Reunion Time vs. Show-Off Time

Good memories .. Bad memories.. i think old times are not the time that suit me the most. Well mostly, bad memories come in mind.

I never consider my High School time to be my sweet memory-time. Not only I was never the pretty cheerleader girl nor the favourite girl in High School, I also suffered from endless mocking in those torturing years. I was kinda the weird geeky one. I will write more about my High School time on other entry.

Life was easier for me after that, I can be who I really am at Uni, I travel without anyone calling me names when I came back, doing things that i like the most.

Peace.. peace..

And suddenly ...

A few days ago, a message sent to my Facebook Inbox, the message is  started for 30 ppl  or so... I really have no clue who started the idea of my (nightmare) High School reunion, but I was trapped into a non-stop thread of 30 people replying-reply to each other. It's officially spamming. Plus the fact that my FB is connected to my BB, the 24-hour alert is driving me crazy.

The combination of FB and reunion is a nightmare, this social networking things really convenient in bringing people “closer” than I expected, private lives exposed and of course, it is a perfect media for showing things off.

In those days, I hardly known my peers in High School (thanks to the mocking, I lost most of my confidence there) But now within a few days since the reunion thread started, I get heaps of friend requests from which people whom I hardly recall, couldn’t recognize, let alone name.

Out of courtesy, I accepted the requests only to find that I’ve done a bigger mistake, now I am drowning myself in a pool of:

-          people are posting their wedding or honeymoon pictures. Posing, kissing and snuggling. Please be more considerate to singletons like me.

-          People who show off what meal they are taking. I don’t care what go down your throat every single hour. So what  if you are taking meals at fancy restaurant 5x a day? Does it supposed to make you look like a royalty?

-          People who show off pictures of their newly purchased LV bag right in front of the store. Oh please, you only own 1 LV bag, taking 20 pics of it won’t multiply the bag.

-          People sending love messages to their lovers’ FB status. What’s wrong with private space now? Do you need to announce how much you miss your hunny-bunny-sugar-pops in social network to prove your love?

-          People show off by secretly announcing their “advanced” lives. “I prefer to stay in Australia , I just can't stand traffic jams in Indonesia"

- or people purposely show off their latest whereabouts in innocent lines “I don’t really want to go, but my lovely hubby force me go to SGS – Singapore Great Sale”, and within 5 mins another status update: “I am at Priemere Lounge Jakarta, taking SQ to Singapore“

And stupid me, I should have just shut this BB off and end it all …

Welcoming new Puppy at Vihara

About 2 weeks ago, I found a cute puppy running at vihara. Vihara's staff told me when she first time arrived in vihara, she was very skinny with sunken tummy. Maybe she's a stray puppy, maybe she was abandoned. Then the staff gave shelter and food for her. With love and good care, she's now a healthy and happy puppy. She doesn't have name yet, I call her Baby, some call her Titi (copying Tata's name)

Here's the picture of Baby and her vet when she had her 1st vaccination: 

bite the hand that feeds

One day I saw a mole-insect crawling on my office’s floor. Feared that it will be squashed by people passed by, I carry it up to release it. It was a huge one, as long as my index finger. Of course, it struggled inside my hand for about 10 seconds before I finally put it on ground. Then I found out that its strong  spiky arms have scratched and cut my fingers.

Not so long after that, my mom reported to me that my employee kicked the poor insect after it released it. Mom said she tried to explain to my staff that I was meant to save the insect not to kill.

But then he answers “If you save it, you’ll end up getting hurt. Look at Ming’s hand, it bleed”

I guess what he said was correct to some extend. But I'd use the logic on human, not on animals.

Human tend to take kindness for granted, and even on not-so-rare cases, human also "bite the hand that feeds them"

Paper vs Styrofoam

On one fine afternoon, I accompanied my Mom to arrange dishes for my Big Bro’s wedding. The original plan was that they’re going to use Styrofoam bowls for some dishes. I rejected the idea; I meant my parents have been campaigning not to use Styrofoam as it is bad for our environment. How could we use in on our family’s big occasion? I opted for paper bowl, which is so hard to get so me and mom went to visit some aunties that are veterans in catering world.

The conversation went on like this:
ME:         Auntie, do you know where to get paper bowl like this? I want it to be used for  Durian-Ice (showing   paper bowl I got from local KFC)

AUNT 1:   Durian-Ice? No need such fancy bowl, just use Styrofoam bowl. I know who can supply them
Me:        No, no, no. I don’t want to use Styrofoam. 不环保 (not environmentaly-friendly)
AUNT 1 & 2:  What???
MOM:     What Ming meant is, Styrofoam is bad for earth cos it’s not easily degradable
AUNT 2:   Aiyoooo….. you worry about the rubbish? No need to worry, let the hotel handle it.
AUNT 1:   Yes, the price you pay for hotel includes the rubbish fee. They’ll put all used Styrofoam bowls into big plastic bag and they’ll dispose it. You will not see them anymore. Easy.

AUNT 2:   OK, now we confirm to use Styrofoam bowls. styrofoam bowls are so convenient and so cheap too. This's the best choice. I’ll call my friend to show you the samples, k?

ME:        (speechless)
      
So, moral story of my day is “It’s not plastic or Styrofoam or carbon-emission that kill the earth, it’s our IGNORANCE”.

Now, anyone can tell me any ice-cream cup's supplier in Jakarta? due date is mid Oct 2010.