The Present......

......for today is a gift, that is why we call it The Present......

I am sure that a lot of people heard this part of a quote before. Well, someone tell this to me recently - not in the exact wordings but the juice is there. He thinks that I think and worry too much of the uncertainties. I guess I do to a certain extent. Although I dont consider myself as a hardcore thinker, certain things just need extra considerations, dont u agree?
I feel that over the last one-year period, I have done quite a lot of improvement in this area. I used to worry more about things that are actually superficial, of no real importance. I guess environment done the greatest impact on me.
One year of rest and relax {of course, studying involved as well ;)} in Beijing and I have to say this experience has opened my eyes to a lot of things that are actually there all along but I just somehow missed them. I am sure that all those things are there all these times, it is just that my uptight mind just didnt or maybe even refused to see them.
Take for an example, how often you wake up in the morning and appreciate the weather here in Singapore? "Where got time, must rush for work liao, late oleady."
I am sure this is the normal reaction, hahaha. No offense, I used to be in that position as well. What we do most of the time is instead of appreciating, I think cursing would be more often :p
Just say that I was lucky enough to lived in Beijing for one year and experience its 春夏秋冬, its four seasons. Where a day with a fine weather there felt like a blessing. Where when flowers started to bloom everywhere even on the sides of main roads, I felt that this is actually a beautiful world. When a friend there got sick and all of us took turn to take care of him/her. I felt that friendships are the greatest possession that we have.
Of course just like there are ugly singaporeans, ugly beijingers are lots more (bigger population, remember?) and maybe uglier. Even these make me realise that no matter where you are, all types of people exist. I just need to learn how to cope and adapt in order to live happily.
I wont say that this is an enlightenment but maybe just one more candle lit in the dark room. I wont also say that now I have no worries, hey there are always there big and small, maybe it was 1001 worries before, now it has become 999, hahaha.
Anyway, I will try hard to make it stays at 999 or even less so that I can enjoy the present even more :)

Missing in Actions.....Updates from Tibet Trip 'till Today

Whoa, I just realised that my last blog entry was on 3rd of June. It has been 2 months plus since then.
Well, let me explain why I was swallowed by the earth and couldn't update my blog :D

I was actually still in Beijing until 11th of July. But the school internet connection had somehow blocked the access into blogspot since my last update. So again, I was left out of my own blog. Sigh.... I had lost counts on how many times this incidents had happened for all the while I was in Beijing.

Then my dear brother came to visit me in Beijing - well, actually his main purpose was to visit Tibet. That's why he dropped by in Beijing because we planned to go together. He arrived in the morning and we departed for Lhasa, Tibet on the same day at night. The journey in the train took 48 hours and we stayed there for about 8 days.
In short, the trip was nice BUT I often had terible headaches because of the altitude sickness thing. I was pretty fine in Lhasa, but once we went to the lakes and mountains of higher altitudes, I could directly feel the pain in my head coming. This made the whole trip less enjoyable. And there were lots and lots of time spent on the bus going to these lakes and monasteries. Well, Tibet is a BIG province that is why from Lhasa to these tourism spots can take up to 8-hour bus ride. Anyway, this should be once in a lifetime trip. I dont think I would go there the second time - remembering all the headaches that I had. Although, I have to say that the landscape there is really beautiful - the sky is so blue, the water are so clean and pure. Like I said, once in a lifetime.... so a little bit of adversaries along the trip was still tolerable.
(Ps: If you wanna take a look at how beautiful Tibet is, just click on 'My Photos' link)

Afterwards, my bro and I took the plane back to Beijing on the 21st. What could I say, the domestic flights were delayed so bad that we arrived at Beijing 1am in the morning where we supposed to be arriving by latest 10pm. What a rotten luck. But hey, we took our time and had coffee in a comfortable sofa-seated cafe while waiting. Heck with all the delays ;P
We stayed for 4 more days in Beijing before eventually heading home.

Now that I tried to remember what I had been doing in Jakarta, I could recall anything exciting actually. Just the normal stuff after almost one year that I didnt go home. You know, gathering with family members, meeting with my friends there, visiting relatives houses, playing a bit with my nieces and nephews that have grown so much since the last time I saw them - I guess this is a subtle indication that I am old, is when you see children grown faster than you can blink, hahahaha..... That's life....
And of course, eat all the Indonesian food that I had been missing so much while I was in Beijing. Indonesian cuisine is the best! :D

So now that I am back at Spore. The next step is of course looking for a job - which I have not started yet so far. I just arrived on Sunday and yesterday, I managed to meet up with some of my friends here. It felt just like I have never left this tiny island. They are still such a bunch of funny, fun-loving people that I kept on laughing at their jokes during dinner.
I just want to say that it feels good to be back here and seeing all of you again :)