Happy Chinese New Year!

Happy Chinese New Year everyone!! Let's welcome the year of the Dog into our lives with good wishes and best of hopes!!

Unlike the 'english' new year, for Lunar New year, we will never say that we are making resolutions, or starting a new life. We will more likely talk about the preparations to welcome the lunar new year, the reunion dinners, the redpackets and meeting up with relatives and visiting one another.

As for this year, it will be the same as any other year for me, except that I am unable to be back for reunion dinner and I can only be back home for the first day of lunar new year. On the second day I would have to go back to work. So my friends, please forgive me for my inability to go around visiting the few of you. Maybe next year. Haha..

As the fengshui masters said, this year will be a good year for most of us. So let's just make use of this opportunity to make the best out of this year 2006 and the year of dog. I know I will do so. Haha..

P.S. Don't forget to collect a lot of angpaus!!

Greed

Just when I’ve begun to settle down with my so-called ‘new’ and simple lifestyle, I met up with an old friend. After spending a few hours with him, the conversations with him reminded me of how strong-minded I was last time. It also triggered that crazy and giddy greed that once resides in me. The greed for money, status and power that monopolize my life not too long ago, is now slowly resurfacing again. I am beginning to be afraid of myself again. The evil greed that can cause me to trade time for money, friendships for status, and love for power is starting to envelope itself around my cold little heart.

I was actually thinking of returning to my religion, as someone that is devoted to having a peaceful and decent life. But then, the meeting this old friend fires up all the greed I used to harbor inside of me. The greed to be the best and most successful person is so much of a temptation that I am slowly drowned in the giddiness of pursuing it. Betrayal and lies comes together as a package. But I love it. Have I become so obsessed with the need of money, status and power that I no longer care for anything or anyone else?

To have a better lifestyle, to be able to say that I’m moving forward and having more every year, it means to have to win every rat race that is thrown to me all the time. I have to climb every ladder, every mountain that is in my path. I used to tell myself back in those days when the greed was engraved in my heart that ‘there is no where else I want to go but upwards, above everyone else’. There is no space for failure, no time to sit and wail for help. That was exactly what that has happened to me. I have fallen really hard and I have lost the will to stand up and run again. I have chosen the road of just sitting and watching others passes me by.

My dear friend, I could not express more gratitude to you for waking me up. Even though the time spent with you was short, but you have just push me back into the race of greed. It might take me some time to adjust back to the old, harsh me, but I will be back. Even though I am now only kneeling by the roadside, but I am no longer sitting down. One day I’ll be running fast, even faster than you in this rat-race. I will make my come-back so unbelievable that you would have to ‘kutow’ me. Watch out, my old friend, don’t slack in your steps else I’ll be overtaking you.

London

This should be a really really short post. I have another hour to go before rushing to the airport to catch the plane back to KL. Just got back from London an hour ago. Not too bad, but cold and tiring.

The hotel that I stayed in London is really, really cool. Not much time to really elaborate much. Please feast your eyes on the pictures.

Cheers!~

Phuket 2005

Recently I have been engrossed with my photoshop application. I wonder what's happened to me. But anyway, let's not stray from the main subject.

I went to phuket for four days before christmas. We had so much fun just by doing silly things and walking the streets looking at 'girls'. But the weather was not really good on the second day, because the sea was so rough, the wind was too strong for us to go snorkeling. So we ended paying about 200 ringgit for 30mins of snorkelling and bumping in the speedboat trying to get to the next island the whole day. What a waste. But better than none.

The photos are roughly the summary of what we've done there. Nothing much, just feel like compiling them and stretching my photoshop skills a little bit. (I know I still need to improve my design skill..) FYI, the guns we're holding are real guns. I dun remember what model joshua is holding, but mine is a .42 (or was it .46?) caliber (if i'm not wrong). Shooting was fun. With my lousy eyesight I only managed to get 8 out of 100 points. Haha..

Next destination, Gold Coast, babe?

Happy 2006

First day of the year!!

Happy New Year!


Hugs and kisses!! May this year be another year of endless blessings for everyone!!

Yesterday I have the privilege of being one of the few who celebrated 2006 ahead of everyone else in the world. I celebrated my new year in christchurch. Some of you might have noticed the early messages I sent to you guys earlier that day. :)

That said, I just want to wish everyone a great year ahead!!

Love y'all!!