I haven't got the chance to write an entry until today. So Happy New Year everyone and here's the first post of 2009.
I guess I'll start, as usual, with resolutions for the new year. I could only think of 2 things right now.
1. I wanna weigh at most 52kg by the end of this year.
2. I wanna be doing something useful by the end of this year; be it working a good job at a good company or seriously helping my dad's business or doing my own business (doubtful) or doing an MBA or even learning Mandarin in China I'd consider useful for now.
Two simple things. Shouldn't be too hard to achieve.. or will it? We shall see.
Anyways, I went to China for the year-end break. It was a good trip. That was my first time to China.. cuz I've always doubted China as a fun place to visit in the past. But I guess I was proved wrong. Lol. I went to Shantou (my great3xgrandparents homeland), Shanghai and Guangzhou.
Well, Shantou is not somewhere I dream to live at. The traffic is horrible -- not because of heavy traffic, but the people there just know no traffic rules. People can drive on the opposite direction street and cutting people all they want. Even worse than Jakarta, if you can imagine. Another thing is that the city is very quiet already at 7pm. *wonders what the people there do at night*
I also went to Chaozhou (?).. the Teochew village. Visited the "The" clan. Hehehe, seriously, in there, they still have like specific places for each family name. Interesting, eh? I saw the old house of my great3xgrandparents when they were still living there. Very sad, the house is really small. >.< Even until today, the people who still live there have shared public toilets. :|
But Shanghai is definitely different. It's a fun, dynamic, metropolitan city. I think it'll be much more fun to work in Shanghai than Singapore. After seeing the city, I'm even more interested to study there.. either MBA or language school. But I don't know, some parts of me still feel abit weird and scared, probably, to go there by myself. No idea why. Maybe I grow more coward as I grow older. :S Had no problem of such thing in the past. The desire to study/work there is still there, nevertheless.
Finally, remember a link I posted before of a brave woman who was diagnosed with advanced-stage breast cancer? Before the holidays, she wrote an entry about her stomach pain and her doctor said that the cancer cells have (I think) spread to her liver which is definitely dangerous. Then after that, no entries for 1-2 weeks(?). I wondered what happened to her? But there are updates again after some time. *phew* But poor her, she wrote that her life span is left with 2-3 months. >.< I feel for her. Her kids are still so young, both under 10 years old. Well, I hope all the best for her and her fam.