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Pearce Flying Training School

Marcus (my beloved little monkey brother) has left for Pearce Training Sch at Perth Air Base for a 10-mths training this morning at 8am. i wish him all the best and good luck. May God bless him with everything sweet and nice, and protect him from all harms and evil; that he would have endless safe and happy landings.

had dinner at Changi Village with Joshua. nasi lemak. the first corner stall with a freaking long queue. $3.00 but very little dishes.... kinda disappointed. Josh finally had his fresh coconut drink though =) whatever that makes him happy. then we met up with Joshua's brother, Simon for drinks. his Harley-Davidson Road King is so cool.... !!!! all black. all glossy. listen to the throttle of that HD is...... loud yet smooth and powerful. turns me on..... but of coz nothing beats a car lah! i am not one who can tahan heat!!! and i am still procrastinating my driver's license. heeheehee...... =)

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late last nite was one of nights (note: thankfully only of occasional nature) where i start to think too much about nothing. absolutely nothing. unsubstantiated random negative thoughts.

thinking per se is constructive: organize your thoughts. make sense of your daily observations.
relate them to the past experiences and learn worthy lessons. plan your schedules. mark your goals. dream big dreams and work them into reality.

but what happens if one starts to think insatiably about nothing?
as in, read too much into details which are not present in reality at all?
it is totally illogical.

why? because there are no evidences to back such a conclusion.
it has not happened in real time, real place. probabilty of it happening is also damn small.

that translates into one's imagination running far too wild, beyond logic and rationality.
that forms the perfect basis for biased judgements, invalid opinions and stereotyping others, without giving sufficient deep thoughts and allowances for the different circumstances at play, and the different characters involved. ie. myopic perspectives and mentality. (by the way.... there are many people who are like that, myopic vision, full of excuses to save their skin, god-damned hypocrites..... creatures who just take up the precious space in this world. no point arguing with them).

hence, the resultant would be frustrating misunderstandings and miscommunications due to that stubborn mental obstacle, precipitated out of unjustified fear, that is activated out of bad memories and bad experiences. i am not saying that it is wrong, it is part of the body's natural defense mechanisms to deters us from repeating past mistakes, thus avoiding another bad experience by heightening caution. but in turn, it chooses to overwrite the fact that in present time; it is a totally different person involved, a different past entwined, a different destiny awaits... a whole new environment, a whole new different set of circumstances.

that leads me to ask, what if we can predict what the future might bring?

are you going to accept fate blindly, or you are going to fight for what you believe in?

are you going to conform to the social norms, walk that path pre-laid down before you, or would you challenge the norm and fight to be different? to live the life that is only yours?

and since you can predict what the near future brings, would you still take risks to love, to learn, to live? or you would hide in the shelter, unwilling to walk out of the comfort zone? afterall, you know what would happen.

then, may i remind you that nothing in life is absolute.
if one doens't even try and invest in one's best efforts, one will never know of the rich rewards awaiting at the other end of the rainbow, neither would one ever savour the bitter-sweet experiences gained along the way.

whatever that happens in life, many a times are out of our human control, due to unforseen circumstances. we might lost the ones we love in an immediate traffic accident, we might lost a friend in a tragic water sports event, we might lose our jobs due to slow moving global economic growth and streamlining of cost.

so, how can one self-help?

accept happenings in life in your stride. don't think of what bad happenings may happen, coz if they would happen, they will. how about being positive and invest double the efforts to prevent bad happenings from occuring? go the extra mile to make things work, coz when u believe that it wil work, then it would. half the battle won. God only helps the positive, for He stands for the wise bright light.

Love more. Love wholeheartedly. when one loves more, you will receive more. pay it forward =)
be there for the people who loves you, show them your appreciation. be kind in deeds and words.
never be angry with them. forgive and forget. you never know when they might just leave you. don't live to regret. Love is gracious.

posted by Veen @ 19:58