Treasuring Home....

VaLenTine's coming....so I put this latest creation of my best friend to brighten up this page a little...but I have no comment about v-day...not at the moment.... My other bestfriend has just left to the Netherlands *yep, with the "the"* for one-sem of exchange. We talked last night *thanks to skype* and she shared with me about her experience being lost in translation so far...It's just one of the worst frustration being not understood by others don't u agree? sigh...

I just read in the newspaper yesterday this story about a lady who got lost for 20 years just because she took the wrong bus!!! how cruel can this world be OMgoshhh!!! She was from this South border of Thailand and apparently she could only speaks Yawi, which is a very old dialect of Malay i guess, and one unfortunate day she took the wrong bus to Bangkok where no body, no one could understand her...and she ended up staying in a homeless shelter for 2 decades before finally someone could understand her *you can read yest ST for the details*...What a cruel twist of fate...that's for sure is a long journey back home...

That suddenly reminds me of my own grandma *i miss her* who didn't meet her family for 20 years after she got married...she always tell me her story with tears in her eyes... My grandma came from this little island in China called Kolongsu. One day my grandpa came out of nowhere to propose her and being the third guy who proposed my grandma after rejecting the previous 2, her parents accepted the proposal *they believe it would be bad luck for my grandma if they rejected too many proposals =s*. My grandpa is from Jakarta u see, so my grandma had to follow him *and that's where i ended up too =p*. She couldn't go back to China for long because of the wars and because she had to take care of my ailing great grandpa and grandma. By the time she could go back to her hometown, her parents have both passed away = (...she could only met her only brother who had a hard time recognising her hehe... Sigh... I guess I have to learn to be more thankful for the chances I still have to go back home... It was just a few days ago I wanted to go to Timbuktu or Hawaii to run away from all this frustration in my life...I think next time..I'll just go row boat till i reach home *mendayung sampan sampai ke rumah*.... i didn't mean that literally though my house just got flooded recently =p