Yesterday i had one of the most memorable evenings in my 22 years...

"Sometimes don't you wonder how different your life would have been if just one thing, one little thing hadn't happened?" Quoted from Deborah Chiel's update on Charles Dickens' famous novel, Great Expectations.

Well, rather often lately, i've been thinking how different my life would have been if something hadn't happened. Also, how very often we have to make choices that would have charted the route of our lives. Speaking with Kev over dinner couple of days ago, it triggered off how different my life might have been now. NUS(Arts) over SMU(Biz), Japanese Studies over Psychology. Kev happened to have just made a tough decision, albeit in a haste. I anticipate to see how his life will turn out to be in a few years time, no regrets i hope for him.

Yesterday i had one of the most memorable evenings in my 22 years. The feeling of being treated with immeasurable dignity & recognition was surreal. It greatly contrasts with my life in the day at the coffee-stall. The sumptuous smorgasbord of Japanese delicacies, the generous flow of sake & beer, basking in the spotlight. It was so difficult to hide my excitement and ecstasy in front of these larger than life luminaries. The dream lasted 3 hours, but it was enough to last in my memory for a life time.

Well, as Jing said to me, i'm almost like cinderella, once i reached home i was stripped off whatever i was endowed with earlier. i had such a hard time sleeping as my adrenaline was still rushing but before i knew it, it was already 3a.m - time for work...

The event somehow led me to think about Sayuri-chan(Memoirs of a Geisha) and her chance encounter with the Chairman that proved to be the turning point in her life.
"In that brief encounter with the Chairman, I had changed from a lost girl facing a life time of emptiness to a girl with purpose in her life. Perhaps it seems odd that such a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such a change. But sometimes life is like that, isn't it?"
The novel ends by leaving the reader with this:
"Our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper."