放不下

因朋友一家被迫明天搬迁，我下午到她家帮忙收拾东西。看到她家里还没收拾好的东西仍堆积如山，我难怪她说‘很怕’----很怕明天搬运工人来时都还不能把东西收拾完。

她的心情我非常明白的，因为我去年才搬过家，加上我每次去旅游之前的几个少时也和搬家前的几个小时一样，总发现来不及收拾或整理完该带的东西，即使我有提早开始准备。。。。

想想，我的人生里整理不完的东西多着呢。。。

相片、游记、书堆、信件、财务、人际关系、心情、人生计划。。。。

其实从搬家与出游时收拾行李的经验得到的启示是：很多东西我其实已经不需要了，但怎么没早点丢掉或送人或放下呢？

开始总会因为舍不得或怕要用时没有所以放不下，然后就一直带着，从一个地方到另一个地方，到最后却发现有很多东西是即使不见了你都不会发现，就是说这些东西早就该放下了。

希望我到了要搬迁到另一个世界前的几分钟，不会抱着‘怎么还没收拾整理好某事情’的心情离去，不会有什么放不下的事或东西要带去。。。。

生不带来，死不带去。

There's an interesting movement called 100 Thing Challenge:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1812048,00.html

where one is challenged to live a clutter free life by doing away with as many items as possible in his life till the number of items is down to 100, this movement was started by a guy named Dave Bruno who challenged himself to live with only 100 items in his life for a full year ending 12 November 2009. and until then he maintained an updated list of the 100 things in his life on his blog:

http://www.guynameddave.com/100-thing-challenge.html

This movement had found a great number of followers who believed in beating excessive consumerism and living a simpler life.

i think it's a great personal challenge and i should start soon too....

睡前随笔

又很不爽地过了辛苦的一天，幸好回到家上msn看到了在松潘认识的阿亮，聊了些旅游的事后心情好多了。下线时，他说还睡不着，想出去转转，反正车里有帐篷，想找个地方搭帐篷看星星去。。。。。

阿亮啊! 我这边厢过的那么不顺心，你却那么随心所欲！羡慕呀！！

烂掉吧！

超级不爽地过了超烂的一天
烂头烂人烂政策
都烂掉吧！

神秘女郎

今天参观了樟宜监狱附近的消防局，因为消防员都是男的，所以起初担心那里会没有女厕。后来长官带我们参观伤亡人士集合站时，告诉我和阿宝，预备放置死尸的房间的另一端有女厕。。。于是，我和阿宝就往女厕走去，还没走到女厕大门之前，阿宝就说感觉有点阴森。。。

我推开了大门之后，发现里头漆黑一片，好不容易找到了电灯开关把灯开了，阿宝才敢踏进去。

因为她已经忍了很久了，所以一进门便迫不及待的冲向其中一间厕所，突然又很惊慌地转过来紧捉我的手，这时，我也意识到了她惊慌的原因：。。。

在一堵墙后的角落，有个奇怪的身影。这奇怪的身影也因为我们的出现而从原本的坐姿缓缓的站了起来，然后又再缓缓地坐了回去。

为什么我说奇怪呢？

在我乍看之下，隐约看到一个身穿蓝色上衣，黑色裤子的长发女子躲在一把开着的蓝色伞下，我

们没怎么能看到她的脸，因为她一直用伞遮住，而她明显知道我们被她吓了一跳，却一直默不作

声的躲在伞后，但看得出她似乎在呜咽着。

我和阿宝当时虽然吓了一跳，但实在已管不了三七二十一，先如厕再说。。。小解后发现女郎已经离开。我和阿宝都觉得那个女子好怪。。。。

后来，也不知为什么我们都没问那里的消防员和长官他们是否有女同事，所以到现在我还是感到很疑惑：

女郎到底是谁呢？

她为什么会出现在这个几乎可说是男生专署的地盘，为什么要开着一把伞，躲在黑漆漆的厕所里呢？

当然，她极可能是清洁女工，当时正为了伤心事而躲在厕所里难过着，可是。。。

为什么要开着伞呢？

Tak shiok makan

Brought 2 overseas visitors to the Fu  Lin Tofu Yuen Ampang Yong Tau Foo for lunch 'cos they were staying near there. The eatery was recommended on the internet and also by a colleague. Ordered a plate of less than 10pieces of almost all veg plus 2 small bowls of  white noodles, bill came to $14! Felt the price wasn't too justified 'cos the outlet wasn't airconditioned, and there weren't anything great about the food that warrants the higher price as compared to other Yong Tau Foo stalls.
Disappointed.

Brought the same visitors to Jumbo Seafood at ECP just now, 'cos again, i've heard and read so much on the internet about their black pepper crabs but had never tasted myself. Alas, spicy food wasn't their cup of tea and they were in a rush to catch a flight later, so we skipped the crabs and ordered instead, the Drunken prawns, Crispy fried baby squids, Stir fried Brocolli with scallops, Steamed fish (soon hock) and Fried seafood tofu (all in the smallest portions). The bill came to $131-- the steamed fish alone was $49.
While i wasn't surprised at the bill, i was surprised that the bulk of the cost came from the none too impressive fish. Honestly, it wasn't big, it wasn't tasty (not stale, yet doesn't taste fresh, not salty, not sweet, didn't absorb any of the soya sauce that it was swimming in--in other words: absolutely tasteless!)
The prawns tasted fresh but were too hard, due to what i believe was possibly over cooking and the baby squids , though really crispy had completely lost the squid taste.

i must say i was really disappointed 'cos the baby squid and prawns were recommended on the internet as well, so much about famous makan places.
Now it makes me wonder about the much hyped about black pepper crabs; frankly, have tried the famous ones at Eng Seng and only found their dish so-so, not worth the queue.
Think the 煮炒stall at the kopitiam near my place can whip up better dishes.