Wednesday, January 19, 2005
People who make you guess
On a number of occasions, I came across people who make me guess. Well, these people would start up a conversation or making a statement from the middle of nowhere. They were not the storytellers who started with “once upon a time….” They started with the middle of the story, gave me a bit of the front part and without the crucial ending. They made statement with incomplete sentence. They provided less than half the information required to make sense of an issue. They probably thought I know what they meant because in their minds, they knew what they were talking. Very often, they were impatient and dislike questions. In effect, they left a lot of guessing work to the listener. Most of the time, the guess was wrong and the resulting misunderstanding may lead to serious consequence.
My response to these people will depend on the nature of the conversation and the circumstance. If the information were important to me, I would persist to seek clarification. If the information is of no concern to me, I can choose to ignore those talks or pretend to understand in keeping up with good mannerism.
My response to these people will depend on the nature of the conversation and the circumstance. If the information were important to me, I would persist to seek clarification. If the information is of no concern to me, I can choose to ignore those talks or pretend to understand in keeping up with good mannerism.
Wednesday, January 05, 2005
Never Ever Give Up!
These are the amazing stories of survival.
A woman was swept out to sea after the Tsunami devastated her village in Bandar Acheh in northern Sumatra. She floated in the shark-infested ocean clinging to a floating palm tree under the hot sun. She was hungry and thirsty. She drank the palm’s sap and nibbled its fruits and bark. Whenever it rains, she drank the rainwater. The thorns of the palm tree cut her hands and body and fishes were biting her body, but she refused to give up. Six days later, she was rescued by a passing fishing boat.
At the same time, another man clinked onto a door after been washed out to the sea. For days he floated in the sea. The thirst and hunger would have killed him but he held on. He was able to find some coconuts floating in the water. He used the doorknob to break open the coconuts. He was rescued five days later
They survived because they never gave up.
A woman was swept out to sea after the Tsunami devastated her village in Bandar Acheh in northern Sumatra. She floated in the shark-infested ocean clinging to a floating palm tree under the hot sun. She was hungry and thirsty. She drank the palm’s sap and nibbled its fruits and bark. Whenever it rains, she drank the rainwater. The thorns of the palm tree cut her hands and body and fishes were biting her body, but she refused to give up. Six days later, she was rescued by a passing fishing boat.
At the same time, another man clinked onto a door after been washed out to the sea. For days he floated in the sea. The thirst and hunger would have killed him but he held on. He was able to find some coconuts floating in the water. He used the doorknob to break open the coconuts. He was rescued five days later
They survived because they never gave up.
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Welcome to 2005
Welcome to 2005. May the Year of the Rooster brings hope to those who suffered so much. May the New Year bring out the better side of human being worldwide in the helping of those less fortunate.
