Friday 31 December 2010

Send your wish to a pager?

31 December 2010


Today is the last day of the year 2010. It is 5:30pm now and getting closed to the end of the year. I just received a message from my senior that he was hurt. As you know "hurt" can be defined differently. I was worried when I saw this first sentence of the entire message. Then he said he was paged. At this point, I felt relieved as I was pretty sure he was physically okay.

I continued reading the message and I knew I misunderstood. What he meant was he was moved/touched. He was alerted by his pager and when he checked the message, it was actually a new year greeting message sent by his user. It was such an interesting way of wishing each other located in different regions.

The friendship is formed beyond the company's boundary. I guess if I were him, I would feel shocked and yet great contented to see such a warm wish when you thought the pager beep was due to a production issue which may need your support.

Thursday 30 December 2010

寻音之路

30 December 2010


在我还没有机会应用Internet之前,在我的钢琴世界里,除了古代名音乐家,就只有Richard Clayderman。因为他的歌曲比较大众化,在夜市也可以买得到,甚至很多场合都能听到他的歌。当初我也是被Marriage D'Amour吸引而开始学钢琴的。那时我也不晓得是他的歌曲。

Richard Claydermand playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=0A6C12AEB8BF1D83&playnext=1&v=OS8F5x07pl8

当我刚刚接触Internet时,我首先认识了David Nevue这个钢琴家,很喜欢他的歌,风格完全和Richard Clayderman的不一样,比较有情感,可以听出一个故事。我甚至还买了他的歌谱。


过后我又认识了KITARO, Secret Garden和SENS。他们是属于乐队,不算钢琴家。他们的歌就比较戏剧化,很多电影都采用他们的歌曲。譬如说,宋家皇朝。虽然我很喜欢悲伤的歌曲,但是觉得有些KITARO的歌听起来会有点不舒服,感觉心里好像很没有安全感,仿佛一人被困在森林里。所以我只是特别喜欢KITARO的三个专辑,Heaven and Earth,Gushiji和The Soong Sisters。三个之中,比较喜欢Secret Garden因为大部分的歌曲我都喜欢。

Heaven and Earth:
Sozo:
Secret Garden playlist:
SENS playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=DDC9500E08463CEC&playnext=1&v=3hbZSgvn4JY

再经几番寻索,又被我认识了YANNI,风格算是属于Contemporary或New Age吧。同样的,在很多连续剧都能听到他的歌。跟KITARO比较,少了一份戏剧化的情感。

Yanni playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=7FE9B2B6BDB6AAD4&playnext=1&v=6QSqihOEU58

过了不久,买了一个The Daydream的Tears专辑。歌曲都是纯钢琴,有些也是蛮伤感的,可能是在同样的专辑里,要符合相似的风格,所以很多歌曲听起来好像差不多一样,就连调子也是一样的。跟之前几个音乐家相比,名气比较低,出的专辑也比较少。

The daydream:

不久之前,认识了David Lanz。我深深被他的Cristofori's Dream吸引着。听起来仿佛自己在梦中,不过听起来还是有孤独的感觉,就觉得很特别。他的名气远远不如KITARO,Richard Clayderman和Yanni。大概是歌曲没有那么大众化的关系吧。不过我还是蛮喜欢他的歌。


还有一位音乐家叫Steve Barakatt, 歌曲比较现代,歌曲都有一点点"摇滚"的伴奏。听起来也蛮刺激的。Rainbow Bridge, Eternity, FLYING是他其中几首名曲。我也是透过"Song Without Words"的专辑而认识他,专辑里全部歌曲都很好听。他好像也是一位歌手,在他的网站里看到的都是他的唱歌专辑。

Steve barakatt playlist:

以前的我或许不喜欢听New Age的歌,比如说YOGA的音乐,听起来不但没有带给我轻松的感觉,反而是害怕,感觉很孤独,很无助。不过最近我开始慢慢接受了,也开始喜欢它们。

Real world vs Abstract World

29 December 2010
I was sitting on a couch aside while others were happily discussing about it in the dining hall. I made myself isolated from the discussion as I knew I was not expected to talk about it.

Similarily, this situation happens in the abstract world. While internet services such as facebook and blogspot are appreciated by so many people including myself for their awesome connecting and sharing abilities, at the same time, I hate them. I hate them for intruding and violating the privacy. I dislike them for stopping me to talk freely as it is being "monitored" everywhere.

缘分是那么的奇妙

29 December 2010

缘分是那么的奇妙。第一次见面的时候,我还是以一个泼辣的顾客来向他施压。 第二次见面,也是因为公事,但也赚了友情。

所以人啊,凡事都要留一线,做事不要太过。世界是那么的小,这一分钟他是你的敌人,下一秒就可能需要他的帮忙,成为你的朋友,又或者恩人。

凡事不要太执著,待人友善,就能够开心,也容易交朋友。

Saturday 25 December 2010

How to unblock youtube video

25 Dec 2010

Youtube's staff is getting more responsible? I had no video being blocked before until the two recent videos. I had no idea their reason being blocked. I made a photo slide show, of course with music behind that may violate the copyright. But out there are millions of videos which as well violate the copyright. Some of them even upload movie and series. Why me???

I just need to unblock them. Here I found the tricks from http://1001how2.com/how-to-unblock-copyrighted-youtube-videos-fast/

1) Login your youtube account
2) Go to My video
3) Click on the Content ID Matches on left
4) Click of View Copyright Info of your video
5) At the bottom, click on "I want to learn more about the dispute process"
6) You will be directed to another page. Click on "Take me to the dispute form"
7) You will see three options. Choose the second one saying about fair use
8) Under the please explain section, paste this statement:

Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use

9) Type you name as signature and under the statement of good faith, just copy the statement as displayed below the text box.
10) Click on Continue and then "Submit Claim"

It should immediately work right once you are done with the instructions above.

每周末必做的事

25 Dec 2010

读大学的时候,很抗拒独自到外吃饭,总觉得周围都是三五成群的大学生,我不想当特出的那一位,如果让认识的人碰到,分分钟会觉得我患了孤僻症。

成为上班族的一分子后,每当我独自吃饭的时候,我发现我不孤独了,我有伴了,因为我也不是唯一一个独霸一张桌子的顾客。:)大概是因为上班族离开了校园,很多的也没有跟朋友一起住了。

每个周末,如果懒根没有被挑出来的话,都会到bukit gasing或TTDI爬山。爬山的时候,满脑子都想着食物,想着爬山过后要到哪里用餐,这样我就有推动力了。想了,当然是要做的咯。我可不是一个想了又能够控制自己不犯罪的人。通常都会找一些weekdays吃不到的,或者不方便去吃的。如果看到有几样吸引我的食物,我甚至可能点完它们,除非我觉得我真的吃不下了。

独自用餐就是有一点很麻烦。如果需要self service去order而剩下的空桌子又不是很多,那么你就需要找一些东西放在桌上"霸位"。

Sunday 12 December 2010

明天请你不要来

12 December 2010

就正当我为了未知之数而烦恼和彷徨时,有位同事说了一句话,“有些人为着未知的烦恼希望明天不要来,患绝症的人却怀着看不到明天而绝望·,天意就是这般弄人”。 如果你有类似的经验,听了这番话,有没有觉得自己很幸福,不应该在这样想了?其实我很明白这个道理,我甚至觉得这是一个很好的人生考验,一天一天熬过去后,再回头看一看,就会发现你原来走到很远了,什么风霜都被你征服了。但是人是一个很复杂和奇妙的东西,当你的天使很乐观地鼓励你时,另一个恶魔却在你脑海里一直跟它唱反调,告诉你这一条路会很有挑战性。我想这也是正常吧。如果人都只有一种思维,那么人就是很简单了,也称不上是高级动物。不过同事的那一番话,还是有效的。所以当你悲观的看着你的烦恼时,也别忘了乐观的看待它。

Friday 10 December 2010

我到底怎么了?

我发觉自己太久没有写日记了,我是指记载关于自己心情的日记。部落格里写的都是一些比较大众化的题材,说的也逃不过旅游,饮食和知识。

近来几个月,开始很少在网上谈天,比较少追连续剧,坐在电脑前,就算明知道应该洗澡,或者上床睡觉,还是选择好无目标地控制着滑鼠,反反复复的看着面子书的Home那一面。

反而开始培养起阅读的习惯,自我阅读完两本关于纽西兰的书,接着又买了一本英文书。好不容易才找到价钱不太贵,英文又不太深的故事书。它讲述关于孩童的真人故事,揭发背后不为人知的真相。

自从桂林游,也开始慢慢忘记减肥的使命。其实也没有忘记,这可是我每一天的都必须要负的包袱,减肥两个字很难被删除掉。只是可能觉得反正都已经肥了,索性再吃一点。也因为天气的关系,很少运动。对于一般人来说,没有了运动,就更加靠饮食控制体重,但我却刚刚相反。觉得反正自己什么都不能做什么,就算做了也可能事倍功半,最后就决定吃我爱吃的食物。

生活不够充实的我,想参加舞台剧之类的活动,就算要付钱签一个celebrity的会员证,我也在所不惜,至少我可以运动减肥,参与自己热爱的舞蹈,打发时间,和认识新朋友。但是却听说一定要sign contract :(

Saturday 27 November 2010

Food Trail @ Sunway Pyramid

27 Nov 2010

It was always fun spending time together with my best friend, Sheryl. This time, we met at Sunway Pyramid as I am bored going to Midvalley and One Utame. Well, when we looked at the directory, I was captivated by a few restaurants that I couldn't normally find in One Utame. So I decided to try them out. The first we tried was Ireland's otato.

Ireland potato

We brought this into the cinema and consequently I did not have a chance to capture its photo. It is very common in overseas to eat fried potato chips with different toppings. Each topping is charged differently. I was so surprised to see this in Malaysia. With around RM8, I got the Ireland meat sauce topping. It smelled really fantastic with spice. If the chips can be crispier, that would be perfect.


Yip's Kitchen

I searched for its review on Web at the previous night and I found some good comments on its wantan, spinach noodles, and Roselle Flower juice (洛神花). So we ordered a dry BBQ sauce roasted pork spinach noodles (叉烧面), soup dumpling noodles(凤城水饺面), a bowl of wantan soup, Roselle Flower juice, and a leong shui. The total damage was around RM 40.00.

Everything was nice, especially the wantan soup as it is uncommon to have wantan soup with herbs (药材) as the base. The skin of the wantan was quite smooth and thin. I was really satisfied with what we ordered except for the soup dumpling noodles. The problem was not on the dumpling, not on the noodles, not on the soup itself too. It was the liquid soda from the noodles which caused the soup tasted differently. I believe the dry noodles would definitely taste better.


The Roselle Flower juice was great too. It was a mixture of salty and sour taste. It is said that it is full of vitamin C so I gave it a try. The crunchy flower can be eaten as well. It is sold at the price of RM5.90. Overall, I would rate the food 4/5.


Ninja Joe

The story did not end here. My desire for food was not satisfied. I headed to Ninja Joe for its mini pork burger. I chose the terriyaki flavour as I have been hearing good reviews on this. The menu is simple. You have 6 flavours to choose from. Before deciding the flavours, all you need to do is just to select how many pieces you want, either 1, 2, 3 or 6 pieces and you can have different flavours for each burger.

For pork lovers, you do not have to try the Mc D pork burgers overseas, you can have them too in Ninja Joe. The patty is juicy. Since I do not quite like pork, I do not think I will return for this.


DailyFresh waffle

The stomach was full now, but still I was tempted by the aroma of waffle when we passed by this stall which is named DailyFresh. I ordered the premium waffle with pandan flavour for RM4.00 and the result turned out to be little disappointing to me.


Honeymoon Dessert

After 2 hours of walking, we were tired and decided to sit down to have some chat. Honeymoon came to my mind without second thought. Since we were both full, we shared a bowl of black sesame with red bean paste for RM6. It was good!!!! The taste of the sesame was not covered by the red bean paste and yet we have some red beans to chew. It was such a wonderful mix and match.

We passed by the stage which was nicely decorated for coming Christmas. There were some performers on stage and we both took a photo together with them.

I am a light eater during weekdays but turned out to be such a heavy eater on weekends. Have you ever imagined I can eat so much just in an evening? Nevertheless, I had another Thai-style dinner at Cheras with my family after that. Phew~

Monday 22 November 2010

Sightseeing @ Guiline

30 Oct - 6 Nov 2010

塔山清影

它是桂林老八景之一,处于穿山公园内,这里可以看到小桥流水,山影重重。可惜的是,它太过规划了,也略商业化,少了一点大自然的景色,难以令我心旷神怡。


穿山岩

它也是坐落于穿山公园内,在穿山的半山腰,是新开辟的岩洞,洞内由色彩缤纷的灯光点饰。里面有25个景点,包括寿星迎宾,天鹅湾等等。


来到其中一个景点,我们能够免费放生。在这里,服务员会用专业摄影机拍下放生的照片,然后以少于马币15块的价格出售照片。虽是专业摄影机,但效果却不比我自家相机拍出来的好。结果我们决定不买了,反而每人还是一样能够免费获取一张书签,上面也是印着小小的放生照片。


靖江王府

它是明太祖朱元璋其侄孙朱守谦被封为靖江王时修造的王城。靖江王城中国最完整的明代藩王建筑物--靖江王城景区。在中国4A新定评选中,桂林靖江王城被评为中国4A景区。(1)

全票:50元(包含靖江王城、靖江王府、独秀峰),儿童半票。  
开放时间:每日7:30—18:30。


清灭明后,靖江王府被改为贡院,成为广西科举考试乡试的地方。我们也感到很荣幸,能够与其他团友一起拿起毛笔竞考状元,争个你死我活。其实也只不过是一场游戏,答案已经放在一旁让你看。因为太多游客的关系,他们也不可能让我们待在那儿慢慢地把答案写出来。

其中一位会被挑选为状元。我想应该跟导游安排过的,要不然他们怎么懂得状元的名字,而那位状元又哪儿会乐意付一笔金钱来买下那张状元证明书。


王府实在太大了。爬上某个高处,能够看到桂林的全景。忘了是什么地方,不过要爬上这个地方还真的不容易,需要徒步爬上无数峻峭的阶级。王府里每个角落的设计好像都被安排好的,背后都代表着不同的意义。比如说,正门的台阶扶手,建造的很像棺材,意味着升官发财,有名有利。而有吉祥云彩图案的云阶屏风,就代表平步青云,飞黄腾达。



鱼鹰抓鱼表演
鱼鹰捕鱼是桂林传统的捕鱼方式。这些鱼鹰都非常听话,训练有素。渔夫下指令让鱼鹰下水抓鱼,它们很快的就抓到了,把鱼吞进嘴里。由于它们的脖子上都绑了绳子,所以辛辛苦苦捕回来的收获只能卡在喉咙。渔夫就在这时候,就会拿一根竹竿,让鱼鹰爬上去,要它们把鱼吐出来,可能大家在这时候会觉得它们都徒劳无功,但是渔夫会喂它们吃小鱼来慰劳它们,唯有小鱼能够进入喉咙。


看鱼鹰表演的同时,我们也和当地的人对唱"刘三姐"。非常幸运被抛中绣球,需要跟她对唱真正的山歌,歌词任君发挥。我就唱了
"嘿,你的声音非常好leh,嘿溜溜咯
我的心情非常紧张,嘿溜溜咯
我还是不要唱歌了,
你还是到别的船吧。"



一路上看到的风景也一点都不逊色,有山有水。过后我们还下船到稻米田,只顾拍照,玩的流连忘返。要不是船夫和领队催促我们,我还想待多一会儿呢。

世外桃源

何谓世外?就是与现实社会隔绝,而所谓桃源就是指环境幽静生活安逸的地方。就听这一句来自陶渊明的文才,就可以想象得到这个地方是那么的神奇。世外桃源景区是根据晋代陶渊明所著的《桃花源记》中的美景,结合当地的田园风光所设计。田园风光、民俗风情、民寨大观有机排序,与大自然的秀美融合为一体,可以领略山光水色、民俗风情的同时,有一种恍若隔世的感觉。


我们乘着轻舟顺流而下,经田园村舍,过绿树丛林,也观赏到民族特色的舞蹈和风情。可能季节的关系吧,看到的也其实没有它的名字来得那么令人人神魂颠倒。




乐满地主题公园

前一晚,我们入住这家五星级酒店。它是整个旅程里唯一有供给运动设备的酒店,里面还有理发店,商店,歌厅等等。但房间还不如我们第一晚住的景翔酒店。第二天用过早餐后,我们就步行到游乐场。这个公园有六大不同特色风格的主区和曼陀罗园组成。开始我们还挺意外为何导游只安排3个小时,后来我真的明白了。无论我们玩哪一种游戏,都不需要排队,真的非常清静,完全没有一般游乐场应有的热闹。加上它也不算大,3个小时果然是足够的。


一时好玩,我终于和表妹在当地拍下这张照片。整个旅程都没有买过任何照片,唯独是这一张,价钱还算公道,应该少于马币20就能买到一张挺大张的。服饰任君选择。


七星公园

别小看这间小屋,在1998年7月2日,克林顿总统举行环保座谈会。他在此发表了环保演讲,并且和八位民间环保专家进行了在桂林驻足时间最长的座谈。


狗熊表演,站得挺直的。

袋鼠

熊猫基地

桂林夜景

这是我们看到桂林最妩媚的一面。我们一直看到的都是它白天平平无奇的一幕,直到最后一晚,我们终于能够再次见识到桂林市是多么的色彩缤纷。


龙胜风景

一路上看到的可能都是破破烂烂的建筑,沙尘滚滚的马路,穿着衣着破旧的市民为了生计而埋头苦干。尽管看到那么灰的一面,另一厢我又看到令人不能回头再望的美景。清澈的湖水,绿油油的山脉,强烈的阳光把山脉倒映在湖面上,湖水看起来也绿了起来。


早晨的阳朔

为了能够看到日出,一大清早就起床和阿姨,妈妈散步到离酒店大约1.5公里的一座桥。桥下就是流着鼎鼎大名的漓江。这里看到的风景却是一流,果然不失我所望,就算再早起床也是值得的。


榕杉湖风景区

这里对于我来说也没有什么特别。令我印象最深刻的是处处闻到的桂花香,和长了一棵古榕树。


模拟巴黎凯旋门

模拟美国的Golden Gate Bridge


榕杉湖,连漓江



秦皇宫城门


大圩古镇

它是广西四大古镇之一。大圩古镇 古朴的镇,使电影“刘三姐”在此去了许多外景,经年来几部电影,电视都选择在这里进行外景拍摄。我还看到有新郎新娘拍婚纱照呢。经过此游,我明白到原来破旧也有它不同的一面,带给我不一样的味道。


乘船由杨堤到冠岩

冠岩是一个三层的水洞旱洞相连的奇特地下溶洞。由杨堤乘船沿途可观赏到漓江风景,这是漓江的黄金水段。在冠岩上有电梯坠入 瑶池 ,中有火车穿越峡谷,下有木舟轻泛暗河。桂林的冠岩凭借多样化的立体观光方式荣获吉尼斯世界纪录--观光方式最多的岩洞。
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