What I dislike most about Valentine's Day and Chinese New Year.....

         It's 14th February again, the day where people spend tons of money to please their loved ones, Valentine's Day used to be a day where people express their affection to their loved ones. What I dislike the most about Valentine's Day now is the comercialization of that day where all the restaurants and florists charge exorbitant price to their customers. If a girl really love a guy, why would she want the guy to spend beyond his mean to please her? Whereas the guy can actually spend a small portion of the money to buy her flowers and dinner on any other day. Its the thought that counts, right? You can just express your love on any other day, not just that specific day.

         As for Chinese New Year, a holiday where most people will enjoy. To be honest, there's really nothing much I hate about it, I get to meet my cousins and spend time with them, and the best is the Angpau's, who knows how much you will get? Full of surprises. I guess the thing I hate the most about CNY is the blazing hot weather, it's funny why the weather is always so hot during CNY. It's too bad that my grandpa's house does not have any air-conditioners.... :(


Happy CNY!!!

23rd of October

Just googled my birth date in Google(obviously...), I'm astonished to find so many historical events that happened on this date. Didn't know that I share the same birth date with famous people like Pele, the world greatest football player, Ryan Reynolds, a famous actor, Weird Al Yankovic, a very famous parody singer(isn't that weird?) and etc. Some of the very important historical events that happened on this date were :

1642- Batlle of Edgehill (Warwickshire) : King Charles I beat English parliamentarian forces

King Charles I

 In the end, he lost the English Civil War, executed in Whitehall, London - but wore an extra shirt because he did not want shivers due to the cold to be misinterpreted as fear.

1917 - Lenin speaks against Kamenev, Kollontai, Stalin & Trotsky

Vladimir Lenin (Marxist Revolutionary and Russian Leader)

 He consolidated power through imposing censorship and authorising the 'Red Terror'. A series of strokes led to his death in 1924. St Petersburg was renamed in his honour and his body embalmed and placed on display in a Mausoleum in Red Square.

1941 - Walt Disney's animation "Dumbo" released

Walt Disney (Animator)

Yay! It's one of my favourite cartoon during my childhood, didn't know it was so long ago before I was born though... 

Did you know?

Tornado (possible T8/F4) strikes the heart of London killing two and demolishing the wooden London Bridge on 23rd October 1091.

MOOD?

What is mood? Mood is a generalized internal state of feeling. It is closely related to the concepts of affect and emotion. For example, imagine that you are meeting up with your friend to watch telivision and hang out at his/her house(Why? Because it's fun). You notice that he/she has been frustrated and depressed. You ask him/her how's he/she is doing, but you are replied by him/her angrily, and then you appologize and he/she calms down. This situation shows negative mood which can manipulate how individuals interpret and translate the world around them, and can also direct their behaviour. Negative moods can also affect an individual's judgement and perception of objects and events. So, let's not be angry, frustrated, depressed every time and make the world a happier place cause not much benefit can come from being negative.

he/she,him/her (gender equality)

Stay happy but serious sometimes...