reason to smile

i use to have a good childhood friend, whom would take a good care of myself , punching other boys that come closer to me. its nice to have a bodyguard back in 1994..

he loves to bully me to the point of just about to make me cry, then stop.

he once saw me sleeping in my room ( i have no idea why mom allow him to walk in n out of our home) and wanted to slap me, but to see me snoring makes him not do it. owh how un-sexy i was at the age of 10.

thanks to technology we are now reunited.. with facebook, messages and skype.

the best offer i got was that he was willing to help me punch my ex in the face, for breaking up w me. he is still a bully, and i guess that hasnt changed.

its great to have a guy friend that u can talk with and comfortable to talk shit and curse emotionally.. its comforting to not have to act sweet and all in front of a guy for once.

a generation Y and all her friends.

Generation Y might be a dogma after all, but sometime you would just notice things further when someone had prod you into it. clear evidence is everywhere among my friends, as i suddenly see it.

i am in generation Y, and based on wikipedia, the cutoff age for gen Y is babies born in 1981 onwards. These are the people who finish the highschool right about when the millennial year startss (year 2000)...some facts abt Gen Y that makes me go :O

• Gen Y willing to trade billable hours for better work life balance. they also tend to be team oriented, because of the team sports, or play group during the early age (tadika geddit??)
• Gen Y are tech savvy (hell yes) and craves attention in the form of feedback and guidance, well, we do post things in FB and responding to comments didnt we all? narcissism makes some ppl load their self picture in front of a mirror i guess.
• we were called to be closer to our parents than the baby boomers (our parents) who tend to show they can be better off without parents. my debate is that with the rising cost of living, and space, we end up staying at home. I saw few married couple still live in with the parents. no suprise here.
• tend to get bored easily... is also a trait obviously seen as these generation gets employer on their feet securing interesting job with a competence worker. else, we tend to switch job easily to feed the job satisfaction.
• Loves to travel, need me to say more? i blame airasia :)

in many ways i can soo totally relate to this. I did switch my job to be back in KL, with a lesser pay. among few companies that made offer to me, i dump the one with more $$$ that left their HR scratching his head. i choose the current one because it allows me to be on flexi hour that i can get my morning run/workout as long as im delivering my work.

i had another friend that quit her job and went to island to become a dive master, and in the end getting paid accompanying divers within the waters. she then work as a starbucks barrista for few months, suffice her coffee interest and is now in new zealand with her life saving, moving from one town to another and working as whatever that can fund her travel.

another friend of mine just quit the engineering world and became a teacher to feed the passion on knowledge sharing, with a 1/3 of the engineering pay. between the job transition, my friend is now in spain walking from one city to another with a backpack hoping to traverse few hundred km within 30 days. gila i tell u.

well, to be honest i was also in the same state. i wanted to see nepal himalaya last april, and i was determine to take unpaid leave for this purpose. a friend was asking me what if the unpaid leave was not a possible option, considering im a new employee. i answered "i would resign, and think about my next job upon return from nepal"... im just glad i didnt have to.

now tell me, you are not denying about your generation rights rite?

;)

another

Walk away .... walk away...

some uneducated people talk stupid because they are uneducated.



in my attempt to be the healthiest person i can be, i eat oat w skim milk at work everyday. i guess the pantry lady must have noticed this over the months until she actuall have to say

"akak tengok awak makan macam ni tiap tiap hari tapi masih gemuk"

take 1: i choose to walk away...

this morning, months after the last conversation above, she saw me fixing my snack (fruit + non-flavoured yogurt)... she made the same remarks!!!! i felt the need to defend myself, so i said, that i had shed some kg, not much, but there has been difference and ask her to stop suggesting as if there were no changes.

she stupidly said "eh, betullah, akak baru perasan... akak ingat masa you baru masuk dulu memang besar... sangat besar.."

take 2: i choose to walk away....




some uneducated people talk stupid because they are.... uneducated.

p/s: do not waste your evergy/emotion/vibe over stupid ppl. just remind yourself that you are not stupid. geramlah!!!

1,2,3...and counting.

Counting my blessings.. :)

i have a friend who has been observing me for years and ask if i notice i always had been receiving a lot from others.. when she point it out, i then realize it... and well, thankful to have a friend who help me to be more grateful person. some living example i can point out:

• went to fix my fossil watch, the show owner look at my happy face to see the watch works, and said..its free :)
• did a groceries for 'nasi krabu' session last month, the lady in giant cashier says i missed to label for some sayurs, i thot i have to timbang it again,, n then she said "takpe lah, saya halalkan.."
• went to cold storage yesterday to get fresh salmon, the dude weight it, label it.. , and then he add another salmon slice (slightly smaller, but still) before strapping it, and said, this one is FOC, the price is only for the one yang he timbang earlier :)
  
• bought hair clip and attempted to speak mandarin with the owner, she then slash my price for the hair clip and let me walk away still wondering why with the discount?
• was eating at a mamak restaurant, it was rm 6.30 like that, then he look at my way and said... RM6 aja lah... :)\
• in cambodia, we drink coconut by the road side, the owner saw me eating the flesh (most cambodian didnt do that)... she then slash open other coconut and ask me to eat it.. we have a language barrier but i understand she like to see me eat and not taking any money for it.. wow. i felt bad..
• i bought some maruku for like few hundred gram, the guy almost seal it, and then add few more scoop and tell me, he just felt like giving extra...
  
  i guess we are all in this cycle of giving and receiving, so DONT STOP GIVING, and yes, dont forget to count your blessings too...
  
  if you want to support my DONT STOP GIVING project, join me in facebook "1 kid 1 shoe project".... and maybe you can start counting your blessing too. :)