纯文艺恋爱

“你轻轻柔柔地细诉着槟城下的雨……”

当初听见电影预告里播的这段旋律、这段歌词，心里浮现一种淡淡的布鲁，那是为回不到从前而感慨。

对于电影未抱有太大的期望，但最终还是决定捧场。熟悉的画面，熟悉的腔调，有几分真实的故事，略嫌煽情的（有一些）对白，让我想起了中学时期写过的那些充满年少情怀的文章。

真怀念年少时期的多愁善感。那时候的情绪总是轻易地为各种小事起伏波动。那些曾经在乎的东西，虽然有一些已经成为过去，偶尔还是会慢慢地想起，几十年来依旧那么地清晰……哈，突然之间，我也很想谈一场纯文艺恋爱！

p/s 电影主题曲《纯文艺恋爱》是一首80年代歌曲的翻场。原曲由【陈绍安】作词、作曲，【吴旺庆】主唱，发布于1988年《流行与不流行之间》专辑。原唱版的编曲和唱法很有罗大佑的feel。在此附上电影版和原唱版给各位欣赏一下。Malaysia Boleh :)

想起来，佛都有火

I got my marketing assignment back yesterday. It was a group assignment. Two weeks ago, a few days before the due date, I had a crisis with my group mate. She went missing in action, ignoring my emails, smses and phone calls. Our assignment was divided into 4 parts, she was supposed to do part 1, while I part 2; we were supposed to combine our reports and make further analysis in part 3 and 4. I sent her my part for review, never heard back from her. I asked to review her draft, never got a single word from her.

I have worked in many group projects before. I have worked with slackers, but have never came across someone as irresponsible as this person. I tried to make contact with her for almost three days, until at one point, I thought something bad might have happened to her, like she got into an accident or something. Then I thought maybe I am giving her too much pressure, so I tried to be nice, polite and encouraging in my emails and smses. Later, I even resorted to try to contact her via another class-mate, W. If she was well and alive, it was very obvious she was avoiding my calls.

Two days before the due date, she finally "resurfaced from hiding". W organized a meeting so we can help each other out with the assignment (W was in a different group). She responded to W's invitation and decided to go for the meeting (all the while, she was still not making direct contact with me!). W advised me to be "easy" with her; apparently she seemed very stressed out because she hasn't finished her part yet, and she feels guilty about it. For Christ's sake, we are all adults! If she couldn't cope, she should have asked for help earlier. Instead, she chose to leave me in the dark not knowing if I should just do the whole thing myself (and the hell she knew I have two other assignments due in the same week). The worst part was, she acted as if nothing happened at all. She never even tried to explain nor apologize for her unresponsiveness during the past few days.

To cut a long story short, she was still not done with her part during the meeting. She couldn't send me a soft copy of her draft because there was something wrong with her computer and she couldn't save the file. LUCKILY, I managed to read through her hardcopy draft (which she only had one copy), and I had to do part 3 and part 4 myself, title page, content page, plus rewriting the executive summary (which she merely cut and paste from our report). Maybe I should give her some credit for doing the bibliography at the last minute.

The irony of it all is, our assignment actually got the highest mark in the class. She wasn't present during the class. I sms-ed her about the good news. She replied:

"Huh? Wtf? I tot only 60, considering such a last min job. Omg."

I really wish we hadn't got the highest mark, because someone really doesn't deserve it.

Haiku #1

Amidst white silence,
the bandits were scavenging
trash cans for treasures.

祝生日快乐

今天是王弟弟的生日。

祝福
花香自有赏花人，人才自有用才人，
襄王神女皆有意，两情相悦互倾心，
事业情场兼得意，早日会出人头地。

就算
人生不如意事十之八九，唯有快乐在心头，
闲来无事谈谈情，苦中还可作作乐，
成败乃人生常事，应以常心应得失。

且记
世上有两大不教，既是比较和计较，
人比人会气死人，斤斤计较吓跑人，
做人处事刚刚好，日子轻松乐逍遥。