… cos, I just want to join an MNC ^_^… and I thought I can handle the mentioned job after he’s described to me…
A week later, I got to meet up with my little friend who’s back from tokyo, went to karaoke… when I was happy karaoke-ing away in the room… the HR called me for the second session… ok… so, I went and met up with the director of the department, another nice friendly err… balding guy (oops, no offense ya!!). This second interview somehow provided me to opportunity to evaluate their company… ya, I evaluated them.. (at the same time, they evaluated me, of course!!) I came to a conclusion that, they (the company) comes to be quite a “clean” company… who earned their businesses through merit, rather than… arrrghh…
So… the day before we went back to his hometown for Chinese New Year, my direct boss (the cheerful lady) called me, asked me how’s the session with the director and bla bla bla… then, she told me, they planned to give me a big “ang pow”… and later briefed me with the benefits and stuff in the company… Yatta!!!
In a way, I am glad that, I was not taken by company H that immediately, cos, the office location is downtown, parking fee is expensive there, and probably even limited… I was even contemplating if I were to get employed, I may need to consider taking the public transport, otherwise, I’d have to start my journey at about 6.30am everyday, cos, the office is horribly located right in the centre of jam place, and the traffic here IS getting more and more horrible after all these years…
As for company M… ooh!!! Hehe… it’s located in just another 2-3 neighbourhood away, at the same part of the city… Yatta!!
So, I thought, when I was not considered by company H, it’s a blessing in disguise, and for the employment from company M, it’s a blessing that came unexpectedly and late… ^_^
However… the “symphony” didn’t end there, immediately I got off the phone, my headhunter called me, asked me why I was engaged and told me that company I wanted to “have a chat” with me… and bla bla bla… then I told him (err… in fact, I didn’t plan to tell him until I officially sign the letter) I’ve just accepted a job offer verbally… and since I know I wouldn’t change my mind, I told him to help me to err… “turn down” the “invitation” for me “politely”… (I didn’t want to burn the boat, so, I thought, it’s better to turn down the “chat session” than after a few rounds of interview only tell them that I’m not interested… or, if it’s another way round that I’ve to reject the “verbally-accepted” job… I felt quite bad, cos, err… my direct boss was err… kinda excited when she’s talking to me… in the aspect… haha!! Well… HE said, usually boss won’t call the subordinate directly, it’s the HR job, ie. She either is damn free, or she likes me so much ^_^, well… however, I think she’s a very nice lady)
Then then then… tomorrow… I’m supposed to start work already right? My headhunter called me AGAIN (courtesy call) to tell me that, the offer from company H has finally come… still briefed me through the details of the package (well… I’ll have to say, it’s a sales job, the commission is very good, but not the basic, however, I wanted it badly cos, it’s a BIG company!!! Kaka!! Funny mindset huh??)… and of course, the result is still the same…
So… now, I guess, my bitter sweet symphony has finally come to an end… Yatta!!
'Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, this life
Try to make ends meet
Your a slave to money then you die
I'll take you down the only road I've ever been down
You know the one that takes you to the places
where all the things meet yeah
No change, I can't change
I can't change, I can't change
But I'm here in my mold
I am here in my mold
But I'm a million different people
from one day to the next
I can't change my mold
No, no, no, no, no
Well I never pray
But tonight I'm on my knees yeah
I need to hear some sounds that recognize the pain in me, yeah
I let the melody shine, let it cleanse my mind, I feel free now
But the airways are clean and there's nobody singing to me now
No change, I can't change
I can't change, I can't change
But I'm here in my mold
I am here in my mold
And I'm a million different people
from one day to the next
I can't change my mold
No, no, no, no, no
I can't change
I can't change
By “The Verve” (Urban Hymns)
Try to make ends meet
Your a slave to money then you die
I'll take you down the only road I've ever been down
You know the one that takes you to the places
where all the things meet yeah
No change, I can't change
I can't change, I can't change
But I'm here in my mold
I am here in my mold
But I'm a million different people
from one day to the next
I can't change my mold
No, no, no, no, no
Well I never pray
But tonight I'm on my knees yeah
I need to hear some sounds that recognize the pain in me, yeah
I let the melody shine, let it cleanse my mind, I feel free now
But the airways are clean and there's nobody singing to me now
No change, I can't change
I can't change, I can't change
But I'm here in my mold
I am here in my mold
And I'm a million different people
from one day to the next
I can't change my mold
No, no, no, no, no
I can't change
I can't change
By “The Verve” (Urban Hymns)
2007-02-20
Up is Down, Down is Up
There are two episodes from my favourite TV shows, Boston Legal and House, which had caught my attention lately… I mean, the stories tend to stay in my memory longer…
They are Boston Legal: s3e11: Angel of Death and House: s3e07: Son of Coma Guy
Two of these shows, again, posted an enquiry on morality of human… yep, again!!!! That’s why, I love these two shows so much…
Angel of Death, where Alan Shore had to defend a female doctor in New Orleans (post Katrina hurricane), who euthanized 5 of her patients. Her testimony was that, the rest of the doctors had already fled away, and that, there’s no help coming at all (they got to know from the radio) and that the 5 patients have no chance of surviving at all, suffering in bed, the condition of the hospital was actually like a death camp, human waste everywhere… and so on…
The families of the patients wanted to sue her for taking the right in her hand to decide to kill the patients, who, actually didn’t asked to be killed… according to the female doctor, they’ve already lost all their consciousness to think, or even too weak to make any decision… ie. ask to be killed. Furthermore, there’re doctors, who, fled from the hospital during that critical period, actually came back to the court to give their testimony against the female doctor… while they were never there…
Alan’s argument was… “these decisions were made in an environment that you had to be there to understand.”
In the end, Alan won…
I wouldn’t be able to say which is right or wrong, of course, if I go by the book… however, the beauty of a story of such, is that, it makes you think… ^_^, which, apparently is the best activity that I’ll have, for my pastime. As… most of the time, we tend to be like one of those doctors who fled, and came back to condemn the others… aren’t we???
Son of Coma, where, a coma patient was waken up (temporarily) by House so that he can get all the medical history of the son of this coma guy, as the son’s liver was failing…
After a ride (in Dr.Wilson’s car) to Atlantic City, to find that coma guy’s favourite sandwich, and after a long Q&A session/interrogation with the guy, House got the news that, the son’s heart is failing too… and will be very soon… as the son is an alcoholic, he’s forfeited his ‘right’ to get a heart transplant… however, the father, if dead, will be able to give his son his heart… all the parties knew that, the father will go back to his indefinite coma again, so, House said to him, “… hanging is the best way to preserve the heart…”, yep… cos, by regulation, House was already hand-tied… he told Cuddy, “… I’ll think of a way then…”…. And that’s the way, by ‘persuading’ the going-to-be-in-indefinite-coma guy to err… kill himself…
Sad… but practical…
Sounded immoral… but practical… however, in the end, it’s the father, who wanted to do something for the son… besides the fact that, he decided to go after THE sandwich in his memory, rather than stayed at the bed of his dying son… made the decision to kill himself…
While House stayed outside and waited…
Two dark stories… however, “Angel of Death” is slightly more pleasant to watch, cos, the dark message is already being ‘candied’ with the comedic nature of Boston Legal.
Again… something to think about ^_^
They are Boston Legal: s3e11: Angel of Death and House: s3e07: Son of Coma Guy
Two of these shows, again, posted an enquiry on morality of human… yep, again!!!! That’s why, I love these two shows so much…
Angel of Death, where Alan Shore had to defend a female doctor in New Orleans (post Katrina hurricane), who euthanized 5 of her patients. Her testimony was that, the rest of the doctors had already fled away, and that, there’s no help coming at all (they got to know from the radio) and that the 5 patients have no chance of surviving at all, suffering in bed, the condition of the hospital was actually like a death camp, human waste everywhere… and so on…
The families of the patients wanted to sue her for taking the right in her hand to decide to kill the patients, who, actually didn’t asked to be killed… according to the female doctor, they’ve already lost all their consciousness to think, or even too weak to make any decision… ie. ask to be killed. Furthermore, there’re doctors, who, fled from the hospital during that critical period, actually came back to the court to give their testimony against the female doctor… while they were never there…
Alan’s argument was… “these decisions were made in an environment that you had to be there to understand.”
In the end, Alan won…
I wouldn’t be able to say which is right or wrong, of course, if I go by the book… however, the beauty of a story of such, is that, it makes you think… ^_^, which, apparently is the best activity that I’ll have, for my pastime. As… most of the time, we tend to be like one of those doctors who fled, and came back to condemn the others… aren’t we???
Son of Coma, where, a coma patient was waken up (temporarily) by House so that he can get all the medical history of the son of this coma guy, as the son’s liver was failing…
After a ride (in Dr.Wilson’s car) to Atlantic City, to find that coma guy’s favourite sandwich, and after a long Q&A session/interrogation with the guy, House got the news that, the son’s heart is failing too… and will be very soon… as the son is an alcoholic, he’s forfeited his ‘right’ to get a heart transplant… however, the father, if dead, will be able to give his son his heart… all the parties knew that, the father will go back to his indefinite coma again, so, House said to him, “… hanging is the best way to preserve the heart…”, yep… cos, by regulation, House was already hand-tied… he told Cuddy, “… I’ll think of a way then…”…. And that’s the way, by ‘persuading’ the going-to-be-in-indefinite-coma guy to err… kill himself…
Sad… but practical…
Sounded immoral… but practical… however, in the end, it’s the father, who wanted to do something for the son… besides the fact that, he decided to go after THE sandwich in his memory, rather than stayed at the bed of his dying son… made the decision to kill himself…
While House stayed outside and waited…
Two dark stories… however, “Angel of Death” is slightly more pleasant to watch, cos, the dark message is already being ‘candied’ with the comedic nature of Boston Legal.
Again… something to think about ^_^
2007-02-06
Say a little prayer…
I learnt that, physically dirty, is cleanable, but not what’s in our hearts…
I learnt that, whatever it is that I do for YOU, it’s always between me, and YOU… (I do not have to bother too much, to prove to the others)…
I learnt that, if one day I will be ill, my physical health may deteriorate, but I would pray that my spirit will be the strongest ever…
I learnt that, before we say what others SHOULD do, we may sit down and think what we can do for others…
I learnt that, before we start to condemn the others, we may look into the reflection in the mirror…
I learnt that, our very own excuse is always justifiable, and other’s is unforgiveable… (how ugly!!)
And I learnt that, when a life is perished, a new one will be born… however, the story of a life, maybe told forever… and hope be seeded again…
Tomorrow, will be… a sunny day!! ^_^
I learnt that, whatever it is that I do for YOU, it’s always between me, and YOU… (I do not have to bother too much, to prove to the others)…
I learnt that, if one day I will be ill, my physical health may deteriorate, but I would pray that my spirit will be the strongest ever…
I learnt that, before we say what others SHOULD do, we may sit down and think what we can do for others…
I learnt that, before we start to condemn the others, we may look into the reflection in the mirror…
I learnt that, our very own excuse is always justifiable, and other’s is unforgiveable… (how ugly!!)
And I learnt that, when a life is perished, a new one will be born… however, the story of a life, maybe told forever… and hope be seeded again…
Tomorrow, will be… a sunny day!! ^_^
2007-02-05
~~Women are “GOOD” PEOPLE~~
Please give me a chance to explain!!! ^_^Y…
(OK, by now, you must have known that, my ‘learning gateway’ is TV… ^.^)
Come on!! Since it’s such an MCP world and since most leaders are MALE, and since most problems now are caused by MALE leaders… that’s how I reached my ‘conclusion’!!!!!
Of course, there’re “bad” women!!! However… besides those (a handful) in the history, the rest… come on!!! Are just MEN!!!! (who’re bad)
The other day, I watched CSI, the pathologist said, “women are 7x more likely to be a victim as compared to men, and men are 10x more likely to be a murderer as compared to women!!!”
How sad huh!!!
Of course… there’re “bad” women, in the history, now, and in the future.. but most of the time, what we do, is just nag nag nag, and manipulate, manipulate, manipulate, the one who will finally EXECUTE them, is always THE MAN!!!
Blame the woman, you can!!! But men are usually (thou not always) the one who execute…
K??? just accept the fact!!!
And of course, there’re real BAD women who kill, who murder… mm… but has the number outnumbered the male murderers, serial killers yet???
I remembered when I was small… there was a song (chinese song) singing about this place, where it’s ruled by women… well… the song basically gave you a picture that, such place will be a very peaceful and beautiful place…
And for your information… if man IS never in the picture, women CAN live peacefully and happily together…
However… realistically, such place, won’t really exist… right?
mm… anyway, this is just a short notes after I came across a trailer of some war documentary on TV, I think.. can’t remember the details… however… suddenly, I felt like slapping all THOSE MEN (who cause havoc here and there) on their face!!!... that day…
(OK, by now, you must have known that, my ‘learning gateway’ is TV… ^.^)
Come on!! Since it’s such an MCP world and since most leaders are MALE, and since most problems now are caused by MALE leaders… that’s how I reached my ‘conclusion’!!!!!
Of course, there’re “bad” women!!! However… besides those (a handful) in the history, the rest… come on!!! Are just MEN!!!! (who’re bad)
The other day, I watched CSI, the pathologist said, “women are 7x more likely to be a victim as compared to men, and men are 10x more likely to be a murderer as compared to women!!!”
How sad huh!!!
Of course… there’re “bad” women, in the history, now, and in the future.. but most of the time, what we do, is just nag nag nag, and manipulate, manipulate, manipulate, the one who will finally EXECUTE them, is always THE MAN!!!
Blame the woman, you can!!! But men are usually (thou not always) the one who execute…
K??? just accept the fact!!!
And of course, there’re real BAD women who kill, who murder… mm… but has the number outnumbered the male murderers, serial killers yet???
I remembered when I was small… there was a song (chinese song) singing about this place, where it’s ruled by women… well… the song basically gave you a picture that, such place will be a very peaceful and beautiful place…
And for your information… if man IS never in the picture, women CAN live peacefully and happily together…
However… realistically, such place, won’t really exist… right?
mm… anyway, this is just a short notes after I came across a trailer of some war documentary on TV, I think.. can’t remember the details… however… suddenly, I felt like slapping all THOSE MEN (who cause havoc here and there) on their face!!!... that day…
I just won’t speak & You just won’t listen!!!
*_*
^_^
The other day, after he showed me his many “trophies” from his recent china trip, we chose to watch “Babel”… among all the others… (some of them, are just too old, for eg. “Stealth”, don’t know why he bought it, some are expected and predictable… ^_^ only “Babel”, besides the fact that I know it’s nominated for many awards in the Oscar, I didn’t know what it’s all about in fact… oh, besides another fact that, there’s Brad Pitt and other actors actresses all around the world)
Ok… we started the DVD… and I was multi-tasking in the beginning of the show, then, I went on to read the sypnosis on the DVD cover… err… he asked me, what does it say… my response was, “don’t know… don’t know where the ‘point’ is…”
After we watched for about 15 min, his turn to read the sypnosis… and his turn to say, “don’t know what’s the point!!”
There were 3 mini stages in the movie… Morocco, Mexico, and Tokyo… serious, for about 30 min, I seriously still couldn’t see any connection… so, I GRAB (with rage!!! Kakaka!!!) the DVD cover again, and had a glance at the chinese version of sypnosis!!! Eh!!!!!!!! It’s all totally different from the english version… (Light Bulb lit!!) oh, now, I know the ‘connection’…
I was frustrated throughout the first half of the show, cos, I still couldn’t grasp what the director was trying to deliver… (ooh!! Since when I’m so high-level… hehe, I ALWAYS AM!!!)
Now then, I was right on the track…
(it’ll contain spoilers!!!)
First, morocco, a nomadian family, father, mother, sister and 2 brothers… it all started with the father of the family passed a gun to his 2 sons, who helped look after the herds… then, 2 of them, started to shoot aimlessly and meaninglessly just to see how far a bullet can go… the younger one kept telling the elder brother that, the bullet can really go very very far, for eg. 3 miles!!! And he proved it…
On the other hand, there’s this couple of husband and wife on tour (brad pitt and cate)… where we can see that their marriage/relationship was under great tension… the first thing the husband said was something like he chose (for them) to come here, is because he likes it there (ie. Morocco) and obviously the wife didn’t enjoy it very much, or not at all!!!! She felt very insecure and uncomfortable in this type of place…
Then… there’s this pair of cute sister and brother kid, blonde, taken care by a mexican nanny, who’s planning to bring these 2 kids away to mexico for a short trip, to attend a wedding…
Far east, there’s this pair of father and daugther, where, the daughter handicapped with deafness… his wife/her mother has just killed herself without reason… and that brought even more ‘cold air’ and tension into this small family… (however, wow!! I’ve to say, the condominium that they stay, must be of a few million or even billion yen!!! It’s huge, the lobby was like big commercial building lobby… spacious, security system implemented… that’s never appeared in my daily japanese drama series…)
From wikipedia,
Babel (Hebrew: ???????; Bavel) is the name used in the Hebrew Bible for the city of Babylon (Akkadian Babilu), notable in Genesis as the supposed location of the Tower of Babel.
In Gen. 11:9, the name of Babel is etymologized by association with the Hebrew verb balal, "to confuse or confound": Balal is regarded as a contraction of earlier *balbal. The name bab-ilu in Akkadian means "gate of god" (from bab "gate" + ilu "god"). The word "bab-el" can also be seen to mean "gate of god" (from bab "gate" + el "god").
Genesis
Babel is mentioned in Genesis 10:10 as the home city of Nimrod.
[10] And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. [11] Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, [12] And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city. (KJV)
According to Genesis 11:1-9, mankind, after the deluge, traveled from the mountain where the ark had rested, and settled in 'a plain in the land of Shinar' (or Senaar). Here, they attempted to build a city and a tower whose top might reach unto Heaven, the Tower of Babel.
The attempt to build the Tower of Babel had angered God who, in his anger, made each person involved speak a different language which ultimately halted the project and scattered and disconnected the people across the planet.
Of course… some of you may have already known the meaning/cotext even better than me… ^_^
Anyway… years ago, I’ve watched another japanese drama called “babel” as well.. however, it’s not much to do with languages, rather, mm… again, I was trying to understand what the production team was trying to say… I reckon, it’s more like… FIGHTING GOD!!! Cos, it’s a medical drama, where the 2 surgeons in there (an underground hospital) can do miracles to whoever came seeking for help. For example, they helped produced Olympic atheletes by injecting some drugs, but the side effect was, after a few years, the gal who got it, would become bigger and fatter… but what she wanted was to be an olympic winner once in a life, so, that’s the price she paid for… another case that I remembered was, another gal got fixed with a pianist’s hands who’s passed away, and thus she could play piano… ok… I know, it’s more like unrealistic story, but then… it’s interesting…
And now, there’s this movie…
The ‘ideas’ that I gather… were
The 2 brothers, the younger brother… mm… I reckon, he was born err… ‘bad’ (in chinese, there’s a say, everybody was always born ‘good’… however… mm… I tend to think that, the percentage is 50-50, some people ARE born ‘bad’, some ARE ‘good’, that… I supposed, is the ‘decision maker’ in each and every individual, if one is exposed to a bad environment, whether he/she’ll become bad from good, and vice versa… sometimes, we like to blame on ‘influence’ surrounding us… however, why?? are there people who’re always not influenced… but yet, can even bring changes to othres)
Oh… back to the 2 brothers… so, the younger brother insisted on his ‘skill’ to shoot the gun… and eventually… they caused some ‘accident’…
The elder brother tried to stop the younger one for all his crazy act (he’s one of those who really like to prove himself to others, and he peeped while his sister, not sure if it’s real sister or not, was changing… see!!! Bad nature!! Cos… in the wilderness… no internet, no TV, no commercial brochure, only 1 family in the middle of nowhere… a kid, probably less than 10 years old, how much “bad” influence from outside he can get???)
Brother tried to stop him, father tried to lecture him and bring him back on path, he just won’t listen…
After a short argument the husband & wife went back into the tour bus and started their journey again… then… suddenly, a flying bullet out of nowhere, shot into the wife’s neck…
As for this couple… they just won’t communicate properly… he won’t listen, she already refused to speak anymore…
As for the japanese father-daughter… she won’t and she can’t speak… (due to hearing, she’s mute as well) and the father… wouldn’t know how to communicate with this problematic teenage daughter…
To her, she can’t hear, and others won’t ‘listen’ to her anyway!!!!
And lastly… the mexico side of story… the nanny, brought the 2 children (hehe, they’re the children of the husband & wife far in morocco), her nephew drove, to mexico… after a happy, noisy and enjoyable mexican wedding party.. they’re on their way home (super late at night)… and at the border, the car was stopped by the border police… however, maybe the nephew was drunk, maybe it’s because he’s a gun, or maybe it’s because he was just getting impatient, the police tried to get him to cooperate, he just won’t listen (oh!! By the way, police was american police, and they’re mexican… ie. Language barrier again!!) and he’s trying to explain, police also just won’t listen (cos, it’s 2 mexican with 2 american kids behind the car, looks like a kidnap)… in the end… he drove away ‘illegally’ and when he found out that, the police was chasing him… he dropped the aunt and the 2 kids in the middle of the dessert…
These stories in different sites, some happened parallelly, some happened just a few days, or a while ago/after to each other… but I’m sure you won’t get to see the whole movie in chronological order… ^_^
Well… this is as far as I can get… I mean, trying to ‘understand’ the movie… ^_^
I’m sure there’s more… but this is as far as I can get….
I’m not a linguist myself, and I definitely won’t understand the beauty of understanding languages and languages…
Like many of the others…
(let me side track a little bit!!! I remember in this japanese dorama series “TRICK”, the mother of the girl Yamada always likes to say “Words/Language” has its own power, don’t misuse them!!”… ^_^ she’s a caligraphy teacher!!)
Anyway… my understanding is… language is supposed to be used to ‘communicate’… (oh!! Just for your information, I didn’t attend any communication class as well.. so, I may say something wrong yo!! ^_^)
Therefore… mm… in actual fact, as long as you understand… understand the true meaning of what’s in my head… it doesn’t matter if the language is correct, or if it’s beautiful, or if it’s powerful…
Thanks to the poets and great authors that we see the beautiful side of languages being used in different way, but also thanks go the poets and great authors (especially those chinese ones) people are ‘cheated’ into the trend of deceitful and fully decorated pretentious languages… ^_^
And therefore… language, as for now… instead of being used for proper communication, … is used to attack, to deceive, to poison, to hurt, to cover up, to pretend, to sell and so on…
Worse is… when it’s used onto our loved ones…
mm… I supposed… we will never get to the day to see the Tower of Babel!!!
^_^
The other day, after he showed me his many “trophies” from his recent china trip, we chose to watch “Babel”… among all the others… (some of them, are just too old, for eg. “Stealth”, don’t know why he bought it, some are expected and predictable… ^_^ only “Babel”, besides the fact that I know it’s nominated for many awards in the Oscar, I didn’t know what it’s all about in fact… oh, besides another fact that, there’s Brad Pitt and other actors actresses all around the world)
Ok… we started the DVD… and I was multi-tasking in the beginning of the show, then, I went on to read the sypnosis on the DVD cover… err… he asked me, what does it say… my response was, “don’t know… don’t know where the ‘point’ is…”
After we watched for about 15 min, his turn to read the sypnosis… and his turn to say, “don’t know what’s the point!!”
There were 3 mini stages in the movie… Morocco, Mexico, and Tokyo… serious, for about 30 min, I seriously still couldn’t see any connection… so, I GRAB (with rage!!! Kakaka!!!) the DVD cover again, and had a glance at the chinese version of sypnosis!!! Eh!!!!!!!! It’s all totally different from the english version… (Light Bulb lit!!) oh, now, I know the ‘connection’…
I was frustrated throughout the first half of the show, cos, I still couldn’t grasp what the director was trying to deliver… (ooh!! Since when I’m so high-level… hehe, I ALWAYS AM!!!)
Now then, I was right on the track…
(it’ll contain spoilers!!!)
First, morocco, a nomadian family, father, mother, sister and 2 brothers… it all started with the father of the family passed a gun to his 2 sons, who helped look after the herds… then, 2 of them, started to shoot aimlessly and meaninglessly just to see how far a bullet can go… the younger one kept telling the elder brother that, the bullet can really go very very far, for eg. 3 miles!!! And he proved it…
On the other hand, there’s this couple of husband and wife on tour (brad pitt and cate)… where we can see that their marriage/relationship was under great tension… the first thing the husband said was something like he chose (for them) to come here, is because he likes it there (ie. Morocco) and obviously the wife didn’t enjoy it very much, or not at all!!!! She felt very insecure and uncomfortable in this type of place…
Then… there’s this pair of cute sister and brother kid, blonde, taken care by a mexican nanny, who’s planning to bring these 2 kids away to mexico for a short trip, to attend a wedding…
Far east, there’s this pair of father and daugther, where, the daughter handicapped with deafness… his wife/her mother has just killed herself without reason… and that brought even more ‘cold air’ and tension into this small family… (however, wow!! I’ve to say, the condominium that they stay, must be of a few million or even billion yen!!! It’s huge, the lobby was like big commercial building lobby… spacious, security system implemented… that’s never appeared in my daily japanese drama series…)
From wikipedia,
Babel (Hebrew: ???????; Bavel) is the name used in the Hebrew Bible for the city of Babylon (Akkadian Babilu), notable in Genesis as the supposed location of the Tower of Babel.
In Gen. 11:9, the name of Babel is etymologized by association with the Hebrew verb balal, "to confuse or confound": Balal is regarded as a contraction of earlier *balbal. The name bab-ilu in Akkadian means "gate of god" (from bab "gate" + ilu "god"). The word "bab-el" can also be seen to mean "gate of god" (from bab "gate" + el "god").
Genesis
Babel is mentioned in Genesis 10:10 as the home city of Nimrod.
[10] And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. [11] Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, [12] And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city. (KJV)
According to Genesis 11:1-9, mankind, after the deluge, traveled from the mountain where the ark had rested, and settled in 'a plain in the land of Shinar' (or Senaar). Here, they attempted to build a city and a tower whose top might reach unto Heaven, the Tower of Babel.
The attempt to build the Tower of Babel had angered God who, in his anger, made each person involved speak a different language which ultimately halted the project and scattered and disconnected the people across the planet.
Of course… some of you may have already known the meaning/cotext even better than me… ^_^
Anyway… years ago, I’ve watched another japanese drama called “babel” as well.. however, it’s not much to do with languages, rather, mm… again, I was trying to understand what the production team was trying to say… I reckon, it’s more like… FIGHTING GOD!!! Cos, it’s a medical drama, where the 2 surgeons in there (an underground hospital) can do miracles to whoever came seeking for help. For example, they helped produced Olympic atheletes by injecting some drugs, but the side effect was, after a few years, the gal who got it, would become bigger and fatter… but what she wanted was to be an olympic winner once in a life, so, that’s the price she paid for… another case that I remembered was, another gal got fixed with a pianist’s hands who’s passed away, and thus she could play piano… ok… I know, it’s more like unrealistic story, but then… it’s interesting…
And now, there’s this movie…
The ‘ideas’ that I gather… were
The 2 brothers, the younger brother… mm… I reckon, he was born err… ‘bad’ (in chinese, there’s a say, everybody was always born ‘good’… however… mm… I tend to think that, the percentage is 50-50, some people ARE born ‘bad’, some ARE ‘good’, that… I supposed, is the ‘decision maker’ in each and every individual, if one is exposed to a bad environment, whether he/she’ll become bad from good, and vice versa… sometimes, we like to blame on ‘influence’ surrounding us… however, why?? are there people who’re always not influenced… but yet, can even bring changes to othres)
Oh… back to the 2 brothers… so, the younger brother insisted on his ‘skill’ to shoot the gun… and eventually… they caused some ‘accident’…
The elder brother tried to stop the younger one for all his crazy act (he’s one of those who really like to prove himself to others, and he peeped while his sister, not sure if it’s real sister or not, was changing… see!!! Bad nature!! Cos… in the wilderness… no internet, no TV, no commercial brochure, only 1 family in the middle of nowhere… a kid, probably less than 10 years old, how much “bad” influence from outside he can get???)
Brother tried to stop him, father tried to lecture him and bring him back on path, he just won’t listen…
After a short argument the husband & wife went back into the tour bus and started their journey again… then… suddenly, a flying bullet out of nowhere, shot into the wife’s neck…
As for this couple… they just won’t communicate properly… he won’t listen, she already refused to speak anymore…
As for the japanese father-daughter… she won’t and she can’t speak… (due to hearing, she’s mute as well) and the father… wouldn’t know how to communicate with this problematic teenage daughter…
To her, she can’t hear, and others won’t ‘listen’ to her anyway!!!!
And lastly… the mexico side of story… the nanny, brought the 2 children (hehe, they’re the children of the husband & wife far in morocco), her nephew drove, to mexico… after a happy, noisy and enjoyable mexican wedding party.. they’re on their way home (super late at night)… and at the border, the car was stopped by the border police… however, maybe the nephew was drunk, maybe it’s because he’s a gun, or maybe it’s because he was just getting impatient, the police tried to get him to cooperate, he just won’t listen (oh!! By the way, police was american police, and they’re mexican… ie. Language barrier again!!) and he’s trying to explain, police also just won’t listen (cos, it’s 2 mexican with 2 american kids behind the car, looks like a kidnap)… in the end… he drove away ‘illegally’ and when he found out that, the police was chasing him… he dropped the aunt and the 2 kids in the middle of the dessert…
These stories in different sites, some happened parallelly, some happened just a few days, or a while ago/after to each other… but I’m sure you won’t get to see the whole movie in chronological order… ^_^
Well… this is as far as I can get… I mean, trying to ‘understand’ the movie… ^_^
I’m sure there’s more… but this is as far as I can get….
I’m not a linguist myself, and I definitely won’t understand the beauty of understanding languages and languages…
Like many of the others…
(let me side track a little bit!!! I remember in this japanese dorama series “TRICK”, the mother of the girl Yamada always likes to say “Words/Language” has its own power, don’t misuse them!!”… ^_^ she’s a caligraphy teacher!!)
Anyway… my understanding is… language is supposed to be used to ‘communicate’… (oh!! Just for your information, I didn’t attend any communication class as well.. so, I may say something wrong yo!! ^_^)
Therefore… mm… in actual fact, as long as you understand… understand the true meaning of what’s in my head… it doesn’t matter if the language is correct, or if it’s beautiful, or if it’s powerful…
Thanks to the poets and great authors that we see the beautiful side of languages being used in different way, but also thanks go the poets and great authors (especially those chinese ones) people are ‘cheated’ into the trend of deceitful and fully decorated pretentious languages… ^_^
And therefore… language, as for now… instead of being used for proper communication, … is used to attack, to deceive, to poison, to hurt, to cover up, to pretend, to sell and so on…
Worse is… when it’s used onto our loved ones…
mm… I supposed… we will never get to the day to see the Tower of Babel!!!
2007-01-21
Watch the Sinking, Stop the Sinking
mm… two weeks ago, we went to watch “the sinking of japan”… well, it was between “night at the museum” and “siniking of japan”, but, my point was, if we didn’t watch that day, we’ll still have to ‘arrange’ for another day to watch this show… “night at the museum”, I think, Ben Stiller’s act won’t be restricted in a small little TV box… therefore, we went in for “the sinking of japan”
yep, it’s just another catastrophic show… most of the people will say so, and, mm… from the diplomatic angle, I may say so… but, when I heard this girl behind me, after we came out of the theatre, said “it’s just like Armegaddon”… I had the sacarstic urge to tell her this “B-I-T-C-H”!!!!
yes, it’s another catastrophic show, with heroes, and heroins in there… plus some romance, however, it’s just slightly different from what we normally see… (yes, you can say I’m biased, cos, I love watching japanese shows)
I couldn’t remmeber much of Armegaddon (that doesn’t’ mean that I think the show was bad, just simply, I CAN’T REMEMBER!!)
But I can remember the slight bit about “Deep Impact’, or “The Core”, or “Day after tomorrow” etc….
However, I don’t think, they’re much the same.. cos, mm… “the sinking of japan” was less dramatic in a sense…
Of course the hero died in the end, but, I was relieved, when they didn’t even show all those long bid-goodbye speech or tear-shedding scene when the hero was to die… they didn’t even show the hero died, but we view know……
I actually thought this show is good, and worth-watching… especially with the recent ‘events’ here… and everywhere…
Earthquakes, tsunami, volcanic eruption, all happened in “the sinking of japan”…
And… from a geologist’s (cheh!!) point of view… it’s interesting to watch, and it’s possible to happen… ONE DAY!! (I mean, the sinking, not the stopping)
And… why I want to scold that girl, B-I-T-C-H… haha!! Cos, I like the show very much, and I really would like to know what she’s expecting to see before entering the theatre showing a movie titled “the sinking of japan”… oh, furthermore of her ‘conversation’ with her friends, she was saying “oh!!! All my favourite cities are damaged now!” then, her male friend said, “Ah!! Then you’d better go there quick before they disappeared!!”… @_@ sorry for eavesdropping!!! B-I-M-B-O!!!
Anyway, that was not how I feel about the show… I mean, like her…
I know, it’s a show, and I know, it’s so-called si-fi thriller genre… however, as where we are now, we will not see how a real tsunami, or experience an earthquake, probably in my life, as long as I am here.. (however many many years in the future, when everything is changed and tossed upside down, I wouldn’t know what will happen then!!)
But, when you see that, people, many many people… who’re trying to run for life…
I’ve to say, my feeling was a mixture…
It WAS scary in the show, (or I’m just tooooo indulged in the story and the setting) when you see the vehicles on the road, fell into the crack on the ground suddenly due to the movement of the earth…
It WAS scary, when you see the wave from the supposedly beautiful deep blue sea, suddenly become sky high and coming towards you without mercy… it WAS scary, at least for me…
It WAS hopeless when you see that most of the land was covered with the volcanic ash and you don’t see the blue sky anymore…
It WAS even more scary that, when the people in the authority only planned for their own escape and assuming that, you’ll be one of the dead people eventually and that they do not have to worry if there aren’t enough countries who want to take you as refugees… cos, they don’t have enough space in their country… it was scary, cos, when the people with the power started their plan, you’re already considered dead…
It was scary that, the supposed pride and very beautiful mount fuji will erupt eventually, maybe in the next few minutes… what they wait was only a miracle…
Of course, in the show, miracle did happened in the end…
But, miracle does exist, don’t you think so?????
There’re aren’t many born heroes everywhere, but there’re always people who wants to save somebody they love…
(in the show, the guy decided to ‘sacrifice’ so that, the girl he likes, will be able to fulfill her dream, as a team member from the rescue team, to save people, otherwise, everybody will be doomed… I know it sounds ridiculous or too small the reason to BE A HERO, but then, at least, it works for me!!)
Mixture of feelings is…
I’m glad that, I’m never born in such places, or living in such countries, that I may have to face such a day…
But I’m sad that, there are actually places like this, where those people have to live in a such a fear, day to day…
However… on the other hand… it seems like only people from these places, have grown stronger, better, and stronger… everyday is a blessing to them…
Therefore, I thought, it’s unlucky to be lucky, and it’s lucky to be unlucky…
Lucky cos, we’re faced with less challenge, but then, we loose our spirit (unlucky)… sometimes…
Unlucky cos, we’re faced with more challenges in our living condition, but then, we’ll have stronger fighting and survival power (lucky)…
Then… I think… life is fair!!
yep, it’s just another catastrophic show… most of the people will say so, and, mm… from the diplomatic angle, I may say so… but, when I heard this girl behind me, after we came out of the theatre, said “it’s just like Armegaddon”… I had the sacarstic urge to tell her this “B-I-T-C-H”!!!!
yes, it’s another catastrophic show, with heroes, and heroins in there… plus some romance, however, it’s just slightly different from what we normally see… (yes, you can say I’m biased, cos, I love watching japanese shows)
I couldn’t remmeber much of Armegaddon (that doesn’t’ mean that I think the show was bad, just simply, I CAN’T REMEMBER!!)
But I can remember the slight bit about “Deep Impact’, or “The Core”, or “Day after tomorrow” etc….
However, I don’t think, they’re much the same.. cos, mm… “the sinking of japan” was less dramatic in a sense…
Of course the hero died in the end, but, I was relieved, when they didn’t even show all those long bid-goodbye speech or tear-shedding scene when the hero was to die… they didn’t even show the hero died, but we view know……
I actually thought this show is good, and worth-watching… especially with the recent ‘events’ here… and everywhere…
Earthquakes, tsunami, volcanic eruption, all happened in “the sinking of japan”…
And… from a geologist’s (cheh!!) point of view… it’s interesting to watch, and it’s possible to happen… ONE DAY!! (I mean, the sinking, not the stopping)
And… why I want to scold that girl, B-I-T-C-H… haha!! Cos, I like the show very much, and I really would like to know what she’s expecting to see before entering the theatre showing a movie titled “the sinking of japan”… oh, furthermore of her ‘conversation’ with her friends, she was saying “oh!!! All my favourite cities are damaged now!” then, her male friend said, “Ah!! Then you’d better go there quick before they disappeared!!”… @_@ sorry for eavesdropping!!! B-I-M-B-O!!!
Anyway, that was not how I feel about the show… I mean, like her…
I know, it’s a show, and I know, it’s so-called si-fi thriller genre… however, as where we are now, we will not see how a real tsunami, or experience an earthquake, probably in my life, as long as I am here.. (however many many years in the future, when everything is changed and tossed upside down, I wouldn’t know what will happen then!!)
But, when you see that, people, many many people… who’re trying to run for life…
I’ve to say, my feeling was a mixture…
It WAS scary in the show, (or I’m just tooooo indulged in the story and the setting) when you see the vehicles on the road, fell into the crack on the ground suddenly due to the movement of the earth…
It WAS scary, when you see the wave from the supposedly beautiful deep blue sea, suddenly become sky high and coming towards you without mercy… it WAS scary, at least for me…
It WAS hopeless when you see that most of the land was covered with the volcanic ash and you don’t see the blue sky anymore…
It WAS even more scary that, when the people in the authority only planned for their own escape and assuming that, you’ll be one of the dead people eventually and that they do not have to worry if there aren’t enough countries who want to take you as refugees… cos, they don’t have enough space in their country… it was scary, cos, when the people with the power started their plan, you’re already considered dead…
It was scary that, the supposed pride and very beautiful mount fuji will erupt eventually, maybe in the next few minutes… what they wait was only a miracle…
Of course, in the show, miracle did happened in the end…
But, miracle does exist, don’t you think so?????
There’re aren’t many born heroes everywhere, but there’re always people who wants to save somebody they love…
(in the show, the guy decided to ‘sacrifice’ so that, the girl he likes, will be able to fulfill her dream, as a team member from the rescue team, to save people, otherwise, everybody will be doomed… I know it sounds ridiculous or too small the reason to BE A HERO, but then, at least, it works for me!!)
Mixture of feelings is…
I’m glad that, I’m never born in such places, or living in such countries, that I may have to face such a day…
But I’m sad that, there are actually places like this, where those people have to live in a such a fear, day to day…
However… on the other hand… it seems like only people from these places, have grown stronger, better, and stronger… everyday is a blessing to them…
Therefore, I thought, it’s unlucky to be lucky, and it’s lucky to be unlucky…
Lucky cos, we’re faced with less challenge, but then, we loose our spirit (unlucky)… sometimes…
Unlucky cos, we’re faced with more challenges in our living condition, but then, we’ll have stronger fighting and survival power (lucky)…
Then… I think… life is fair!!
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