There is only one place.

The journey

The sights and sounds

The depth of forest.

The spirit that lives on.

And here we are again.

In the midst of it all.

With love.

Have a great weekend. I know i will x

To have and to hold.

Just heard the craziest kinda news. Ok, screw the last post about midyear madness and change it to mid-life crisis alert because we are going to talk about weddings.

Woke up, washed up, powered up the computer, boiled water, made some tea, threw some bread in the toaster, changed, headed back to kitchen, grab tea and walked back to computer, opens Facebook and on the News Feed it was flooded with congratulatory messages. Woah.

Hold up.

Its not to me silly but to a friend. This friend is rather a friend of a friend, really nice girl who i know has been dating this guy for eons. Through FB (you will be surprise that lots of people write all sorts of things on it), i knew she was on a vacation. So how did she announced it to the world? Well, she wrote a a simple "YES" followed by numerous exclamation marks on her status and it didn't take a genius to put that with the vacation that someone just got proposed to.

Well, it's not really the idea that she is getting married at such a young age* that is the point (*young age - depends on what you think is age appropriate). Its really the bigger picture that is scary. Its reality with a capital R but the thing is she is not the first friend to get married or have a baby at my age (woah, a baby? This will be for another day) so why does it feel like a wake-up call? I guess all the reality check is happening because i am at another crossroad in my life. Reminds me so much of Green Day's "Time of Your Life" beginning lyrics which says;

Another turning point;
a fork stuck in the road.

Time grabs you by the wrist;
directs you where to go.

I am crazy excited, crazy confused and crazy everything at the same time. So many plans to carry out, so many life long dreams yet to be fulfilled and so many places to go. Well, its almost a good amount of time of life left to start something. So bring it on :)

P/S : Congrats to the happy couple. I doubt she reads this blog but it's nice to wish people happiness and love as they start their lives together x

The Second Half.

We have reached the midway mark of 2011 as of today. Its been fairly a great balance of ups and downs but more on the ups. Balance seemed to be the keyword for the first half as a good amount of work and play.

Its crazy how comparing to the last year things are now.

Things have started to pick up pace heading towards the second half of 2011. I am grateful for all the opportunities and am certain (maybe, almost certain) about what i want in the near future. Well here goes the saying "what doesn't kill you will make you stronger" and it's true. You will survive and come out glorious.

Hopefully the second half is going to be life changing and if not so, equally great as the first half. For now make everyday count x

The Good Life

My schedule for June has been absolutely packed. I understand that it is the mid-year and all but woah, this was far out. And the thing is, it was all the last minutes unscheduled things that had me on a constant go all week and weekend. I can say i am a little overwhelmed. I just came back from a short weekend away with the familia and i had just catch up on all the much needed sleep. Hence, i am able to blog abit more than i have been doing (sorry about all the filler posts!).

And there, i said it once, twice and have always have been saying it countless times that when life is good, good means busy".

So what has been going on in busy ol June

• Market Research Techniques, Strategic Marketing and Business Law classes this semester. The trifecta of subjects of all subjects. But no sweat, just tons and tons of project work, exams, presentations and no sleep. Last semester though so gotta persevere or in this case more like survive



• Our cousin Daniel from New Zealand came and stay with us for one of the weekends. Its a long story but we basically all just reconnected with our mom's side of the family last month at an Uncle's birthday after not seeing them including Daniel, his sister Rachel and his parents Uncle Peter and Aunt Ineke for 15 years (amazing stuff but will blogged about another day). It was so fun to have him around as i brought him out most of the days (mostly to eat - banana leaf rice, chicken rice, Thai food, noodles & all kinds). The sisters and i got to know him a little better and it's nice to rediscovered your family connections again!



• Celebrated 3 birthdays which was Alina's, Tasha's and Jason's - 3 different celebrations, 3 different places, 3 different nights.



• Tasha was back for the Summer albeit and earlier one. This year because she had such a short time here, we had to cram whatever plans we could have which involved lots of eating out as we tried so many different places - Ben's, Canoodling, The Apartment, Spaghetti Grill, goreng pisang stalls & more, shopping, Gong Cha (she has converted me into an official GC addict), road tripping to Seremban to meet some of her friends over yummy food, dinners at her place and just some good quality amounts of time spent. I missed you already :(



• And there was good old family time where we had a weekend family getaway over at Camerons which was as usual awesome. It was a good holiday just chilling out, eating lots of fresh food/veges/fruits, enjoying the weather, going to our fave Boh Plantation and the highlight was karaoke night at the hotel. It was funny coz we were bored at the apartment and there is really nothing much at night to do so when my sister saw a banner at the lobby stating RM40 nett for an hour, she was like "Lets go karaoke!". We were like "what?" at first but when there is a private room with 3 microphones and 6000 songs, family karaoke was crazeee fun :)

June has been not only good but great in my books. And it has come to an end. As for July, I have been looking forward to you too. Happy weekend. Till then x

Tinged Nostalgia.

Life at best is bittersweet.

Deconstructed Salad

via Sweet Paul Magazine

Closer.

The thought about endings. There are always a feeling of something tagged to it.

“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”

Have you had that feeling of being caught between being relief that something is over and done with that rush of excitement and yet being absolutely terrified that it is coming to an end?

So close that i could feel it, yet so far still.

As Time Goes Slowly By.

Welcome home.

When you're back, it always feels like Summer. I love how for all the past Summers we had, it has been always super fun, carefree and there was a fair share of the randomest things done. It has been lotsa long talks into the day, shopping trips, stayovers, drinks on the balcony and the love of eating be it lunches, brunches, teatime, snacks or dinners. Never breakfast because we are always sleeping in late. The good ol days :) I know this time you are only back for a relatively short holiday but i am grateful for the time we will get to spend together x