Too GREEN

I do travel to foreign lands quite regulary. In most of the countries that I have been to, I noticed that plant and trees have more colours on them. Although I am not into nature that much, I like what I see.

In Malaysia, green seems to overwhelmed the whole plants. As much as I am flattered when tourists to Malaysia look in awe of how GREEN Malaysia is, I wish we have more colours!

It is just too GREEN for me currently.

Cherry Blossom

I arrived in Tokyo last sunday morning. On my way to the city from Narita Airport, I noticed blossoming trees of a particular kind. The flowers were pink and white. BTW, the temperature was around 17 C.

I was then informed that those are the sakura trees. They were due to blossom that very weekend. Unfortunately due to the cold spells, the flowers shrunk back. Only a few trees blossomed here and there. Even with those few, it was really a wonderful and beautiful sight. I asked a number of Japanese as to how many colours do these flowers come in. Never got the answer. Some said white and pink. Some said pink and various shades of pink i.e. there is only 1 colour.

To those who dig such event, I was advised that the trees will finally blossom in 2 weeks time. Some people are known to "chase the cherry blossom". I am not into such thing. If it happens , it happens.

Came back home last night.

OH WELL...

Its the same old story. Some bloggers think they have all the right to write about anything about the government, soceity, politics, religious, racial issues etcetc.. Ofcourse some of these are also hardcore fan of Freedom of Speech in the WWW. They make it a cause to HENTAM when they write.

The sad thing is, when thier views and writings are challenged , or people gave dissenting views, they get all upset. Its ok to hentam others but NEVER challenge them! If you do, out comes the DELETE key or the BLOCK KEY. Recent BLOG incase is whatalulu.blogspot.com

MY comments are no longer visible there! LOL

Oh well....

TO SOME, ITS PERSONAL

One of the main news item since yesterday was those SPM high achievers.
Some of us have problem with those students with thier strings of As. Some thought that it was a ridiculous and stupid thing to strive for. Some said that parents should not put thier children in such a situation where getting those As was a must, regardless what! Some thought that these students must have gone thru hell. There are many other negative thoughts.

I have this view that only the low achievers will have those thoughts about these high achievers.

They dont see that to some of these people, its personal. It is about personal challenge. It is about achieveing a target. It is about doing the best and getting the best outcome. It is about having that satisfaction of been a success. Its about so many personal things!

I have great admiration and respect for these high achievers!

Enggang sama Enggang, Pipit sama Pipit

Somehow, at least in term of finding a life partner/couples, I do tend to agree with the above title. From my own experience and my observations over so many enggang and pipit years, I find that if your partner is quite the opposite of what you are, your make up, your background, whether you were a science or arts based student (amongt others), the chances of living a wonderful and blissful life with each other is slimmer.

People say the opposite attracts! That may be true for magnets but not for humans!

Think about this and observes your surroundings. You may yet agree with me!

Ofcourse you dont have to.

RM 1 VERSUS 30 MINUTES

I bet you have seen this scene of people queing (a long Q) at a particular bank`s ATM when just beside that ATM, there is another ATM of a different bank where there is nobody using it. I have observed many times that people just dont think of moving to the other ATM and get thier business done there. Because of the long Q, a person will take, on average, 30 minutes to get to his/her turn. (TIP: do not Q if there are more women than men infront of you)

NOW, of course when one uses a different bank`s ATM, one will be charged RM1. The only reason that I can think of why one dosent use another bank`s ATM other than one`s bank own ATM is because of the RM1 charge. I assumed that it is a conscious decision on the part of those people in the Q not to move over to the other ATM.

I have always wondered whether 30 minutes (sometimes they can be longer) of one`s life is worth RM1?

PEOPLE WACHTING

I am quite a traveller. Have been to many countries and places, many of them repeat visits. I am grateful for that oppurtunities.

There is one thing that I enjoy doing when I am in foreign land, I like to wacht people. I will just sit in a cafe, in a park, on a bench somewhere, just anywhere and wacht! I can do that for hours at a time.

I have learnt so much doing that. Smilling and quarrelling young couples, old couples holding hands, famillies and their many antics when together, kids and babies, people reading books, groups of friends just hanging around and many many more sights. These are sights that enriched me. They told me `things` about them, thier life , about thier culture and about thier country.

I will forever cherish these memories of them! To those whom I have wachted, THANK YOU for being my teachers. Thank you for teaching me.