Grock over, people!!!

During your childhood and teen years, everyone around you (espcially parents) will be bombarding you with words of encourage, asking you to do well in school, taking up extra classes such as music, art or dance lessons and some even willing to send you for tuition so that you're well prepare for yearly examination.

Then comes adulthood. For the past 24 years, you've been preparing for this. To graduate and get a decent job. Once you get a job, you're then expected to look for a life partner to get hitched. Once you get hitched, you must get kids. When junior comes along, you have to slough through work for the next 18 years just to make sure junior has enough to eat, wear, and go to college.

You then grow old. You expect your child to go through the same life cycle as you did.

Life is a rental. You mean I'm expected to live my life in that manner? Life is so short and I still have so much to do. Nothing last forever, nobody last forever. Oh my gosh which means I have to squeeze everything I need to do in this lifetime into such a short period of time. I might only have until 60 or 70 or maybe tomorrow to live by.

In my entire life there's nothing more annoying than people having to ask when I'm going to get married. This to me is personal and I don't need people nagging me about getting old and not have someone to be with. Or your life will be much more enriched with children. I mean which part of my sentence do you not understand? I said it's personal. Sheesh.

Really, I've got to take a break from all this. However society often shun upon those non-conformist.

Well, probably these quotes will do me good.

"There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile.” - Emerson

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.” - Rabindranath Tagore

“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty” - Socrates

“We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.” - Frederik Keonig

Wham!

I'll just stick to my own principles. Smirk.

Alih PungGONG

I won a pair of tickets to watch Alih PungGONG at KLPac, Sentul this Sunday. It's all about the sound of gamelans and movements complementing the music.

How did I win those tickets? Simple. By watching NTV7'S The Breakfast Show, the show worth waking up for, one morning somewhere last week [during my one week break]. The question was simple "Where will Alih PungGONG take place?". I sent a sms and voila, I got a call from NTV7 that afternoon.

So THANK YOU NTV7!!!

Pete Teo

Ok, for all you Pete Teo fans out there. Preview Pete's Television

Ancient not

It has been ages since I last blogged! This has been due to a number of reasons. However I can't help but cite work is the main culprit. How can I come up with such excuse, some of you might say?!! (Oooh, I can already picture some of your eyes are already as wide as those cute lil popping goldfish eyes!)

My body had to adjust with the workload I was RECEIVING. Say thank you, M! I was just too tired at the end of each day. Then, as soon as I was getting accustom to my new work place, management asked me to be transfer to another place. But I must say it's fun being a nomad, moving from one place to another, year after year. I loved my new place and environment. Although it can be utterly boring at times, but I immensely enjoyed and savoured each and every moment of it. Then, it was back to my old place. Workload piled up.

After two years of inactivity, I finally decided to blog once again. And here I am again :)

Fast talker

Daltonism

Colour fills our wourld with beauty. Take a walk down the beach during sunset. You can see vivid colours of orange and red, blended together producing one of the finest shade. Look at the sky during a clear day. Shades of blue fill the vast majestic space. That is just the icing of the cake.

But what if you were diagnosed as colour blind!

You wouldn't be able to admire or appreciate certain colours. When it comes to cooking, red deficient individuals cannot tell whether their piece of meat is raw or well done. What about when driving? Can they distinguish traffic lights? Can they make the difference between green and ripe tomatoes? Can they appreciate a rainbow? Any job requiring to pass colour vision test...well, they just have to aspire to some other job.

Imagine being a medical lab technologist. Now how are you going to be able to accurately confirm that this chemical is of a certain pH? Just think about it.

Why am I rattling away about colour blindness? The reason is simple. I'm a carrier of colour blindness. I don't want my son not being able to appreciate the beautiful shades of colour. Imagine him blamming me for passing him this defected gene! It's just better getting a dog than babies!

My grandma is a carrier of colour blindness, just like me. She produced two offsprings which is my dad and his brother. Both of them are COLOUR BLIND. So what are the chances of me producing a male offspring that is free from colour blindness? 50% chance. Getting a dog is still a much better move.

One In A Million GRAND FINAL Faizal : 3-in-1 Medley

OIAM is done and over with. However you just got to love this guy. One of my favs.

That time of year

Well it’s that time of year where you’ll have to gather with other family members (read: it gets worst if your mom or dad has a HUGE network of ENTENDED family members).

It’s that time of year where you have to hear your aunts or uncles asking you when it’s your turn to get hitch?!!

It’s that time of year where you’ll be stuffed with food every second.

It’s that time of year where you can see each one of your family members face to face. (This don’t normally happen)

It’s that time of year where you have to rush from one house to another just to make it in time to be home for dinner.

It’s that time of year where I can’t escape!!!