2008 完结篇

想要在2008年结束前留下一些文字，却发现没有办法为那365天作一个总结。

因为

有太多的遗憾

太多的无奈

太多的感慨

是因为自己的执著，固执与倔强？

还是自己的愚昧？

2008年。心中永远的缺口。

大扫除

年末了，大扫除。
想除掉的不止是堆积在房间里的垃圾，
更想除掉的是久久无法平复的情绪，还有那恼人的思绪。

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再美的花，也有凋谢的时候。

春天花再开，期待春风，把忧郁的空气一扫而空。

Snowboard trip@栂池

My second snowboard trip. A short 2 days one night trip to a ski resort called 栂池(tsugaike). This was an awesome trip. The ski resort is perfect with courses that suit the need of beginner and intermediate. And the scenery was breathtaking, surround by rows of mountain covered in white snow. I was regret that I did not have my DSLR with me, only an old digital camera for a few snapshot.

Another good news was, I did quite well in this trip. Fell a lot in the first day but soon the body begin to recall, and I was having fun sliding from top to bottom breaking through the wind. But there was price for it ~muscle pain and some bruises.

Looking forward for another snowboard trip next winter.

Rich Dad Poor Dad

This was once a best selling book a few years back, and I think most of you must have heard of it. Ya, I was late until the end of 2008 that I get myself to read up this book. Learning will never be late, the worst thing is you do not initiate to learn.

Financial literacy is a knowledge that I find myself lack of as a student. As an engineering student, what I learn all these years is the complex equations but nothing about how to face the real world after graduate. Get great grade in school, get a good job, work hard seem to be the answer. But the recession around the world prompt me to think more about it. When all the companies start downsizing and layoff their employees, what will happen when most of us depends on the paycheck every month to pay the bills. How can we get ourselves out of the mess and be financial independent? I realize that I must be prepared with certain financial knowledge, at least to know how money works and how to not to work for money.

I did not get all the answer from this book, but a broader view on what money is, the do and don't. The main point to become rich by the author is the power to control the cash flow. Maximize the income generate assets and minimize the liability expenses. But how?
The example always limited to real estate speculation. Which I think this is what the book lack of -- examples- examples other than real estate.

As mentioned in this book, investment is a method to increase the income generate assets. How to? is the knowledge that we need to acquire. Anyway there still a big question in my head, when a big investment company like Lehman Brothers can face bankruptcy, how should we invest?

There still a lot to learn and this one book alone is not enough. Read and learn more about finance is one of my target next year. If you recommend any book please let me know in the comment. Thanks a lot!

24岁了

又老了一岁了。生日到了，转眼间2008年就只剩下几天的时间。

回头看看过去，其实没有什么好值得提的成就，来日本留学的这段日子，说没有收获是假的，但是再仔细地想一想，其实自己并没有好好的利用这段时间来磨练自己，反而被这里舒适的生活给宠坏了，有好一些机会平白地从指缝间溜走了也没有发现。

看一看前方，也是一片模糊，没有一个明确的方向，看不到自己的未来。其实，最近一直被这个问题困扰。。。我是谁？我想要的是什么？什么样的工作，什么样的生活？我追求的是什么？许多的问号，还是找不到答案。。。原来我是这么地不了解我自己。

24岁。我是迷茫的。

24岁。我没有办法回头再活一次。错的对的都无法改变。能做的只有把握每一个现在，能改变的只有眼前的未来。

24岁。iTunes传来的是这首歌曲--“Happy birthday to me”

My New Photography Blog

At last....I'm happy to announce that I had launch a new blog - "Bi Hong Photography"(http://bihongphotography.blogspot.com/) for my photography work.

Actually I have been thinking a lot about how to get thing start if I seriously considering the possibility of photographer as a career, like to set up an online portfolio, or even hosting my own website. But both of them cost money, and I have too little to showoff. So, I decide to stick to blogger once again.

Anyway free services had its limit. I have to customize the layout of the blog to suit my needs, finding place to host the files etc. It took me a few days, playing with the css and html coding piece by piece to get the final result. I am very happy with it now and will add more thing to it in the future. So, here is the screen shot of my new blog:
I just find out that the layout work best for firefox, going well with safari, but it suck for IE. I hate IE, it just cannot handling css well enough. But, IE still have 70% of the browser's share market, I think I need to solve this issue fast.

Anyway, back to the new blog, I have my first post about a wedding project in Shanghai two month ago, with lot's of nice shot, feel free to visit and I hope you will enjoy it.

If you like my work, please help me promote my new blog to your friends, family or colleagues. Thanks!!

#Update: Fix the browser compatible problems, but I dropped down some hover effect on my header. Hopefully I can find ways to get it work with all the browser one day.

一段歌词

我 我还是不能举起白旗
要不要都看我自己
总会等到和你分精彩的那一天

加油！！
努力活好每一天！！

大學生該學什麼？

Forwarded article from my brother. For those who cannot read chinese, this is the keyword

"Systematic learning".

Set a target, either a short term or long term, find the resource and get yourself into the learning process systematically with discipline everyday.

Hope this will help you in your learning process ;)

張忠謀談「終身學習」

by Khai Suan

大學生該學什麼？張忠謀：「有系統」的學習是關鍵
作者：採訪整理∕李雪莉．謝明玲　發表日期：2008/11/19


智慧不是上學讀書的產品，而是終身努力追求的成果～愛因斯坦

每次聽台積電董事長張忠謀演講或談話，他總有新的學習。

他每天有足夠的閱讀時間，從外文期刊、外文雜誌、社論，隨時掌握時代的脈動與發展。

這樣的持續學習，從他年少開始，特別是十八歲赴美求學後，建立的好習慣。他說，自己在哈佛大學、麻省理工學院（MIT）求學的經驗，學到兩樣重要的能力，就是懂得如何學習以及獨立思考。

二十多年前，張忠謀創辦台積電時，就清楚，要做一流企業就必然面對全球競爭，而這競爭到了今日，更是白熱化。

去年，他在交通大學新生入學演講時，不斷強調這一代大學生，畢業後會面臨的世界。「我可以保證，這個世界會跟你父親、二十幾年以前，讀大學之後所面臨的世界完全不同。」

他的演講內容大量被轉載。大學生想知道這位德儀副總裁、工研院院長、台積電創辦人究竟如何成功；而為人父母者也轉載他的演講內容，他們想告訴孩子，成功不是偶然，而是當下的努力。

大學生要打破三個迷思

當競爭較以往快速、競爭也較以往全面時（跨國間人才、企業、國家間的競爭），張忠謀提醒大學生要打破三個迷思，才能清楚掌握未來的潮流。

迷思一，認為頂尖大學畢業就是鐵飯碗的保證。二十五年前，台大、交大畢業可能有很高的成功機率，但現在就不一定了，完全要靠以後的努力。

迷思二，以為「自己的競爭舞台只在台灣」。和我們競爭的對手是全世界的人。

迷思三，以為「不必創新也會成功」。過去，即使你模仿、重複以往的模式，如果效率高，還是能維持相當的成功。但現在必須要創新，才會有不平凡的成功。

七十七歲的張忠謀有著豐厚的人生歷練、收納了全球視野；這一代年輕人如果能站在這位巨人的肩膀上，可以看得更遠。

以下是這次專訪內容：

面對不確定的未來，年輕人真的要把自己的競爭力增強。不只是要加強自己在台灣的競爭力，也要提升在世界的競爭力。

在全球化的趨勢裡，人力的流動性比起資本或貨物的流動來得緩慢，叫一個人到別的國家工作，並不是件容易的事情，我們也可以說，人力在全球化浪潮中，反而是最為本地化的。

話雖如此，你不能忽略國際的競爭力也同等重要。有一天，你也可能到國外工作，外國人也會到台灣跟你競爭工作！

我去年曾分享過「大學生要培養的十一項能力」，分別是：養成終身健康的生活習慣、培養志願、用功學習、學習時要徹底了解、學會獨立思考、學創新、學中文、學英文、學習世界、學辯論與講演、做誠與信的人。

其中，我認為一個好的人才，最重要的是要具備正確的價值觀。特別是想在各行各業頭角崢嶸、立志成為領導人的年輕人，更要建立良好的價值體系。

所謂價值觀，指的是誠信（Integrity），讓人家願意信任你，這是一個從未因時代變動而改變的永恆價值。

以上種種都是大學生在求學時，要努力具備的基本知識與態度。

台灣大學生缺少領導能力

大學生也應該有此抱負，自許成為未來社會的領導人。

我曾經問過台積電五十歲左右、多半從台成清交畢業的幹部說，「你們在學校時，有沒有已經立志要成為領導人的？」結果他們回答出乎意外，「喔！根本不講這事，大家就讀書而已。」

正因為這樣，過去台灣訓練的人才中，理工人才佔了大約七○％的比例；可是，在銷售、市場、行銷、財務、會計、人事、採購方面的人才不夠。

但現在時代不同了，台灣很需要各行各業的領導人才。

如果大學生有成為領導人的目標，則必須擁有更全面與通才管理（general management）的能力。

而領導人的培養，絕不是大學裡請幾個世界聞名的教授就能達到的，領導人才必須有通才的學習、生活的學習、同儕的學習；請知名教授或購買更多昂貴的儀器設備，遠不如在學校多蓋幾間宿舍、要求大學生住宿有效；你看哈佛、耶魯的住宿制度，給學生好的生活環境，與同儕和學長姐互動，那是很好又不奢華的學習。

除了基本能力與管理能力，我想跟年輕人分享，一個讓我終身受用無窮的能力，就是終身學習。

終身學習聽起來是個比較抽象的能力，但卻讓我一輩子受用。

終身學習不只是 「活到老、學到老」

我認為「終身學習」不同於一般所謂的「活到老、學到老」，因為單純只是「活到老、學到老」太無目標、太無紀律、也太沒有計劃。

什麼是終身學習？很多人把今天看看小說、明天看看文學、後天看看唐詩宋詞，當作終身學習；甚至，有人兩個月不看書，只跟一位有知識的人，聊個半個鐘頭，也當做是終身學習。這也許是學習，卻不是我所認為的終身學習。

終身學習必須是：有目標、有系統、有紀律，而這些是有步驟可循的。

以我為例，今年年初，全球金融危機開始爆發，我就把了解金融危機當作我學習的標的。這是有目標。

有系統指的是，只要是能幫助我了解金融危機的所有的東西，我都拿來看，就包括《華爾街日報》、《國際先鋒論壇報》，還有《經濟學人》、《BusinessWeek》、《Fortune》。儘可能掌握和了解與金融危機相關的知識與影響，了解它為何發生、它如何引爆經濟的不景氣。

至於有紀律，就是每天看。

另外，以美國大選為例，因為我很關心美國大選，並計劃於十一月中旬針對美國大選的意義進行公開演講，因此了解美國大選就成為我另一個學習的目標。除了大量閱讀相關資料外，我每天早上大約七點鐘，會一邊在跑步機上運動，一邊收看CNN的節目「Situation Room」的分析；由於台灣對歐巴馬陣營的接觸不多，我甚至跑到美國與歐巴馬陣營的重要幕僚深談。

此外，「終身學習」依時間的長短還可分為「短期目標」與「長期目標」。

就我個人而言，一生事業都在半導體業中，自十八歲到五十四歲旅居美國的時間中，自己設定的長期終身學習目標，就著重於對美國經濟、政治、還有全球半導體產業動態的了解。

至於「終身學習」的短期目標，可以在一、二年，或再長一點的時間中，得到顯著成效的學習。除了前述金融危機與美國大選兩個例子，我再舉個大學生很關心的如何學好英文為例。

雖說一般人過了二十歲以後要求將英文說得好並不容易，但是若是要在短期內進步到可以輕鬆閱讀英文書報雜誌的程度，透過訂定短期的「終身學習」目標來改善，是很值得大家一試的。

但「終身學習」的目標，不見得一定要如前面幾個例子一樣嚴肅。我們也可以在文學、藝術、音樂當中選定目標充實人生。

培養自己、訓練自己

除此之外，我也想要提醒現在的大學生，專注在學習，注重自我培養。

對台灣的學生來說，進好學校還是困難，但從學校畢業卻很容易；好像上了大學，不見得要用功念書。

我大學時念的兩所學校MIT跟哈佛，同學都很用功，尤其是那個時候，一○％學生拿A（MIT稱做叫O），二五％學生拿B，五○％左右拿C，最後的是D跟E了，E有時會要留級或重修。因為有淘汰制度，大家都很努力。

東方學生太依賴外來的刺激與要求，好像一定要透過外在的系統或規範來訓練自己。

美國是不講這一套，他們比較注重自己培養自己、自己訓練自己（self-development）的能力。這也是為什麼，美國頂尖大學的學生，終身學習能力比較強的原因。

如果年輕人能及早建立起有目標、有系統、有紀律的終身學習習慣，在畢業後的日子裡，你依舊會持續的成長。

面對不確定的競爭，我鼓勵學生從十八歲開始就要試著面對世界；不要以為就業才是面對世界，你要及早向外開展，了解世界正在發生什麼、世界如何改變，而這些改變如何影響你與周遭的事物。慢慢從家庭的保護中獨立，才有可能真正習得生活的、學習的獨立。

一个人的旅行

为了避开拥挤的人潮，那天天刚亮就背起了我的摄影器材，踏上了旅途

一个人旅行是为了要寻找一个安静的空间，让心情沉淀

把自己从现实中抽离

去思考，去回忆，去忘记，去寻觅

旅行的意义

你看过了许多美景
你看过了许多美女
你迷失在地图上
每一道短暂的光阴
你品尝了夜的巴黎
你踏过下雪的北京
你熟记书本里　
每一句你最爱的真理
却说不出你爱我的原因
却说不出你欣赏我哪一种表情
却说不出在什么场合我曾让你动心
说不出离开的原因

你累计了许多飞行
你用心挑选纪念品
你收集了地图上　
每一次的风和日丽
你拥抱热情的岛屿
你埋葬记忆的土耳其
你流连电影里美丽的不真实的场景
却说不出你爱我的原因
却说不出你欣赏我哪一种表情
却说不出什么在场合
我曾让你分心
说不出旅行的意义

你勉强说出你爱我的原因
却说不出你欣赏我哪一种表情
却说不出在什么场合我曾让你分心
说不出离开的原因
勉强说出你为我寄出的每一封信
都是你离开的原因

你离开我
就是旅行的意义

A piece of article to read and to think of

Found this articel titled "Racial Polarisation and the Forging of Bangsa Malaysia".

I do not agree with the statement and opinion of the writer that without an uniform educational system (The son of Mahathir--Mukhriz has pop up this topic recently to combine Chinese and Tamil school into Sekolah Kebangsaan), we cannot form a strong "Bangsa Malaysia". 

What's wrong with our country now is not that we don't have a strong national identity, or a strong national language. We should not blame our educational system. I am glad that I am chinese educated. I love my mother tounge but that do not change the fact that Bahasa Malaysia is the national language of this country. I am grateful because of this unique educational system, I can now comunicate in 3 different languages. 

What's wrong with the country now is the political system that keep on grouping us as Malay, Chinese or Indian. And the exitance of a group of people who always want to act as a hero of their own race. 

What we should do is to abolish the bias policy. To build a strong national identity where every culture can florish. To call ourself proudly as a Malaysian regardless of our race.

Although I disagree with the writer, but this is still an interesting article to read on, to see thing in another viewpoint. 

Banner Design

I'm try to make use of some thecnique that I had learnt from the past tutorial. So my first assignment is to design a new banner for this blog. Not a perfect one but this is the final result.
Comment are most welcome!!

Flying without wings

Flying without wings
Originally uploaded by lowbihong

Another photoshop practice following the PSDTUTS's tutorial. Kind of statisfy with the result although the resolution is not that good.
Hopefully I will get time to create my own design one day :p

梦该醒了

昨晚，作了一个梦。

梦境与现实的差距，我竟傻得不愿意从梦中醒来。

害怕留不住那画面。

原来，我还是一个不懂事的小孩。

原来，我还被回忆牵绊。

原来，我一直选择逃避。

原来，我看不见我的未来。

原来，那只是一场梦。

梦醒了。

路该怎么走呢？

Penang should think small to grow big

"YOU can take a Penangite out of Penang but never the Penang out of a Penangite, " wrote Soo Ewe Jin in his commentary titled "Penang should think small to grow big".

Ya, you should read this article if you are Penangite and care about your home town. I cannot say the writer had provided the best idea or solution about how Penang should get develope along with it World Heritage status, but he did point out the eager of us to see Penang shine.

I had the chance to visit Edinburgh and Guanajuato, both listed as World Heritage City, and I can feel the excitement living in the city like this. The city itself can tell the story. However, what make the city so attaracting is the people who live in it. How they teasure it and the effort to make it the best place to live in. And I do believe Penang have the same quality. What it need is the awareness, and to have a great vision to get a balance between developement and protection.

This is how the article end

"If Guan Eng gets it right, the resulting inflow of the right industries and the people will turbo-charge the existing businesses in Penang. People will get to eat genuine char koay teow and not just from shops in a mall in Damansara claiming to have the best Penang char koay teow.

And everyone will be happy to be living and working in a Unesco World Heritage Site."

This is my dream too. To live and work back to my home town in the future.

2 inspiring story to share

Come across this 2 sites, showing amazing photography projects. I found it very inspiring and meaningful, so I will share the link here, and I hope you too can feel the story behind the photos!

1.Days With My FatherBy Phillip Toledano. A series of photos capturing the days between the photographer with his dad after her mum passed away. The photos are beautiful, and the story are sad and touching. I can feel a strong bond between the son and the father.

2.wisdombook.org
By Andrew Zuckerman. A project to record the experience of a group of people who have make their mark on the world. Their experience is the wisdom, the greatest gift for next generation. I love the portrait shots, all done in white background. Beside the clean feeling, it focus strong on the story teller and make them stand out sharply. It tells a lot by just looking at these portraits.

Web Design In Photoshop

I found this amazing tutorial on wed design in a website call PSDTUTS.
So I give it a try step by step and do some modification that fit my style and this is the result.
What I lack now is the knowledge to slice this PSD file into HTML+CSS.
Ohh....I start thinking of designing my own website with all the technique that I have learned here!!

你给你的孩子们一双翅膀了吗？

在网上发现了这个屠妖节的广告。
看了，鼻子一酸。怎么了？自己竟被它感动。
广告里，看到的是贫困，但注重教育的一对父母
一个肯为梦想而努力的小孩
3大民族互相扶持，鼓励的社会



自己一个人在国外留学已经快5年了。想起了还在马来西亚的父母及家人。我不知道自己可以飞得多高，多远，但很想对你们说一声谢谢。谢谢你们给我这双翅膀。是你们给我继续走下去的勇气。

Sick

"Ah-choo!!".....a sneeze and I knew it, something was wrong with my body.
So, this morning my nose is flooded.
I hate this feeling.
Hope that I can get rid of it soon.

那些日子

第一次听到这首歌，是第一季的超级星光大道。林宥嘉用他那忧郁的歌声深情唱出，很快就被他所吸引。后来才知道原唱是淘晶莹。袁惟仁的词曲，不管是男生还是女生，都唱出了歌里的无奈。





你还穿着那些华丽灿烂的衣服吗
或者不需要那些外在证明自已了吧
回想那些单纯 其实有点残忍
现实拒绝我们的认真

你还带着那些美丽的回忆睡着吗
还是不需要那些假象欺骗自已了吧
时光总是短暂 心里藏着遗憾
遗憾变成我们的牵绊

我知道 认识你 爱上你
了解你 看穿你 并不简单
可是 离开你 失去你 忘记你
我又该怎么办
尤其时常在梦中 有你作伴
总教人在梦与醒之间两难

我知道 原谅你 放纵你
包容你 疼爱你 其实不难
宁愿 背叛你 隐瞒你 报复你
我也比较坦然
在这虚幻城市中 无人陪伴
我只好在爱与恨之间离散
我只好在爱与恨之间选择离散

不是说好,要永远在一起的吗?
可是,你已经离开了,好久,好久
到底怎么了呢?

醉了

头有点疼。是昨晚喝多了吧。

看到两位前辈醉倒在地上，或许多喝一杯我也会像他们一样。
可是，理智制止了我。
身体是有点不听使唤，脑袋却是清醒的。
想要忘却的，却如潮水般不断的涌上来，怎么挥也挥不走。
我就是这样的一个人，永远有一条隐形的绳子捆绑着自己，一直不敢越轨。
我不可以醉。
醉了，我会控制不了自己。
醉了，我会给人家添麻烦。
醉了，我会让人担心。
醉了，我怕我会变得更脆弱。
醉了。。。

可是
醉，到底是怎样的感觉？
醉，真的会让心情好一些吗？
醉醒后，明天会好一些吗？


今早，回到研究室，
发现，醉的代价是一副找不回的眼镜，一台不知放到哪儿的手提电话。

醉了，日子还是要过。
醉醒了，要面对的还是同一个自己。

醉了可以不要醒过来吗？

面具

The Mask
Originally uploaded by lowbihong

每一个人都带着一幅面具，试图去隐藏一个自己不愿去面对的另一个自己。

那个懦弱，脆弱，可恶，可恨，可憎的自己。

他讨厌带着面具的他

更讨厌脱下面具后的他

望着镜子，他何时才能提起勇气去面对

面对那藏在面具之下，丑陋的自己

什么时候才能，才能抛开面具？

面具太沉重，把自己压得好累，压得透不过气

一种陌生的感觉，连自己也认不出来

可是，面具下的"它"却是那么的不堪一击

心里拼命地拉扯

拉扯

陈绮贞

陈绮贞，或许你没有听过她的名字。不过她的歌曲却有独特的感染力。
「华丽的冒险」这个专辑伴我做过无数次的日子。
今天又是这把悠悠的歌声伴我度过了一整个心情很蓝的下午。

华丽的冒险

长长的路的尽头是一片满是星星的夜空

这一趟华丽的冒险没有真实的你陪我走

长长的时间的旅程充满太多未知的诱惑

说不清对你承诺过的一切

还有多少没有实现过

不愿放开手

不愿让你走

疯狂的梦没有了你

还有什么用

不愿放开手

不愿让你走

不愿眼睁睁的看你

走出我的生活

华丽的冒险，一个未知的旅程。

The US made a history. How about Malaysia?

Obama won. In the presidency election yesterday. The first black president in the history of United State of America.

"It's been a long time coming, but tonight... change has come to America,"said the elected president in his victory speech.

I cannot say America had a clean history of racism, and there was murder threat posted by those white racist during the presidency campaign. But they make it, the people in US has made a history, elected a president without looking at his skin color but his ability to lead the country.

I hope the same thing will happen in Malaysia too. Someday in the near future. But what happen recently in Malaysia worried me.

The appointment of Low Siew Moi as general manager of the Selangor State Development Corporation (PKNS) has caused a serious debate, not about her ability to seat the pose, but her skin color, being a Chinese. Why do those people have dout that a Chinese won't do a good job in helping bumiputera?

Zaid Ibrahim stated out his opinion that the obsession with the Ketuanan Melayu doctrine has destroyed something precious in Malaysians.

According to him

“It makes us lose our sense of balance and fairness. When a certain Chinese lady was appointed head of a state development corporation, having served in that corporation for 33 years, there were protests from Malay groups because she is Chinese,”

“A new economic vision is necessary, one that is more forward looking in outlook and guided by positive values that would serve to enhance cooperation amongst the races. This will encourage change for the better, to develop new forms of behaviour and shifts of attitudes, to believe that only economic growth will serve social equity, to aspire to a higher standard of living for all regardless of race.

“We need to meaningfully acknowledge that wealth is based on insight, sophisticated human capital and attitude change. A new dynamics focused on cooperation and competition will spur innovation and creativity.

“Some might say that this is a fantasy. I disagree. How do we go about transforming the culture and values of the bumiputeras so that their ability to create new economic wealth can be sustained?

“By changing our political and legal landscapes with freedom and democracy.”

Ya, that is the problem of our country. But when someone speak out the truth, this is what he get

Perlis UMNO liaison chief and former Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Shahidan Kassim said “Zaid should repent. Otherwise he should get out of the ‘rumpun Melayu’.if Zaid continued to question the Malay supremacy concept, then he should no longer be a Malay as a Malay should be defending the Malays and not running them down.”

Home Minister, Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar, who is incidentally an UMNO supreme council member, as saying that Zaid was “a traitor to his own race and should apologise for his remarks.”

What can we hope for, if our country is still lead by this kind of politician?

A big disappoinment. I hope for change after the Mach 8 political tsunami. Although it had changed the political stucture in Malaysia it could not change the racist thinking rooted deep inside some Malaysian.

I hope. Like what Obama said before he end his speech.

"while we breathe, we hope, and where we are met with cynicism, and doubt, and those who tell us that we cant, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes We Can."

Ya, Let's pray, Malaysia can change. Yes We Can!

有没有。。。

如煙　　曲/石頭　詞/阿信

我坐在床前　望著窗外　回憶滿天　
生命是華麗錯覺　時間是賊　偷走一切

七歲那一年　抓住那隻蟬　以為能抓住夏天
十七歲的那年　吻過他的臉　就以為和他能永遠　

有沒有那麼一種永遠　永遠不改變　擁抱過的美麗都　再也不破碎
讓險峻歲月不能在臉上撒野　讓生離和死別都遙遠　有誰能聽見

我坐在床前　轉過頭看　誰在沉睡　
那一張蒼老的臉　好像是我　緊閉雙眼

曾經是愛我的　和我深愛的　都圍繞在我身邊
帶不走的那些　遺憾和眷戀　就化成最後一滴眼淚

有沒有那麼一滴眼淚　能洗掉後悔　化成大雨降落在　回不去的街
再給我一次機會　將故事改寫　還欠了他一生的　一句抱歉

有沒有那麼一個世界　永遠不天黑　星星太陽萬物都　聽我的指揮
月亮不忙著圓缺　春天不走遠　樹梢緊緊擁抱著樹葉　有誰能聽見

耳際　眼前　此生重演　是我來自漆黑　而又回歸漆黑
人間　瞬間　天地之間　下次我　又是誰

有沒有那麼一朵玫瑰　永遠不凋謝　永遠驕傲和完美　永遠不妥協
為何人生最後會像一張紙屑　還不如一片花瓣曾經鮮豔

有沒有那麼一張書籤　停止那一天　最單純的笑臉和　最美那一年
書包裡面裝滿了蛋糕和汽水　雙眼只有無猜和無邪　讓我們無法無天

有沒有那麼一首詩篇　找不到句點　青春永遠定居在　我們的歲月
男孩和女孩都有吉他和舞鞋　笑忘人間的苦痛　只有甜美

有沒有那麼一個明天　重頭回一遍　讓我再次感受曾　揮霍的昨天
無論生存或生活　我都不浪費　不讓故事這麼的後悔

有誰能聽見　我不要告別
我坐在床前　看著指尖　已經如煙

太多的事情，太多的故事，太多的理由，太多的理智

有没有。。。那麼一种方式可以让一切变得简单一些？

雨天

秋雨，已下了整整两天了。绵绵细细，嘀嗒嘀嗒的打在窗上，思绪也随着雨声的节奏起伏。
雨天之后换来的是晴天，可是迎接秋天的却是冷冷的冬季。

看不到尽头的乌云，雨还是一直下着。

雨天-孙燕姿

站在十字路的交点
该怎么走
我却只剩回头
除了你给的伞我再也没有
别的借口
去拥有你的什么
你能体谅 我有雨天
偶尔胆怯 你都了解
过去那些大雨落下的瞬间
我突然发现
谁能体谅 我的雨天
所以情愿回你身边
此刻脚步 会慢一些
如此坚决
你却越来越远
牵手和分手来自同一双手
做回朋友
我却为何不懂挽留
你能体谅 我有雨天
偶尔胆怯 你都了解
过去那些大雨落下的瞬间
我突然发现
谁能体谅 我的雨天
所以情愿回你身边
此刻脚步 会慢一些
如此坚决
你却越来越远
是否太晚 路已走远
我的眼眶泪太满
走不回你身边
你能体谅 我有雨天
偶尔胆怯 你都了解
过去那些大雨落下的瞬间
我突然发现
谁能体谅 我的雨天
此刻脚步 会慢一些
如此坚决
你却越来越远

今天将搭上最后一班旅途。愿这会是一场美好回忆。

未来的两年

今天，对着电脑白色的银幕，望着那显眼的标题”研究计划”发呆。头脑一片空白。虽然只是申请延长奖学金，形式上的一篇文章，却让我不知所措。

未来的两年，我看不前方。就把现在的生活延长两年？就让时间决定一切，随大队从大学院毕业，找分工当个上班族？还是，我还有什么选择吗？未来，我要成为怎样的我？

混乱的思绪已不是围绕在研究课题上，而是遥远，模糊的人生十字路口。

我没有答案。IPod传来的是戴佩妮的歌声，歌声背后的歌词又把我的思绪拉得更远。

淡水河边
词曲:戴佩妮

淡水的河边
还没吃完的餐点
热闹的烟火还没上演
飘流中的船
往返了多少遍
回忆的帆却停在那一年
熟悉的冬夜
独自呆坐在岸边
听熙来攘往的笑声蔓延
有些情绪呀
我不想遮掩
有一些人我不想遇见
我很狼狈的
将我的脸偷偷收起了
我很浪费的
将你的好通通放开了
我很惭愧的
将你的手交给他了
我怀疑我能做什么
当我颓废的难过着
我很狼狈的
将我的眼紧紧闭上了
我很浪费的
将你的话通通忘记了
我很惭愧的
将你未来让给他了
你能够为我做什么
为我快乐因为我值得
为我快乐

窗外
词曲:戴佩妮

走出这间房子的冷清
窥探这个城市的风景
依然厌倦着拥挤
不敢深呼吸
漂浮的云有惆怅的倒影
走出整个秋天的屋顶
以为就此告别了凉意
依然推不翻过去
走不出寂静
白色的脸有黑色的投影
我望着窗外夜雨一直下
心开始有点慌
怕弄湿了眼眶
我站在人海不停地遥望
等待着一道曙光
照亮未知的方向
嗯......
Na......
未知的方向

累了。把自己拉回现实。指尖在键盘上敲击。写了一片连自己看了都觉得陌生的文章。
我还是找不到答案。。。

右手边-光良

作词:光良 作曲:光良

静静地坐在你的身边
还会有多少这样的时间
我要迎着这窗外的光线
牢牢的记住你微笑的侧脸
我说了离别不会伤悲
这是我对你唯一的欺骗
因为我最喜欢你的双眼
那么美 不适合掉眼泪
你要好好的去飞
不需要对我想念
我会默默地留下右手边的座位
有一天 当你看过世界
再决定你降落的地点
而我也会继续地
奔驰在这长长的街
左手边是我的心
右手边没有谁
为了你再寂寞我都可以成全
因为我相信
说过了再见
一定会再见

Players of Character

I ran across this article, and I think you should read it too, if you are searching for an answer, how to have a success career.

Here is the article: Cut n paste from ADWEEK

-By Court Crandall

Last week was about as bad a week as I can remember at Ground Zero. We lost two employees. The first was art director Noah Clark, who announced he's leaving to join Crispin, Porter + Bogusky in Boulder, Colo. The second was a woman who made breakfast for the staff and cleaned the office, and who died of lung cancer despite having never smoked a cigarette in her life. (Having worked on the California Department of Public Health account for eight years, I'd be remiss not to mention that her father was a heavy smoker and she believes the second-hand smoke she inhaled as a child ultimately led to her demise.)

Clark interviewed to be my assistant a couple weeks before he was scheduled to graduate from the University of Southern California. Unlike the other finalist for the job, an attractive woman the rest of the creative department was imploring me to hire, Noah was more "boy band": spiked hair, fresh face, jeans that were more fancy than a guy needs to own. But there was something about him that reminded me of myself. And it wasn't the hair. He was just so damn eager to be in the business. There was no pretense, no attitude or entitlement. All he wanted to do was work hard, learn and help.

So I hired him, spelling out very clearly that the chances of his growing into an art director position with us were similar to the word at the end of our agency name: "Zero." He nodded along and said he understood. Then he set about completing every task asked of him to the highest standard possible. Between doing all the so-called "grunt" work, Noah grabbed every creative brief he found lying around the office and looked for ways to help out with layouts, taglines, new business presentations, etcetera. He never asked to be promoted. He never bitched about his day-to-day responsibilities or acted like anything was beneath him. Which is why when a junior art director position opened, I decided it was time to do what a guy named Peter Seronick did for me years before: Give him a chance. So I gave the kid who was Ground Zero the opportunity to join our creative department over all the guys and girls who simply wanted to work for Ground Zero.

In the four years that followed, Noah turned into an award-winning art director who did the kind of work students at VCU and Art Center now point to and say, "Someday." But that wasn't what made him special. The longer you do this job, the more you find that doing good work is the price of entry and it's all the other stuff that separates the folks you really like from the ones you can't live without.

In 15 years of owning Ground Zero, there haven't been many folks who regularly beat me to the office in the morning. Noah was one of them. It should also be noted that he was often the last to leave at night, if he left. I don't say this to glamorize long hours or a sweatshop mentality, but to point out that he typically wasn't burning the midnight oil or the pre-dawn oil to better his portfolio, but to make a presentation look a little better, work on the agency new business materials or polish an ad that was still a little too rough around the edges for his liking. This kind of dedication earned him the moniker "The Cleaner" from Laura Eastman, our head of account services. Like Harvey Keitel in Pulp Fiction, Noah was the guy who fixed things, no matter how screwed up they might have been when someone dumped them in his lap. When another art director left on vacation, Noah picked up the slack. When another team dropped the meat in the dirt, he picked up the pieces.

Where Noah figuratively cleaned up after the rest of the office, Ana de Paz physically did. She was the other third of the early morning crew, pushing a shopping cart full of groceries down Maxella toward the agency every morning because she didn't own a car. Somewhere between the time I'd drop my keys on my desk and the time I'd check my first e-mail, I'd smell quesadillas wafting from the other end of the building.

As people filtered in over the next hour -- OK, 90 minutes -- they'd almost always visit the kitchen before they went to their desk. And there was Ana, right in the middle of it all -- cutting fruit, flipping quesadillas, telling people to stop eating the tops off the muffins. It may have been my agency, but it was her kitchen. A Guatemalan emigrant, Ana spoke from the heart in broken English.

Whether she was telling our head of planning to put his dirty fork in the dishwasher or a female co-worker she was getting fat, you always knew exactly where Ana stood. And usually, you found yourself wanting to stand next to her. Especially when times got tough. I think it was because she represented everything good about our company. Her dedication, loyalty and hard work reminded me why we built the place and why I didn't jump ship along the way to take one of the high-paying offers at the multinationals. Now, if you had told me when we started that the woman who ran "Taco Tuesday" would become the icon of everything our company stood for, I probably would have laughed. But she did.

Unlike many ad folks who casually throw out the terms "community" and "family," Ana lived them. She fed us. She cleaned up after us and watched over us. Every day.

Why do I bring all this up? Because it occurs to me that more and more, ours is becoming a business obsessed with skill sets. "Does he know Flash?" "Is she versed in new media?" "Can they build a site map?" No doubt, these are important questions to ask, but so are some others. Like, "Will he treat my agency as if it's his agency?" "Will she put the client's best interest above her own?" "Will the rest of us be better for having spent 10 hours a day with them?" What I'm getting at is that in our quest to find the most qualified applicants, I'm worried that all too often we overlook the best person for the job -- the people like Noah and Ana.

My football team is the New England Patriots, which is currently regarded as the most successful franchise in the National Football League. But it wasn't always this way. For the first 37 years of my life, the Patriots appeared in a grand total of one Super Bowl -- a game they lost 46-10. During this insufferably long period, the various Patriot coaches always said the same thing each draft day: "We're looking for the best athlete available." And so, year after year, the Pats would add more hyper-talented athletes to their roster. And each year, the organization continued to flounder.

Then Bill Belichick came along and changed the philosophy. He said, "We're looking for players of character." It defied what everyone else claimed to be after, but I liked the sound of it: Players of character. Suddenly, 40-yard dash times were overlooked and bench press numbers were deemed irrelevant. It was all about heart. It was about whether a player wanted to help the team win more than he wanted to make himself famous and whether they'd give everything they had to give every time they stepped on the field. And so players like Tom Brady, an overlooked backup college quarterback, emerged and went on to set the single-season NFL passing record. Troy Brown, an undersized eighth-round pick at receiver, ended up playing offense, defense and returning punts in the same season and helping the team win three Super Bowls in six years. (Granted, it should have been four.) By changing the criteria they used to build their team to focus more on character and less on skill, the Patriots turned themselves into a much better organization.

So, as I sit here alone at eight in the morning, my advice to all of you with the power to hire is to find those players of character. They'll be the ones who stay late to make sure the job isn't just done, but done right. They'll be the ones who clean up all the messes you make along the way. They'll be the ones you miss the most when they're gone.

Court Crandall is founder and creative partner at independent Ground Zero, Los Angeles.

After reading this, I start asking myself, what kind of career will I, build up this good character to? Another long quest for me.

Something you should know about corn!

I have found some interesting fact about corn in Michael Pollan's Omnivore's Dilemma.

1.Corn feeds the steer that becomes the steak.

2.Corn feeds the chicken, the pig, the turkey, the lamb, the catfish even salmon. All these animal had been made to tolerate corn which is not their natural diet.

3.Chicken nugget is all corn!! The chicken feed on corn. Other ingredient are all derived from corn: modified corn starch that glues things together, the corn flour, the corn oil, the leavenings and lecithin, the mono-, di-, and triglycerides, the attractive golden coloring and even the citric acid all come from corn.

4.All the sodas and most of the fruit drinks have been sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS). Beer also made by alcohol fermented from glucose refined from corn.

5.Most plans during photosynthesis create compounds that have 3 carbon atoms, corn make compounds that have 4!An advantage compare to other plants.

6.Corn take in more carbon 13 than the more common carbon 12. That's means, the higher the ratio of carbon 13 to carbon 12 in a person's flesh, the more corn has been in his diet!

7.Had corn find it way into agriculture, it would had risked extinction, because without humans to plant it every spring, corn wold have disappeared from the earth. Why? Because, corn depends on human thumb needed to remove the husk, separate the seeds, and plant it. If you plant a whole corncob, they will invariably crowd themselves to death.

咖啡-张学友

词:何启弘 曲:黄韵玲

太浓了吧 否则怎会苦的说不出话
每次都一个人在自问自答
我们的爱到底还在吗
已经淡了吧 多放些糖也很难有变化
不如喝完这杯就各自回家
别坐在对面欣赏我的挣扎
一场失败的爱情像个笑话
热得时候心乱如麻
冷了以后看见自己够傻
人怎么会如此容易无法自拔
一场无味的爱情像个谎话
甜的时候只相信它
苦了以后每一句都可怕
人怎么会如此难以了无牵挂

The Omnivore's Dilemma

This is a book written by Michael Pollan, an interesting book where the author try to follow the food chain of 4 meals of American society on how the food end up on their dinner plate.

What should we have for dinner? The book start by asking this fairly simply question. Maybe this question did not strike at you at all, but have you ever think of where your food come from? This book recorded the journey of the author exploring into 3 principle food chain that sustain us today: the industrial, the organic, and the hunter-gatherer. All the food chain start from plants, photosynthesizing calories in the sun until the end of the food chain on our dinner plate.

Industrial food chain. You will find some shocking answer how corn had monopolize the agriculture in America, and how this single plant end up in almost all the processed food selling in supermarket.

Organic food chain. In this section, you will discover that the "organic" term has various definition. And organic can be industrial too. So the author ended up tracing two food chain in this category where one is the industrial organic and another origin from a single polyculture of grasses growing farm.

The last section, hunter-gatherer food chain. In order to prepare a meal from ingredients exclusively from the nature, the author had to learn how to do some unfamiliar things including hunting in the wild, and foraging for wild mushroom.

This is a very resourceful book. You will find answers to questions that you take it for granted or you will never ask. And also some interesting knowledge about the biological fact that affect the choice of food and the cycle of food chain. Although I'm not going to change my eating habit dramatically, I start taking notice on what I put inside my mouth.

I will recommend this book. For your quest about the perfect meal.

Vote for my photo!!

I have entered a photo contest organize by dPs(digital Photography School). This is my first time entering a photo contest. The winner will be selected by a combination of public votes and a judging panel. So if you find my photo is good enough to earn a vote from you, please click the link (vote) below to support me. Thanks!

Title: Petai Seller

Vote for my photo!vote

闹剧

我不是政治评论员，只是一位在日留学的学生，偶尔会到网上关心一下国内的局势。最近暑假回国，最期待的就是明天9/16是否有好戏上演。不过这几天的闹剧真的让人不吐不快。

马来西亚的闹剧多不胜数，让我们重温一下：

1.爱国者为庆国庆改编国歌，遭政客群起围攻。民族政党拔刀相助，无奈压力下道歉。真丢人！！

2.国人游行抗议，高压手段暴力打压。部长在外国媒体的访问下，答非所问，咄咄逼人，我国部长的水准低得惊人！！

3.司法丑闻短片曝光！

4.蒙古女郎被高官保镖炸尸？！？咂舌程度可媲美好莱坞电影！

5.18PL还不够又来一部18SX！？！

6.海啸过后，期待曙光的来临。。。

7.十年前的政治电影，让我学会了sodomy这深奥的英文词汇。十年后他要我温故知新。

8.儿时的游戏:兵追贼。你追我逃，你再追，我再逃。。。

9.种族政客，口无遮拦，面目可憎。

10.ISA大逮捕。

发言的人无罪，报导的人被捕。。。莫明其妙

“我抓她是为了保护她”。。。BULLSHIT！！

写完这篇文章，我很安全，不需要你保护。

Addicted to---Flickr

Fall in love with photography when I first get my digital camera 4 years ago. The passion continue and finally I get myself a DSLR Nikon D40 2 years ago. I took ton of photos but I never share it out except some post on this blog. But things start to change when I start flickring.

Flickr. I just cannot resist to post my photos to it, hoping that some other flickrer will come to visit my post, fave it or comment on it. Hoping that one of my post will be explore by the flickr interestingness algorithm. Ya, I'm addicted after one of it get explored(although it dropped out not even 24 hours), hoping for more. I know it's silly. But it act like a force, to push me forward...to try more composition, to go out around the neighbourhood to find every opportunity to shot, to learn more about pos-pocessing. Is a long way for me if I want to turn this hobby to something serious but is a good learning process whether I can make it to professional level or not.

If you have time please visit my photostream in flickr and tell me what you think about my shot.
Here is the link.

Back In Penang

Finally, I am back for a short vacation after one and half year away from home.

I was lucky enough to get recommendation from the university to enter the Master course next year. There are pros and cons. Pros: I don't have to study for the entrance exam which includes all the subject from year 1 to year 3 and I have more time for my graduate thesis. Cons: I forgot most of the knowledge that l learnt before. I think I will have a hard time next year while taking Master's class. People said that it is easy to get them back if you have strong basic, but for me, is still a question mark. Hope that things will go well.

Actually there are some bias for international student to accept this recommendation program. Only Japanese are eligible for it. The uni was kind enough to include me but the process was fraustrating. I had to go through all the process (entrance exam + interview)like a normal student and go through 2 presentation (other recommanded students only do it once). I protested by handing up blank paper for all the subjects. How can I answer the the question without study?Although they promise not to look at my result but surely if I get bad results, the interviewer will question for my poor performance which I reluctant to face.

Anyway, luckily everything went well and I manage to enjoy my short summer vacation this year. Recharge and refresh!!!

Hi-Tea with Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin

Last year we had Pak Lah, and this year a new Minister of International Trade and Industries, Tan Sri Muhiyiddin Yassin, is here in Osaka to meet the Malaysian students. Not a grand dinner like last year but a Hi-Tea with a dialogue session.


I don't really like the way politician talks. They always tend to answer questions by giving only good news and good excuses about what is happening in the country. The high-rising oil price, inflation etc. all didn't sound that bad when he explained the situation. Comparing with neighbouring countries that do worse than Malaysia, yes, it's true that we are not that bad, but how about countries which are doing better than us? That's still a big gap between what the government is doing and what it can do. Admiting what they are not doing enough is the first step, I think.

Again when he talked about racial issues, the 513 tragedy was mentioned. sigh...it sounds like the typical political statements of BN. I felt pity when he tried to say that he is glad to meet Malay, Chinese and Indian students,but oops, not even one Idian student was there. A big failure. Students who come to Japan under JPA (Malaysian government scholorship) are mostly Malays. Some Chinese, yes. Maybe there are Indians, but I don't think I met one before. For Monbusho (Japanese government scholarship), so far I only know of one. Is it because Indians don't like to come to Japan to further their studies or is it really because they are not eligible for the JPA scholarship or is it because the government is not giving them the chance to?? There must be a reason. and I think most of us know but don't dare to talk about. Just like why the Hindraff demo happened. I really hope for a fair policy for every Malaysian. Let's pray,that the 3/8 political tsunami will push the country forward.

Like always, the event ended with students trying to take photos with the Menteri while he walked around talking to the students.

And like always, we enjoyed the food. :)

Passion Fruit

Passion fruit, I used to drink the juice when I was in Malaysia and I never see it before, I means the fresh one. So when I saw it in the super, although it was not cheap ￥100(almost RM3) for one, it worth for first try. Luckily they include one small paper in the packaging about how to eat this (I'm sure the Japanese are not familiar with this fruit too). So what I show you in the picture is the result of cutting the fruit half. A little bit shock when I first glance at it, a little bit ugly, but it smells really good. Okay, how are we going to eat this thing? At first I tried to suck out the flesh and throw away the tiny black seeds but soon I get tired of it and I decided to swallow the whole thing down. Not a bad idea actually. It tasted just like the juice I drank before, a little bit sour with its special tropical aroma. I google about this fruit in wikipedia and I found out that, besides the purple color one that I show you here, there are another species called Golden Passionfruit, bright yellow color which can grow up to the size of grapefruit, that means about double the size of the purple's one. Hopefully I have the chance to try it out. ;)

Firefox 3

Mozilla is going to release Firefox 3 in 17th June, this coming Tuesday. Mozilla is planning to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours. So, to show your your support to this Open Source Software + the best Internet browser in the world, Please don't forget to download the newest version of Firefox this Tuesday. Please visit this page for more information.

iPhone hit Japan on 11th July--In Singapore, Philipine but not Malaysia

I was late to the lab this morning.Can't wait to watch Steve Job's Keynote Presentation at WWDC2008 when I woke up this morning. As the rumours say, new iPhone 3G was reveieled. I'm not going to write much about it, i'm not a pro analysis and definately you will find many news and reviews about it all over the net. Anyway, the keynote presentation is worth viewing, see how the genius in the silicon valley doing presentation introducing their products and services. Here is the link.The Ad is worth viewing too. The phone will be in Japan in 7th July including a few asia countries ,but sadly Malaysia is not on the list. Why? Anyway, will I give it a try?? with ￥20000?? let's me see if I have enough cash in my account.

久违了。。凡人

知道凡人重新开唱，很高兴。虽然很多都是旧曲重唱，但温故知新，特别是这一

首-朋友别哭。。在网上搜一搜才知道原唱是吕方。凡人+张宇-三把动人的声音。

曲：莫凡 词：陈乐融

有没有一扇窗

能让你不绝望

看一看花花世界

原来象梦一场

有人哭 有人笑

有人输 有人老

到结局 还不是一样

有没有一种爱

能让你不受伤

这些年堆积多少

对你的知心话

什么酒 醒不了

什么痛 望不掉

向前走

就不可能回头望

朋友别哭

我依然是你心灵的归宿

朋友别哭

要相信自己的路

红尘中

有太多茫然痴心的追逐

你的苦

我也有感触

朋友别哭

我一直在你心灵最深处

朋友别哭

我陪你就不孤独

人海中

难得有几个真正的朋友

这份情

请你不要不在乎

"Here in My Home":-good Song...when will it become real?

Find out about this video from my friend a week ago. Maybe most of you have seen it before but good thing is worth sharing. 

A big step forward for Malaysian unity at least it was not something make out by the government to promote the country or to fool the people. It is a group of artist who love this country and who want to change it and make it a better place. Hope that this will not be the first and the last. Let's make our home a better place!!

Here is the lyrics.

Hold on brother hold on

The road is long, we’re on stony ground

But I’m strong, and you ain’t heavy

Oh there’s a misspoken truth that lies

Colors don’t bind, oh no

What do they know? They speak falsely

Here in my home

I’ll tell you what it’s all about

There’s just one hope here in my heart

One love undivided

That’s what it’s all about

Please won’t you fall in one by one by one with me?

(Fall in~ Fall in~)

Fall in with me

(hmm … fall in~)

Fall in fall in fall in with me

Push back sister won’t you push back?

Love won’t wait, just keep pushing on

Yes I’m strong, you ain’t heavy

Oh don’t you worry about that …

What we have shadows can’t deny

Don’t you know it’s now or never?

Here in my home

I’ll tell you what it’s all about

There’s just one hope here in my heart

One love undivided

That’s what it’s all about

Please won’t you fall in one by one?

(dududu lululu … alot of dululu until i micounted them)

(馬來文)

Bertubi asakan berkurun lamanya

Hati ke depan mencari yang sayang

[Years of fears and years of tribulation

The heart keeps searching for that endless devotion]

(中文)

手牽手大家一起走，我代表華人開口，未來就沒有溜走

[Hand in hand we’ll march like blood brothers

I speak for my people, hope we’ll find peace forever]

(淡米爾文)

inthe payanam payanamm yen vettri thaagam

anthee kaana kaalam naam vetri raagam…nanba nanba

[May the road ahead quench my thirst for success

May the road behind echo a song of the blessed]

Yes I feel it in my bones, so I will let it be known

No matter where I roam this is home sweet home

Sing!

Here in my home

I’ll tell you what it’s all about

There’s just one hope here in my heart

One love undivided

That’s what it’s all about

Please won’t you fall in one by one by one with me?

(yeah~ Yeah~)

Here in my home

(Here in my home)

I’ll tell you what it’s all about

(I’ll tell you …)

There’s just one hope here in my heart

(one hope! one hope yo!)

One love undivided

(aa~ one~)

That’s what it’s all about

(That’s what it’s all about~)

Please won’t you fall in one by one by one with me?

Here in my home

(Here in my home~)

I’ll tell you what it’s all about

There’s just one hope here in my heart

(one love one love one love ^^)

One love undivided

That’s what it’s all about

Please won’t you fall in one by one by one with me?

(鼓掌 喔~ i love you man)

梅田研究室 Umeda Lab

Our lab members

It's my 4th year in the university. In Japan's universities' engineering department, we will be allocated to a laboratory and be supervised by a professor to conduct our final year project what we usually called 卒論(sotsuron-the graduation thesis).

The lab that I enter is 大阪大学 大学院 工学研究科機械工学専攻 梅田研究室. In short we just call it Umeda's lab. Actually this lab and its research field is considered new in mechanical engineering. It was set up in only in 2005. That's means I am the third badge of undergraduate student entering this lab. Our research area is about Life Cycle Design or in short EcoDesign. Our main focus is to develop a design theory and methodology for developing product life cycle that reduce the drastically environmental load, resource consumption and waste generation as well as increase living standard and corporate profit.

It doesn't sound like a mechanical lab right, ya, when talking about mechanical engineering most people will imagine about robots or engines. But who know, maybe in the near future our research will be the solution to the environmental problems mostly cause by industrial activities. I will be posting more about what I am doing now when I get more result in my research, it's just the beginning.

Family Visit Japan

My family, all of them have pay me a 2 weeks visit in Japan for the first time since I came here 5 years ago. Ya, It already 5 years. And it's the last year for my undergraduate program here in Japan. Just cannot believe that how fast was our world is spinning.

Back to the topic. Besides my family, my housemate's parents also visiting their daughter here at the same time...ya all of them have bought the air ticket during MAS promotion period. At the mean time, a new housemate is moving in. So all together there were 12 people in my house!!!

Having them here was fun. Although it was tiring to have a plan ready everyday to guide them around, it was fun to have them joking and fooling around because it has already been a year since I was back in Malaysia. Even though we talk through Skype and have video conferencing every week, it's totally different having them here. 2 weeks was short. But, I enjoyed every minute of it.

Now, it's just loneliness. I miss you guys!

Too many things going on

Too many things were happening and I was not able to write it down here...and time flew. I don't think I will be doing that in the future if I don't do it now. So just a few lines for each event.

Mexico Trip
My housemate is on a one year exchange program in Culiacan, a small town in Mexico. A great chance to visit Mexico since I have a friend who can speak good Spanish. A free place to stay and a free guide, what a good deal.;-). One month in Mexico and we traveled to a lot of places. Of course we ate a lot of nice Mexican food. But the best thing was we meet up with a lot of people, who are kind and friendly. Although I couldn't even understand a word in Spanish and needed my friend to be my translator all the time, it's nice when you have a chance to talk to them, the locals. And this made the travel more meaningful than simply visiting the tourist spots. I took a lot of photos like around 3000. I would like to share it here but it will take me a lot of time to filter out the good ones. So....I will try.

Family visit Japan: Next entry...time to go to bed....:(