Looking at my recent blog counter, I noticed a consistent influx of readers flowing into my blog. To me, number isn’t the biggest deal , but I’m just slightly motivated to keep up with more updates and new ideas to share with everyone after seeing the slight readers’ increment.. After all, you know, I know that I’m not a good writer who comes out with well-written posts regularly. And I don’t live like a celebrity, so I prefer to remain this small space of mine for close-friends-bonding purpose.
I actually have no idea on those silent readers who read my blog, because they remain silent all the time, and always do I think that my blog has nothing impressive to lure for leaving a comment, so I tell myself, just stick to my blogging style and content because I don’t want a big change. I don’t want to cater for unnecessary flames and critics just because they don’t like my blog or my personal self, which after all is my personal sharing place with my close friends.
But today, I’ve the urge to know, who actually is reading my blog? Are you a close friend of mine? Or just a bumper ?
Tell me just for once, and that’s enough.
There may be just 1 reply or a few, I will be glad with the thought that someone reads my blog thoroughly, they don’t just select a few sentences and reply based on it(I know somebody else does).You make my heart for me, and I will make my heart for you too.
I sincerely want to say, thank you, to everyone of you. Thank you for injecting some confidence in me through your silent clicks, convincing me that I have some writing talent, so I can continue to make use of this little place to spice up my life, that I have the consensus to agree that blogging is of the coolest passion to keep up with.
Thank you.
July 28, 2009
July 19, 2009
Feelings that are beyond description
Have you been through a moment like this?
You feel the unhappiness, but you know pretending is the best way to liberate the depression.
So silence takes place.
You feel the anger, but you know you'll be guilty at the end of the day, by throwing a tanthrum at someone else.
So silence takes place.
You feel the stress, but so does everyone else.
So silence takes place.
The worst thing that happens is to feel the sea of emotions flowing through my mind, but I can't lie to myself and say 'it's going to be okay' anymore.
So you decided to break the silence,but then you're always back to your usual role, and start listening stories of theirs. You can't make it for yourself, but you can benefit the others. So you listen.
Listen to their thank you. They say you're a good friend. They say you're a good listener.
They say you're obedient. They say you're so determined.
And then some start the fire, saying that they're an outsider of your life, for hiding your problems behind the curtains. They say, you don't share your opinions to them. It sounds like being speechless is a sin, not being able to meet me is a fault.
Someone says: It's like you don't need me, I'm an outsider of your life.
I know you won't tell the truth, because you always try not to hurt the others.
And this someone, is just a new friend I've met, not someone who's suitable for saying things like that.
For the first time, I feel scared, as though all sirens are turned on, leaving me with no way to handle it.What can I do to make him understand that, I like my current life? That the problem does not fall on him, but my preference to stick with my life, because he can't change my mind?
Also, for the first time, I think scoring an 80 in exams is easier than turning down people.
My method was efficient to all people before him,and they all understood it and managed to live even better life after me.
What can I do?
*p/s:Friends, don't be sensitive here, the post only refers to a few people, especially to a person. So don't tag yourself for it, if you think you're darn right for what you've been doing all these while.*
You feel the unhappiness, but you know pretending is the best way to liberate the depression.
So silence takes place.
You feel the anger, but you know you'll be guilty at the end of the day, by throwing a tanthrum at someone else.
So silence takes place.
You feel the stress, but so does everyone else.
So silence takes place.
The worst thing that happens is to feel the sea of emotions flowing through my mind, but I can't lie to myself and say 'it's going to be okay' anymore.
So you decided to break the silence,but then you're always back to your usual role, and start listening stories of theirs. You can't make it for yourself, but you can benefit the others. So you listen.
Listen to their thank you. They say you're a good friend. They say you're a good listener.
They say you're obedient. They say you're so determined.
And then some start the fire, saying that they're an outsider of your life, for hiding your problems behind the curtains. They say, you don't share your opinions to them. It sounds like being speechless is a sin, not being able to meet me is a fault.
Someone says: It's like you don't need me, I'm an outsider of your life.
I know you won't tell the truth, because you always try not to hurt the others.
And this someone, is just a new friend I've met, not someone who's suitable for saying things like that.
For the first time, I feel scared, as though all sirens are turned on, leaving me with no way to handle it.What can I do to make him understand that, I like my current life? That the problem does not fall on him, but my preference to stick with my life, because he can't change my mind?
Also, for the first time, I think scoring an 80 in exams is easier than turning down people.
My method was efficient to all people before him,and they all understood it and managed to live even better life after me.
What can I do?
*p/s:Friends, don't be sensitive here, the post only refers to a few people, especially to a person. So don't tag yourself for it, if you think you're darn right for what you've been doing all these while.*
July 11, 2009
Japanese hate iPhone
So I recently stumbled upon the article on'Why the Japanese hate the iPhone'.
Source:http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/02/why-the-iphone/
Some of you must be thinking, what the heck??? Many of us are cracking our heads to get one, while it becomes so cheap in Japan, some even for free (bond to a contract).
And what's more agitating is that:
Cellphones are also more of a fashion accessory in Japan than in the United States, according to Daiji Hirata, chief financial officer of News2u Corporation and creator of Japan’s first wireless LAN, who spoke to Wired.com in June 2008.
So that would suggest that in Japan, carrying around an iPhone — a nearly year-old handset compared to the very latest Japanese cellphones — could make you look pretty lame.
It came no surprise to me after witnessing some of the high-end phones in Japan, which are way more 'canggih' than I could have imagined it, as a phone.
Japanese phones have all it takes to become a superior phone, you know I'm not joking right?
Let me show you my point.
Appealing designs and colours.
(Source:http://www.itechnews.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/softbank-sharp-dm002sh-disney-cinderella-phone.jpg)
Phone that provides an 8 Megapixel camera.
Not to mention the chips inserted into some phones to be used as debit cards and train passes.
(Source:Credit to:http://analytica1st.com/analytica1st/img/mobile_suica.jpg)
From what I learnt during my Japan trip, Japanese are fond of clamshell phones (flip phones) than flat phones since flipping the phone is one of the Japanese girls' hobbies from what I see. Seriously, I've seen them flipping,closing, then flip again, close again on the train (Densha) eventhough the phone is not vibrating or ringing, so I assume they must be liking this action in order to do it so frequently.
I can even understand why 90% of them don't use MSN or e-mail, that's because phone is their everything, without phone they are nothing.Let alone the texting and calling services, Japanese use their phones to watch TV, online, read novel,pay for subway fares,buy from convenient store.
PHONE IS REALLY THEIR EVERYTHING.
I have used a Japanese phone before, and I pretty much understand how impressive the phone is, with the high-end colour display, super clear camera even if it's just a 3.2 Megapixel phone, and not to mention its design and colour.It makes you feel good about what you have, and can't stop flipping the phone like the Japanese girls do.(=P Opps)
Okay I'm exaggerating on that, but that's how amazing their phones are.
Also,there's one thing that keeps me wondering is that,
How come the Japanese phone makers can come up with a phone with so many unique colours while the other makers can't?
(Source:http://www.cameraphonesplaza.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/sony-ericsson-s001-another-cell-phone-for-japan-03.jpg)
Why though?
But with all these already-advanced-mobile-phones-technologies,really, who needs an iPhone in Japan?
I wouldn't need one.
Opps.Forgot to mention, if I were in Japan.
Source:http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/02/why-the-iphone/
Some of you must be thinking, what the heck??? Many of us are cracking our heads to get one, while it becomes so cheap in Japan, some even for free (bond to a contract).
And what's more agitating is that:
Cellphones are also more of a fashion accessory in Japan than in the United States, according to Daiji Hirata, chief financial officer of News2u Corporation and creator of Japan’s first wireless LAN, who spoke to Wired.com in June 2008.
So that would suggest that in Japan, carrying around an iPhone — a nearly year-old handset compared to the very latest Japanese cellphones — could make you look pretty lame.
It came no surprise to me after witnessing some of the high-end phones in Japan, which are way more 'canggih' than I could have imagined it, as a phone.
Japanese phones have all it takes to become a superior phone, you know I'm not joking right?
Let me show you my point.
Appealing designs and colours.
(Source:http://www.itechnews.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/softbank-sharp-dm002sh-disney-cinderella-phone.jpg)
Phone that provides an 8 Megapixel camera.
Not to mention the chips inserted into some phones to be used as debit cards and train passes.
(Source:Credit to:http://analytica1st.com/analytica1st/img/mobile_suica.jpg)
From what I learnt during my Japan trip, Japanese are fond of clamshell phones (flip phones) than flat phones since flipping the phone is one of the Japanese girls' hobbies from what I see. Seriously, I've seen them flipping,closing, then flip again, close again on the train (Densha) eventhough the phone is not vibrating or ringing, so I assume they must be liking this action in order to do it so frequently.
I can even understand why 90% of them don't use MSN or e-mail, that's because phone is their everything, without phone they are nothing.Let alone the texting and calling services, Japanese use their phones to watch TV, online, read novel,pay for subway fares,buy from convenient store.
PHONE IS REALLY THEIR EVERYTHING.
I have used a Japanese phone before, and I pretty much understand how impressive the phone is, with the high-end colour display, super clear camera even if it's just a 3.2 Megapixel phone, and not to mention its design and colour.It makes you feel good about what you have, and can't stop flipping the phone like the Japanese girls do.(=P Opps)
Okay I'm exaggerating on that, but that's how amazing their phones are.
Also,there's one thing that keeps me wondering is that,
How come the Japanese phone makers can come up with a phone with so many unique colours while the other makers can't?
(Source:http://www.cameraphonesplaza.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/sony-ericsson-s001-another-cell-phone-for-japan-03.jpg)
Why though?
But with all these already-advanced-mobile-phones-technologies,really, who needs an iPhone in Japan?
I wouldn't need one.
Opps.Forgot to mention, if I were in Japan.
July 01, 2009
Good days spent with books
My reading mood is back so I shall not waste this opportunity.
This is what I'm reading now:
Mitch Albom -'The Five People You Meet In Heaven'
I've never restricted my reading range, it is just that only a few books have the magic to lure me into their world. That is why I never self-claimed that I'm a book lover and mention reading as my hobby, because it is difficult to tell when am I going to do so, and finishing a book itself is a difficult task if I were not interested in that book.
This is the book that has the magic. It's the type that I would want to read it everyday, digesting the meaning of it before proceeding to the next chapter. It makes me think and I sincerely enjoy the feeling to figure out things solely and feeling good about it at the end of the day.
My favourite quotes so far are:
'No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.
'The human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn’t just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed. ''
To me, it has the same effect as ' Little Prince' by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. I shall share a few of my favourite quotes in 'Little Prince' to give you an idea about this book.
"Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. "
"Grown-ups like numbers. When you tell them about a new friend, they never ask questions about what really matters. They never ask: "What does his voice sound like?" "What games does he like best?" "Does he collect butterflies?". They ask: "How old is he?" "How many brothers does he have?" "How much does he weigh?" "How much money does his father make?" Only then do they think they know him. "
"Men occupy very little space on Earth. If the two billion inhabitants of the globe were to stand close together, as they might for some public event, they would easily fit into a city block that was twenty miles long and twenty miles wide. You could crowd all humanity onto the smallest Pacific islet."
"People have stars, but they aren't the same. For travelers, the stars are guides. For other people, they're nothing but tiny lights. And for still others, for scholars, they're problems. For my businessman, they were gold. But all those stars are silent stars. You, though, you'll have stars like nobody else."
"Here then is the great mystery. For you who also love the little prince, and for me, nothing in the universe can be the same if somewhere, we do not know where, a sheep we that never saw has --yes or no?eaten a rose? Look up at the sky. Ask yourselves: Is it yes or no? Has the sheep eaten the flower? And you will see how everything changes& And no grown-up will ever understand that this is a matter of so much importance!"
Reading good books are like knowing great minds in the world. We don't rely on their great stories to live, but once we are exposed to them, we start to see the different angles of their views, and thank them for sharing all these to the world.
This is what I'm reading now:
Mitch Albom -'The Five People You Meet In Heaven'
I've never restricted my reading range, it is just that only a few books have the magic to lure me into their world. That is why I never self-claimed that I'm a book lover and mention reading as my hobby, because it is difficult to tell when am I going to do so, and finishing a book itself is a difficult task if I were not interested in that book.
This is the book that has the magic. It's the type that I would want to read it everyday, digesting the meaning of it before proceeding to the next chapter. It makes me think and I sincerely enjoy the feeling to figure out things solely and feeling good about it at the end of the day.
My favourite quotes so far are:
'No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.
'The human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn’t just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed. ''
To me, it has the same effect as ' Little Prince' by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. I shall share a few of my favourite quotes in 'Little Prince' to give you an idea about this book.
"Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. "
"Grown-ups like numbers. When you tell them about a new friend, they never ask questions about what really matters. They never ask: "What does his voice sound like?" "What games does he like best?" "Does he collect butterflies?". They ask: "How old is he?" "How many brothers does he have?" "How much does he weigh?" "How much money does his father make?" Only then do they think they know him. "
"Men occupy very little space on Earth. If the two billion inhabitants of the globe were to stand close together, as they might for some public event, they would easily fit into a city block that was twenty miles long and twenty miles wide. You could crowd all humanity onto the smallest Pacific islet."
"People have stars, but they aren't the same. For travelers, the stars are guides. For other people, they're nothing but tiny lights. And for still others, for scholars, they're problems. For my businessman, they were gold. But all those stars are silent stars. You, though, you'll have stars like nobody else."
"Here then is the great mystery. For you who also love the little prince, and for me, nothing in the universe can be the same if somewhere, we do not know where, a sheep we that never saw has --yes or no?eaten a rose? Look up at the sky. Ask yourselves: Is it yes or no? Has the sheep eaten the flower? And you will see how everything changes& And no grown-up will ever understand that this is a matter of so much importance!"
Reading good books are like knowing great minds in the world. We don't rely on their great stories to live, but once we are exposed to them, we start to see the different angles of their views, and thank them for sharing all these to the world.
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