Sunday, December 30, 2007
Okay, so i finally make another post on this pretty much dead blog to which i'm rezzing now. I'm sure if Eric reads this he'll just throw his hands in the air and say "Well finally!"
Anyways, i went out for drinks with my buds at Jesselton Point just now, and the ambiance was what i was looking for the past few days, and it was a good night. The music was great - live band. Well, it was a guy with a saxophone, another with a synthesiser, and a chick to sing.
The music was great and the group was just as good. Now as all these guys are my buddies (even if i just met one of them yesterday and the other just less than an hour earlier) and we had a good talk bout the good ol' days and how we're holding up now.
Then i had to go back, and i was gonna give Danny a lift back home, on the way out, i just realised, i should have given that jazz player a hand shake because he more than deserves it. I would have, but i was already on my way out. Then i got to talkin with Danny bout this.
The realty we discovered is that Malaysian culture isn't really that sociable yet. They don't great people in the lift as they do in western countries (of course when lift i mean their apartment lift), they sometimes don't even sya hi to people they might know. Of course, they fear that they might get the wrong person, but still, even with 100% identification, they just hold back. And as in my case, they don't strike up conversations with people they never met, but who would probably be a good person to know.
A good antithesis of this attitude would have to be my buddy Hasan. He makes buddies with anyone worthy of his friendship, and usually, he's with good comapany. If you read this bro, props...
I realise this might be a romanticed view of the western culture, but there you go, and ideal that isn't hard to make realty.
Ya'll have a good un'.
