Smiles.... and ever lasting smile...

4th Apr 2009,

Been away for a couple of days from the concrete jungle I called home for the time being. To seek sanity and to go back to basic is absolutely necessary in this age and time. People like me is fortunate enough to be born in a country that is peaceful enough and full of opportunities, minus the biases towards the dominant races and the scandals that our government are involved in. Well, we all know which country ;p. Seriously I have no complaints especially after hearing and now seeing the reality in the third world countries.

Oh ya! I really have not finished describing my trip to DILI, there is so much to write and I seriously doubt my english is that powerful and flowery to put my thoughts, my views and my feelings on a note....

Perhaps it is too overwhelming for me, at times the thoughts that lingers ( whatever that is left in my brain) on brings back the happy moments, at times it was just moment of dillemma. I tried very hard to remember only the good things but we all know its is bullshit. I really suspect that human beings are born negative and only the stronger ones can defeat the negativity in us....and that is obvioulsy the reason these people are successful in their own ways.

Whenever I am feeling a bit down about the whole DILI trip, I always look at my inspirational photo.. yes a boy with a million dollar smile. He perhaps has never had a toy, a school bag, a proper text book or a good nutritional meal and often still wonders about his own future and his country's future. Look at him, he is still able to smile at me when my camera focused on him. We all know this smile is genuinely pure, sincere and heart warming. So why am I or we complaining or sulking over matters that is entirely unimportant. Perhaps we all live a very sophisticated and complex life, a life that is full of expectations. Until today, I have never really understood myself, wat I want or need?

If people can live a simple and basic life, why did we choose to complicate it? I wonder .....

Keep Smiling... RR