Kopi钱

那天，我和我妈还有5岁的侄儿一起到新山去；突然，遇到了警察执勤，设路障。由于我没有来得及绑上安全带，交警看上了我... (错误示范，应该上车就系上安全带，我在努力改掉这个坏习惯。) 交警指着我的车，指示我叫我停到路旁；在我身旁的老妈开始唠叨了......心里也纳闷起来 “真倒霉。”
突然间，在我身后的侄儿冒出了一句：“又要给警察吃钱了。”
我很惊讶的问：“谁教你的？”
而他却静静的不敢出声了。
天啊，一个5岁的小孩子，尽然会知道贪污。。。这是家长们错误的教育，还是社会问题？

追

台湾著名舞台剧导演，赖声川曾经说过：“在这世界上，没有人教我们怎么活；而我们唯一的管道是媒体，媒体每天给予我们的资讯是‘物质上的追求’；叫我们买，买，买。让我们每天为了满足物质上的追求而拼命赚钱。这渐渐的变成了人们所追求的生活。”
我们究竟为了什么而活？上帝赋予我们生命，让我们活在这世上是为了什么？我们的人生是否只是为了追求物质和名利？到我们剩下最后一口气，离开这人世的时候；回头看看我们的一生，是否会感慨我们的人生过得不够精彩？是否会有许多遗憾而倍感唏嘘？

凡人，烦人。

那一天，我无意间看到报章上的副刊刊登了一篇文章：“人生所拥有的产业越少，烦恼就越少；相反的，拥有的越多，烦恼就越多。”我和几位朋友针对这话题聊了几句，怎么知道却展开了唇枪舌战。我和另外一位朋友都认为，这是没有大志和理想的人说的话。每个人生活在这个世界里，都为了个人产业和物质享受上而奋斗；他们拼命的做，为的是改善生活品质和让家人过得更好。不是吗？

而我另外一位朋友却说:“不是每个人都为了物质而奋斗，有些为了理想和精神而奋斗。”

“屁勒，你为了什么而工作？还不是为了万恶的钱。理想和精神值多少钱？”

“别为了五斗米而折腰，做人要有骨气。”

“骨气？股屁勒。现实社会还有谁跟钱过不去？这个社会，谁有钱，谁是BOSS。”

“对啦，可是当你拥有的越多，烦恼就越多；人一旦有了钱，就会乱来。”

“没有钱的时候才烦恼勒。”

“可是那些有钱人，怕生怕死；要防外人打劫，有时还要防家人骗钱。你讲烦不烦？”

“你嫌钱太多啊？给我啦！”

“你....”（开始可怜他了。-_-"）

“好啦，不管有没有钱啦；人肯定是有烦恼的，只是看你要做个有钱的烦恼人，还是没钱的烦恼人而已。”

“对啦。.....”

“............”

“我们才几岁啊？干什么讨论这么老沉的话题？去！”

“对咯，看！美女。”

虽然我们停止谈论了这个话题，但我回到家还是想了想。生活上的物质是必需的，但不要过量；更重要的是，不要自寻烦恼，很多时候是自己想太多了。

Stand your ground

Back to years ago, I watched an old school movie called "To Kill a Mockingbird". That movie was filmed 5 decades ago, honestly, I didn't quite understand the whole movie because it took place in 1930's (I had studied American history, but I still think it's boring). Therefore, I didn't quite enjoy it back then, until recently I decided to watch it again ..... with the assitance of the subtitle. Then I just reliazed that it's actually a very good movie.

The story of this movie is about the leading actor, Atticus, as a lawyer. How he stood his ground to help an innocent black young man from accusing of raping a white lady; while the whole town forced him dropping the case by racial pressure. I like the storyline and the meaning behind the story. To stand your ground and keep going if you think you are right, no matter how people judge you.

However, how many people can actually do it? One of my respective senior once told me, "Words can be useful depends on how you use it, it also can be vicious or even sometimes can kill someone's life." Indeed, everytime I make any decision, people tend to tell me what to do... I appreciate their concern... however, perhaps it's my personal issue, I'm very easy to be influenced by surrounding and easy to be panic. For instance, sometimes, I go to bookstore, I feel like want to go magazine section or cooking section, but I afriad of the way of other people looking at me and judging me... "How on earth a big guy enjoys a magazine?" "He must be a 'gal' ". So I just cold-feeted.

I had talked about this to my friends, they all said that I'm over thinking and paranoid, I know... but I just can't stop those voices appear in my mind and some strange eyes keep staring behind me. I know those are frictional and unreal and I should totally overcome those mentally distractions by myself.

Last week I watched the latest season of American idol ( I used to like this show, but I started losing the interested while I grow older. Simon and Paula are no longer the judges in this show, replaced by Steve Tylor and JLo. I know Kara and Ellen D were judges in this show before...but long story...). One of the contestant, Casey Abrams refuses to listen the mentors Jimmy and Will.i.am both claim that song he picked was too boring; but he stood his ground and insisted on his song choice and eventually won the crowd. (Although he was eliminated, still got saved by judges dramatically; well... entertainment, that's what I'm talking about.) Another contestant, James Durbin did heavy metal. He said something caught my attention. "I don't want to be one of the face of the million, I want to stand out to be different." and he rock that night.

Genting Highland founder, Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong ignored what other people said and insisted of building Genting Highland theme park on the mountain, and his success is obvious. APPLE's CEO, Steve Jobs centralizes the authority, and never listen to anyone to subordinate his decision making; he trust his instinct and own judgement, and leads to the successful of APPLE.

In fact, disgarding the success or failure, every single decision is the part of the journey of your life; no matter it's a successful decision or failure decision, it is the best decisions for your life, because they create your own life.

So, decide our own life and live with it.

计划赶不上变化

自从我回来马来西亚，我发觉国人的生活步调似乎比外国的慢；后来我想想，也许是因为我的家乡比较乡下，跟吉隆坡这种大城市根本没得比较。没错，大城市的生活步调是比较快，但是我真正融入日常生活里，不管是在工作上，还是私低下；国人都有个坏习惯，大部分国人都会抱着得过且过的心态去处理事情。因此，在国内许多领域上，尤其是政府部门，常被冠上“没有效率”，“懒散”的印象。

很多时候，只需用一天的时间就可以完成的事情，总被拖到两天或三天，甚至一个星期去完成。有时候的理由也非常离谱兼可笑，当你一切准备就绪，以为可以顺顺利利的完成事情；偏偏遇到机器故障，电脑系统短路，负责人请假，让你白跑一趟，下次还要来。这样三天两头的来回，真是浪费国人的时间和金钱。

而私底下的国人朋友，有些也会抱着随便的心态来面对所有事情；有一次我陪我一班朋友出外游玩，很多事情都没有处理和安排好，第二天就出发了。。。结果酒店住宿到了那里才找，费了九牛二虎之力才找到。

“明天要去哪里？” “晚上要吃什么？”

“还不知道，再看咯！”

天啊！行程根本没有安排好。

结果到了最后一天，“不是说好明天回吗？”

“不了，我们住多一天，明天可以去。。。”

整个行程我被他们的洒脱，天塌下来当被盖的心态给吓坏了；我的心好想是在坐云霄飞车，一会儿担心找不到酒店；一会儿担心没有房，一会儿担心走错路。。。根本没有计划好。不然就是原本计划好的事情，临时变卦；搞得阵脚大乱。

很多人都在想“船到桥头自然直”，凡是顺其自然；也许日子过得轻松自在，但是这种心态，怎么可以跟外国人竞争呢？无可否认，我们每天过得日子，无时无刻都有变数；但这是否意味着我们不需要计划呢？一个好的计划可以避免我们少走许多错路，一个正确的心态可以减少不必要的变数发生。如果一个好的计划配上糟糕的心态，可能永远成不了事，因为根本没有心经营；而一个好的心态配上没有计划，也成不了事，因为每天都在忙着补救。因此，只要计划好，用心经营；事情总会顺利完成，两者缺一不可。

50 Samurai

I read the news about the radiation crisis in Japan from today newspaper, the reactor of the power plant are not fully under-controlled and situation is clearly unstabile; people are alerted and were evacuated or escaping from danger zone rapidly, the reported saids the level of the radiation is over 6000 times than the normal level inside the Fukushima power plant, although the saving teams attempt to prevent the nuclear fuel rod melts down by inserting water to cool down the temperature; yet, they have no confident to ensure the leaking of lethal radiation.
therefore, there are a possibility of the spreading radiated object and resulting to the eastern Japan becoming a death area, including the most exciting city in Japan, Tokyo.

However, the news that caught my eye is the reporting of the Heroic workers, there are 50 volunteer "Modern Samurai" willing to sacrifice their own valuable life for saving more by rescuing the crisis inside the power plant; most of them are over the age of 50 retired men. The great moral and noble spirit are being praised and saluted by the entire world; this is a scene which only happen in the movie, it moves to every single person's heart including mine. Think about these people's family, how would their family feel when these 50 volunteers went inside the nuclear plant; and how strong their determination is for saving other people's life who has no direct relationship with them. When I read the aticle from the newspaper, I almost shed a tear by this incredible story; I'm deeply respect them and pray for them.

Lesson from Japan

In year 2011, March 11th, Japan had experienced the most damaging disaster of human history in Japan; the massive earthquare with magnitude of 9.0 struck in Ocean Pacific and triggered a terrifying tsunami unleashed and hit on the island shore of eastcoast Japan, which brings an enormous crush to the whole nationwide. The whole city was submarged by the crucial water, reported over thousand of lifes were killed and the number keeps increasing, the cars, houses and all the human's efforts were all damaged by the brutal natural force instantly.

In additional, the aftershocks of the earthquake are endlessly smacking the island by stopping human rebuild their homeland; even worse that yesrterday was reported Fukishima nuclear power plant explored and radioactive material leaking, a number of residents were evacuated from the power plant 20km away. The government attempts to avoid the radioactivity spreads and releases more coolant to prevent the source melts down.

A lot of people said that although this natural disaster causes a massive impact of the Japan's economic and homeland, but Japanese is an expert of dealing earthquake, the unbeatable Japanese will rebuild their homeland and back on track rapidly. Indeed, I saw a lot of pictures that were posted online, I realized the people in Japan are well-disciplined, no fighting and quarrelling, even helping and caring each others; seem likes they all know what kind of action should take to deal with this circumstance. I am truly admired of them.

Although this natural disaster is happend in Japan, we are not directly involved; but the media spread out the news and people talking about this subject everywhere. it seems like everyone care about it, but what can we do? donating fund? maybe... most important is, what do we learn from this inccident? Think about it.