The urge of reading this stories came from after watching drama "Three Kingdoms RPG". After watching a bit, I thought might as well read the whole story. But reading novel is too long and bored because there are too many poems in it. So I thought of reading the manga.
http://mangapark.me/manga/sangokushi
This manga is 95% accurate to real story from the novel. The stories in this manga start with Liu Bei as a peasant and straw shoes maker, waiting for a trader ship to buy tea for his mother.
The story continued and later on introduced the future ruler of Wei province which is known by many, Cao Cao. He is known as a genius in almost everything and expanded his influence in a very short period. The emperor at that time become his puppet and the imperial also listened to him in everything he said. By that time, only another province that can match up with his influence is Wu province lead by Sun Jian, who died in an ambush, then lead by his son Sun Ce, died of illness and then lead by Sun Quan.
As for Liu Bei, he is only ruling a small city but he had a lot of strong general and retainer that is loyal to him. The sworn brother Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are fearsome to many people. Both of them made their name famous and then Liu Bei found another loyal retainer Zhao Yun. All 3 of them are famous in their own way.
Guan Yu is the single person who protected Liu Bei's wife and slayed 6 generals to go back to Liu Bei.
Zhang Fei is the one who single handedly hold of Cao Cao's army in one bridge and then Cao Cao retreated because it seems like an ambush but it's not.
Zhao Yun is the one who marched alone into Cao Cao's army to save Liu Bei's wife and son (known as Adou and then as Liu Shan) and then come out safely.
With those loyal and brave warrior, Liu Bei just need a capable military commander who can read the enemy movement to win in war. First, he acquired Xu Shu and managed to win a war easily with Xu Shu help.
However, knowing that Liu Bei had Xu Shu, Cao Cao ordered his men to invite Xu Shu's mother to the capital and asked her to write a letter to Xu Shu to ask him to work for Cao Cao. Xu Shu's mother declined but Cao Cao managed to get one of his underling to get close to Xu Shu's mother by giving her a lot of gifts. She started to write letter to Cao Cao's underling to thank him.
In the end, Cao Cao's underling managed to imitate Xu Shu's mother's writing to send a fake letter to Xu Shu. Xu Shu believed the fake letter and resigned from his position. Before he left Liu Bei, he told him that Liu Bei should go to recruit Zhuge Liang as his advisor.
From there onward, the story gets even more interesting demonstrating Zhuge Liang's wits. They win numerous war without any big casualties. The borrow arrow strategy, the win at red cliff, the alliance with Sun Quan from Wu all made them become more and more well known. The number of loyal retainer and general working for Liu Bei increased day by day.
Soon, Liu Bei expanded his influence to Shu territory, and hence, the real war between the 3 kingdoms begin. Liu Bei of Shu, Sun Quan of Wu and Cao Cao of Wei. If you are reading this and are a big fans of 3 kingdoms, I suggest you read the story on your own.
I will stop here. Maybe I will continue writing this again someday.
Friday, October 7, 2016
Monday, September 26, 2016
Back to Malaysia after 2 months in Montreal
So this is how I feel after I come back to Malaysia from 2 months in Montreal, Canada.
- Weather is still very hot here in Malaysia. Night or early morning, it's still hot. Can't even jog for too long because getting out of breath easily.
- The air here is bad. With haze and humid air, my eyes feel itchy very often. Don't even feel like going out even at night time.
- The food in Malaysia is still nice. Cheap, delicious, oily and unhealthy.
- As usual, I get hungry faster in Malaysia... no matter how much I eat. Hahah.
- I get to do exercise that I like anytime I want to. Badminton at least twice or sometimes more in a week.
- I drink less coffee compare to when I was in Montreal. But drinking coffee might made me less hungry. So I gonna try to drink some coffee soon.
- Finally I get to speak some chinese with my friends, unlike when I was in Montreal, my colleagues talk in English, strangers talk in French and I only sing or talk to myself in Chinese.
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Industry affected by bad economy in Malaysia for year 2016
When I went to BBQ Plaza with my friends yesterday, it was bad. They are having free refill type of promotion with a flat price. Usually, there will be tons of people queuing up outside BBQ Plaza, waiting in line for their turn to eat but it's really different yesterday. When I reached, there are only less than 10 tables occupied.
Immediately I thought of the bad economy in Malaysia that cause a lot of people cannot secure a job. Some of the shops in shopping mall is closing down, doing warehouse sales, stopped operating and so on. I am now feeling very lucky, to get a decent job and pay in this new MNC company.
Since the economy is getting worse, some of the field of business is getting affected such as food industry, automotive, entertainment, furniture and so on.
Food industry is being affected when many people cannot afford to eat out as often as they used to be. More people who have no job, will think of a way to do business and usually the first thing that comes to their mind is food industry. They assume that no matter how bad is the economy, human still need to eat. However, when more and more people thinking this way, it only means the supply of food increased. In the morning, people might be able to find nasi lemak stall in every 100-500 meters. With so many supply and the demand stays the same, or should I say, the demand actually decreased because people find alternative way to cut cost such as cook their own food, buy some bread from groceries or they even become food business owner as well, do you really think it is good to start a food business? Good thing about this for consumer is, the price might stay the same or even drop a little because of the competitive industry.
For automotive industry, I always heard people complained or even some video in facebook saying that their business had declined tremendously in the past half year to one year. This is especially to second hand car business owner. They used to be able to sell 1 car a day, to become 1 or 2 in a week, or 1 or 2 in a month. I can't say this is 100% true throughout the whole Malaysia because usually the review comes from a big city where the famous car brand as Honda, Toyota and so on monopolized the whole industry. However, for rural and suburb area, the business for second hand car should still be good because they usually don't need new car to drive around and they don't want to have a 5-9 years loan with bank to buy a car. For this industry, I personally think that it is still doable but it will be risky because no one can accurately predict what will in future.
As for other fields such as entertainment, furniture and so on, it's even worse because it is not necessity for life. You can survive without entertainment but of course, it had become a necessity for people who stays in big city where stress and pressure accumulate. That's why entertainment won't really be affected in big city but overall, I believer less people will go as often as they used to be. For example, people might go to sing k or drink in a pub or bar every week or months but maybe they will only go once every few months. I used to sing k very often like once a month but in this year, it had been decreased to once every 3-5 months. The rate of me going to watch movie had decreased as well.
But of course, there are some industry that won't be greatly impacted by bad economy. Let's see if I can squeeze enough time to write that out next.
Immediately I thought of the bad economy in Malaysia that cause a lot of people cannot secure a job. Some of the shops in shopping mall is closing down, doing warehouse sales, stopped operating and so on. I am now feeling very lucky, to get a decent job and pay in this new MNC company.
Since the economy is getting worse, some of the field of business is getting affected such as food industry, automotive, entertainment, furniture and so on.
Food industry is being affected when many people cannot afford to eat out as often as they used to be. More people who have no job, will think of a way to do business and usually the first thing that comes to their mind is food industry. They assume that no matter how bad is the economy, human still need to eat. However, when more and more people thinking this way, it only means the supply of food increased. In the morning, people might be able to find nasi lemak stall in every 100-500 meters. With so many supply and the demand stays the same, or should I say, the demand actually decreased because people find alternative way to cut cost such as cook their own food, buy some bread from groceries or they even become food business owner as well, do you really think it is good to start a food business? Good thing about this for consumer is, the price might stay the same or even drop a little because of the competitive industry.
For automotive industry, I always heard people complained or even some video in facebook saying that their business had declined tremendously in the past half year to one year. This is especially to second hand car business owner. They used to be able to sell 1 car a day, to become 1 or 2 in a week, or 1 or 2 in a month. I can't say this is 100% true throughout the whole Malaysia because usually the review comes from a big city where the famous car brand as Honda, Toyota and so on monopolized the whole industry. However, for rural and suburb area, the business for second hand car should still be good because they usually don't need new car to drive around and they don't want to have a 5-9 years loan with bank to buy a car. For this industry, I personally think that it is still doable but it will be risky because no one can accurately predict what will in future.
As for other fields such as entertainment, furniture and so on, it's even worse because it is not necessity for life. You can survive without entertainment but of course, it had become a necessity for people who stays in big city where stress and pressure accumulate. That's why entertainment won't really be affected in big city but overall, I believer less people will go as often as they used to be. For example, people might go to sing k or drink in a pub or bar every week or months but maybe they will only go once every few months. I used to sing k very often like once a month but in this year, it had been decreased to once every 3-5 months. The rate of me going to watch movie had decreased as well.
But of course, there are some industry that won't be greatly impacted by bad economy. Let's see if I can squeeze enough time to write that out next.
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