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Friday, January 23, 2009
was watching the CNA post Budget special on tv before i went to bed last night. Don't want to go into details but they were interviewing this professor from SM(you) about the Budget. I really think it was a joke. Seriously i would really expect a professor to speak with much more depth and intellect than what i have seen last night.
I am not very intellect but i really wonder why we bother to spend money to keep useless educators in our system
keetzai blogged at 10:00 AM
Saturday, January 03, 2009
Watching this show currently. This show being set in the 1920s which makes it a period drama. Period drama does not quite appeal to most people. Especially after the highly rating Heart of Greed.
But this show titled The Silver Chamber of Sorrow has its own appeal, at least to me. It has its own set of family and business feuds. But it evokes a lot of thoughts for me actually. For me, the biggest take away is actually the traditional and conservative mindsets that was present back then.
We the Chinese can be considered one of the more conservative folks around, even up to present day. In the show, back in the 1930s, it was considered normal to drown those committed adultry, and marriages were decided by parents, while the bride and bridegroom had never seen each other before. Women's status back then was to make men happy, to assist in household affairs and to produce offsprings.
Times certainly have changed for the last 70 years. Society has become much more liberal (i am so thankful for that). We certainly have more choices in life and women's status has been elavated by leaps and bound.
It also set me thinking that we are still unchanged in many areas. We still have yet to overcome the difference in status. The "bamboo door to bamboo door, wooden door to wooden door" mentality is still pretty much entrenched in our belief. And in many, the attitude that wives have the responsibility of producing offsprings (preferably males which carry the family surname) is still alive.
What happens now is most of us are more discrete in expressing our conservative stance. Though society is constantly evolving, some of views are just difficult to change :)
keetzai blogged at 4:00 PM
Thursday, January 01, 2009
2009 has finally arrived, without much fanfare for me. No countdown parties. With the minute hand of the clock striked 12mn, I sent 2008 off in front of the tv, telling myself :" thank god i have survived 2008!"
2008 has been a long year, whom i have stepped into the working society for the full year. For the world as a whole, 2008 has not been a good year, marred by global recession, terrorist attacks and natural disasters. We should give ourselves a pat on the back for being around still.
For 2009, expectations are not high that we can pull ourselves out of recession or promotion with fat bonuses. No doubt things will be tough, but i am sure i am coming out of the gloom a better person.
I remember i wrote down a list of resolutions last year for 2008, none of which i had achieved. So this year i will write it down on a good old paper and paste it in front of me as a constant reminder.
As a whole i still embrace the arrival of 2009, with much to achieve as a person i guess. My leave is ending soon, fully recharged and ready to put my heart and soul into my work again. :)
keetzai blogged at 12:25 PM