Happy Birthday

Happy Birthdays to 

Diana and Zetty

21st and 26th January 

Bye double O 7

3X says "20 days have passed for the year 2008. I don't think its too late to welcome the new year, and bear with me while I reminisce the year 2007.

If I can summed up in one word for the year 2007, it will be - Surreal. An adjective to describe the hallucinatory quality of a dream; unreal.

For example, mid year, we had a tour to Pulau Redang, which to me is like a dream island, its really surreal. It's like being in a movie, like Fantasy Island or Blue Lagoon. That was one of the best vacation I ever had, with most of my family members together in a beautiful island.

The year also have me and my spouse celebrate a decade of our marriage. 10 years of riding the roller coaster of life together, and conceiving 3 children, bringing them up together the best way we know how. A decade of under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, which we swear to remain together in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition until death do us part (hehehe... sorry for the drama, but its been 10 years).

There are things that I am proud of and some that I am not. Last year, around mid-year, I've started "fumigating" back. Blame it on work conditions or friends dare, ultimately its my fault. After 10 years quitting, the addiction came back, not out of necessity, but from a dare amongst friends, and soon all 3 of my colleagues plus me, started back our "fumigation" business. I can't handled the standard ones though, gives me headache, I can only do the mild and strawberry flavoured "sissy" types ones. No use advising me of this bad habit, I know it myself.

Earlier part of last year, I got so much headache from our Honda Civic, but even though its old and with its constant maintenance and breakdowns, I believe it is one of best car I ever had. Driving it has been one of the most comfortable and reliable experience, and it has taken us safely in our longest journey in Malaysia. Our new Chery is brand new, and I love the big boot it has, and has become very very useful.

We got a pet cat, Dusty, which we love more and more everyday. He is the best thing that happened to us for last year. He brought so much love and joy to our family. I don't think we can live as a family without a pet from now on. WE LOVE DUSTY SO MUCH. (I post more about him in my next post).

Last year I have been praying more for other families, rather than for myself or my own family. Surreal is what I felt seeing how some family live their lives. It's straight out from a script in a movie, but played in real life. I've cried and prayed so much for them, that my own family felt my "absence"... although I am with them, but my thoughts are somewhere else. I've cried alone a lot in 2007, but not for myself, but for them.

So what can I say about the year 2008, what the future brings and what it holds. More headaches, more ups and downs, more tears and laughter... more surreal, I hope.

December Snapshots