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Walking away

// May 23rd, 2007 // No Comments » // My history is my story

I’ve got the cash, but they ain’t got the size.  A pure disappointment.

Lunching blues

// May 21st, 2007 // No Comments » // Unveil

Working hard is a value that everyone should have.  However, we are all humans and not androids.  Your brain and body needs resting.  Even Microsoft Windows comes installed with games.

I often get answers like, “I’ll be eating in my cubicle as I have tonnes of work to finish”, whenever the question “where to proceed for lunch?” comes in to play.  What is the different between working right after lunch, and working while having lunch?  Furthermore, you could incur more time and ends up being non-productive staring and munching at the same time.  These people are losing out big time.

Get a life.  You are actually forgoing quality time that you should have out there.  Lunch hour is not merely a time for a meal.  It’s a break, a good time to socialize, pull strings and talk some cock with your colleagues and anyone up on top.  You could work your arse up the ladder dedicating all your time in it, but by the end of the day, you would end up climbing alone.  Doesn’t that sound pathetic?

If you are given a break, go for it and make full use of it.  For the firm, you are nothing but a disposable asset that can be replaced easily, but for you, your most invaluable assets are actually your colleagues who have been working with you all these while.  So, why the hell would you want to go all gung-ho for your firm?  As if by sacrificing an hour of lunch would generate double profits for them.

If you need to work, you work.  If you need to eat, you eat.  Don’t make your workplace in to a nightmare.

Foreign accent a necessity?

// April 9th, 2007 // No Comments » // Unveil

Language accent defines the character, attitude and origins of one using it.  However, it is not something that anyone could pick up.  It involves years of usage, usually from young.  Here, I will be referring to the most used language in the world, English.

This language has its own uniqueness.  It has its own nature, blended out from your culture, people and style.  However, for some strange reason, it has been broken down in to 2 categories; conversing and singing.  I believe there is a difference between conversing understandable English, and singing English.  I view understandable English, as a common communication tool, used by common people to translate messages among each other.  You can however, find weird people who sings the language.

Instead of using it to communicate, these group of weirdoes sings out the language either to: 1) tell the world that he/she had been to a place so far away to the extend of who knows where, or 2) telling the world that he/she is speaking “proper” English, trying to prove that his/her English is far more superior.  Some might even give you the reason that if we do not speak the way the people does in their country, they wouldn’t be able to understand us.  Now, that statement amazing isn’t it?  You do not hear foreign people speak like us, but yet we understood what they say.  The list can go further, but I guess you’ve already know what the list will be.

Most of these weirdoes consist of people who are lucky enough to get thrown abroad for either studies or work.  Having spoken their home English since they were young, probably for 20 over years, they have the tendency and the ability to “forget” the way he /she used to talk.  That is incredible isn’t it?  How the hell can you forget something which you have used for over 20 years, but remember things that you picked up 2 years ago?  It doesn’t tally at all.

If you think that you are able to impress people by singing, you are wrong.  You are just simply annoying the people around you, at least to me.  On the contrary, if people around you are somehow impressed by the way you sing, which is a miracle, it only signify that you are in a group of weirdoes and communicates through singing!

The point is, if your English is good, no matter where you are, even if you are speaking in the lousiest aboriginal accent, it can be understood.  There is no need for you to go “hoola foola” all over.