Wednesday, December 02, 2009
Language is a tool of communication that is used for communication. It perhaps is even more powerful than Nuclear bomb as it can be used by almost everyone... one need not be from royal bloodlines or rich people to be able to use it in daily lives. The impact it can cause can yield magneficient result, just like the world currently using English as international languge that saw lots of connection between people.
Let me share my experience on how powerful language is... There was a time when i was at Hawker centre in hill where i sat in front of Malay Couple. At first they were speaking in english about their relationship matters. Then, when they noticed my presence opposite them, they switched to Malay !!! Haha guess what it is of no avail, because i could still understand...
There are a few stall at redhill that i have so called "black-listed", one of them involve language. This incident happenned because i sat in the table, in front of the stall without buying their goods. At that time, the two stall owners also occupied the same table as me since they yet to have customer. Then they said in Mandarin something which i could not understand. After a while, then they switched to Hokkien dialect( probably thinking that i was able to intercept their mandarin). Unfortunately for them, the latter seem to backfire on them. I could understand what they are saying... everything !!! muhahahaha....
They were complaining about me sitting in front of their stall, in terms of criticising my outfit - since i dressed too casually(oversized T-shirt + Cotton shorts). Since that time, i never bought anything from their stall anymore...But the point that i'm trying to emphasize here is that language is a useful tool in life.
During this holiday, my plan is to continue learning Japanese language and unexpectedly Mandarin. In the past i used to hate Mandarin to the max since i don't understand the language at all. The dis-interest in the past was also contributed by the aunty and uncle who said " You're a chinese , how come you don't speak mandarin" This kind of sentence is a major turn-off to potential learner of a language, as it sounds like the speaker is mocking the listener.
Language is afterall a useful asset, mastery of a language will lead to communication which then leads on to understanding. I wished i could have realised this earlier, but even so it is still a good thing, as at least it showed that i have reached a level of critical thinking. Take a look at my post when i first started this blog- i simply vent off my emotion without doing any thinking beforehand....
simplicity
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
Sunday, September 27, 2009
これは僕のラストメセジ。。。じごくおしまいじかんまで。
わるいのひとはまだサクセル、でも私がんばるのひとはしっぱいにあげる。
どうして。。。わからない。。。
この世界にほんとかなしい、何もできない。
だから。。。今このじかん。。これはあたらしいぼくのせんどうだ！
じぶんのみらいはあきらめるんだ。
simplicity
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
"To be chivalrous... its to be able to protect the weak, vanguishing the strong. However.. these things only happen in movies. in reality you can't even make a living by being chivalrous..."
These are the opening words of the japanese drama Ninkyo Helper... its actually a drama about Yakuza who are posted to work at old folks home for their training...However through out their training, they began to become show symphathy towards the elderly....
If an old people have memory loss, its not called senile.... its DEMENTIA !!!
There are many events that really cause us to reflect;
would you abandon your parents for the success in your job?
If your parents suffer from Alzheimer disease( memory loss) , would you still want to take care of them?
These questions are important to us, for that we live in a continent called
ASIA- one where filial piety is still being uphold high.
simplicity
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Friday, June 26, 2009
Bah, this holiday i have just experienced what it is like to face the traffic police. Yah, i was riding Honda .... when i saw the traffic light just turned green from a distance, i speed up...
40km/h....
45.....
50.....
55..........
60.....
65......
70...
Yah by the time the speed-meter reached 70km/h, the whole motorcycle handle vibrated....probably because it is not designed to run at high speed despite on the speedometer showed that it can reached up to 100++km/h.
Back to the story again... so when i speed up and reached the zebra cross..... the traffic light suddenly become yellow and i couldn't brake on time, because Motorcycle brake will require quite a distance in order to stop at such a speed.... So... i just breakthrough it.... since there are no zebra crossing on the zebra cross as well....
But then from a far, suddenly a traffic police jumped out of nowhere and acted as if he is shouting " SURPRISE!!!" ya he stood in front of my way and put his hand infront, just like how a superman trying to stop a chunk of mass coming at him.
Of course this 'superman' can stop it, because i pressed both the brake on the handle and on the right feet such that the bike screeched and just make a soft contact with his palm...otherwise he would experience inelastic collision and fly with at least half the KE !!!!!!
Yah of course in the end i got fined....plus he shouted at me angrily....saying that my brake is loose....its quite traumatic to experience traffic incident for the first time....
simplicity
Friday, June 26, 2009
Thursday, June 04, 2009
yo! yesterday was the day i really found the fact. Yah yesterday,my uncle asked me to search out the price of blackberry... yah at first i thought he mean this:
Then i asked him that isn't that its perishable? you know its...fruits...
Then on the phone, he said huh? its the square-square shaped thingy... then i understand what he wanted... its this four sided thingy that has 2 line of symmetry:
Yah, so i set off to Sim lim square to track out the best deal in there... 800, 820, 830,815,780... aha ! 780 . The shop was at the first floor, between the myriad of other handphone shop... Trust me.. its hard to ask these shop owner for the price as a student... they replied you unwillingly.....
Then there is one store owner, who offered me special price of 830 with gst, with before the additional discount of $834.60... yah, so after i reconfirmed with my uncle, i went back to his shop to make the last check.... It was then instead of him wanting to serve me, the other shop attendant, with big muscles told him off and he attend to me....
He asked. " what you want?" in a very AH-Beng style...
Then i replied, " i want this, pointing at one of the phone.... "
" Money first...i take the good for you" He said with a stern voice...
" Good come first.... i check ok then i pay you" i replied him with the same tone
Then he unwillingly walked off... at first actually they promised me that they have the goods in their store, but i saw this "ah-beng" walked off to another store to get the goods...
When he came back, he put the square square black box infront of me and said nah, see!
The first fact that he 'take' goods from other store has made me suspect of the quality. you know, there are actually a lot of complaint from people that taking goods from other shop has the risk of 2nd hand goods. This is because, you know Sim Lim people are expert in I.T. They can happily adjust the things to the extent that will fool the eyes of the people.
Second fact is that the box is also quite old, got a lot of scratches..
He then asked me, so Ok? " you have another one? this one the box looked quite damaged" i asked him.
"No dun have anymore, so you buying?" he asked
" No, this one is not in good quality" i replied him
This is the word that he launched at me.....
He said " F@$% you, waste my time.."
"Your goods not in good quality so i dont want buy lor..." i said to him
Yah now i am really certain.. only to buy computer stuffs only in Sim Lim... no others.
But its really contradicting... In Sim Lim they have the Star Assurance thingy that covers only the level 1 shops. One of the pledge is " TO BE POLITE...."
Contradicting to the max !!! hahahahaha... what an adventure.....
simplicity
Thursday, June 04, 2009
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
I've sent the letter this morning, to try my chance of getting that utopia. Chances are unknown, but still its worth the try. Man, the post office system is somehow complicated....one question that raised my eyebrows are," do you want to track down your letter?" Huh? track down letter, GPS system? haha its actually just give a code-number to your letter. But its not purchasing insurance for your letter...which i thought it was so ,at first....
Back to me....
I've got the info that dark clouds are coming... my aunty's aunties-in-law's family. The total number of 'battalion' that are coming,are capable of causing quite a significant destruction. The impact is coming pretty soon.... the moment they touchdown and stepped into the house.
Probabilty of winning the counter-attack =0%
probability of successful defence= 10%
Probability of being able to dodge the attacks=1000%
Ya, its obvious which one will i choose... I've currently working on the precautionary measure; keeping all things-related-to-me withim my room and sealing it with a spell... Not just a regular spell, but that one that will make my things 'camouflaged' and undetectable... Luckily my cousin from NUS coming over to stay during the 'holy-day'.He can occupy my room to prevent access to the non camouflageable things.... but still... the damage, there will be....
simplicity
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Friday, May 22, 2009
今日はみずけた。。。ぼくのほんのとも。ありがとうほんのともとかみさま、ともはおおいはない。それでも、ぼくはうれしい。。。だからべんきょうはがんばります。
simplicity
Friday, May 22, 2009
