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The Tale of Your Life: September 2008

Where you understand life-changing meaning through other people's experience.

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

You look at the finger or the moon?

When a person point to the moon, you are suppose to look at the moon, not the finger pointing it. Everyone knows the meaning behind this situation. But how many actually doing it?

Everyone seems to have a meaning in life, either they want to be rich, happy, have fun, achieve something etc. They actually work hard for it. Is it the right way to do it? You tell me. I think it is like looking at the finger. Like you know the moon is there but you still believe that to see the moon you must see the finger first. Maybe you will think that the finger will guide you to see the moon. It is still a guide, isn't it?

We never know what will happen in the future, we are making a big bet that it will happen or we work hard for nothing. All we have and left are now. Those really successful investors around the world have proven this theory by buying investments that earn the moment they buy it. That is how they get so rich, just by making sure they earn at that moment. So, why don't we grab the moment and do whatever we think we should?

Monday, September 29, 2008

The Map to God

A long long time ago, when the demons, satans and humans are staying on the same ground, the satans and demons found a map that shows where the god is. While in fear that all the humans will no longer listen to them, the satans and demons decided to hide the map. They search many places for many years realizing that the humans are actually smarter than they thought that they will find the map no matter where they hide it.

Just when they are about to give up, one of the satans gave a suggestion that they should do a research on the humans. So, They decided to test on the humans. Two demons turned themselves into a leprocy mother and daughter.
Both of them went to knock on a rich man house and ask for help. That rich man felt very sorry and give them a lot of money but asks them to leave. Then they went to knock on a poor peasant house. The peasant, too, felt very sorry but asks them to leave because he himself needed help. Finally they saw a person distributing food to hundreds of leprocy patients. So, they walked near and ask for help. That person told them he is very sorry for their misfortune, too, and asks them to line up impatiently. The mother and daughter told that man they don't need food. All they need is love. That man then told them he do not know what to give them.
After these few test, the demon and satan went back happily. They told the others that the humans will search every corner of the world for their benefits but their heart. Thus there is where they hide the map, in the human heart.

Saturday, September 27, 2008

孩子、树

不知道你有没有听过这样的一个故事:
有一个小孩很喜欢到一棵苹果树下玩。每当没有人陪他玩时,他一定会到那棵树下玩,好像那棵树会跟他玩似的。可是那个小孩越长大就越少到那棵苹果树去玩。当那个小孩长大成人时,更是没有到那棵苹果树去了。有一天,那小孩沮丧的去找那棵苹果树。苹果树见了小孩高兴地说:“你有来陪我玩啊?我们好久没有一起玩了。”那小孩说:“我长大了,不玩小孩子游戏了。”那树见他不高兴便问:“你不高兴吗?说来听听。说不定我帮得上忙。”那小孩说:“我要做生意,可是却找不到投资。”树回答说:“我什么都没有,只是树上长满了苹果。不然你就把苹果采去卖了钱拿去投资吧。”那小孩听了很高兴得采了苹果。小孩离开之前口口声声地向那棵树道谢。那棵树说:“不必道谢,有空来陪我玩就可以了。”那小孩拿着苹果走了。他生意做起来后就没有回来了。过了很久,那小孩又垂头丧气的回来。那树见了他很高兴,但见他心里不乐,便问他发生什么事?那小孩说:“我的孩子要上大学了,近来生意又不怎么好,真不知怎么办好。”那棵树听了便说:“我身上什么也没有,只有几枝树干。你就看了树干去卖了钱,供孩子上大学吧。”那小孩听了高兴地把树干砍了下来,口口声声说不知该怎样报答他。苹果树说:“我什么都不要,你的空来玩就可以了。”那小孩走了过后就没有再回来了。过了很久,那小孩老了,他又回到那棵苹果树那里。只见以前强壮高大的苹果树只剩下干了的树根。那小孩看了不禁感愧疚流下泪来,对那棵苹果树说:“我回来了。我可以帮你什么?”那苹果树奄奄一息地说:“我什么都不要。只要你陪我说说话就可以了。”
故事里的苹果树像不像我们的父母?华人有一句话“万善孝先行”。父母是我们生命中第一个对我们付出而不求回报的人。一个人如果不孝顺父母,多好人不都是假仁假义吗?我有一个朋友对我说过他有一位义姐姐,给他父母带大的,长大了之后就很少回家,只有几次回来借钱说要去搞生意。忽然有一次不知什么缘故回来,对家人说行善做义工,要家人捐钱。可是没人理她,她又一去不回来了。如果有一天你也遇到这样的人向你要钱行善,你会给吗?

Life is a Holiday Trip

My grandma always tell me that life is like a holiday trip, we only come here for a few years to look around and have fun and then we are done. So, sit back and have fun.

Friday, September 26, 2008

How can a tortoise live for hundred years?

Once, a man went to see a hundred year old tortoise. The man hoped to know the secret to live long. The tortoise agreed to tell the man with a condition that the man has to teach the tortoise it’s secret to speak human language. The man asked, “Why you want to learn human language?” “So I can tell everyone the way to live long.” answered the tortoise. The man asked again, “With your mouth structure and your intelligent, how do you expect to learn?” The tortoise answered, “Simple, by learning one thing at a time.” “So, how you live a long life?” asked the man. “Simple, by making sure I am still living every second.” The man could not believe that it is this simple and it left. Thus the man never lives a long life and the tortoise never learns how to speak human language. If you know this secret, would you believe it?

Thursday, September 25, 2008

The Priest, the Young Man and the Stone

Once there was a young man went to an interview and got rejected. He went to a priest to get an advice. The priest invites that young man for a walk at the stone alley. At the stone alley, the priest took out a stone and told the young man that this stone will become a diamond after some process. Suddenly the priest dropped it, intentionally. The priest asked the young man to find that diamond stone. The young man tried but he could not recognize the stone because all stones along the alley looked the same. Then the priest decided to give the young man another try. He took out a diamond, which he brought along and threw to the alley and asked the young man to find it. Immediately, the young man picked it back and returns it to him. The priest then asked the young man “isn’t that obvious?” Please write a comment and share with everyone what you have learned from this story. Your comment may change their life. Thanks for your comment.

丹顶鹤的故事

你有没有听过这样的一个故事?
有一个女孩,她从小爱养丹顶鹤。在大学毕业了以后,她为了救一只受伤的丹顶鹤,滑进了沼泽地,从此就没有回上来了。
走过那条小河,你可曾听说?有一位女孩,她曾经来过。
走过这片芦苇坡,你可曾听说?有一位女孩,她留下一首歌。
为何片片白云悄悄落泪?为何阵阵风儿轻声诉说?
还有一群丹顶鹤,轻轻地飞过。
只有片片白云为她落泪。只有阵阵风儿轻声诉说。
还有一群丹顶鹤,轻轻地飞过。
以上是“丹顶鹤的故事”的歌词。
Pan’s Labyrinth这出戏让我想起了这首歌。让我不禁联想起那位爱养丹顶鹤的女孩到底去了哪里?她到底是不是好像戏里面的女主角,回到了她自己的王国。原来她自己是偷跑到人间的丹顶鹤公主。
还是……
好像The Orphanage里的女主角,回到了永远长不大的世界(小飞侠里的世界——Neverland)?
不知道你觉得那个女孩怎样了?可以的话写下你想法和我分享。谢谢。

阿姐鼓

以下是阿姐鼓的歌词:
我的阿姐从小不会说话。
在我记事的那年离开了家
从此我就天天天天的想
阿姐阿
一只想到阿姐那样大
我突然懂得了她
从此我就天天天天的找
阿姐啊
玛尼堆上坐着一位老人
反反复复念着一句话
唔俺嘛呢叭咪哞
唔俺嘛呢叭咪哞
你知道它在讲什么吗?知道的话就别那么自私了。请和大家分享。谢谢。

Saturday, September 20, 2008

人鬼之交

很久很久以前,有一个很老很老的渔夫,他无亲无戚,无妻无子,生活只靠每日捕到的那几条鱼过活。这位老渔夫老来无事,逐爱上品尝美酒。
这天那老渔夫如常般捕鱼,在舟上烧了酒,斟在杯里正想欣赏,忽然传来一个年轻男子声音说道:“好酒,好酒!”老渔夫辨别声音是从草丛后传来,于是便再斟了一杯酒道:“即知是好酒,何不出来一起品尝?”说完却不见任何人。过了一阵那酒杯的酒已是被喝光了。那老渔夫心里大惊,脸上却不动声色的又斟了一杯酒。那杯酒没两下子又被喝光了。只听刚才那声音道:“果然没令我失望。好酒!”老渔夫心想这声音的主人非仙即鬼,又想他年事已高又是很久没人陪他谈天了。于是便跟他结交起来。
从此那老渔夫便每晚邀那声音倒他家来喝酒,而他则每晚都准备了些美酒小菜招呼。只是,那老渔夫却从来没有问那声音是谁。那声音见老渔夫没问,也就没有说了。
过了几天,那声音对老渔夫的招待已是不大好意思了。这晚他对老渔夫说:“我如此每晚吃你的食物,喝你的美酒,实在是不好意思。”老渔夫知道他要说什么,打断他的话道:“哪里哪里。我这老渔夫孤独已久,有你陪我说话喝酒,我正是求之不得。”那声音仍不肯占人便宜,于是道:“这样吧,你明天捕鱼的时候,我把鱼都赶到你的网里去。那样的话,你就可以多卖几条鱼了。那么多余的钱便可以给我买就买菜了。”那老渔夫一口答应了。到了第二天,那老渔翁的网里果然多了很多鱼。他于是把多赚来的钱买了酒卖了菜,晚上又请那声音吃。
这样过了三个月,老渔夫这晚仍旧准备了酒菜来招待。那声音也如常般到来,这天他非常兴奋地问老渔夫:“你可知道我是谁吗?”那老渔夫摇摇头。那声音继道:“我是你每天捕鱼的那条河的水鬼。十年前我因为走捷径从那小桥跌进河里,取代了那里的水鬼。”老渔夫问道:“那你为什么那么高兴?”那水鬼道:“这是一个天大的秘密,你必须答应不可以跟任何人说。”那老渔夫答应了。水鬼道:“明天将有人会用捷径跌进河里。等那人取代了我的水鬼位后,我就可以离开此河去投胎了。”那老渔夫听了无言,那水鬼吃完酒菜还依依不舍地跟老渔夫道别。
老渔夫第二天并没有到河上去捕鱼,却一早到了水鬼昨晚所说的捷径等候。那条捷径非常偏僻,若非水鬼昨晚说了个大概,老渔夫真不知道这里有条捷径。老渔夫等了整日都没人经过,直到夕阳西下,那老渔夫要回家之时,忽然一个三十余岁的中年冲冲忙忙的走过来。那老渔夫见他便要踏上那条捷径,便阻止问他道:“先生,你是做什么的?家里有什么人?”那人道:“我是做生意的,家里有一位妻子、一位年老的母亲和三个子女。”老渔夫听了严肃地道:“你家里这么多人口等着你过活,你还敢走这条路?万一你掉进河里溺毙了,你全家岂不变成无依无靠?”那人听了心里很不是味道,但又无话可说,只好气呼呼地绕道而行。
当天晚上那水鬼却哭哭啼啼地道老渔夫的家,大骂那老渔夫不守诺言,还得他苦等多年的机会流失了。那老渔夫安慰他道:“刚才那中年男子一家几口靠他一个人过活,若他死了,他全家有可能会跟着饿死的。”那水鬼听那老渔夫说得有理,便不再责怪他,如常般每日把鱼赶进老渔夫的网,晚上和老渔夫一起喝酒谈天。
过了四个月,这天晚上那水鬼又兴高采烈地和老渔夫说:“明天机会终于到了!”老渔翁于是问她什么机会。那水鬼道:“你这次可真的要守口如瓶了。”那渔夫答应了。那水鬼道:“明天将会有一辆花轿经过,代替我的将会是个女的。”老渔夫听了默不作声。那水鬼当晚有依依不舍地跟老渔夫道别后才走。
第二天一早那老渔夫又到那捷径旁等候。等到中午时分,果见一辆花轿冲冲赶来,正要走捷径。那老渔夫见花轿的脚夫全是男的,连带路的也是男的,便阻止道:“年轻人,可别一时心急走捷径,万一有什么意外,喜事就变成祭事了。”带路那人听了正想大骂老渔夫口中放干净些,但见那捷径也甚是险峻,只好豪不是味道地绕道而行了。
当天晚上那水鬼来到老渔夫的家,哭哭啼啼的大骂老渔夫忘恩负义,不守诺言,竟然三番四次地害得他无法投胎。老渔夫见他如此激动,只好无言以待。从那天开始,那水鬼就再也没有到老渔夫的家陪他喝酒谈天了,而且老渔夫捕鱼时也恢复了以前般少。
如此过了一年,这晚老渔夫一个人在家里品酒,忽然被一阵兴奋的声音吓倒。原来是那水鬼有高高兴兴的来到老渔翁的家,大喊道:“老渔翁!老渔翁!”那老渔翁问他什么事?那水鬼回答道:“昨天玉皇大帝派了个使者来,告诉我说玉皇大帝封我为天上的神仙了!”那老渔夫听了也替他高兴。那水鬼又道:“多得你当时三番四次地阻止我找替身,救了几个人,玉皇大帝见我舍己为人,才封我为神的!”那水鬼过后又哭哭啼啼地道:“我这次当真是来告别了……”

Thursday, September 18, 2008

The Celebrity Government

There is once, I remember, that Mr. A just got out of the jail and trying to get famous by challenging some minister on the national television on the topic of oil price. Mr. Deputy Prime Minister do not allow it by giving the reason that other government worker work very hard everyday but did not have the chance to be on tv. What does this mean? Can you see the big picture? I never know that the goal of a government worker is to get on tv. That is the new thing I learned that day.

Let’s take a closer look at the oppositions. How often do they get on tv? Even though they did, it must be some meetings, discussions or an important event. To be honest, I don’t really know what they are doing but I am pretty clear that these guys are doing a better job than the other. At least they do not get on tv by setting up their own press conference (which force reporters to come), launching people’s product, sign up dealing documents, etc.
Isn’t the government supposed to benefit the people? Why the people are became poor but they get new bungalow once they won an election or have wife number 4 once they have a higher post in their party? While, at the same time, the people became poorer as the petro price never came down.
Speaking about petro price is something that makes my blood boil. Yesterday, the price for crude oil in US is USD90 a barrel, which mean it is USD 0.90 a gallon. How much is it in Malaysia? 1 gallon is approximately 3.79 liters. So, it is RM3.42 for 1 gallon of petro or RM1.10 per litre. How much is the government selling us? RM2.70! And do not forget that Malaysia is a country that produces crude oil.
While the price of crude oil drops to USD 90 a barrel, the government is busy sending their people to Taiwan and China for holiday. Then back in the country the leaders are laughing that nothing happens on 16 of September and having fun shifting role. Clearly this is the celebrity government who only shows their “heroic” face on tv while sucking the people’s blood. Is this the government you want?

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Beware Where You Put Your Power

There is an old Chinese proverb: It is the water that floats the canopy, and it will as well sink it. Did you notice that you actually have power? At least it is clear in how you want your society to run by obeying your leader, you are the one who give them the power. If no one listen to them, they are just some nuts talking nonsense on the street that you might probably think they belong in the asylum. On the other hand, if you listen to them and actually do what they tell you to, you are handing them your power. This is the basic of political power.
As time goes by, people invented violence, from bare hand hitting those who does not agrees with you to guns and bombs that will probably destroy the world. A weapon is a much physical power. Once again, who give them the power to use these weapons? You! The guns and bombs are just dead things doing their job and are the leaders that you choose used them. Who do they use for? Terrorist, criminals, opposition leaders and you if you change your mind that you want your power back, from them. Fascinating, isn’t it?
Now a much more complicated but powerful weapons were invented, the media. It appears that those who controls the media, controls the people’s mind; those who controls the people’s mind will have the power. This is why the government always threatens our media and always has someone put an eye on them. They even naïvely thought that they can control the world by having the media work for them. They miss out something, aren’t they? What is the use of media if there is no one listening to it? Again, we have the power.
So it is all about power isn’t it? It always come back to the basic, it’s we who give them the power. Beware who you listen to because you are giving them your power (including me). The good news is, your power does not work for them and it never will, unless of course you want them to. Therefore, do not simply listen to people who order you do things. Because it is not just you and the person who order, it is about where you put your power into. Either you contribute your power to make the world a better place or you are destroying it. In this case there is no middle path.
The point is, be confident in your power and use it for good. Do not afraid of anyone especially the government. They will abuse the power you give them to do things against you. A line from “V-for Vendetta”: The people shouldn’t be afraid of the government; the government should be afraid of the people.” because we are the one who give it to them. Realize your power and control it whoever you are, do not give yourself any reason that someone is controlling your power. The power is yours.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

It’s 16th of September, Are You Watching Closely?

Yes, it’s 16th of September in Malaysia and yes, nothing change, but are you watching closely? Look at the smile on the face of our politicians on the news today; is it a smile of victory? Or is it a smile of satisfaction? How different are those two traits? If you look real close, it is the same smile that carved on a magic show audience face who thinks he knows the trick but he does not, because he is not watching closely… or he does not want to know the truth?
As said in The Prestige, a magic show contains three acts: 1st is the pledge, where the performer shows you something ordinary; 2nd is the turn, the performer makes that ordinary thing becomes extraordinary; and lastly, the prestige, the performer brought back the ordinary thing.
It is the same situation happens in Malaysia. The people had been the audience for 51 years, watching the magician trying to fool them on stage. But this time, why are the magicians having the smile that belongs to the audience? Apparently there is a twist. The magicians still think they are controlling the audience not knowing that the audience has put up a twist to them. That is what happens when a magician too proud of his one trick and thought that it can fool the audience forever.
On the stage, a show is not really defines as a show if audience is absents. So, close situation here but not same, is a government still a government if it is not supported by its people? The election on 8th of March and the by election at Permatang Pauh clearly shows where the people are going. Have the government follow? If not, is it still the government of the people? If you think that nothing change on the 16th of September, watch closely. Because this time, you are in the show, the magicians are the audience. Most important is, this time you do not want to be the audience. You are too smart to clap for a boring trick that you had been force to watch over and over for 51 years without any change.
So, it is 16th of September, ARE YOU WATCHING CLOSELY?

Thursday, September 11, 2008

A Fairytale about Fortune-teller

Once upon a time, Xiang went to see a fortune-teller. He wanted to have a secure in what he does in his life. The fortune-teller told him he will be successful and die being a rich man.

After knowing what god have for him, Xiang stops his work and does nothing. As the days pass, he was getting poorer and poorer till he became a beggar. One day, he was starved to dead. On the way to the other world, Xiang went to the judge of hell, the King Yan-luo. He wanted to accuse god. He told King Yan-luo that god had lied about his life. As a judge, King Yan-luo has to investigate. He found the god of fortune, brought him to the court for the trial.
God of fortune brought his record of human fortune and list of occupation registration to the court. He showed to King Yan-luo that there is a fortune for Xiang in the book. At the meantime, the god of fortune also reveal to King Yan-luo that Xiang had not register in any specific occupation in his mortal life. The god of fortune told King Yan-luo that he was unable to give Xiang his fortune. With this, Xiang lose the case.

Friday, September 5, 2008

Saya Cinta Meja Ini

Saya cinta meja ini... Teramat, amat cinta kepada meja ini. Saya bina meja ini dengan tangan saya sendiri, bersama-sama dua orang abang dan adik saya. Kita bukan adik-beradik kandungan, tetapi kita menjadi begitu mesra semasa membina meja ini. Saya tak akan lupa pengalaman pahit manis semasa membina meja ini walaupun sudah berada di syurga. Terutamanya abang saya itu. Dia seorang yang tabah dan penuh dengan tenaga luar biasa. Dia manjadi abang kita bertiga juga disebabkan sikapnya itu. Demi bina meja ini, dia berani berunding dengan orang yang bersenjata dan ganas, dia berunding dengan kaum asing selama beberapa hari di atas kapal laut, juga selalu berulang-alik ke luar negara untuk dapatkan kepastian seluruh dunia tentang meja ini. Oleh sebab sumbangan yang tak terhingga ini, kita panggilnya bapa kepada meja ini.
Saya datang nak tegur tiga anak saya ini! Mereka tidak tahu kerjasama! Bodohnya!! Apa susahnya kerjasama? Awak tolong saya, saya tolong awak... akhirnya, kita semua dapat untung. Ini dasar buat bisnes. Saya percaya dengan hanya pegang prisip ini, sebuah masyarakat terbilang pun dapat dibina. Ini tidak. Adik cipta sebuah lagu untuk luahkan perasaan, abang berpakat dengan orang lain untuk menghukumnya. Anak kedua saya tu, dia pandai belajar, terlalu cerdik, sudah menjadi engineer terkenal di Singapore dia tak mau peduli langsung apa yang jadi atas meja ini. Tengok, sudah goyang sebab tak ada orang yang pandai maintain. Nampak lubang ini? “Bocor” namanya. Agaknya berapa tahun lagi ia akan tahan?
Saya ingat lagi tragedi yang saya nampak semasa sambut hari lahir meja ini. Ia bukan tragedi yang ramai terkorban, tapi kalau tidak diambil berat, ia akan jadi begitu juga. Tiga-tiga orang anak saya tidak beremosi langsung bila semua orang sedang bergembira betapa bangganya dengan adanya meja itu. Sikap anak-anak saya itu serupa saja orang asing yang memerhatikan sambutan hari kemerdekaan di negara asing. Mereka tidak patut begitu. Susah payah kita bina meja ini supaya masa depan mereka bahagia, tapi kenapa pula mereka macam tidak mahu?
Pada satu hari, saya dapat tahu puncanya. Entah kenapa, sekolah mengajar anak muda saya yang hanya abang saya seorang saja yang bina meja ini... jantung saya henti pukul... bukan henti, ia seperti hilang, bukan, bukan, bukan jantung yang hilang, jiwa yang hilang... seperti company yang saya bina dengan jiwa sendiri, tiba-tiba dikatakan orang lain punya. Apa perasaan kamu bila kamu mati atas medan perang untuk negara, tetapi nama kamu langsung tidak disebut? Pengorbanan yang sia-sia!! Apa perasaan kamu?
Semasa bina meja ini, saya telah sumbang kesemua kos bahannya, termasuk kos tiket kapal terbang, kos pakaian, kos harian yang berganda di luar negara, dan banyak yang remeh-temeh lagi. Abang tidak pandai buat bisnes. Tetapi bisnes kemahiran utama saya. Yang lain saya tak pandai sangat. Tetapi tanpa modal, apa pun tidak jadi. Padahalnya, hingga sekarang, saya masih sumbangkan 85% daripada kos maintainance meja ini. Bagitau saya, sumbangan saya tak penting!
Satu ratus tahun dulu, saya datang dari China. Tak ingatlah apa tujuan saya datang, lombong bijih timah ke? Buat bisnes ke? Sudah tua, susah mau ingat. Lima puluh tahun kemudian, kita bina meja ini, saya rasa meja ini sebahagian daripada saya. Kita berparty di atas meja ini, bekerja di atas meja ini, tidur di atas meja ini, makan di atas meja ini, bersedih di atas meja ini, bergaduh di atas meja ini, bercinta di atas meja ini... Tapi tidak sesekali terlintas dalam fikiran kami yang meja ini bukan milik salah seorang daripada kita. Ganjilnya, tiga anak-anak saya yang lahir atas meja ini, tidak berpendapat bahawa meja ini milik mereka. Apa sudah jadi kepada mereka?

偶像剧

我很难了解爱看偶像剧的人。除了看俊男美女外,根本没什么意义。但我们的社会并没那么封锁,俊男美女通街是,我相信没有政府会定罪于一个在街上欣赏人家姿色的人吧?有些人说要看自己的偶像演出,说真的,我很明白这个理由,说到深处,根本就是在看自己“得不到的对象”罢了。换句话说就是在感慨自己的人生不如戏剧里的完美,自己的另一半根本不像剧里的主角。然后就在思考自己的伴侣到底是不是心里真心喜欢的?她根本不像剧里的女主角?如果找了十多年还找不到的话,就随便找一个,然后自以为看破红尘地说人生不完美,然后抱着感慨到阴间去…

对,人生是不完美的,但有没想过因为这些不完美才会令每一个人的人生那么独特?就如刘德华的一首歌——缺陷美——。相信大家都知道偶像剧是骗人的,但我在这里想要告诉大家它没告诉大家的一些实事,偶像剧没有呈现偶像们的另一面,也就是坏的一面。如果你相信偶像剧里的主角跟他们真人一样性格的话,你的思想就很有问题了。如果你知道他们真人并不如剧里完美的话,那么为什么还要看他们?你的理由就只有因为他们很英俊、美丽。 有人告诉我人生太辛苦了,需要进入一些幻想的完美世界,以松懈松懈精神。为什么不去睡觉发美梦?更好笑的是,有人说娱乐之余可以学习好的价值观。那些偶像剧除了一而再,再而三地呈现出那些家喻户晓的价值观外,根本没有更探讨人生的价值观了。如果你喜欢每年上去年已经上过的课的话,那么你就很喜欢看偶像剧了。
我并不是叫你不要看偶像剧。其实我根本没权利批评偶像剧,因为我很少看。我相信好的偶像剧是有的,比如很久以前,木村拓栽演的“美丽人生”。(是不是很老土?)如果你可以找到一出偶像剧在告诉你,“爱情是不断地包容对方的弱点”或者“结婚是爱情的其中一项考验,不是最终目标”又或者“爱情只是人生的一小部分”的话,我敢向你保证,这部偶像剧很值得看。

A Tribute to Christopher Nolan

Someone asks me, inconceivably, why I like “The Dark Knight”? I even recall another person told me that he fall asleep watching it. Both of these men are successful person in their own field, at least better than me. Their ages are also near to Christopher Nolan. These are the cases that require our keen choice of who to look up with. Which side should we stand? Some of you reading this may think what is the importance of this question? I think how you choose your side will determine how far you will go. Both these men are local businessman and stock broker. They should stay ahead if they want their business to go far. I believe that what a person thinks now will greatly affect his future. Meanwhile, I also believe that a person, who can catch up with The Dark Knight, while the movie is playing, will not say it is boring. It only gives a conclusion that both these successful person cannot keep up with the changing world. How far can these two men go? I can only predict. I personally think they will not go far, at least as far as Christopher Nolan which got the second place in the most profitable blockbuster (for The Dark Knight).

Back to the question why I like The Dark Knight? It is a perfect blend of current issue and entertainment in the content of the film, other than the marvelous acting in Heath Ledger’s Joker. It has been years that a sellable film illuminates current issue. Critiques said that The Joker is “Osama bin Laden” in the film world. I unfalteringly agree with that. Terrorist is causing the world to change. Look at the US, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and even a small country like Malaysia (which its citizen cannot stand the corruption in their government anymore). The Dark Knight is just an exaggerated version of the situation. The citizen eager for a change, hoping for some one like “Harvey Dent” stepping out to lead them, clean the streets and giving their future a hope of justice. Batman is the dream of anyone trying to help and Joker is the nightmare even for the criminals. No one wants to hire someone like Joker to make way for their work, for he only makes it worst. Very clever for Christopher Nolan to put in a character like that as an effect of the bad guy.
I think it is the revolution of the film industry. All the while, sellable films do not highlight current issue while issue films seldom sellable. This time, I would like to say in the history, Christopher Nolan and his team have done it. I believe that films in the future will follow this trend, which is a good news and great idea. This mean profitable films in the future will not be only to stimulate adrenaline but as educate as well. Here, I pay a tribute to Christopher Nolan and his team.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Invasion in KL

It was late at night when we first met, or should I put it morning, because it was 4:30am? It was one of a normal night when I came back from university in Kelantan to Kuala Lumpur (KL). It was a holiday for one month for the university. I normally come home by bus at night. I can sleep while traveling at the same time. As usual, I awoke when the bus reaches KL, as well as most of the slowing down of the bus speed. We all feel the slowing down of the bus speed in deep sleep. That is something I do not understand, at least with my science background. Or, maybe I never want to find out? The bus stopped. I carry my backpack on my right shoulder then saunter down the bus as the pathway in the middle was filled with passenger that picking up luggage. I went to the lower compartment at the lower part of the bus to pick up my other luggage. It is the place where the passengers suppose to keep their luggage. Then when I turn around, there is the Pudu bus station. The bus did not drive down the basement where he supposes to. He just stopped beside the bus station. My next journey is to Kota Raya, I have to take the first bus to Kepong, or should I take KTM? Many, like me, sitting along the roadside, waiting for someone or the first operating bus which will send them to the destination they wanted. Some of them just lie down and sleep. I think it is the only time when KL sleeps, 4 to 6 in the morning. Actually hope KL always sleeps so that he can stop exhaling carbon monoxide. If you do not understand, try walking there in the days and you will understand. I have to pass by The Majestic Hotel, which is where I met her. The first thing that caught my eye is her fashion. She was wearing huge white buttoned shirt, tying a knot slidely above her belly button, matched with blue jeans. It is the 80’s fashion, we seldom see people wear like this on the street anymore, especially a time like this. Then I started to “read” her. Her skin is so white that she is suppose to be a westerner, but with a dark black hair. The skin and the hair are so unmatched that it looks like she is wearing a wig. What really got me into shock was her face. God! She has a high cheek bone with a sharp chin. You must have been asking, what is so special about this? It recalls my memory of an alien abduction case which I read years ago. A man claims that he was abduct by aliens and have sex with a high cheek bone, sharp chin, and thin woman on the alien spaceship. The case is hard to disbelieve because scientist found unidentified material, biologically, or chemically unknown, beneath his skin. They even have the sketch of the woman he had sex with on the ship. It looked exactly similar as this woman! how can it be so similar? I do not believe in UFO. My reason is most of the cases happen in the west. This is enough for me to disbelieve. How can UFO only appear at certain part of the earth? What is so special there that they ignore the other larger part? It might be the secret US military doing research, or just them imagining too much. They just cannot accept that we are alone in an infinity universe that they wish there are other living out there. I believe they have been imagining it too much that it got down to their unconscious mind and it got out as a reality in their life. But this time it is very, too precise! Her eyes were emotionless. The whole damn situation is very absurd with her there. It looks like she was not supposed to be there in that time and place. “What the…” I spitted out unconsciously. In spite of that, her eyes, fashion, skin, and hair were so artificial that it looks like they were manually dressed. The other side of my brain told me, “Wei Soon, you are being too outrage. UFOs are lies. You don’t want to believe it, do you?” this side, my left brain, calms me down a little. Just when I am passing her, a black 1980’s BMW model drove towards this way. The driver was in black suit and black glasses, yes, black glasses in the middle of the night, driving! “That can’t be the ‘Man In Black’!” I told myself, almost hit hard on my forehead with my fist. Immediately a fast thought come to me, “Don’t let them knew that you are conscious about them, or you are in deeeeep trouble!” So I acted as a normal passer-by. I walked straight, head held up, eyes focus straight forward. I found my eyes hard to keep still on something which I do not interest in looking. But I still managed to focus on the Kota Raya huge signboard. “Focus or you’ll die in a spaceship!” is the words that keep me focused. I kept walking. After ten or twenty steps later, just when I thought they had left, my uncontrollable curiosity stopped my legs and turned my head back. As thought, they were not there anymore. My tense loosen a little. Then my curiosity began to tellme that I had just let go a mystery of the century. I do not know what to feel now. Should I feel released or missed? I turned back over and continued my way. A car passed over me from the front. Two pale, artificial looking faces looking at me through the car windows, emotionless face… “Shit!” I shouted unintentionally. It was them! The “Man In Black” and the lady in white! They knew! The car did not stop. It just passed by me. My legs feel numb at that moment. I feel like falling forward, and stars appeared in front of me. I think I nearly faint. I quickly stopped walking. I sit down on the ground through it was beside the road. I could not care much. All I know is if I faint, I could be waking up in a spaceship with aliens surrounding me, putting stuff in my body; or I’ll wake up all my belongings gone. It is the most complex place in KL. Nothing strange happens next. I rest for awhile; stand back up when I felt I am able to. I knew my face will be as pale as the “Man In Black” and the lady in white, if I have a mirror. I waited anxiously until the bus came. It was like waiting for a decade though it was just an hour. Although I am home safely, I knew that something terrible is going to happen. I thought I had ruined my life, but nothing happens until that night, two weeks later. It happens when I totally forgotten about this incident. It was too outrages that it was hard to believe though it happened to you. Till today, though I was writing it down, I still cannot believe that I am doing this. But I have to… The first two days were dreadful. I cannot sleep for the whole night. I stayed awake for the whole night, worrying about being abducted. I fell asleep only in the morning. Luckily I was holiday. I got nothing much to do. No one disturbed me. Although I sleep in the day, I still had nightmare about being abducted. The only clue that convinced me that this did not happen is I have no unknown wound when I woke up. According to an expert who research on alien abduction, if you had nightmare following with unknown wound on your body, you are in a huge possibility of being abducted. I found all this in the net the first two days after the Pudu incident. It was the result of worried. My suspicious begin to fade. The absurdness of the incident made it hard to believe. Two weeks later when I almost forget, they came to me! I was at Beng Kiat’s house, my primary school buddy, at Sri Manja, Old Klang Road, playing DotA. We brought our own laptop. We had been playing for the whole day and night. I went out to 7-e to get Maggie Cup for all five of us. Why me? I was the first to get killed that round. It was a bet agreed by us when we hungry. I borrowed Beng Kiat’s father’s motorcycle to that 7-e. It was a hot starry night with plenty of cars moving on the road. The sequence of the car on that road was one every 30 seconds. It is a very normal hot night. A car flashes at the back of my motorcycle. I immediately turned my motorcycle to the left of the lane. But the car did not overtake. I looked into the rear mirror. A very familiar black BMW was behind me. I cannot recall why this BMW is so familiar to me. “Must be some dumbshit that is looking for fun…” I said to myself. I ignored them. A moment later, I feel fear out of nothing. I could not figure out the reason why. I think that that car was following me. To confirm this, I turned the motorcycle round, a U-turn. The road is a double line, and it is not wide enough for a car to take a U-turn directly. That is how I thought that I had got rid of them. Just when I wonder whether should I turned back to the 7-e using another road or go home, I remember where I had saw the BMW. It is the same car that the “Man In Black” drove to pick up that lady in white at Pudu two weeks ago! I almost experience black out and lost my life in an accident when I realized that the BMW was already behind me. After that, I immediately twist the right handle of the motorcycle to accelerate. All I wanted at that moment was to get away. My eyes were staring straight front, hoping that I am at far front, away from that freaky BMW. Then I realized that the BMW was not moving. All scenery was not moving either. The flats were stilled, the cars were stopped, the trees did not shake and even the passer-bys stopped moving. As if the whole was paused! My motorcycle engine soared like hell, but I did not move even an inch. Only I, my motorcycle, and the BMW have motions. The BMW was stopped with the engine on. The two front door of the BMW slowly opened. In the loud sound of the motorcycle engine, I heard “chick tug” sound of opened door. I turned my head around, tried to look what was going on. Two men stepped out of the car. They wore black cot. One of them look like the one that I saw in Pudu; while the other one did not differ much, only the face a bit square than the first one. I panicked. “Aaaah!” I cannot help my voice from expressing my fear. I did not want to scream but it just happened as an effect of fear. The two men slowly walked toward me. They seem very uncomfortable in walking. They took more energy in pulling the back leg to the front than normal people does. My mind runs over many ideas of saving myself at that short moment. I did not know that I had such talent. One of the ways is to break their hands when they tried to catch me up their vehicle. But most of the ideas were stopped by me left brain. He kept telling me that they are UFO, they come from intelligent civilization many times advance than earth. They do not need to touch you to catch you. At this moment, I saw a brilliant light shining on me. A huge silver dish about 2 kilometers in diameter floating there. Out of a sudden, I cannot feel the gravitational force anymore. I floated up in the air like the astronauts in space. Then the flying saucer became larger as it came nearer. I was about to give up my life! If I had a knife, I would have braved myself to cut my throat, if I could only move, I would have bite my tongue and bleed to death. I rather die than being tortured by them. Or maybe they will bring me to their world to and I am going to be their slaves. I rather die! “God, please kill me!” is the sentence I repeated at that moment. The light from the flying saucer keep getting nearer until was surrounded by the brilliant light. All around me was white and nothing but white. About 2 minutes later, the brilliant white light faded away. I found myself in a small white room. The room was about 5 feet in height, 7x18 feet width. It seems like a cell for small creature, those big forehead, sharp chin, short aliens. I tried looking for entrance or door, so that I can get out, although I knew I am locked in here. But there was neither door nor entrance. I became very frighten. I run around the room, hitting every inch of the cell, until my tears flood out. I was crying, shouting out my heart. Thinking I will not see earth anymore. I do not even have the chance to bury my death body on earth. All I can do now is panic; and cry like a frighten toddler. From nowhere, an alien, walked in. It walked in just through the cell wall. It was 4 feet in height, huge head, no ears, large eyes, dark wrinkled skin, no nose and a simple hole for mouth. I became more frighten. I hope I was hopping to get a heart attack and just die. That small creature’s eyes, how can I describe it? It had some kind of attracting power. I cannot focus on other place but only on its eyes while he was looking at me. Frighten and panic inside me vanished bit by bit. He calmed me down just in time I wanted to bite my tongue. This creature had no expression I do not know how but it just calmed me down as easy as just turning of a pressure switch. When I am fully calmed, the creature walked away, without saying a word, or any sound. I was quite curious about that. Are not they wanted to make me do something? Why they calmed me down and just walked away? At that time, a piece of the wall, about 4x2 feet in height and width respectively faded away. A pathway appeared. A voice in my mind asks me to go through that pathway. I totally confused that whether the voice was my own or those they put in my mind. I just felt that humans are weak both in knowledge and mental strength. They can destroy all humans by just moving a finger. Since they did not harm the human world, maybe they are not that harmful, maybe I will be saved. Maybe… I walked through that pathway calmly, with the convincing reason that I will be saved and will be back in to my life unharmed, although I do not know where the pathway will lead me. After about 20 minutes, along the pathway, the walls were made by the same material that I was in just now. There was nothing but the walls along the pathway. After about 20 metres walk, I finally came to a faded-away-wall which is an entrance to a room. The room is about 10 feet height, 20 feet width and 30 feet depth. The size makes this room practical for humans. In the room, a woman like person sitting there, watching at arrangement of stars position, showing on top of the room like a hologram. “Hello,” she said when I walked near the room, “is that how you human begin a conversation?” she turned around facing me. It is the lady I saw in Pudu! I do not know what to say. “Come in,” she said. I hesitated for a moment before walking in to the room. I do not think that there is other door opened for me in the flying saucer than this. “This is earth.” She pointed to one of the orb that was floating in the air. Of course, I do not understand the complex star map. I have background in science, not astrology. “One when humans learned how to read this map, you all will be able to travel around the universe like us.” “Why you bring me here?” I finally brave myself to ask. “We do not want anything from you. You were just being in the wrong place at the wrong time. That’s why you are here,” she said. I felt released. But my heart begins to bit faster. “What do you mean?” I asked. “You should not be at ‘D’al-vebu dilcavieulbiq’ that day. You should have just passed me by.” “D’al…Dejavu? You mean Pudu?” “It’s the location code. I don’t know what humans called it.” “But it’s not my fault. Me too, hope I did not saw you! I just you weren’t there!” I spit out what is kept in my heart for the pass two weeks. “Are you sure?” she asked. “I am damn sure! I don’t want to be your experiment item! I want to stay my life as every human!” I said angrily. “We don’t want to experiment on you. As a matter of fact, we do not want you here, knowing our existence.” “Then why am I here?” I confused and a little mad. “It’s the only way to bring to bring you back to that time,” she answered. “That time? You mean two weeks ago?” “Yes.” “You have time machine?” “No. the time that you humans thought it is is wrong. It’s totally the other way.” “Time? You mean like Einstein is wrong?” It is the only time theory I know, “you know Einstein?” “Yes, I knew him. He is a genius. His theory about time is right. It’s just other humans like you don’t really understand. Our civilization took 2000 years to realize that theory while he just spent a life time.” “So, how do you bring me back to this time if you do not have a time machine?” I doubt her words. “We call this technology ‘The Dimension Creator’ in human word,” she explained. “‘Dimension Creator’? You people create dimension to shift time?” I amazed. “Time is the fourth dimension that the human discovered. There is actually no fourth dimension, or in other words time doesn’t really exist. This “fourth” dimension is actually the other 61 dimensions that going on at the same time. These dimensions were sub units that combine to create spirits, emotions, and imaginations. All dimensions are made of complex wave frequency, as complex as the DNA in your body. If you are able todetect these complex wave frequency, you can actually create the time and place that you wanted,” said the woman. “That will took another 2 thousand years for man to find out,” I thought for a while and said, “And what a bout the dimension that I am in right now? What will happen to it? I asked. “It will vanish as it doesn’t exist, she said, “no wave can stand by it self without a front wave. If you create another wave in the middle of a traveling wave, the wave in front will change as you want and at the same time change the old wave. We are actually creating a front wave of that day which we met at location D’al-vebu dilcavieulbiq and put you in it to stimulate a new future.” More questions about the unexplained UFO sightings which I read on internet came to my mind. “Is the ‘Dimension Creator’ the solution to how your flying saucer can travel against all natural laws?” “Not against the natural law human. Nothing can against the Laws. We were just using these laws in a more efficient way. The more you understand these Laws, the more you can use it efficiently. The sightings were just the side-effects of our technology.” “I don’t get it.” “For example, we did not travel far from galaxy to galaxy. Materials will disappear in light speed. Masses will turn in to energy and disperse in space. We travel here by changing certain dimensions frequencies. This will shorten the traveling time.” What she told me is very hard for me to absorb. At that moment, I felt a sudden dizzy. I thought it must be because of thinking too much. It is normal to me that this thing happens, especially when thinking very tough questions. Suddenly I lost balance and fell. I felt a sharp pain at my elbow when I tried to balance my body. I, naturally, tried to grab something when I lost balance but there was nothing for me to grab. My elbow rub along the wall and the pain told me that I had just tear mw skin. I fell backward and a soft comfortable material pressing along my back and everything turned from brilliant white to dark. Without my conscious, I am back in the buswhich was about to reach Pudu, which supposed to be happened! The bus stopped at beside Pudu. It did not drive down to the basement where it is supposed to stop, just like two weeks ago! When the bus stopped, passengers stand up and sauntered down the bus… I took out my mobile phone and check the time and date. It is two weeks ago, 4:30am! I get down the bus, grab my luggage as fast as possible and walked in faster speed to the Majestic Hotel. Everything there is exactly the same as before including all passers-by. Except that the lady in white and the “Man In Black” is not there. Just when I begun to doubt whether this is all a nightmare, I felt pain on my elbow. I turned my elbow around and found tearing skin, which was still fresh, not dry yet… Wong Wei Soon Kepong

 
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