Goodbye 2008

This post is dedicated to 2008 which has brought so many sweet memories along with some bitter moments. Whatever it is, zillion thanks to 2008 which arrived in style and is bidding farewell in style albeit some bitter and sulky moments globally as well as personally. I’m not going to talk about the international aspect as I know I’m no good at that. On a personal front, I think I managed to waltz through 2008 despite some belittle moments. It would have been a pretty boring year had everything went too smoothly. Bad memories and failures teach us some valuable lessons which ought to be kept in mind to welcome the following year. Ok enough of rattling about that, in this post I would like to ‘talk’ about the Top 10 of 2008. It’s not an easy task to pick 10 memories but I have tried.

Sweet memories of 2008
First complete family visit to our ‘favourite’ temple – The temple in Pangkor Island is our favourite temple and we have been going there annually. But for past few years, we couldn’t visit the temple as a whole family due to our academic commitments. And finally, we managed to gather as a family after few years and certainly that’s a treat
Being home- is there one thing that can beat the feeling of being home?
Vacation in New Zealand – Fantabulous 10 days which gave me immense fulfilment.
Bungee jump - Quenched my adrenalin rush. The most memorable moment in my life where I screamed my lungs out. Would I do it again? Hmm why not!!
Reuniting with my brother after 3 years
Fun-filled Gold Coast Trip- Fantastic stomach churning rides
Deepavali Celebration in Sydney- the very first time I was involved in the nitty-gritty of Deepavali celebration
Started blogging
Buying my first camera with my own money
My recently announced results

Bitter/ not-so-good memories of 2008
I cannot really remember 10 bitter memories to write about. After squeezing my tiny brain and rewinding whole 2008 mentally, there are just a handful of things I can remember.
1. Losing my favourite hand phone- I still have not forgive the innocent looking cab driver who sweet talked me and ‘took’ my phone. I still remember you Mr. Driver!
2. Bidding goodbye to Sydney
3. Tiny conflict I had (no more) with my bestie
4. Being trapped with annoying relationships
Hmm, my tiny brain can’t think of anything else..it’s shutting down. I better move to the next one.

Top 10 movies that I enjoyed in 2008
1. Dark knight
2. Santosh Subramaniam
3. Taare Zameen Par
4. Vaaranam Aayiram
5. Yaaradi Nee Mohini
6. Jaane Tu Na Jaane Na
7. Sex and the City
8. Jodha Akbar
9. Kalloori
10. Jab We Met

Top 10 songs
1. Kankal Irandal (Subramaniapuram)
2. Yeppadi iruntha (Santosh Subramaniam)
3. Mundhinam Paarthene (VA)
4. Unakkena Naan (Kadhalil vizhunthen)
5. Love or Label (Sex and the City)
6. Umbrella (Rihanna)
7. Taare Zameen Par
8. Jash-En-Bahara
9. Kabhi Kabhi Aditi (Jaane tu..)
10. Marudhani (Sakkarakkatti)

Ok. My analysis ends here. Advance Happy New Year to all my blog readers. Wishing you all a wonderful year ahead and may god bless all.

RANDOM 2

I’m getting bored with the routine life style. Nothing new to see, nothing new to experience, nothing new to blog about. I wonder how some people could kill a day by just sitting still in a corner for a whole day. Sitting (or standing) somewhere for few hours alone, could drive me crazy. Life could be pretty boring when you know what comes next. Doing the monotonous routines is just plain boring. And I think I badly need to diversify my daily routines or else I’ll die of either boredom or excessive sleep (No..SunTv is not helping at all).

On a random note, few days ago I chanced into someone and the meeting has triggered a lot of thoughts. Sometimes, we run away from the reality and handle things wrongly thinking we are doing the right thing. When problems or issues hit us, and we are stuck in a muddle, pushing everything under the carpet is not going to help in anyway. Thinking people will change automatically as the years rolls in is not the best option. Time does heal things and changes some things. But not everything. There are certain things that never change and remain the same. And also some people who refuse to change and comes back haunting you again and again. Puzzled? Me too :p

Random

Wishing you all a very Happy Thirukaartigai. Hope your houses are shining bright too.

I have been suffering from poor internet connection for past few days and that explains my absence from the blogworld. But still, I’m an internet addict and the poor TMNET (my net provider) doesn’t know that I’ll survive this. Nothing can stop me from torturing others through my writing :p

Things are moving slowly and as I’m back home, I’m not really going anywhere and thus nothing much to blog about. Yet, me being myself, I do have something to rattle about. Be prepared!

The nature of today’s kids amazes me to the core. Kids of today are very bold and beautiful…no..not that one…they are bold and extremely garrulous! Gone are the days where you admire the talkativeness of small children and going gaga over their cute inimitable vocabulary. I have been in few awkward instances where the child says some inappropriate remarks and you wish you can sink through the floor or be invisible. Sometimes some kids talk way too much and all you can do is secretly wishing to stuff a sock inside their mouth. Some kids are complainers who report every single thing you say to others especially to the person who is the butt of the joke! I had such an awkward moment years ago. I was visiting someone and was staying in her place for few days. And on one fine day, she decided to leave her children with me as she had to go somewhere. Though, I knew I was making a graveyard mistake by agreeing, I went along with the idea. “Come on, after all they are just small kids and I’m a teacher to be. Handling three kids is not a big task”. That was what I was thinking at that moment. The very moment she left, her children’s atrocious behaviours unveiled and I was screaming my lungs out. Literally, I was running after the kids and at one point, I gave up and started shouting at them. And you know angry people, words were shooting out and I didn’t realise that I actually said “ you kids are terrible and that’s the reason I’m not coming to your house often. And after this, I’m not coming at all”. And yeah..they parroted that back to their mum when she came back and thank GOD she just smiled and said “that’s true” (God knows whether she really meant that). And I escaped the next day. Something similar happened yesterday (yeah, I’ll never learn my lesson). So the conclusion is some kids are terrible!

Home Sweet Home

After a short sabbatical I’m back, blogging from Malaysia, place called home. It’s good to know that things haven’t changed much. Everything and everyone is still the same and that gives a sense of belonging and sense of being home. It’s incredibly feels good to unite with my siblings as we were away from each other for 3.5 long years and the constant quarrellings, diggings and pick ons are still there. It’s good to know that the 3 years gap has not stolen anything from us and it feels like we were not away from each other at all. The 3 (used to be small) notorious kids are back and so does the headache my parents :p

Another thing that remains the same is the NEVER-ENDING-SERIALS! I feel like I did not miss out any of the serials as they progressed too little in these years. One-woman-too –many –problems concept is still ruling our televisions and thanks to them, the glycerin industry is much healthier nowadays. You need not to worry if you don’t have any prior knowledge about the serial as you do not need one and please leave your common sense elsewhere. And up to now, I’m still getting confused with the serial actors and the characters they play. Imagine seeing one actor in three different serials with the same get-ups ( no.. the moustache and mole do not help much!). Ok, Vasantham serial is starting and I got to go now ;-)

Goodbye Sydney

This is my last blog from the land of kangaroo. In less than 36 hours, i'll be home. My flight is scheduled on the 6th at 3.30pm. 8 long hours and i'll be in Malaysia in the arms of my parents who are awaiting my arrival. Though, saying goodbye to Sydney is indeed very hard but Malaysia is my home and that feeling is incredible. As they say, home is where the heart is. I can't believe 2 years have gone and i'm stepping into the second phase of my life with new challenges unveiling as the life unfolds. By end of 2009, i will be a professional, a working lady, something which i have been dreading like nothing. The responsibilities seems immense to be shouldered and sometimes future seems too bleak. Whatever it is, these two years has matured me and has expanded my perspective and i must say that i'm a changed person now both physically ( i have gained few kilos) and mentally and it could be hard for my past to accept this new me but that's life. Change is the most constant thing in life and i'm game for it. My only concern for now is that, my changes for not affecting those dear to me and at the same time, for me not to be pulled back into my past and also not to discard whatever positive changes that Sydney has given me upon arriving home.

Have you ever craved for crystal ball which foresees your future? I have. I have always been curious on what is stored for me in future. May be that's why i used to subscribe to the online astrology and horoscope readings :-) But, at the second thought, do i really want to know my future? Would i be happy if i'm given the crystal ball? well, now the answer is NO. I rather wait for the surprises that life is going to throw at me. It doesn't matter if they aren't sweet surprises. Life is not a smooth journey and travelling on a bumpy road keeps you awake though that hurts. And knowing what's awaiting you in the future is no fun. So, if YOU ever planned to give me the crystal ball,Umm.. keep it to youself MR.GOD. I rather swim across the sea but just give me guidance whenever the sharks appear.

P/S- I just came across this wonderful piece by A.r.Rahman and it has been haunting me for few days now :-)

2008 A recap- January

This is my second post in 24 hours. Today is 1st December and i as i have promised i wanted to start the recap of 2008 today as in another 30 days we will be welcoming 2009 with new anticipation and beaming hopes and believe me 30 days will disappear in a flickering moment. 11 months has flown away, numerous hours have passed by and lots of memories have elapsed but it's still hard to accept that we are bidding goodbye to 2008. I have stopped pondering over my new year resolution few years ago when i realised that i have been having the same resolution for years in vain. It has just become a plain boring thing for me. My new year resolution has been "no resolution" for few years now.

Everything seems so fresh and still feels like yesterday but one year has passed. Every minute is a lesson and bears some values to be learnt, and pondering over memories of 1 year is not an easy job.January 2008 started well for me as i was still in Malaysia with my family enjoying every bit and each moment before flying back to Sydney. One profound lesson or experience that i had at that time was learning to forgive people. I was and still am (though i have shed most of it) a person who forgives but never forgets and at times neither forgive nor forget. I had a subtle conflict with a person for very long time. Till now i believe that person had never knew that i was angry at him/her. But i had such a hatred towards the person and believed that person does not deserve my respect and had always ignored him/her completely. Whenever i looked at the person, i had the image of his/her deed which angered me endlessly. That strained my relationship with others too. So, after the endless cajoling and persuasion by my parents, i braced myself to face what i had been evading for long.

I diminished the invisible wall between us and tried to let myself loose. But it was hard as once you lose the trust on someone it's so hard to rebuild and that was what i was facing. But that person, won me over with his/her casualty and care. Someone for whom i had so much of hatred and disrespect cared so much for me and showed me that mistakes are quintessential human elements because 'to err is human'. An apology was never something that i expected from the person and he/she never did. But, the care that i received from the person compensated that. And miraculously, i found myself being less harsh on him/her and actually allowed the person into my circle. Though, at one corner of my heart it was telling me "he/she is merely compensating his/her mistake so don't trust him/her completely", i took the risk of giving a second chance. Since, i am person who despite forgiving people, bears some kind of hatred it was hard for me not to think about the past whenever the person talked to me. But , i did it.

I learned that humans makes mistakes and i'm in no position of reprimanding anyone as i'm no perfect either. I learned that by forgiving and forgetting ,the circle of happiness around you expands. You feel good when you forgive people and that feelings transfer to those around you and oozes some positive feelings and enable you to look at life without inhibitions. Thanks January!

Goodbye Sambal

I just came back from the farewell dinner at Sambal, my workplace which i have mentioned in previous post. The bosses wanted to give us (the Malaysian students who have worked there for almost 1.5 years) a farewell dinner. So as usual, i had a stomach-filling steamboat dinner (i couldn't take the pictures as i was busy attacking the food) and had a fun filled photo-session. Then, we were supposed to hit city for a karaoke night, but we decided to sabotage that session and all the girls decided to call it a day. That surely broke the guys' hearts as they were expecting us to 'cheer' them during their karaoke session.

Then , my lady boss was supposed to drive us back but midway she decided to bring us for the famous pancake house and am i an idiot to resist a delicious treat? So we popped in and helped ourselves with some desserts. This time, i managed to click them and feel free to 'enjoy'. :p