Legacy & Reflections
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First World Hotel Genting
According to www.piramindwelt.com, Genting’s First World Hotel was opened in 2002, it wasn’t there the last time I was an underage trying to get into Genting’s Casino back in 1999. Anyways, the First World Hotel is this huge 6000 over rooms colourful building. I paid for a Standard room over the Merdeka (Independence Day) holidays, only for RM95 room only package. The hotel is huge with a gigantic lobby, so big you can’t really check in at the counter. Guests have to check in using some automated machines with their MyKad and the keycard to the rooms pop out of the machines. You don’t get any personal services at this…
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A little that helps
My Worldvision child has grown so big! It must have been a couple of years since I signed up for child sponsorship with Worldvision, and had been sponsoring only RM50 a month to this girl, Koem Theary. The money goes to Worldvision’s project in building the community which she lives in, in Bati, Cambodia. WV helps in building schools, providing medical support, teaching them livelihood and so much more. With more people’s help, Cambodia will see a totally transformed next generation. I received Koem’s pic recently and a report of her health, her education, her family etc. She writes to me in Khmer and it gets translated. I beat myself…
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Levels of Communication
I had counselling today and learned about levels of communication. Apparently, there are five levels of communication humans use to talk or not talk to each other. Level One: Cliché Conversation. Phrases like “How are you?” There is no personal sharing. Level Two: Reporting the Facts. We are content to tell others what someone else has said. We tell the facts as known by others. We do not commit ourselves as to how we feel about them. Level Three: Ideas and Judgments. We are willing to risk telling some of our own ideas and opinions. If we sense that what we are saying is not being accepted, we retreat. Level…
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Airwick ads
Local TV has been showing this Airwick UK Ad where a housewife elephant showed us how to use Airwick’s automatic spray. The advert on our local TV has been dubbed over with our local accent and shows an elephant cleaning her house and finding a dirty pair of shoes belonging to her son, who is a centipede. She proceeds to throw the shoe into a closet full of smelly shoes and Airwick supposedly helps to minimize that smell. I actually found this advert disturbing for the fact that an elephant can have a centipede as a son, with a picture of a giraffe hanging on the wall even, assuming that’s…
