Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Watch your.....

Wisdom quote from Frank Outlaw. Make sense?

I'm not a knowledgable person. I did a search on "character & destiny".... Ohh I see...... This wisdom quote was extended from a maxim: Character is Destiny, from Heraclitus, who wrote, some 2500 years ago. (Wow~)

What else have I got? There you go...........

1. There's a book called: Character Is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember



2. Another book: Character Is Destiny : The Value of Personal Ethics in Everyday Life



3. “Character determines destiny.” In other words, it is not what happens to us that matters, it is what we are able to make of our experiences. Good health and a fine education mean nothing if you are not capable of putting them to good use.

"...... Each of us determines our own character with every single decision we make. Whether you decide to help others or indulge yourself, whether you hone your analytical gifts through constant use or dull them with sloth, you are determining your character – and your destiny. "

4. 性格是怎样决定命运的?

一位日本的心理学大师说过一句话:心理变,态度亦变;态度变,行为亦变;行为变,习惯亦变;习惯变,人格亦变;人格变,命运亦变。换句话说,一个人要想运势好,他的性格首先要好。你不能总是让别人跟你在一起不舒服,这样做人就缺少亲和力,所以人在有自知之明之后能够像古人说得那样每日三省吾身很重要,不能总是自我感觉太好。自我感觉好的这种人其实很吃亏。  

有一位朋友开车去上班,突然,马路上杀出一个醉汉拦住了他的车,非说撞了他并让下车道歉。这在以前,他会上去给醉汉两拳,这一次他却没有。想了想就下了车,和颜悦色地对醉汉说:“对不起,请你原谅我。”那位醉汉拍了拍他肩膀说:“哥们儿,冲你这句话,走人”。他回到车上,一点也没觉得受了委屈,反而有一种战胜自我的愉悦感。  

其实,人是一条鱼,社会是一缸水,如果我们是一条热带鱼的话,那么我们必须要降自己的体温而不是希望水升温。生存是在有一定的素质后来适应社会的,现在让你低头你低不了,你就过不去,所以,一个有目标的人在坚持内心准则的情况下还要学会忍耐甚至是忍辱。

5. 性格能决定命运吗?

什么样的性格,就以什么样的方式去做事情,就会有什么样的结果,这些结果就构成了一个人的所谓命运。这与其说是性格决定命运,还不如说,一个人的处事态度和做事方式,决定着一个人的命运。

And many more.... you search yourself if you're interested. :)

At first I feel : Wah...... What a topic man...... (Or am I just 孤陋寡闻?? )
Then I got bored. Read no more.

Scream



Nothing much.... just feel like screaming out aloud ~~

光说不做,只能在原点盘旋

A word from yiqi:


V, 没办法.. 你的工作就是这么分秒必争.. 一堆狗屁Deadline .. 真的会让你work until died.
晚上和你MSN你说你在working, 晕倒! 没日没夜的赶.. 有时候觉得你的工作时间比我还要长百倍! 你是有理由有资格抱怨的. 已经听你说多次要去走走..
那就去咯!! 等Deadline完后就去咯! “光说不做,只能在原点盘旋” .. 希望你也体会一下..

Agree.... 光说不做,只能在原点盘旋...... Thanks.

Actually yiqi, it's not that I don't want to make it true. Do you know I have actually blocked 2 weeks leave? Last week and this week. But see? I'M STILL WORKING. For your information, I have also blocked 3 weeks leave in July but was informed another deadline to commit in July today - another bomb. Let's see if I can go on leave in July...... But I don't get high expectation.

SIAN !! -_-

Sunday, June 24, 2007

Apocalypto


As recommended by Whymei... She sincerely passed me the DVD last night. How nice is she huh? She sealed her mouth about the movie, revealed nothing to me.

I watched this today with my sister. The movie has such a great impact on both of us. After watching the movie, I got head spinning, lost appetite; my sister got headache, and also lost appetite. Why would that so? The movie is awesome indeed, it's also sickening! I wonder how Mel Gibson filmed the movie. Some scenes are just real! Too real until I cannot take it. (Suggest you to watch yourself and feel it!)

Wikipedia has lots of information about this movie, start from production, to the fall of Mayan civilization. Feel free to read up.
Mayan civilization could be something that really interest me. It sounds mysterious. Okay.. I tag it as one of the area I want to read more information when I have time. :)

Watch the movie! Strongly recommended!

Midnight car block

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On Friday night, I read the headline saying that there'll be police cars patrolling around. Then I was thinking maybe I'll really see police cars around, especially along the Pasir Gudang highway. Just like the area I stay, I can't remember since when, police car is easily noticed during night time.

I played badminton at Permas last night. After badminton, went with whole group of ppl to mamak yum cha. It was pretty late when we all ciao, it's past 1am already. Then it's suggested that a car would be following me till I reach home. It wasn't a good idea for me. Firstly, I didn't see the need to do so. Basically, the public is brought to the awareness of the crime cases but it doesn't mean it will happen at all time. Yes, the next victim could be you but while driving on the road, and I'm sitting in the car, if nothing happen right, what else could happen? The most the bad could bang your car with their car. What else? Could this happen on highway when there're so many cars passing by? No right? I don't see the need to live like a 惊弓之鸟. Secondly, I didn't want to put troubles on others, somemore it's late hour. If it's a friend, then I should say maybe alright. But to a person who I don't really friend with, I really don't see the need. Ppl don't necessary need to oblige to such "duty". So I said specifically that I didn't need ppl follow me and I drove off without a wait. All along the Pasir Gudang highway, I was pretty sure there was no car following at my back. It's only started from the traffic light at Perling bridge, I noticed a car purposely stopped by, then the car started following me since then.

I got panic, then the first thing I would do was to drive fast out of panic. There's a car block at Skudai, of course I got caught by traffic police. Then I told the police the reason why I was speeding was because there's a wira following at my back, and I got panic. You know what this police said? He said, if that's the case, I should report at the Police Station, not to him. DAMN HIM! DARE HE SAID SOMETHING LIKE THIS! Shouldn't he at least go and check who's the driver of the wira?? Moreover, Police Station is just 1Km or 2 KM ahead and I had yet to reach the Police Station and I was blocked okay! Then he asked me if I'm okay with the summon, RM300 payable in a month. I responded that I have no money to pay the summon. Of cos he asked me if I could give him money to buy coffee. I had RM5 in my pocket, so I took out the RM5 and said that's all I had. He was shocked to see the RM5 and asked how would I have only RM5 only. YOU THINK ALL THE CHINESE HAVE LOADS AH??? So? I only have RM5, what's wrong with it? Do I need to answer you as to why I had only RM5?? Well, in the end, he let me off, without taking any cents from me, without summon.

In fact, I was playing a trick with him. I didn't show my purse, but merely took out a small pouch where I put all my cards because I was asked for IC and driving licence. Not a single cent could be found in this small pouch. And also, my intention was to insult the police. If he's asking coffee money from me, he's as good as a beggar. He should feel lucky if I'm this generous to buy him a RM5 coffee, for a person who can work perfectly with their limbs. How much more is he asking? RM50? My foot! Wait long long ~~ Worst come to worst, if he's not happy, just give me summon. I don't mind. There's nothing much the police can do about me. He doesn't get a single cent either. But please, at that late hour, don't they police have more meaningful duty to execute?? Blocking the car to get coffee money is this something police should do at late hour?? Is this so-called safeguarding the safety of the general public?? KNS.

Okay, back to the wira at my back. To cut short the story, I later found out it was one of the badminton playmate when I called. -_-"""" I think he should have told me from the start, shouldn't he? Anyone will get panic when he/she saw a car keeps following at the back without the knowledge it's someone he/she knows.

I brought this up to my brother and I have a word from my brother, if it happens that you're being followed, be calm and don't drive fast. Instead, we should drive slow and safely, and never get panic. There's nothing much the car can do about your car. Worst come to worst, you get banged only. When you're still driving on the road, it means you're safe. The young couple could have saved themselves if they're calm enough to drive to the 24-hours shop when they passed by the shop. Because they're panic, they drove to a dead end and unfortunately, the car also played them a bad trick, broke down. It might not be so bad if they drove to the nearby shoplots because the place wasn't really that rural where there's no shops and no houses.

Just be careful when you're out alone... but don't overly think anything could have happened at all times. Being cautious, of course you could also adopt a low risk approach, say, try to stay at home at night, but if still, something bad really happened, it's all fated. If something bad bound to happen on you, it will happen anyway no matter how cautious you're or how you're trying to avoid. That's what I think.

Saturday, June 23, 2007

Starbucks Azuki Frappuccino Blended Cream

Since last introduction of "Banana Java Chips", Starbucks introduces another new drink! It has a very nice name called: Azuki Frappuccino Blended Cream. What's so special about this drink? What's Azuki? I asked the questions as I went in Starbucks. hehe. Bear with my "suagu", I really don't know what is Azuki. I merely know the drink is mixed with red bean (from the picture can tell ok). Well, Azuki is top-graded red bean from Japan. What so special about this drink is Starbucks mixed the coffee bean with the red bean. Customer can choose to have a shot of Expresso to mix with the drink as well. So, as you sip you think you're drinking red bean but it's creamy coffee! The bitter taste of Expresso, the sweet taste of the cream, plus the red bean, they're perfect match. Some people might not like it, but to me, it's perfectly alright.

One thing worth mentioning is the brownie from Starbucks. So far I'd never had cake at Starbucks. I make it quite clear, Starbucks is a place for coffee, and Secret Recipe is a place for cake. Should I want to have cake, I'll have it at Secret Recipe. As I was waiting the coffee, I had a glance through the cakes Starbucks have. Maybe because I watched the TV programme about the making of brownie and chocolate mousse. So when I saw the brownie, it was simply attrative to me. So... I grabbed the last 2 brownies.

The differences between Starbucks' brownie and Secret Recipe's brownie are: 1. The size - Starbucks' brownie is bigger in size; 2. The chocolate on top - Starbucks' brownie has a thick layer of chocolate on top and the chocolate is so rich, sticky and fantastic! Secret Recipe's brownie is topped with a thin layer of melted hot chocolate; 3. The content - Secret Recipe's brownie is merely a plain cake with a bit of smashed walnut, whereas Starbucks' brownie is filled with mixed fruits, e.g. raisin, dried mandarin etc. Comparing the two, I prefer Starbucks' brownie. Of cos, Starbucks' brownie is more costly compared to Secret Recipe. I think almost doubled the price of Secret Recipe's.

Have you tried them yet? Try them when you're feeling down. They could cheer you up.

*For your information, Azuki Frappuccino is best eat with Tiramisu

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Suddenly wish to visit Australia..

For so many times I was asked this question: Do you miss Australia? Why don't you stay and work there? And my answer was never: I miss Australia. Straight after my convocation, I returned Malaysia. Never extended my stay there. But today, I suddenly have the urge to visit Australia.

Partly maybe because this H-man suddenly left message here, partly also because JH showed me Melbourne travel guide today as he'll be travelling to Melbourne this Sunday. Although I'd been to Melbourne twice only during my stay in Australia, surprisedly I can still remember out from Melbourn Centre train station, the state library is just opposite and RMIT was just down the raod; Melbourne University is somewhere nearby Victoria Market. Hoohoo...

I could still remember I was staying at 35, Regent St, Kensington, mobile number 0422-601-006. haha.. I can't remember my house phone number though. I only know it's an 8 digits number. I don't know why the house usually has lower temperature than outside. One will feel cold after staying in room for some time. One good thing about this was we wouldn't be feeling so stuffy during summer. However, I could still remember 3 quarters of my stay I was like staying in fridge, especially during winter, everyone freezed. I used to cover myself with 3 thick clothes during winter. Sometimes 3 thick clothes were also not good enough, then I'd wrap myself in the sleeping bag. Come to sleeping, the wool quilt was not good enough also, then the sleeping bag would do me good. Can imagine when you were covered in the sleeping bag, plus a quilt on your top? Sound hot right? hehe... but the temperature was just right for sleep.. ppl might ask why we don't just switch on the heater? We didn't use heater as we didn't have a centralised heater at home. If all of us were to consum heater, the electricity bill would be like AUD400 a month. Nobody wanted to bear such a high cost.

Every weekend we'd be browsing through the catalogue to see what items were on sales for the week. There are 3 supermarkets - Woolworths, Coles and Foodland where we bought the groceries and foods most frequently. Say for example, when Arnord's biscuits were on sales, all of us would be stocking up the biscuits; when chocolates were on sales, then chocolates would be all around the place. Having known what were the everyday low price items seemed important to all of us. Couldn't help it... poor students must find all means to save. When come to paying the goods, I always prayed in my heart, hoping that the price was set wrongly so that I could get the item free. haha.

There were too many things to recall and can't really put all of them in words now. I'm thinking if it's possible to visit Australia in July? Go walk walk and enjoy the weather. Or maybe can go Mt Buller skiing? Or go Great Ocean Road and feel the strong wind? or a short walk at Rundle Mall, sit down for coffee or gelati? Or driving around Barrossa Valley and taste wine? Soo good if I could make this true..