Eight tilted ninety degrees is infinity.

I was looking for some ideas on what to write in this blog when I saw the dusty Dale Carnegie’s ‘Speak More Effectively’ booklet lying on my desk. I got that booklet after attending his High Impact Presentation workshop three years ago. I picked it up and began to read.

Carnegie offered some very good public speaking tips, which I believe can be applied in blog-writing. Basically, he suggested that we write ‘something that we have earned the right to talk about through study and experience’, and ‘that we are excited about’ and ‘we are eager to tell our readers’.

I can only think of one thing.

Sex!

HA HA HA.

Then again, with the on-going debate about the appropriateness of sex education, I guess I have to think of something else.

Hmm… berguling-guling?

Five times a day...

I've just moved from Rantau Bukit to Kampung Baru Kerteh yesterday. Still exhausted and still unpacking.

Last few weeks were hectics. The next three weeks will be much worse. Then, comes the performance appraisal season.

This is basically my excuse not to update this blog for a while. Not that it matters since my readership has significantly plummeted since I got Syifaak.

Besides, there's nothing much to tell. Life is pretty much boring and issues are pretty much the same nowadays.

So, don't miss me.

Four Cities in East China...

Just came back from a week-long vacation to China with my wife, Syifaak and parents in-law. We went to Suzhou, Wuxi, Shanghai and Hangzhou.

It was freezing cold. Winter.

The tour guide service in China is interesting. We were accompanied by a 'national' guide throughout the whole visit and a 'local' guide at every city.

These guides, however, are obliged to bring tourists to the Chinese government's tourist centers where they give you some briefing on their specialty products and virtually force you to buy something. Eventually, the products they sold are very expensive for something 'made in China'! But of course, the products are really worth it (or that's what you'll start to believe after all the propaganda they feed you with)

If you want to buy anything from the street shops in China, bargain. And if you want to bargain but you can't speak Mandarin, bring a calculator. The Chinese shopkeepers understand numbers.

Halal food restaurant seems abundant but the dishes served tasted almost the same at all the restaurants. Most of them are oily and salty with soy sauce. I have no problem with them of course. However, the rest of the family lose appetite after the third day.

One thing which bothered us the most throughout the visit was the toilet... or to be specific, the absent of water source to 'cebok' after the call of nature. You know us Malay - wiping with toilet roll doesn't feel... erm... satisfying. So, we always carry a bottle of mineral water with us just in case.

Suddenly, I don't feel like writing the details of the trip. I don't know why. Do you?