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Kembara Diri : Merentas Awan, Menjejaki Benua Asing Pt 1 – Penang-KL-Amsterdam This is the travel log of my Europe Trip I went from July 5 th to July 11 th , last 2 weeks. I’ll wrote in dual language, hope you don’t mind the rojak language then ^^) I’ll skip the pre-domestic flight details, just make a light summary on it. So here we go. The Black Sheep I, who’s accompanied by Ms. D, who especially wore shawl on that day, until I entered the Departure Hall at Penang Airport (later short-formed to PIA), can’t help to feel like a black sheep when surrounded by the other members of the trip. Tell you guys, there are 24 people in our trip, 6 from Kamunting factory – 3 Malays, all girls including me + 3 Chinese; and the rest are from Penang HQ. Basically I never really spoke or meet in person with those from HQ. At work we communicated through emails & phones but somehow, I felt really strange when we all finally bersemuka that evening. Even those who I already knew feel...

"You see things. And you understand. You're a wallflower." - Patrick "I don't think anyone noticed me." - Charlie  "Welcome to the Island of Misfit Toys." - Sam Okay. Above is quoted from The Perks of Being a Wallflower . I'm not going to review this film nor not going to talk about it here. Just, I watched it once last year then somehow when I browsed my hard disk today, out of hundred films I have in my storage, I picked this one up. Yeah. Like the main character of the film Charlie, I'm used to being alone all the time, loves to write more than speak. I am a wallflower . Well, I prefer to be one - regardless of how people view me. Regardless of how people say about me. And recently I learned a new word people use to describe me for being, 'doesn't pay much to people's words as long as you're happy with your life' – ‘ self-centered ’. You know what, I don't think me being ' self-centered ' co...

Heart of Glass Pt. 1 ― Tuition & Me Few days ago, my neighbor came to my house and asked if I could help her daughter with subjects of Add Math, Chem & Physics. This isn't the first time she brought her daughter to me. She, now the lovely sweet 16 came to me few times last year for tutoring in Mathematics (form 3). I accepted because I'm still freelancing, means I do all sort of jobs - even without payment. Plus, it won't hurt to help others if it's within your strength, right? Honestly, I was never good at any Science related field - seriously I am not, though I am graduated with Engineering degree - but I'm comparatively slow, lack of analytical skills and my grades were always on the line, one miss I'd slip into FAILED zone. Yep. I've been there in the FAILED zone, for so many times. High school Math / Chem / Phys were still heaven to me but in the pre-college, one never missed see me taking repeat tests for Math & Phys. That...

L ately I’m back into translation work. Not that I left it for a while, in fact, once you are a translator, you’re always alert to the way people translating things – unnecessarily novels, subtitles, formal letters or other type of manuscript but to the extent of sign boards on the road or shops’ names (yeah call us crazy, or, maniac or whatever you like) but that’s the thing about translators. There could be a lot of reasons for us to be super alert to translations but as for (amateur) me, I like to learn and improve my translation skills and one way to do so is to see other people’s works. So, here I’m going to share one of the books I’ve read last year, in 2014; a book by Nobel Prize Nominee, Haruki MURAKAMI, 'Onna no inai otoko-tachi' which is a compilation of 6 short stories. I’m not going to give a review on the book so let’s skip to the excerpt that I think is interesting. To give you the picture of the story, this chapter is about a wealthy cosmetic surgery’s speci...

This is not originally my writing, but it’s actually a translation of an excerpt from a book. I know it’d much favorable to read something like this from world-known writers or eminent philosophers but for me, wisdom words come from anyone – strangers or even beggars on the streets. We don’t know what they’ve going through their lives and I believe that one thing that make a wise man wise is not the clothes on his body nor the titles he carry before his name, but his experience(s) in life. Of course, not all of others’ experience you could apply to your life but at least, to keep yourself positive and moving on – that’s the key to me reading books. *** (From the book, 「できそのないの知」 written by ウエンツ瑛士 . For sharing purpose only . No copyright infringement intended. ) Have confidence to talk about one thing (just one) "I hate to be defensive. I want to be an outgoing person."  We heard this quite often and I actually feel every bit of this feeling.  And at th...

Human relationship in general - from my view.  （今なら語れる） Human & Nature. Not much related to this article though. My Mom is a Cancerian and I am a Sagittarian. I'm not a zodiac obsessed neither not a blood type maniac, but apparently our compatibility is 'turbulent'. In reality, I couldn't find much resemblance in ourselves except the darkness aura that appears when we're surrounded by men and the conservative, reserved minds. And as any other normal human beings, we quarreled when it comes to things we can't agree with, while otherwise, we get along just perfect. But what is more important than compatibility? And maybe, the most important one in human relationship, regardless of the blood relation or not? I believe we all hear the word, 'thoughtfulness' up next after compatibility. It exists in family, in friends, in colleagues, in society, right? How far you think the thoughtfulness affect your relationship? And how is it really ...