THE WORLD AROUND ME

  Most of us, who came from decent family backgrounds and neighborhoods may be heard of school bully but if you have never involved in one, you may not have an exact idea what it is like.  My first time getting bullied was during my first year in kindergarten. For more than ten five years old kids were kicking and stomping on me while I curling up to hide my head and stomach on the floor at the corner of the classroom. The beating lasted for about twelve seconds but it felt like years. From that, I suffered from a broken skull and nose, bruises all over my body from head to toe. I was bloodied all over my body, with dirted and torn shirt. That was not the only time that happened in my life. It happened again and again. I was broken physically and sometimes mentally. You may ask how and why that happened? Have I done something wrong?  Reviewing this event after twenty-five years, I will have to say I did nothing wrong. I was just like you, thinking where I did wrong but to...

FYI, I'm thirty years old this year. According to the Malaysian EPF guidelines (check the chart below), I should have 30k RM in my EPF account right now. But, instead, I do not have this amount there. Throughout my lifetime, I worked full time for less than three years and have been paid  less than a year  for EPF. You may be curious about where I was and what I did all these times. Well, I was studying, I was a student and still am literally.  The new basic savings schedule according to age (EPF Malaysia) I'm a Ph.D. student in marine geology. I completed my master's degree in the year 2017. Attended Hokkaido University for an internship during the winter, and started my first permanent position as a Quality Control executive officer in Eastern Steel Malaysia during the summer of 2018. I n the spring of the same year,  and started my Ph.D. at the Tongji University of China. I have to remind you that before I stepped foot in Japan, I was a pretty much penniless kid. ...

                                       Here is my mum and dad When we talk about love, it doesn't refer to "love" between couples only. Love can be perplexing but simple at the same time. It exists as an instinct, for example, among the wildlife, even between the different species of animals. I grew up believing animals have a beautiful soul just like you and I do. When I saw a giant dog became protective of his young toddler master, I started to believe in that. People told me that dog loves their owner because their instinct told them that guy is providing thus they are their gods to love. But what about a young toddler who can barely walk? Isn't animals learn to love cute babies too just like we think lion cub is cute? Behind this mammalian instinct, there is agape love that makes us provide to the young and weak rather than exploiting. It's not too bad to provide to them when we have ...

I bet if you carefully observe, you would notice that humans are the only species on earth that never stop innovating, seeking to improve our self-defining life quality. Most of us work so hard, soak ourselves in sweat and blood that we could ignore pains and fatigue. To most of us, our hopes lie in the future but not in the present.  We built our faith not on the unseen but on our physical experiences. I used to justify why I love workout so much? It's because of fairness. You will see results if you show up. Unlike life, you could end up seeing nothing and getting nothing after giving everything you had. It's easier to deal with weight plates than people. Peoples are unexpected and fickle, weight doesn't. However, in another word, it's also saying that my value is built upon my self-defined justiceness, not upon how nature is supposed to operate. Our way as humans is to take control over everything instead of letting it operates on its own. Take an example of our fro...

                                                                                                                                                                PC: Grace Cheong Covid-19 is not an enemy to humankind, but an enemy  to "humanity" aka, the way of humans. Today, we're going to talk about  how disappointing this world could be?  And what are you gonna do about it?  As to what I pointed out in my last writing, due to survivorship, humanity has to be irresponsible, self-centered, selfish, self-...