I called my sister earlier. Saja bersembang. Ada benda yang nak dibincang.
Pastu bersembang fasal what’s going on with our life. My sister talked about this book by Florence Littauer entitled Personality Plus: How to Understand Others by Understanding Yourself. Dari ceritanya, buku ini seperti seangkatan dengan Allan and Barbara Pease: Why Men Don’t Listen and Women Can’t Read Maps. Iaitu sepatutnya lebih kurang sama dengan buku Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus yang aku tak pernah baca.
Ini semua buku sosiologi dan psikologi.
But this kind of books are well interesting. Sebabnya dia menceritakan tentang perihal manusia. Bukan dari segi bintang atau zodiak, tapi just perbincangan secara umum. I personally think that one should be reading at least one of these kind of books. Just for self improvement.
Penting untuk memahami diri sendiri dan orang lain. Oh, buku He’s Just Not That Into You juga bagus untuk dibaca, walaupun isi dia berulang-ulang dan latar budaya dia lebih merujuk kepada budaya barat. Tapi isi dia tetap sama untuk aplikasi sedunia.
Misal mudah ialah pengalaman aku dengan beberapa orang rakan-rakan perempuan (saja nama mereka dirahsiakan, keke).
Pada pagi itu, kami hendak pergi berjalan-jalan. Lebih awal sampai, lebih baik. Tapi aku cakap, ‘take your time’ walaupun aku sudah siap awal. Sebabnya mudah. Kerana biarlah mereka ambil masa untuk get ready, make up segala daripada dirush-rush dan nanti tudung tidak betul, ini tidak kena dan mereka akan cranky sepanjang hari.
So, I would say that I’ve learnt that from my experience, and also from books. Buku Why Men Don’t Listen and Women Can’t Read Maps tuh banyak gak point out perbezaan tingkah laku lelaki dan wanita disebabkan fisiologi yang berbeza. Man are generally cranky when they are hungry.
Once I advised a friend of mine, it is not just merely hungry. They are not going to be a good listener when they are watching something (football for example, reality tv stuff in my case), stuck in a traffic jam or tired after coming back from work. So, if you are married to them, avoid talking big matter stuff during this period. So, discussion about how much he loves you, or big relationship issue is a no-no at this time. Stuff them up with food and ice-cream, then they gonna be fine. Tak percaya tanya Kam (about the ice-cream).
Oh, asking (or busy bodying) about relationship during sickness is not helping either, but I think you don’t have to read book to know that. That is a common sense, aite Zeah?
My sister points out about my personality from her reading. She said that I’m ‘melancholy’
From wikipedia, it define as ‘Melancholy: This is the mental-type. Their typical behaviour involves thinking, assessing, making lists, evaluating the positives and negatives, and general analysis of facts.’ She said I like to plan stuff and perhaps rakan-rakan perempuan di atas can testify it, keke.
I’m gonna go and try to get that book tomorrow. Malangnya takde kat Durham Uni library. Tapi buku Allan and Barbara Pease tu ada kat library USM.
For me the reason of reading such book is for self improvement. Also to perasan-perasan sendiri like I know a lot while human behaviour is sometimes much more complex than what we read. But reading helps though.
Once, a friend of mine called me. Ask for an advice in relationship. This guy is giving mix signal. She confronted him through emails but he gives no response back. The problem is I sense that this girl is calling me, for me to be her support system, to say that it’s gonna be alright and such. But I have the sense that this guy is not into her. Pening kepala otak aku nak menerangkan.
So ladies, please: read this kind of books. It helps! And don’t call/message me for relationship advice. I’m too nice to tell the truth. Or perhaps I should just tell the truth and break your heart on his part?
Guys: It’s okay if you don’t read it coz we just don’t care, aite? Shove some food in our stomach and we’ll be happy;)
P.S: Entri kali ini tidak ada metafora, walaupun macam ada. Honest!