Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Cloudywind's Days... 风的生活 #2 - 一个人旅行


有个朋友刚从日本旅行回来。她一个女孩,带着一个行李,就这样在东京住上了一个星期。我这个朋友漂漂亮亮的,追她的男孩可不少,肯放下工作陪她玩的一定大有人在,不过偏偏她就喜欢独自一个人去旅行。

我除了出国公干以外,从来没试过也没想过要一个人旅行。就算刚刚去的西藏是一个人跑去玩的,但至少也有一整团的团友和不同的导游陪同陪了我十天!

我不喜欢一个人旅行也不是因为我怕寂寞。而且不喜欢的原因还挺多的。
  • 不喜欢一个人搭飞机。因为不知道坐在旁边的会不会是个有狐臭的,还是个肥到会把赘肉挤到我的座位那边的。

  • 一个人的胃大小有限。就算餐厅里各式各样的食物看起来有多么的好吃,也只能选一份而已。但如果是跟朋友一起的话,就可以叫几份来试试了。

  • 看到好玩或神奇的东西时,不可以转身说“你看这个!是不是很赞?” 只能默默地把那份兴奋“呱”一声吞进肚子里。

  • 一个人的话就只能拍风景照了。如果企图用DSLR自拍的话,看起来应该会很傻。

  • 当有冲动要买贵又不实际,买回家几个月后还肯定会后悔的纪念品时,没有人在身边唠叨提醒“别买这种浪费钱的东西”。

所以这种一个人旅行的自由嘛,还是不适合我的啦~

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Cloudywind's Days... 风的生活 #1 - 上下班的时间


今天早上又挤不上巴士了。车费是越起越起劲了,但繁忙时间的巴士数量似乎没什么变化。照样遇到挤不上的超拥挤巴士,照样又要费时间等下一辆巴士。

说实在,我到底花了多少时间来做这些无聊的等待呢?

等到可以挤得上的巴士 = 20分钟
等巴士把我载到地铁站 = 15分钟
等地铁把我载到目的地的地铁站 = 20分钟
等公司的班车 = 10分钟
等公司的班车把我载到公司 = 20分钟

算算来回的话,我一天得花上170分钟,也就是将近三个钟头,也就是一天里的八分之一的时间,在路上奔跑,然后才可以做“上班”这个不是很有趣的活动。

在这三个钟头里,我有时会看看杂志,有时会玩一下DS,有时会听听MP3,但有时只是在那边发呆。

心里面真的很想学日本人那么勤劳,在这三个钟头里读一些“现代世界经济观”或“如何成为一个更有效率的人”之类的书籍。可是七早八早的就起来上班,没精神。下班的时候又太累了,没劲。

可能这三个钟头本来就应该是拿来浪费的吧~

Friday, November 2, 2007

Making an old uncle cycling a rickshaw with 3 grown man is NOT bullying

Glad that this incident is reported on the UK Daily Mail.

When a reporter from The New Paper talked to Bo Davis (26) via YouTube about how he and two of his friends had made an old man cycle a rickshaw with three of them on it, and refusing to pay after the ride, this is what he replied...

“This was not bullying, I do not like bullies or bullying.”

This part I guess I could understand. I'm sure this is exactly how Ah Beng would have reacted when coming back from JB and caught at the checkpoint with a bag of pirated DVDs.

"These are not pirated lah, I dun support buy pirated things one."

And of course, he did not expect such strong reaction from Singaporeans when all they did was bullied a Singaporean old man...

“I couldn't believe the comments - I was shocked by the threats. People's reactions were shocking but interesting.”

This is easy to understand too. The British are easily shocked. They were shocked when they had to surrender to the Japanese, they were shocked when China really took Hong Kong back.

This incident is actually a very good example of how some people could behave badly when they are tourists...
  • they have the superior feeling that the country is inferior to their hometown

  • they thought they should be treated as kings by the people from the country because they are spending their superior money there

  • they think that the facilities in the country is backward, and the people in the country are definitely not as smart as them

  • and lastly, they thought that they can do crappy thing in the country because nobody from their hometown will find out


Maybe we should just stick to the Japanese and Korean tourists...