Monthly Archive for November, 2011

loving him

Published on November 28, 2011 in love, me and thoughts. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Being in a relationship requires a lot of hard work. It requires a lot of compromising, understanding the needs of one another and unlimited tolerance. Most importantly, it requires endless love and 101% of trust for one another.

The question has always been if you can continue to love him for 10 years, 30 years or 50 years and more, if our feelings will change eventually, if one will get bored with the relationship. Being in the now sometimes do make you ponder if the relationship will fall apart someday. Whether it’s because of him, or you, or basically just both parties.

And then that’s when one resolves to love. I know many has said that love is not everything. But if you think from the perspective of you taking certain actions because of love, love becomes all there is to a relationship. If there’s no love whatsoever, the actions that you take, the things that you do doesn’t really mean much, does it?

And then there’s trust. That one thing which is so difficult for one to earn yet many have chose to break it. Why? Beats me. A white lie is still a lie you know. Just because it’s white does not make it any much better.

It takes a lot of hard work to make a relationship work. Nonetheless, the core to making it work rolls down to love and trust. If the love and trust is all strong, working on a relationship wouldn’t be all that tough anymore. It really does come naturally.

p/s: I love you.

hold on

Published on November 22, 2011 in love and me. 0 Comments Tags: .

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There are times when holding my hand is the only thing you need to do. <3

D board

Published on November 21, 2011 in me and stuff. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Meet Danbo, the cutest little box kid in town. Be sure to find out more about his little adventure from time to time here in this blog, or in flickr. ;)

He’s absolutely adorable, don’t you think?

xoxo

Published on November 20, 2011 in love and me. 0 Comments

Nothing beats waking up next to that one person who never fails to make you smile even when he is sound asleep.

Love, makes you all mushed up sometimes eh? :)

Good night. Xoxo.

p/s: Danbo has arrived. A series awaits!

all about Wien

Published on November 12, 2011 in me and travel. 0 Comments Tags: , .

And the photos are up! Click here to see some of my photos of Vienna.

The city is magnificently beautiful. Really breathtaking. I’ll make a point to go back someday. Someday. :)

your england is very the powderful

Published on November 10, 2011 in thoughts. 0 Comments Tags: .

English, it is still an international language, whether we like it or not. Yes, although China is coming on strong as an important player in the world, it still does not change the fact that English is an international language. It is one very important language. Perhaps things may change in the future, but for now I don’t think it would. To have the Star reporting out that the English standards of undergrads in Malaysia is still not up to par is a sad matter.

So why is our English not up to par?

Here is what I think.

In Malaysia, the fact that the subjects taught in school are being taught in the Malay Language has become a concern raised by many. I personally do not believe this is the MAIN problem of our countries’ English deficiency problem although I know many may beg to differ. I think the problem is, we Malaysians, directly (or indirectly) love Manglish (the Malaysian English) and uses Manglish way too often to a point where it is in our blood. We then converse in Manglish, formally or informally. The problem is Manglish is broken English. Period.

How are we going to improve if we are not forced and trained to speak proper English? Especially when ‘la’s and ‘ma’s are being used sparingly in every conversation we have? It’s not that we can’t speak Manglish. We can. After all, it is part of our culture. But this is provided if we have had sufficient practice on speaking proper English and we can converse properly when necessary. It all comes with practice and putting effort into it. Practice, practice, practice.

And then there’s using Manglish in local advertisements. I was most annoyed. I don’t know how many ‘la’s and ‘ma’s and some of the wrong terms that were incorporated in the advertisements. Why? Just coz it’s catchy? But would this create an impression that Manglish is the way to go? That it is not entirely important to ensure that proper English is used? Simply because it’s not in our culture to speak without ‘la’s?

I don’t know. My analysis may be all wrong. Maybe it’s just me. Maybe everyone is doing fine speaking Manglish, or broken English for that matter. Don’t get me wrong. My English is not perfect. It is nowhere near perfect. I speak Manglish too whenever necessary, coz after all it is in the culture right? Having said that, I know that it is important to constantly brush up on our English, ensuring proper English is spoken. I’m still learning and I’m still trying to improve in any way I can.

English is not most Malaysian’s first language. But that does not give us a reason to not make a point to learn good English.

Again, this is purely my thoughts. Don’t get offended.

:)

p/s: I’m having a long weekend breakie!! But I do need a holiday though. Beach holiday maybe? ;)

ignorant

Published on November 1, 2011 in me, people and thoughts. 0 Comments

We know about the people who are suffering from hunger in poor countries. We know about the people who are going through poverty. We know about the people who is dying of an illness, failing to get the medical attention as needed. We know about the people who have to deal with natural disasters, having their homes destroyed. We know about the people who tries really hard to earn enough money to cover the bare necessities of life.

We know. Or so we thought we know.

Honestly, we don’t know until we’ve seen it for ourselves. Not watching these things on TV or the internet mind you. It is experiencing and seeing it for yourself. It really does give you a whole new perspective to life. You hear their voices, telling you how they feel when they are punished, or when they don’t get enough money, or when the food that is served are rotten and basically inedible, or that the norm is to not have any form of safety protection in a place they call home. It is sad.

And then I log on to Facebook and read about all the smallest whining you can ever imagine. Me included. This whole experience hit me real hard. The things I’ve learned for the past 2 days have made me realized about the matters that I have been ignorant of. It has made me think more and understand about what life really means. To me. And to the people in the rest of the world.

We don’t know how it feels. That is until you hear the people who speak to you, sitting 2 feet away from you, to be able to feel their expression and their frustration, and to witness all of the things they have spoken about. It is a feeling beyond despair.

Well, yea. I’m glad that I get to go through this experience. It has been good.

p/s: ONE!

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