Monday…
Sitting alone in Whittard of Chelsea coffee bar in the
I don’t feel like a student anymore…It’s weird…Throughout the course of the last 11 months, I have been flying so much, across the Atlantic to and fro twice, transiting at Japan, Detroit, now Bangkok and within the United States, so many times that I have sort of lost count…Sitting here now and typing on my laptop alone while trying to ease through a 7hr transit period, I feel more like a business traveler instead…
It kinda feels surreal right now…The past 2 weeks have been absolutely wonderful, having been able to reunite with my beloved family again…and with mj…
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Well, happy times always seem to pass by so fast….Here I am, 2 weeks later, mission accomplished (w
ith regards to the business plan competition, which I will announce the results when I arrive back in the US), main objectives met (spending quality time with my family and mj), business goals achieved (business matching meetings with German solar company delegates and talks with my friend about his business idea partially completed), social life goals partially met (gathering with 2 main cliques, my WiseUtd bros and EE bros and sis =p, and also to speak with several friends)….
In all, these 2 weeks have been really hectic in terms of my schedule…I have had at least a meeting everyday….on the busiest day, I think I had 4-5 meetings at various venues…I’m glad I somehow, by divine intervention, managed to achieve the most important objectives I have set for myself for this trip back…
In retrospect, I really wish I could have more time with my family and mj…I am greedy in this aspect….but I am really looking forward to seeing all of them again in 4 and 7 weeks respectively…
Sometimes, life is indeed strange…When I left the
This one year is just phenomenal…I wonder if my family and friends will be able to understand how I feel or what I have had to go through….as well as the kinds of experiences I have undergone…Cos I might even take some time to walk down memory lane and rethink about all the different experiences…
At the very least, I certainly think I have not wasted this one year…In fact, I personally feel that I have accomplished quite a bit….Pardon me if I am saying all this in an unabashed fashion…but I think I do want to give myself due credit for my hard work and diligent work ethics….Allow me to self-indulge in a brief few mins of ego stroking… =p
Right, I do feel that I certainly have done enough and accomplished enough to make my family, mj and friends proud of me…
However, I do not at all feel that I am successful yet…Well, the definition of successful can be pretty subjective, but I would like to think that I am on course to eventual success; however, I do have a lot more to do to reach there….
Career is at best ranked third in my life’s priority…
Number one will always be my family, and now, mj as well…
Number two will be myself…
Number three is kinda close I guess….I want to strike a balance between friends and career…both are important to me….so probably, they are equally ranked… =p
A lot of my friends might think that career is the most important to me judging by the way I work…but that is not at all true…
the main driving forces behind this is cos of my top 2 priorities, especially for my family and gf….I wanna be able to take good care of them all…now and in future…
Having said that, I hope I can achieve success myself in my career and human principles…I have always loved volunteering and helping those who deserve to be helped…So, I will try to go back to do some voluntary work from next semester onwards…
On the other hand, I really do want to see my friends succeed too…
Seeing them succeed and achieve some kind of successes really puts a smile on my face, and in fact, further motivates me….
Alone, there is a threshold of how successful we, as an individual can become….United, we will be a force to be reckoned with….
and it is the latter which I am more in awe of…
My vision is that of my close friends and I sitting at some luxurious, upmarket, high-class bar in one of the most beautiful places in the world (maybe
I believe that can happen…. =)
Back to the belief that the tougher the obstacles, the more glory in overcoming them…I seriously think that is true…
However, I have promised my family and mj that I will cut myself some slack in this final month of this one year journey….
Actually, I do still have a lot to do…but at the very least, I won’t add on any more workload other than my present commitments….
which are my business case, my academic work, my office work, my fyp business research stuff (which by the way is going at a pace much faster and smoother than I had expected especially with regards to the contacts I have attracted; quite a number of people have contacted me on their own accord expressing their interests in some kind of discussion, brainstorming and collaboration)….
My other free time will be spent on planning the itinerary for my family trip…and also to spend more time talking to them and mj during this final one month…
Of course, friends have always be in my plan…and I want to spend more time talking to my closer friends too…
I was glad that on this trip back, I was able to meet up with a few close friends, listen to them, sharing each of our stories and thoughts, and I think I was able to dispense with some sensible advice….hope they had helped… =p
One of the things I have been happiest about is the fact that my mum really likes mj and that her family likes me too….
And of cos…we feel so much for each other in all aspects…
Well, I have been really really happy with her…So far, she has seemed to be able to fill up any voids that were in my life…
Let me give a clearer elaboration…let’s see….I shall give some illustrations…
She really makes me feel so appreciated…
I believe I take real good care of her…but she does the same for me too…and that kind of feeling feels so so great because what I do is being appreciated and reciprocated…Most importantly, I can see that she had been really happy when I pamper her…and shower her with love… =p
Alright, lemme go to the details…
She gives me early morning calls even when I’m waking up earlier than her…When she hears that I might have a slight cough, she buys herbal tea for me…when in fact, I did not even realize myself that I was coughing…
I made a casual remark about wanting to go eat sushi sometime soon…and she made it for me to eat….I was really touched when I got that box of sushi…it was incredible…I think my heart just melted…
Even though this is still in the honeymoon stage, I really do think that it is still pretty incredible…I am pretty amazed….
Everything’s going really well on top of what I had just said….and I seriously hope it will stay this way…
Another about 5hrs to my flight…I am going to pay up at the counter to get the login information…not too cheap….but well, I have to get online…. =p
And again, I get the feeling that I have missed out on some things which I wanna talk about….but well, I guess I just have too much to say…
I reali do want to get online now already… =p
miss ya all…
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