Sunday, December 11, 2011

The Battle of Tera

Okay, I found this movie by accident and just out of curiosity and boredom, I decided to actually watch it. I glad that I watched it though... it's actually a simple movie with a common theme and a predictable ending. Just another animation family movie.

However.. there is something in this movie that made me wonder. There is something in this movie that holds a possibility that I hadn't think about before.

It's actually about a planet called Tera with its friendly and peaceful inhabitants and how they encounter the human race that came to take their home because earth is no longer habitable and they are forced to find a new 'home' and of course... Tera is the destination.

And well, as you might also realize the nature of human race, the plan is to destroy the original life of the planet and enforced a new habitation more suitable for the humans. Yup... don't think of about negotiation or any sort of the ambassadors suppose to do, just sent the war planes.

However, the peaceful Tera-ians were originally not so peaceful.. they were as well, a race of war, and they do have the developed technology advanced enough to go face to face with the human's war technology.

It turns out that the Tera-ians itself was once almost extinct because of war and now they are teaching their children, the new generations about peace and life and forget the technology that they were once had as well as their destructive history and only the 'elders' that are aware of the truth.

The ending of the story is pretty dramatic but expected. The real hero (human) died in saving the Tera-ians and in return, they save the humans by building a habitation with atmosphere suitable for humans and the co-habitation of the planet.


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The thing that stuck in my mind right now... is....

Well... there is this theory that I heard or read about a few years ago, about the possibility that.. we are.. humans... are actually aliens on earth. There are a lot of questions about massive building technique or wisdom of the ancient civilization.. Somethings... that seems.. somekind of impossible for those "without technology" people.

And well.. according to this theory... It is because that humans are aliens and of course, as aliens.. we do have advanced technology. Advanced enough to make ships that travels the solar system and find a new planet to live on. It's just that.. there is this question... if we were.... why there are no records about that? Assuming that we are advanced enough to travel the universe, aren't those knowledge about space travel precious? about the ships are precious? why do we 'forget' those??

And now... maybe... and only maybe.. IF that theory is right... then.. MAYBE it's just because we had a very sad history previously.. and the people of that time decided that they would like to start brand new. Without the 'history' and without the technology. Maybe as well... in hope that they and their next generations would live in peace and without war.

Unfortunately.. if this were the truth, then their hope has failed... humans do have just in nature, in instinct, to destroy. Although we tried our best not to have war.. sometimes war is inevitable. What else is the reason for continuous war from the ancient civilization until now? Yes, until now! Our world is not peaceful at all, considering the small coups or riots in most of the countries to the more obvious right north and south korea or the middle east... It is... in human nature to strife for more.. to be greedy and strife for "safety" even if it costs someone else's "safety". If this is not... why do we still have war now?? we have failed to understand each other.

and currently.. our earth is also dying.. not soon... but slowly. It is already predicted that somewhere in the future... our descendants might have to leave earth and find a new planet to live on. It is not in doubt that the technology to support human life continuously in space is being researched or if not developed..

and might be... the history will repeat somewhere in the far corner of the universe....

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

The good things that happen today

Today, well... I'm still nervous for my new work... Then several things happen...

Yesterday, I got an unknown caller on my cell during work orientation, of course I'm not picking it up and I have no idea who it was, and as usual, I'm not so interested to find out who... If it was important enough, they will call later, was my thought. But my boyfriend was asking me to call back. I wasn't really enthusiast about it, and I think he noticed that and gave me a hint that he knew who called.

That's it, my curiosity is at the maximum level, and I failed to make him break the news to me. I went to sleep with several guesses about what could it be... .. ..

So, yes, I can't wait to call the 'mystery' caller again and until I got them... it turns out to be a florist!! Okay, so it's flowers... :)
Unfortunately though that they can't deliver after 5pm and most probably I would be at home after 5 pm.... >.<
So... basically, they have to deliver it to my work place!! uh oh... it's gonna take some people attention.. and I don't want it... I'm not so comfortable to be on the spotlight sometimes.. depends on the situation.. and I think it's one of it..
I love the flowers, but I'm not thrilled about the part that it has to be delivered to my work place. Because, I have to tell some people about it to let the delivery able to come inside the area and deliver it, and as I was still in the orientation, they have to put the flowers somewhere else first and so and so...

But oh well... in the end I got the delivery... with even an extra surprise... a Teddy Bear!!!!







I do love roses, and yes I love teddy bears as well.... I was a little bit sad that I had to leave my teddy bears with him because I don't have any space to bring them to the states.. and now that I got one.. and it's from him.... :D :D :D :D

I am very happy :) Love love love love him so much :)




Ps: I got a fortune cookie tonight, and it says 'Someone is speaking well of you'. Well, in the position of new job... I do hope that it's true :) It really chase away all of the worries that I had :)

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Iron Iron Iron

Okay.... I never dislike ironing before.... really, it's not my favorite job, but I don't dislike it either. But since yesterday and today.... I spent like an hour ironing... and I still have more ironing stuff to do actually....

Rolling and folding your clothes to little pieces is great for packing since you would be able to pack more... but really...

IT MADE YOU DO ENDLESS IRONING!!



So... I have made one more decision to remember..

DO NOT PURCHASE ANY CLOTHES THAT WILL REQUIRE LOTS OF IRONING!!

Yup, from now on, I will put that into my consideration in purchasing my clothes... if it made from the kind of fabric that you don't need to iron... PERFECT!!!! :D


Friday, October 7, 2011

Swiss Hotel Management School

I think.. I'm the same as most of the other students in the world... Criticizing their school/university most of the time but adores them still deep inside..

I would say I could find a lot of flaws of this school that I was attending, but was I happy when I was there? yes. Was I satisfied with my school? Maybe not really.. but yes I do as well. It is one of the greatest chapter in my life, and I had learn so many things in that place. So many things that I doubted I would get in other places, or even if I do.. it wouldn't be the same. It is the place that had shaped the 'me' right now. The place that I learned a new perspective in life and where my 'young' personality developed to a more mature personality that I had now.

Anyway, I read this article about the top 10 Hospitality schools in the world, and I was shocked... I knew that my school, SHMS, is in it.. But that it will be on the second place??? WOW WOW WOW!!!!!!!!

I had no other words... I am just... PROUD :)

Top 10 international hotel schools favoured for use by the International hospitality industry

1. Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne

2. Swiss Hotel Management School

3. Les Roches International School of Hotel Management

4. Cesar Ritz Colleges Switzerland

4. Glion Institute of Higher Education

6. Hotel Institute Montreux

7. Ecole Hôtelière de Genève

8. IHTTI, School of Hotel Management in Neuchâtel

9. The Hague Hotel School International University of Hospitality Management The Hague

10. Zurich Belvoir Park

GfK Switzerland july 2011


New Chapter in Life

The time has been running up too fast for me for the past year. My last semester in university gone like in a blink of an eye. Suddenly I had been parted with my friends.. suddenly and miraculously, I have finished my dissertation and now I am officially graduated with Second Class degree First Division... Something that I thought not gonna be that easy for me to get....

I have tried though, to make the fullest of my last semester in university. I wrote down a list of what I want to do, unfortunately I wasn't able to cross all of them. But I had fun creating it, as well as trying to cross the list one by one. Of course, there is a little regret that there are things that I still want to do before I'm graduated... but I guess it is okay and I had the most fun that I could get already. :)

At the beginning of the year... my future seems so much clouded, I don't know where I would be in the coming few months. There was so much worries, so many uncertainties...

Thankfully though, I got a job offer in Zurich just in the time that I need it. Just when I finished my dissertation then I boarded the train off to the biggest city in the country, leaving my little hometown in Switzerland, hoping for a new experience and I welcomed the stability and the little sight of my future, at least for the coming six months.

The job turns out to be great, I love the people, I love the restaurant, I love the new friendships that came along, and I even fell in love... and the least expected moments in my life, this person came and took my world to him. With him, everything just seems to be right, even though it feels like a roller coaster ride in the same time. The speed is a little bit scarifying but exciting in the same time. In just a little time, it feels that I knew him for a life time. Everyday is nice and precious to just let go.. especially knowing that we don't have much time to be together.

My next job had came to light, and everything is settled. I got my visa and I was going to the United States. This.. is going to be my home for the next one year.

I never like saying good byes... I hate it when I have to go and things could never come back to the way they used to be. The people.. the places.. even if I returned.. I know somehow it's not gonna be the same. I can only remember them as memories. I wasn't happy to leave the country that I called home for four years even though this is not my home country.
I wasn't happy to leave the friendships that had developed with the people here.
Especially, I wasn't happy to leave my schatzly.

But things in life... sometimes you have to let them go and embrace the new chapter of your life.

So... here I am, in United States, going to start my new job on Monday, still adapting to the new environments... and of course, missing this one person in another continent and hoping that the new job will allow me to still keep in contact with him everyday.

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Last Days in University

Yup... something that I honestly didn't want to come to an end yet... my school life with my friends. Now I'm officially don't have any more classes to attend. Most of my friends already gone either back to their home to other places that they should be now. I doubt that I would ever be able to see half of them in the future. It would be very difficult for me to see some of them again, since I don't know when or where that I would be able to see them again. Only some of my friends that are still left here, the ones that I could still meet and talk to in person.

Our last day past hardly with any real goodbyes thanks to the reports that confined us to our own space and as long as they're not finished, no one is happy to be disturbed. I only able to say my farewell to some of them in person, the rest are through online medias and some were very late that the next news I knew that they're at their home country already.

It is sad of course... how I wished that I could keep them next to me so we could still have fun together. Well, it didn't happen of course, I don't have any power on earth to make other people follow my wishes on a whim.

But in the same time, I'm happy that the graduation ceremony that was held a week ago enabled me to meet with my old friends, the graduating ones. It was such a nice couple of days that I could spent with them.. too bad that it's over too soon for me. Only for a few days and they're gone again, continue their own lives.

and here I am... still stuck on the place I am now, the place that I reluctant to let go, the place that I've called home for 4 years....

I know soon that I'll leave this place, very soon I'll find my other paths to other places. Even though I, myself don't know where I would be in a few months for now, it could be here in Switzerland, USA, Hong Kong, or even home... I don't know, I am just a windflower ready to be flown away by the wind, but doesn't know where it would be.

I could only wish all the best now for all of my friends, and hopefully fate is kind enough to let us meet again somehow somewhere in the future :)

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

The kind of conversation you have on your last weeks of university

Here's one piece of conversation that we had during lunch today.....

Oh, here's some piece of information you'll need to understand the conversation below:
  • skip 3 times: verbal warning
  • skip 5 times: kicked out of the subject (you DON'T want this to happen)
  • next week is the last week of our university, and it means classes are over :D but.. also the deadline for all those monstrous reports..........

A: I don't want to come to class today..
B: No one wants to go to that class...
A: I think I'll skip.
C: Ugh.. I can't skip anymore, I already skip 2 times and I'm planning to skip next week. So...
B: Yea A, come for today and we'll skip all of the classes for next week.
A: But I don't think going to that class will give me anything useful..
B: No, we'll go to class today and we'll skip for the last week... c'mon A..
C: Yea, go to class today and we'll skip next week.
A: But I want to skip today AND next week as well
D: But then you'll miss too many classes
B: Yea, and xxx (censored for everyone's peacefulness) for sure will do the absences without fail.
A: I only skip xxx class once, so I can skip now, and the 2 classes next week as well. Coz that means I only skipped 4 times, and verbal warning at the end of semester is totally useless.
D: oh... wow... you only skipped once?
A: yup..
B: I already skipped twice... so.. c'mon A, go to class today and we'll skip all of next week classes together!!
A:..... I don't want to... it's useless......
C: oh there's xxx!! Now A.. you can't skip anymore
B: yup, xxx knows that you're here!!!
A: %^(*&%$#$%^&&*

In the class before it starts...

E: someone please tell me what are we doing here??
A: that's exactly what I'm thinking about!!!
E: yea.. what's this gathering about???
A: I just hope it's going to be something useful...... really.....
E: nah... we're going to waste our time.. again..

Friday, January 7, 2011

What I WILL have in the future

Today I just realized that there are so many things that I want to do and have, or rather that I'm sure I WILL have in the future but I don't have them now.

I just went back from horse riding after haven't ridden one for a long time, and then when I'm just resting a bit, I heard a classic music in piano and it really made me want to play my piano. I realized that there are so many things that I missed from home, and how different my life here, independently and at home when I am dependent to my big family.

Life here is harder, I really need to put on account on everything that I want to buy, because I earned the money myself and the money would not come by itself like magic. Not like when I was still with my parents when I can just ask them that I want that thing or I need that thing, and the next thing was me, obtaining the things that I want. Well, a little bit of persuading is needed of course, but I know I could get it easy.

Here I don't have the luxury of home, the super nice bed and room, nice food without me have to cook or cleaning before and after, when I can just relax, drive my own car, play piano whenever I want and have lavish parties every now and then with my family and friends. No.. not here, not now. Everything need to be budgeted if I don't want to go broke in the middle of the road and have no money to do anything at all.

Well, I'm used to it. To live economically and super saving.
But also, how I realized that I don't want to live like this forever. I'm going to earn lots of money. I'm going to be able to live like I used to be (I know this is very selfish). I don't know how but I know I would be able to live like that again someday :D

And so.. I'm making a list of the things that I WILL have in the future :D

  • Grand piano
  • Nice house
  • A horse
  • A yacht
  • A couple of nice cars
  • A Siberian Husky
  • More lenses for my Nikon D90
  • Telescope

2011 Resolution

Ok... here we go...

* Graduate!!!
* Get a job
* Scratch off the things to do before graduation list
* Get the weight down to at least 58 kg
* Improve photography skills
* Start to think about my own business
* Keep in touch with my university friends

Ok short one :D but at least it would be easier to keep!!!