Sunday, December 16, 2012

My return to Bangkok and going a little Thai style

I'm trying photobucket's new story line feature:

can't seem to widen it though...

Call Of The Wild at 8:42 PM

Saturday, December 01, 2012


Sometimes, I think of what I could have done in the past to change my future.



December is the last month of a year. It is also the month where many important dates fall on:

Day of Restoration of Independence of Portugal (December 1)
Union Day of Romania (December 1)
World AIDS Day (December 1)
National Day of United Arab Emirates (December 2)
Sinterklaas in the Netherlands (December 5)
Father's Day (King's Birthday) in Thailand (December 5)
Independence Day in Finland (December 6)
Constitution Day in Spain (December 6)
Saint Nicholas Day in Greece (December 6)
Pearl Harbor Day in the United States (December 7)
Fukuoka Marathon is held on first Sunday in December.
Día de la Madre en Panamá (Mother's Day) in Panama. (December 8)
Day of the Mary Immaculate Conception. (December 8)
Constitution Day in Romania. (December 8)
In the Ásatrú religion, Egil Skallagrimsson's Day (December 9) is a day of remembrance for the Viking hero.
Nobel Prizes awarded (December 10) on the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
Human Rights Day (December 10)
Día de la Virgen de Guadalupe, or Day of the Virgin of Guadalupe, in Mexico (December 12)
Independence Day (Jamhuri Day) in Kenya (December 12)
Saint Lucy (December 13)
Honolulu Marathon is held on second Sunday in December.
Monkey Day (December 14)
Bill of Rights Day (United States). (December 15)
Zamenhof Day (December 15)
Victory day of Bangladesh (December 16)
National Day of Kingdom of Bahrain (December 12)
Day of Reconciliation in South Africa (December 16).
Hannukah (December 20 in 2011)
First day of winter (December 21)
Solstice (called the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and the summer solstice in the Southern Hemisphere) occurs on dates varying from December 20 to December 22 (in UTC). See also Yule
The Emperor's Birthday, a national holiday in Japan (December 23)
Festivus (December 23)
HumanLight (Humanist holiday), (December 23)
Christmas Eve (December 24)
Christmas (December 25)
Boxing Day (December 26)
Day of Goodwill (December 26)
Kwanzaa (December 26 to January 1)
Independence Day in Slovenia - Independence and Unity Day, (December 26)
Proclamation Day in South Australia (December 28)
Philippines – Rizal Day (December 30)
New Year's Eve (December 31)
Yule

I had to blow my mind on wiki because of my curiosity.
It's interesting to see us humans like certain months and dislike some. When you come to think of it, they are merely days that got grouped by us. Appointed unique roles by us, celebrated by us, as well as loathed by us.
You see people enjoying trick or treatin' in the month of November while students in Singapore wrinkle their haggard faces from months of mugging as they stare blankly at their A level test papers.
You see Thai farmers hunched over in their fields sowing seeds under the glaring Sun while we begin our June holidays.
You see animal hunters squeal with glee in the month of September as wild deer dodge buckshots and flee for their lives in America.

For my Mum, December is shopping season, as many of you all would agree. For me, it means spending 3 days off from NS to walk almost endlessly through the streets of Bangkok and its shopping malls. This I dread.
(On the side note: I have not recovered that 4 hours spent in a Naraya shop yet!
Yet, I want to go back to such a foreign place, to become an alien in a strange land again. What a wonderful feeling to be a tourist!)


Last year, December marked the end of my JC life. There were many things I wished that I could have fulfilled but their deadline have long passed. Like opening a carton of expired milk, they just turn sour and have to be discarded.
For one, I should have painted my bedroom walls when I had the chance.
Another would be to keep in touch with several good friends, who had over the years, lost contact.
Then my room would've been covered in my drawings.
ZW or KY or YX  would have drawn something silly too.

Perhaps I should not think about yesterday. (I'm always reminded by the Beatles song: 'Yesterday' if I see that word.)
But to embrace today to the fullest.
As Master Oogway( Master Tortoise) from Kungfu Panda had said: Quit, don't quit? Noodles, don't noodles? You are too concerned about what was and what will be. There is a saying: yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the "present."





Every day is a surprise!




signing off.

Call Of The Wild at 10:48 PM