The theme of the day, or rather yesterday, was to appreciate the things, the happenings of my life.
Not everything has to be "glass half empty". It can also be "glass half full".
But unfortunately, I've always been "glass half empty" sort of people. I've tried looking at things differently, trying to look at things from the good side of it. However, no matter how hard I tried looking at something positively, I'll just end up focusing even more on the negatives of it.
Today's theme is different. It's about being positive. It's about being grateful. It's about appreciating the things in my life, small or big.
1) Stop bitching about how much you don't like the life here. Appreciate that you're given a chance to live at a different country, learn different culture, learn different things.
2) Stop bitching about how difficult it is working here. Appreciate that you have a job in this time of the year where all companies are thinking of laying-off their staffs and minimising cost.
3) Stop bitching about how far you have to walk to work. Appreciate that you have an opportunity to exercise, to keep yourself healthy.
4) Stop bitching about how far your place is from a train station. Appreciate that you've found a place to stay, a safe place as well.
5) And above all, appreciate the chances that God has been giving to you, over and over again. You've disappointed your family members, your beloved, yourself, and most of all, God. So, appreciate the chances, including this one, to become better.
This is indeed what i've told myself, not once or twice, but many times over the years. But I still seem to struggle with it.
I'll still continue to tell myself to be positive, even after numerous times of failing, until one day, I'll be different.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Monday, December 8, 2008
holiday season
the holiday season is coming. Christmas is near. and i'm all alone. I know you are too... but no matter what, Jesus is always by our side.
God loves you, and may this be a joyful and blessed Christmas ever... to date....
Some observations...
- there are a lot of stalls selling the same kind of food everywhere in bangkok.
- there are a lot of cars on the road, roads with 4 lanes, which you don't even see at KL.
- there are a lot of motorcycle taxi everywhere in bangkok, you'll see them at every lorong and every jalan.
- there are a lot of vacant shoplots at very big shopping complexes.
- there are a lot stray dogs everywhere in bangkok.
- there are a lot of gwai lo going out with thai ladies, middle aged ladies to be exact.
- there are a lot of young ladies everywhere in bangkok, but most are attached to a local guy.
- there are a lot of guys that carry their girlfriends' handbags, but not hold their hands.
- there are a lot of taxis everywhere in bangkok, of pink and all variety of colours.
- there are a lot of different public transports available; red bus, motorcycle taxi, taxi, buses, skytrain, mrt, tuk-tuk, mini bus.
- there are a lot of delivery service available in bangkok; McDonald's, Pizza Hut, Sushi, Indian Food, ladies....
- there are a lot of Japanese restaurants in my office area alone; Oishii, Ootoya, Aoringo, Fuji...
- there are a lot of Italian cum pizza restaurant available....
- there are a lot of the King's portrait at every single place; makro, office buildings, Pan Pac hotel...
- there are a lot of coffee stalls ala StarBucks-styled by the road side, selling frappucino for 20baht....
- and more observations to come.....
- there are a lot of cars on the road, roads with 4 lanes, which you don't even see at KL.
- there are a lot of motorcycle taxi everywhere in bangkok, you'll see them at every lorong and every jalan.
- there are a lot of vacant shoplots at very big shopping complexes.
- there are a lot stray dogs everywhere in bangkok.
- there are a lot of gwai lo going out with thai ladies, middle aged ladies to be exact.
- there are a lot of young ladies everywhere in bangkok, but most are attached to a local guy.
- there are a lot of guys that carry their girlfriends' handbags, but not hold their hands.
- there are a lot of taxis everywhere in bangkok, of pink and all variety of colours.
- there are a lot of different public transports available; red bus, motorcycle taxi, taxi, buses, skytrain, mrt, tuk-tuk, mini bus.
- there are a lot of delivery service available in bangkok; McDonald's, Pizza Hut, Sushi, Indian Food, ladies....
- there are a lot of Japanese restaurants in my office area alone; Oishii, Ootoya, Aoringo, Fuji...
- there are a lot of Italian cum pizza restaurant available....
- there are a lot of the King's portrait at every single place; makro, office buildings, Pan Pac hotel...
- there are a lot of coffee stalls ala StarBucks-styled by the road side, selling frappucino for 20baht....
- and more observations to come.....
Saturday, December 6, 2008
In response to the entry...
表现与表达
yup, i'm still facing the same issues of worrying about how i would cope and perform.
yup, i'm still trying to figure out a way for myself to work.
yup, i'm still lost and worried.
yup, i've got a new job, again.
yup, i'm at a totally different environment with totally different people (yes, this time i'm sure).
so, in short, i'm still me...... after 5 months....
wow....
yup, i'm still facing the same issues of worrying about how i would cope and perform.
yup, i'm still trying to figure out a way for myself to work.
yup, i'm still lost and worried.
yup, i've got a new job, again.
yup, i'm at a totally different environment with totally different people (yes, this time i'm sure).
so, in short, i'm still me...... after 5 months....
wow....
The day is coming
As my sis said, I should have written an entry regarding the BIG day.
Yes, I'm getting married. Muahahahahhahaha....
This entry seems kinda late as the decision was made a couple of months back, but hey, better late than never, right?
Anyway, the most important thing is that, the date is set, the partner is confirmed... and yeah, i'm getting married!!!!!
Yes, I'm getting married. Muahahahahhahaha....
This entry seems kinda late as the decision was made a couple of months back, but hey, better late than never, right?
Anyway, the most important thing is that, the date is set, the partner is confirmed... and yeah, i'm getting married!!!!!
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Lazy...
Been telling others, esp my woman, that i'll start writing all that's on my mind and share it with ppl that might come across this blog.
But i've not done any of that for the past many many months. The main reason is that i'm just lazy. And never really had the heart to write anything, even though there's a lot on mind at any given time.
Now that i've relocated to Bangkok, i'm, and others, hoping that i would start to write regularly and at least once a week, so that others would know what is going on with me.
So to kick start, this is my first post in Bangkok. And more will come. *fingers crossed*
But i've not done any of that for the past many many months. The main reason is that i'm just lazy. And never really had the heart to write anything, even though there's a lot on mind at any given time.
Now that i've relocated to Bangkok, i'm, and others, hoping that i would start to write regularly and at least once a week, so that others would know what is going on with me.
So to kick start, this is my first post in Bangkok. And more will come. *fingers crossed*
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Letter to PM
Just to share this letter from another blog,Cranium Tattoos.
Dearest Prime Minister,
FUCK YOU !!
Since the disastrous March 8 elections, I haven't bothered attacking you much. Well, why should I when the Pakatan Rakyat, Raja Petra and your own Ministers are already doing such a thorough job. And oh, not forgetting all the salivating vultures waiting to push you down the UMNO ladder. There's also the issue of this bloody old mamak who used to be your boss... but that's a different story.
I may scorn at your intelligence (or lack thereof), amaze at the voodoo spell your Son In Law has you under, laugh at the blind arrogance of your Government and shake my head at your cluelessness in private, but as far as this blog is concerned, I took a break from whacking you and all that you stand for.
Well it ends today.
Coz I'm fuckin' pissed.
Like REALLY motherfuckin 'FUCK YOU BASTARD' sort of pissed, you backwater retard..!
Today I spent 2 hours caught in a fuckin' traffic jam coming back from work. As I sat in the fuckin' snarl watchin' the faces of other drivers who looked like they were ready to break stuff, I realised that how every single fuckin' thing that went wrong today all points at you.
Like a fuckin' Night Shymalan movie or finale of LOST, everything is related and all dots connect to spell a FUCK YOU BN. Realisation hits me that the fuckin' 2 hours of my life that I could NEVER get back boils down to one simple fuckin' fact: The country got it SOOOO fuckin' wrong in 2004 when they put you as the gaffer of this country.
Cibai.
How, you ask..? Shut the fuckup and listen.
It rained today. REALLY heavy. As a result, all roads in Kuala Lumpur came to a stand still. Why? Is it because all cars in the capital of Malaysia is made out of paper and will disintegrate in the rain? Fuck, no.
Everything came to a halt because any downpour more than 15 minutes causes "flash floods" in the most traffic-heavy parts of the city. As fast as money disappears under Khir Toyo's administration, water levels will rise whenever it pours in KL. Causing many parts of the big city to become inaccessible. And jammed. Filled with angry motorists and stranded commuters.
We have a SMART Tunnel. Which "supposedly" helps to drain water out during floods. We have public transportation. Which "supposedly" means less vehicles on the road. We have mega criss-crossing highways littered with toll booths. Which "supposedly" provides easy access to different parts of Klang Valley.
But that's all our country is good for. Launching something and letting monkeys run it. NONE OF THOSE FUCKING THINGS WORK PROPERLY. Or at all. Is it so surprising? No. When they fuckup the basics like having a proper drainage system so that water does not accumulate during heavy rainfall, what more can you expect?
Simply put, heavy rains are beyond our control. How we deal with it is not. Or shouldn't be.
Fuck all the talk about "winning the 5 States back" when you can't even address the problems blowing up in your own backyard one by fucking one.
So with the fucking rain causing enough havoc as it is... then came the fuckin' announcement that effective from 12am midnight, petrol prices will increase to RM2.70 a litre from RM1.92.
WHAT A FUCKING JOKE. They couldn't have timed it better. Only days ago one of the lackeys from the PM's office gave a press statement saying the prices will increase by August. PM himself said before earlier this year that there won't be a price hike.
But I guess we all know this is the same guy who CONVINCINGLY DECLARED on Tuesday that Parliament won't be dissolved on Wednesday when it actually did came the day.
If he was Pinocchio he could represent Malaysia in pole vaulting in Beijing using his blower only.
So right after the Govt assured us that petrol prices won't go up, it did. And the timing of it. Announcing it will go up tomorrow. It's like a man coming into a building shouting, "HEY GUYS RUN. I HAVE A BOMB AND ITS BLOWING IN A FEW SECONDS".
The announcement, as predicted, sparked a fuckin' frenzy on the roads. Every bloody motor owner drove out all their vehicles to quickly fill up their tanks while it's still pre-hike price. This caused the laws of the jungle to quickly emerge as lines after fuckin' lines zig-zagged into jam-packed petrol stations amidst the blaring of horns and cursing of profanities in a multitude of languages.
Snarling, bustling and frenzied traffic from every petrol station overflowed onto highways and unflooded roads already under massive burden of having to carry extra vehicles as a result of other flooded roads which become the link between a tired worker's office to his home.
The result ?
A FUCKING ROYAL RUMBLE OFFROAD MADNESS which lasted 2 hours for me when it usually takes me 20-30mins to reach home from office.
FUCK THE PETROL HIKE! Unfuckin' believable jam is but the beginning. Inflation is bound to hit hard at everyone's pockets.
Granted the price of oil is escalating globally. Granted the American economy crisis is having some spillover effect to world economics.
But we're a FUCKING PETROL PRODUCING NATION!!! Like Saudi. It's 40 sen a litre over there. We're a fuckin' nation that produces motherfuckin' oil. OIL!!! And yet we're saying we can't do anything. Simple economics dictates that if you PRODUCE OIL, and OIL prices go up, you GET BIGGER PROFITS DON'T YOU?!?!
Petronas rakes in billions EVERY fuckin' year. Yet the government says it can't subsidise us without major cutbacks in other areas like healthcare and shit. FUCK YOU ALL. Just cutback on the kickbacks and under counter money and we'll have enough to subsidise petrol to be under RM1 per litre.
This is what happens when you take village-like, count-up-to-10-with-fingers fuckers to fill in top posts in the Government and Cabinet. This is what happens when you have a despotic party overstaying its fat stay at the top of the foodchain.
This is a fuckin' joke I tell ya. First the price of flour. Then cooking oil. Then price of pork. Now petrol.
CIBAI KHEONG KAN LEMA KA CHAO CIBAI.
FUCK YOU, you and you. All of you.
YES BARISAN NASIONAL, UMNO and the ENTIRE Badawi Administration. This is your encore.
GET THE FUCK OUT.
Dearest Prime Minister,
FUCK YOU !!
Since the disastrous March 8 elections, I haven't bothered attacking you much. Well, why should I when the Pakatan Rakyat, Raja Petra and your own Ministers are already doing such a thorough job. And oh, not forgetting all the salivating vultures waiting to push you down the UMNO ladder. There's also the issue of this bloody old mamak who used to be your boss... but that's a different story.
I may scorn at your intelligence (or lack thereof), amaze at the voodoo spell your Son In Law has you under, laugh at the blind arrogance of your Government and shake my head at your cluelessness in private, but as far as this blog is concerned, I took a break from whacking you and all that you stand for.
Well it ends today.
Coz I'm fuckin' pissed.
Like REALLY motherfuckin 'FUCK YOU BASTARD' sort of pissed, you backwater retard..!
Today I spent 2 hours caught in a fuckin' traffic jam coming back from work. As I sat in the fuckin' snarl watchin' the faces of other drivers who looked like they were ready to break stuff, I realised that how every single fuckin' thing that went wrong today all points at you.
Like a fuckin' Night Shymalan movie or finale of LOST, everything is related and all dots connect to spell a FUCK YOU BN. Realisation hits me that the fuckin' 2 hours of my life that I could NEVER get back boils down to one simple fuckin' fact: The country got it SOOOO fuckin' wrong in 2004 when they put you as the gaffer of this country.
Cibai.
How, you ask..? Shut the fuckup and listen.
It rained today. REALLY heavy. As a result, all roads in Kuala Lumpur came to a stand still. Why? Is it because all cars in the capital of Malaysia is made out of paper and will disintegrate in the rain? Fuck, no.
Everything came to a halt because any downpour more than 15 minutes causes "flash floods" in the most traffic-heavy parts of the city. As fast as money disappears under Khir Toyo's administration, water levels will rise whenever it pours in KL. Causing many parts of the big city to become inaccessible. And jammed. Filled with angry motorists and stranded commuters.
We have a SMART Tunnel. Which "supposedly" helps to drain water out during floods. We have public transportation. Which "supposedly" means less vehicles on the road. We have mega criss-crossing highways littered with toll booths. Which "supposedly" provides easy access to different parts of Klang Valley.
But that's all our country is good for. Launching something and letting monkeys run it. NONE OF THOSE FUCKING THINGS WORK PROPERLY. Or at all. Is it so surprising? No. When they fuckup the basics like having a proper drainage system so that water does not accumulate during heavy rainfall, what more can you expect?
Simply put, heavy rains are beyond our control. How we deal with it is not. Or shouldn't be.
Fuck all the talk about "winning the 5 States back" when you can't even address the problems blowing up in your own backyard one by fucking one.
So with the fucking rain causing enough havoc as it is... then came the fuckin' announcement that effective from 12am midnight, petrol prices will increase to RM2.70 a litre from RM1.92.
WHAT A FUCKING JOKE. They couldn't have timed it better. Only days ago one of the lackeys from the PM's office gave a press statement saying the prices will increase by August. PM himself said before earlier this year that there won't be a price hike.
But I guess we all know this is the same guy who CONVINCINGLY DECLARED on Tuesday that Parliament won't be dissolved on Wednesday when it actually did came the day.
If he was Pinocchio he could represent Malaysia in pole vaulting in Beijing using his blower only.
So right after the Govt assured us that petrol prices won't go up, it did. And the timing of it. Announcing it will go up tomorrow. It's like a man coming into a building shouting, "HEY GUYS RUN. I HAVE A BOMB AND ITS BLOWING IN A FEW SECONDS".
The announcement, as predicted, sparked a fuckin' frenzy on the roads. Every bloody motor owner drove out all their vehicles to quickly fill up their tanks while it's still pre-hike price. This caused the laws of the jungle to quickly emerge as lines after fuckin' lines zig-zagged into jam-packed petrol stations amidst the blaring of horns and cursing of profanities in a multitude of languages.
Snarling, bustling and frenzied traffic from every petrol station overflowed onto highways and unflooded roads already under massive burden of having to carry extra vehicles as a result of other flooded roads which become the link between a tired worker's office to his home.
The result ?
A FUCKING ROYAL RUMBLE OFFROAD MADNESS which lasted 2 hours for me when it usually takes me 20-30mins to reach home from office.
FUCK THE PETROL HIKE! Unfuckin' believable jam is but the beginning. Inflation is bound to hit hard at everyone's pockets.
Granted the price of oil is escalating globally. Granted the American economy crisis is having some spillover effect to world economics.
But we're a FUCKING PETROL PRODUCING NATION!!! Like Saudi. It's 40 sen a litre over there. We're a fuckin' nation that produces motherfuckin' oil. OIL!!! And yet we're saying we can't do anything. Simple economics dictates that if you PRODUCE OIL, and OIL prices go up, you GET BIGGER PROFITS DON'T YOU?!?!
Petronas rakes in billions EVERY fuckin' year. Yet the government says it can't subsidise us without major cutbacks in other areas like healthcare and shit. FUCK YOU ALL. Just cutback on the kickbacks and under counter money and we'll have enough to subsidise petrol to be under RM1 per litre.
This is what happens when you take village-like, count-up-to-10-with-fingers fuckers to fill in top posts in the Government and Cabinet. This is what happens when you have a despotic party overstaying its fat stay at the top of the foodchain.
This is a fuckin' joke I tell ya. First the price of flour. Then cooking oil. Then price of pork. Now petrol.
CIBAI KHEONG KAN LEMA KA CHAO CIBAI.
FUCK YOU, you and you. All of you.
YES BARISAN NASIONAL, UMNO and the ENTIRE Badawi Administration. This is your encore.
GET THE FUCK OUT.
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