Raya

All the Muslims celebrated Hari Raya Aidilfitri on the weekend, and we are happy to have long weekend holiday though we are not celebrating the festive day. We are not going anywhere, afraid of the terrible traffic jam on the highways as people are heading back to their hometown.

I wonder, how many of the youngsters nowadays know the reason celebrating Hari Raya Aidilfitri? They know Muslims need to fast for whole day long, but do they know actually they start fasting from the moment sun rises until the moment of sunset? Fasting supposedly let them feel the hunger of the poors, so they would appreciate what they have, and help those in needs. That's why before they break fast, they should pray and appreciate what they are granted. 

But, I think, we can find many youngsters sitting in front of the food they bought/ ordered, waiting for the breakfast announcement. Once the moment come, make a simple pray, then start eating eagerly and lots. Actually, it is not good for health if we eat too many after whole day long of fasting. It's a burden to our stomach. 

Well, in the modern days, when the technology is so sophisticated, we start to lost ourselves. We forget the moral, the meanings of those customs and traditions, and we critic people who still apply it as out-dated and naive people, without understand it. 

By the way, I got 'duit raya' from my supervisor days before Raya. First time to get a 'duit raya'! To my surprise, the amount is not small (don't want to reveal the amount here). haha...

小动物倩影

片刻也不静止的蜜蜂

 看到它就起鸡皮疙瘩的大红蚂蚁

 春江水暖鸭先知

 享受美食的小松鼠

湖滨公园 Lake Garden

在首都居住了12年，竟然只到过堪称“闹市里的绿肺”的湖滨公园，那么区区的两次。第一次，是为了拍摄结婚照，相隔了将近5年后，恰巧在结婚周年次日，陪爱好摄影的阿姨去练习摄影技巧。

随意拍摄，但技巧欠佳，有无好相机补救，只能挑几张尚可入目的，献献丑了。

 

由于位处市中心，故无可避免地，把四周高耸林立的钢筋水泥也摄入一片翠绿当中，只好视之为点缀。 

炎炎烈日下，正好一片树荫，无俗务事挂心头，悠闲自在。

惊喜之礼

上个月的某一日，是我们结婚六周年纪念日。原本曾想过市内一家可欣赏夜景的高级餐厅庆祝，但是，一来花费不便宜，二来，忙着准备考试，无心庆祝，所以就打消了念头。

岂知，枕边人竟给了我这份惊喜之礼！

红蜻蜓

飞呀飞呀

看那红色蜻蜓飞在蓝色天空

游戏在风中不断追逐它的梦

天空是永恒的家

大地就是它的王国

飞翔是生活

这首歌让你想起了什么？如果你想起小虎队，那么，你泄露了你的年龄啦！原来你是我同辈中人，哇哈哈！

当我在捕捉这一系列时，发现到蜻蜓尽一切的努力，在被风吹得摇曳不定的枝头上立足，一旦取得平衡，就会把尾巴挺得笔直似的。这一现象，让我自问，小昆虫如蜻蜓，尚且会在站稳脚步后，才骄傲的展现自己。可很多人，总是在稍稍取得一些小成就，变得自以为是的，目空一切？

过瘾

趁跟发型师预约了的理发时间还没到，吃个早餐，加上一杯香浓的mocha白咖啡，就快步走进书局来个速战速决的购书行动，以弥补昨天之遗憾与不甘。这间的规模较大，找到好几本书，结果权衡之下，选了这三本。妄想读过柏杨和余秋雨，能自欺肚里有点墨水，修润一下文学气质；再加上潘建成供给理性逻辑 + 回到现实世界。

前几天在Youtube看到齐豫接受“小燕之夜”专访，谈到她跟三毛的合作专辑 —— 回声。结果今天在唱片行机缘巧合瞥见这张专辑，岂有不买下之理？反正都要买了，再加上这张纵贯线的“南下专线”。

独自逛书局唱片行，真爽！哈哈！不过，我的存款可残了！

偷得片刻浮生

 今早如常去到办公室，却发现没人在，或许是因为今天是星期五，加上办公室的冷气坏了，电流也中断了，有堂皇的理由“失踪”。一个人呆在电脑室，开着书本，却无心温习，午餐时间赶紧逃之夭夭，到附近的小商场逛逛。

走进书局，却发现这么多年了，我们的阅读风气依然低落。虽然书局规模不大，可也不算太小。但是，华文书籍的一角，烹饪书占了20%，漫画及言情小说占10%，保健养生占另外的20%，再来是风水命理星座10%，修身励志及商管10%，剩下的才是屈指可算的中外文学。甚至是武侠小说都只是寥寥几排，孤立于书架上。不甘心就此空手而归，呆了个多小时，硬是买了三本书以安慰自己， 聊胜于无嘛！

忽然很怀念马大东亚图书馆里的中文藏书，哪天忍不住，一定要弄个会员再进去畅泳于浩瀚书海中！

 买了精神粮食，该是祭五脏俯的时候了。一眼就瞧见驰名茨厂街的“金莲记”新开的分行，岂能错过？点了招牌炭烧福建面加薏米少冰。等待食物上桌时，巧好旁边坐了一对母子，母亲点了食物后，竟然一边埋首于智能手机的游戏里，一边有一搭，没一搭的在和儿子聊天。想起小时候，父母常会教我们跟人家说话时一定要正眼望着人家，不然，会被视为没礼貌。可现在，上梁不正下梁歪！科技越进步，人类就越退步！

Shopping Time

If you're staying in KL, how would you spend your weekend? I think almost 90% of the answers would be "of course go to anyone of the shopping center in the city". We had decided to go to Mid Valley today as we have a shopping mission: buy 3 pairs of shoes, a pair for me and 2 pairs for him. What we get? Not only mission accomplished, I have unplanned spending. Uniqlo is having opening sales! I got to know that the quality is quite good from a friend of mine. So, I can't stop myself from entering the shop and attracted by the T-shirt and jeans with discounts. Finally, I bought 2 Polo T-shirts and 1 jeans. The price of T-shirt now is only RM49.90, normal price is RM79.90. How could I didn't grab it?

He bought a pair of Camel Active shoes with 30% discount in Jusco. Actually, he only paid RM10 in cash. According to him, "Maybank gifted me this pair of shoes." Why? Because we redeemed Jusco cash vouchers with the credit card points. Haha... Finally, both of us got a pair of sport shoes below RM100 from 'Why Pay More'.

Shopping is an enjoyable and exciting action. Yet, it's also painful. Half of my salary has gone with the wind... sad!

Hectic week

I was very busy last week. There were 2 assignments due on the same day. I had started doing the assignments few weeks before, try to avoid last-minute work, still unable to finish it earlier. It's an assignment in the form of term paper, plus, I'm now a PhD student. Thus, I required myself to at least do something up to standard. But, it's not easy to write a good term paper, especially when I do not have such experience. So, in the end, I only manage to do an average work and submit it just-in-time. Really just-in-time, because I printed it out and submit directly, you can still feel the heat of the paper. Some more, I honestly told my lecturer about this. Haha...

I thought I can relax myself for few days. Too early to be happy, just a day before I submit the assignments, my supervisor  gave me a 'mission impossible'. She asked me to prepare a proposal and apply for the research university grant scheme. She told me this on Tuesday, and the application due date is next Monday; means I only have 4-5 days to prepare it. What can I do? Anyhow also have to come out with something. I simply think of an idea, furnished with some facts, then passed to her. I guessed, she must be thinking that "gosh, what is this rubbish?" Finally, she told me what topic we're going to do, ask me to refer and follow previous studies and prepare the proposal. Haha... this is easier; copy, edit and paste is my strength.

Finally, submit the application form and documents required on time. Phew! That night, I finally can sleep well and have a good dream! Actually, I also don't know whether I have a good dream or not, because, I'm fainted! 

安身之“位”

本来，我们这班研究生像一群无家可归的可怜人，只能委身于电脑室里，完全没有属于自己的位子，也没有一丁点的隐私可言。还被其他学生以匿名信投诉我们在里面高谈阔论，吃喝玩乐！我想投诉人恰好看到我们谈天的时候，却没看到大部分时间我们都是默默的埋头苦干（读），就武断的认为那就是我们每时每刻都在做的事情！真是。。。无言。。。唉

基于这个投诉，加上管理层觉得有必要监督我们这班领大学研究生助学金的工作及出席率（盖因常没看到我们，哈哈！），终于，在一个丢空的办公室里，让我们每人拥有一个属于自己的工作空间。美中不足的是，并没有提供每人一架电脑，只好，每天携带自己的笔记型电脑去。

由于那个办公室丢空了好一阵子，设备不怎好，冷气年久失修，吹出的是热风，窗帘也缺了一大片，下午西晒，相当闷热。结果，我们一开始并不喜欢这个办公室，没人进去利用办公。后来，由于越来越多外国学生进去电脑室，我觉得不怎么舒服。既然已经拥有个人工作空间，为何不好好利用呢？于是，我就开始出现在新办公室里，其他人看到了，陆陆续续地也跟着去了。

如今，冷气维修了，我们也习惯了新的空间，大家每天都自动报到！所以说，如果想要员工尽心尽力地工作，那就一定要制造一个舒服的工作环境，一个可以给员工归宿感的空间，自然而然，不须威逼利诱，员工都会自动自发了。