A rainbow glints through the rain

An actual picture taken of the road that lead to the end of the rainbow. If you look closely, there is not one but two rainbows! I wonder, would there be extra bags of gold there? Whatever waits for us at the end, at least we know a good place to start ;)

26th January passed and I am now 27!

Whoa.

I remember that when I was a little girl, I thought 18 is already an adult and I can never picture myself being more than 25. But now here I am, already hitting 27.

This year's birthday is very special. From the moment the clock struck 12 and 26th Jan comes, it was special. My sis made a beautiful card, all my family members wrote wonderful messages on it, we had pizza and also lots and lots of ice cream! (the ice cream is of course my birthday "cake", because our family don't really love cake as much as we love ice cream haha).

I received many well wishers who sent smses and messages on facebook, heard many renditions of the good ol' birthday song (I even got versions in Dangdut and also Indian tempo version) and my dear labmates even arranged for a surprise birthday cake!

All these made me feel...dare I say it? All of these made me feel...loved (ah, I said it!).

It has been kinda challenging lately and i feel it was a gift that the day turn out to be so special.

And it was the greatest feeling in the world :)

Life is like a wheel they say, sometimes up and sometimes down

...but for me it doesn't mean that we won't have a flat tyre sometimes ;) hehe
so the past week I've been quite down, but I can't quite place my emotions. Why am I feeling this way? Usually I was quite motivated. But suddenly today, this sunny Sunday, the day was so beautiful that I just couldn't help but smile for no apparent reason.
Hahaha, happy for no apparent reason. But why do we need to know the reason anyway? It's enough that we're happy :)
Hope it's a beautiful Sunday for you too!
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I've always thought that the world is so big to just be stuck at one place.
I want to go out and see the world!
There is so much that we've never seen, never done, never felt.
So much possibilities waiting to happen, so much opportunities will come knocking, so much tears to be shed and so much laughter to be shared.
Haven't you wondered how the ancient civilizations of Egypt able to build such wonders like the Great Pyramids?
How the great Nile flows through history and is still with us today? How was it in the past?
How the Japanese survive the atom bomb but still managed to emerge as a major power of the world today?
These are just some of the questions that can only be satisfactorily answered when it's experienced first hand.
Reading the histories of people that made history and shape our reality today, haven't you wondered how was it like?
I do, I do, I do.
I wonder how does it feel to be in the middle of a desert during a starry night. How would the soft sand dunes shift? How would the wind feel caressing your face?
I wonder how it feels to be in an ice cave at the Antarctic? How would the icicles reflect the rays of the sun and lighten up the dark cave?
I wonder how it feels when cruising on a gondola moving softly side to side on canals moving its way under old bridges in Venice?
I wonder... so much.
Anyone want to come?