英国5大讨人厌的人

英国这里有几种人是让人不想接触，可是有不能避免的人。

第五名：大学财政部门。

这里的文化就是law by law，有时law到有些过分。做事情非常直没有转弯之处。若你不知道做错事如迟交学费一天，他就罚你钱。还会怕死你会赖账，有时非要你清理完数目不可。可笑的是他们的资料库会慢半拍，就算你给了钱，他们在一个星期后还会问你要钱。

第四名：百货公司

这里的大百货公司都理市区很远的，非的做巴士去不可。若买一般的东西还可以，可是若你买一些如电器的东西（电脑）那就很混蛋。有一次因为急需要一架电脑，付了钱后他说三天再回来拿。原来这里的百货公司里的货品只是Sample,他们真正的货品是放在warehouse里的。有钱付，还要等三天，而且还要回去拿，这是什么道理呀？

第三名：电话公司

这里的电话公司推出林林总总的plan,但看清楚一点，很多是不划算的。再来，他们非要你签contract不可，他们就是千方百计绑住你。而且contract将要到期的时候，他们便非常烦的call你更新配套，一个星期几个calls,真没他办法！

第二名：银行家

哗，这里的银行服务可令我觉得大马的银行服务是那么的顶尖和关怀顾客的。英国银行服务非常差！若要我真正的数他们的差我看这里可写不完。职员不专业，苛刻的policy，行动慢的服务，出错率很高。我在这里可以说吃了他们的不少苦头。现在的金融危机，银行服务肯定是原因之一。

第一名：醉鬼

我看不用说，这个是大家公认全英国最讨厌的人。醉鬼给我们带来的烦恼太多了，例如他们三更半夜会在街上大吵大闹，打扰人们睡觉；到处撒尿，尤其是别人家的门口；到处呕吐，不管是在那里。严重一点的甚至会闹事情。喝酒是英国的一大文化，更是一大丑闻。可惜的是，喝酒是这里唯一的娱乐。

当然，每种人都有例外的，都会有好人的存在。英国人的文化并不是我们来之亚洲这么有‘人情味’的地方能够接受的。有时你真的会摸不着头脑为什么他们要酱做，这就是culture shock 咯！

考试风云...Exam

这次是我读书生涯中最后一次考试，也是两年来第一次考试。其实真的差一点就忘了怎样考试，现在就要从新认识何谓考试。考试前最主要是拿pass year papers, 然后就看，一年一年的看，看看它究竟是‘怎样’出题，希望能够看的出它出题的秘诀，这个功还分为几种：

• 年年都出的题－一定要读，而且还要死背
• 很久没出的题－很大可能今年会出，更要读
• 时出时不出的题－避免不了还要读，搞不懂它出不出
• 永远不出的题－这你绝对不能在考试卷里看到，所以你不知道

总结来说，你就是什么都要读。开始读的时候，我的头脑的RAM已经2GB用完，hard disk也块承受不了，脑袋昏昏地像外面的世界已没有空间装进去脑海里面。很多文章看过后又不记得，就这样重复重复地看，像塞衣服进洗衣机似的，死塞进头脑里。所以我觉得考试读书时特别喜欢睡觉，一打开书就想睡了，原来不是因为我懒啦:p 

可是当你进入考场时，之前旋转的很快的头脑却好像没function了，很多东西好像很模糊了。当你拿起考卷时，懂的题目，你的头脑就如洪水般的，资料一直停不住的涌出来；遇到不懂的问题时，头脑就如停水的水龙头，滴两滴就没水了。但无论如何，考完过后，头脑的水就好像流去大海咯，一干二净，连考过什么，读过什么也不记得啦。那种轻松，犹如解脱的感觉（当然，这种感觉只会一直到拿成绩前）原来考试是那么的有趣，还有很多考试的朋友，加油啦！

Your English is too bad...你的英文太烂

好一个黄明志，有一次用他特有的turbo来制造骚乱，这次他用歌骂华教，骂KL, 骂教育政策，骂国家。虽然我不能100%认同歌曲里面的内容，可是我还是非常欣赏他的音乐才华，也觉得没有什么太坏。许多人都说他的作品不雅，歌词粗俗，但又如何？难道那些在国会里面说话‘优雅’的人才是正常？他们才是好人？这是Bullshit. 

在英国这里，当你打开TV,许多娱乐节目都会拿性，拿政治人物来开玩笑，粗口歌更加不是新鲜的事情。从来没有人觉得这些又问题，这并不是每个英国人都认同这样的文化，我的同学也大骂这些电视节目的内容粗俗，但是他们懂得尊敬不同声音的存在，他们知道一些所谓‘不主流’文化存在的事实。也许许多人会说，这是马来西亚的特有环境，不许我们乱来：请问谁说了算？是马来西亚特有的环境，还是那些‘大人’特有的环境？若真的是大马特有的环境，我个人认为黄明志歌里的内容就是其中之一。

只有不够成熟的民族才需要政府‘大人’来告诉我们什么应该看什么不应该看，什么是对什么是错，谁是坏人谁是好人。。。这都是fucking bullshit!

What i have been doing now!?为人父母者

What i been doing those days? i have no word to say, just busy on studio design stuff! Recently, my programme is designing the construction detail of the marriage complex. The complex seem like my little baby, I am its designer, I have to think every single column and beam to build it up, it just like a mother have to think all the method to grow her baby, she has to think every single meal, milk, wearing and so on everyday. 

As a designer, I have to think how to solve all those building problem: how the ramp connect to second floor...how the best way to construct the wall? how the best way to respond the climate.....It just like mother have to think to solve all her children's problem: how to make her children happy and safety? and what the best way to give them education? What is the best way to teach them adapt in the society.

As a designer, I have to plan everything for the building: who will going to use them, how to use? what programme inside? how long to be used.......Just like mothers: she planning everything for the good of us: how much money needed for education? Which primary school to go? Learn piano or go to swimming? So much things have to concern.

So now you will know better what is architect doing right? Why does architect always say they are busy? It is because we act like mother, just like her job: 24 hours, 7 days. Caring and concerning is a non-break job. Maybe sometimes you will tired on it or may be sometime you will angry on your job, but still you can't ignore your baby, no matter how he look like.

Yes, We Can!...奥巴玛

One of the human history but not just USA was achieved with our witnesses, a Black man become a President in a white dominated country, first ever in USA history so as in western history. Does Obama become a president bring any meaning to us? What will we affected or gained form his presidency? NO, I think i will get nothing form his career, but one thing very important is he giving us a hope, a dream and an encouragement: Yes, We Can!

Different people has his own different destination to go, but believe on Yes, You Can! is the first thing that we have to believe in. Obama realized the dream of millions of people who have been contributed their blood, tears, and courage on democracy, on justice and on the races war. 40 years ago Jr. Martin Luther King gave a speech say " I have a dream", and today we see the dream have realized by Americans, all Americans. I am lucky to witness this historical moment in my life, indeed this is just a beginning for us, for Malaysia's people who hold hand by hand, to create our Malaysia's Dream, a dream that no races barrier any more in our lovely land.

Busy week...生活紧凑

My model on presentation

Last week was considered the busiest week in the UK here, has presentation every 3 days, have to submit report every 2 days. During weekend I have to work part time as well, plus I have to do the Buddhist Society's preparation. Some more house work, buying food, social gathering, and eating......all this activities has already fill up my leisure time. 

However, I try to stay cool in my busy life. I train myself wake up at 530am in the morning and go to studio at 630am. Everyday, I will take an hour to have my lovely breakfast and reading news paper regularly. Normally, I will take an hours break for my lunch, and go back home to have my dinner at 7pm. At night I go to bed at 1130pm. And I won't do any studio work at home, but I will do other things like buddhist soc or sometime have a movie :p

Actually, I think 'busy' until no time is just a concept in our life. What we need is not an extra time but a proper time management. Fair to say, I keep changing my time to suit to different condition, so my sleeping time and wake up time might be very different during different period.

最近生活非常紧凑，每三天一个Presentation, 每两天要交一份report，加上又要打工，又要搞佛学会，减除生活作息，生活中并没有太多空余的时间。可能人长大了，我开始懂得如何面对生活的忙碌。记得以前师父说：人忙心不忙。现在我慢慢体会到，只要保持心中的安稳，再忙碌的生活也可以坦然面对，脚踏实地一步一步的走下去。不否认，有时的确会非常多东西要处理，但是当你仔细去想想，再安排一下时间，你会觉得‘很’多事情，其实算起来也不过是几样事情而已；再用心一点，你会觉得事情并不会像想象中复杂难搞；再专心一点，你会觉得事情不止是做‘完’，而且可以做的很‘好’。

当我审查我自己的时间，我发现其实我们还有很多时间是不知不觉化去了，这就是我们的惰性。我也是一个懒惰的人，但有时会想到人生短短，其实并没有许多时间让我们去浪费，心就会很自然地惭悔。当然，我说的浪费时间并不是指吃饭睡觉或看戏，而是不知自己在干什么，本来应该休息的不休息，应该做事的做不好，应该完成的事完不了，生活为了什么也不明了。。。

我很欣赏苹果电脑老板Steve Job的生活态度，每天起来告诉自己今天可能是生命的最后一天，所以要努力生活，不给生命留下遗憾，这才是佛教徒的生活态度。

Buddhist Society Today...今天的佛学会

进过一年后的改进和努力，今天的佛学会终于看到一些成绩。回想一年前的星期五晚上，来佛学会的都是四五个人，有时人少到犹如出来喝茶而已，完全感受不到一个学会的存在；眼看这学会要生存下去也真不容易，缺少许多因缘。但我抱着一个原则，无论今天来的只有一人，只要他想学佛，学会都有存它在的理由。只要脚踏实地地一步一步经营，总有它生存的空间。就这样，这一年我就承担了主席这个职位，一心一意只想不让佛学会倒下来。

每次周五聚会，我都会提前半小时去准备，每次都会望着门口看看是否有人来。我每次都不会抱着太大的希望，只想今天来的人都能够愉快的学佛就好了。这个新学期开始以来，来佛学会的一直都有增加着，来了许多不同国家的人（有些来之连我不知道的国家那儿），从英国到俄罗斯，从马来西亚到澳大利亚，从香港到日本，可说是真正的国际化佛学会了。

如果你有看以前我的部落格，可以想象一路走来的不简单。所以我不会去想明天会有多少人来，但愿能一步一脚印地走下去，以一份小小的力量来完成弘法的使命。

New MacBook...新苹果

等待已久的‘新’苹果终于在昨天登场了。不知不觉我成了一年的忠心苹果迷，每逢苹果的Presentation我都会上网看；在马来西亚很多人认为买苹果的是有钱人而已，这是因为苹果一般的价位都比其他品牌高。可是对于我来说，苹果它并不是单纯的电脑，而是一件艺术品；苹果的设计并不是商业的产品，而是一种理念和哲学。

看着苹果简单不奢华的设计，你能够体会到原来美丽是那么的简约，不必装饰。看看苹果机提供的那几个connector hubs，你可以看到其实有时候生活并不需要太多的东西和执取，只要最基本的就可行了。苹果的设计理念是简单和简约，尽量减少不必要的东西，以达到本身功能的最高峰点。说起功能来，Window绝对不能和苹果比较，它的先进和创意绝对是科技界里的领导者。

嘿嘿。。。Apple可没有给我任何的广告费唷，我纯粹是站在欣赏这产品的角度去和大家分享。因为有时商业品牌也有它能够给我们一些学习的地方。有关苹果的哲学实在是无法在这里一一讲完，如果你有兴趣，不妨查查看它的历史背景，因为它的成功的路也是跌跌撞撞而来的。

p/s: 按此更多详细的报告

Configurations

	2.0GHz MacBook (MB466*/A)	2.4GHz MacBook (MB467*/A)
Enclosure	Precision aluminium unibody
Processor	2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo	2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
L2 cache	3MB shared
System bus	1066MHz
Memory	2GB (two 1GB) of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM (PC3-8500); supports up to 4GB
Hard drive4	160GB Serial ATA; 5400-rpm	250GB Serial ATA; 5400-rpm
Slot-loading optical drive	8x SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
Graphics	NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics processor with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory3
Video	Built-in iSight camera; Mini DisplayPort output port with support for DVI, VGA, and Dual-Link DVI (requires adapters, sold separately)
Display	13.3-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen display, 1280-by-800 resolution
USB	Two USB 2.0 ports (up to 480 Mbps)
Audio	Built-in stereo speakers, built-in omnidirectional microphone, combined optical digital audio input/audio line in, combined optical digital audio output/audio line out
Networking	Built-in 10/100/1000BASE-T (Gigabit) Ethernet

Last year today...去年今天

Last year today, I was still struggling with the new UK's life. I just reviewed back my life last year today and it how the results are:-

Last year: Don't know how to cook, everyday just ate awful foods, or eat eggs everyday. Some more I have had the same menu everyday.

Todays: I am considered as good cooker, know how to cook rice, noodles, and vegetables. Indeed the big change is I eat outside more frequently now :p  Anyway, I have more good foods todays.

Last year: Life was boring, especially during weekend, do nothing and just stayed in the room looking on four walls, can sleep as long as I like.

Todays: Busy everyday, got studio works, president of Buddhist Society, part time jobs, meeting with friends, house works......cannot sleep long even I like to =.=

Last year: Save money, don't dare to spend any single penny if not necessary, will convert the pond (x 6 times ) in Ringgit Malaysia. I can remember all the prices in super market and spending time in shopping market just to get a cheaper foods.

Todays: Hihi.....I forgotten every single price in TESCO already, just buy whatever thing I like (no time to think too much)

Last year: Most of the times, I dun understand what the people here talking about, and similarly Amo dunno what I taking about, I always looked silly.

Todays: Hihi....can make joke with amo, some more I using English to teach Amo buddhism and do public speaking when represent society in certain meeting.

Emmm.....still got a lot of others changes, but no time to describe one by one lah. Ops!!! another biggest change today is more lazy to write blog: 

Last year: every 2/3 days a post

Today: 5 to 2 weeks per post =.=

Sorry, sorry....if you want some more about my changing you can click on my older post in 2007, cheers!

一年的时间，生活究竟可以有什么改变呢？而自己在这个异国也一年了，现在又开始向另外一年迈进。看回以前刚来到的时候，生活的糟糕真的惨不忍睹：不会煮只会吃，不会赚钱只会花，不会讲话只会听，没有朋友只有MSN和facebook, 没有事情做只有睡觉。。。还好，一步一步地熬了过来，慢慢地建立起自己丰富的生活。有人说看到自己的成长是最愉快的，但是过程不一定美好的；一年的阅历让自己成长不少，见识过许多的人事物，也面对过不少的困难，当然也拥有许多美好的回忆。一年的价值原来是那么神奇，只要你踏出第一步去创造生活。凡走过必留下痕迹，不管生活过程是那么的困难单调，或是精彩连连，都有值得我们回味的地方。

Don't Work too hard...加油

在马来西亚，如果我们要与同学或朋友们说一些对他们学业或工作鼓励的话，我们肯定会说：“加油！！”。 但是如果你跟Amo说一些鼓励的话，你应该说：“Don't Work too hard!” 这是东西方文化的不同，我们比较喜欢做，他们比较喜欢轻松；当你说Dont Work too hard, 意思就是说你已经很努力了，非常了不起（要知道，老外常常会说反话，这是他们的幽默）。不明白的话，还以为他们妒忌我们努力，要我们‘别太努力’呢！

这方面我们可以多参考一下，许多工作的环境一味地要求员工做，做，做！而导致我们失去生活的平衡，要想想，若连生活都失调的人如何能够在工作上有好的表现？如何有热诚去完成手上的任务？虽然有人说老外很多都很懒，倒不如说他们很多都很会享受生活；而东方的文化就缺少了教人享受生活，很多时候工作和生活都分不清楚，忙忙碌碌是许多上班族的写照。老外喜欢‘Work hard(smart), play hard' 一当下班时间到了，他们才不管什么工作不工作的，放下手头上的事情回家去。

其实，我们应该从工作和生活之间取一个平衡点，最好的情况是我们实现东方的努力的精神，西方享受生活的原则，所以除了告诉你同伴：加油！，有时也要提醒他一下：Don't Work Too Hard!!