Be true to your dreams...

I went for a swim after work today. I felt rather tired during the swim, probably due to walking too much at work. Nevertheless, I felt good after the swim. Several thoughts went through my mind today. It has been a long while since I blogged. Recently, I went back to normal office hours for work and it was quite tiring last week.

It is almost the end of January and that would mark the end of the 1st month of the year. Accomplishments? Nah, hardly any. I realized I have to get something done as the 2nd month of the year is already approaching and I have yet to get any of my resolutions up and kicking!

Quoting from a friend who said that 'there's simply too many things to do in life', I cannot agree more. I remember I once wrote down a list of things I want to get do in this life of mine after reading an article from 'Chicken Soup' in secondary school. I don?t know where that list is now, but I certainly wonder how many of those things I have gotten done after these years.

I met a friend who was enlisted in the Navy on a Friday 2 weeks ago. It got me asking him many questions about life in the Navy and whether there are other females who are working on the Navy vessel and about the voyages they make out to other countries. He cleared so much of my queries and gave me even more information. Thereafter, I realized the Navy is not for me. Yeah, I did once thought of joining the Navy for the thrill of working on a huge ship and learning all that I could learn about a moving vessel out in the huge oceans. Alas, after hearing about the number of years u have to be bonded to the Navy and the prospects after that if u are not one of the 'elites', mmm... I have my hesitations. Nah, I might be better off working on a commercial cruise ship.

It was quite an impromptu hike from Bt Timah to MR with MH on last Saturday, 21st Jan. I have not been at home for a long time on a Saturday. After the hike, I came back home and bought a copy of Saturday Times. It was good flipping through the entire newspapers as I concluded that being able to read the papers is indeed a luxury. I even looked through the classified ads. Oh well, I saw an advert looking for crew cabin on Qatar Airways. It got me reminded of yet another thing I have wanted to try out one day perhaps. Yeah, air stewardess.

See my point? There's so many things that one wants to do or experience in life! And yet, how long does one life last? I have certainly a great deal of other things that I hope to try my hands at. The different jobs and the different activities. My list is certainly a long one... Yet being a radiographer is never on my list of 'life experiences' at all! It is a comfortable job, paying u enough to get by (in a restructured hospital) and giving u the sound security that a stable job will give. However, I want to do more. I want to get out of my comfort zone and do things on my 'list'. It's never easy, especially when u are worried about the basic bread and butter everyday and at the end of the day, u end up in an endless rat race, forgetting who u are and why u are here for. I can see so many forlorn faces on the train every morning. People who probably have forgotten what their hearts have used to show them and pushed their dreams away in a corner. After working for almost 8 months, I can see that it's not difficult to fall into such a state.

I should really make a list of the things I wanna do online one day, so that I would not lose it as I have written it down on paper long ago. At least, my passion for travel has never failed me. The underwater world has fascinated me in the past, very much so, and not I am still fascinated by it. However, if given a choice between taking up diving and travelling the world (when money is not an issue), I would choose the latter. There are as many things, people, cultures, landscape and mystery on Earth to fascinate me as the underwater world offers.

I love travelling.

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BUGGER: The 'bugger' is getting to me again. Argh. After hearing 'her' complaints of 'him' last night. I have to say it did affect me today at work. When I thought about how I would be coming home to more naggings, it simply upsets me. My peace of mind was not present. It was distracted every now and then. My mind was in a way, mentally 'unsound' for I was bothered. Don't they understand?!?! Nope, they would never. Especially 'her'. I really wonder if I would simply break down one day. I had been through tougher days before and survived them. My spirit is unbreakable. And so, I hope.


Reach by Gloria Estefan

Some dreams live on in time forever
Those dreams, you want with all your heart
And I'll do whatever it takes
Follow through with the promise I made
Put it all on the line
What I hoped for at last would be mine

If I could reach, higher
Just for one moment touch the sky
From that one moment in my life
I'm gonna be stronger
Know that I've tried my very best
I'd put my spirit to the test
If I could reach

Some days are meant to be remembered
Those days we rise above the stars
So I'll go the distance this time
Seeing more the higher I climb
That the more I believe
All the more that this dream will be mine

If I could reach, higher
Just for one moment touch the sky
From that one moment in my life
I'm gonna be stronger
Know that I've tried my very best
I'd put my spirit to the test

If I could reach
If I could reach, higher
Just for one moment touch the sky
I'm goona be stronger
From that one moment in my life
I'm gonna be so much stronger yes I am
Know that I've tried my very best
I'd put my spirit to the test
If I could reach higher
If I could, If I could
If I could reach
Reach, I'd reach, I'd reach
I'd reach' I'd reach so much higher
Be stronger