Help Mother Nature

Hye...na....

I wanna ask a simple question. Do you love a sight of a beautiful landscape? Do you love and appreciate nature? Imagine this.....

- A beautiful clear turqoise sea and the white sand. The wind blowing with the great salty scent of the sea. The colourful eccentric creature down the sea. The pretty blue sky. You know how the sea looks and feel right?.........or...

- A beautiful clear cool waterfall and river which reflect the light on its surface like diamonds floating. Once in a while you can see fishies jumping out catching some bug above the water. You can do some fishing. The trees hovers above majestically...green, mystifying, natural, untouched. You can even jump in the river till u turn blue and shivering....

U watch the documentary and saw the majestic lion and the whimsicle elephant in the African dessert? Do you watch about the tigers or the amazon and think its all invaluable? Do you watch about the whale and dolphin and think they are awesome?

When you go to other country, say Phuket...or Switzerland, u feel its so pretty with all the pretty sea, mountain and the white snow. U love the cleanliness and crisp cool air. But when you come back to Malaysia, you throw rubbish and be irresponsible. There's a little hypocrisy there isnt it? Dont you love your own country? Ok then....say hi to Switzerland.

Of course you like all that right? Of course u like clean air. Beautiful landscape that makes u feel good. Going to beautiful country and enjoy yourself. Of course u like all that!

Do you believe in karma towards mother nature? You better believe it, cos when you're being reckless and irresponsible, it will backfire. Thus the arctic is melting and all the water will flow in the sea and lessen the land. Singapore, will be gone. I wonder what are the leaders of the world and doing about this. And now there are holes in the ozone which will bring the sunlight straight to the earth. That, my friend....can bring you skin cancer. Now you have to put a thick layer of sunscreen. Not like the people 30 yrs ago. They dont even know whats sunscreen. And so many other things can can affect us.

So help mother nature. Because if we continue being irresponsible and reckless in what we do everyday, all that will be gone. Be responsible! How? Example....

When u buy stuff, if its not big and easy to hold, refuse the plastic bag. Put the stuff in your bag or pocket. Better still, if u have your own shopping bag. Ikea is doing a great thing about this. They offer the durable shopping bag at RM1.90 that you can reuse everytime. Now, one plastik bag would cost 20 cents in Ikea. Other country has already adopted this kind of thinking. When i went to UK early this year, they dont give plastik bag. I once need a plastic bag there, and the cashier ask me for 10 pence....malu sket saya. We dont really think that way yet.....itu beza antara pemikiran negara maju, dan pemikiran orang Malaysia.

When you go to restaurant, use the tissue paper as what u need. Do not take it like u need to make a living out of it! Its not like "oh its ok....we already paid for it!". Yeah you did pay....and so does thousands of other people. But do they do take half of the tissue? Dont think like that. Again, i like to take Ikea for example. They put a notice at the tissue dispenser. It says "take only what you need". Thats the kind of thinking Malaysian need. We should change the way we think and not be like....kiasu. Thats one way to save nature and the trees...save the usage of tissue pape. And papers too. Print and use only what you need.

Others would be....save water. When you shampoo, sabun yourself, brush your teeth - turn off the tap.

Recycle papers and bottles (kaca/plastik/aluminium) whenever you can. Some say, "jual suratkhabar bukan dapat byk duit pun. 20 sen je". Alahai......itu pun nak kire ke! Just give the papers to the lorry or send it to the recycling centre. Try to get whole family and friends to do the same.

Turn off the electricy whenever you are not using. You feel so hot? I dont think you have to turn the air-cond everytime in your room. Turn on the fan and just get naked =p

Also, don go killing animals. Dont go and support the killing of the whales and dolphins. Dont go eating every creature on earth. Some things are created to be eaten....some just here on earth to roam. Like us, human beings.

Some people think...."its no use for me to do it alone when 25 million other people in Malaysia not doing it". Do not care about other people. Its not about other people. Its about your own principle. Try to educate others. Some say westerners brings bad influence. But this influence from the west, is great.

Till next time......xoxo

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Furniture Shopping

Hyena all.......hope ya'll in the pink of halth........i mean health.

Its 2 months through my engagement. So far its fine. Its breezy and great. I was thinking, i've known him for so long, and he knows me for so long...so it must be easy for us to get along.

The problem is, when u are engaged, a new side of yourself and ur other half is revealed. Its funny...when u thought u know that person inside out, something new about that person came up.

Lemme tell you exactly what i mean. This is just my experience.

These few months, we're trying to furnish the apartment where we will live together. I have a picture of what i want in my head, and he has his own picture in his head too. The mistake is, we didnt discuss 'our pictures' at all....haha. I simply forgot to discuss about it. I already set the things that i want, and where to put it and i also want certain place in the house to be empty (nothing to be placed there). I want something that is classy and at the same time look modern with some characters in it (wardrobe/cabinets....etc).

So we went on a trip to Ikea to find our second wardrobe (one wardrobe is not enough) and a rak for my many books and his books and a chest drawer for storage and some storage for the kitchen and maybe a cute low cabinet to put the phone and a nice chair...bla bla bla....huhuuh. And then, so it happen.... Mind-Clashing. He wants other things....i want other things. i do not agree certain things that he wants, and where he wants to put it....and he said what i want is not suitable and not necessary!

Sounds simple....but at times, u can feel the frustration and annoyed when you dont find any agreement for certain things. This is what i mean when i say something new....because we never go shopping for furniture before. This is the first time. And i never knew he want that thing and dont want this thing and he wanna put that thing over there....bla bla bla. And each of us cant imagine what the other person is saying about where to put it all....its stressful. Not to mention we have a budget to stick to.

Its only an apartment!....what if we want to furnish a bigger house? God knows!

But this is not a big problem actually. Its actually interesting to find a new side of the other person. Like, i never know he likes dark colored furniture....like, black! But i can find a way to make it nice and not make the whole house look gloomy with black furniture....like, green carpet! Ha.....i want a green carpet! =D

We'll try to find a way to get what we want for the house. Or what we call....compromise. We have been compromising with each other perangai....we can compromise this one too, right babe? =)

Till next time......x0x0

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Inggerish

Hello and Hye ena

So, weekend is here huh? Yaaawwnn.......ok.....doesnt matter, cos its a working weekend for me. Sleepy slow weekend. Its my cycle, to work in alternate weekends. Im used to this. Great thing is, there is no Monday blues for me next week....only Monday wohooss!...hahaha. And some more, i will only work on Weds and Thurs. How cool is that?

When we're in working environment, we always communicate in English, right? The emails in English, communicating between colleagues mostly in English, communicating with bosses would be in English. In fact, this all starts in Uni time. Communicating with lecturers was done mostly in English. Answering exam would be in English. Essays, assignments...all in English. The texbooks all in English. I tried reading a malay book on programming, and hell no i dont understand. I also found malay Physics book when i studied Advance Physics in Uni.....nope, its really strange that i cant understand my own language. Its all because they use malay terms....which really sounds unfamiliar.

Programming = Pengaturcaraan.......get it?

So...is it weird that i feel i cant communicate and convey my ideas in plain Bahasa Melayu well? The other day, i was at office, lepak by the balcony. Me and my friends we were talking about Birkinstock shoes and I said the shoes are comfortable. And suddenly Sukh ask:

'Genggaman dia ok tak?'

And i look at him weird.

'Genggaman?'

'The grip of the shoes. Tapak dia ok ke?.....what do u call 'grip' in malay? Genggaman right?'

'Oo0o0o....grip of the shoes! yeah man, the grip is fine.'

Like example of conversation above, what would u call 'grip' in malay? It is 'genggaman' right? It is suppose to be a usual word right? But why does genggaman sounds funky there? Is there any other unfunky word to describe the grip of a tapak kasut? Or do u think is sounds fine?

Isnt it funny when we find the word in Malay is too bombastic. Padahal memang selalu cakap BM (tapi bahasa pasar). Like Sukh said, 'after several years using English, speaking simple malay also can sound bombastic.' I think it happens like this cos BM can be so pasar. English is a bit more steady. It does not have to much sleaziness in the language.

What Sukh said made me laugh, cos its absolutely true. We have been using English as our (almost) primary language for some years already, which I, sometimes cant find a proper word in Malay. I sometimes feel English language has more accurate word than Malay. Im not doing a Sharifah Amani stunt here (remember Sharifah Amani once said, speaking in malay makes her sound stupid...and then everybody slammed her the very next morning in the papers? even the menteri kesenian makes his remarks on what she said). No, im not pulling 'a Sharifah Amani' here.

There is a lot of beauty in BM. But i just think BM can be too pasar, that when u tried using a proper word in Malay, it sounds bombastic. Of course I can still speak malay. I can speak proper malay but i dunno why, i felt like it sounds a bit......funky. Because like i say, sometimes malay words dont come out right. Just like the word 'genggaman' up there.

Take care all........xOxO

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A Little Sex Geography

Hyena!

So, this is my new blog page. I had blogspot account long time ago, but i resort to writing in friendste blog. Ahahaha....but then after that, i was told writing in friendster blog was rather juvenile! and that got me offended....and so i change. I had my blogspot account already, so all i have to do, is revamp it a bit. This change to blogspot is also in conjunction to the change of a new era in my life. Things are changing so quickly (and so totally awesomely), i need to take a breather some times.

I just got to know something ironic. Something weird. Do you know that Japan is one of the nation with the lowest sex? They had sex like....around 55 times a year (average once a week). Compare to US, France, Russia who boast 130 times per year. (And Malaysia is totally not the lowest!). But ironically, Japan porn industry is really big. That....is ironic. With the porn industry big like that, you would think that the people are sex-crazed. But apparently, its the total opposite. And so i guess all the porn was solely an acting for the industry? Or were they doing all the porn for their very own people to have some desire to have sex? The elderlies above 50, have zero sex. And they also have the lowest birth rate in the world. And they are trying to overcome this matter. This research was done last year.....and i dont think much has change over a year.

Brazil, France, Russia, Greece, US which are the nations with the highest sex, doesnt even count on their porn industry as the main income (maybe except US). But holy guacamoley, they are the most active. Im not sure Malaysia in what position, but fret not, M'sia is totally not the lowest. Not even near the lowest group. I dunno.....but if Malaysia is among the lowest, that would be a sad thing. That would mean M'sian libido is low.....haha.....uncool. Bad name and reputation. But we're more mysterious in this matter and we dont talk about it openly. Not our culture and way. Im not sure if we ever gonna open up. But i think, we're fine this way.

Oh well.....anyway.....

I usually write long posts, but i havent got a nice topic to dig and discuss....just having some good and peaceful times.

Till next time......xoxo.

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