as some of you may know, it was my birthday yesterday. i turned 27. at first the thought of becoming 27 scared me - 2 years past 25 indeed is a long time already. i looked back at my life and thought of what i have accomplished so far -at 27. and instead of being disappointed from the thought of what may have been and of what did and didn't happen, i was surprised to feel peace and bliss of the things that have happenned so far.
as some of you may know, my life was on hold for 5 years. with the big move to a different country, to going back to university from scratch, and finding my first "professional" job when my contemporaries have already moved up the corporate ladder and started spurting out small versions of themselves and their loved ones. to have BIG plans for oneself and have some other people decide your fate is a big deal. but i now realize it was the best decision my parents made to date.
for 5 years i have learned:
- how it is to work so you can help your family survive in a strange and new land.
- to send myself to school and work at the same time without the financial help of my parents.
- that other people of different cultures and background are not so different from me.
knowing all these things, i felt myself getting content. now i can move on in my life the way i want it to be. things that i have to look forward to in the future - graduate school all the way to my PhD, settling down with my loved one and buying a property of my own, travel the world, and eventually spurt out mini-me's-& he's.
here's to me and the many birthdays ahead...CHEERS!
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yesterday was a fund day as well. my colleagues treat me out to lunch (and i had the mango-rita, virgin of course coz we still had to go back to work; and the biggest meatball i've ever seen with my spaggheti and meatball, and casear's salad). me, my sis, and tommy took me to Moxies for dinner - and i had a medium well steak with my salad, and the yummiest brownie cake i've ever tasted...
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