成熟的人需要面具
戴上，堅強面對社會，摘下，溫柔面對家人。
戴上，堅強面對社會，摘下，溫柔面對家人。
12 May, 2013
10 May, 2013
classy - awkward
Be able to buy classy, excellent in quality and durable gift for your parents with your hard earn money feels good indeed. But be able to pamper yourself with beautiful stuff from your own pay check feels even more greater! Now that you almost broke with no credit card in hand for de emergencies, only God knows how you gonna survive till next month. Life is fair and everything comes at a cost.
From staying at world class hotel to sleep on airport’s floor. From having meal at refined restaurant to eating bread on street. From sipping coffee at fancy cafe to drink water from public restroom. Not to forget the heart break of leaving your jacket, boots, sport shoes and clothes at every hotel throughout the journey in order to make space for the souvenirs and gifts to people back home since it’s not possible to buy and carry another luggage and walk for miles for 14 hours a day, cross de streets, jump on public transports with 3 huge luggage in a high pace crowded street in de city till de end of de trip.
I appreciate to experience all of them; both elegant and awkward moment at once though this 30 days travel and backpack journey. And for you dudes… Thank you for being part of it. Kai Chen | U Chyuan Khor | Phua Tin Chew
From staying at world class hotel to sleep on airport’s floor. From having meal at refined restaurant to eating bread on street. From sipping coffee at fancy cafe to drink water from public restroom. Not to forget the heart break of leaving your jacket, boots, sport shoes and clothes at every hotel throughout the journey in order to make space for the souvenirs and gifts to people back home since it’s not possible to buy and carry another luggage and walk for miles for 14 hours a day, cross de streets, jump on public transports with 3 huge luggage in a high pace crowded street in de city till de end of de trip.
I appreciate to experience all of them; both elegant and awkward moment at once though this 30 days travel and backpack journey. And for you dudes… Thank you for being part of it. Kai Chen | U Chyuan Khor | Phua Tin Chew
On de Travel
You’ll hear people say “Bless You” when strangers sneeze [it shows mindfulness]
You’ll see a father squat down to the eye level of his 5 years old son, discuss seriously about his opinion about the shoes he is going to buy… just like “Men’s Talk” [that called respect]
You’ll notice regardless someone enter a restaurant with slipper, shoes, shirt or suit… they will queue patiently, eat quietly, clean their own mess then throw them to recycle bin once they finished their meal [that is attitude]
You’ll realize whenever you are taking photo, people who going to pass by in front of you will pause their step until they see the flash light from your camera [that called tolerance]
You’ll also stunned by random people, came out of nowhere, who without saying a word, suddenly grab your huge luggage at underground of train station, carried it 2 floors above, drop it on floor and replied “anytime” when you thank them.
At the end, it doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from or where your next destination will be. Through the journey, you’ll be affected by the passion, the culture, etiquette in new places… where your view is expended, your knowledge enhanced and your life being enriched; when you discover...travelling can also be a lesson, that teach you how to live…
You’ll see a father squat down to the eye level of his 5 years old son, discuss seriously about his opinion about the shoes he is going to buy… just like “Men’s Talk” [that called respect]
You’ll notice regardless someone enter a restaurant with slipper, shoes, shirt or suit… they will queue patiently, eat quietly, clean their own mess then throw them to recycle bin once they finished their meal [that is attitude]
You’ll realize whenever you are taking photo, people who going to pass by in front of you will pause their step until they see the flash light from your camera [that called tolerance]
You’ll also stunned by random people, came out of nowhere, who without saying a word, suddenly grab your huge luggage at underground of train station, carried it 2 floors above, drop it on floor and replied “anytime” when you thank them.
At the end, it doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from or where your next destination will be. Through the journey, you’ll be affected by the passion, the culture, etiquette in new places… where your view is expended, your knowledge enhanced and your life being enriched; when you discover...travelling can also be a lesson, that teach you how to live…
system-culture- practice
Sometime… when you leave the place you live.. you’ll be amazed of what you see at other places and you are craving to be part of it. Some are very simple things that you don’t even think it can be done that way. You’ll see and learned a SYSTEM… unspoken but generally practised.
Regardless how rude they appear to be, people will automatically stand up from their seat to be given to those in need (elders, physical limitation, pregnant woman)
On a buffet, they’ll take a little… enjoy it slowly and only refill after they finished their meal instead of taking bulk of them even though you know you can’t finish eat, fill into their pocket, wrapped them to the tissue or fill them into plastic bag to be brought back (because they think they deserved it as they have paid for it)
They will always stand still on one side of the escalator to make a way for fast track
They’ll start the queue near the restroom entrance and NOT IN FRONT OF EVERY DOOR so whoever come first to use the first empty restroom
They’ll always stand at the side whenever public transport stop and let people inside to come out first instead of rushing inside while the passager trying to step out
They’ll wait according to assigned boarding group instead of pushing you a way to get to the front
They’ll just take free creamer, sugar, salt pepper at fast food restaurant only as much as they need and NOT grabbing as much as they can home for their personal use
Then you come home and try to live in the same manner..
It simply CAN’T work! It just DO NOT fit! It just not POSSIBLE, you just CAN’T do it ALONE!
So welcome to real world. At least now you’ve figured out your way to survive… Ability to be a well cultured person in a civilized society and flexibility to be a barbarian in a barbaric society. This is the way to survive... And some might say; You can survive here, You can survive anywhere...
Regardless how rude they appear to be, people will automatically stand up from their seat to be given to those in need (elders, physical limitation, pregnant woman)
On a buffet, they’ll take a little… enjoy it slowly and only refill after they finished their meal instead of taking bulk of them even though you know you can’t finish eat, fill into their pocket, wrapped them to the tissue or fill them into plastic bag to be brought back (because they think they deserved it as they have paid for it)
They will always stand still on one side of the escalator to make a way for fast track
They’ll start the queue near the restroom entrance and NOT IN FRONT OF EVERY DOOR so whoever come first to use the first empty restroom
They’ll always stand at the side whenever public transport stop and let people inside to come out first instead of rushing inside while the passager trying to step out
They’ll wait according to assigned boarding group instead of pushing you a way to get to the front
They’ll just take free creamer, sugar, salt pepper at fast food restaurant only as much as they need and NOT grabbing as much as they can home for their personal use
Then you come home and try to live in the same manner..
It simply CAN’T work! It just DO NOT fit! It just not POSSIBLE, you just CAN’T do it ALONE!
So welcome to real world. At least now you’ve figured out your way to survive… Ability to be a well cultured person in a civilized society and flexibility to be a barbarian in a barbaric society. This is the way to survive... And some might say; You can survive here, You can survive anywhere...
Charles Chaplin
“I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another.
Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.
Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little.
More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. The airplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all.
Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you; who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder.
Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don't hate! Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.
Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it is written that the kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power.
Let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill that promise. They never will!
Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfill that promise. Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness. Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite!”
―
Charles Chaplin
Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.
Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little.
More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. The airplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all.
Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you; who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder.
Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don't hate! Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.
Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it is written that the kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power.
Let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill that promise. They never will!
Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfill that promise. Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness. Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite!”
―
出國才知道的世界……
- 到了歐洲-才知道購物，完全沒假貨。
- 到了北歐-才知道太陽，也會睡懶覺。
- 到了香港-才知道明星，都會戴著口罩。
- 到了荷蘭-才知道海平面，原來這麽高。
- 到了泰國-才知道漂亮妹妹，褲檔裡有小鳥。
- 到了法國-才知道被人調戲，還會很有情調。
- 到了俄羅斯-才知道伏特加，只是一種飲料。
- 到了夏威夷-才知道女人，可以不必買胸罩。
- 到了阿根廷-才知道不懂足球，會讓人暈倒。
- 到了韓國-才知道漂亮的女人，不是上帝創造。
- 到了德國-才知道一板一眼，竟然是雙B的驕傲。
- 到了巴西-才知道衣服穿得很少，也用不著害臊。
- 到了英國-才知道童話裡的幸福快樂，都是偽造。
- 到了日本-才知道死不認帳的人，還會很有禮貌。
- 到了墨西哥-才知道要去美國，還可以走地下道。
- 到了巴拿馬-才知道一條河，代表了主權的重要。
- 到了加拿大-才知道面積比中國大，人比北京少。
- 到了中國-才知道十個有九個騙，還有一個在訓練。
- 到了美國-才知道不管是誰，你可以打官司告一告。
- 到了澳洲-才知道動物和小袋鼠們，多的令人苦惱。
- 到了瑞士-才知道開個帳戶，沒百萬美金被人恥笑。
- 到了意大利-才知道GUCCI和PRADA，比中國還少。
- 到了奧地利-才知道連個乞丐，都能彈上一曲小調。
- 到了梵蒂岡-才知道在境內任何地方開槍，都可以打到羅馬的鳥。
- SO……出國旅行吧！
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