Riding Through it All ...

Happy New Year! This is my 100th entry!! And it coincides with the dawn of the year 2009. To folks out there, young and old alike, forget what should be forgotten! Smile at what should be smiled at! Laugh out loud when you should laugh out loud! Go crazy when you should go crazy! Give hugs to those you want to give but never dare to! Treasure every moment that should be treasured! Cry those tears of joy and tears of sadness if crying makes you feel better! Look back only when you need to, and move on! Most important of all, enjoy your life meaningfully!

I have been going down with this terrible flu for three days now. I have to admit that it sucks feeling sick like this. My throat hurts every time I swallow something, and I feel strangely cold despite the absence of snow here in Cambodia. Anyway I did not celebrate Christmas this year, and if there is such thing as weird, this should be it! I remember those many years back when I celebrated Christmas with my classmates in class. We were always the loudest, noisiest class in our building. People would bring in musical instruments like guitars or a keyboard to class, and we would then start singing and dancing like mad. We would also exchange gifts, which was a bit lame for our age lolz... We all would laugh so loud that people in our neighboring classes could not help but wonder what the heck was going on. A few days before Christmas, i had this conversation with one of the senior lecturers at IFL, and while we were talking about whether we should allow our students to celebrate Christ

I hate it when I always have to begin my entries with synonyms of the word "sorry", but I guess i could not find a less cliche word to express how sorry i am for failing to stay committed to blogging! Anyway, now that Potato has gone, we start to feel that something is missing when we meet. The unusual silence that hangs in the air is unavoidable. And the fact that we are going to see him again only in another two years and a half tears us apart. It feels weird without his presence, and even weirder when people suddenly become so rapt in thoughts that they keep silent most of the time. With him around, he was always the ice breaker, babbling about this and that on and on till he got us in stitches. Wish you all could have seen the look on his face when he was waving goodbye to us from the escalator at the airport. He was trying to look "happy", but any fools could tell that he was faking it--he was almost in tears! Well I have never liked the idea of seeing friends

My apologies to all my dear readers!! It has been three weeks or so since i last posted my entry here. In fact I have been dying to post new pics as I have captured some of the great moments out of my daily schedule, but as you know, it sucks when it comes to waiting torturously for your pics to be uploaded, no thanks to the painfully slow speed of the internet around here! And of course, it should go without saying that I miss reading my friends' entries too. Kinda feel that I am missing out on a lot of things lately. But no worries! I will pull my socks up from now on, and be a little more commited to blogging. Anyway, it is Sunday today, and it undoubtedly marks the end of my second week as a lecturer at IFL. I am getting used to the way things work around here bit by bit. Each day is about a new lesson for the sudents and also a new lesson for me. Though it is quite stressful and stuff, i think I am doing just fine. I take pride in what i do, so basically sometimes i feel the n