梦如人生，人生如梦

人如果能选择自己的梦，那该有多好。至少现实中的苦和遗憾，可以在梦中弥补。二十四小时里，八小时是自己选择的幸福。

经过时间的洗礼， 我们渐渐忘了自己。忘了当初的坚持，当初的原则，而开始活在别人的期许下。抛弃了原本的自己，过着别人的生活。

 

醉中有清醒，清醒中却有迷茫。透过酒杯看的世界，会否更清晰一些？

 

狠狠的伤过了，渐渐忘了自己也有幸福的可能。

Fontana di Trevi

How many times have you wished that your dreams could come true, be it realistic or not? The prevalence of myths and legends are circulated since ancient times, as humans are prone to challenge the scripted destiny hoping to live a fairytale-like happily ever after with all dreams fulfilled. Even though superstitious could sometimes be observed as juvenile and unconvincing, but what is life if it is without a little mysterious anticipation and excitement? Therefore the beauty of legends lies between the ambiguity of truth and fiction.

I am very much attracted to this most famous and beautiful Baroque fountain in Rome- the Trevi Fountain, inspired by Roman triumphal arches, standing 25.9 meters high and 19.8 meters wide. This unique statue has an ancient history origins back to the Roman times and it was the terminal point of the Aqua Virgo aqueduct commissioned by Augustus, which was used to provide water for the thermal baths. The water that flows here has two names: Virgin Waters and Trevi. The first refers to an ancient legend about a young Roman girl who showed the source of the spring to some thirsty soldiers; whereas Trevi derives from the old name for the area, which was originally called Trebium. Tradition holds that if visitors throw a coin into the fountain, they are ensured a return to Rome. A reported current version of this legend is that it is lucky to toss three coins with one's right hand over the left shoulder (or left hand over your right shoulder) with your back to the fountain. I will definitely visit this impressive sculpture one day together with my wishes. :)

Wondering if my desire would be the following when the time comes:

First Wish: I never existed in this world. 

Life could be an adventure and it could be a journey of experience, but still what does one gets when going down to the grave? 

Second Wish: If the first wish is not granted, my next wish is the retraction of sentiment from all living souls. 

Feelings could be great at times, and the world is portrayed to be wonderful with all sorts of emotions. However being tied down with the burden of emotions could be destructive hence living a robot-like life wasn’t a bad choice after all. 

Third Wish: If my second wish is also not granted, my last wish will be that I could have 100 more wishes.

Lol…greedy me, but that would indeed be the best wish I could make. XD

假.面.

“Who are you?” is a question for which the name is never the answer. – Edgar A. Morales

- 你是否为明天的人生选好了那一具假面？晚安...

The Chertsey Museum

After 52 days of residing in the UK, I finally decided to let myself out of the closet and start cruising down the street as a tourist. Recently being distressed by work due to the resignation of my direct superior, I needed to pick up various tasks and responsibilities in a short time. Therefore my weekends were spent burying myself in stress. However enough is enough now and I demanded a change in my life wanting something different, hence I made up my mind to visit one of the nearby attractions – the Chertsey Museum this weekend. 

It was a rainy morning when I get out of bed thinking that I might need to postpone the weekend plan. Nonetheless, the weather surprisingly turns out to be excellent in the afternoon despite that the weather report forecasted a rain. 

Walking down the road, the museum was easily spotted along Windsor Street. This museum first opened to the public in 1965, displaying a collection of local historical items, photographs, paintings, clocks, furniture and a collection of ancient Greek pottery, funded by Runnymede Borough Council with support from the Olive Matthews Trust. It was a 3 stories building: 

1st Floor: Archaeology of Runnymede and Fashion Collection of Olive Matthews

 

2nd Floor: Ceramics, Local & Social History items, Documents and Photographs

 

3rd Floor: Horology, Furniture and Pottery

 

  

It was fun testing on a few replicated 18th-20th century outfits, and not forgetting to get myself some souvenirs for this visit- 2 collectable coins and a fossil. This is a good beginning and I am looking forward to have more fun in coming days in the different part of this country.

飞翔：黑夜的彩虹

独自坐在心中的黑空洞，望向深渊，只有太多伸手不及的原来。累了，躺下来放空，闭上眼，任思绪漫无目地的漂浮。每个步伐，都将自己与天空的距离拉远了。天使与凡人，所看见的天空是否呈现一样的颜色？隔着一道银河之距离，能否跨越那道无形的分割线？ 

也许细心倾听和善解人意之优点，只适合于陪伴支撑过忧郁灰暗的日子。然而当太阳再度升高普照时，却再也容不下一把只适合雨天的伞。人，只不过是群体中孤单的个体。经过时间的洗礼，大家都变了。当初简简单单一个幸福的微笑，都随着时间的流失而变得不再单纯了。原本珍惜的，变得不珍贵了。想守住的，却守不住了。 

对别人的承诺都势在必行， 然而对自己的承诺却兑现不了- 就是学不会对自己好。

Dare to be Different

Theory and Philosophy are only set of rules created by others telling you how you should live your life according to their experiences, and setting norms on how you should behave to follow what they think. However my life is M.I.N.E. and I could make a different!

Nothing but Facts

* The wrong person at the right time = Broken-Hearted 

* The right person at the wrong time = Regrets & Sighs 

* The wrong person at the wrong time = Tragedy & Disaster 

* The right person at the right time = Go to bed earlier, you might find it in your dream…lol

Surviving the First Month

It’s been exactly a month now that I am in the UK. I must say that this is not an easy life to be here in the beginning: 

Different Culture: Great effort is needed in observation to keep myself up with each and every step of their lifestyle and culture. I can’t even find the trashcan to dispose the waste on my first week -.-" In the supermarket, the consumers will have to pack their purchases on their own and most of the people are quite patient in general during the queue. 

Different Currency: Changing cents to pence is posting me a hard time to differentiate the coins during payments. The 10 pence is bigger than the 20 pence which always put me in confusion. 

Different Climate: The cold weather with almost an average of 10°C daily is killing me. But still as an Asian, I am used to the daily shower and needed it so badly despite the shivering I would suffer. My nose was even bleeding continuously for a month due to the cold and dry weather. 

Different Equinox: It is quite often that I am being awakened by the bright sky at 4am or 5am in shock thinking that I am late for work, whereby the sun is up like the normal 10am Malaysian time. The evening seems to be longer after office hours due to the late sunset at around 9pm. Mobile phone is hence becoming my essential need in order to tell me the exact timing. 

Different Language: All I can speak here is none other than a proper professional English (no more mixture of Cantonese, Chinese, Hokkien and Malay. Arghh…I miss Manglish or Singlish so much…lol). Having spoken to some of the Scotsmen, I started to hesitate on the visit I need to make to the Bellshill office as I doubt if I could actually understand their question at all during the training due to the Scottish accent. 

Different Lifestyle: Having to wake up at 6.00am to cook for my breakfast and lunch is not an easy thing for me especially when cooking is not part of my interest. Needed to crack my head and hurt my brain cells to think of a bundle of weird recipes just to facilitate the daily cooking process, especially when I have only a set of metal chopstick, a spoon and a folk with me in this house. Imagine a life without plates and bowls: I am drinking soup from the cups, serving broccoli and fruits also in cups. >.< On the bright side, will I become a great cook eventually? (Lol…who wanna be the lab-rat?) 

But I guess my life has all the while been prepared for this move since the daily timing I had in Malaysia was rather reversed whereby I used to sleep late and waking up late. But here in the United Kingdom, I am living a healthy lifestyle by sleeping early and waking up early. (Not a bad change afterall) :)