善哉。。。善哉。。。

昨天早上，扭开收音机，发觉《早点说马》的气氛变得很沉重。
一直以来，小马和小月的声音都是充满活力的，广东话说“好醒神！”
可是，昨天，他们两人一直呼吁听众多给意见，让《早点说马》做的更好。小月甚至哭了，还听到她的哭腔啊。当时，我想可能有人恶批《早点说马》，小月可能太伤心才有点失常了。
结果，回到公司上网才知道迦玛被抽取了，不能再主持节目，只因为他说太多！当时心想，我国又有好戏上演了，并希望迦玛可以重回电台。

今天早上，扭开收音机，《早点说马》没了，代班DJ说小马和小月“放假”去了。心想，情况不妙，如果真是放假，节目应该会照平常的编排方式、由其他DJ主持吧，怎么今天都只播歌、播广告？
果然，回到公司，一上FB才知道，《早点说马》被抽取，所有主持的DJ被令停职，两个节目总监也被停职，988DJ的FB也被关掉了！！！
原来，政治人物可以为了一己之利，剥夺人民的言论自由，让无辜的人丢失工作！:(

明福呀明福，现在是农历七月，黑心的我真希望你能化成厉鬼，为自己报仇，顺便把这些不知所谓的领袖，一并带走。让真正为国为民的领导人上台吧！（这一天会到来吗？）

阿弥陀佛。。。善哉。。。善哉。。。

Something to Ponder...

Yesterday, I attended a company training. Well, is called training, but it is a typical brainwashing seminar, to make sure employee will self-motivate, work harder and don't blame their boss if they don't have any self-development. :p

Haha, fortunate enough, the instructor is not bad, he is funny, make a boring topics into kind of interesting (at least I'm not falling asleep :). Besides, I did gain something from this "training", it did somehow enlighten me.

Let me share now. For a person who have been in a same position for a long time (means doing a same job for few years), he/she should try to do things better, challenging themselves. Unless he/she like the routine job so much, wake up every morning, feeling happy to do the same old things. then is fine because he/she is happy. But if this is not the case, then he/she should consider job-rotating and even internal transfer (But 1st of all, this person should have train up the skills needed for the other job). If that is not happening too, FIND a NEW JOB, haha (of course, the "new job" thing is from me, the instructor will not want the attendees resigning after attended his class, haha)

The instructor also mention that what we are doing should be something that could be listed into our resume. That's why when we are having our development plan or setting our objectives, it must meet SMARTR (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound, Real-work). Good point!

In the training, a manager is sharing her thought with us. She talked about the right attitude and positive thinking, which I really agree. However, there is one thing I ponder. She asked have you ever think about how your 80 years old birthday party will look like? She said what you want to see in the future, you should start to prepare now because what we do now will be refelcted in the future. I kind of agree and not agree.

Frankly speaking, I don't have any image of my 80 years old birthday party, is too far away! Would it mean, if I hope I got a husband, kids, grandchildren at my birthday party, I should get somebody to get married now!!?? No way. Should I image that my 80 years old birthday party full with friends only, because I'm single now?? I can't even imagine what will I be in 20 years time, 10 years and even 5 years time, not to mention 80 years old birthday party!! However, I know what I don't want to be. I will make necessary changes to make sure I don't become what I don't want to be, in 5 years, 10 years and 20 years, hehe. 活在当下，最重要！

当我们同在一起

上周末走了槟城一趟。见了许多旧同事。
大家都改变了。有人从年轻小伙子，升级为别人的丈夫，甚至成了孩子的爸爸。有人从十指纤纤的小姐，变成了无所不能的超级妈妈。

当然，这一趟旅行，也是老同学聚会。MK和YL，我们好久好久没有一起做这么多事情了。
一起爬山、一起唱K、一起疯狂购物。。。一起玩Wii、一起吃饭、一起睡觉。。。哈哈
我想我们是不是应该来个KL之旅！？
YL，明年日本之行是不是应该从北海道改成东京，因为OKM在东京？？

想你们哦

包裹

上周收到包裹时，就很想写这个帖了，只是没时间。
大家先看看这个包裹好了：


再看看它的内容：

里面有很多小点心（喜饼？），蛋卷和牛奶糖。

可能你觉得这没什么特别，但是如果我告诉你说，这是一位朋友从台湾寄过来的，就为了与我分享她人生中最大的喜悦。感动吗？
这盒子载着浓浓的喜气，满满的幸福和深深的情义！

蓝文，我只能再说一声谢谢。我没法形容当我收到包裹时有多兴奋、也没法表达当我一口一口吃着点心时有多开心。蓝文，祝你们幸福美满。:)

哦，如果你们想知道食物味道如何？
嘻嘻，非常超级赞！

Thank You

Just now I received a phone call from a very good friend, he say he want to say "thank you" to me. I was a bit surprise because I didn't remember I do anything that deserve that. So I asked for a reason, why did he say that? Then he replied, " Thanks for being a good colleague, good friend ..." I stunned for 2seconds after listen to that and asked him back "Have you been drinking?" This follow by a laughter, haha.

Actually, he was not drunk. He attended a motivation class this morning, inspired him to show appreciation (say thank you) to people that "help" him. Is my honour to receive this call. :)

"Thank you" such a simple word that we use everyday. However, when we want to say it to people that we really appreciate, such as parents, siblings, friends etc, it become so hard. When finally we have the guts to say it out, both parties feel awkward, although deep in their heart, they are happy. Is this Asian culture, which we don't simply show our feeling? Just like I still don't have the guts to give a hug to my parents!?

PIXAR: 20 Years of Animation

今天，走了一趟时光隧道，看到了Pixar这二十年在动画的辛路旅程。去过环球影城(Universal Studio)的朋友，应该记得其中一个最有趣的项目就是坐着巴士，参观影城，同时体验电影中的水灾、爆炸、地震，让游客仿佛走进了电影里面。Pixar Exibition，有异曲同工的效果，让我更了解动画片的制作。

其实，这个展览从4月就开始了，只是我在上周才知道，今天是最后一天，庆幸我没错过:)
还好我们去得早，不至于太多人，中午时分人多了好多，哈哈，那时我们已经要离开噜。

一部动画片，基本上从故事开始。有了故事，就塑造人物，从平面到立体，种种细节都考虑在内，为求逼真。人物的脸部表情、言行举止、毛发的飘动、一举手、一投足，都一一画出来，甚至还用黏土、陶瓷做成模型。故事背景也非常细腻，比如说，同一片叶子，在不同的季节，应该要有不同的颜色；故事中角色的住所要如何设计，以符合性格，等等。

这个展览，展示了很多动画家的手稿。走进展览厅，简直就是动画片大复习：Toy Story, Bug's Life, Monster Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille, Wall-E and Up. 熟悉的人物，熟悉的背景，很开心喔，就像重新再看这些动画片 :)

展览中，最令人印像深刻的，就是Zoetrope。这是个很神奇的东西。基本上，是由很多个，同一个人物的模型所组成，这些人物的表情、动作是带连贯性的。就是动画片的原理，把人物的动作分解成几个图片，只要快速的翻阅这些图片，人物就会动起来了。Zoetrope只是把2D的图片变成3D的模型，把这些模型排成圈圈，然后快速的旋转。配合闪烁的灯光，灯光亮时，人类的眼睛就把其中一个模型记入脑中，然后灯光一暗，模型旋转到下一个模样，当灯光再亮时，人类的眼睛又把这个模型摄入脑中，当旋转的频率，配合灯光闪烁的频率，人物就动起来了。虽然知道，这是我们的眼睛欺骗了我们，但是当模型动起来那一刻，还是又惊又喜的！很激动！我把展览会中的原文解释，一一记载。

[ Zoetrope
The zoetrope, which can be translated as "wheel of life" Was a popular form of late-nineteenth-century home entertainment and demonstrated the basic principles of animation before the invention of cinema.

Using characters from Toy Story and Toy Story 2, the Toy Story Zoetrope is rooted in an eighteen frame cycle. Each frame of the cycle is represented by a three-dimensional character figurine, or "maquette".

These figurines are mounted at precise points on the disk, which spins at the speed of one revolution per second. A strobe light triggering on each frame freezes the motion, enabling the human eye to perceive the character's motion as a single image. When the eye sees a number of these frozen images in quick succession, the effect of "apparent motion" strings them together to create the illusion of a fluid motion.

This Toy Story Zoetrope was inspired by the three-dimensional "Bouncing Totoro" Zoetrope created by our friends at Ghibli Museum in Mitaka Park, Tokyo, Japan.]

这次展览也是不可以拍照的，当然还是有些没文化的人，不听劝告，这里就不提了，毁我兴致。以下看到的照片是在展览会外，售卖纪念品的地方拍的，让大家过过瘾噜。

回家（4）

休假一周，我回家了。
参加了一个老友的婚礼，和家人去了一趟马六甲。
去马六甲是为了探望大伯。
从小，大伯就很疼我和弟弟，也会常到我们家小住，现在他年纪大了，就换我们去看他了。
他身体还不错，人也比较豁达了，可能很多事情看开了，人变得很健谈。
我们一家，看他如此，也很开心。:)

那是题外话，这篇不是要写那个的 :P
我很想念和家人一起吃早餐的日子。想念每到午餐和晚餐时间，就有热腾腾的温暖餐。
现在一人在外，每到吃饭时间，就烦恼，要从一堆油腻腻的食物中，挑一些自认比较健康的食物。“要吃什么？”成了口头禅。
我想，我最想念的是家人团聚的感觉吧。。。