Travelling…
I’m in singapore now! Remember how I was trangely obsessed with singapore back in the days, it’s kind of funny I am here now with that emotion died down. :P It’s a cool little town though. I liked how theirs is truly a mixed culture with certain degree of acceptance. It’s fun listening to a non-chinese speak singlish, or being talked to by a taxi driver in ho-kian. But it is in asia therefore it is a very busy city, and with the 30 degree temperature it is not the best combination I think… I would like to visit Malaysia next time, and see how so called layback ppl coupe with the hot sun.
One main task of this trip was to attend a good friend’s wedding. I was ‘fortunate’ enough to be one of the brothers on their tranditonal ‘bargain with sisters to reach the bride’ game. It’s terrible wearing tie and shirt, unbearable sweat! And all the physical tasks demanded by the sisters! But I have been told the tasks we did was not nasty at all thanks to the couple being christians and their special request to the evil sisters :D Ya, and I was the MC of the banquet as well. Fun, first time chinese wedding and already doing so much. Thank God it was not too hard, and my partner being a smart singaporean did most of the talkings!
They also had a beach wedding, which was beautiful! It is like copied from a movie, with the sea and palm tree as background. But this is a bit 4D, meaning, having the sun on top of us all the time! I admire the endurance of the couple… God bless them!
Oh yea, so I walked in Santosa (an island of singapore) ’s warm sea water. Much better than the sea in Wales I must say. Now I’m very much looking foward to my holiday in Hainan next week with parents. Will be my first time swimming in the sea! Wheeee!
Should head to bed now, tomorrow is the start of my touristy part of singapore adventure, more chicken rice await!
Filed under 流水 | Comment (0)2010, really?
It feels unreal that 2009 is already ending. 1 year in the ‘wild’ after graduation already!
Life in London has been okay. Not so much up and downs which means it was a bit bland.
Working with others in an office all day made me realise how horrible a person I am. The selfishness creeps up so easily on me when I get irritated by trivial ask for helps. Man, if I can be so bitter now, what kind of grumpy old man I will become.
Being much engaged with church. Sometimes I can be out all weekday evenings without dinner at home. All souls is such an amazing church. Never before have I had so many opportunities to serve. Where do you get the chance to evangelise to someone who never heard the gospels, every week? This keeps me excited, and reminds me of that burning fire when I first believed, which I so long for atm. It is so easy to be just busy with church activities without having a good spiritual life, now I can testify that.
Still not missing home that much. Though I do feel guilty, when thinking about parents at home. Don’t know what my responsibilities are as the only son. Mum’s constant question of any romantic encounter can be irritating… but I can spare them that bit of entertainment I guess. :)
Rant rant rant…
Looking forward to next year. Maybe I will be a student again!
Filed under 流水 | Comment (0)是老了吗？
最近发现自己越来越GEEKY，已经快到NERDY的状态了。今天在跟公司同事勉强聊天，没有话题便静静飘开了，连拜拜都没说。。。有别人跟我打招呼，我嗯一声都没有就走过，事后却不知道我自己为什么没反应。。。这种种表现，已经让我跟戏里面那些御宅族十分相像！
早些时候，我也参与了几次关于未婚同居可行性的讨论。在大部分人认为男女朋友间界限是因人而异时，我还是不能接受，坚持同床共枕已经是越过基督徒最后底线。。。
今天晚餐时候，同房的两个女孩开始在我跟另外一个男生面前说体毛的问题，进而又谈及生孩子，大姨妈，下体手术等等。。。本人非常之不适应此类话题，双手塞耳，煎熬过一段时间后闪出厨房。事后跟朋友诉苦，竟然被告知是我表现不正常，对此类文字太过敏感。
好吧，如果不是我从小的正统教育，那可能就是我越老越传统，越大越古板了吧？这样好吗？
Filed under 流水 | Comments (2)Career Hiccup
So I nearly got into trouble at work for less than 150 characters.
I use twitter. Mostly for rumbling. Sometimes I do strategically tweet about technical stuff, hoping that it can enhance my online portfolio. So one day after too much caffeine at work, I absent minded wrote this tweet about how I think certain design element on my company’s website is not very appealing.
Next day, surprisingly I received a call from a manager in our american branch. He was very very unhappy about my tweet, and demands a fix-up. Unfortunately twitter doesn’t really allow deleting of a already posted entry. Therefore I was asked to public write another entry to amend my opinion, in reply to a tweet he posted that states it is a good design. I didn’t take this very seriously at first, but I still replied, though without a big SORRY.
The day after, I was surprised to found out quite a few ppl in the company knew about this incident already. A colleague from another team even came and told me to be careful what I wrote online, to whom I reassured I have replied the manager and all is fine. But all is not fine! An email arrived at my inbox, stating that I need to make a ‘genuine’ reply that admits I am wrong; I got a one to one meeting with my manager, whom confirmed that I understand the seriousness of this issue, also point out that particular person may got offended by my opinion. Whoa, at this point I decided to act to keep my job, though most of my colleagues thinks the managers are over-reacting. I publicly posted to ’stand corrected’, and that manager posted a tweet about the company rejoice that I realised my opinion is wrong.
I understand that companies may not want negative public image Online. But isn’t a positive engagement with public opinion a better approach than suppression of free speech? After all, most of the conversations between me and the manager is still online, and any one who’s curious enough to read my ‘negative’ tweet and my ‘correction’ tweet would found out who I work for and the conversation. Isn’t that, a worse PR after all?
It is things like this makes me not wanting to work for big organisations, but at the current climate, only them can provide visa for overseas workers such as myself. Trouble.
Filed under 流水 | Comment (1)Across the Universe
Words are flying out like
endless rain into a paper cup
They slither while they pass
They slip away across the universe
Pools of sorrow waves of joy
are drifting thorough my open mind
Possessing and caressing me
Jai guru deva om
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Images of broken light which
dance before me like a million eyes
That call me on and on across the universe
Thoughts meander like a
restless wind inside a letter box
they tumble blindly as
they make their way across the universe
Sounds of laughter shades of life
are ringing through my open ears
exciting and inviting me
Limitless undying love which
shines around me like a million suns
It calls me on and on across the universe
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