Speaking up

I would say, just a year ago, I wouldn’t have that much guts to speak up as I now have today. Should we speak up?

Ask anyone, and they’ll tell you their past experiences with barbers from hell that has ruin their hair with these (so called) hair stylists’ favourite weapon - the scissors. So the other day I went to APT to get a regular hair cut, this time I was even armed with a picture just in case these hair stylist choose to be temporary autistic. So I explained precisely the way I wanted my precious mane to be trimmed and I also further showed him a picture with a hair cut that I would want, as people would put it that ‘a picture paints a thousand words’. I did this just in case my vocabulary wasn’t that impressive enough for him. Well, it turned out that he was showing off his ‘retardedness’ in communication rather then his hair styling expertise. To my horror, I now have a bald spot on both sides just above my ears. At this moment, I had enough of this kind of idiotic behaviour and I told him that this wasn’t what I wanted. Looking like a person being accidentally ‘lawn mowed’, I told the lady at the counter that I had not requested to be ‘lawn mowed’ or whatsoever by that demon of sort. While I created a small tiny winy scene, a few other hair stylists that had came to so called comfort me, just makes things worst. They too seem to be infected by the autism virus that had spread like wild fire by not being able to interpret the picture which I showed to all of them. Being frustrated by all that shallow brains, I just wanted to pay and get out of there but the lady refuse my money and said I don’t need to.

Wow.. What an experience.

Moral of the story is of course, Speak up!

Now, where’s my thank you note from APT? It should sound like this:

Thank you for voicing out your unsatisfied service at our Hair Saloon. We appreciate customers like you who would speak up when we are truly in the wrong for we may not realize in the past. We would take this matter seriously and work our way in improving our service. Thank you for making our hair stylists realize that they should always take their costumers hair cut seriously.

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One Saturday while my mum and I was swimming as usual at our swimming club, there was a crazy party going on just beside the pool. Crazy being the not so exaggerating word, we dint know what we were ‘swimming’ ourselves into. As their music was loud enough to stress us up, these imbecile people couldn’t resist jumping into people first and then the pool. Yes, u heard right, these people jump into the pool as if they have barbequed their eye earlier while at their barbeque dinner. As I was swimming in my lane, I can’t help but told 2 different imbecile clothed pool jumpers each once that I was swimming and that they are getting into my way. One of them even knocked into me while I was swimming. I told them to use the side of the pool for their childish activities. The third incident wasn’t a charm as 2 guys were trying to push a girl into the pool while my mum was resting just in front of them. I became protective and while still panting from my swimming, I pointed my finger at them and shouted: “Oi!!! We are swimming here! Can’t you see she is there!? Please go to the side!” If I have not done that, this girl would have been pushed onto my mum in the pool. What brainless and blind people are these!? Not having the peace of mind when bodies of imbecile people are like raining all over the pool, my mum and I are forced to leave the dangerous environment. As I was leaving the pool, they started announcing over the mike to not disturb the swimmers and only play at the side allocated to them. What timing….

These teenagers should call themselves kids and learn some civic consciousness and be more sensitive to their surroundings.

Now, where’s my appreciation card from these kids? Kids, Listen up! These are what you should write:

Thank you for shouting at us the other day at the pool. It is people like you that will help us realize our embarrassing actions. Thank you for teaching us valuable lessons. If you would not have spoken up that day, we may injure or cause harm to someone. Thank you for preventing us from being involve in such unwanted circumstances that we may regret.

I am not saying that everyone should speak up about what they want or what they like but to speak up within the boundaries and rules that exist. Speaking up creates realizations and valuable lessons.

As listening is just as important, maybe my next post should be: Listen Up!

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After some

Discussions….

Disagreements……….

Discoveries…………………………

I have something to share, some of you may already know, but I think that there are many perspectives that we can look at Christianity.

Why do we believe in the existence of a God? How do you know that a God really exist? Why do Christians think their God is the real God?

If you have read my older post about the discussion between Albeit Einstein and his professor, you will understand better why Christians believe in God. Why is it so hard for us to believe that there is a God out there that has created the heavens and the earth, and human beings? Is it because we can’t see, feel or hear God? Is it because science has wonderful theories that can explain how God’s creation is formed such as the evolution of man? Science is not meant to tell us that the existence of God is impossible but to instead explain God’s creations.

We know that wind exist, we also know that we cannot see wind, however we can see the effects of wind. So there is indeed a God, although we may not see God nor hear directly from God, we may see the effects of God in His believers. Christians are set free by the truth that God is our savior and only through Him that we may have eternal life in heaven.

Is Christianity a religion? Are all religions the same? Why is Christianity not a Religion?

If we say Christianity is a religion, it means we’re saying that we have choices to which religion we choose to believe in. Christianity is not a religion because it is not a choice but instead it’s something we do to honour and respect our maker and heavenly father. You see, we are born into this world by our parents and therefore ‘the choice of choosing our parents’ does not exist because even if we want to, there is simply no way that we can choose our parents. This means that we only have a set of biological parents and we are to honour and respect them as PARENTS.

So this illustration shows that God created us and ‘the choice to choose who we want our God to be’ does not exist (because there is only one God), and with no such choices available, then there should be no such word as ‘religion’.

Confessions of a Teenage Twin

Not long ago, I did an interview for ‘Positive Parenting’ magazine for a feature on twins.

So here’s the Q & A and the featured article.

1. Growing up: What are some of the challenges that you face growing up as twins?

“wah, you two look so alike ah, I always cannot tell who is who ah, how to differentiate ah? Who is Tim, who is Jed?” Yet another aunty with the very common and torturous question directed towards the both of us.

As we both used to be dressed exactly from tip to toe, so that is among the challenges we have to face whenever we go out as twins. It’s not easy dealing with the whole wide world not being able to tell us apart accept for our own family.

And then finally one day, we grow up to be very different, from look to character wise, and then suddenly the world would have something new to hype about:

“Huh? You 2 twins ah? How come you two so different wan?”

Assumptions, people just assume all sorts of nonsense and that as twins we must be the same. We must go out together, have the same hobby, hang out with the same friends and we must see eye to eye on everything! People just assume we can’t have a different and separate life as a twin.

Finally, people never fail to stop comparing the both of us, Yes; I’m the smarter one or skinnier one, so what!!! :P

2. Personalities: Tell us how different/ similar the both of you are: In terms of interests, friends, studies, characteristics, etc.

As we grew older, our personalities seem to be more and more different. I remember that we used to sneak in to our primary school to play basketball, but now I have long abandon that sport and don’t seem to have interest in it anymore, but my twin still does.

We both have interest in art and craft since young, and till now that interest still remains our similarity. But both have quite different set of creative skills and we both excel differently.

As we both were together in the same class all the while in primary school, so we had the same friends and always hang out with the same bunch of friends. From Secondary school onwards, we were placed in different classes, so we hang out with different friends. And same goes with college; different college different bunch of friends.

We both excel in different areas. I’m more of the studious type and my brother is the total opposite, however we are now somehow “exchanging” career paths, as I am in the creative field and he in the engineering field.

People say we have the same voice and sometimes the same laughter but our characters are very different. How different? You tell me.

3. Twin rivalry: Does this happen to the both of you? Kindly elaborate.

There is definitely some spirit of rivalry in both of us. I remember competing to complete our home work while we were in primary school. Other than that, I can’t remember much of any intense rivalry between us.

I think there are pros and cons to the twin rivalry that goes on between us. I know what I’m good at individually and what he’s good at and that’s fine with me. We both have our individual strengths and we both excel in different areas.

4. Closeness: Do you see each other as best friends? (Doing things together, sharing secrets, etc.)

The only time I remember us being close was more than a decade ago when we can hardly remember anything. We used to quarrel and argue about a lot of things when we were kids, and now, we can’t see eye to eye on everything!

That’s the way we are for now, I’ve no idea when or how things will change.

5. Separation: How would you feel if you were separated from each other for a long period of time?

As we seem to be closer to our friends then to each other, I think there won’t be a problem for us being separated when we can’t seem to live under the same roof.

6. What’s the most wonderful thing of having a twin?

The wonderful thing is that we get to disguise as each other and fool the whole world! Just kidding, that is so LAME!!! By the way, that’s a very common suggestion by people who are in a bit to comfort me that being a twin is not that bad.

What is the one thing that celebrities and twins have in common? Well, they’re both famous! It’s just that twins are not born with wealth (I wish!).

You know those celebrity kids that just are famous for no reason other than being born into a famous parent. As for a twin, you have the fame just because people are intrigued by the fact that you are born only 9 minutes apart from the other and share the same birthday. Teachers including those who don’t teach us know we exist and who doesn’t realized there is a twin in their church?

People tend to remember us, as if we are the special human being with special “twin” ability. Sometimes when u introduce yourself and you tell people that you are a twin, their eyes will glow with intrigue and imagining another person who looks exactly like you. There aren’t too many twins around, so they feel excited whenever they meet one, and it will follow by a million questions about how you got or use your “twin” ability.

Well, I guess ‘with great power comes great responsibility’, so you see, using your “twin” ability to disguise as your other half is no good people! No no no good! So people! please don’t tell me to disguise as my other half.

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