Spotted a rather meaningful quote from my friend's Facebook, it went something like: "Every hardship is an opportunity to strengthen ourselves, to temper our life and make it shine with greater luster."
- Words of Wisdom by buddhist philospher Daisaku Ikeda.
It's been one and half months since I came back from Canada, sometime I wonder is it really the culture and the people there, that make me really like the place, or is it because of the fact that I am traveling and that is why I love the place so much. The again, as I had told people around me, taking it to be in comparison with Australia, *The other ang moh land that I visited*, I would still opt for Canada.
I do not consider myself someone who is one die-hard patriotic Singaporean, then again, leaving my country, leaving my family and leaving my friends, had always been a "No no" thing for me. However, since my return from the land of Maple Leaves, all these have changed, sort of overnight.
The desire to leave this place is getting stronger as the days goes by, and the desire of wanting something had never been as strong as what I am experiencing right now.
But of course, from time to time, I do have to knock some sense into myself and told myself that, in reality, things are not as easy as I thought it would be.
As a matter of fact, as I age (*Not that I'm like very old now*), I start learning to appreciate the people and things that are happening around me.
For instance, this year's LNY has definitely been a rather meaningful and exciting one for me. Just over the weekends, I have got like 3 close friends, who were away from the red dot for a relatively long period of time, took turns flying back. Though I was not physically there to receive these friends at the airport, but the moment I received SMSes from these people, I was like jumping for joy that, they are back safely and finally. With the returns, it also mark that LNY is just like one week away.
It has seriously been a long while since I was last so excited about the arrival of the LNY.
