Tuesday, March 06, 2007
met up with 2 taiwan friends with ma cousin after work on monday.
can say it was an unsual one?
haha cause i dont really know them that well.
but nevertheless, we met them at clark quay after my work.
they were here for holiday and gonna fly back to taiwan this friday.
thats why i agreed to meet them for dinner though im so busy with stupid attachment! =X
anyway, we went coffee club and had our dinner~
omg the prawn aglio olio was superb lahhh!! *drools*
super nice ok!
their translucent prawn standard is ON PAR with thai express's (ZILIN ZHU YI!!)
the only bad thing was that the whole dish is like filled with garlic !
horrible! i had a hard time picking them out!
and i think i swallowed quite abit of garlic >.<
bu nevertheless its mouth-watering =))
oh yah back to ma taiwan friends.
they were actually here with their "lao shi" to learn about human resource.
hope i did interpret it correctly..
"ren ji guan xi" is human resource right?
anyway yah.. besides that they also learn quite alot of other stuff from their "lao shi"
stuffs like personal experience, moral beliefs and etc.
they shared with us a couple of ideas which are really some fruits for thought..
they told me its actually important to have a goal in life.
or rather a plan for your future.
what are you gonna do, and stuff along that line.
she told me about herself, because she's the youngest in da family, thats why everything is like planned for her.
all she has to do is like play enjoy, study.
even the school she's gonna attend and the job after she graduate was settled and planned for her.
so up till 30 years old she's still like over relying on her parents.
she would pend every cent she earn and even spend more than what she earn.
she told me its like she earn 2000 and spend 3000.
the excess? get from her parents..
haha the funny part is that she got this mentality, if one day her parents are gone she'll go with them.
cos no one to support her what.
but after she gt to know her"lao shi"
everything changed la.
its like she finally found the purpose of life.
and realise that our parents work so hard to support us when we're young and now we should in turn work hard and give them a good life.
it makes me think.
what really is the purpose in life?
is it the pursuit of happiness?
another thing we chatted was about the making of friends.
she told me: the making of friends is a very important element in life.
cos usually we mix most with pple of our age group.
who thinks like us, and behaves like us.
we would rarely have friends that are like older than us by alot.
but older friends comparatively have more experience than us and probably some constructive ideas to share.
it is true that we take in more what our friend say as compare to what our parents say.
most of the time when our parents try to tell us something, we would think they nag and nag n nag.
though it is true that they do have a fair bit of experience than us, but we'd still think theyre nagging =X and refused to take in anything they say.
so probably having friends of diff ages really does let us see another side of the sky haha!
she told me this story which is from her lao shi-
when the first-man-who-landed-on-moon ( i forgot whats his name) was young, he sat on a tree and gaze at the moon. his mum then asked him what is he looking at. he replied: im looking at the moon. one day, im going to land on it.
his mum smiled at him and said: wow! really? thats wonderful! when you land on the moon, you must remember to put the american flag on it to make us all proud!
this is american culture. encouragement is thrown to their kids.
so unlike spore and alot of asia countries, the same story, our mums would probably replied us: stop dreaming la! you can never land on the moon. dun be silly!
note the difference!
honestly, who wouldnt prefer the encouragement style?
speaking to them made me think about alot of stuffs.
haha.
how i long for the encouragement which is lacking in this society.
so pple, pls promote encouragement!
be it for friends, siblings or even your parents!
and dun forget the little praises which makes someone's day!
let's do our little part to be a lovelier person and make the world a better one~
;)
..xin fu cong lai dou bu xu yuan wo` ;
