If there are two things I've always wanted to blog about, they will be about food and travel. A friend has already started a traveling blog wandergeek a few months ago and I am one of the contributors. Well, nothing much has been going on with the blog recently as all authors seem to be having pretty hectic life.
Here I want to introduce a new blog about food, www.foodsholic.blogspot.com. Just started and it will definitely be updated quite often. As of now, there are 3 authors contributing so I hope you guys enjoy reading foodsholic!
Have u ever wondered why others are so interested in brad pitt’s life but not in yours? Easy. Because he is Brad Pitt and you’re not..
I had this talk with a friend and colleague the other day.. discussed about things happening in the world lately (ritee..).. and we came to a conclusion that some people were just plain narcissistic.. we know, people need to be heard and be seen.. but we wonder, do ppl need to be heard and be seen that much? like a friend said, some are so eager to tell you about what's going on in their life they could even trick u into asking them questions about their life.. (really..? seriously..?)
So, here's the thing, people may not be all that interested in your life, you and your job, you and your partner, you and all the things happening in your life, again, unless you’re Brad Pitt or Beckham.. So, if u feel u're very successful now then glad to hear that.. but then again, that doesn’t mean we’re interested in knowing the details.. if u fail, it's ok, don't commit suicide because we probably don't even have enough time to gossip about u.. the last time we really had this commit-suicide-kinda-talk was only when heath ledger did.. so if u’re not him, stop acting like one..
See, people like us.. we barely have enough time to think about our own life and our closest relatives’ and friends' matters (don’t forget that on top of that, we still have all those interesting news on brad pitt & co.).. we just somehow, somewhat do not have enough time to be such busy-body checking out your lives.. don't be upset, this is just truth.. if we're interested, we'll ask.. even if we ask, that doesn't necessarily mean we're interested.. so please stop tricking people into asking or hearing about ur life.. we’re afterall human, we can be exhausted too..
Seriously, after realizing how annoying this could be.. let's start over if u ever thought i did such trick before, i swear it was never intentional.. ;P
Thursday, January 15, 2009
There are 3 things that I discovered lately..
Every problem has a solution, even if it doesn't, one just has to forgive oneself.
I believe, for some reasons, everyone should have a certain amount of ego, at the right place, at the right time. On the other side of the world, there are people with incredible amount of ego which is incredibly annoying. No matter how big one's ego is, one still has to say thank you or sorry. That's an unspoken rule for socially acceptable behavior. It's called etiquette.
Some people talk too much about the things they don't know much about.. They build assumptions.. they have their own knowledge which you have no idea where they receive it from.. Until the point that.. no, it's not that u feel like whacking them hard.. u just don't feel like talking to them any longer.. exhausting it is..
We're all human, we're flawed but really, some people just don't know when to stop.
So here I am, back in spore.. feel totally great, heavier and braver than ever.. =P
Surabaya was surprising.. I mean, I was really surprised by the extraordinarily dry and hot weather.. also surprised by the food which was excellent.. the trip was pretty much like my nowadays infrequent visit to hometown.. everything was so well-provided, from food to transportation to accommodation..
Speaking of being braver.. I survived staying alone in a pretty big-ass room for more than 10 nights and I am very proud of that..=P when the receptionist said “ur room is a business room, number blah3.. “ I was like “what?!? I’m gonna be alone in the room so I prefer a junior room, the standard one.. can u please exchange that for me ?” receptionist: “sorry, no, we ran out of junior room..”
I was very disappointed and scared.. but u know, it's kinda true actually when ppl say that the thought is always scarier than the reality? turned out, it wasn’t that bad afterall.. my imagination did run wild a couple of times at night but since I had been avoiding watching horror movies and listening to ghost stories… I was doing just fine in the end.. =P
We made visits to places like House of Sampoerna and the active volcano Mount Bromo; watched sunrise, climbed up to see the crater and me rode a horse (ehem).. bfore I went there, one of my colleagues warned me that it’s very cold up there, around 5 degrees C.. I didn’t totally believe that inside my heart (who knew there was such a cold place in Indonesia?) so I bravely went there with a thin scarf ard my neck and lecture-theatre-jacket, if u know what I mean.. Jan, from Bangkok did it even more bravely, by wearing only a t-shirt covered with a shirt.. and there we were, shaking like nobody’s business.. I could assure u it was definitely below 10 deg C… damn..
The Mud Volcano.. don't get the smiles in the pic wrong, we truly feel sorry about it..
Bromo
From Far..
What’s new is I’ve got my allergy back again.. since my colleague in SUB, Ida, brought us to drink in Shangri-La, right before heading to Bromo, very late at night.. I totally sensed I was so gonna get my allergy back.. we had very cold alcoholic beverages and since u bond with others easier under alcohol, ida and I drank, talked and laughed like.. a lot.. and we had to talk n laugh very loudly to keep up with the live band.. my throat was totally drained away.. and I cough for the next 1000 years.. damn..
many thanks to Ida for bringing us around!
Oops, didn't say a word about work.. work was good anyway.. Ciao... =P
There was a celebration of company’s Oktoberfest at Swiss Club last weekend.. and just like the way I expected it to be, there were lots of german foods (sausages, pork knuckles, roasted ox, breads, potatoes, u name it!), lots and lots of beers, coupled with bavarian-style live music and performances.. the tent could probably accommodate more than 5,000 people, there were other german companies who came to celebrate too like lufthansa and DHL.. down there in munich, the typical oktoberfest-tent (Hacker-Festzelt as they call it) could actually accommodate a lot more.. around 6 millions of people attending it in fact, definitely much more happening I reckon.. Here are some pictures we took...
The day before we're all like wondering what to wear and finally decided on "rainbow color" theme.. in the end apparently, boss' wife made the matching t-shirts for us.. these are some of us..
There were plenty of foods, guess the roasted ox hanging there explains all.. =P
And lots lots of beers!
Actually i'm not very sure the purpose of blowing this thing, some companies sent representatives and it seemed like the louder ones being cheered at while the soft ones got a boo, that's all..
The bosses and some of us
This is pretty much how the tent looks like.. and when we saw how big the crowd was, we're like nodding and "oh yea, that's what the matching t-shirts are for.."
Almost every 20 mins, the stage performers invited everybody to sing a song, which I’m not sure what it’s called (I was da-da-da-ing) made some cheers, gave toasts and drank together.. it’s probably to make the celebration more happening bcos people tend to get wild over the food.. or I guess, every time they made the cheers and toast thing, more than 300 litres of beer sold! Who knows? =P but anyway, i kinda enjoyed the whole thing, bcos I didn’t get to celebrate Oktoberfest when i was there but heard abt it from my german friends..
I'll be on my very first work-trip in a few days time till the end of october, which pretty much excited me but i guess i'm chickened out over staying alone in a hotel room... i know! don't laugh.. so, till then peeps, take care...
So, after living in a working life for a short period of time, here's that one thing I've discovered (warning! it doesn't have anything do with the work or the work life itself).. speaking of people who work and take public transportation to work every morning.. there's one big thing most of them share in common, and that is.......... they're so afraid of not getting a seat to rest their lazy butts on their way to work..
now, if u feel offended bcos every morning apparently, u pretty much do the same thing.. here's an advice u'd probably like to hear.. it is okay not getting a seat in the bus/train!! seriously, u'd be sitting the whole day from 9 to 5 anyway.. and the good thing abt not being so irritating is that, u can eventually have a peace of mind for not worrying about not getting a seat later in the bus/train once u wake up..
but for those who are very good at pretending to be asleep once u get the seat so that u're not obliged to give ur seat to those with special needs! whoever u are, good luck, what goes around comes around..
see, this is one example why i couldn't get what some ppl are thinking sometimes..
Disneyland was so much fun it reminded me of Legoland in denmark.. foods on the street somehow tasted way better than the restaurants’ (or maybe it’s the fun that counted).. exactly the same time last year, i promised not to travel in hot hot summer yet i did it again..
People say hong kong is a place to shop, and yes they’re right, if u think they’re wrong, u’re just on the wrong spot so keep walking keep looking.. i promise u pretty much found any designer brands u couldn’t even see in Singapore..
Overall, the trip was like a breath of fresh air.. =P
Look at the crowd! the night's always young in Hong Kong
The chaos
"Wellcome" to Hong Kong
The train to Disneyland!!
When the Parade was about to start...
Mickey & Minnie, Goofy
The Little Mermaid
World's tallest outdoor seated Buddha statue, Tian Tan Buddha or the Big Buddha
I actually have many things to write because a lot have been going on (yea right...).. like the graduation and trips and all that..but for now, let me just write this instead..
This is what i’ve learned about people's behaviour.. and i know a thing, or even two or three things about it.. some people swing their arms so much and so hard while walking, it hurts others.. i understand, we need to swing our hands for biomechanical efficiency whatsoever.. i know left leg forward right arm backward and that’s how the torque from body and legs counter each other.. but seriously, here are the blatant truths u probably need to know, u take much more space when the arms are swung that hard and that much, u even hit people sometimes and when u walk like that, u totally lose ur cool..
When driving, do not continually step on the brake.. the brake is not there for u to tone ur muscles.. and not there to make me throw up my lunch.. seriously, if u like to stop that often, take the bus.. and if u like to speed up yet aren’t sure how to stop at the right time, don’t even start driving.. don’t step on the brake and change ur mind, and then step on it again, and change ur mind.. fiuhhh.. like ellen said, “nobody said they’re bad drivers – especially the bad drivers”
Not talking is quiet but whispering is not.. covering ur mouth with a menu draws even more attention just like whispering does.. it forces us to pay attention because whatever is being said has gotta be interesting and scandalous..
If there are two things I've always wanted to blog about, they will be about food and travel. A friend has already started a traveling blog wandergeek a few months ago and I am one of the contributors. Well, nothing much has been going on with the blog recently as all authors seem to be having pretty hectic life.
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