Random blogging

Random blogging no.1
Today, I went over to the shop opposite my house to buy myself a top-up card for my phone. Thanks to the current football craze, the card has a picture of Cristiano Ronaldo. *shrugs* I don't really know who is he *hides* but off I went and read out loud what is written on the card to my dad. "Cristiano Ronaldo, club: Manchester United, Height:1.84m, Nationality: Portugal, ...." I went on and on and suddenly I pause "..." 1 second, 2 seconds, 3 seconds later and exclaimed, "What? He's younger than me!" *dies*

Random blogging no.2
I bought a 'Maru necklace' about two weeks ago. Why is it called 'Maru necklace'? First, the necklace is similar although not exactly the same as the one Nakamaru Yuichi wears. Who is he? Go google! =P Second, it is made out of round black pearls and thus 'maru'!

*insert Japanese lesson*
Maru (丸) = circle, circle is also the symbol of correct for japanese. Yup, they circle instead of tick. So imagine when I took my Japanese lessons, my paper was full of what looks like zero... hahaha..

Back to my Maru necklace. I'm alergic to it! *sobs* I can't always have it on because my neck itches after a few hours having it on. Then again, I still need to take it off everytime I bath so it's not that bad. *sigh* Still, I wish my neck will learn to accept it.

Random blogging no.3
This happened yesterday night. TA-DA! My beautiful monitor screen.

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Cubbie insist her art still looks pretty in such a condition. dot dot dot!

Random blogging no.4
I went on a mini bus ride adventure today around Penang. LOL. The purpose? To familiarize myself with the route to my workplace. My mom was so worried about it and we even had a screaming competition yesterday because of this but let's not go there. -.-;; So off we went, sitting the ferry and then the bus and walk... and reverse everything back again. Came back an hour ago and here I am now blogging random stuff. ^_^

That's all for today.

"Ka-tak, ka-tak"

I rarely do a double post in one day. I guess today was eventful? ^^;; I officially declare today as Hiyashi being assumed as Crazily Stingy Day! I know that's a lame name but I think the staff at Carrefour and the salesperson around probably do think that way of me. Weee... -.-;;

I went there with my dad this afternoon. He had to go to the post office to pay some bills first. So he gave me twenty cent for the trolly. Yup, instead of one ringgit (since there is no one ringgit coin anymore) it is now twenty cents. Anyway, I went up to the trolly area and attempt to get myself a trolly. I put in the twenty cent into the slot attached to the trolly and pull the chain attaching it to the adjoining trolly but the chain would not come out. I was like 'Hmm... did I not put the coin deep in enough?" and after a few attempts I started to gather stares from the sales people around. Them being not very busy since it is a weekday and not much potential victims were walking around. -__-;; I try to take out the coin which is also impossible and got frustrated.

The problem was I don't have anymore twenty cent coin!! So what did I do? I went to the service counter and of course ask for their "service". The lady at the counter gave a confused stare and talked to the security guy next to the counter. He on the other hand told me he couldn't leave his post and asked me to go asked the other guard standing nearby. -.-;; The other guard however was busy talking to another man. There was two man sitting there in front of tables full of packets of sugar. What the hell, I went up and asked them instead and the man asked me "you want to buy sugar?" -___-;; "No, I want a trolly and your trolly ate my coin and I have none left." What happened next? He went and talked with another lady and a whole bunch of people discussed on that matter. I am now the 'girl who don't have twenty cents to get myself a trolly'. -__-;; It's not like I want to make a big fuss out of twenty cents but I don't have any coins in my wallet. The smallest note I have then was five ringgit. *regretted not getting that change to avoid all the attention* and no.. I'm not rich, I just haven't been out shopping much. Yup, in fact I'm quit poor at the moment. I just finished my studies and am trying my best not to spend anymore money until I officially start working. Blah.

In the end, the "you want to buy sugar" guy came up to me and say they will attend to that trolly later and gave me a twenty cent coin. Wee... off I go and get my trolly and went inside. I didn't even make it very far when my dad tap on my shoulder from behind and stared at my empty trolly. ^^;; Just when you thought it can't get any worst, I got one of the noisiest trolly. "ka-tak, ka-tak" it goes for every turn of the wheel. I'm glad I'm in supemarket and not outside else all the frogs would have come to me. "ka-tak, ka-tak" My dad got really annoyed and asked me why I didn't changed the trolly? -.-;; I just wanted to get away from the trolly area as fast as possible just now and I didn't know it's that noisy until I start pushing it around.

And so, my dad "station" at a place while I go running around looking for the things we were ordered to buy by mom. No pushing = no noise right? LOL. We finally gave up after two items and decide to pay and leave. My dad asked to go get another trolly while he pays. *note: we needed one because we bought rice* So off I went trying be as "quiet" as possible to the trolly area and change for another. As I pushed the 'new' trolly, I went utterly speechless since the trolly did very much the talking again with "ka-tak, ka-tak" and as I came closer to my dad, he asked, "You sure you change another trolly ah?" -____-;;;

Back home.
Mom: What? Two things only ah?

"ka-tak"

Who is the doctor?

I've been reading this book 'Blink - The Power of Thinking without Thinking' by Malcolm Gladwell very slowly... about ten pages per day. Why ten pages per day? Believe me, you don't want to know. ^^;; Anyway to sum it up, the books talks about snap judgements, how effective it can be sometimes compared to serious hours of decision making and yet of cause it's not 100% always the best move as well. Sorry if this bores you right now but I'm getting there.

There is also one chapter, Chapter Three to be precise where it talks about the Warren Harding Error: Why we fall for tall, dark and handsome men. ^^;; Rest assured this is not a lovey-dovey chapter. Instead, it goes to say that most of us have a fix state of mind which is very much influenced by society and how we are brought up, etc. To cut it short, an example given was that most of us confidently say we are not racist nor are we a gender discriminating individual. However, our fixed state of mind gives us an impression of what should be what and what should not. I.E: associating the word "domestic" with the name "Bob", the word "Merchant" with the name "Sally" or even the "black" as "good" and "white" as "bad". All these are proven through experiments according to the book. While reading this, I was doubtful. The inner me was like, 'I don't think so. That's not very true.' You'll probably think so too. I mean we know that black is not necessary means bad right?

Change of topic. I've also been spending the last few days playing around with blogspot's templetes. I want a change but it takes time understanding what's going on inside the coding. -.-;; I have given up a few times already and after awhile feel the urge for the change again and went exploring again. This time it's slightly fruitful. Let's hope I get somewhere this time. ^_^

Why the sudden change of topic? Actually it's just there as a distraction. Back to the book shall we? Well, today I reached page 120 and there was this given situation for readers to consider.

A man and his son are in a serious car accident.

The farther is killed, and the son is rushed to the

emergency room. Upon arrival, the attending doctor looks

at the child and gasped, "This child is my son!"

Who is the doctor?

And so I paused a while and thought about it. 'Eh?' First, I was doubtful with what I read, so I read it again 'A man and his son' not 'A man and a boy'. Okay, there's a catch somewhere I thought and went as far as thinking the doctor was the grandfather and 'his son' is the 'father' that died in the accident. Okay, maybe it's just me being weird to think till grandpa *shrugs* but I just made an automatic assumption that doctors are always men! I soooo... wanted to bang my head against the wall because they aren't always so and of course the doctor was the boy's mother.

T___T Hiyashi is a female and no, I do not have gender discrimination.

'Conversation' blogging part 2

Only one 'conversation' this time. Once again with Cubbie, not surprising since she's the one I chat with almost the whole time I'm ever online. *bows* Arigatou Cubbie-san for spending your time entertaining me and listen to my on and on babbling. Sometimes, I feel the need to control myself and shut up a little. I do attempt to do so... sometimes. ^^;;

Convi 1: Circle of love
(who would have thought Hiyashi and Cubbie talking bout love. The two person who are most unlikely to do so... hahaha)

Hiyashi: >.< I've been fooled by C's bf
Hiyashi: cis cis cis
Cubbie: ara?
Cubbie: wat happen?
Hiyashi: her bf came over
Hiyashi: use her comp and chat with me
Hiyashi: gosh.. when two person are together too long
Hiyashi: they become each other
Hiyashi: cos the style of talking is the same
Hiyashi: that's why i din realized
Hiyashi: i even scroll back after that and see
Hiyashi: memang no diff
Hiyashi: lol
Cubbie: hahhahahahahaha
Cubbie: dot dot!!
Cubbie: ya dats true u know.
Cubbie: hm hm
Hiyashi: yaloo
Hiyashi: proven tonight
Cubbie: ahahha
Cubbie: soon when they're too similar
Cubbie: they'll get bored of each other
Cubbie: then they'll start to change
Cubbie: then will be interesting again
Hiyashi: interesting theory
Cubbie: hahaha
Cubbie: circle of love haha
Cubbie: might be broken someday

Okay. The last sentence hurts but I guess it has some truth in it. Till then, may all couples don't feel dizzy going round and round the circle of love.

Remembering back the things we learned

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I keep coming into my own blog, stays for awhile and ended up venturing to my friend's blog instead of updating. ^^;; Today Cubbie finally commented "you haven't updated your blog". Although her intentions was for me to fangirl about Kevin Larken together with her but I haven't even met the guy. At least his name appeared on my blog neh Cubbie?

Anyway, this post is just something I read that I want to remember. I just sketch it down on paper since I don't own the book and I bound to lose such a paper sooner or later. So I guess I quote it here. That way I can share it out to others as well.

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

• Share everything
• Play fair
• Don't hit people
• Put thing back where you found them
• Clean up your own mess
• Don't take things that aren't yours
• Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody
• Wash your hands before you eat
• Flush
• Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you
• Live a balanced life
• Take a nap every afternoon
• When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands abd stick together
• Be aware of wonders - Remember the little seed in the styrofoam cup, the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that
• Goldfish and hamster and white mice and even little seed in styrofoam cup, they all die, so do we.
• And then remember the Dick and Jane and the first word you learned- the biggest word of all, LOOK

Taken from the book "All I need to know I learned in kindergarten" by Robert Fulghum

*shrugs* too bad I don't know the story about Dick and Jane, so I can't really relate to the last one but I really like it. And if you read the book it explains how true all these are. Even as adults, these are really the basic things we need to know. Want to know more, go get the book!