happy niu year

I feel more collected today. Read tons of travel stories online today and had me all geared up to plan for my next trip(s)! I’ve also plotted all the public holidays in my calendar and possibly making weekend trips to Jogja for my 2nd tattoo, weekend shopping at Bangkok, or beach bumming at Phuket. These are the perks that comes with working in an Airline – staff price on ticket purchase! And the good news is, we can now enjoy staff price on AAX as well! :D

It’s the first day of Chinese New Year and I am looking forward to meet my Singapore-model-wannabe-cousins. Can’t wait to get my hands on epoxy glue (how come we don’t have these in Msia?) and start zhng-ing my phone haha.

I am also excited about the Japanese Beginner’s class that I’ve registered with YMCA. Ah yes, finally all the talk about learning a new language has materialized. I’ve chosen Japanese language for very simple reasons. I’ve taken Japanese Beginner’s 7 years ago and it’s time to brush up my language skills instead of letting it go to waste. It’s a shame that I can’t hold a good conversation with the Japs on my travels. Some of the guys are really cute! haha

Anyway, here’s to good fortune and lotsa travels in the year of the OX! Happy new year!

it

Been a roller coaster ride for the past couple of weeks. I’ve stocked up so much anger it’s just a matter of time before I start throwing my hand phone. Sometimes I wonder why I tolerate ‘it’, do ‘it’ and believe in ‘it’. Is it worth ‘it’? I don’t know…but I do know is that, ‘it’ will come to an end too. Not today, not tomorrow. And when ‘it’ does end. Something wonderful shall begin.

the new Beginning that comes after the End

Until this evening, I was still feeling pretty crappy. I was mad at a lot of thing. Mostly about clueless and stupid people. But I’ve had enough of that now. I AM better than that. And I have nothing to fear.

Despite all that emotional turmoil, I would never waste a weekend staying at home drowning in misery. Watched ‘Yes Man’ which was surprisingly entertaining. Fell in love with Zooey Deschanel’s fringe and went over to Aizuddin’s to get one for meself. But didn’t have the eyes to pull it off and now looking like a cross bred between Mongolian and Chinese hahaha! (which is not attractive at all!)

On top of that, got a hair manicure (whatever that is!) which gave me shining, silky smooth hair :p Also brought 2 books on Digital marketing and Mobile marketing. I all psyched up! Aaah…the effects of books on me.

Reminder for me:
A lot of things happened without our control. I can’t change the world or how people think. I can blame circumstances, bad choices or bad timing. Or I can choose to do something about it. Fight my way through, do my best and Trust that only good will come out from this experience.

The end, is never truly the END. But it had to come for the new Beginning to happen.

rub ‘em off

This is killing me and I don’t like the state I am in right now.

I don’t think I am cut out for relationship at all… I am too comfortable in my solitary way and I don’t think I am about to trade my freedom of thoughts, movement, dreams to just a man.

I need to erase this bit of memory that I have.

Soon…

2009

I have a pretty good feeling about 2009. Perhaps, I am just being over optimistic. Which, to me is never a bad thing. If we have the choice to choose good things over bad, why choose the latter? Right?

2008 was a great year for me. I traveled quite a bit, picked up photography, got my dream job and reprogrammed me to have an unwavering belief in myself and the things that I want to accomplish.

In 2009, I will continue to travel in the hope to understand humanity in general and do things that I have always wanted to do. Like, getting inked. Haha!

I am also gonna learn a new language; sign up for Japanese language at YMCA, get my own apartment in June and start hosting travelers from couchsurfing.com :)

Isn’t being alive great?

nautical star

This is what happened when I had too much to drink on New Year's Eve in Jogja!