cameron highlands I

Just back from a trip to Cameron Highlands... back to the hot tropics~! yikes.

random ramblings

PROCRASTINATION is the root of all things inefficient
(and we all want to be efficient people...)

gila shopping lately

The past few weeks it seems I am on shopping-non-stop mode. Shopping during lunch is extremely therapeutic - nothing beats the frenzied rush and that feeling of satisfaction after my war chest is loaded! AHHHH....

learning something new every day

I learn something new via the WWW every day.

This morning via my Twitter account, I happened to view a post by Mashable on how the mayor Cory Booker responded to a tweet and helped shovel some dude's walkway. So in turn I looked at the requestor's Twitter profile, who also happens to be a radio show host. One of her tweets caught my eye. Apparently she has been tweeting in Gullah and only 1 user noticed; the rest thought her grammar was bad. ZOMG...

So obviously I had to go and Google it up and find out the meaning of Gullah. You can read the rest here.
It's hard not to love the web! =)

:(

How valuable is life?
I was suddenly struck by this question when I opened an email forwarded to me. The title was plain and did not give away the graphic contents of the attached video.
In the short clip, a Vietnamese in a police uniform was shown. His arms were flailing about and he kept glancing down in disbelief; if the movie is real, then I was viewing at a person who had just been run over by a heavy vehicle. His lower torso, detached from his body, was a few inches away and flattened.
What made me sad was the way bystanders were treating him like a freak or some circus animal as they stood nearby chattering. One even ventured forward and flicked at the man's hands as if to prove this man is still alive! wtf...
How fucked up we all are inside, to view a clip of a man in deep pain in the light of entertainment? Something is just not right :(

To pray that the man would be a survivor would smack of hypocrisy. After all, I, too, was guilty of having stolen a few moments of entertainment.
God help us all..

2010: will it be a better year?

So we bid adieu to 2009 and may I say good riddance, as 2009 is largely a period of turbulence and instability.
2010 starts with a price hike in sugar and bread - doesn't look too good. I can only pray that 2010 will be a better year.
Goodbye 2009, hello 2010!