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Read this book called Blackwater, quite sometime ago. It's about the founding of a powerful private military company, based in USA, led by a rich businessman and former US Navy SEAL Erik Prince, and it writes about its rise and falls throughout the turbulent years of early 2000s.There's an exceptional quote inside, which I'd like to share."The lion wakes up in the savannah in the morning, and knows that it's gotta run after the gazelle, or else it'll starve at the end of the day.""The gazelle wakes up in the savannah in the morning, and knows that it's gotta run away from the lion, or else it'll be dead at the end of the day.""Moral of the story is: whether you're the lion or the gazelle, when you wake up in the morning, you'd better start running."Nothing like a good morale booster in the morning. Off to work! *rawrs* Haha.
Waiting for the return flight, one year later.
Today I saw Karma at its wicked best.A week ago, I was falling ill. After the remonstrations from my Starhub colleagues, I finally went to see a doctor. He did his stuff, prescribed medicine, and the total bill came up to $45.I told my colleague, Xinhui, about this, and she exclaimed,"WAH so expensive! Where got so expensive one!"Three days later, she ate something wrong (presumably), had an upset tummy for the next few days, saw a doctor and took a few days MC.She came back today and told me her bill added up to $75.I laughed at her. "See, that's karma!"I went home after knocking off, developed a huge headache, and had to see the doctor again. Apparently the vestiges of my sinus problem hadn't cleared, so Dear Ol' Doc had no choice but to give me another round of pills.Bill: $25Total bill: $75Lesson: Never laugh at anybody too much.I realise I'm good at organising farewell parties, but I'm not good at saying goodbye.
I've always been a fan of watching sunrises and sunsets.When I was a JC kid, I had the habit of going home around 5-6pm in the evening. As I climb down the last flight of stairs leading to my home, I'll usually have the chance of catching the sun's dying moments in the day.Using my camera handphone, I captured many of those pictures. My favourite kind would be those that occur after a typical Singapore late afternoon shower; I'll describe it as a bloody orange hue, slowly spreading over the backdrop of cloudy ridges.Sadly, I somehow lost the memory card containing all those pictures, and till this date I still cannot find it. =(Just around fifteen minutes ago, I woke up to a moody black sky. I made my usual cuppa, and when I turned around, there was a sunrise, right out of my window.It occurred to me, it's been a long time, perhaps way too long, since I saw a sunrise.So I pulled up a chair, sat right by the window, had my quiet coffee and watched pinkish blob of warmth and light greet a new Tuesday morning, my five minutes of sunrise.To me, the funny thing about sunrises and sunsets is that, they seem to last an eternity when you look at them and marvel at their colours.But all you have to do, is to take a sip of coffee, do something else or even just to close your eyes for a second, it seems as though to have moved on, to have taken another form of their own, speedily reaching the end of its fleeting lifespan.I can't help but think of it some what reflective of the life that I have.I'm sure there are times we spent, where you felt sure that this is the lifestyle you want to lead. Like those moments in secondary school, fooling around in the gardens of Chung Cheng High, or the period in TJ during volleyball training sessions.But just when you thought you had a hold of it, you turn around, you do something else, or you close your eyes for a mere second, and it's gone.Somehow, I learnt in these two months in that such moments are fragile, and I got to live more in the moment, and stop worrying of what lies ahead for once.Or at least during my five minutes of sunrise.
