Annual Contemplation
It's that time of the year again....towards end, when you sit and think over the events and chapters that unfolded over the last 12 months (well almost...) I know it's an over-used line but time really flies....it's scary...At the beginning of 2006 I was still in Shanghai trudging through the cold Chinese winter working my ass off till the wee hours of the morning in a pounding electronica club filled with booze-tranquilized individuals. Today, I’m working in the middle of Singapore’s Shenton Way, running up and down a swanky mega ad agency (A mere figment of my imagination back in Feb). How the tide has turned and time changes everything. 2006 is indeed a symbolic year for me, with enough activities and memories for me to spin stories in the coming years ahead.
Amidst the speed of action and tumultuous events of 2006, I seem to have lost some time and memories which I should have stopped to savor. And now, when the dust has settled, I find that time to breathe, to ponder, to think about events, people and lessons that are dear to me. It’s all slowly coming back to me…in flashes of sights, sounds, smells…I can sometimes almost feel myself back in Shanghai and how real it feels standing at the Bund, walking along Huai Hai Road, the walls of BonBon, the street of my old house, the smell of the bbq mutton sticks, the people that I left behind. And yet women are capricious creatures, whilst I remain reminiscent of my Shanghai adventure, I carry the hope and excitement of a new adventure in Singapore, a taste of another side of life I have yet experienced. Maybe the grass is always greener on the other side.
Who knows where I’ll be the same time next year, writing another annual blog entry. For now, I’m waiting to celebrate Christmas again in Singapore but also romanticizing the thought of autumn leaves falling on the boulevards of Shanghai. I think I just need the peace and stability back in my life as I leave the action of youth behind….
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