Marwencol

Marwencol? What's that??

This is the title of the movie that I've watched last night with The Hubby last night. A genre of its own, and very entertaining. You can read about the synopsis of the movie here -> WIKIPEDIA( Marwencol)" .

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This movie is an independent documentary film that depicts the life of Mark Hogencamp. Watching this, I must say, is like watching a one-hour special documentary of someone in Bio Channel or National Geography. The reason why it's fascinating to me is because of his unique artwork and how he can be able to put his imaginary town into live, something that I dreamt of wanting to do when I was small. It was like playing SIM City or Facebook's Cityville but instead of virtual, you're setting up your own town at your own backyard. To add things up, he photographed the town, full with World War II dolls and small WWII trucks. It was like a combination of an avid enthusiastic WWII piece collection and macro photographers.


This movie has won more than 5 awards, and a 100% approval rating from Rotten Tomatoes. The Hubby and I were quite sceptical to watch it at first ( especially because it was ME who found the movie, and The Hubby at often ain't that keen to watch what I suggested.. All lovey- dovey la. chic flick la..hahhahah.. not blaming him also), but we enjoyed the movie (or documentary) very much that he persisted me to blog about it. hehehe



Anyway, if you're hoping to watch about something like Small Soldiers movie or Toy Story movies, you will eject this movie from the DVD player after 5 minutes.. Give this movie a chance to prove why it has won so many awards, it will tell you why..





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Sarawak Bloggers Talk

First off, a big THANK YOU to Sarawak Bloggers(SB) for inviting me to ~Sarawak Bloggers Talk: More than a blog~ which is going to be held on May 21st, 2011. It's going to be a very informative and interesting event (I'm sure of it) as they will have Alvin Leong who's going to teach on the art of photography. With this art, you can improve your blog page, and make money out of blogging! This making-money from blogging part will be lectured by some infamous blogger of SB admin team.. Mr. Willie and Mr. Cyril..

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I haven't been very active in blogging , even though I was given a privilege to be Sarawak Blogger; Blogger of the Month in June 2010. Honestly, I'm kind of embarrassed because I don't think I have done much justice to the team, and to the SB team. For God's sake, I have not even blogged about my experience with NTV7, in which I was recommended by one of the SB admin! (Thousand apologies!). It's been over the month since the tv show aired, and I have not been able to find time to share with you guys the excitement feeling I had when I was at the shooting set.. I'm cruel, I know..

Back to the title, yerp. I'm really sorry I won't be able to attend this interesting gathering event, for one reason, I can't fly home this weekend. I have a 4-day meeting/ training in my workplace next week where the participants comprises of other Food Technologist from all around Malaysia. I will only be flying back to Kuching end of this month, for Gawai celebration.

Thank you again to Sarawak Bloggers team, for the invitation. If I were in Kuching on that date, I won't miss this chance for anything in the world. For a fee of only RM15, and you get to learn how to earn a side income with your monthly income by blogging, who doesn't want that right?

Rude Malaysian?

Customers always right? Or are we?....

I am not going to write about our right as a customer in purchasing, that you can figure things out. But what I am going to share here is about our manner.

Customers always right. Mmmm, yeah. However, does this means that it is okay to be rude to the other person of the opposite side? Is there any given right to say that it's okay to not acknowledge them just because we are paying for it?

I always believe in the power of being courteous to other people. No, I'm not saying that I'm such angelic, I don't get grumpy. How hard is it to say 'thank you' to the waiter that comes and help us clear our table? How hard is it to say "welcome" when the KFC guy give us thanks? Is it okay to buat muka bodoh after the waitress helped to open the door because she saw you struggling with a tray full with meals at the KFC restaurant?

This little stuff, most Malaysian take it for granted. I have to be honest, sometimes I do not see much of "Courteous Malaysians" here. I am not saying that all of us have the bad accused attitude, but majority does. I was in those majority group 3 years back (before I met The Hubby). Courteous for me, happened only when I'm with my family and fellow friends.

Anyway, back to my story. I do not get it when the tourists tell people that Malaysian are courteous. I was in US few months back, and boy I had a shock.

The people in the servicing line were way friendlier than us here. Everyone seem to enjoy their time at every store. And the fact that the cashiers would try to create a small conversation and greet us good night before we leave, it got me feeling that the gap between their business custom and us, are far apart. And same goes to the customers, they were all tolerant and respect each others space. Everyone is treated equally.

Whereas here? I can always feel someone's breathe at my neck almost everytime I queue up for anything. Come on! Stop being a kiasu already. No one is ever going to cut your line if you move back 2 steps.

Maybe.... fine. Maybe we are not ready yet to be too friendly to the cashier boy who's standing behind the counter taking our order. But why the frown? A little smile won't hurt. It doesn't matter if it's a 5 star restaurant or kedai runcit Ah Kau, so what if he won't smile back? What is there to do if he had 7 frowny customers before you. He deserves a little boost for the day, and that can come from you.

I know this entry is all fumbled with words. It's been a while since I last blog and I apologise. This coming weekday is going to be a very busy day for me and my colleagues as my lab is going to go through ISO audit. Wish us luck!

And oh! Start the "thank you" and give space to the person in front of you while queuing up for anything. Our comfort zone for Malaysian ( Data source from an ex- UN negotiator) is 3 feet. I want my own zone.