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July 21 my inertia flowsThey finally gave up the idea of getting me involve in the research for the Inuit exhibition, which is something I don't really fancy. Instead I was given much freedom to do some cataloguing in objects I'm interested, e.g. the fans.. coool. And of course the usual documentation work, identiify objects location and movement. Knackered, probably because of the dissertation submission last Friday + moved to London on Saturday + Skype file receiving lecture over internet for mom last night. So well yeah. First day at work. Wish to wake up 30 mins later tomorrow and be late at work. Planned for Malaysian dinner on Wednesday. And planning for a runaway on Thursday (with the excuse research in library needed). Oh just dreadful to bring my own computer to work everyday. and 30 mins overground train. I was moaning a lot for this sometime earlier. It was fine to travel over 30 mins by train in Kuala Lumpur or Shanghai, but sigh I'm becoming like any other grumpy British now. Summer has gone. Rainy London. June 16 no subject最近爱上architecture, 觉得也是美好的事情。又有美感又有好感的东西。呵呵。architecture 可以改变世界，可以激起各种思考。在柏林就特别有这个感觉。 在巴黎的贼事可多了。脏的巴黎，古老气息的巴黎，充满装饰的巴黎，很多着西装的帅哥的巴黎。我在巴黎寄的postcards显然都没有寄到。我在巴黎乘搭的原班机还莫名其妙地取消。我在机场厕所锁不上门，那个chinese的清洁工人用江浙方言说了一通，我没听清楚意思，想她在骂我笨吧。只听懂她用法语叫c'est facile! (it's easy!) 还要德国。如果在D城顺便去荷兰，如果在H城顺便去丹麦，如果在B城顺便去波兰。可惜没时间。想太远了。只是德国人都没有表情，好像人与人的往来互动也不多。说”没有“或者”不“，都很生硬的'nein'! 我喝了啤酒，很smooth，在H城，该名友人貌似不太享受吃，（以前每次见面吃得都比我少，害我怕尴尬不敢多吃又饿肚子），就没有带我吃猪脚。在B城我一个人，如果自己去餐厅又会觉得很怪。下次吧。 没有人相信我在柏林和比尔堡遭遇了sunburn. 没有想到柏林也会有这样的烈日，比尔堡还超过30度。我和西班牙同屋说，他说怎么可能，比尔包不是一直都下雨吗？是的，听说是如此，但不知道为什么我在的那几天会是如此晴空万里。照片近日会放。我还瘦了。在巴黎走了5天，裤子一下变松了。昨天和同学中午饮茶，她说我变胖变瘦都易见，因为骨架小。我只记得2006年一个夏天胖5公斤的悲惨教训。 从欧陆回来那天发现厨房奇脏无比！堆了不知道多少天的肮脏锅碗瓢盆塞满了两个水槽。结果到了第三天，我忍不住，抱着积德的心态，花了一个下午帮bastard housemates把厨房收拾干净。然后贴一张字条，Please keep the kitchen clean, else Im gonna kick you out from the block! 实在是太生气。到现在也还好，虽然小乱。 我有个bastard housemate，以前叫他Mr tiga puluh lebih. 30多岁的男人。我的杯子不见了。从欧陆回来发现不见的。怀疑就是他从我柜子里拿出来用。这个人习惯真不好，经常把勺子杯子都放在房间里，用了也不洗，就堆在房间里。心血来潮某天一次把一打杯子或勺子往水槽里扔。 问了他两遍都说没看到我的杯子。我实在生气，不是杯子，而是怎么可以把人家放在柜子里的东西拿出来使用，还不还！气不过，把事情告诉B夫妇。两个人异口同声说，肯定是他打破了，扔了，所以变不出来给你。我想他们大概是前晚看了什么侦探节目吧。然后我ahh惨叫了一声，‘my mug....’ B先生说，‘ex-mug..’ 对。它已经变成我的ex-mug了。 送走了undergraduate的housemates, 都是交换生，就来一年。有点伤感，虽然感情也不是很深，我就是受不了分离的场面。 June 11 i love Berlin - Germany 2nd stop31 May 2009 From E town to Hamburg city, changed platforms for train to Berlin. No first class, no reserved seats. No hassles. Here I come, sunny sunny Berlin! I decided not to take any trains but to walk to the hostel. Streets are so clean and clearly labelled, one can walk easily. 20 mins walk, and I got to the hostel, very very clean and comfortable hostel. Reposed for an hour. I'm out to experience the city! I went to the famous Unter den Linden area. The Humbolt University, where Einstein was here as a student and a professor. I also went into the disappointing Guggenheim Berlin. I shouldnt have paid the 3 euros. Then I made my way to the Memorial for the Murdered Jews in Europe. Another round Unter den Linden. French & German churches. Concert house. Museum Island. Had refreshments in a coffee shop, a light dinner, which is like 5 minutes away from the hostel. Rain poured as I just stepped out the shop, didn't expect I'm going to experience the worst soak in rain in my life so far. I prayed loudly if you could stop for a little while but oh dear rain god you responded me with a heavier pour! I must have looked so terrible everyone glanced at me at the hostel. Day Two. Free guided walk after breakfast from 11am - 4pm, all stories of Berlin have been revealed. I paid a tip of 5 euros at the end, to our lovely guide Louis, a graduate from the UK. My ultimate destination, the Jewish Museum, is my next stop. Awesome architecture! I left around 8.30pm, all shops are closed by then. A quiet night. I'm heading to Bilbao the next day. U-Bahn and bus, Tegel Airport is so small, and so close to the city. What a city. Not too big and not too little. Clean and simple. Something old, something new. I fell in love with Berlin. Unter den Linden, Museumsinsel, Lustgarten, Reichstag, Brandenburg Gate, Adlon Hotel, Tiergarten, Berlin Wall, suddenly I feel I've known this place for a long time and I know the directions by heart. I dont know if I can come back one day during Winter time, I'll make a tour to Sachsenhausen. useful words in Germany: Hallo. Danke. Bahnhof. June 06 德国first stop从市中心到E镇，过了午夜。安静的小镇。睡得就是不安稳。 次日又是火车到市中心。德国的long weekend, 有些人潮。 港口，ferry, 大风，shopping mall, ice-cream, 很无聊的dinner... 我冒昧告辞，说好8.10pm platform见，然后一个人往反方向去。坐在广场一个人写写，忘了时间。8.05pm猛地往Central Station 跑。他说8.23pm开的火车原来是8.20pm! 等我们在长长的platform找到对方，火车刚开走10秒。他无力生气，也没表情。10点多我们累倒了。比前一晚好眠。早上9.30舍不得把眼睛睁开。朦胧中我指着radio说，i like him, robbie. 德国第一站就这样过去了。不到40小时。 flight cancellation - a day wasted29 May Left hostel at 6.15am, by 7.30am I'm already at the Orly Airport, only to find out the flight to Dusseldorf has been cancelled (heard it's caused by strike). I wasn't that much terrified. Stood in the line for 3 hours to see how things can be done. Got a seat eventually for flight at 5pm, which means arrival in Hamburg at 9.30pm. Great. Mr. J was there on time to greet me at the arrival hall. Finally at 1am I lay my head in the bed. A day wasted, and my plan to the art museum has been murdered. Greyish day for me, despite bright sunny day in Paris and Hamburg. ^^^^ In Paris, metros are usually old. French men are mostly well-dressed, I've seen a couple of them tucked their hands on their left pockets lol. Most heard words in Paris: Bonjour, Merci, Pardon, and Au Revoir if you want. Paris May 2009(Un) Was so hot in the evening I arrived in Paris. Plan to meet an acquaintance there in Paris after few years absence. Très chaud (too hot), I kept on mumbling. Chamber is very small, on the 2nd floor. Dare not take my suitcase up the steps of the wrecked wooden spiral stairs, I politely asked for help. Aidez-moi, s'il vous plaît (Help me, please). The man at the reception did. Merci beaucoup (Thank you very much). Arc de Triomphe and Avenue des Champs-Élysées made the night. A pouring late evening in Paris. ~~~ (Deux) Sacré-Cœur our first stop, the heart of Montmarte, and then we strolled along Place du Tertre, and entered Espace Dali Montmarte. Didn’t expect a rainy Place du Tertre. The afternoon was spent wholly in Musée d'Orsay, my favourite art museum where it houses a lot of impressionists artworks. A spontaneous hop on train to La Defense. Then a walk round the Grand Palais –> Pont Alexandre III. Night is still young, we proceed to Moulin Rouge the red light district.
~~~ (Trois) After breakfast of chocolate and breads, it is Versailles. A long long queue to get in. The royal apartments, a taste of French luxury. Such a massive area so that Marie Antoinette could build her own village of farmhouses and cottages there in Versailles. Exhausted day did not end here. We were running in the Louvre to catch the glimpse of our favourite objects. The three masterpieces, and oh, Eugène Delacroix! I love his paintings so much and now they are standing right in front of me! Starved. Japanese set dinner.
~~~ (quatre) Cold windy day. Tour Eiffel. Lunch in a brasserie, very well-served with a good garçon whom we guess his name is Benjamin. I wanted to go so so much, to the Musée du quai Branly. Had much fun inside! Opened in 2006 and designed by Jean Nouvel, the architect who is going to build the Louvre branch in Abu Dhabi. Notre Dame, and followed by Musée National Picasso, till 6pm. Grand magasins time in La Fayette and Printemps, must-go spots for my dear friend who longed for the shopping spree so much. Pompidou Centre the last stop.
May 22 保护之下，何来竞争力？转自:http://malaysiakini.com/letters/104883 笔者目前放假，因此去打假期工，下面是我工作所感受到的点滴。 Semalam saya pergi Felda dengan Nora dan Laila, saya berasa hairan dan tanya kepada mereka:" Kenapa dalam felda tak nampak ada orang cina berniaga atau bekerja peneroka?" Nora:"Eh, orang cina memang tak boleh masuk felda." Saya:"Har?? Kenapa tak boleh masuk?" Laila:"Boleh masuk, tapi tak boleh berniaga di sini. Dulu saya duduk Felda, ada orang cina masuk berniaga, tapi tak sampai 1 bulan dia dihalao. Orang cina tidak digalakkan masuk felda berniaga, sebab ini tempat melayu." 国耻不该外扬，因此上面的对话我用马来文来写。纳吉提出来的“一个马来西亚”，如果不是只是个空口号，那就是上意不能下达，这些生活在草根的马来民族根本就还在用狭隘的民族思想过生活，因为害怕竞争，不欢迎外来人进入该地方经商。 在这个国际化的年代，还能禁止人家进到任何地方的吗？同样是马来西亚人，还有什么Tanah Melayu之分？那么为什么你的固打制要固定非马来人在创办公司的时候一定要有马来人的参与，我可不可以说我是华人公司所以不要给你进来？ 新 经济政策的成立，当初的敦拉萨政府是说因为土著与非土著之间的经济鸿沟太大，所以需要援助马来人来缩小贫富悬殊，然而新经济政策实行了30、40年后的今 天，我们看到的是，马来民族只会依赖政府过生活，而那些懂得取巧的马来人，则靠着朋党关系，不断榨取政府的工程，造就一个一个的马来富豪，而穷困的马来人 依然穷困，只懂得靠政府的援助过生活。 那天5月20日的《南洋商报》，才有一个当年是敦拉萨的政治秘书出来爆料，说当年的513事件，其 实根本就不是因为经济鸿沟造成的，而纯粹是个政治事件。当时的雪兰莪州务大臣拿督哈仑，在知道民政党，行动党在州选举大胜之后，担心自己的位子不保，纠集 了一群马来极端分子在大臣官邸，进而走上街头闹事。因为在闹事中有些华人被马来人打伤，甚至死亡，导致华人的私会党分子不爽，因此也结群出来打马来人，因 此才会出现动乱，进一步导致种族冲突。之后中央宣布国家进入紧急状态，接管雪兰莪州政府，顺水推舟推行所谓的新经济政策，让朋党榨取国家资源。 龟 缩在Felda里面的马来人，完全就失去了竞争力，过着那种过一天是一天的日子，如果没有政府的保护，不要说和日新月异的外国人竞争，我看到时他们连买肥 料的钱都没有。那天看了一个关于马六甲芒果园的垦殖计划，首3年农业局对芒果农给与援助，免费给他们肥料和农药，第4年开始要他们自立，不再提供援助，哪 里知道这些马来人就出来骂农业局，说这样造成他们农产量降低，都是政府的错。合理吗？你要政府给你免费农药、肥料，但是收成的时候你又没有还钱给政府，你 当政府是什么？印钱机啊？我很看不起那些不会自己想办法解决问题的人，我真的觉得这个民族很可悲，就算让我去当首相，我也不知道要怎样救这个民族，除非实 行共产制度咯，对没有工作的人强行下放垦殖区，强迫他们自力更生。 我们的政府不断地培育大学生，岂不知尚仰赖于农业的马来西亚其实需要非 常大的劳动力，最后造成马来人都不愿意去种田，非土著要种田你政府又不肯批准，经济怎样不衰退？如果大家注意的话，现在很多的大学毕业的马来人都不愿意工 作，因为他们要那种轻松，自在的office job,但是自己的水平又不够，所以他们就宁愿等政府援助，或者apply公务员，更过分的就走上街头打抢，偷东西。希望政府快点解决这些无业游民的问 题，不然我们国家的治安有的乱。 在这里我要申明，我不是歧视马来人，愿意努力去工作的马来人还是值得我去尊重的，像Nora和 Laila，他们生活在城市，他们知道要努力才能赚世间财，但是他们对于政治环境，经济等方面还是处于比较狭隘的思想啦，他们就是会觉得政府应该援助他们 的，但比起Felda的人，他们算能自力更生的了。 May 14 英國的生日瘋了。叫了一桌子10樣菜。女生都喝茶，就男人不停喝啤酒，尤其是英國人。然後這幾個歐洲男生，不僅對中餐覺得很新鮮很享受，沒想到對karaoke也這麽着迷。一個晚上不停的儅麥霸，又扭又擺的唱個不停。結果是被某女同學說，夠了拉。換地方去玩。 大家還排隊親了我也。男的女的都有。真高興。有帥哥哦。還有很多卡片，感動死了，那些臺灣姐姐真會寫。還儹我美女，是真的就好啦。 然後轉移陣地，到對面的一傢pub去，好多人是第一次去。我去過了，覺得還不錯。一下子想不起我們太經常去的那傢，今天問了人才記起叫Lansdowne，頭腦已經非常不好使了。今天那個Pub是12點打烊。一夥人才浩浩蕩蕩結伴離去。今天一分錢都沒花，吃飯大家買單，還連連稱cheap.. 一個人不到10英鎊，還有免費的karaoke。在pub也是Jon幫我買的單，1杯cocktail1杯beer. 大家的不盡興，要延續到星期六晚上又去clubbing ..... 我這個時候要想dissertation, 想申請工作的CV, 想去Tate 的interview 要準備什麽。還有歐洲之旅。好久不見的college 同學，還有那個總是一再錯過的帥弟。Facebook也不一定是好東西。就有人看過我上面的照片說你party太多了，要認真學習才是，但是這就是他們的文化。我還已經算少出去的了。 明天有時間會把賀卡都拍照貼上來。晚上是要和housemates去吃飯的。一個生日，搞成一個星期都不productive, 善哉！ （今晚出席者名單：Jon, Chris, Paolo, Miki, Mai, Min, Young, Joanna, Anita, Erica, I-Chun, Yu Ting, JJ, Andromeda, myself） May 13 吓！时间不够！ Dissertation, the deadly D, makes me doze and dizzy. Placement interview(s). London! I never been to those places of interest yet, but I have to pretend like I have known them my whole life! Birthday. Another year celebrated three nights in a row again. Please I wanna stay young forever. So I am off to Europe after next week, won't be here for 10 whole days. Aww... May 01 London again
Cold and greyish and unfriendly. Geffrye Museum. the Barbican Centre. the National Gallery. Canary Wharf too.
Tube lines and stations. and St Pancras.
 April 09 New Cabinet Line-Up DayPrime Minister and Finance Minister 1: Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak Deputy PM and Education Minister: Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin Ministers in Prime Minister’s Department Deputies: Datuk Liew Vui Keong, Senator Datuk Dr Mashitah Ibrahim, Datuk SK Devamany, Ahmad Maslan, Senator T. Murugiah Finance Education Transport Home Information, Culture, Arts and Communications Energy, Green Technology & Water Plantation Industries and Commodities Rural and Regional Development Higher Education International Trade and Industry Science, Technology and Innovation Natural Resources and Environment Tourism Agriculture and Agro-based Industries Defence Works Health Youth and Sports Human Resources Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Housing and Local Government Women, Family and Community Development Foreign Affairs Federal Territories March 14 Vendredi!
I can't really have anything in my mind right now.. I've just got 1001 things in my head! Right. It's Friday today. Just can't believe, we have completed the 10,000 words bidding proposal (group project)! Recalling the six hours in the study room at the library on Wednesday, 3 of us doing the editing of 10,000 words, how relentless this could be. Someone needs cigs, some threw up, some suddenly broke into tears. I could understand, we are losing our nerves and are obviously over-stressed!!!! It is a big shame to learn of a betrayal of sort of once close friend of mine through the 'Idobata' meetings we had, when we are coming to the end of the course. But at the same time I thank God I don't need to put up with it for long. I've got nothing to lose after all. We've got a new housemate all in a sudden when the 2nd term is about to end. Life is not always simple, and full of coincidences. She told us she moved in as she had argument with her previous housemate, which turn out to be.... one of my classmate. Last meeting with the Student-Teacher Committee today. Everyone has got so much to say in the meeting. Still feel awkward when so many pair of eyes lay at you as you voice your concerns. I had to run to the movie right after that. Managed to arrive and meet the other 2 girls 5 mins before the movie started. Cafe au lait sans sucre. I need some sweetness. 'Il y a longtemps que je t'aime'. Nice movie. Nice colour. Nice music. Nice story. Nice companion. French people has always got the taste of good life. I like it. Well, I am hoping for the good news from that particular museum in East London for the placement this summer. At least free tea and coffee provided. Dreaming about wallpapers, lovely tea sets, display of plants and flowers in the home in the 19th century. Geeeeeeeeee. Project submission 9am, Lecture 12pm, Meeting 2pm, Movie 3.30pm. The day doesn't end here yet. Gotta get myself ready, going down to pub for a drink at 7pm. I can't breathe. Vendredi, so I can do it today! An individual presentation and an essay coming have to be done within 2 weeks before I am off for Easter break going home then, weeeeee. (Presentation examiners: Dave and Magnus. Magnus Magnus seems like I have known you long before I meet you, you were the 2nd marker for my M2 essay I remember) C'est pour maintenant. Avec bisous! March 03 the End of Feb 2009/ Lincolnshire
27th Feb, I looked at Robbie, he'd tell me this is his last cigarette in Feb, and would show me a scarier image in March. He stays in my room, in the calendar. I could have gone to that city that country for the weekend to see someone. I could have gone to city A too. Yet I've chosen the good girl image to spend the weekend in Lincolnshire with a British family, whoops! Not my first stay with a British family, it was rather similar to Mrs S's family in London. Mrs T and her husband love students from Malaysia, and they are also Francophile. Spent 4 hours in the town Lincoln on Saturday morning, visited the 900 years old Cathedral and the places nearby. Pleasant country air, peaceful and slower pace of life. Dinner at Caroline's place, a friend of theirs, who was at the same time hosting a French girl that weekend. Caroline happened to work as the housekeeper in the Palace before, she just makes you feel so cosy at her place, in that 300 year-old house (not a castle). She'd serve you glasses of wine and crisps before the dinner, and help on with your coat.. Tout ensemble it was a very joyful dinner, and she is a very graceful lady. I had my next morning sitting in the house chatting with the 88 year old granny. And then a traditional British dinner stuffed me. Hopped on train at 3pm headed back to Leicester. Back to the reality. February 17 There She Goes
Cette chanson est pour moi-meme. There She Goes. The La's. Sixpence None the Richer. Robbie. (Happy belated birthday to Robbie)
February 04 下雪好玩吗昨天下大雪。一天没有上课。因为study visit 被迫取消了。和同学去图书馆喝热饮，然后出去打雪仗。全场最活泼算我和L。我的攻击力并不弱，kamikaze式的打雪仗。 我们太疯了，经过图书馆的人都要多看我们一眼，不知道是暗骂疯子还是怕被我们的雪球打到。结果我们的作乐居然引来了摄影师，叫我们在图书馆阶梯前打雪仗他拍照。雪仗打完回去休息做午饭。 才刚吃好半小时，Jon居然跑到我们楼里敲门说，走吧去park，同学们都在那儿呢。哇，雪更大。大家更疯狂，打啊，还滚雪球。雪球滚得好大，我和另一个个子小的同学被抬上去坐在超级大的雪球，其他同学的雪球四面八方打过来，好痛啊。 最后弄得头发都湿了，衣服，鞋子都湿了，饿坏了，天黑了，才回家。 Facebook上同学说，你看到你自己了吗？上了学校网站的Headlines照片。我看一下。真的也。好丑啊。还有那个奇怪的caption, 好吧。不敢再做同样打扮去图书馆。  Heavy snowfall hits Leicester, but international students at the University don't feel under the weather全身酸痛。今天还发现黑青一块块。经常泡吧和打雪仗是不是可以瘦身？ 今天雪停了。说星期四星期五还要下。 其他照片可以看 Photo 里有。 February 02 雪花的快樂同屋问我为什么那么多飞机要取消航班？芬兰也经常下雪，飞机不也一样飞？我不知道也。可能英国人比较笨吧。或者是这次大雪是近 20 年来最严重的一次，所以这次忽然的大雪他们也束手无策。 雪下了2天，还有至少 2 天要下。雪花你快乐吧？
假如我是一朵雪花， Snowfight
Supposed to visit 2 galleries in Manchester today. Trip was cancelled because of bad snowfall and poor visibility. Still walked down to department before 8.30am only to find out they have cancelled it. A bunch of people went to library cafe to have hot chocalate. What's next? Snowfight!!
Dreamer's attack
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