I carry around at least one notebook everywhere I go. Some are small and light, while one is 13″ and pretty heavy. That’s my macbook lah! Till I get a lighter (digital) notebook, I’ll have to carry on bringing the heavy macbook almost everywhere I go. :(

My notebooks are my thinking tools. My brain works at the weirdest hour and strangest location. And some of you might already have heard this too many times, due to my low memory processor, I tend to forget things very easily. So I’ll always try to write down thoughts and ideas when they come in my (non-digital) notebooks.

I’ve seen this many times, each time I see the scene, my heart breaks. I try to imagine myself in the parents shoes. How would I have felt to see my kids like this. But I guess this is a problem faced by quite a number of families these days. There may be certain reasons for this to happen. But no matter what, it’s sad to see a family sitting together at the same time but there’s just no conversation exchanged.

The common sight I’ve seen…
A family of 4, parents and 2 children (even kids up to their teens), seated down at a table for meal. They’ll be eating their meal off from their own plates and there’ll be silence. Both the kids would have earpieces plugged into their ears and they’ll be blocked out of all conversation and noise from around them. The parents just continued taking their meals without requesting their children to remove their earpieces.

Throughout the entire meal, not a single word was exchanged.

This is so sad isn’t it?

Are you familiar with the YELLOW ve-sa-se jeans, red padded so-nia-ri-kel sling bag, fa-ra-ga-mo hairclip and big big bucket belt that was wore on the upper waist line!! Bia Zui lah! The “sah ba lak, qit ba di” walk lah! And and and… Tea Dance at Fire!! OMG!! Those were The Days lah!!

The Days shows a true uniquely Singapore style of gangsterism during the 1980s. I’m giving it a 4.8 out of 5 stars!

This post wasn’t on top of my to-blog-list yet, but since the topic is in discussion now, I shall push this up from the list. After reading Van Tan’s feedback, Daryl’s feedback, Benjamin’s thoughts and a chat over msn with Pat Law, I’ve few points to share on the recent increase of Bloggers Outreach events – my reflections, feedback and suggestions.

I always set my own goal too high and tries very hard to achieve my own perfection. This is very tiring. I need to learn to let go and let things happen.

“Claudia ah Claudia! Why are you such a ‘kan cheong’ person? Relax lah!“

More than a year ago, Claudia got to learn about Ping.sg from some blogger’s blog and it was also the period where Ping.sg was about to celebrate its first anniversary. Claudia was unsure at first whether or not to join the party as she didn’t know anyone from Ping.sg. Feeling adventurous, she signed up for it eventually and went with a girl friend of hers. Both of them had not a single idea who was going to be there.

Claudia did some homework before the party and she recognized some of the bloggers present. She was able to point out some of the people there including… Kevin, U-zyn, Arzhou, Rinaz, DK, Veron, Sheylara, Josh, Ming and a few others. Sadly, she didn’t go up to any of them to say hi. And she felt that they, being the regulars, could have approached the new faces at the event instead to make them feel welcome. She only recalled a girl (Daphne) going around trying to break-ice with everyone. The rest of the gang, well, were just being within their own gang. Claudia even wrote a not-so-good post about it but still looked forward to their 2nd anniversary.