face the wind

when the path you want to walk is littered with obstacles and the wind is blowing into your eye what do you do? Do you surrender to the wind and turn back, or face it and trudge on? There is really no point in turning back, sunk costs, opportunity costs lost both ways. The moment you turn back against the wind you may just lose your footing and fall, why not just steady yourself and walk on towards where you want to go. It is so easy to forget where we want to go, because of distractions along the way or weariness that makes you wonder if you should just take an easier route to somewhere else instead.

Luckily I am surrounded by friends. People i know who can cheer me on and even pull me along if need be. Thanks bestest for buying nuggets for me so that i didn't starve while waiting for dinner, and bestest's gf for the $1.70 overly-laced-alcohol-mussels, yummy spinach and very pumpkined pumpkin-prawn-crab-sotong soup-which-i-drank-3-bowls of. I believe i paid my due by fixing up your table fan heheh.

I think this year I will try to live life with more compassion on top of the things I will be focusing on. Since money is no enough, donating blood will be a good cause that I will try to do more of. plus everytime i go i get a free stress ball.

I just remembered that i have not gotten my x'mas presents from my bestestSS!!! :((

Trivia time - did you know that we gained 1 second from end of 2008 to 2009? It's called a leap second

From timeanddate.com -
A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2008.
The sequence of dates of the UTC second markers will be:  
  
                        2008 December 31,     23h 59m 59s
                        2008 December 31,     23h 59m 60s
                        2009 January   1,      0h  0m  0s