Life

Three major incidents happened to me and the people that I love, since my last entry in July. Okay I gotta put this in sequential order so you can get what I'm talking about;

Aug 27 - 31: First, my bf and I went to Bali to celebrate our first anniversary of dating! (Wow, we've been going out for a year now =D) I was so excited because twas my first time to Bali and I really, really wanted to go to Bali yayy!

Sept 4: Secondly, just few days after we got back from our Bali trip, I received a very, very devastating news from home, my uncle; my mom's youngest brother was admitted into the ICU. It was not longer than 24 hours after that, I got another call teling me that my uncle is gone. Gone. I didn't get to say goodbye to him. In fact, none of our family members back home did too. Everything happened too fast...

Sept 8: Thirdly, remember when I mentioned in my few posts ago about my bf joined a reality show called DiGi The Next Level? Where he had to be away for five-week shoot? Well, guess what? He won the competition! =D

There you go. Back to back of extreme joy and sadness. I didn't know what to feel at first or rather how to manage my feelings. I was exhilarated at one point but at another end, I just felt like locking up myself in the bedroom and cry my heart out because of the loss :'(

But I survived. Survived the emotional rollercoaster ride. A short yet long enough for me to learn a thing or two about life. A thing or two about life that would make me stronger to face another ride (who knows).

So what I learned is that; one needs to embrace unavoidable sorrow in order to understand (or appreciate) what true happiness means. It's the same thing with; one has to go through hardship before he/she could enjoy the harvest. Perhaps, this is the only way we can really appreciate life.

And no one ever say that life's going to be all rosy all the way. But hey, it's not going to be all gloomy all the way too. So, I believe the only thing to do is to live.

There is a common belief that growth requires suffering. One of the greatest causes of suffering is attachment. The more easily we can let go of the old and embrace the new, the more we can grow through joy rather than struggle.
- Sanaya Roman

***My uncle left us on Sept 5, 2010. Hemorrhagic dengue. RIP uncle::

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Chinese New Year

For the first time in my working years, I had to experience the lion dancers visiting my workplace ---the office, today. After three days off work (due to the Chinese New Year hols), our office re-opened today. Hence, we welcome the Lunar year with a lion dance perfomance ;)

The lion --- entering our office

He's now placing the good luck coin on my desk --- he's so cute! ;)

Reaching for the "ang pow" and the lettuce!

The good luck coin that was placed on my desk ;)

Call me a small kid, but I can really get over-excited over this kinda thing, still ;)

Oktoberfest @1U

Yea I know.

It's been a month since my last entry. Been really tight up with work and life (guess I'm still adjusting myself to a new routine i.e. being in a relationship and all). Not that I'm complaining, but I tend to express myself more when I was single (sobs). So since I have *Buh-bubs in my life, I'm slowly shifting my attention to other things---a more like doing-things together kinda things. Bleh.

That aside, One Utama had its regular Oktoberfest celebration on Oct 29-31. I was a first-timer to this event although I've been hearing stuff like, "you can get beers at RM1 per mug and stuff" from friends since forever. So this year, I **went all prepared for the RM1 beers, only to found out that the promo only applicable to OneCard members. And yea true, you could get beers at RM1 (2 50 cents coin) per bottle BUT it's limited to per bottle per member per day. Bluweks. Again, I'm not complaining here because for three-days we had beers like enough to feed the whole Sabah---with or without that promo.

Yea so the whole whacking beer thing was fun BUT the most exciting thing of all is, I won a Sony Ericksson handphone from a not-beer-drinking competition! Well yea the concept is as similar as the "wet t-shirt" competition, but I didn't get wet (phew) and only my opponent did (poor girl). It was a simple game i.e. we had to choose four bottles of opened beers and if we get it right, we get to pour it onto the other player. The catch was, we were told to stand far from the table of beers---so that we couldn't really see. Guess I didn't catch that because I could sense all the opened bottles from far. I call it a beer-drinker sense ;p

So yea, I won a new handphone.

Other than a lot of (imported) beers and also my newly won handphone, there were other acts as well i.e. Prema Yin, John's Mistress, ***Superbar, etc. Oh and yea, how could I forget, those silly "German" dancers. Omg. Still trying to get over them. Horrendous.

Peace.

*My bf
**I went because my bf's band was performing for the whole three-day ;)
***Buh-bubs' band


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