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another icon passes on...

 

 

 

so, you think your kid's still young and there's still a lot to learn out there, well, think again...

 

i was so engrossed in an online game... anxious to complete a mission, i was browsing through a list of items looking for something that i needed but doing it the prehistoric way of going through item one by one, and my eldest son was behind me observing what i was doing...

 

after a minute, he asked me, "why aren't you typing the name of the item you want and hit 'search'?"

 

well, "mr-know-it-all" hadn't thought about that, wahaha!

 

 

in a bruce lee film, a master quoted,

 

"what's good about knowing kungfu? even a master struggles to keep up with today's times!"

 

i guess kungfu is enlightenment, as are some other things we might be good at...

we lose ourselves sometimes... being able to excel in something we do gives us an opportunity to immerse ourselves physically, mentally and sometimes spiritually...

even if we can't achieve excellence, our indulgence will take us away from some life stresses...

 

indulgence is our shield...

excellence is our castle...

 

 

this is from a us army officer, brigadier general stephen townsend, on his camp's high suicide rate:

 

 

this may be irrelevant to many people, but then, we face many difficulties, and we must have the courage to carry on to the other side of the upslope (and similarly, there's no indefinite downslope)...

 

people who choose this permanent solution, they won't regret because they can't, but they will have left a world of destruction to those who lived around them...

 

 

 

life seemed to have flew past me in a flash, so many things went through my mind it seemed like not so long ago all these happened... and delightfully so...

 

i read "ozma of oz" very long ago... i guess i liked the story, but well, guiltily, most of it was thrown into my past... however, i was delightfully surprised over the weekend when disney channel aired "return to oz", and my memory valve just burst and all the characters just started appearing before me... it was almost like meeting people i knew from long ago, and i was quite excited to introduce these "friends" to my children...

 

"that's dorothy! and scarecrow, and timidy lion, and the tin man, and her new friends, ozma of oz, tic toc, and belinda the hen... her eggs are poisonous to gnomes!"

"what? poisonous? how can eggs be poisonous?"

"only to gnomes! especially those in this story, because everything is extraordinary!"

"why is it extraordinary?"

"because everything that happens doesn't happen normally..." "did you know dorothy travelled to oz on a hurricane? we would have died, but she arrived in oz!" "and if a scarecrow really talked to you, you would have been scared witless! but don't worry, the scarecrow is a good guy here and very smart too!" "and of course, we love eggs... boiled, fried, scrambled... but no matter how you make them, they are poisonous to gnomes!"

...

 

ahhh... reading was really fun!

 

 

 

visit my facebook for pictures from my recent trip...

just remember, though lodging was cheap, food wasn't... bringing our own food would've been wiser...

 

 

just came back from a vacation with my family... though it's already been a week, i still don't feel like giving full effort to my work... below are some thoughts and happenings during the past week...

 

- there's a tv series "the clone wars" which makes me sad... my favorite character is ahsoka, and we know what happened to all the jedis...

 

- watched "red cliff - part 2"... watched "part 1" alone last time, and thought it was such a slow and boring movie... then, i found the "essence" to watching these 2 parts, you have to watch them with someone who doesn't know the story and characters very well... i found that excitment gripped me when i started explaining to my sister the mentality of some of the characters, the philosophy behind a war strategy, some myths, some facts, etc... so my conclusion, they're actually quite good shows, because they re-enacted the actual events step by step, and deliberated on character meticulously...

 

- watched liverpool thrash aston villa, yeah!

 

- played an online game... i think i'm losing some sleep because of it, but i can't stop just yet... i guess there's a hunger for power in me...

 

- too many photos from my bintan trip to post immediately... guess i'll post some on my next blog...

 

 

 

 

the government's aid was to help the company tide over a global economic crisis, to help it to survive, and yet the company did little for its survival and chose instead to line the wallets of the few already financial-sufficient staff...

 

i think there is no justification to this... tens of thousands of people, or maybe hundreds of thousands of people are losing their jobs, and yet there exists people who don't care about how we end up (financially delerict?) and choose to make sure at least they have a grand funeral when they leave this world?! the world was never equal, with all the democracy and stuffs, but in the age of media cognitivity, this absolutes slaps most of us people in the face and challenges us, "what can you do about it?"

 

 

 

 

 

i don't know about this... with the current economic situation, my concerns tend to agree with this kind of news... i would cut back on my spending, and think twice before making any purchases, but i don't really know whether you can say all my countrymen feel the same way, especially when the survey was only conducted on 300 people over a two month period... if only two people were interviewed and one agreed with me, would you say half the population felt the same way? the equation of 300 people over two months is 5 people interviewed every day... now that surveyor must have been having a lot of coffee around some corner... such news would be more convincing if over just one month 300 people were interviewed every day... we have a population of over 4 million people... though i share like sentiments with the survey's subject, i can hardly agree that 300 voices can represent 4 million people...

 

 

 

 

10 things i did in the past week:

 

10. washed my car;

9. watched liverpool lose;

8. bought a leather case for my handphone;

7. get mad at a person at work;

6. watched "ip man";

5. played some online games;

4. did some work for my dad;

3. had some beer;

2. played badminton with my kids;

 

and no.1 on my list is:

 

1. linked up with my whole class from unis...

    except for 2, 3 still missing...

 

 

and now, the challenge to you, try to think of 10 things you did, it's not really that easy...

 

 

a classmate found me on facebook, then all of the sudden, i linked up with almost half the class...

these people are a part of my life i thought i had lost through time, but thanks to web technology, we could find each other and keep in touch...

 

i'm so happy to see each of them doing well...

 

 

there was a tv segment about buskers in singapore earlier, and some people were interviewed... i can't believe some people think so highly of themselves, saying buskers are like beggars performing on the streets... i think they failed to understand that these people have real talents, even more than myself and a whole lot more other people, and just like myself and a whole lot other people who "beg" our employers for monthly reliefs, they are actually just doing what they do best to earn a living...

 

i guess we should see life beyond ourselves...

 

 

i had some time last night... i wandered around parkway alone waiting to pick up my son from tution at a later time... i guess walking around without buying anything is quite a chore, i actually felt quite loss at times... my favorite hangouts are the dvd stores, and it took something like 10 minutes to find out all i've seen all the shows on the shelves, or shows i don't really want to see... one show though, was out of stock, and i wanted it very much but was too late informed... it is "ip man" about bruce lee's master, and next stock is next week...

 

 

my eldest son scored highest in his class' english test...

 

it's the first time he has this distinction... he just ran a mile, i so proud of him...

 

 

i guess i could be getting edgy, maybe a little loose in there, and i guess i just have to be careful about the things i say during my swings... i don't think it's easy, but when everything calms, i can see some damage and then i would regret...

 

 

 

i came to work on last minute call...

i promised my 2 boys badminton today, and now they are going to feel let down...

they're at school now, and don't even know i won't be picking them up at noon... their grandma will... i guess i can make it up to them by letting them stay over...

 

 

first time in my life this happened...

 

working into the afternoon already, it's almost like nothing happened, or more real, it's almost like a few unrelated people just evaporated! names travelled by word of mouth, and by empty offices or tidied up desks...

 

almost too cold...

 

 

happy lunar new year!

 

so far, 3 days, the ox has been good to me...

why? because i won consecutively at mahjong! wahaha!

i don't play often, and thank goodness, neither do my father-in-law and my sister-in-law's husband... so i won their money, hmmm...

 

then, for the 1st day of new year, i drank beer the whole day... i think i finished 1 carton by myself! the whole day, i only had beer and mahjong! i didn't care about any other things! my children were playing firecrackers with their cousins, and my sister-in-law was screaming at them to be careful, but i just sat put with my beer and mahjong... i guess, unless serious, nothing could move me...

 

2nd day was about the same... beer and mahjong... and the children screaming and playing like there was no government... there were so many things my wife wouldn't allow the kids to do, but when she turned to me for support, i just turned around and didn't care... i just kept in mind what my children were doing... today, back home, after all the rancous subsided, i pulled them aside and told them what they did were ok, but only during new year...

 

wishing all -

great wealth and good health!

 

 

now i know why people call it "spring cleaning"...

it's not because people do their cleaning during spring, rather, it's because cleaning takes the whole season to finish...

 

how i wish i hadn't moved the monsters out of their corners! i started before christmas, and right now i'm not even half-way done, and lunar new year is just around the corner! i'll have to work faster...

 

 

i spend a lot of time with my kids, so i think i should have trusted them more, even though i know the power of media nowadays...

 

we were at the beach, and my kids were playing in the sand...

then they started to play a word game where one would write letters in the sand and the others had to guess the word before it was completed...

 

here was one that got me worried:

 

f               (ok, didn't really bother me)

fu             (i was shocked! i looked at my kids and they were giggling like they had something dirty on their minds!)

fun           (that's it, i over-reacted)

 

and i heaved a sigh of relief...

 

 

 

 

some children came to my company today... we were hosting a christmas celebration for them, and they were laughing and shouting so cheerfully...

 

watching them laugh was really heart warming... i guess children love to have fun, no matter if prizes were really the cheap stuff in some of our eyes, they really didn't care about that... more importantly, this was one of the few times they got presents, and they had fun jostling with each other during games or vying for the clown's attention...

 

they were from an orphanage... though there is sadness behind the veil of laughter, i think more importantly the children feel there is happiness this moment...

 

 

people tell us we have a role to play for the company in times as critical as the current financial crisis...

if i were the perfect employee, i'd probably understand... getting axed is also a contribution...

 

but i am not noble... i would be, only if the company shared its ups in times of good and not only think of quick solutions in times like this...

with a good leader, i guess i wouldn't mind sacrificing if he/she were to bring me back up at a later time...

 

but people in the company who psycho us to do our part, probably don't even know me, and most likely will forget about me the moment i walk out the door...

retrenchment is a selfish tool... it's cruel...

 

i guess, i don't want to get retrenched...

 

 

sports is wonderful!

it's remedy to stress and a great thing to look forward to!