Oct-Nov Updates

Going korea this month end with my parents. Mostly motivated by the korean dramas i've been watching & secretly wanted to meet my handsome korean dreamlover there. Funny right? Subconciously okay. Then since the package included skiing (actually i wanted a skiing package), i asked around to find out what to do to prepare for skiing. Bladding was the answer. Thus i bravely ventured into that again.

After so many attempts over many years, i somehow didn't start out too badly. In fact, managed to move quite a distance by myself without support (but REALLY SLOWLY...). However, my determination to accomplish this sport came at a price. No, i didn't fall at all. I was concentrating so hard to moving and completing the distance, that i didn't realised that the skates were cutting into my skin.

(Warning: what follows may gross you out.) There was a horizontal cut that went round half my calf. No blood, but i can only see white flesh left from the abrasion. My dark upper layer of skin was already all gone. I was surprised cause i didn't feel any pain at all. What's even more amazing is that i continued to run/jog around east coast with my colleague.

So the consequences? Rotting flesh that was still bleeding after 3 days. My mom took about 2 days to convince me to allow her to put the 'Yunan' aka China's melon powder on it. Well, even though i totally didn't believe that but it TRUELY worked! The wound dried up within the day itself & totally didn't 'burn' at all. Do use that next time alright. Compared to my previous similar injury, this really healed so much faster!

Reflecting on this year, it's been an amazing journey. Loads of changes of the way i look at things & mostly the way i work. I enjoyed it so much better because i'm most of myself now, instead of trying to be perfectly safe & subdued. My boss even commented on my performance this year.

First of all, she said there were quite a number of nominations for me as an outstanding staff, which totally knocked me speechless. She apologised she couldn't choose me but i told her i am delighted by the fact that i've been nominated. I won't even think about getting choosen cause there are so many more deserving people. Then she mentioned that i was ranked rather high this year. Another shocker. I was worried i might be at the bottom and here she is telling me i'm at the top. Wow! Double whamy!

You know how when you achieved something or experienced something wonderful and totally out of the world, you can't wait to share it with your loved ones? Well, that's the something that's lacking in my life. I've shared with my parents. Somehow that's different. So many times i hear some songs and i'm so blissful about how my life is going. Yet, in all that happiness i feel, i had to remind myself this: I do not need someone to share it with.

Such is my life at the moment. Totally on cloud9, yet void of that one thing.