Kungfu kick butt!

It was like a sharp thwack that sent me cringing and reeling in pain. More specifically, the sharp pain i felt and the dull thwack of the tennis ball brushing past my racquet and my eye.

It hurt.
Sensation was a burn to the eye ball (later to discover an abrasion on my cornea). I cried out in pain. And was this close to swearing but thought, what's the point? it was no one's fault. self-inflicted, an accident.

I don't think my doc knew what to respond to Mum's incessant questions... "is it serious?" he doesn't know.. just need to do rest more, use the eye drops and observe. An injury to the eye can be pretty serious, that's what i know.

The incredible things we do to ourselves sometimes...
It still hurt.
While my dear tennis coach went on coaching my dear friend Shaun, reassuring me it's nothing just a superficial thing.. well i could have just left but didn't.
In fact, i stood up later and attempted to hit the strokes that coach was teaching and i could!

Sleeping, and more sleeping.
i slept like a baby these 2 days until i really needed to get out and go for Boat Asia!
Which i did! Thank God for my lovely parents who care. i know it was hard on Mum to walk around but hey, an eye-opener for sure. THink the organisers got it running well! And it was relaxing (apart from my poor eye which was fast turning bright red and teary) the air-conditioned tent could not have been colder (so i fled quickly) there were quite a few more exhibitors then i'd expected. Quite a few people mingling with exhibitors, actually talking about transactions and purchase of boats... expats living at the Caribbean or at Sentosa Cove? Perhaps...but a nonetheless interesting prospect to consider, living by the water. Wow!
I'd love that, or even the prospect of having a nice home just built by the water here or in Queensland? :p

i'd love to wake up each morning to the cheering warmth of the sun, gaze across the horizon and make a steaming hot mug of aromatic coffee and a simple slice of thick toast with jam - Mmmm heavenly.

i crave the simple life.

Much later at Toast Box
Overheard these 2 fellas speaking in unmistakably crisp, fluent Cantonese. Only caught snippets of the conversation but one was either working/ studying a Business Course here in Sg. Just from overhearing snippets of the conversation, i gathered they were 1) incredibly shrewd, 2) just hungry for success, some money and headed elsewhere to achieve a name for themselves / become great success stories in the papers one day.

Made me feel that hey, i've really got to step up too to compete against these guys, i may have some book smarts but when it comes to street smarts, i'm nowhere near these guys! Which makes me 1) hunger for independence and just Making it out there in this huge world. 2) i've gotta find a way to expose myself to more aspects of the business and learn as quickly as i possibly can cos life is short and there's lots to achieve and learn while we're at it in our prime!

I say life's short, we gotta really treasure who we have and those special friendships and kinship that means the world to us.
We gotta really reach out there and try to achieve what we set our minds to, given our aptitude and talents and change our attitudes if we need to , more discipline, more hard work and more focus.

I like this poem my friend wrote to me when i was sixteen.
People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centred
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives
Do Good anyway.
If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies
Succeed anyway.
Honesty and Transparency might make you vulnerable
Be honest and transparent anyway
What you spend years building might be destroyed overnight
Build anyway.
People who really want help may attack you if you help them
Help them anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt
Give the world the best anyway.

A life half-lived is not a life lived at all.