Missing You

今天听到电台播了"Missing You" 这首巫啓贤N年前的歌，回忆马上一一湧现。

这是我大学时期很喜欢的曲目之一。没有复杂的歌词,只有贴近人心的情感，这就是这首歌特别之处。

人何尝没有思念?哪怕是那么一刹那，某人某景或会不自觉窜进思绪里。

思念真也不必说出口，或许摆在心里也未尝不是件好事。有好多好多的人、事、物，不是因为没有提起便表示是忘了。我想时间是会淡化一些不那么美好的记忆，但所有在生命中遇到的真、善、美，又岂会轻易从思念中抺去呢?

Take a stroll down memory lane - 1st Computer experience

 The passing of Apple's co-founder Steve Jobs has triggered me to dig into the history of Apple and its first computer dated back in 1970s.
It is incredibly impressive to see how computer has evolved over time and how the world has become hooked into the technology so seamlessly.
Today, computer is no longer a computer. With the advancement in technology, it is indeed "devices" that we are talking about. Devices that are no longer confined to a box with CPU, a monitor screen, and a keyboard for input.
My first experience with computer was back in late 80s when I was in secondary school. Back then, computer was synonym to luxury item with not many people could afford, so do I. As an initiative to foster computer literacy among students, my school back then had organized "Kelab Komputer" which students could enjoy usage of computer and some instructor led classes with a nominal fees of RM5 a month. I was fortunate to be able to participate in the club and have had my first ever experience with a computer.
At that time, the lab was equipped with the Commodore 128  - a computer with white color body, a type writer like keyboard, and a mouse.  Obviously the Commodore is no longer in operation now (company went bankrupt in early 2000), but the design and UI of the computer was as good as Apple's Macintosh at that time. Guess what, the computer did not have MS-DOS and as far as I can recall, I have to type in the instruction is BASIC to get the computer to work! Yes, I wrote a couple of programs in BASIC (ranging from hello world to some graphical patterns looping).
I still remember the name of my teacher, Mr Lee Foo San. He was a very knowledgeable person in computer and I considered that to be scarce at that time as many did not know what computer was let alone using it.
Quite an interesting memory to me comes to think about it.

Artistic Works

Wen Jia has developed her art skills substantially over the last few weeks.
She used to have the fear of picking up a pencil and start drawing something, most probably due to lack of the concept of shapes and dimensions. But who cares? We didn't even bother to send her for a "training" just for that. No, I don't think she need that. And i know what she needs. She just need more time from both her parents to encourage and nurture her as she gets along.
We observed and noticed that she felt excited when seeing her cousins did painting work with water color. There she goes, we bought a box of Buncho water color for her and did her first ever drawing and painting with her. I was proud to see her producing her first painting with very minimum help from us.

Besides, her coloring skill has improved so much and she has indeed exhibited a fair bit of creativity when comes to choosing her own color. Below coloring work with color pencils has seen her using colors of her choice without even following the pictures on the upper side which are pre-printed as a guide.

She has also started some paper art as part of her class work in Purity Learning session that she joins twice monthly.
This one is a paper art of a dinosaur that was created in recent class.

Overall, art works train her patience and concentration which is the key to learning.

天天好天

上星期日和妻小去看了“天天好天”。对的，又是一部本地制作贺岁片。这部电影的宣传可说是排山倒海的。自己也是因my fm 的广告之故而去捧场的。宣传归宣传，但自己观看后还算觉得还蛮不错的。 
论题材，它不算是传统贺岁片，反倒是环境写实片多一点。重点是，故事平实不取巧; 煽情得来又不娇情。
故事中的人物，分分钟会有一两个能让我们及身边的人对号入座。
像林风娇这个人物，是典型城市职业女性的写照。每天为生活而忙，抽时间给孩子变成一件奢侈的事。女儿连写对联都得kakak 教。是不是讽刺中又似乎极贴切?
老人家对孙女的隔代情，似乎是对于自己女儿父女情的一种折射。
还有那最引人深思的"一年见父母一次＂的现代都市人生活惯例，几乎是贴切中带有点讽刺。
我们是不是也该反思，电影中的一些情节是不是特别触动自己心灵某一部位?