Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Nice meditation video - The Fly Meditation

Do you meditate? If you do, nice short video to share :)


Enjoy.
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Sunday, August 21, 2011

2011 Penang International Chinese Book Expo 槟城国际中文图书博览会

For book worms like me, this definitely is a good news. Finally there is a chinese book expo in Penang. The book fair is from Aug 12-21 11am - 10pm. In fact, there is only few hours left if you wish to visit the expo, go quick!



Frankly, there is not many book booth, only 青城，新文化，久美，商务，友谊，大将，台湾 and etc. Hopefully I got all names in. Beside the book booth, there are also other booth e.g. arts, tea, and two exhibition for 林连玉 and 孙中山. There were also talks and contests.

Culture need time to cultivate, although it is not as merry as PC fair, it is not as merry as KL‘s, I feel for first timer it is a good start. The thing is, will there be another one next year?

I spent around 3 hours and manage to get few books. However, I am a bit disappointed by the reading 'culture'. After people view the book, they simply put it anywhere and never place it back, this messed up some books arrangement and make it harder to find a books. It is very obvious in 青城 booth where they bring in a lot of variety of books in a pack arrangement. Their worker always have to tidy up the book arrangement from time to time. I hope Malaysian can made some improvement, after view, put it back to the original location, make people life easy, and thus yours too. Trust me, when you make other people life easier, they will make yours too :)

要写关于槟城国际中文图书博览会，又怎么可以只有英文没有华文呢。终于，槟城也有了中文书展。虽然参加的书局不多，大约是青城，新文化，久美，商务，友谊，大将，一个 卖台湾书籍的摊位，和或许我漏了名字的。虽然不是很多书局摊位，虽然城邦没有来，虽然书籍不是多入繁星，虽然折扣不算太多。以第一次来说，我是很心满意足了。毕竟，万事起头难。要在沙漠种第一棵仙人掌毕竟不是那么容易。本身觉得单本20%，二本以上30%折扣，也蛮不错。如果5本以上40%，那就当然更好 :) 一些书摊只提供20%这口而已。台湾书比较贵，质地一般上比较好，但是我大部分的书还是从单本20%，二本以上30%折扣的书摊买的。毕竟还不是那么迫切需要阅读那些书，下次吧。虽然书中自有黄金屋，可是也需要负担得起才可以买书的。同样的价钱我可以买到二本别的书了。那就先买别的书吧 :p

展览里也有贩卖食物，略略看到价钱合理。只是值得赞赏的。有些展览的食物的价钱是让人乍舌的。吃了午餐才去的我，当然忙着吃精神粮食了。

让我失望的是，公民意识还是有很大的空间需要提升。通常我们看完书后，会放回原位，那么就不会弄乱书本的次序。当要找一本书的时候，可以很容易地根据书的品类和题目寻找。可惜，一些读者，应该是很多读者都乱乱放，随手一丢，遮住其他的书，也把书的分门别类弄乱了。青城在每个书摊都摆放了很多本不一样题目的书，提供了很多不同的选择。可惜有待教育的读者让他们的工作人员也最忙，从早到晚都要排书。也因为乱糟糟的书，我找不到一些应该有的书本。在找书的时候，也顺手帮忙他们放好一些书。希望以后大家可以比较有“手尾”，看完了，放回原处，利人利己。

其实这个情况很普遍，在服装店里很多人拿起一件衣服看了以后，就丢在那边。没有放好。他们可能想不用紧的啦，有店员会整理的。可是试想想，如果大家有手尾，店家不需要请那么多店员，货品价格就会比较低了。可能你会说，不会的啦，店家赚多一点罢了，更加’益‘了店家而已。只是我相信，如果一件货物，店家如果可以卖15元，有同等的利润，为什么他要卖20元呢？实在是有些花费是他免不了的。为什么外国的快餐厅价钱比较便宜，因为省略了服务员的人数花费。现在我去快餐厅，吃完后，我都自己处理自己的桌子。与其等待别人带头做，倒不如自己以身作则。同样的，如果大家没有乱丢垃圾，就不需要那么多清道夫，那么市政府花费比较少，还有理由要起价吗？因果循环。

希望以后每年也有华文书展，多些书摊，折扣多些，那大家也可以买多些，多一些黄金，多一些颜如玉 :p

如果你要去这个书展，现在还有几个小时，快！
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

A Summary of Melbourne trip post

阿保哥always laugh at me, a ten days Australia Melbourne and Tasmania trip took me nine months to complete :p Nevertheless, this post merely capture all my blog post link in sequence, for reader and my future reference :)

Hope you enjoy the photo and stories :)
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