Dampening.

Work has been crazy.
Been slaving away everyday.
On weekends. And on weekdays.
Many times, even past midnight.

Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow
are public holidays. But not for me.

To those who are travelling,
have a safe journey.
Enjoy your holidays to the full.

Now, let me get back to work.
Sigh. Crap.

Humanity.

Oh great, after countless centuries,
this is how far we have 'progressed'.

The most brilliant.

Kim Ung-yong.

He's a Korean child prodigy. And is still alive today.

He's recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as having the highest IQ (around 210) on the planet NOW (used to be someone else, but he died). An average person's IQ is around 85 to 115. If yours is 136 and above, you're considered pretty brilliant.

He was able to read and write in Japanese, Gernam, Korean and English by his fourth birthday. Also, at the age of four, on November 2, 1967, he solved a complicated differential and integral calculus problems on Japanese television.

Kim entered university as a physics student at the age of three. Later at the 'ripe old age of seven', Kim was invited to the United States by NASA to study (I think he was invited because they suspected him of being an alien).

Hahaha.

Colour me mad.

Tough questions.

If you suffer a miscarriage,
how would you react?
Will it affect your marriage?


If you discover that you can't
have babies, how do you think your
husband will react (if he's been hoping
to have children of his own through you)?
Will it affect your relationship?


If you are unable to work
due to whatever reasons,
and your own family needs you
to provide for them, how will
your husband react if you were
to ask him to provide for your family
on top of providing for his own family?
Will it cause any grudge between you two?


What will you do,
If you discovered that your
husband has been unfaithful?
If your child pass away?
If your husband got into a huge debt?



ARGH!
Pre-marital counselling is a lot
tougher than exams!

Trauma

Ate dinner with fiancé last night.

On the way back,
near Atria Shopping Centre,
we saw a four-wheel drive stopped
in the middle of the road,
under its front tyres was a motorcycle.

A guy (motorcyclist) was lying
on the floor few feet
away from the vehicles.

Fiancé stopped the car.
Told me to stay inside and wait,
while he ran over to check on the guy.

A lady in white (driver)
was standing nearby.

In less than a minute,
more people pulled over to help.

I saw fiancé and a few men
gingerly carried the injured dude
to the side of the road
to make way for the incoming traffic.

The guy sat up for a few seconds.
Then slumped down.

I called fiancé from the car.
He told me it’s quite serious.
I quickly locked the car
and ran over to them.

Then I saw.
The guy’s eyes, nose and ears were bleeding.

I think he also dislocated his jaw.
Coz he can’t really talk.

Fiancé took out the guy’s handphone.
He whispered, ‘A-b-g…’!
Must be ‘Abang’
(means ‘brother’ in Malay)!

We tried calling his 'abang' on his phone
but he has no more credit left in the phone!

So, fiancé used his own phone
to call the brother, informing him
of what happened.

Others called the ambulance
and we all waited.

Two Christian ladies
were next to him.
One checking his pulse,
the other just held his hands
and prayed for him.

While waiting for the ambulance,
fiancé continues talking to him
to keep him awake.

His name sounds like “Faha…”
Hmmm, he can’t speak properly.
So we're still not sure.

Anyway, the ambulance finally came.
One man came out from the vehicle.
Walked near the victim and
slapped him very hard on his legs
while saying, “Ui ui ui…”!

I was shocked!
ARGH! SO RUDE!
Is that how the hospital trained you
to check if a person is alive?

It was only when “Faha”
moved his head to look at the him
then only he asked the others
in the ambulance to come down
with the stretcher.

I tell you!
If “Faha” didn’t move,
those jokers (from the hospital)
would probably have left him to die there!

Sickeningly unsympathetic!
Hhmmph!

After they ‘loaded’ him into
the ambulance, we headed for home.

Fiancé called “Faha’s” brother
few hours later.

Doctor did an X-ray on “Faha” and
he was already sleeping
at that time of the call.

I just pray and hope he’s ok.
Fiancé will call again later
in the afternoon.

Sigh.
I think I just lost my faith in the
paramedics of this country.


UPDATE
"Faha" was discharged from hospital already!
Praise the Lord.

SELF-DISCOVERY III

I have an unsual pet hate.

Being very sensitive to sound,
I'm super irritated when the car window
is not wound up properly. You get this
stupid humming sound of the wind trying to
squeeze itself in through the gap between
the car door and the window.
ARGH!


Also, I hate the parking ticket autopay machines in the malls.
THEY JUST CAN'T SHUT UP!

"Please pay the amount shown on the display...
Please pay the amount..."
ARGH! Shut up, stupid machine!

SELF-DISCOVERY II

I wanted to write one thing
about myself last week.

But it didn't happen because that 'one thing'
which I've discovered about myself is -

I like to procrastinate.

SELF-DISCOVERY I

I realised that I am weird...
And I like weird-looking stuff.

Extra for the day...

Hillarious Top 10 Moments of the 2008 Olympics.


Hehe. It just doesn't feel right
for me to not share it with you.

Fashion or Fetish?

Got me lol when I saw the
bananarama shoes and fish slippers!

Enjoy!

Cute-sy Olympics

Phantom Jam

I can never figure out the KL traffic.

You're stuck in a jam for like 45 never-ending minutes,
speculating that there might be an accident upfront
or a road block etc...

Then all of the sudden,
the jam clears up.

Doesn't make sense!
What caused the jam in the first place?

ARGH!
WEIRD!

A Special Colleague

Oh colleague,
Your 'great work' so invisible.
That eyes have not seen, ears have not heard
of your 'capabilities' month after month.

Oh, I fear for you.


Oh colleague,
Your decisions so daring.
That you applied for a senior position
in this demanding industry though you're
unable to bring anything to the table.

Oh, I fear for you.


Oh colleague,
Your greed so incomprehensible.
You earn triple the salary compared to
most of the people in the department,
yet failed time and again to deliver a simple job.

Oh, I fear for you.


Oh colleague,
Your mind so insane.
When you couldn't think of
an idea for a 5-second
frame on TVC, you called me to
come back to office at 6am
to solve it for you.



Oh, you're so incompetent.
I fear for you.

Does beauty still exist beyond perfection?

Have been reading about Liu Yan,
a 26 year-old Beijing Dance Academy dancer
is one of China's best classical dancer.

That's why, it's not unexpected that
she was chosen to dance a solo
during the Olympics opening ceremony.

During rehearsal on 27 July 2008,
Liu Yan who was part of
the Silk Road dance, fell more than
three metres from the moving platform,
landing on her head and back after
a miscalculation by other performers
who were supposed to catch her.

She suffered a dislocation of her eleventh vertebra,
causing nerve and spinal damage. As a result,
she has lost all feeling below the waist.

The Olympics opening ceremony director
Zhang Yimou was quoted saying:
"You're the deepest pain in my heart,
if I could see you stand on your feet again,
it would make me much more excited
and happier than any praise I've received."

On the day of the actual opening ceremony,
her solo was danced by a replacement.

This is Liu Yan,
a year before the accident.






So beautiful.
Yet so fleeting.
So sad.

Hope she can walk again.

Gymnastics

Since the Olympics is on, thought it would be nice
to show you one of my favourite sports. Enjoy!

6,000 Over Steps of Love

Over 50 years ago, Liu Guojiang was a 19 year-old boy
when he fell in love with a 29 year-old
widowed mother named Xu Chaoqin.





In a twist a lot like Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet,
friends and relatives criticised their relationship
because of their age difference and the fact that
Xu already had children.

At that time, it was unacceptable and 'immoral' for
a young man to love an older woman.
To avoid the gossip and scorn of their communities,
the couple decided to elope and lived in a cave
in Jiangjin County in Southern ChongQing Municipality.

In the beginning, life was harsh as they had nothing,
no electricity nor even food. They had to eat grass and roots
they found in the mountain. But with his two hands,
Liu created the necessities to build a home.



Xu had always felt that she had tied Liu down and
repeatedly asked him, "Are you regretful?"
Liu always replied, "As long as we work hard,
life will get better."

It was also during this time (year 1949) Liu began and
continued to hand-carve steps on the mountain
so that his wife could get up and down the mountain easily.

Half a century later, in year 2001, a group of adventurers
were exploring the forest and were surprised to find the
elderly couple and the over 6,000 hand-carved steps!



Liu MingSheng, one of the couple's seven children said,
"My parents loved each other so much, they have lived
in seclusion for over 50 years and had never been apart
for even a single day.

He hand-carved more than 6,000 steps
over the years for my mother's convenience,
although she doesn't go down the mountain that much."



The couple had lived in peace for over
50 years until one day,
in year 2002, Liu returned from
his daily farm work and collapsed.

Xu sat and prayed with her husband
as he passed away in her arms.

So in love with Xu was Liu, that
no one was able to release
the grip he had on his wife's hand
even after he had passed away.
He was 72 year old.



"You promised me you'll take care of me,
you'll always be with me until the day I died,
now you left before me, how am I going to live without you?"

Xu spent days softly repeating the above sentence
and touching her husband's black coffin
with tears rolling down her cheeks.

In 2006, their story became one of the top 10
love stories from China, collected by the
Chinese Women Weekly. The local government
has decided to preserve their '6,000 over steps of love'
and the place they lived as a museum,
so that their love story can live forever.