Weird Nightmare

Last night I had a strange nightmare. I dreamt that one of my eyes popped out, and then I found it on the floor. A person stood next to me was so panic and asked me how to do, I was very calm and squeezed it back to the right place, it was just like people wearing contact lens.

Doesn't it sound disgusting?

This afternoon I tried to search the symbolic meaning of losing eyes in a dream analysis website, it explained that 'losing an eye' denoted problem. So does my dream mean that I also had a problem but I had solved it already?

I believed dream carries meaning. In my most remarkable dream many years ago, I dreamt that I was pregnant and wearing the roller blades and tried to keep balance on the slippery floor, there were lots of bubbles and foam on the marble floor. Then I saw a young guy came to me and held my hands, he tried to comfort and support me. I could not see his face clearly but I knew he wore glasses, I felt that eventually, I found someone I could trust.

After a few days of that dream, Jeff and I came together, but I had never thought about him during or after that dream, and I did not even plan to be her girlfriend. However, I am sure that the dream gives me a signal, I would meet someone I trust in the soon future.

Do you have any special dream that means a lot to you?

向基層婦女致敬

今晚「星期二檔案」講述九位獲得提名本年度諾貝爾和平獎的基層婦女的故事。

其中幾位以前是工廠女工，在九十年代工廠大舉北移的情況下，她們遇到失業的難題，卻勇於面對，並在自已的社區建立合作社，目標不但是自力更生，更希望回饋社區，發揮互助互愛精神。

另外一位女士，她自小在大澳長大，多年來為保護碩果僅存的棚屋及大不為餘力。儘管被人譏為現代愚公，她只堅持心中一個信念 -- 要對自已的地方、文化、身邊的人及大自然有愛。

就是因為她們將「愛」這訊息傳至別人而得到諾貝爾和平獎的提名。雖然最後落敗，但她們的成就比娛樂界的香港傑青崇高得多。

在香港這金錢掛帥的社會，人的成就單純地以他的職位、資產及社會地位來衡量。我們往往忽視一羣為社會默默貢獻，努力養育為新一代的人們。他們或許不富有，不為人所識，但我們要確立他們的成就，向他們致敬。

Blink - Trust your instinct judgment

I am reading the last two sections of the book 'Blink', which is written by Malcolm Gladwell, the bestselling author of his another book 'The Tipping Point'.

This book points out an important message - people sometimes make judgment by their 'snap' feeling, we sense something but actually we cannot tell the why we can sense it, and in some case the judgment could be absolutely correct. People always call this powerful ability as the 'sixth sense'. Most women possess such power to 'feel' if their boyfriends/husbands have done something 'naughty'.

instinct feeling' is not ESP. In fact, our brain can make analysis by several small layers of information and provides a decision within a second. As we cannot even know that the brain has operated such a complicated process when the 'blink' feeling comes out, we think such intuitive feeling is mysterious. Just take a woman's instinct feeling to her spouse as an example, she can spot out her husband has mis-behaved by even one glance. Actually within that short eye contact her brain has already sensored his facial expression, body language and the something weird in his outfits within a snap shot, and realizes that he flirted with a girl in the pub that night.

Of course, we should not totally trust the instinct feeling all the time, because it could be blinded or deluded sometimes, especially when we are not experienced enough in some aspects.

This book also mentions the weaknesses of market research. Market research sometimes ignores the power of snap judgment in many consumer behaviors. Of course, this profession cannot be always wrong, but to be an excellent market researcher, you could be very familiar with the industry that you are doing the research, which enable you to spot out those blind points and provide the insight which beyonds the plain figures and charts.

From my experience, the best time to use your 'blink' power is when you are deciding if a person is great to be your lover. Of course, you should have certain exposure to the opposite sex... or the same sex if it is your case.

Biological Clock

Well, I am trying to switch my biological clock to 'WORK' mode, hope I could do it tonight. Frankly speaking, I still wish to remain it at 'HOLIDAY' mode.

Lazy holiday

I am still enjoying my lazy holiday. I will resume my work next Wednesday, that means there are still two days left.

In this 'long' holiday, I did almost nothing. Zero level of productivity, 100% of consumption, I love the lazy life so much.

Everyday I sleep for more than 9 hours, I wonder if I could tune my biological clock once I should get back to my work.

Last Friday my sister took a half day leave and visited me. We watched TV from 2pm-4pm. Do you know there was a TV soap opera called 'Season' in 80's decade? It is now shown on TVB channel during weekday afternoons. We laughed and laughed as the whole stories, lines, make up, costume and relationship amongst characters are very old-fashioned. Definitely this is unfair to judge these in term of the current standard, but it is undeniably that the whole story is tailor-made to attract the our mothers and Tai-Tais!!

Then we had a tea in Queen's cafe, it sounded so prestigious, right? Therefore, to maximize the utility level, we'd stayed there for more than an hour. Oh, I remember the tasty honey lemon that evening.

Mom and dad would come back from Japan tonight. Jeff and I gave up the Japan trip and Mom and dad took our vacancies. This is the first time we pay my parents for a trip. They promised to buy me a lot of souvenirs, they couldn't disappoint me!!

菩提樹

尤記得漫遊柬埔寨吳哥窟時看到一樣讓我很興奮的東西 - 菩提樹。我立即想到一首很"型"的詩辭:
菩提本無樹
明鏡亦非臺
本來無一物
何處惹塵埃

那些菩提樹矗立在馬路旁，旅遊巴惹起很大的塵埃。

我看到菩提樹，立即奔到它跟前拍照。雖然做不到那種菩提本無樹的忘我意境，但我覺得很開心。

菩提樹有粗壯而條紋仔細的樹幹，根部紮實而自信地抓著土地，樹頂撑得大大的，讓很多人及動物在樹下乘涼，樹與人渾成出那種靜謐的情境，看得好舒暢!

Thailand & Cambodia Trip

This was an amazing trip. Finally I had been Cambodia, a country that I had never thought about for leisure travel.

Thailand becomes a shopping paradise, people are friendly, it is quite a nice place to spend a weekend for spa, dining and consuming.

We visited Angkor Wat, Cambodia for two days. Temples, heritages and construction sites of hotels are everywhere. You can enjoy the marvelous scenic views in the city, but also witness the poverty of this place. Every time we arrived the tourist spot, there were a bunch of little kids, the youngest one might just be 4 years old, selling souvenirs to tourists. Sometimes they would wander around the entrance of our shuttle bus and asking us to buy. I could not imagine what they thought at that moment, by experienceing a stroke of cool wind from the air cond of the bus, what would they think about the outside world?

Afterall, I should say thanks to my company for this incentive tour. I enjoyed the trip a lot.