没有妈妈的日子：第322天（第二篇）

Phone calls, at different distance.

Phone calls,
When was the last time you picked up the phone to have a long quality conversation with someone, in the age where instant messaging conquers our lives?

Think on.


I am hardly. I loathed phone calls since the other person over the phone (always) implies certain personal ideologies and influence into my life. I considered myself liberal, that highly treasure personal liberty and freedom in life. My philosophy is, "man is born with the freedom given". Every individual has the right to seek for all the happiness that leads to self-fulfilling purposes.
BUT... once people try to 'stripped' the freedom away, in this scenario, implying persuasion on how I should behave and do in life, sorry, I need to 'cut' the line.

My hatred towards phone calls came to an end. I think I had found a listener and speaker (listener and speaker in my view, does not equate in one sentence. The former is passive, the latter is active), who is extremely humourous, coming out with daily life jokes all the time. A person who (I perceived) is another liberalist as me.
An unrelated topic before I continue. "Never trust a stranger on the cyber world". Every schoolchildren have heard this warning again and again. I am not excluded. Being vigilante on the cyber world, you will never know people on the cyber world might come up with an intention of causing harm on your life.
I defied this rule. I knew a person over the cyber world, and after strings of conversations I gave my number to this person. We shared topics in common and (in all my justifications) built an amount of trust with one another. I knew what the person is doing for life, in return the person knows too. Took about three to four months before we exchanged numbers.
No. I was not harmed nor cheated.


Since then, we became close cyber friends.



Back to the phone call topic.
Two Internet users who became cyber friends. And spoke to each other few times over the phone, talking and sharing life encounters and bantering about the way of life.
Unbelievably, I have never felt so open in any conversations throughout my life, even with close girl friends. Yes, I do laugh a lot because the lame way the person teases me.
(Finally) Found another sarcastic-by-character human being on Earth that I can truly be the sarcastic me, without provoking and getting hated for what I am.

We did not meet each other despite all!

Finding someone who are able to click on with you and you feel free expressing your thoughts and real-self is hard.
Once found, treasure and maintain this relationship.



Writer's note: I deeply wish to set up a meeting with this close cyber friend. Just... for the sake feeling his solid presence.

Writer's note 2: Oh... I mentioned about provoking and getting hated earlier. An encounter, which, highly impacted my perception and decision on looking for the other half in my life.

Writer's note 3: Will soon write about being provoking and hatred. Warning: be writing in a feminist style.

没有妈妈的日子：第322天

Hiatus.

It has been a while since I slowed down on my life pace to write. To be honest, I have not been actively writing for a long time since I started working. Goodness, I REALLY miss writing and journalism. It is the 'unspeakable excitement' that made me go into journalism major. Oh... I am longing for the 'excitement'.

And... I am hoping to get out from my daily sombre tasks soon!

Since today (and tomorrow) is a public holiday, I take the initiative to write a topic that I had ponder upon. Should be interesting...

Writer's note: I still have the narrating/opinion writer skills to tell the events.

没有妈妈的日子：第276天

Despise. Anonymity.


"If one wanted to express opinions (radically), please speak through your true self. DON’T hide under the ‘mask’ the Internet provides for you. Say, if that anonymous person is a male, I’ll assume he’s gutless."


"Whatever said to another person publicly, he or she should take full responsibility towards it. Assuming that a speech is derogatory to a party, he or she should be responsible to it and give reasonable justifications."


"There is freedom, and there are also restrictions. Critical opinions are always welcomed as they can drive change. These opinions turn ugly when the words used attack one’s personality by accusing one of being such awful things as being a fraud, dishonest, daft, and so on."


Full article on LoyarBurok: http://www.loyarburok.com/2013/09/18/despise-anonymity

没有妈妈的日子：第241天

Those days...

I was once a child. An innocent young mind, eager to grow up and explore.
Yes. I remembered (roughly) about this me, more than 15 years ago.


Today over lunch, I visited this kopitiam that I used to visit in my childhood days, for breakfast and lunch, sometimes dinner. I used to stayed around the area that kopitiam situated.
And today, I was again back to the shop.

For the past 10-odd years, the kopitiam had gone through much changes. Stalls' operators moved out and back, shop renovated, changed of kopitiam owner, and diners getting lesser. Although it might not looked like what I had in my mind, I came back for the reminiscent.


The purpose of this blog post is my thought about childhood reminiscent.

While having my meal, I saw two boys, talking enthusiastically with each other. I did not hear their conversation content. It was the image that captivated me...

The boys were cheerfully talking to one another and walking together towards the other end of the shops.

Such simple scenario fascinated me. Some might not noticed because of its' decency. But to me, I see something great behind the decency.

Does anyone noticed (from my narrative writing) that the two boys DOES NOT held any electronic gadgets on their hands?
That was amazed me at the first place. There ARE still children today who are not stick to their fancy electronic gadgets! Woah!

Whoever are their parents, I salute them for it, not exposing their children at a tender age. And having let them to have human interaction with one another.

This simple yet meaningful scenario inspired me to educate my children (if I have) to use technology wisely... not too much or glued to a device 24/7 and also not refused to have access to the rich information on the Internet. 

Love the boy's smile. (Image from: http://ccoa-beecave.blogspot.com)

Writer's note: I haven't been blogging on similar topics about life for years it seems! I should motivate myself more in the future. 

没有妈妈的日子：第222天

Blogging absence...

Hello there!
It has been more than one month since my last blog post. Well... life is busy for me (or was it me that before less interested in blogging?).

I'll update what happened for the past one month plus.


1. Curating.
This is similar to what some would call, "caretaker". I "care take" an account on Twitter on 6th July to the 12th July. And I took the curating job, voluntarily. Yes, I learned a lot.
As you act as a caretaker, you need to carry a positive image to the account. You have around thousand followers on the curating account. Would a person say something, deemed appropriate to have other users to hate? Carrying a positive image is listed on the rules. If yes, I believe the admin could stop you immediately.
When you are given the access to curate, also read the rules and regulations. Simple as that. No sensitive topics (politics, gender, religion, race and others), not misusing the curating account for personal benefits, courteous, and interacts with other users to maintain a two-way communication.

Here is a screen shot prove of the timeline on the curating account.

What I love about curating was I get responses and replies from different users. I shared my thoughts, opinions and experiences and the users do the same in return. I can say this two-way communication is a learning experience, reading their comments and gaining information from their Tweets. 

2. Creative or Final Year Project.

The ultimate stage has come. 

Yes... Taking Final Year Project spells the end of my degree is nearing. One can take their final year project or FYP when they are nearing their studies. 

It was last week I submitted my creative project.

For me, it's either I can choose FYP (research paper or thesis as some calls it) or Creative Project. I opted for Creative Project which I did five articles, compiled it and make it into a newsletter. I despise doing research papers. 

Here's a photo I took few hours before I submit the newsletter. "UrbanScenes July 2013 issue". Ha, ha, ha! And I featured the Agent Provocateur story in my front page!
My personal favourite would be "Importance of Mobile Data In The 21st Century". I managed to get the ever-famous iOS fanatic Pradeesh as my interviewee!





p/s: What will happen in the later half of 2013 for me? Well, I'll be doing internship.