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On the day of Wednesday, 26 November 2008,22:33:00
 Who says I never update my blog... I always update what. Hehheh... here is a picture of recent me, taken by my colleague. Because he loves to take pictures and amongst the colleagues I seem to be the one who most love to have my picture taken, so I'm always cam-whoring one day or the other. It's quite fun! Although I always have just one expression and am always endorsing the V-sign. But now I have a lot of photos!!! I think in this photo here I look quite 詩情畫意, yes, the good kind of image I like to portray.Because I like to take pictures more so than the others... my colleagues think that I super like to pose and take pictures. Like super hiao... you know?It's very strange how my colleagues see me in one way because of how I appear relative to them... For example they think that I'm very 'drama' and I'd be super incredulous at their perception because (and I quote myself), "Huh? No leh, I'm not drama one, my friends are drama, I'm the un-drama type leh..."Or they would think I'm super rich and the 千斤大小姐 sort who gets my way all the time. In a Korean drama, I'd be the rich girl who has everything and most ideally would bully the female lead who's poor and obliging. Hmmm... but no, that's not me. Some of them think that I'm the 開良少女type... was so not but heading there.But oh wells, people have their own perception of things and really, it's alright. I probably form impressions of them based on them some skewed perspective too! So 管不了那麽多，隨他們想吧！ 2009 is coming... Time to think back and reflect and blah blah blah again...Three things I'm looking forward to before 2008 runs away... 1) NZ trip next week2) Jane and Phoebe coming back3) ChristmasI love Christmas and I hope to get at least one present this year.Hehheh... Actually I know I will get at least one! So... at least two lah!
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On the day of Friday, 7 November 2008,23:57:00
I’ve been working for one and half years. The department I’m in is called Marcoms which means marketing & communications. I don’t do marketing, I do the communications bit, but I don’t communicate very well. Talking, especially, misrepresents me. I often set out with one intention in mind, but the words, as they travel and form would twist and mutate. When they emerge, I listen to them as if they were spoken from somebody else’s mouth, with somebody else’s tone. They must be somebody else’s thoughts! It’s quite annoying.
Blessing or not, humans rely on much more than words in face-to-face communication. There is tone of voice, there is body language and there is shared knowledge. So the answer ‘no’ to the question ‘should we leave now?’, if said with much enthusiasm and a happily nodding head at a hopelessly boring party could only mean… yes.
The intricacies of such are very interesting and can be fun to think about. They are also very complex. So unless you’re studying sociolinguistics, overspeculating is paranoia.
In another realm of communication, there is writing which encompasses letters, emails, smses, etc. I like that writing can be executed with more thought and preparation but nonetheless, when I reread old emails and stuff, it is often that I think they could have been better understood if written this way or that.
Somewhere along the timeline of civilisation, the term ‘two-way communication’ was coined and seems to suggest that for communication to be successful, there is only one way to go… which is er… two-way. I imagine two people setting out from different ends of a labyrinth. They would never meet if they are moving away from each other despite given tools to communicate. They would also never meet if one party had not entered the labyrinth at all, but how nice it should be to meet someone inside.
I recently watched an interview of Hong Kong actor 黄子华 who’s known for dating women much younger than him. He was asked if communication was always a problem in his relationships because of the generation gap. He paused for a while then very slowly and seriously replied, “我到现在为止没有碰过一个人，跟我在沟通上是完全没有问题的。无论是男或女。” How interesting and smart of him (or his PR person). Well, he might have had the questions to prepare himself before the interview but … I wouldn’t have thought of saying that anyway. And in a sense isn’t it so true, for everyone?
I aim to be convincing in what I want to communicate. To inspire what I believe and detract what I do not. I think I will get better with time and practise…
So I should expect to be a very eloquent old lady.  艺术家把两个字放到墙壁上。让读者感动的却是读者自己让自己看到的。很妙。
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On the day of Wednesday, 5 November 2008,23:11:00
 Hee... My wonderfully beautifully onz nails! Gee... I really don't like sounding bimbotic or shallow but fact is, ever since I did the gel overlay on my nails, I have been mesmerised. Today when I was bored at a meeting, I just looked and my nails and I'm entertained. WH calls them Instant Mood Boosters.I did them at this nice little expensive shop called Holistetique. If you're wondering why they are so short it's cos I didn't do extensions cos it's the in thing in Japan to have short nails... of cos Japanese trend = good. Excuse me now, I have to go get lost in the kaleidescope of shiny glitter already...
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