Some 15 minute TV interlude thing that I saw in HK on TVB Pearl and which I thought I’d share here.
Q: What is the biggest company in the world?
-世界上最大的公司是甚麼?-
A: Busy-ness
-忙-
You cannot see it.
-他看不見-
We are all busy with work (students/workers), we are all busy with life we are all busy with relationships, we are all busy with everything that we need to call and make dinner arrangements with our own parents.
The Story: There was once a busy businessman who made dinner arrangements with his girlfriend. That night, he arrived at the restaurant in a hurry, quickly and randomly ordered a dish of the menu and continued to text and talk on the phone for the whole night. The food came and he ate in hurry, took the girlfriend to a taxi so she could go home, got back to his own car and then drove back to the office to continue his work. Later on, at 4am in the morning, the man receives a call from the police to inform him that his girlfriend is missing and would like him to go to the station for questioning. The man is shocked and immediately calls his girlfriend’s parents to confirm this. The businessman arrives at the police station to which the officers proceeded to ask him questions.
What kind of hair did she have? What length was it? The man paused, hesitated and responded with “I don’t know”. What kind of clothing was she wearing last night? Once again, the man responded with “I’m not sure.” What kind of shoes was she wearing? What sort of bag was she holding? Once again, the business man said “I don’t know.” Ok, final question: did you take a look at your girlfriend last night? The business man thought about it for a while, and finally he responded with “No, not really, I didn’t look at her last night, I was too busy on my phone.” Sir, I’m sorry but the only option right now is for you to go home and wait for news about your girlfriend.
The businessman returned to his home, worried and anxious. Later that morning, the man receives a call at 7am from the police informing him that his girlfriend had returned home. The man then rushed over to her house to see her. Upon entering the house, he found that his girlfriend had short hair, was dressed nicely in a red dress and observes that his girlfriend was in fact, a very pretty woman. On that day (I think that’s what the TV person said, lol), the business man made the decision to marry her and with the promise that everyday, he would take 5 minutes each morning before he headed off to work, to just take a look at his wife from head to toe and remember every single detail about her.
My thoughts: No, I didn’t post this story up here just to bag out guys who don’t treat their girlfriends properly, nor did I post this up with any intention of implying anything bad/of that sort in BGR. I just thought this was an interesting story that prompted me to think about our own lives, how busy we actually are and how it sometimes affects our relationships with other people when it all starts “getting too busy”. We are all so sucked into the daily things that we need to do in our lives (going to school or uni or work or looking after the family etc). It consumes us, we get swamped; blinded by the things that are thrown onto us everyday.
Having been in HK for two months, it’s given me time away from my “normal lifestyle” (ie. away from the things I like doing, away from home, away from friends and family). For about a month and a half, I lived by myself with grandparents, and that gave me a lot of self time because I really didn’t have anyone in the house to talk to (lol, I can’t really talk to my grandparents for long, and sometimes there’s massive communication issues). In short, it gave me a lot of time to think and reflect on my life, how busy it was and my relationships with people and family. Over the past year, there would’ve probably been more than sufficient time for me to give some time to friends to help them or just solely have a decent conversation with and catch up, etc. However, I have claimed to be “too busy” or had “other things to do”. In addition to that, small tasks and stuff I’ve set out over the year, I’ve been too lazy to do, thinking to myself that I had something else more important to do in the meantime. In the end I never ended up getting around to it (only some) and only ended up doing other things … things that I regularly do and am able to just not do for one day and do what I set out for myself. Now that that story came about, makes me kinda reconsider how I go about doing things in the future.
I really don’t know whole proper point of me writing that today ... but anyway ...
That was ... rather long. HK update + photos will be posted sometime ... this week, depending on how unlazy I get haha. Other stuff I wanted to post might slowly make their way here ... slowly.
Last two weeks of holidays! Hope everyone’s having a great time and making the most of it, hehe. I’m … kinda somewhat looking forward to/unsure of uni this year, lol. We’ll see how it goes.
