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EPISODES OF THE CHOCOLATE LOVER

My thoughts and grumbling for the year 2010…well, not all of them
All of them taken from http://37going40.blogspot.com

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Between Internet and real life

A few nights ago a friend of mine said that she wants to decrease her activities on the net.
"I have been spending too much time with this media... My life has been nothing else but to do with this..."

Though I was sort of...what...? Nooo... Don't leave me here...I can understand why she makes that decision. I suppose she wants to spend more time with real people around her, such as her family. At least for this moment, she does not close her accounts on FB for example.

I sometimes think that if you have reached to the drastic decision like closing all your accounts on the net, it because probably the addiction or temptation is too great for the person to handle. Like u try to reduce eating chocolate once a day. But there are 5 chocolates in your fridge. Can u promise yourself not going to eat them all at once or you just give in and finish them all in a few minutes? Since you are not sure, you better not have it more than one in your fridge.

I have never been in a situation of addiction to the internet or game too long. I get bored easily. And my internet connection is a disaster. Plus, I am too busy in the office to lurking around the net. Not too sound like I am work-addict...but that's the reality. Which is why I do wonder why a married couple can sit together, but not talking to each other. Both of them glued to their notebook or any other devices.

For me, internet open a lot of new things for me. I have new friends, know about online diary, and find many interesting information and...some u-should-not know about;) so, for now I do not think I can stop myself totally from internet. Though I agree I should not be addicted to it ...

We forget the real people around us that probably miss talking with us. Instead we are too busy with people living so far away... Probably because we do not know each other, we are able to open our heart and mind. However, we close them to people that we have known for years...

Hopefully we can balance our understanding and communication for people around us and those in the virtual environment:)
And friends, pppllllllease do not leave me here on the net... I like having you here though you are not really here with me.


Future generations…

A friend of mine who once teaching in this school for rich kids…

One day she told me that one of the kids insulted her about money. That kid drove Porsche to school and he mocked my friend,” Ma’am, you may works all your life but you will never ever be able to buy a car like that…”
Hiding her anger, my friend simply retorted back, “Well, but that’s not your own car… It belongs to your parents…”

The other time she punished those naughty students by giving them more homework. It turn out the parents did not like that so they complained to the principal. So my friend being summoned to the principal and were told not to punish those kids ever again.

“But they were being rude and naughty… They hardly paid attention to my lessons…” my friend argued to the principal.

“You have nothing to worry about… These kids come from wealthy families. Heck, their parents are the owner of this school… So, unless you want to continue teaching here…”

The warning has been so blatant my friend really felt that her idealistic about teaching are now so pointless.

I saw that from another point of view…

No wonder I saw so many people thinking that with money they can buy almost about everything…
So, since they have the money or should I say…THE WORLD…then obviously they would be wondering…
WHY I SHOULD GO TO SCHOOL?
WHY I SHOULD RESPECT AND PAY ATTENTION TO MY TEACHER OR OTHER PEOPLE?
WHAT IS WRONG? WHAT IS RIGHT? DOES IT REALLY MATTER?
MONEY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD…

Congratulation to all of us for being responsible in creating useless young generations to lead the future of this country…

Pffff…. *being cynical*

BACKFIRING WORDS

Since I am still single up to now, I often got so many questions about what kind of guy that I would like to date (so they can set me up with I don’t know who…) … Then the other would ask what kind of guy that I dislike (so, they obviously will not going to set me up with that kind of guy)…

But, I never really want to say the thing that I like or dislike anymore… Not only is going to bite me back in the most unpleasant way… to tell you the truth I was not really mature to deal with the consequences of my own words…

I used to say that I do not like accounting and therefore I studied management. In order to get jobs that not relate to counting numbers and make book keeping. And yet, the recent five years I have to do work that related with book keeping (even though in the simpler forms)…
I used to say that I would never work in a place that has a lot of things to do with numbers… And yet, there I was… calculating numbers into so many figures I always get dizzy in the end… The numbers “6” often read as “9” …. Well, you get my point…

I saw soo many friends of mine saying that I did not want to live in the polluted city, or I do not want to marry with that smelly guy, or I will never ever going to work in that place. And you know what…they all have it and stuck with it in their life. Of course we often make fun of them… Reminding them of their own words echoing in the sky…

So, I am not so sure that I would say out loud to the universe that I do not want a certain type of guy to be my one and only… As I am pretty sure the universe will tends to hear it wrong and end up giving me the exact person that I did not want the most


Being older does not mean being any wiser

To tell you the truth, I have never ever read the story of Romeo and Juliet… Yeah, I know… shame on me… I only knew the story from a movie ages ago… About how they are unable to be together because feud between their families.

Anyway, I am not going to discuss the love story. I want to discuss about parents from both of the families… Don’t you think that they are kinda childish? They push their children to do something that they do not like (okay, most parents probably does that…), they only think about themselves and not for the sake of their children, they refuse to sit down and talk things over, all they know…that since they have been sworn enemies then their children must continue the feud as well. It is a bit tragic because I am sure they probably already kinda lost what drive them to against one another in the first place.

I do admit that though people being aging and all that…, does not automatically makes them any smarter let alone any wiser.

I never appreciate people who in their disagreement feel the need to drag along their families into it as well. Sure, they probably feel bit insecure and need support. And who will be a better supporter if not your own family? To ensure the support you started to influence your family about the disagreement with your opponent. Probably you are exaggerating a bit to get their sympathy. Most definitely they are going to trust you and just follow your rude behavior to entire families of your opponent. In return, your opponent does not need to convince the family as they have seen what kind of behavior you have given to them.

Rude have to be response with the same one or worst if it must.

And this is come from people who are already much older and yet simple minded. The family probably inherited that as well because they do not process what has happened in the past. They just swallow it and you, the elder; being the one who influence them feel so damn proud that your entire family even the youngest one are all behind you. You have been successfully take your family to the party with theme: Behaving badly towards people that you do not like. You did that because you need supporter how righteous you are! The mistakes must have been on another person. They just did not understand you.

Oh well…

We are not perfect, right? I remembered that when I have enemy I also want my closest friend stop hanging out with that person. Both of us have to stick together to hate that person because you have been hurt. If you find that your friend still hanging out with the enemy you will soon feel betrayed. Worst case, you probably stop seeing them all together and just ride off to find anyone who can pleases you. Just like a silly ignorant kid…

Sighed…

Better ask before you get lost

… or in my friend’s case before your pocket get depleted.

She told me that about five years ago, she was having this chat with her acquaintance who worked in woman’s magazine. During their chats, her acquaintance informed her about this excellent hairdresser. His work is outstanding and he did not charge very much. So, my friend asked for the address and went there with her roommate. When she arrived, she was surprised to see many expensive branded cars parking in front of the beauty salon. But, without thinking too much she went in anyway…

Inside, they were welcomed by a customer service (CS) and then asking them with whom they wish to get a haircut. The CS then showed them a board full of listing available hairdressers complete with the charges that would be applied. Since she did not find the name that was informed by her acquaintance (let us call him “JACK”) , she then asked to the CS whether Jack is available to cut her hair. The CS then asked my friend whether she has made an appointment and of course my friend replied that she has not. She then asked by the CS to wait a while as she need to ask Jack if he is available at that moment. Lucky for my friend (well, she did feel lucky at first) the hairdresser has no appointment and agree to do her hair. Her roommate wanted to see the result after the hair do and therefore she decided to wait for my friend.

When she entered inside the salon, she saw many familiar famous faces… She was a bit surprised but still with her positive thinking… She was still very sure that her acquaintance would not