the second day of The Apartment

A pre-written entry.

The Apartment: Day 2- a full day stay

My RRD continues.

Tonight is my second night. Internet connection is available; but I never requested it. The connection available does not last twenty-four-seven. It has certain usage limit.

I take a lot of free food, healthy home-cooked food; and I accepted to eat spicy food in spite of the fact that I do not really rejects people’s offer. Their quantity of food consumption in a day seems to be in a huge and bulk amount from my point of view. I ate whatever and whenever they eat. My stomach felt full most of the time. It might not or might be a different case if their behaviour were affected by my presence. I would never know.

Apparently, they could just drive down the road just to have some durians. I notice the level of competitiveness for businesses is very high; even a small stall by the road side selling durians is totally not an easy job. Accordingly, I observed that consumers are pickier than me; considering I am not much of a choosy person in general. I would consider this as a normal phenomena; massive and populated population comes hand in hand with a huge amount of suppliers, sellers and hence competitive market, very competitive. Meanwhile, the more choices a person has, the more he/she is demanding in terms of quality and/or quantity.

I had been continuously visiting people. Whenever they drove out and I sat in the car at night; I can see everything is just metres or just centimetres away, instead of kilometres away. I can see highly civilized civilization is just next to me. I could hardly see any dark area or any creepy dark forest. Lights are everywhere; I am in a middle of a city, a capital of a country.

I could hardly imagine of taking a lift everyday just to reach home.

Tonight was my first night where I had dim sum for supper. It is indeed an unusual experience for me. As a matter of fact, my family only take dim sum for breakfast. I doubt if there is dim sum for supper at my home’s city.

I met and talked with some new people during the dim sum supper session. People like to compare; I suppose this is an undeniable fact in life. There is only one place for winner; people just want to get something, even though they don’t get it, the only thing they can do is to compare. The need to achieve; woah, People and Organization N11603; first or second lecture on motivation, Maslow and the list goes on.

To compare with what do you have, how successful you are, what you’ve got; different people perceive different types of successes.