Convey as much as possible with as little as possible

After trying a new style of writing I had decided a few days ago I have made up my mind on what will my writing style be in this blog. The style I name randomness.

As I have been putting much effort on writing for the past few nights, I realized I have actually put too much effort on it. Thus it had turned itself into a task rather than an interest to me, which is not right. For the rest of my blogging days, I will decide what and how I want to convey in my blog, with style and feeling all chosen by me depends on my mood. I suppose that is a better option. At least I won't give up writing habit because of having difficulty with it.


Writing is and art, to quote Mark Rosewater.

I'm a big big ____ , in a big big world.

Alright, in case the title failed to tell what I'm going to discuss today, it's world.
What about world? What has the world got to do with out topic today (duh, it's the topic)? Is this geography class? No, no, we're not discussing those, in fact it is something about you and the world.

THE CONNECTION BETWEEN YOU AND THE WORLD

We're living in a ever changing world, what you have learned today might not apply tomorrow. It's like the world and us are on the two sides of a scale, when one change in mass, in order to balance the scare, the other side must also have its weight altered. And thus, there is a need for us to find a a solution to the balancing act. So, how are we going to do it? That's the whole point; that's what we're discussing today.

I know some of you might have your own set of rules to deal with the ever changing world, for instance, switching yourself to the "world" side of the scale. By doing that you will be brought along when the world morphs, and thus you won't fall behind it. I can understand the concept well, since I actually have met these kind of people in my daily life. Making a "no comment" declaration to this concept should be fine here I guess, in case some day they read this blog entry. I don't like to comment about people much. (What am I doing here, then?) I'm sure there are many more ways to deal with the problem besides the method mentioned above, but I can't possibly talk about all of them here. I guess it's about time to wrap this discussion up since my English vocabularies only allow me to be that good discussing things in a nutshell. But before I end I want to share with you guys how do I deal with the shifting non-stop world. (I guess you guys are curious about it right? I know you do.)

HIDE AND SEEK

The way I deal with this world problem is I restrict myself on the information I get from the news, papers, internet and other sources. The rationale being if I am selective on how I receive information, I can choose those contents that cheer me up and skip those depressing ones. Because, I believe not all the information you would receive through a third party are true, and yes, neither are those you would see with your own eyes.


And so, with a cool ending (yeah, right), it's time to close today discussion. Come back tomorrow looking forward to some random topic discussion.


Until next time, may you shape the world the way you want.

The year of 1937 ( I'm not gonna reveal where this name inspired me.)

Hello, readers.
Well, I assume there actually are enough to make the noun a plural.
Another night, another topic to discuss. But tonight's different, I actually have already prepared a topic for us to chew here, a topic I have prepared, mind you. OK, without further ado, today's topic will be...

Topic.

Wait! Wait! Don't go yet!
(Clearing throat) I apologize for my bad pun, so, let's get started. A topic is what make a conversation breaks out between two people. Without a topic, conversation usually wouldn't be made. So you could say a topic is what connects two person's mind. Vague enough eh? More explanations will be coming in a few sentences, sit on tight. The topic that would connect two minds is usually a common one, a common topic that shares between two person. You maintain a conversation with someone when you are speaking in your logical way while she is listening with her thinking logic. Those conversations normally will end awkwardly. To quote a Chinese proverb: Speak to duck in a chikenish (OK, I made that up) way.

It has happened to me quite a few times when I was young ( I still am). A conversation either started by me or the other person often ends with one of ours unnatural smile when we had been talking to each other without considering if the receiving partner understand the contents well enough or not. There had not been a very pleasant experience. In fact, I hated them.

Nonetheless, a smart person like me (I apologize for that, please stay), I had come out of a solution. Wanna know what is it? Well, you will have to wait until...

...No! You don't have to wait (since I am seriously lacking the confidence that you will be back tomorrow)! I will share with you in the next sentence!

The solution that I had come out is that I will keep quiet if I feel the content of the conversation that I'm going to start isn't going to be understood by the receiving side. Why waste the breath if what you are saying isn't going to appreciated by the other person? That's the whole point being, save the breath for someone who you think can understand you wel. l(I know my vocabularies seemed to be running out, but who cares, I'm learning.)

That's all I have got to say......tonight. (Gotta save something for future use.)


Until next time, may your conversations always end with a HI-5.

Defragmentation

Hello readers.

Today I want to discuss about...discuss about...discuss about what?! Well, I don't have an idea on what should I be writing about. Let's see...hmm...how about "How to have an organized life"? Do you guys think that sounds good enough to be a topic in my blog? I guess so,so let's discuss about...

"What Do I Do During My Free Time!" ( which I happen to have plenty)

OK, I get my free time when I wake up each morning, except that I have to spend 10-15 minutes on a to-and-fro trip to a coffee shop for where to buy my breakfast. And the first thing I do after breakfast will be watching videos. (you know, those funny Taiwan talk show, I have a couple of favorite ones which show on the TV everyday except Saturdays and Sundays) You guys would think of me doing something more important (hey, the videos are important too), but sad to let you know that there really isn't anything particular important for me to do. Well, I guess there is some, just that I don't reinforce the rule of doing them. You could say that I'm a bad boy, not that I'm going to correct you.

And there is how I start my free time of a day, how I spend the rest of the free time in the day is pretty how much I have done in the morning: having fun, trying to not bored myself. I like being alone, but not with boredom.

As a quick aside, although I do enjoy having free time a lot, but sometimes I felt I had too much of them, I don't think I deserved that much, I should be doing something that will have more impact to my life. Those videos that I have been watching everyday did have impact, but I just think I need to widen my choices, to be able to think outside the box and not forget what's inside.


I really want to start doing something, and be somebody. This is a secret ( well, not anymore) and the truth.


Until next time, may you not have too much free time at hand.

A Saturday trip on a Saturday(???) Part two

Hi guys, welcome back.
By the way, what are you guys doing here for? Oh yeah, the Saturday trip.
What, are you kidding? You couldn't sleep spending the night thinking what would happen to me and my friend when we were at Sentosa island? Stop lying, you liar!
Well, although deep in my heart I know the last statement isn't the truth I will still continue my story of "A Saturday trip on a Saturday".

Let's get started:

When we were about to start our trip to Sentosa island something something struck our mind: we hadn't decide what kind of transportation we should use for going to the island. Several ways were at disposal at the time: we could walk over by using the bridge that linked the mainland and the island; we could swim across; spend $3 to take a train ride over. First one, and the most economical one, foot. I came out with the idea, saying that by walking my friend and I could have a good view of the island, we could control the speed of warping between destinations. Yeah, so, we took the train.
What is this? wait, let me explain what happened through out the decision making moments. Originally, we made up our mind that we should walk given the reason stated above. But just when we were about to land our first step onto the bridge (actually we did), some black color words on a yellow post stopped us from doing so. Well, you could ask would the hell a lifeless signpost could do to stop us, I will explain it here: actually it didn't do anything, it was all just my imagination! Bwa ha ha, got you. (I guess I didn't) That signpost forced us to turn to our other resort: swim across. I thought it would be neat to travel to Sentosa island by swimming, but as we didn't have our swimming trunks with us we were forced to choose another travel method. (not that we would swim even if we had out trunks.) In the end we chose the train as it was the less time consuming and more comfortable method at hands that time.
And thus, we finally reached Sentosa island.

The first thing we would do there was to visit the famous "Universal Studio" ( who, wouldn't?). We come across a flavourful shop, and by flavourful I literally mean flavourful. It was a air-coned space that linked two shops together-that meant you could travel between the two shops
without leaving the air-coned space-one of them sells fancy flavoured popcorns and the other sells chocolates in all flavours. ( let's call the former "popcorn shop" and the latte " chocolate shop). I especially liked the chocolate shop because it not only sells edible stuffs but also decorative chocolate products. I was really fond by a gigantic chocolates bar with some big words written on its wrapper, something like: PROBABLY THE BIGGEST BAR YOU HAVE EVER SEEN!!. I guess it's self-explanatory enough.

After the chocolate shop we went to the casino, which was also the first time I had even been so closed to one. Kinda impressed by it. After that we go to the beach for some shoes-off walking session. A lot of bikini girls. Opps, I meant a beautiful scene. No, I meant a lot of beautiful scenes.
Ok, things are getting boring here(at that's how I'm feeling now writing all these boring parts), time to wrap this story out in a few sentences.
And so, by the time we finished our beach walking the sun had already set and we realized it's about time to have our dinner. So off go to the usual Japanese restaurant. Once we had our stomach filled( the food was nice, there were Japanese food after all), we decided to have our last round walk around the shopping center. By the time of 930pm we were already on the bus going home with some large bags carrying the stuffs that my friend bought during the walk after the dinner.
Too be exact, I wasn't heading home straight away as I still had got work to do-I was supposed to let a sick colleague to go home and rest while I replacing him.
I guess I didn't seem very energetic by the time I reached my workplace( remember the Geylang part and the Sentosa part? If you don't please go back and read yesterday entry again), but I was ok. I managed to reach home before 330am in the morning. Got myself cleaned and dry and finished the "The Burrow" chapter in a popular magic story book (ok, Harry Potter), I lied myself down comfortably. I went straight to deep sleep before I could relized I did. ( who could??)

Wow, took me a while to finished telling everything(well, not quite "everything), but it was quite fun, and I might continue to do this everyday, I don't want to make a promise here, though.

I hate promises.

Well, until tomorrow, hope you enjoy not telling everything in your story.

A Saturday Trip On A Saturday(???) Part one

Been waiting for me to write my today? I don't think anyone would do that for any reason. Well, I guess things happen even if you are not expecting it will, I will start writing my blog now it is then.

Hi, my beloved readers, how's your this week Saturday? Did you do any happy things? Or Had you been doing doing them happily? I see, I see, you guys should have had a great one I guess. As for mine, it wasn't that bad, definitely one of the few good ones I have had in a while.

I went to a street in Singapore called "Geylang"( I don't know what exactly does the name mean) together with a friend who would need to collect some stuff(it was a camcorder for those who are interested in knowing)there today. Having done our business at Geylang, we decided to head down to Sentosa(a small island a few hundred meters from Singapore) for a walk(recently, the government have built some interesting facilities there), and so we thought of choosing MRT as our transport there. While we were on the way to the train station, suddenly we both had a feeling that's getting to a level of unbearable(yes, both had at the same time), fortunately we quickly identified it was the feeling of hunger.( didn't meant the suspense.)

With the unbearable feeling, both of us still managed find out way into a stall that sells soya bean and some fried flour stuffs, we quickly ordered our food thinking that by doing so they will be served sooner. We settled down on the sits by the street (the road was crowded with all sort of vehicles; cars, motorcycles, trucks, and bicycles.) waiting for our food to be handed down to us. There came 2 bowls of soya bean curd, 2 sticks of You Tiao( Some long thingy made with flours) each for one of us, and some round balls made with flour with sesame sprinkled around each of them. The food wasn't taste very bad as I finished them ( since when I have leftover food in my plate)without leaving any sesame on the floor.( Ok, maybe there was some)

After the food, we continued to head to the train station.
When we were about to start our trip to Sentosa island...

What?! I am about to knock off soon?! The time I left don't even enough for me to finished this entry?

Ok, ok, I shall continue it tomorrow.

I hope you guys enjoyed reading my first half of my Saturday trip and expect for more in tomorrow entry for the second part.

Until next time, may you always finished your sesame sprinkled food without any sesame seeds on the floor.