#2.2 Charmed

"I'm blessed."

When you're reading this, don't worry, I'm still very much alive. Life has been good to me and although it hasn't been as good as it used to be, I'm still satisfied with everything I have now. Ever since I came to Shah Alam, I began to learn more about life as days passed by. I learnt that not everyone was as fortunate as others, not everyone had a warm family to support them every now and then, and not everyone appreciated things that others had done for them.

As for me, I knew that I'd always been lucky ever since I was born. Being the first grandson in the family, so much love had been showered to me by everyone in the family. I wouldn't deny that I had always taken everything in my life for granted, especially my family and friends. I came from a big family and everyone of us had unique and different personality. Like any other family, we had family issues too and we liked to quarrel, argue and disagree with one another. Almost every day there would be a new issue and everyone would fight and a verbal conflict was inevitable, but at the end of the day, the issue would be solved and all was forgotten and forgiven. There's not one family event that did not involve all the fights and arguments. We often wanted to kill one another but we all clearly knew that we would be utterly lost without one another. They always let me make my own decisions, let me chase my dreams, and let me do things that would make me happy. They made me strong and encouraged me to believe in that strength. And they made it clear that if anything went wrong, I could always go home and they would always be there for me.

Family that can never be replaced.

My life would never have been completed without all my friends. I found my group of friends in high school, another new group in Adelaide. We did practically everything together. In high school, we always hanged out in malls together, watched movies together, burnt the midnight oils together the night before the exams, had sleepovers, travelled together and the best part was talking about sex issues and made dirty jokes unashamedly. In Adelaide, there was a bunch of ass monkey friends that always be around and gave me all the great memories that I would cherish forever. We went to the same college together and although we studied in different classes, the bond we formed grew stronger as each day passed by and seriously, I really felt more like family than friends and it seemed like we had met for a century rather than just a few months. We visited so many places together, had picnic by Glenelg beach, watched the most beautiful sunset at Henley beach, picked strawberries at Beerenberg Strawberry Farm, teased one another about the subjects we had chosen (Still Biology rules and a big BOO to Physics, haha) and always had lunch together. I have always wondered what I had done to deserve such awesome friends. So, I wanted to say a BIG thank you to all of them. You all have certainly left a significant footstep in my journey of life. I missed them so much and I would never have made it to today without them. And of course friends in INTEC were just as great especially all the 10M10 friends (sorry for being an irresponsible class rep), all the Christian friends, my roommates and of course the cheerful JiChing, cute but grumpy Sin Hui, and helpful ChienChoong.

Bestest friends in High School. (Many were left out)

Bestest friends in Adelaide. (Some left out too)

Friends in INTEC.

Speaking of life, I had always pondered and wondered what life really was. Recently, I got a quote from a movie saying that "Life is a climb, but the view is great." It's very true and HuiRen asked me what if he fell into a deep valley. I told him that he just had to pick himself up and climb back up again. Yes, life's as simple as that. We would meet all kinds of people in life, some would make it brighter and some would let us down, and when that happened we just had to pick ourselves up and move on. However I think that my life now is about love, friends and family as I won't know what I would do without them. And now everyday I am growing closer to Christ and His love and faith to all of us are just so amazing. I don't have any dreams now (about ambition) but I know that I would figure it out one day. I have a family to love, friends to turn to when I'm tired, and Christ that's always there for me. This is what dreams are made of to me.

I'm really blessed and lucky. Charmed? I'm sure.

Currently
listening to: The Climb by Miley Cyrus
watching: Gossip Girl Season 3
reading: Crayon SinChan