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"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...