Only Heaven Knows...

The death of our uncle came as a blow to us on Monday. Ironically, it was the birthday of my aunt on that fateful day.

Is life simply "falling" through a series of events? I mean, the birth of a new life soon sees the toddler growing up through childhood into teenage.

Then he or she matures into an adult and joins the working class upon graduation. One thing leads to another - tying the knot, starting the family and have kids.

Soon the kids grow up and start their own families. Suddenly the folks realize they only have each other to lean on...

Before one could enjoy the rest of the journey with the spouse, sickness and death will be lurking round the corner, robbing the happiness and lives of the aged parents.

Perhaps this is one way of God saying "I am in a better position to take care of his people'.

Only heaven knows...

Roll In The Tire

Caught the movie, "To kill a mockingbird" by author, Harper Lee in the library yesterday afternoon. The novel was narrated through Scott, a 6-year-old girl about growing up under extraordinary circumstances in the Southern United States, Maycomb in the 1930s.

As explained by the key character, Atticus (Scott's dad), a mockingbird is a harmless bird that makes the world more pleasant. In this movie, the mockingbird symbolizes Boo Radley and Tom Robinson, who were both tranquil people who never did any harm. To kill or harm them would be a sin. Atticus, tells Scout and Jem, "I'd rather you shoot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit them, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

Hence, the mockingbird symbolizes these two characters because it does not have its own song. In contrast to the blue jay who is loud and obnoxious, the mockingbird only sings other birds' songs. In other words, the mockingbird is only seen through the other birds.

Likewise, the people of Maycomb only knew Boo Radley and Tom Robinson by what others said about them. Both of these characters do not really have their own "songs" in a sense, and are described by other people's comments.

Come to think of it, don't we behave the same? In many instances, towards people whom we are not familiar with, we tend to "influence" others by impressing upon our viewpoints on them.

In reality, our comments may be distorting and not reflective of the person's actual personality.

Are you one of them?

Every Day Is A Winding Road

I’m a Bus Person.

Last night, I took a bus home after dinner with a friend. For some reason, the bus took long usual. I was abnormally tired and was raising my eyebrow like other passengers. After waiting in vain for the bus for 20 minutes, I could think of two possible explanations:

1. The Earth had stopped rotating and I didn’t live on the lucky side of the planet.

2. The local bus company, SBS had forgotten to send the last bus.

I moved to plan 2 and checked the time. This was easier and confirmed my belief that the last bus was not yet due. All it required was looking out for the bus constantly. Suddenly, I saw bus 57 creeping towards the bus stop. Thank god!

After a few stops, the bus captain came to halt and took off the bus sign strangely. Then he just continued to drive the existing passengers to their destinations, without picking up more people for the rest of the journey.

Naturally, we were curious, albeit enjoying the VIP ride. A further chat with him disclosed that he was asked to drive the bus to ferry the crowd in depot area due a a lack of buses, before returning to Bukit Merah bus terminal for another full trip.

As he had picked me at depot road, and my destination was in Toa Payoh (other end of the bus ride), he had decided to fulfill his responsibility by sending me all the way home.

I must say I have never been impressed by our SBS bus service. The exceptional service by this captain has certainly left a favorble impression of our bus service:)

Dance Into The Light

Hey I did it!

Since I begin my course for Mass Communications early this year, I have been dreaming for an job interview in MARCOM.

Hence, when the opportunity finally knocked on my door. I was over the moon regardless the outcome. More importantly, it has boosted my confidence greatly that I am one step nearer to my goals in life.

Come to think of it, I have come to realize that as one ages, he or she is probably clearer on what each wants to achieve in life.

Do you agree?

Missing

I am in night class today, where internet is out of reach. Post will commence Thursday.

Something Stupid

Houston Rockets star, Yao Ming, recently made headlines by wedding his long term girlfriend recently. The ceremony included a banquet for 70 people and was held at a five star hotel in his home town.

Yao Ming who is 2.26m tall met his wife, Ye Li, a 1.90m tall basketball player, when he was just 17 while playing for the Shanghai sharks.

To avoid the media, it was reported that he hired 100 body guards to uphold his privacy on his wedding dau.

You were all thinking it, so let me just say it. Isn't it ironic that the number of security guards actually outnumber the guests? Inquiring minds want to know.

Guess this is the price one has to pay when you are one of the most successful sportsmen.

Wake Up And Smell The Coffee

Time check - It's 12.30 am in Singapore, Tuesday morning (another brand new day)!

Don't ask me why I am still up.. Guess I was trying to catch up yesterday's unfulfilled tasks so hence, the delay in beauty sleep. More importantly, to log in my daily blog as a reflection of my daily thoughts:)

My point is to enjoy what you like to do in life, and sleep will not matter much anymore. Perhaps it is also my desire to share my humble life over such "tittle-tattle" records, like most of us do...

Blogs. They are the future.

All I Wanna Do

Was invited to my friend's place for home-cooked lunch prepared by his mum today. Being an excellent cook, I had no reason to turn down the invitation:)

Now the tricky thing is who will do the washing? The dishes whipped up were my favorite food. It took her a lot of work. I was delighted by the meal and offered to do the cleaning up myself.

Of course, that does not mean I enjoy cleaning up, especially sleepiness tend to step in after such a huge meal. As I started to wash the "towering" pile of pots and pans from the delectable food, I developed the following thoughts:

1. My host cooked something yummy today
2. I got it wrong in this deal.

Your two cents are always welcome.

That's Why (You Go Away)

For those who is reading my blog for the first time, I am currently pursuing a diploma in Mass Communications.

Unfortunately, our permanent lecturer had to discontinue the sessions due to conflict of priorities. Hence, a replacement was called in to resume the lessons. Unlike the first lecturer, the substitute, however, had difficulty imparting her knowledge to us on top of her frivolous attitude. Consequently, half of the class stopped showing up for her lessons.

The rest of us then decided to put our act together by lobbying to the school for a change of lecturer. Being successful in my first lobby for the other subject, I volunteered to forward the details of my lobby email to the new lobbyist. And the contents goes like this:

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Feedback sent from school Web Site

Name: Pfeiffer Chung

Telephone: Pfeiffer
E-mail: pfeiffer.chung@gmail.com

Feedback / Comments: -
Dear Sir/Madam

For our unit, Public Relations, we have been informed that Ms K will be our permanent teacher for the the unit, Public Relations.

At the onset of the unit, Ms R has started teaching our classes for the first two lessons in view that Ms K is not available. In addition, she has handed out the assignment sheets to us and we had consulted her on our assignment topics respectively.

Given her media industry background, we have found her lessons inspiring and well-imparted with real life examples.

As such, we hope the school would consider Ms R to continue teaching the unit.

Thank you for your consideration and time.

Best regards,
Pfeiffer Chung
(RDM07-02P and RDM06-02P)

Reply from school:

Dear Pfeiffer Chung

We are pleased to inform you that we have been able to accommodate to your request. Ms R will continue to teach the PR unit, with the exception of one the sessions as Ms R has already had previous engagement.

Should you need further clarification, do not hesitate to contact me again.
We wish you all the best for your study.


Regards
Naniek Yuliati
Quality Assurance Dept

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Before he could proceed, our replacement lecturer just announced today that it would be her last day lecturing the class due to health reasons. So guess the second lobby act will not materialize.

Now care to share your past lobby experience with me?

Summer Night City

Singapore, my country turned 42 yesterday!

I must say it was a night of spectacular, breathtaking national day parade to be held first time on water! Unlike years ago, when I had the opportunity to take part in the national day event myself along with my schoolmates at the now-defunct national stadium...

This time, they dared to be different and dared to change. Consequently, the show by the bay dazzled the crowd as it connected with the spectators emotionally all around the stage. The birthday celebration entailed a 50 minutes of song and dance symbolically portraying five elements - earth, fire, sea, sky and people, ending with all time crowd's favorite firework display.

To sum up, most were surprised and enthralled over creativity of the show including myself- the water, the stage and the bridge. Guess that is what it means to be a city of possibilities - always something new, something to look forward to for all of us here in this small island:)

For more details, please read on at Page 4 of the Today's article.

As Time Goes By

Have you try buying any nice furniture of late?

The process works like this:

1. Visit a few furniture malls for the storage cabinet
2. Source for potential candidates but can't make up your mind
3. Decide it's better to wait for great Singapore sale
4. Wait for another 6 months
5. Now, room looks so woefully disorganized
6. Receive a hand-down storage cabinet instead
7. Clean up the 2nd hand junkie
8. Discover not all things need to be purchased
9. Scream in joy
10.Repeat

Now that I have been through this cycle, do you have simliar experience too?