I guess all non-bumiputra (i.e. aborigine) Malaysian grow up in a racist and religionist environment. I'd attribute that to the greed of the politicians and ignorance of the people. I do think that it's the advantage used to the benefits of all politicians over the world. Transform others' weaknesses into one's power of duress.
This link will bring you to a list of statistical estimations of how racist/religionist is the Malaysian government.
The one thing that I can relate to, and feel very strongly about - one of the incidence from the list that is applicable to my family. My cousin and my aunt were borned in China. They have come to Malaysia for 40+ years now? I think my aunt is still holding a red Identity Card (IC) while my cousin got hers after 20 years. A red IC differentiates a Malaysian's citizenship status. The normal non-Bumi with a blue IC is already treated like 2nd-class citizens. The red is just worse.
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Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Monday, April 10, 2006
Volunteering
Quoting Oprah - when u open ur heart & willing to give to others, it will eventually come back to u.
I haven't physically got anything back from tutoring those kids at the community center. Nonetheless I am feeling good about it. Helping someone who is in need. And while I can give I better do!
I know I've always enjoyed teaching. My dad told me that too. He always thinks that teaching suits me (abundant space for debate?) due to me 'gentle' nature. Bet my siblings don't agree to that because of the yelling and screaming that have come from me. LOL. But thanks to the experience teaching my youngest brother every time I get home, I find those kids at the center not that hard to handle afterall.
And funny enough I find myself challenged all the time due to the materials, which I haven't touched for years! Like today valency configuration of electrons. Differentiation of trigonometry. Prepositions. Quadratic applications. I'd say I have done well, at least I don't think I misled them.
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I haven't physically got anything back from tutoring those kids at the community center. Nonetheless I am feeling good about it. Helping someone who is in need. And while I can give I better do!
I know I've always enjoyed teaching. My dad told me that too. He always thinks that teaching suits me (abundant space for debate?) due to me 'gentle' nature. Bet my siblings don't agree to that because of the yelling and screaming that have come from me. LOL. But thanks to the experience teaching my youngest brother every time I get home, I find those kids at the center not that hard to handle afterall.
And funny enough I find myself challenged all the time due to the materials, which I haven't touched for years! Like today valency configuration of electrons. Differentiation of trigonometry. Prepositions. Quadratic applications. I'd say I have done well, at least I don't think I misled them.
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Saturday, April 08, 2006
Strong as you are
As the body is signaling you, maybe it's time to give a little attention to the system that supports the soul.
If it gets tough, we are here for you to fall back on. If you just ask.
From a friend to a friend.
If it gets tough, we are here for you to fall back on. If you just ask.
From a friend to a friend.
Bootylicious
Awwww I am lusting after a pair of boots. There's a 25% sale on almost everything at Myer. I shouldn't have gone to the sinful place. Are shoes ever too much? I haven't had a pair of boots before. I am not as crazy as some people I know - where their shoes collections are just collecting dust as their owners only have 2 feet everyday? But will a sneaker boi turn up a notch and become a sneaker-but-occassionaly-boots boi?
The desire came from when I stared going to interviews and training in the past 3 weeks. I find myself liking the click-clock made when the shoes make contact with the surface. Also I saw a man wearing a pair of crocodile-leather boots. That totally ignited the fire.
Or shall I wait till the mid-year sale? I hope I don't go online browsing for more boots. Desire is the evil thing clouding my decision making. Actually the evil is me lah..
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The desire came from when I stared going to interviews and training in the past 3 weeks. I find myself liking the click-clock made when the shoes make contact with the surface. Also I saw a man wearing a pair of crocodile-leather boots. That totally ignited the fire.
Or shall I wait till the mid-year sale? I hope I don't go online browsing for more boots. Desire is the evil thing clouding my decision making. Actually the evil is me lah..
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Jap me up
Crawled my way up from bed this morning. I felt that I was getting better at it. Had a look at myself in the mirror. Ummm, I remember the reason I woke up this morning. Right right, to chop off that ugly bush that was sprawling uncontrollably.
Had a bit of a struggle choosing today's outfit for the haircut and marketing. Yea I get fussy when it comes to vanity. But it's not too terrible I hope? 10 mins should be quite reasonable? Well, sometimes more but who's counting!
Let me turn the clock back a bit. I was on the phone with someone from Millenium Lifestyle to schedule my appointment. I was asked who would I want to do my hair. I told her, I could use anyone. Before we hung up, I asked her who would my hair dresser be then. She replied, "YOU DONT". "Wot? What do you mean by 'YOU DON'T'?". "Yea, YOU DON'T". More dumb-founded I became. And then at a split of a second, I realised that it was a name. A Jap name probably. Why would I guess that? I kinda saw the YOU-DON'T guy at the saloon in the afternoon when I was trying to see if there's any empty slot that I could squeeze in for a hair cut. He looked kinda new. For as long as I had gone to Millenium, there hadn't been any Asian male hair dresser.
So I met my YOU DON'T guy today. He was cute. I like the way he makes his hair, which I then told him that I would want him to dye my hair on my next appointment. Funny enough when I asked him if he was Japanese, he asked me if I was one! My eyes widened and blurted "Huh? Jap am I?". During the cutting/chopping/trimming process, I found that I looked more Jappie - it was more like, you know, I saw the same hair style on a male Jap model before.
The thing that I admire about him is that he understands the problem that I have with my hair. I have a bush of hair that is strong (read: stubborn) and it grows fast (read: more trips to the saloon). He understands that it's hard to style it, which I told myself, "Finally someone really got it". And when it grows, due to my funny shape of head, which I was once told that the top of my head was as flat as a table top, the sides will stick out like many sore thumbs. And he just took those "corners" off of my head. Yee-haa!
He just pointed out those observations quite quickly, in a very understanding manner, which impressed me. Finally, finally someone knew me (or my hair)! A female hair dresser wouldn't know my problem. A causasian male hair dresser wouldn't too coz his hair is soft and curly. Worse if you get a balding hair dresser. I can't possibly tell him I have got too much hair can I now? He would just pull out every hair follicle on my head.
As YOU-DON'T was finishing with the touch-up, I told him if I woke up 10 minutes earlier every morning then I would have time to properly do it like he did - blow-dry and curle it a bit. And he said, "Oh you definitely have to wake up earlier, because you have hair! If you don't then you don't have to wake up earlier." I was totally blown away with his wittiness. Good point taken. OK, I am definitely going back for him to dye my hair.
At the counter, when he was stamping my stamp-collecting card, he wrote his name down on it. It reads "Yu dai".
Had a bit of a struggle choosing today's outfit for the haircut and marketing. Yea I get fussy when it comes to vanity. But it's not too terrible I hope? 10 mins should be quite reasonable? Well, sometimes more but who's counting!
Let me turn the clock back a bit. I was on the phone with someone from Millenium Lifestyle to schedule my appointment. I was asked who would I want to do my hair. I told her, I could use anyone. Before we hung up, I asked her who would my hair dresser be then. She replied, "YOU DONT". "Wot? What do you mean by 'YOU DON'T'?". "Yea, YOU DON'T". More dumb-founded I became. And then at a split of a second, I realised that it was a name. A Jap name probably. Why would I guess that? I kinda saw the YOU-DON'T guy at the saloon in the afternoon when I was trying to see if there's any empty slot that I could squeeze in for a hair cut. He looked kinda new. For as long as I had gone to Millenium, there hadn't been any Asian male hair dresser.
So I met my YOU DON'T guy today. He was cute. I like the way he makes his hair, which I then told him that I would want him to dye my hair on my next appointment. Funny enough when I asked him if he was Japanese, he asked me if I was one! My eyes widened and blurted "Huh? Jap am I?". During the cutting/chopping/trimming process, I found that I looked more Jappie - it was more like, you know, I saw the same hair style on a male Jap model before.
The thing that I admire about him is that he understands the problem that I have with my hair. I have a bush of hair that is strong (read: stubborn) and it grows fast (read: more trips to the saloon). He understands that it's hard to style it, which I told myself, "Finally someone really got it". And when it grows, due to my funny shape of head, which I was once told that the top of my head was as flat as a table top, the sides will stick out like many sore thumbs. And he just took those "corners" off of my head. Yee-haa!
He just pointed out those observations quite quickly, in a very understanding manner, which impressed me. Finally, finally someone knew me (or my hair)! A female hair dresser wouldn't know my problem. A causasian male hair dresser wouldn't too coz his hair is soft and curly. Worse if you get a balding hair dresser. I can't possibly tell him I have got too much hair can I now? He would just pull out every hair follicle on my head.
As YOU-DON'T was finishing with the touch-up, I told him if I woke up 10 minutes earlier every morning then I would have time to properly do it like he did - blow-dry and curle it a bit. And he said, "Oh you definitely have to wake up earlier, because you have hair! If you don't then you don't have to wake up earlier." I was totally blown away with his wittiness. Good point taken. OK, I am definitely going back for him to dye my hair.
At the counter, when he was stamping my stamp-collecting card, he wrote his name down on it. It reads "Yu dai".
Friday, April 07, 2006
BB06
BB06 is coming back soon on Channel 10. Can't wait what's in house for me. With a BB Baby in Holland (un/fortunately the whole birthing process wasn't shown?), I can't even imagine what will the creative Oz BB can come up this year. I have to say that the level of surpriseness is raised every year.
With last year's "sex" bar highly raised then fiercely condemned, we still haven't seen the same level of liberation and craziness as some European BBs.
alf is always watching you BB.
Confessions world tour
Ah, the material gurl is out rolling her disco ball this time - with the world as her dancefloor except Australia.
The tickets in Paris were sold in 15 mins. FIFTEEN fucking minutes!! She did promise to tour down under if she was going to do the Harajuku girls. Guess wot, Jappie is in but Aussie isn't. Do you think the ball could get lost in transit while rolling across the pacific?
Please come Maddy..Even if I couldn't afford the ticket, it'd still be great to feel your presence here.
With the record spinning of the Confessions Tour Me, I, Myself and Others too!! self-declares partnership with the Material Girl/Woman/Mother =P. A whole new dancy-clubbish website.
The tickets in Paris were sold in 15 mins. FIFTEEN fucking minutes!! She did promise to tour down under if she was going to do the Harajuku girls. Guess wot, Jappie is in but Aussie isn't. Do you think the ball could get lost in transit while rolling across the pacific?
Please come Maddy..Even if I couldn't afford the ticket, it'd still be great to feel your presence here.
With the record spinning of the Confessions Tour Me, I, Myself and Others too!! self-declares partnership with the Material Girl/Woman/Mother =P. A whole new dancy-clubbish website.
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
My First Earned AUD
Today marked my first time getting paid in AUD!! And it was done easily - just have to sit in a boardroom in Langham Hotel at South Gate and you get to order room service - and on top of that YOU BLOODY GET PAID!!!
This is absolutely gorgeous. However, nothing comes free - I am afraid the expectation is challengingly high as well.
It was kinda funny at the start. I arrived early and thanks for that. I went up straight but couldn't find the room on the 10th floor (as I was directed by Mary, our Regional Manager). So I went down again and ask the bell girl - again I went up and down in vain. The thing is that I shouldn't be able to access the floors that I went to but thanks to a few hotel guests - their keys let me access those floor when they were scanned.
Last resort, afraid that I was going to be late - I went to the reception. And guess what? They sent a security to ESCORT me up there. Hahaha...
Btw I was grilled, fried and put on the table (摆上台) during the training as well... Sweating, blushing, muttering were all I did...Lousy..Good experience though. I at least learned some new problem solving skills (see later post maybe).
It was a good day today. And I shall now get back to my Business Law tutorials. Not very looking forward to Wednesday - 10am to 6pm, which I am pretty sure I'll fall asleep in the last 3 hours no fail.
Just one last point that I have to bring up is that sometimes I feel like sleeping my way through to Cranbourne or Pakenham or Frankston while taking a train to uni. This is highly possible to happen tomorrow coz the first 3 hours of lecture are going to be hypnotizing. I understand how you felt Foo Ee Lin (Happy Birthday btw)!
This is absolutely gorgeous. However, nothing comes free - I am afraid the expectation is challengingly high as well.
It was kinda funny at the start. I arrived early and thanks for that. I went up straight but couldn't find the room on the 10th floor (as I was directed by Mary, our Regional Manager). So I went down again and ask the bell girl - again I went up and down in vain. The thing is that I shouldn't be able to access the floors that I went to but thanks to a few hotel guests - their keys let me access those floor when they were scanned.
Last resort, afraid that I was going to be late - I went to the reception. And guess what? They sent a security to ESCORT me up there. Hahaha...
Btw I was grilled, fried and put on the table (摆上台) during the training as well... Sweating, blushing, muttering were all I did...Lousy..Good experience though. I at least learned some new problem solving skills (see later post maybe).
It was a good day today. And I shall now get back to my Business Law tutorials. Not very looking forward to Wednesday - 10am to 6pm, which I am pretty sure I'll fall asleep in the last 3 hours no fail.
Just one last point that I have to bring up is that sometimes I feel like sleeping my way through to Cranbourne or Pakenham or Frankston while taking a train to uni. This is highly possible to happen tomorrow coz the first 3 hours of lecture are going to be hypnotizing. I understand how you felt Foo Ee Lin (Happy Birthday btw)!
Sunday, April 02, 2006
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