Call me Call me..

今天下午跟妈妈聊了近两个小时
很久没有聊这么久了
收了很多消息 (和gossip : P)...分分种比那几个在家里知道的还多.. 哈
突然也发现很久没有跟朋友聊很久的电话了
(有啦,下午Jocelyn有打来,但是没有聊很多...)
以前中学的时候常常跟朋友聊很多小时的电话
曾经的记录,好像是从训练营回来吧 聊七小时...(可能更多)
厉害吧... 好笑的是中间还有小休
比如他去厕所我去吃点东西
然后晚点又继续聊...
后来就算毕业了 也还是断断续续有会聊很久手机的朋友
可是现在 有时候电话一整天也没响到
偏偏我就是那种等别人打给我的
(做末那时候的朋友都那么主动的? : D)

就说啦,MSN,SMS这些类型的东西
让人们的沟通都远了远了...
是快是方便是便宜啦...可是它们会让关系变得奇怪,没有那么直接,没有那么"亲近",也很容易产生误会...
突然很想念 bou chukkk..

P.S. 初七要到了.. 祝大家生日快乐!!!

moobs - man boobs

The number of men having breast reduction operations in the UK is rising dramatically, but is this really the result of the media spotlighting the physical flaws of male celebrities?

see this: Why are we suddenly obsessed with 'man boobs'?

There are more geli pictures.. but I don't want to pollute my blog..
it's for semua lapisan masyarakat.. XD
we just discussed about this that day.
Sammi said her boyfriend is gainning weight.. and she told him,
probably soon or later his moobs will be bigger than hers.. LOL

新年快乐!!

应节用的歌- 梁静茹的迎春花



明天就年三十除夕了...!! 这个星期没有跟mama讲到话
不知道家里有什么大计划
现在听着My Fm 全部都是新年歌!!
讲真的听多了有点... -_-"
刚刚本来要在blog里弄个playlist 放些经典新年歌曲的
结果找了Imeem, Seeqpod, Project Playlist etc
除了第一个 其他的都没中文歌 而imeem我不用 所以还是算了吧
反正新年歌也不会适合我的blog的气质... 哈

明天还要做工 晚上去Jeffrey他们家一起吃火锅团圆饭 (好像没有饭厚?)
过后他们要玩牌赌钱吧 很久很久没有"聚赌"了..!! 我戒了..
后天 年初一晚上去 Gloucester 吃 Thai Buffet
还规定要穿红色新衣 可是没有买到 : (
也没什么计划了吧.. 可能就去谁谁家一起吃吃酱吧..
还有就是有点想把MSN uni 朋友的组暂时关掉
因为都是一些遗憾没得过年的话... 看了会有点抑郁..
反而看以前中学朋友的MSN那里就会有些新年祝福的话
也没要说什么啦 就是...
"每逢佳节倍思亲"嘛.. 今年我算好多了 : )

希望明年有机会回去过年吧
有点怀念在家吃新年饼和肉干的感觉
(在家是任吃的, 在这里买了不便宜还不好吃..)
想吃柑 大大粒用橙色塑胶袋装的那种 然后年初一去外婆家坐着无所事事
(猜她今年一定又忘了给我的红包..!!)
有点怀念拜年的感觉 跟朋友四处去"抢"红包..


就这样呗 新的一年
希望大家 像牛那么健康.. (啊!土!) 新年快乐..!!

Dream

I'm very sure I don't feel anything special toward him but recently this person keeps appearing in my dreams. That interests me to a certain point. As the Chinese says what you think/miss during the day, you'd dream about it at night (日有所思,夜有所梦). How if I don't think? Can anyone, especially those psychologists, or who knows a bit about oneirology give me some possible answers?

The thing is I don't normally remember any of my dreams, and most of the time when people sharing their dreams excitedly, no matter it's a horror, happy or strange one, I would be thinking why I never be able to remember any, although sometimes I might recall a bit, which "happen" right before I wake up. This makes me think of deja vu, or a more scientific term - Extra Sensory Perception- like a scene, a chat, a person, whatever la, something that seems sooo familiar happen exactly as "last time", but you know it hasn't happened in "reality"... interesting, isn't it?

And I have a good old friend, who quite oftenly, leaves me offline messages on MSN, telling me she dreams about me again, over and over again. Previously, she even said that I appeared in her dreams 3-4 days continuously.. I didn't see that could be annoying, but amusingly promised her I'd try my best not visiting her too often in her dream. And, sometimes when there were several who told me they dreamt about me, I'd 'assumed' that's the reason I didn't get good sleep because I kept 'visiting' so many of my friends at night - trying to be funny only la k -_-"

But now I can see that it could be annoying. Because that's a strange feeling, that person means nothing too much than a friend / good friend, why must be him that keep coming to my dream? What affect whether or not I can remember? What do you think?

P.S. the dream here doesn't refer to that type like Martin Luther's : D

Birmingham Short Trip

Updated: Photos of what I've bought

Went to Birmingham with Bpeng, Stephy and Sammi today
and had DimSum there!!
Well, it's obviously not as nice as those we normally have in m'sia,
but it's still good enough to make me satisfied :) :)
Initially, this was supposed to be a food trip,
which we planned to eat dimsum- shop for food- eat asam laksa,
but ended up...
eat dimsum- shop for clothes- spent most of our time in Zara- shop for food- dabao egg tart
thank you Sammi for treating us and our housemates the egg tart
I bought a black ski jacket in Zara, it costs me only £10!
thanks to Bpeng for picking it..


and got another funnel shape check white coat from Jane Norman, nice nice..
love it very much.

The sale that you will never find in Malaysia, it was originally £90 but I bought it with £26+

And these as well...



Supposed we should get ourselves some red colour clothes for Chinese New Year
but all of us failed =/
Anyway, I can feel quite much of CNY now.. from My Fm (to listen), from people around me, from msn, and I'm going to make some fishes and other decorations with bpeng's red packets
One last thing: stop asking me whether I'm going back for CNY and why not..
I'm NOT, we have no holiday at all... but I'll try my best to make it happen next year : )

Cheltenham

I've been staying in this town for more than two years. Initially the impression that it gave me was boring, boring, and boring. Right, for sure, for 19 years, I lived in a place that have huge shopping centres open till at least 10pm, after that you can visit mamak, and there is night market packed with people. I spent six years in an independent school and had long hours lectures and awful lots of activities after class and during holidays. So, how on earth is it possible for a people like me to like a so damn boring place like this?

And yet, I like it so much now. I guess my mind, my habits are 'aging'.. Because it's a place with lots of elderly, and we heard it received some kind of award that referring it as the most suitable for those retirees before we came. Now I like its slow motions, I like its peacefulness, I like the tranquility, I like those friendly old ladies who talk to you so randomly, and somewhat like it snowing so randomly...

Haih.. strange right? I wonder whether I can get used to new environment if it's going to busy and fast? Because I'm thinking to get a job here, here in the uk, not at cheltenham, as I can see Cheltenham is just a small place, which doesnt provide good working opportunity. But I don't feel like leaving here, yet... I want to explore other cities in the UK, to help me reconfirm that this really isn't a country that I'd like.. lol. In some terms, I guess Cheltenham is already one of the best - the conclusion when we visited Manchester.

Eh? so why am I writing about Cheltenham Spa (in which I don't even know how it got the name SPA?)? Because I saw the Facebook group saying that Cheltonians are those ridiculously good looking people. Eh.. I've been wondering why I didn't see those good looking ang mo (Caucasion) that we normally see from media since I came here (all I can see is just how serious their health problem caused by obesity). I even wonder whether I should conclude that those really-good-looking are all on tv, the rest.. hmm.. ahem.. Previously I thought it may be due to the place I'm in, it may be better in other places, but.. hmm.. obviously it is not, since those Cheltonians think they are ridiculously good looking!

Anyway, despite the ok-looking people, it's still a nice place to live in, to learn more about older England, to interact more with the British. And, at least, apart from the retirees, it's also a very ideal place for studying... : P

Obamamania

He's now everywhere...
Obama in Kenya
Obama Russian Dolls
Obama Masks
Barber shop named "Barack Obama Haircut"

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There was a time when a US president could travel from his inauguration in an open-top car.

John F Kennedy was the last president to do that.

BBC: High Security for Obama's inauguration

It's tomorrow, the inauguration of Barack Obama, the first African-American President..
Let's pray that everything will be alright, for the one who may change the world, even if he doesn't, at least, he brings people hopes.. : D

Recently...

Just realized I haven't written much new entry recently
my blog has been so dead : (
and even if I do, most of them are just some sharing posts
so let me write a bit about my recent life..

It's nearly the end of the 2nd week of the final semester of my degree
I still haven't really accepted this =/
3 years sound far too fast for me, feel like I haven't really got into my Uni life, then it's ending soon!
I don't even feel like doing my dissertation yet.. haih..
Actually I feel like studying few more years (but don't want to spend my parents $$ to study anymore.. So guess I'm going to work for 1-2 year first :) )
There are only 2 days, 3 lectures a week..! (plus 2 days at work) till March,
then few weeks off for easter break, revision week, final till mid May..
Supposed it sounds really early that I will be graduated by then,
but that day checked the website and ... wtf ...
our convo. is on Dec 19th/20th -_-"
it's such a looonnnggg gap.. and I'm still unsure whether I'm going back to m'sia during the gap
will see..

And, Chinese New Year is approaching.. it's the 4th CNY I'm not celebrating at home
I miss it very, very, very much!
Have been listening to myfm online recently, to get some CNY feel
Although I know I used to feel "nothing" about CNY,
like.. it was just a very usual festival in the year..
but missing it for 4 times, 4 years are too much.. can't bear it :( :(
even my grandma has forgotten me, she didn't give my angpau to my mum last year!
(normally she would pass it to my mum if any of us wasn't available to visit her)
So I guess generally I'll be quite depressed recently.. (be careful k, those around me : P)
Last year I used the red packets to make some decorations..
and they were still hung now.. LOL.. so what to do this year??
hmmm.. hmmm.. any plan for CNY eve and day? =/
Oppps ya..!! few of us are going to Birmingham to eat DimSum next week :) :)
and shop for some oriental food as well..
Better than nothing la right...
Anyway, for those celebrating it at home,
please do appreciate..

Working opportunity

I don't really know how it is like to be working 9-5 daily
but I guess that's what most people do
Have a high school friend who just worked for 3 months
and he started to feel kind of bored and sick of working life,
like hmmm... think that he works because he simply ought to..
I'm not going to comment about people who don't like working
because I don't think I'm eligible to do so..
perhaps when I start full time work I can't even stand for one month? : P

But this morning I saw a news.. and guess what..
in Seoul there is a Ph.D candidate who competes with another 62 koreans for 5 job positions
among them there are 11 people who at least hold a degree/diploma..
you must be thinking, those must be jobs of specialised field...
NO!!! They are 5 vacancy of STREET CLEANER!!
ok, please, please note that I don't despise or hold any prejudice against street cleaners
(in fact I kind of respect them...)
but, think about it, or imagine that you were the Ph.D candidate..
s/he has spent more than half of his/her life studying and end up competing for a street cleaner vacancy which apparently doesn't require those knowlegde that s/he has acquired.. how desperate s/he wants a job..!! just a job, whatever it is..
You know, I can't imagine that.. is the economy that bad now?
(indeed.. the UK has been facing its worst economic crisis in 60 years)
Do those who have been grousing about their works now feel (at least a bit) grateful?
I mean, at least most of you get the job that you want,
get the job that's related to your degree/studies, or get the job that you're interested in..
yes sometimes life sucks.. I can't stand waking up really early every Saturday to work also..
but ... hmmm.. life could be worse, especially when the economic crisis hit like now, all we can do is just to sort things out, to make life better by trying hard..
anyway, whatever la, all I want to say, is ..
be grateful and appreciate what you've got kkk...: )

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罗志祥 - 搞笑
潮男正传



歌词:

那一条牙膏 在对我傻笑 嘲笑我永远用不掉
想睡就睡 想闹就闹 好快乐少了人捞叨
蓝色的碗盘 多买了一套 我忘了没人陪我通霄
要多少替代的丑角 无辜的陪笑 才会让我能真的忘了你的好

我在搞笑 借着热闹 掩盖着心跳
边哭边笑 偏要说着 一个人真好
当人群散了 突然觉得我可以死掉 我受不了

还在搞笑 害怕回家 不知怎么熬
这么多年 早就喜欢 有你的撒娇
我想我能熬 但是至少要让我知道 你好不好

我们的小狗 食量变好小 眼神里常常显得无聊
他习惯睡觉的床位 少了一双脚 所以他常常看着门口睡不着

我在搞笑 借着热闹 掩盖着心跳
边哭边笑 偏要说着 一个人真好
当人群散了 突然觉得我可以死掉 我受不了

我在搞笑 却在最后 眼泪拼命掉
你的离开 失去多少 我计算不了
忙完了一天 突然觉得又何必辛劳 对谁炫耀

还在搞笑 是否拥有 麻痹的疗效
唱一夜歌 却避不开 催泪的曲调
我彻夜胡闹 希望听到有人会提到 你好不好

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首先 要跟力宏说声对不起 因为他们两个同时出专辑
但是我竟然 分享小猪的歌.. : P

虽然没有买过小猪的专辑 对他也没有什么基本了解
但是觉得他真的蛮厉害的... 因为他搞笑的时候 会真的好笑
他唱歌的时候 会好听 而且重点在他的身份很鲜明
不会因为他搞笑 在唱情歌时 变的不深情
也不会因为他的样子属于偶像类 搞笑会变得尴尬 唱歌会让人觉得没实力
就是..嗯... 那个实力 和那份努力吧
这首歌 比起他之前的作品 没有说非常好听那种 MV还蛮暗的..
但是他唱出一种感觉 是我想分享的..
一种我相信很多人都有的感觉 尤其是外表看起来比较开朗的人
但是我不会表达.. 自己感觉吧.. XD
hmm.. 就是好像在人群里我们习惯大声讲大声笑.. 就算心情再不好也会暂时忘掉
但是回到家里面对自己的时候.. 那种 " 空 " 的感觉涌出来...... get it?
听听呗 : )

P.S. 中文好像真的退步了 用华语打blog的感觉变得奇怪...词不达意的感觉 -_-"

"Interesting"

BBC: Millions to get weather pay-outs

Millions of pensioners and vulnerable people around the UK have become eligible for cold weather payments.

The £25-a-week assistance is triggered when an area's average temperature falls or is forecast to fall to 0C or below for seven consecutive days.

Forecasts for the London area mean 600,000 people are eligible for fuel help for the first time in a decade.

As the Arctic snap continues to bite, the freeze has restricted water supplies in Rhondda Fach, South Wales.

Welsh Water apologised, saying the freezing conditions had "severely restricted" supplies feeding a local treatment works. There would be occasional loss of supply or discoloured water, but it was safe to drink, they said.

Tankers were bringing water in to the area, bowsers would be put in "key locations" and bottled water distributed to customers with special needs and mothers with young babies, added the firm.

Pensioner warning

Forecasters say temperatures will stay below zero in many parts of the UK.

Lows of -8C (17.6F) have been forecast for much of southern England and Wales, with temperatures dropping to -10C in rural Hampshire and Surrey overnight.

The mercury dropped to -11C in Aboyne, Aberdeenshire, and in Shap, Cumbria, on Monday night.

The £15m for Londoners means weather payments have topped £100m this winter.

Charities have warned that the elderly and sick urgently need financial help with heating bills to prevent avoidable deaths.

Britain's biggest pensioner group - the National Pensioners Convention - said 12 pensioners could die every hour during the cold snap.

'Extra help'

On Tuesday, the Department for Work and Pensions said cold weather payments had now been triggered at 52 weather stations around the UK since the start of this winter.

With freezing conditions sweeping across the UK, payments are being made from Aviemore in Scotland to Bedford in southern England.

The payment, which goes to people in receipt of certain benefits - mainly pensioners, severely disabled people and families with a young or severely disabled child - rose this year from £8.50 to £25-a-week for each spell of cold weather.

It is paid automatically to those who qualify, including the estimated 2.7m households in receipt of pension credit.

Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell said: "We don't want people to worry about turning up their heating when it's cold.

"That is why we've trebled the cold weather payment to £25, to put money in the pockets of the people who need it most.

"Millions of vulnerable people and pensioners are now in line for this extra help after the recent cold snap."

Winter deaths

The increased cold weather payments are one part of a package of measures announced by the government this winter.

This year's Christmas bonus for pensioners and disabled people, which will be paid between January and March, has increased from £10 to £70.

And an extra £575m has been spent on winter fuel payments, with £250 for those in households with someone aged 60 or over, and £400 for those with someone aged 80 plus.

Meanwhile, Help the Aged has warned that the death rate rises by 1% to 2% for every temperature drop of 1C.

Older people and those weakened by illness are particularly susceptible to cold-related illness and death.

The Office for National Statistics said that from December 2007 to March 2008 there were an extra 25,300 deaths in England and Wales compared with the average for non-winter months - a 7% increase on the previous year's figure.

However, the figure was still some way short of the increase in deaths seen in the winters of the late 1990s when totals hit nearly 50,000 as flu swept Britain.

'Suffer needlessly'

The National Pensioners Convention has called on the government to double the winter fuel allowance.

NPC general secretary Joe Harris said: "Up to three million pensioner households are currently spending more than 10% of their income on fuel bills and are living in fuel poverty.

"Energy efficiency schemes won't help them pay their bills this month and neither will they prevent tens of thousands of pensioners dying from the cold this winter."

Macmillan Cancer Support is also calling on the government to extend the payments to those with cancer.

Chief executive Ciaran Devane said: "Cancer patients of all ages continue to suffer needlessly because of this dreadfully cold weather.

"They tell us they feel the cold more because of treatment and have to spend more time at home. And throughout this, their fuel bills soar whilst their household income has dropped."

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OK. I know it is inappropriate to use the word "interesting" but I grew in equatorial climate.. And, you know, these days, everyone, yes everyone around me, is being sooo damn excited with the snow, I could see loads of pictures uploaded on facebook, either foreigners like us or locals, and many blogged about it..

Masterpiece of Peiman & Felicia.. A bit ugly though : P

Although I was aware how inconvenient it can be to live in a country which snows a lot (during my Austria trip), but I never thought about how much troubles it has brought to those vulnerables.. and, wow, it's really 'sweet' that the government is actually trying to pay for their fuel bills.. (it seems a bit strange to say your government sweet, perhaps, caring? ok, maybe they just have to..)

Apart from that, people rely very much on weather forecast (which isn't very accurate sometimes apparently- the snow this time wasn't on BBC weather forecast); and the road could be very slippery after it snows; they may need to "dig" their vehicle out in the morning from the deep snow for those who drive; and I even heard from myfm that there are "specialistic" tyres for snow (which means they need to change the tyres according to the season?)..etc etc

Anyway, I still love snow.. I'm just.. not feeling very good as we're so excited with it while some people are actually suffering.. hehe.. and, I found it quite interesting, to learn about all these, which apparently are general knowledge for them, but absolutely new for me.. : )

A priest

Why would a priest be a priest?

I'm not sure about what a priest does everyday, but that day I watched the movie "The Confessor" (or "The Good Shepherd", it received quite some criticisms despite its interesting story line), which made me wonder that =/ Initially the movie caught my attention as the description said "A must-see for anyone interested in firm noir and psychological mysteries." And it made me think about some.. very religious thingy which seldom comes into my mind. I'd say I come from a Buddhist family, as my grandpa was a Buddhist but the rest of my family, none of them looks like a Buddhist ... So most of the time I say myself a free-thinker, but to avoid troubles in some cases, I'd say I'm a Buddhist then. I hope no offend taken on what I blog about today, as I don't really know much about religions, just want to write down what the movie has made me thought about.

Thomas Andrew, a priest, was accused of murder, and he decided to sacrifice his life rather than violate the principles he believes in. What the principles mean here, is that people don't confess to him, but they confess to God through him, so whatever he knew from the confession, he couldn't be telling anyone else, and thus to conform to the rule of confidentiality (rather than to protect the murderer), he would rather be accused as the murderer.

Interesting, isn't it? I'm not sure whether there are priests like him in real life, or can all the priest do what he did? I mean, they are all human, like you, like me, how would people have such pure and unselfish mind, to work as a priest? To be authorize to administer religious rites, to listen to confessions, to devote his/her whole life to the church/god/believers? How would a person develop to become a priest? Like, how his environment of growing up, his friends, his daily activities, his attitudes toward religion, marriage and strangers... For most people, I guess people around them and themselves always come first, but how about priests? Do they disregard their own welfare and advantage over those of others all the time? especially when "those of others" are just some strangers or some not very close friends?

Resolutions 'bad for your health'

Deciding to turn over a new leaf in the new year could do more harm than good, a mental health charity has warned.

Mind has urged people not to feel they must start 2009 armed with resolutions for self-improvement.

The charity said resolutions which focus on issues such as the need to lose weight or job worries create a negative self-image.

And if the plans fail to materialise, that could trigger feelings of failure and inadequacy, the charity said.

Mind chief executive Paul Farmer said focussing on problems or insecurities can lead to feelings of hopelessness, low self-esteem and even mild depression.

"We chastise ourselves for our perceived shortcomings and set unrealistic goals to change our behaviour, so it's not surprising that when we fail to keep resolutions, we end up feeling worse than when we started," he said.

"In 2009, instead of making a New Year's resolution, think positively about the year to come and what you can achieve."

Source : BBC News

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Ridiculous, isn't it?
They are asking people not to have new year resolution as people will probably not achieving it and end up feeling failure, hopeless and depressed!
OK. I know they mean some unrealistic resolutions la,
but this is still unreasonable ma!
People should know to judge what they could and couldn't reach
and by saying resolutions, of course it means something accomplishable, although most of the time hard work and perseverance needed.. right?

Shopping day

Went shopping today, for the last available Saturday that I have, probably until exam period, and guess what I've got that made me kind of excited!!
It's not those Republic clothes that I've got.. But..
a 50p coin!!!

You might ask what's so special about it..
it's the 2008 version, one of the Royal Shield coin set that I've been trying to collect
and with it, now I've got the whole shield..!!!

From left to right, top to bottom,
there are pound coin, 10p, 2p, 1p, 5p, 20p, 50p..
Can you see the Royal Shield? (note: picture is from web as I'm lazy to take it myself)
You'd have to make some virtual point in your mind..
exclude the pound coin (I havent got this one =/), the rest form a shield shape..
nice right?
Unfortunately the time when I manage to do this it's already 2009! :( :(
Should have done more shopping.. hahaha..

I like saturday's high street
there are lots performers and sometimes you get to see some traditional suits or hear some nice little live concerts..
very lively, unlike the nights here...
It was also crowded today, but what made me feel different,
was when I saw there are quite a few shops closing down (the Work, Card warehouse etc) and some had already closed down (Woolworth)... :( :(
Experts predicted there are going to be at least 600,000 job cuts here in the UK during the year 2009
*sigh* Can you imagine that?

Human Trafficking (2005)

Every day young girls are bought and sold...

It was originally a mini-series and then in the year of 2006, DVD was released, starred Mira Sorvino, Donald Sutherland and Rémy Girard, talking about women being trafficked all around the world (and thus scenes were set in quite a few cities like Prague, New York, Manila etc) and acts taken to stop the organization from trafficking people...

For me I love this kind factual based movies, especially we don't get to see this on media often, while in fact things are just happening all around the world, although watching the whole 2 hour 40 minutes DVD sounds too long to me. I'd not want to compare and say how lucky we are, but I learnt that there is so much to do to make the world better, and, every little helps (Oops! Tesco's slogan XD).

It's very strange sometimes, to think about this, from the female perspective, that feminist has been there for decades, that in general, I'd say things are fair enough for many of us, that I could scarcely think of any gender discrimination or prejudice in my life (apart from some silly jokes). But human trafficking is still out there, women could be treated like trade objects and sexual objects... and guess what, I'm reading A thousand Splendid Suns (from the author of the kite runner - Khaled Hosseini), besides those modern slavery, I see women and children are still victims of domestic violence, and many of them are living under very inapprehensible rules... Why? For me it doesn't matter if those rules are not understandable as long as they themselves accept the rules and live happily under it, but how if they don't, is there anything they can do?

I mean, I don't think there would be completely genuine equality, especially when it comes to gender equality, because people have been born differently, at times she is better at others he is better, I don't even see any need to be equal in many cases. If you get what I mean, like he was born better in directions, so he reads the maps; she was born better in nurturing, so she rears the kids (just examples..). But, just due to the slight weaker physical body that women have (and some other variables that come with or after it), how much have they been suffering? And this can't be changed fundamentally, it seems all that can be done, other than cognizance of human itself, is through law, the so-called justice system.. But but but.. you and me know how many illegal activities carrying through and how many legal actions can be taken... [out of topic]

Back to the movie, I'd say it's worth spending the time, if you want your view widen on a world's reality... : )

Happy 2009

Spending the first day of the year the way I want at home, kind of contented as this indicates a good start for me : )
Guess I'm not going to write any to-do list for the year of 2009
as I don't normally do that
(even if I do, I wonder whether I'd remember and follow up : P)
But I did think about how my life should be, can be, and will be after I graduate at May..
Hmmm.. I'll try to do a rough plan
And.. the above is the London eye fireworks on New Year's day 2009
I never knew that the Big Ben has been there for 150 years!!
It's celebrating its 150th birthday this year..!!
Like it quite much, more than the London Eye at least, especially when there was firework display (the beginning few seconds part, with the clock's chimming, awesome!)
although I feel those firework displays at the cities all around the world were really kind of polluting =/
Anyway, all the best for everyone this year

If I'm granted a wish, I'd hope for health, for everyone whom I love and who loves me, and myself