Bravo bravo, to an extremely fulfilling day.
I'd really like to thank everyone for remembering my birthday, and sending me simple but heart-warming messages. I think the fact that the effort taken to remember the day and send a simple sms alone, really melts my heart.
For all the simple delights, big and small, they were all so thoughtful.
Thank you all, so very much.

Someone once asked me if I ever felt it a pity that my birthday happens to fall on a school holiday, since it's easily forgotten, and people don't usually take the trouble to get a gift at all, when the gift can't be passed to me on the actual day.
Well, I don't think so, because here's one person who finds it a great challenge herself to remember birthday dates! It's really such a wonder how names, birthdays and related infomation about people around me seem to slip through the recesses of my mind like jelly on a fork!
In my wildest dreams, I imagine possessing halogram-glasses. So that when I wear this glasses, an infomation bar hovers over the heads of everyone I see, and tells me the names, the birthdays, the favourite ice-cream flavours and all the rest of a treasury of simple but precious infomation that means a lot to me.
It's so easy to forget a bunch of numbers that signifies a day in a 365-day calandar that means something special. So it's especially sweet for me, when someone shows he/she cares, just by remebering. =)

As usual, I spent the first 15 min of my new year thinking about where I am, who I am, what I treasure, and where do I go from here.
So many things came flooding to me, and I realise the past year has been the most challenging, out of all 15 I can say to have been previledged to go through.
But the past year has also been one of unprecedented growth, both within myself, and in the things around me.
I am greatly blessed.
So much have changed too, and as I take a fresh look at my world through re-newed lenses, I realise that I have done little, and there's much more see, much more to touch, smell, taste, hear.
And I am excited, to receive 3 new challenges.

Firstly,
and utmostly, I need to find pillar in my life. I don't want to go gadding about the world for all my life, doing everything, but accomplishing nothing.
For wise is the man who gazes at the stars all night, and discovers the twinkling dance of their shimmering,
but foolish is the one who counts each and every sand grain on the beach, yet sees nothing but dust and grime.
I want to make God and my family the focus and pillar of my life.

secondly,
I want to become more self-aware and develop my inner self to be more resilient.
The greatest of strengths come from within.
This year has taught me one great lesson: To change others, I must first change myself.
It is only when I am sure of what I stand for and who I am, that I can hope to make the slighest of a difference in the world around me.

Thirdly,
I want to have big and ridiculous dreams.
Thank you, Mr Boy for another inspiring CT session. The greatest chains that pin me down are those that I fasten upon myself through my fears and my expectations.
Too many a good opportunity has slipped past me because I doubted and restrained myself. This year, I shall learn, not only to flex my wings, but open new doors with a wide open heart and mind.

Here's the video clip that Mr Boy's shown to us.
It's about this guy who's always suffered from low self-esteem. He's a handphone seller who decided to overcome his fears and try out "Britain's got talent."
This decision has changed his life.






The lyrics are in Italian,
here is the translation: (Beautiful)


But my mystery is locked within me,
no-one shall know my name!
No, no, I shall say it as my mouth
meets yours when the dawn is breaking!

Vanish, o night!
Fade, stars!
At dawn I shall win




"Sometimes we restrain ourselves even before the world restricts us."