世界上最具争议的壁画榜首

吃得了咸鱼抵得了渴，用这一句话来形容当局者的感受或许并不是很贴切，但是这却是当局给我的感觉。

就如我的个子高瘦，无论我走到哪儿，如果身边有人高喊，“矮仔”或“肥佬”，我是不会有感觉的；反之，如果有人叫“高佬”，就算他是在招呼别人，我也会不期然的稍作留意，以为他是在叫我。

看立陶宛画家尔纳斯以下这一张画作，它给于我欣赏艺术的感觉；我没想到在破旧的墙角可以“看到”这两个“隐形”的乐高人物，柔佛、劫匪、乐高乐园，简单的画作，将这几个一般人联系不起来的碎片联系在一块，这就是艺术家的天马行空，而我，就缺乏了这种天马行空的想象力。

这简单的画作，看在不同的人眼里，不同的感受，而从统计学的角度分析，我可以很确定的认为百分之八十的人看了这一幅画，内心纯粹就是“好有意思”，然后在这儿拍张相片留念，证明到此一游。

然而，这简单的一幅画作，看在当局者眼里，内心不是味道，犹如有梗在喉，非得将之去除不可。为什么会有这样的感觉呢？如果没有吃咸鱼，相关的人怎么会感觉口渴？

这样的一幅画：

看在艺术家的眼中，它是艺术。

看在一般民众眼中，它是写实。

看在“好人”眼中，它是一种提醒。

看在“坏人”眼中，它是一种告诫。

看在当局者眼中，它是讽刺执法者的无能。

所以不同的人会有不同的想法，那是人之常情，可是有了想法，接下来的行动就显示了这某种人的内心世界以及这某种人内心所持的究竟是怎么的一种心态。

“轉角遇匪”以“樂高人”為主角，詢及創作概念來源時，這位街頭藝術家指出，他在新山期間問本地人，除了樂高樂園之外，還有甚麼地方值得參觀時，本地人總會告訴他：“有的，不過你要小心……”，這樣的“溫馨提醒”成為他以“樂高人”創作此壁畫的靈感。

尔纳斯。扎恰雷维奇（Ernest Zacharevic）是这副画作的作者，他也是槟城“姐妹共骑”街画的作者，“姐妹共骑”入选了英国【卫报】全球15大最佳壁画榜；今天“转角遇匪”则由于柔佛当局的介入，可能可以膺选为“全球最具争议壁画榜”的榜首了。

在这一回事上，当局给予我的感觉是不想面对现实，将壁画清楚就可将垃圾扫到地毯下，表面上营造一个”歌舞升平“的太平盛世，至于私底下有多少人提心吊胆，那不重要。

至今，壁画的下场还不得而知，但有些支持者就开始有了各种建议，目的是想要将这一幅壁画保留下来，其中一个建议就是将劫匪手中的刀子改成花束（见下图）

人人心里有一把尺，事情发展至今，结果已经不重要，重要的是这简单的壁画已经很明确的显示了目前某地的当局者对于当地人民的认识原来是那么的陌生。

我是否适合当导游

我是否适合当导游？

相当多朋友这么问我，而我一般都会反问，你觉得你是为什么要当导游？

如果那友人说是为了赚钱；我一定会说，过日子，这是一个行业，但想要赚取高收入，那是可遇不可求。

如果那友人说喜欢旅游；我则会说，你必须先了解领队和导游的不同之处，但无论导游或领队，你付钱去旅游和收费提供陪伴工作绝对是两码子事。

远处看上山一般都特别美，可是走进了，很多人都会发觉原来事实并不如远观那么吸引人。当然，就算在森林里喂蚊子，还是有些人会觉得森林里的绿色环境特别吸引人。所以，当导游，是苦是乐，完全就取决于你当导游的目的。

我近日在报章上时常留意到一则广告，聘请导游，月薪4000到10000。那是广告，它并没骗人，只是它说少了一句，几十个月月薪4000，没任何福利，偶尔有机会，几年里一次半次或许可以梦一梦月薪10000的”机会”。

导游是一份专业，没错，但他是一份”别人永远对，自己永远错”的专业，当你越专业，你就越不会觉得自己是对的，因为是服务行业，不能服务到你的客人开心你就不够专业，就算你有千万个理由，在保留原则的情况下你最好还是尽量避重就轻的别让客人感觉不开心。

当然，写了这么多，我并没有说导游行业一无是处。如果你对文化、背景、历史等有深厚兴趣，如果你很喜欢深入感受各种生活，那导游绝对是个难得的行业。

透过导游职业之便，你一定拥有很多一般人所无法感受的经验，你也会有机会碰见很多社会不同阶层的各类人物。

到达任何观光地，别人付费都只是一两次，你却免费可以在不同的季节或气候去感受景点不同的风情。

所以，别问”我是否适合当导游”，而是该问问”我是为什么想当相当导游。”

Salt make you fat

I am a jack of all trade but master of none. Whenever a Master face any problem, he will analyze with his knowledge from books, from references and from some experience.

However, when a man like me, who is not a master face a problem, he can only voice out his opinion with the experience he faced throughout his life.
 
I noticed that quite a number of people around me getting fatter even though they do not take oily food. Basically they take their food steamed or boiled. The only problem I see is they used to make the food very tasty, especially with comparatively very salty taste.

I believe in Yin Yang of life through the study of I-Ching. As such, I tends to explain whatever I observed with the theory of Yin and Yang. This universe is a world of dynamic moderation in which the Yin and Yang tend to strike a balance at all time.

The same apply to all living stuff in the world and so to our body. Every activities in our body will also based on the theory of dynamic moderation. This means that whatever activities related to our body will try to strike a balance between the Yin and Yang. Hence the transfer of material from Outside our body to Inside our body works on the law of balancing.

Assuming we drink some water, the quantity of water in the digesting system is higher than those in the circulating system (blood system). Thus based on the law of balancing, water tends to penetrate through the “membrane” and get into the blood stream. The idea is to balance up the concentration of water between both side of the membrane. Nevertheless, not all the water will get into the blood stream because the time provided is not enough.

Let assume now that we are drinking salty water. Under this condition, the water will migrate from OUTSIDE our body to INSIDE our body as per mentioned in the previous paragraph. But not to forget that the salt content on the OUTSIDE of our body (the digesting system) and the INSIDE of our body (blood stream) is also higher. even though our body will try to avoid unnecessary material to get into our body, the law of balance will still apply. Some salt will get into our body (the blood stream in this case).

As the salt got into our blood stream, the concentration of salt level increase, and this means the concentration of water is lower comparatively. to balance up the water percentage in the blood stream and the “digesting passage”, more water will get into the blood stream.

Assuming the salt content in body fluid is 0.075% (hope I do not forget this figure and get it wrong), an increase of 10% of salt means an increase of 0.0075% of salt based on total body fluid. The water content of body fluid is, says 80%, hence the same increase of 10% to balance the whole fluid concentration will be 8% increase of water base on total body fluid. Because the migrate of water and salt from OUTSIDE the body to INSIDE the body work based on the law of balance (try to get the same content in term of percentage, on both side of the membrane), and because the percentage of water in body fluid is far higher than percentage of salt in body fluid, the end result is far too much water is absorbed.

I tried to explain the migrate of water and salt from the “digesting passage” to the “blood stream”. The migration of water and salt from the “Blood Stream” to the individual tissue of every organ works on the same principle. The only reason why we do not see this migration fast is because they act one after the other and it takes time for such penetration process of material through the membrane. Thus if we take salty food for long period of time, it will finally lead to very slight increase of salt level but huge in crease in water level in each tissue. with the amount of tissues in a human body, if every tissue increase a little percentage in its water level, then one can understand why the whole body size increases.