Familiar with the adage 'A picture is worth a thousand words'? According to Wikipedia, the adage refers to the notion that a complex idea can be conveyed with just a single image. If you want to know what else Wikipedia writes, just google it - it's a google generation - so nothing wrong about it, nothing to be ashamed of. Now, what do you see in that photo above? Please, I'm not giving a Science lesson, so please don't tell me about how the atoms formed the compound scientifically known as hydrogen oxide or shortly term as H2O. Science is like lullaby to me, swinging me into a sweet sleep. Surely there is more to it than just water. Search deeper, anything abstract can be dug out from just a piece of great photo. With that single drop of water, accumulated over time, they form a large expanse of the Earth. About two-third of this Earth is covered by water - the dead lakes, the vast seas, the oceans that separate continents, the swirling rivers, the rushing waterfalls and the dirty water pumping out from your house. A single drop of water forms life on Earth. Let's travel back in time roughly about 2000 years ago when God has just created this Earth. No argument about the age of this planet Earth, please, let it be 2000 years ago because living with the dinosaurs were just a crazy idea. Now, imagine that there is no such thing as modernisation, it is just between you and nature. You have all the time in the world do live life in a slow pace. No hurry, no homework, no traffic to distract you, just the beauty of nature and you are staring at the roaring waterfall and it flows into a stream. Isn't it peaceful to just look into the water, see how clear it is, how drops of water can form into a habitat to sustain aquatic lives.
A drop of fresh dew. That signifies a new day. Hardly will you see the morning dew if you are staying in the heart of a city surrounded by buildings and more buildings. There is nothing to represent nature. Use your imagination and let's go up to Penang Hill or even Cameron Highlands. Take a walk among the trees in the garden and look at how the dew sparkle while it nestles on the green leaf and moving along to the tip of the leaf and plop it goes onto the ground. Take in a deep breath and know for sure that you will be a having a great day ahead of you till the next morning. For those living in the city, such relaxing morning dissipates into thin air. It's all about hurrying off to work, hurrying off to school, you don't notice even if there's a morning dew greeting you from one of your potted plants. This is how disengage we are with nature even if it is only a drop of water.
A drop of tears. Sounds silly you say? It is life. It's not the first drop of tears you show when you were hauled up and out from your mother's womb. It is the tears from your mother. The joy and happiness for having you - a new breath of life. That drop of tears speaks volume. The unspeakable joy while counting the number of toes and fingers that you have. Pouring out her soul for your life to be blessed and crafting your future in her mind. As years go by, you will be the one to prove whether it should be tears of joy or of heartache. A mother's drop of tears cannot be replaced by neither gold nor silver. That is how vast and how deep her love for her offsprings. On the other hand, it is tears of relief that you're out and not gonna make her look like a hippopotamus anymore.
A trickle of water. Raindrop. When the sun has been shining it's glorious brightness, you will wish for even a drop of rain to come down from the cloudless sky. But when it is pouring cats and dogs, our natural built-in complain system in our head works wonderfully, complaining about how the rain should stop as it is getting too wet. Has it ever occur to you how happily the people who are faced with drought will be jumping about? That drop of water brings hope to a better future, a better crop yield, a better livelihood - life which does not have to be tortured by constant thirst.
A drop of water but endless ripples. A symbolic meaning for one's small action that causes multiple consequences. It may be positive yet, it may be negative. Now, let me share with you a one sentence story of a little wrong move causes a multitude of heartache and a mountain of problems. You are a family man yet due to your uncontrollable temper you killed someone by accident thus, you are to be sentenced for donkey years while your parents are tormented by busybody neighbours, your beautiful wife and lovely children suffered emotionally and financially, your siblings will be in a dilemma whether to acknowledge you as their brother or disown you, further stressing them in their lives. Well, if you do good to others, that kindness will flow from one hand to another, passing on goodness is contagious.
Water has life of its own. If I've not remembered wrongly, according to one of the Japanese documented studies that caught my attention a few years back, it shows and proves that water has life of its own. Two experiments have been carried out simultaneously, a glass of water was rained with kind words and affection while the other glass of water was been yelled at, cursed and condemned. After the experiment, a drop of water from each jar was taken and placed on the microscople slide. Through the power of the magnification lenses, the Japanese scientists were astounded and astonished with the immense contrast of the pattern formed between the two droplets of water. You would be as shocked as they shocked then. The cursed and condemned water had haphazard patterns formed whilst the droplet with affectionate words enveloping it formed symmetrical patterns of beauty. As the title says - a picture is worth a thousand words - that is just a proverb. Everything else is abstract. It is how you see things and how you view life. That photo is seriously just a drop of water, nothing but a drop of water. Profound and yet simple, simple and yet profound.
Since I'll be away from updating this humble blog of mine for a quite some time, I would truly love to recommend you a book that is so different from others. Aren't you bored reading the same ol' love stories, I love you, you love me not, end up in bed, waking up beside a stranger and the cycle goes on, before you reach the mid-section of the book, you even know the ending. I can guarantee you that 'A Name Like Thunder' is completely different from what you have ever read. Stieg Larsson's trilogy might throw you out of your mind, J.K. Rowling's sequel of Harry Porters might charm you but Lee Goff's 'A Name Like Thunder' is able to touch you at your core where it is raw. You won't even realize it until you have wet the pages with your tears, you won't even realize that you have been reading it with such intensity until your knuckles turned white holding on to the book like it's gonna be blown off by the hurricane. Trust me when I say it's great, then it's great. A book that is good need no extended descriptions to describe how good it is. If a book is not good for reading, I would have told you so for example when I wrote about 'The Slap' by Christos Tsiolkas. That book is one shitty one. 
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I think the saddest part of all would be having no contact in Facebook. This blog will not be updated for two weeks so if you ever come and visit and get frustrated, thinking that the blog is dead, it's not. You just need to come back very very much later, somewhere in the middle of the month. 
I'm gonna miss a lot of people. Gonna miss mi mama, mi hubby, Judz and Gracie... gonna miss all my teddy bears... I'm not sure whether I'm gonna miss the hot weather here at home... love you people... love you to the max...
The young chap started acting erratically on the road. He accelerated a few inches to the front as fast as lightning then he hit the brakes to a complete stop all of a sudden. The van had to brake immediately and since I was already slowing down, I managed to stop in time instead of kissing the rear end of the van. Then, the young chap zoomed off again for a few inches and deliberately stopped in the middle of the road. All the cars behind me was like driving bumper cars trying hard not to bang into 
Drivers who drove me up the walls were those slowpokes who turned out of the junction all of a sudden and drove like they're driving along the countryside, taking the view in and enjoying the cool breeze. Oh, 
In the end, sitting on a donkey cart should be good... That's my 
I don't understand his mother. Didn't the mother see the difference in his own child? She cares so much for him that she insisted that I teach him from square one. I relented. I don't even know how to tell the mother that her boy has learning disabilities and he will need extra special attention given by professionals. The mom is worried that he will fall out of the mainstream education seeing that he is not able to cope with the syllabus. I almost get a nervous breakdown when I realized that he has no words in his head at all. I can never help him to improve. I don't even know how to help him write an essay, not to mention that I can't even make him write a proper sentence that befits a secondary school student. 
I hate parents who give me pressure when the exam is around the corner... hate it to the max~! I dislike parents who always push and shove the children and at the same time breathe down my neck, not knowing that the child is struggling very very hard and I'm trying very hard not to push the child too far until there's no more corners to send the child to. It's not right to treat a child this way but because I'm constantly being pressured by parents, I have no choice but to push the child harder until they almost suffocate. It is better to suffer in my hands than to suffer in their parents verbal and mental torture. 
I shall declare for a holiday next year~!!!
My precious and my pineapple are borrowing books for me again. So, I'm into reading again, hopefully the wrist will not hurt anymore. I will have to practice short hours reading to rest the wrist. Don't ask me to sit on a chair and put the book on the table, I can't stay awake reading that way. The best way to read is in the sleeping position with my hands prop on pillows. But my eyes are half way closing now... toodles~!
The Wedding Dinner shows the way the Chinese will hold a wedding dinner, lavish to the highest peak and then you will be paying through your nose unless you are one of those filthy rich people or you have people helping you to pay for everything. Maybe you have been saving the money for donkey years then after that spend it all within a night, standing at the entrance door to welcome people in, then walking around the table cheering with everyone from table to table when you should be sitting down and enjoying the expensive food, then go up on stage to prepare a toast and pop the champagne, then stand at the entrance again to thank people for coming. 
Can the 
In this whole entire universe, the global language is English. There are two types of official English, one is the American English which we are well rehearsed in by the wide spread of American movies swimming to our shore which I welcome whole-heartedly and the other English is the Queen's English which galloped all the way to our land when the British sang to the tunes of... for gospel, glory and gold... and proudly took over Malaya. Go study your History books if you do not understand even a single word. Malaysians are learning English the way the Brits learn them, of course minus the British slang. We speak English without any slang except for those who feel like adopting one after the head has been swarmed by too many American movies. Australian English is more like a dialect spoken widely by the Australians. 
Are you people really that dense to the max? If you really want to learn English, should you not learn EVERYTHING? How do you expect to write a really good English essay when your head is completely void of any English words? Essay writing classes minus the grammar. Without the grammar, you write shit essays that no one can understand. Learn to crawl before you decide to take a leap up to the peak of the mountain. The truth of today is most people can't speak English properly, can't even string a proper sentence or knit out a paragraph without making silly mistakes. Some can't even speak a sentence at all because there are no English words forming in the head. They have completely non-English functioning brain but these kinda people always think they are way smarter than other people. Learning centres are kinda smart as they are able to laugh their ways to the bank, if you are serious in wanting to teach English, teach them all without splitting that one WHOLE English Language into multiple parts, you're not in a biology class trying to dissect a dead frog lying on the cold steel table. 
By hiring an American or Briton will not help as not all of them mastered the language. It's the same all over the world. You may come face-to-face with a Westerner who speaks broken English, a Chinese who can't understand even a word of Chinese, a Malay who flunk his Malay Language major examination paper, an Indian who curses you right and left for speaking Tamil as the particular person has never learn to speak his own mother tongue. In conclusion, stop being so stupid... por favor~!
It was the 
A bus~!!! Excuse me, can you take me home please? Shucks~! There were so many people walking slowly, by the time I reached the bus, the door has closed. Anyway, in the end I walked faster than the bus. The bus was stuck in the crawling traffic. At times like this, depending on my two feet was way better than depending on wheels. While European countries are faced with deadly cold weather, I think 
Home~! The road was still empty but the devotees were definitely moving to this stop over here later. I went home, took a quick bath to get rid of the smokey smell and rushed off, staying as far away as I could from town. 
Thank God for computers. 
My hubby is playing with 
The crispy 
We went off to 
The last batch of films also got problems. See those three bright lines? That's because the films have expired two years ago. Serve me right for keeping them for so long. 