Frustrating moments...

"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow..." - Chinese proverb

(Settling in deep frustration)

I'm not a naturally patient person.

When I'm angry and impatient, bad things happen. In fact, I've gone through life continuously moving from one frustrating moment to another. I'm improving my patience whenever I encounter setbacks in my life. And to pacify my inner frustrations, I kept on telling myself - just because I don't get what I want immediately doesn't mean I won't get it eventually.

How I wish for the younger years where my life was so carefree and free of worries. And I kept telling myself that getting angry and upset will do nothing to improve the situation.

Time changes, friendship remains...

“When people cared about each other, they always found a way to make it work...” - Nicholas Sparks

(Many more not in the picture)

The DAHP 74/78 reunion at Hotel Singgahsana on 6 March 2010 was a success.

The venue gave longtime friends a more relaxed setting to remember good times and catch up on years since. It was one group of people you can always be yourself around. It doesn’t matter what your status in life, you were still who you were in 74/78. There was a lot of hugging, kissing and reminiscing.

I met again with long lost friends. I was expecting potentially awkward and embarrassing moments but I was not at all surprised the past 30 years has a way of retaining familiar fervor and erasing bad memories between us...

'Let us not forget the laughter we share,
forever like sisters or brothers we care.
You all will always be close friends to me,
and that's the way it should be...

Just a memory...

“What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce...” - Karl Lagerfeld

(Kota Bharu 1973)

'Once there was a little girl
Used to wonder what she would be
Went out into the big wide world
Now she's just a memory

If this old neighborhood
survived us both alright
Don't know that it withstood
All the things that took our light

Here in the dust
There's not a trace of us
Everything is gone
But my heart is hanging on

(Mark Knopfler)

(Lumut 2010)

Perak - A Bad Moon Rising...

“Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen...”

(A beautiful sunset)

That night we had our leisure walk across the park passed the new jetty of Lumut.

It was a full moon. Its clear reflection mirrored in the water. The tide was high. We could see flickering lanterns from the many fishing boats off the coast, rocking gently in rhythm with the rolling of the waves.

It must be the season of the werewolves for we could see youngsters wondering around town like zombies without any particular place to go. Watching them from far, we would have imagined that they were waiting for the apocalypse to visit them anytime now.

If not for the blaring music and mysteriously-filled air of festivities, we would have thought that there was some sort of demonstration or protest going on at the Jetty.

We could feel the storm brewing at the horizon. It’s not the end of the world but it looked like we were in for a nasty weather....

(Chalets on stilts at Bagan Lalang)

(A boat ride around Pangkor Island)

(Mus and Mun relaxing at the Jetty in Lumut)

Johor/Pahang - Down to the waterline...

"Old habits die hard, I guess. If you don't kick them, they kick you..."

(Fishing boats at Tanjung Piai)

Fishing is not one of my favorite past time.

The night was windy, the men were smoking and exchanging good-humored stories while I sat alone lost in thought at one corner of the jetty holding the fishing rod loosely. Both legs freely dangling over clear water. Mark Knopfler's 'Down to the waterline' was playing softly in the back ground. I watched small fishes nibbling at the bait playfully. My mind was wondering far, pondering the imponderable. The mind is full of thoughts.

This trip is supposed to relax my mind, body and soul. As simple as that. But of course it wasn’t simple at all. When it came to impulses, nothing was simple.

'

What agonies of mind had I put me through now?

(Chalets on stilts, at low tide)

The CNY long weekend was spent driving in our 4x4 down south to 'the southernmost tip of the mainland Asia' at Tg. Piai, Desaru, Air Papan, to Kuantan passing the Endau Rompin back to KL...

(By the beach at Telok Chempedak)