some thoughts and reflection

the passing away of a friend kind of made me realised some things. One day you might be the wealthiest person in the world but the next day everything is still gonna turn into dust. when I say wealth, I don just mean money or fame but everything that is possible such as love, family, health and friendship.

we have been constantly reminded that we must live our lives to the fullest and not live in regret. to cherish your friends, family, love and even yourself and not take them for granted. So much has been told but how many off us can really practise what we preached. most of time people tend to pass it off that we'll find time later, but apparent, later will never come. Procrastination.

David has taught me 3 things about life.
We need to take care of ourselves and to look after our own health. The health of our family and friends and loved ones is paramount too. One has to take good care of your body in order to stay healthy so as not to make ur loved ones worried about you. To also be healthy so that you would have the strength to look after the people around you. to be healthy so as to be able to complete whatever dreams that you have. To be healthy to simply enjoy life.

My dear once mentioned to me that Life is like a journey on a train. the pasengers on board are akin to the friends who will be with you on board this train. At this moment, they may be with you onboard, but you never know when their journey with you will stop. sometimes their journey will terminate while you are still continuing your own journey, sometimes they will alight to board another train and embark on their own journey. How apt. However, there are times that we can choose to alight our own journey and choose to board on another train just to catch up with the passengers your once travelled with. Although this might deviate you from your original route to your destination, perhaps we shouldn't even be so obsessed with getting to our destination so eagerly in the first place. So what exactly have I learn from this friend of mine? The ans is simple, that is to cherish the passengers who once travelled with you. Give them a short visit if they have already board on another train. Perhaps you could say you are the captain of your own train and u could jolly well decide the route for yourself. travel with them once more even if it's just a short journey, reminisce on the journey we once had together. Be it a good or a bad experience, catch up on one another before our journey suddenly terminate. Reminisce the days we once had.

sometimes, the initial journey might not be a good experience, catching up with them later might proved to be a whole new experience and might shed new light to how we once judge them. maybe it has taught me to be more forgiving to some extent? to not be so myopic in some ways and to give others a chance to prove us wrong.

Lastly, your family is always there to give you relentless support no matter what you are going through. Their love for us is so fundamental and instinctive that there's no reason why. Yet we can be so introvert with our feelings for them that it might seem that we took them for granted. Though we all noe that we shouldn't take them for granted and we should love them like they always shower us with love and care, again we don explicitly tell them that we do. Lesson from tuesday with morrie: love each other or perish.

Aurora (Northern Lights)

this is also damn chio.... haha... the green light is so bright. illuminating the sky!! you can even see the stars shifting...

Aurora

I think aurora are truly fascinating and amazing.... anyone noe the mechanism behind it? haha.. it's actually quatum physics. charge particles from the sun arriving at the earth's atmosphere. after getting excited, light energy is given off. check it out from wiki.