ANDY LAU

I was bored during office hour, so I wrote article to I-Weekly again.

终于，偶像勇敢承认恋情。
虽然很爱刘德华，但一直觉得他不够大方，因为他一再否认朱丽倩的身份。即使女方默默守候了二十多年，却始终没被承认，身为女人，我为朱小姐叫屈。

其实大家都知道刘，朱本一对，但随着男方的否认，这段恋情就是少了一份肯定。还好，偶像在非常时期做出了该做的事；在爱人丧亲之痛的时候，给予陪伴，安慰，并十指紧扣，默认恋情。大丈夫坦荡荡，就该如此。我想全世界喜欢华仔的人都不会对他这样的举动有意见，起码我是如此。如果他不出现，那才真的叫人失望。

虽然做了二十多年的地下恋人，但我想朱小姐此刻的心情是欣慰的也是幸福的，因为多年的付出终得到情郎肯定。十指紧扣的动作已奠定了一切。刘，朱的爱情能走这么久，相信大家是可以感受到他们彼此那坚定的爱情。希望大家以后不要只记得专一的梁朝伟，也请记得长情的刘德华。但愿娱乐圈能多对长相厮守的情侣。

华仔，未来华嫂加油。

自闭

有两三个星期了吧？应该有。原来自我封闭是这种感觉---就是没感觉。没错，没感觉。在这些自闭的日子里，我还真的是没什么感觉，只是偶尔会想，我被遗忘了吗？但还好啦。

为什么要自闭?其实我是想提早了解孤独的感觉。毕竟人生那么长，一定会有些时候是孤独的，只是不知道是什么时候而已。早点有心理准备不见得是坏事。

我并不是庸人自扰，而是发现到很多人，事，物，往往在你自以为了如指掌的时候，突然来个急转弯，让你完全招架不了。

打个比方，你自认很了解你身边的朋友，也觉得你的朋友非常了解你，但他们却会突然之间发出你意想不到并且与你有关的讯息，即便你否决了他们的言论，但他们却自说自话，完全不把你的感受或是想法当成一回事。或许是小事，也或许是大事，但那不重要，重要的是，他们有尊重你吗？显然没有。

我很不喜欢别人对我有所抨击或赞扬，无论好坏，只要没有真凭实据，我都不喜欢。我不喜欢奉承，更厌恶指控，要么用证据，不然就闭嘴。

或许也因为背部疼痛的关系吧，让我更加想得体会孤独。因为当人病痛时，谁也依靠不了。

这些日子我哪儿都去不了，只能痰在家里，活在自己的小空间里。想不到的是在这段期间，竟然连一通朋友的电话或要约也没有。忽然领悟到原来朋友是不会存在在你病痛的日子里的。不过还好，最起码有个姐姐还挺关心我的，让我不至于觉得无助。

朋友？当我难过的时候，朋友在哪里？不约我就算了，有些还莫名其妙的不理会我。算了，我也懒得理，痛都痛死了，哪还有力气去管你干吗，发什么脾气，我没这么多精神。。。

这封闭的三个星期，让我体会到，原来不管你怎么兜，始终，留在你身边的只有一种人，那就是家人。

不管你是世上最讨人厌的人，或是大众爱的人，家人都会在你身边。什么朋友，爱人都是假的。需要你的时后才叫朋友，不需要你的时候连你叫什么都不知道。甚至，在他们莫名其妙心情不好时，可能还会把你当敌人，或是他们不爽的时候，理都不理你，即使你摸不着头绪想不通原因，他们完全不理会。爽的时候，你就是朋友，不爽的时候，把你踢到千里外。这大概就是朋友吧。

一直很依赖朋友，不过我想，而且也相信，一辈子的朋友只能存活在幻想中。基本上友情跟爱情是一样的，美丽但易碎，亲情才是淡而无味，坚定不移的。

朋友可以绝交，爱人可以分手，唯独家人对你不离不弃。我很希望自己能把亲情看得更重，因为只有他们把我当作宝。朋友都把我当成草，喜欢就来看一看，不喜欢就踩一踩，变得好没价值。我干吗作践自己。

与其摸不着头猜想朋友的思绪，倒不如孤独一点，最起码不会被人糟踏。

Eny 完成了十二星座的终极完美分析。。准到你会吓一大跳！心理測驗

天秤座(Libra)

优 雅的天平在灯红酒绿中微笑转身，顾盼神采，洒脱如同水中的鱼。他们与红酒，水晶杯，晚礼服，钢琴曲是那么的相得益彰，漫不经意的吸引着公众的眼光…… 几乎所有人都有这样一种印象： 天平座的人善意、可亲，爱交朋友。于是大家也由此认为天平是群居生物，必然是害怕独处，喜欢热闹的。 但，事实并不是表面看来那样简单。 的确，天平是个和平使者。在公众场合可以很好地调节气氛使之均衡。气氛热烈时，他们会沉静的压住阵脚；气氛冷凝时，他们会运用不着痕迹的轻松幽默化解坚 冰。总之他们不会随波逐流去助长气氛的冷热，而是像用天平称量物品一样，加减砝码，使之维持水平状态。 而他们在做这种加减的时候，动作是优雅的，态度是和悦的，看起来漫不经心不动声色。实际上，他们是很有心计的人，尽管众口难调，也可以找到一种万全的方式 来使全局和谐起来。 但是这并不是说他们喜欢主宰，只是因为他们看不得失衡，那会使他们如坐针毡。 因此，尽管慵懒的天平座讨厌麻烦，讨厌得要命，他们还是会不由自主地担负起调节的责任。也许正因如此，使得天平在公众场合从未放松过自己。性格使他们承担 了不必要的责任，无可推卸。 他们不吝惜金钱，却吝惜自由的时间和安静的休闲时光。像所有风向星座一样，他们喜欢自由，喜欢像风一样谁也捉不住他。 他们喜欢自在独立的空间。就算你是他最好的朋友，也不要老和他粘在一起，你要知道他并不喜欢如此，尽管他不会直接说出来。你也得相信，你的天平座朋友也许 半年也没有音信，但是只要一见面，你还是他最好的朋友。因为他就是这种交友方式，你拿他怎么办？ '我懒得……' 这是天平座的口头语。他们懒得出门，懒得聚会，懒得应酬……所以他们并不是很喜欢参加party。倒是宁愿呆在家里上网，看书，画画。他们自身是均衡的， 一个人的均衡总比一群人的均衡来的容易。所以他们喜欢独处。 通常，天平座的人会给人一见如故的感觉，因为他们有着温婉的微笑和优雅的举止。对初次见面的人，天平座往往表现出自己最讨人喜欢的一面：善解人意，大方， 诚恳，健谈。但是这种热情劲儿不会长久。冷漠何时到来取决于你与他交往的频率。你越是粘得紧，他就冷得越快。因为他们喜欢'君子之交清淡如水'。不是他们 不喜欢同伴，而是他们和人交往更多地关注了对方的情绪，总想着照顾对方心情，不要发生冲突，所以感觉像是在工作一样，无法真正的放松。 较之对宫白羊座，天平是另一种独立的个体。白羊是一种外在的独立，内心是热的；天平则是表面看似亲和力很强，内心却是任谁也无法融入的。天平的冷静，连他 们自己也觉得惊讶。'我居然如此冷漠！太不可思议了……'他们审视自己的时候，感觉有点陌生。那是因为他们把内心世界掩饰得连自己都骗过了。 他们控制情绪的能力太强了。最亲近的人会感觉到，天平给人不露声色的隔离感，有时会被埋怨'太冷静了，我都不知道你在想什么！' 可是他们不是故意要隐瞒什么，只是出于本能。一个连自己都骗过了的人，你还能要求他对你坦白什么？ 他们不喜欢歇斯底里，不喜欢痛哭失声，不喜欢安慰别人也不怎么喜欢被安慰。因为他们懂得，谁也无法真正理解另一个人。 天平，其实是很独立的一个星座。他们在霓虹灯影里微笑，在灯火阑珊处寂寞。他们叫你懂得：孤独的最高境界是繁华。

忘记了吗？没有。

有些人一旦住进你的心里，他就永远不会走。
时间并不会让你那被占据的心得到释放，
但却可以让你暂时忘却忧伤。

若干年后或许你会自问，他还是不是自己所要的爱？
但到那时已不重要了。
因为虽然他没有离开你的心，但你也已经习惯了怀念。
不一定拥有才是永恒，往往，得不到的才能持久不灭。

DAMN SHIT!

Please read if you don’t want to be as unlucky as me

Dear fellow printer users,

I would like to share my true and extremely bad experience with Brother (Printer) Company and hope all of you can avoid my same bad luck in future by being extremely careful with the professionalism and the accuracy of information on Brother Official Website.

I went to Harvey Norman at Funan one day to look for printer. One lady came to me and introduced Brother brand to me after I said I was looking for networking function and A3 printing function printer. She flipped through the catalogues she had and passed me MFC-885CW catalogue saying that it fulfilled my criterias. However, she said that her branch did not have stock for that model so suggested that I got it somewhere else. I was a careful consumer so I went to Brother’s Official Website to do research.

I browsed carefully on Brother’s Official Website and did comparison for the best option using its comparison tool. On the website, it stated clearly that MFC-885CW handled paper size up to A3, and from the main functions page, it also stated Print, Fax, Copy, Scan, PC Fax, Direct Print, Cordless Handset, Speaker Phone and Message Centre, thus, surely it fit my criterias. I guessed I would get a good deal this time, but surprisingly I did not.

I bought the printer from SLS, and due to weekend, the reseller which I went to was very packed and thinking that nothing should go wrong with the information on the official website, I bought the printer without asking the reseller further on the product functions. That was a grave mistake.

The official website and the lady at Harvey Norman actually misled me with wrong information as MFC-885CW did not have A3 printing function at all after I tried printing with it.

For goodness sake, mistake found on official website for an established company like BROTHER, can you believe it? THIS IS VERY TRUE.

Realising that the website had mistake, I called Brother Hotline to seek help. Guess what? The hotline actually engaged, so I had no choice but to call all the numbers which I found online. Finally, one of the numbers worked. I explained to the lady, and she claimed that there should not be mistake with their website. I asked to her to go online on the spot, and to her surprise, she found the error. She was quite shocked and promised that she would look through the problem and gave me a callback within same day. But disappointedly, she never got back the same day. I went online again and the error was straight away justified, but no one got back to me.

On the next day, I called the hotline again and after long waiting, someone finally attended to me. I repeated the same thing and the personnel said that she would get back to me asap. Same old story, no one got back to me, so I called again and more firm this time round, finally, someone called me about 4 hours later.

It was the lady who spoke to me the day before. She said that her superior stated that the only thing Brother could do was to allow me upgrade to MFC-6490CW with $100 top up, that would be its original price with the top up, which meant they did not give me any discount or anything. Attrocious! I went all the way down to SLS on cabs, the transportation fee already cost me a lot. In addition, because of the absence of A3 photocopying ability, I actually went to Hougang to photocopy my A3 documents. My time and money wasted due to Brother's stupid unprofessional error were massive, and yet Brother gave me an option with no discount or anything, what kind of compensation was that?! I was very annoyed, so I told the lady to seek for better option from her superior again.

The next day, her superior called and said Brother only willing to compensate a set of standard ink which cost $84. The superior said that I could also op to exchange with 5890 model but it was without A3 photocopying and scanning abilities. Thinking that it actually served no purpose to have machine that had incomplete functions for A3, I would still go for the 6490. Since free upgrade and getting ink cost almost the same and upgrade could cover my expenses more, I suggested to get free upgrade. Or even no free upgrade, at least provide me with free delivery for exchanging of printers, so that I would not need to spend more on transportation and look for helper to carry the heavy printers. But the superior replied with a firm NO and Brother could not do anything about it. He insisted that free ink was already alot that BROTHER could offer.

How pathetic, big company could only offer standard ink and they actually claimed it was a lot?! The superior also added that in fact I was not supposed to be compensated with anything, so a standard ink was already a gift that they had fought hard for me. I was not supposed to be compensated? WHAT THE HELL???!!!

The superior added that since I was so unhappy, Brother could help with the refund, provided it was brand new and the inks were still sealed. How could it be brand new? Of course I had opened it then realised that it could not print A3, what kind of stupid requirements for refund were that? He added that I had to go down personally to SLS again in order to get my money back. Really stupid, agree? I was left with no choice but to pay for the top up fee, because I would be dumb if I chose refund as my cab fares and time wasted would be futile.

Pathetic me, going through so much but ended up as if I was begging for compensation. Actually I was hoping Brother could admit their mistake and compensate willingly but ended up as if I was begging them. The superior's saying that I was not supposed to be compensated really drove me crazy. How irresponsible of them saying that.

Sigh, seemed like I could only count myself unlucky since Brother was not willing to do anything more apart from giving their “PRECIOUS INK”. Actually, Brother did not even bother that a customer actually going through so much, they said they could not be responsible for anything encountered by us even though their error was the cause. They kept claiming that standard ink was already a lot. “Really a lot”. Their unprofessionalism and incurracy were only paid up with a standard set of ink. I helped them indirectly to avoid more complaints but was only paid with standard set of ink.

So my friends, to avoid being as unlucky as me, please verify with the personnels carefully before purchasing anything from Brother. If not, petty Brother may just offer you ink as compensation though you are not supposed to be compensated according to them.

I am very unhappy, and I believe if you were me, you will feel the same as me, won't you? Am I asking too much from Brother? You judge.

P.S: If you are my friend, please forward this email to everyone you know. I want to expose how unprofessional Brother is and the way they handle my bad encounter with their product.

Good luck. Thank you if you forward this email.

Eny