She
May be the face I can't forget
The trace of pleasure or regret
May be my treasure or the price I have to pay
She
May be the song that summer sings
May be the chill that autumn brings
May be a hundred different things
Within the measure of a day
She
May be the beauty or the beast
May be the famine or the feast
May turn each day into a heaven or a hell
She may be the mirror of my dreams
The smile reflected in a stream
She may not be what she may seem
Inside her shell
Sad Days Indeed by Asbjorn Lonvig IT's the end of the year again.. the last day of the year where most everybody will be celebrating for the year that they had spent and look forward to the new year with new resolutions, hopes and wishes of what would be better than the last. I am never one who makes new year resolution because i know i would never follow it through.
Celebrations no, Reflections on the soon-to-be-over 2008 yes, and i do look forward to a better new year at 2009. This coming year, I decided i should be more determined after all. It's not a new year resolution but i need to vow to myself that i will work harder for myself and to have a better year than 2008.
My 2008 2008 for me is really not so kind. In fact, if i have to admit, 2008 is the worst year ever that i had lived throughout my 24 years of life. Remembering one of my fave quotation from Ally Mcbeal somewhere along the following line: "The year is a meaningful one if; when you look back, it brings you tears of joy and sadness." Indeed, this year has been a tearful one for me. If i cannot show/say it openly before, at least let me offload now, at this last day of a long, hard year.
Okie.. so what does your mum know or doesnt know? "Does Your Mother Know?" is this drinking place that I went to last Thursday with QL. It is really cool and have retro furnishing and one reason we felt really comfy there (at first) was because it was empty and quiet! Yes! We were the only customers... initially anyway. After nursing on our drinks for about an hr and half (amidst the busy snappings of pictures, chatting and opening presents), I went to the loo and realised a revealing suspicion...
My suspicions; when shared with dear QL; confirmed as pieces of puzzle start falling into place - from the name of the place, to the owner, to the increasing crowd trickling in as the night goes on and that condom vending machine in the loo. We realised (both LADIES) we were in a GAY pub! and how ironic that during Happy Hours - we Ladies were the only patrons! haha, it's a joke indeed!
Who would have guessed that i'd step onboard my previous "competitor's" product - A Royal Carribean Cruise?
Well, last Friday, I was sent on an agent Fam trip to experience cruising onboard 'Legends of the Sea", which was departing from Singapore to cruise to Penang, Kular Lumpur and back to Singapore. It was just a very short 3 nights cruise and indeed, it is different from Princess. (I am still very much a Princess supporter!) Anyway, I realised that i do enjoy cruising and i slept better than usual when onboard the ship. :)
I missed Priscilla too, my partner whom i previously went on my first and previous cruise. A cruise holiday is relaxing indeed and when onboard these international cruise ships, i do strongly recommend it for family, friends and couples as it is a good time to relax, enjoy and reconnect.
I happened to come across this on Yahoo!News this morning and thought i would share this with everyone. This somehow reminds me of my late friend(refer to previous entry) and well, we should all spread good cheer around. Have a good day ahead, guys... and... Do live life to the fullest!
Quote from Yahoo! News:
When you're smiling, the whole world really does smile with you. A paper being published Friday in a British medical journal concludes that happiness is contagious _ and that people pass on their good cheer even to total strangers.
American researchers who tracked more than 4,700 people in Framingham, Mass., as part of a 20-year heart study also found the transferred happiness is good for up to a year.
It was a shocking news. At times (even till now), it seems almost unreal. Too fast, too sudden, too unexpected.
I am sure many of you close friends must have heard me mentioned about this ex-colleague of mine previously. We did not exactly get along that well when we first started working with each other but as time goes by, we did blend together to get the job done and like each other much more from there. I am talking about Dominic, whom i used to work together with at the Cruise Department, in Pacific Arena. At that time, we just seemed like a close-knitted family in that department.
The unfortunate news came on Tuesday afternoon that this dear friend had met with an accident on his way back to Singapore and he is no longer with us. The only consolation that we had was that it was instantaneous and that at least he left doing the thing that he loved the most: that is riding his bike. It really seems unreal and to quote a friend "It's the loss of another good man in this world." How true...
Yesterday, we attended his memorial and cremation. It seems like death is swift, quick and effficient on the job as everything just seems to happen so fast without any notice. Of course, yes, life stills goes on and we will keep our unique memories of our friend (who knows how to enjoy life and does so everyday) and we will miss him as time goes by, but i guess, that just wakes people up and give that jolts on how we should treasure our lives and people around us.
That said, i just wished that Dom is in heaven and have a blissful afterlife. R.I.P.
A picture took in November 2006 of the cruise department.
The Old Guitarist, 1903
If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only.
Do not say, I love her for her smile, her look, her way of speaking gently, for a trick of thought that falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought a sense of pleasant ease on such a day.
For these things in themselves, Beloved, may be changed, or change for thee- and love so wrought, may be unwrought so.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
A Rare Talent: Artworks~
She
May be the face I can't forget
The trace of pleasure or regret
May be my treasure or the price I have to pay
She
May be the song that summer sings
May be the chill that autumn brings
May be a hundred different things
Within the measure of a day
She
May be the beauty or the beast
May be the famine or the feast
May turn each day into a heaven or a hell
She may be the mirror of my dreams
The smile reflected in a stream
She may not be what she may seem
Inside her shell
Sad Days Indeed by 
r good man in this world." How true...
