周末牢骚

周末时，一天二十四个小时确实不够用！

那么多东西想做
又想要趁机好好休息一下
待做完该做的事以后，又已是周日膀晚时分

想到隔日又是上班日，心里头难免会沮丧一些些。。。。

若是请假时，心里不时又惦记着工作的事情，尤其是自己负责的项目，更是让人心头一直念着。
唉，生活在这样忙碌的都市里，紧凑的步伐让人片刻都不能松懈下来。

说到忙碌生活，紧凑节奏，让我联想起最近老是看到或是听到报道，关于自杀，或是杀人事件。

在面对巨大压力或是喘不过气的时候，结束生命变成远离忧伤烦恼的捷径。做出这种决择的时候相信需要莫大的勇气和毅力，又或者已是到了脑子逻辑思考无法战胜心中冲动的情绪，选择一走了之。

离开了这里，谁也不知道将会往哪里去，会变成怎样。是好是坏，是后悔，是庆幸，当事人自己承当。
选择留下来，希望在人间，每一天面对未知的画面和一切存在的可能。

快乐或者忧愁，定在人心。

选择豁达潇洒看待人生，必定会活得快乐些。

祝愿每个人都能生活得开开心心。

One week ago - Technology Deficient Day

This was written on 8 March, which I have no chance to post it up till now..hehe...=)

It was a technology deficient day.

After I just got a replacement for my iPhone which went died on thurs, today my home computer modem suffered the same fate. Sigh, we are really at the mercy of technology. I can't surf the Internet, can't check up the latest news of my friends via facebook, can't reply emails, and neither can I google for work related news that's crucial for tomorrow's reporting. Sigh sigh sigh.

In this day and age where Internet seems to be the answer to every problems and queries, it's hard not to turn to it on a daily basis. Not hard to imagine the anguish and frustrations written on my face when the customer service Indian lady on the other end announced that there's no more stock available of our mio modem, and we had to wait till 4 days later before new replacement will arrive. How ridiculous it can be when all stock of Singtel mio modem has ran out in Singapore.

After a round of shouting and screaming, no solutions surface except to call vendor on working day and pray hopeful they will have one last stock on hand. Well well no point venting out anger on this lady who was just doing her job and reporting the truth. After repeating the same frustrations umpteen times and after hearing the same explanations back umpteen times plus moments of silence here and there, I finally gave up. It's a hard truth I have to bear and what else to do besides waiting for thurs to arrive?

Update on 14 March - Great news was that there was stock available when we called the vendor on Monday. However it turned out that it was our adapter that has died, not the modem. And so we got our internet up and running by Tuesday...cheers...=D

难得一见的好电影

It's been a long time since I have watched a nice film that took 3 hours to watch. It's called The curious case of Benjamin Button.

Synopsis:

"I was born under unusual circumstances." And so begins "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. We follow his story, set in New Orleans from the end of World War I in 1918, into the 21st century, following his journey that is as unusual as any man's life can be. Directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett with Taraji P. Henson, Tilda Swinton, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas and Julia Ormond, "Benjamin Button," is a grand tale of a not-so-ordinary man and the people and places he discovers along the way, the loves he finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.

I really admire the extraordinary imaginative mind of the director, who can come out with such a good plot. It makes me ponder about life values, what we should really care about and do, although very fast I'm gonna drown in my usual hectic working lifestyle again. The show is not boring, it's really entertaining and the casts are simply fabulous. It's definitely a time well-spent.

If given such a chance to live life backwards, I wonder what will happen. Maybe we get to experience life more, and by the time we are back to young adults or teenagers, we will get to do things in a more mature way, see things in a different perspective, and perhaps more energy to get things done.

Life can be so amazing, depending on how you view it. At the end of the road, whether it's a life journey well lived, really is up to you to decifer.