#2.

kalau aku lihat dunia,

kalau aku dedahkan cinta,

adakah bunga yang satu bisa memenuhi rimba..?

- London - Amsterdam , May 2011

Broken Friendships.

I parted with a lot of my friends once I left Alice Smith to finish high school at Charterhouse in Britain and at that time, I thought distance wasn't anything vital. I used to go back to KL on every holiday and we got to catch up on each other's lives a lot. But let's face it, everyone then had to move on to college and university which took up a lot of our free time. We had to juggle between studies and leisure and the former usually won.

Today, I met my best friend of 7 years. We used to sit beside each other since Year 2 and it was a shame that we could not pick up from where we left! The last meeting was a year back but we do call each other every now and then which we thought would suffice. Wrong.

I now know that even the best of friends CAN drift apart when distance comes in between them. When you meet new people and are exposed to new environments, you have the tendency to seek for new comforts and get close to people who can be temporary replacements for your best friends. Yes, you keep in contact with each other but one day, you won't realize you don't need your good ol' best friends that much anymore.

I had tweeted this before but I'll say it again. Everything starts off when you're comfortable with not talking or communicating to your other half (be it friends, best friends, whoever).

Cheers!

Homeboy.

Aku rindu expresi dunia,

Aku rindu luahan cinta,

Aku rindu keajaiban bunga,

Aku rindu ... dia.

- On flight New York - Chicago . February 2011.

Today's Inspiration.

During my last few months in Imperial, it was hard for me to meet a lot of my father's expectations. There were a lot of pressure about making it through and succeeding well. We didn't appear to look like we were pressured but within those last few months, I had a lot of talk with him regarding graduating with a first class degree because whether we live acknowledging it or not, it brings this indescribable sense of proud to every parents in this world.

Few months after that, upon joining my family's company, I noticed no one asked me if I ever graduated with a first class degree. They knew all along I've finished a degree but they wouldn't bother to know if it was a general degree, or a second class or even if I was named the best Imperial student (of course, I wasn't :p) . I realized that prior to joining the professional world, people want to see more of your credibility and there's more to this world than what stated on that piece of certificate. People want to see what we can do and changes that we can make.

...In the world which is doing its best, we run and run, without a halt, trying to grasp a small success. I'm so tiny, I'm so small, oh good lord, what have you got in store?