Good or bad, hard to say...

Once upon a time, there was a king. The king liked one of his followers very much because he was very wise and always gave very useful advice. Therefore the king took him along wherever he went.

One day, the king was bitten by a dog, his finger was injured and the wound was getting worse. He asked the follower if that was a bad sign. The follower said, Good or bad, hard to say'. In the end, the finger of the king was too bad that had to be cut. The king asked the follower again if that was a bad sign. Again, the follower gave the same answer, 'Good or bad, hard to say'. The king became very angry and sent the follower to prison.

One day, the king went hunting in the jungle. He got excited when he was on the chase of a deer. Deeper and deeper he went inside the jungle. In the end he found himself lost in the jungle. To make thing worse, he got captured by the native people lived inside the jungle.

They wanted to sacrifice him to their god. But when they noticed that the king had one finger short, they released him immediately as he was not a perfect man anymore and not suitable for sacrifice. The king managed to get back to his palace after all. And he finally understood the follower's wise quote, 'Good or bad, hard to say'. If he hadn't lost one finger,he could have been killed by the native people.

He ordered to release the follower, and apologized to him. But to the king amaze, the follower was not mad at him at all. Instead, the follower said, 'It wasn't a bad thing that you locked me up.' Why? Because if the king hadn't locked the follower up, he would have brought the follower along to the jungle. If the native found that the king was not suitable, they would have sacrificed the wise man instead!. Again, the quote 'Good or bad, hard to say' stands.

The moral of the story:

Everything that happens in this world, there is no absolute good or bad. Sometimes good things turned out to be bad things eventually, while bad things become a gain.

Whatever good things that happen to you, appreciate and enjoy it, but do not cling on or become overwhelmed! Take it as a pleasant surprise in your life.Whatever bad things that happen to you, do not feel too miserable or sad, it may not be too bad after all!

If one can understand this, he or she will find life much easier.

Have a good day!


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Got this in a forwarded email. It's so true. I get really angry when people only look at the negative side of things, when there is a clear bright side most of the time. People like that, get rid of them. I like people who have the 'can do' attitude, where they try to find solutions for problems before giving up or complaining. I also like people who think 'why not?' to anything, eg; ideas.

Anyway, have a great positive day!

Ma voiture

My car has been making some kind of noise near the RHS front tyre. Only when I stop at traffic lights. Like something is scraping against something...don't know what's wrong tho...I didn't hit anything or change anything...probably have to go see the mechanic sometime soon...and again there's the problem where the bottom of my car scraping certain bumps/humps (mainly at the main gate and the second hump on the way from murni to coit)

I wonder if I wrote a letter to the people in uni to make some of the bumps (humps?) lower so that the bottom of my car doesn't hit it..will they do anything about it?...sakit hati la everytime i hear the scraping sound at the bottom...:(

Alternatively, maybe i should increase the car's rear height? But I only encounter this problem in uni...

Economic crisis?

Found this video that explains the crisis of credit in visual form...simple n easy to understand!





This is definitely more info than what Jeremy Clarkson wrote before for Top Gear magazine, where basically all this happened because money was easily lent to people who can't afford to pay them back (Mexican bloke??) and so the banker's/investor's/whoever's little scheme fell apart!

Yeah...im feeling a little financial because I went to the bank to put in money for the ASW2020 scheme(?) but by the time it was my turn it was all full (thanks to the 49% only quota for non-Bumis). At the bank this morning, It was definitely dominated by the Chinese (95%), followed by Indians (4%?) and the rest were Malays who looked like they came to do normal transactions...hmmm....can you imagine if there was no quota? The Chinese will sapu everything, but on the upside, the Government will have all the money it needs, which is the main target anyway, right?

It was so packed that people were lining up way before the bank opened at 9.15am. And then once they opened the doors (somehow they didn't think of giving out numbers when people are civilized and lining up properly) everyone rushed in and there was some kind of stampede at the number-taking counter and I felt like I was waiting to board a KTM Komuter at KL central(people pushing to get in, and some to get out)! After a while I decided it was too funny and wanted to take a picture but by then the crowd was smaller so I didn't bother taking a pic...so sorry guys no visual aid here :P... When money is at stake, people don't play-play!!

Oh ya....I'm not being racist or anything ok, its just that sometimes circumstances make people racist.

Soon, it will be the survival of the fittest, and we all know who's gonna survive...

I am...

...broke
...worried
...jobless
...stressed
...sad
...not planning to work as an engineer

but, I am not...
...penniless
...dying with worry
...without work to do
...dying of stress
...suicidal
...ignoring the fact that I will disappoint my parents if I don't work as an engineer

The only subject I love this sem is Basic French! It feels so good to learn something that I am actually a little good at!

I feel like I am a "Jack of all trades, master of none". Yep. I know a little about a lot of things. Hmmmm...I want to be a traveling journalist! Or work with the people at Top Gear UK!

Or...

Je ne veux pas travailler!!!

=(

Sesat!

In KL? To be honest I think you don't get lost in KL, you just take extra long to get to your destination because you sometimes go round in circles only to find that your destination was "just over there!!" hahaha...okok im just crapping again!

Hmmm...so I drove to KL today (ok, Jalan Raja Chulan to be precise) to meet up with the Uncle (he calls me 'aunty'!! i know la i look old...) whose wife is the previous owner of my Citroen ZX. Left uni at almost 12pm (should have left earlier - class ended 1 hour early!) and then went towards the city center. I thought I could make it without properly analyzing the map cause I'll just follow the road signs. Bad idea. Cause I was correct about 3/4 through, and then I decided maybe I should turn left somewhere and ended up going round Pavilion. Which is SO near my destination. Gah! With so many traffic lights + cars + people all I could think of is: where is this elusive building??!! So after wasting around 30 mins going round and then figuring out the building and how to get to the carpark I reached my destination. Anyway, I was late but I had fun talking to Uncle S (that's his new name!) and his friend M. Most of the time the conversation was about cars. VW cars actually. That's how they got to know each other. All the people who are crazy about VWs get together and go places, chat about their cars and i guess whatever else car enthusiasts do! So there I was listening to car crazy people talk. They're really nice people, I wish I knew more about cars then I can actually contribute to the conversation! At the moment, all I know about cars are from Top Gear and the occasional interesting article found on the web....hmmm...Somewhere in between the word 'boyfriend' was uttered and i was like "whaaa? I don't have one la ok!!" Besides, I'm still young! *cough cough* At the moment I'm just admiring other people's wedding pics! =P Everyone asks that question nowadays...especially the aunties and uncles...sighh...anyway hope to hangout with Uncle S again sometime =)

Pics from lunch:

Chicken Teriyaki Set


Water!

I read an article somewhere that said people were much happier those days. Why? They might not have the comforts or technology that we have now, but they were generally happier because they did not have much choice. What brand of soap to buy? No need to think - there's only one brand (or 2 or 3, im just giving an example) But today? With so much advertising and so many choices to choose from, people are stressed. They make a choice, but later they worry on whether they made the right choice. So its so much easier when you don't have a choice right? I mean you can complain but at the end of the day you're happier than if you made a choice and are constantly worried. Am I making any sense here?

Going back for the week!! Woohoo! But I think I hafta catch up on my FYP...hmmm...

?

A few weeks ago, I had this weird feeling, I couldn't sleep properly even though I was tired, I didn't feel like doing anything and I was confused.

I don't know why then and I still don't know now.

Sigh.

But that was a few weeks ago n I'm feeling better now =) Guess I shouldn't be thinking too much eh....

Got a fellow?

My mom's cousin n husband(orang putih!) and brother came down today(from Penang), and they'll be staying till Tuesday and then they're goin to Kota Bharu to stay with another cousin for 2 days...which means I'll be home alone for 2 nights! Mom's on holiday cause its the school holidays...

So after they reached we went for lunch, and so the orang putih uncle asked me "So, have you got a fellow?"..and I was like "erm nope" and he was like "your mom looks forward to being a grandmother" and I was like "...maybe you could help me find one :P" (he is British after all, but I dunno if he knows any British guys my age :P) And then he asked me if my sis had one and the answer was the same. Hahaha...must be disappointed to hear that...and then he proceeded to tell me how he had a gf when he was 15 and so on...and i was like....damnnnnn...ahhahaha

Anyway the point is, I need to get a 'fellow' somehow. Where to find??!! I mean a proper fellow of course :P

Sighhhh

50 years of Independence...

...doesn't really mean much to me. Mainly because I don't really know what it was like to be ruled by the British. Sometimes it makes me wonder what it would be like if we are still ruled by the British. Probably won't have this much food around. Hahaha..anyway I spent Merdeka eve reading blogs on Malaysian politics n stuff on Nathaniel Tan's blog and Marina Mahathir's blog. There are so many things happening in our country and somehow the important ones escape attention. I've said this many times before that I hate poltics. Mainly because it's such a stupid thing. All people want nowadays are power and money. NOthing else matters anymore. And then we get all the so-called leaders who say dumb things, mainly because they're not-very-educated. Honestly. Seriously. We have the keris-waving leader, and the blogger-catching leaders to the if-you-don't-like-it-then-get-out-of-Malaysia leader. We wonder what's happening to the world when in our own country these leaders are a wonder in their own right. I'm pretty sure if you ask around most people would jump at the opportunity to migrate. It's not that our country sucks, its a beautiful country. But what pisses us off is the fact that we have terrible leaders. Not to say that the grass is super green on the other side, other countries have their issues too, but I think their leaders are not this dumb. The one thing that makes us special and makes us proud of ourselves is the fact that we are multi-racial. But somehow this is now our dividing factor. Everything now boils down to your race, and even more, religion. Nobody is safe anymore. The constitution has been twisted, leaders are becoming more religious (not a bad thing if they weren't so hardcore freaky creepy everyone-must-wear-tudung kind of people).

But then again, maybe we get lousy leaders because the people who actually should be leaders stay away from politics because well, basically, politics suck. Even if you start off with good intentions you end up sucked into the political vortex and before you even realize it, you're in too deep.

If only leaders would do what they're supposed to do. Like increase growth, development and so on. I guess their life is so boring that they have to go into corruption, or make the longest satay or biggest mooncake or something like that.

Not many people do things to make others happy anymore. Most do what they do because of what they get out of it, which is not wrong, but is it really satisfactory?

I can only hope someday I can do something to change the things around me, if not the world.

Oh my, I've been ranting again.

Happy Merdeka people!
50 years, don't play play!

Perspective

Oh my, it has been over a month since I blogged!! hmmm...been really busy...lotsa assigments n tests n stuff to do! I'm so glad the mid sem break is here!!! =)

Just arrived home at around 5pm, then had to do lotsa cleaning cause the floor was so dusty! Parents were in KL so I was home alone for a few hours. went back with WZ to Sitiawan first yesterday then followed my sis home today. She n her friends came to lepak in Ipoh. HAhaha..since Sitiawan no entertainment. :P

Anyway the title of today's post is perspective because it has been a long time since I drove past small towns and so on. Usually its just highway after highway, and then I reach Ipoh. Last time I had to go through Bidor and Teluk Intan and so on. So it has been quite a while since I looked at old buildings in small towns and spacious paddy fields. It made me think. I'm so used to the hustle n bustle of KL, what would happen if I got a job in a really small town? Hmmmm....I'd probably be bored to death. Hahahaha. Even though I'm a boring person (sometimes lazy to go out, antisocial,not very exciting) I think I would be travelling alot. Out of that town. HAhahahahaha. Anyway, its always good to look at things from a different perspective. Gives you ideas that you never thought you'd think of. So, keep thinking!