A friend of mine posted on a social networking site that it took him a few hours to just go across the causeway back to Malaysia on Chinese New Year s Eve.
Another friend who was on the way back to her hometown up north also posted on the same site sharing that she has been on the road for four hours and her hometown is nowhere in sight.
On Chinese New year s Eve my friend had coffee in one of the busiest shopping mall in the city yet she told me that the crowd dwindled drastically compared to normal days and finding car park was never an issue.
It was evident that many have embarked on the journey back home.
In the spirit of tradition, many have taken the trouble to travel far and near to their respective hometowns.
Some have taken the opportunity to go for holidays elsewhere for a different kind of Chinese New Year celebration.
If you are someone who just had your driving license and would like to gain confidence on the road for the first time this would probably be a good time to try it out.
Visiting friends, relatives and catching up over ‘lou sang’ dinners has become a norm and time seems to pass quickly when you are occupied with so many wonderful events.
When you are enjoying yourself, you always hope that you could at least slow down the time.
After all beautiful and quality moments are what we are looking for.
Yet these moments seem to accelerate quicker than before.
The next thing you know it would be the nineth day, an auspicious day for the Hokkien.
Before you realize it, it’s already Chap Goh Meh, the fifteen day of the celebration and part of the tradition was some single ladies going over to throw oranges into the lake as a symbol of the noble effort to find their life partner soon enough.
By today, the celebration is over and we need to wait for another year to celebrate all over again.
And the next thing you know wewould beventuring into the third month of the new year when it seemed not so very distant away when we last celebrated the dawning of a brand new year.
Time seemed to accelerate at a higher magnitude and with another blink of an eye, it would be another new month that have entered our life.
And as we reevaluate what we have actually achieved during such a short period of time, we might realise that we have not done much and might end up asking ourselves why is that so.
Perhaps there were too many things that we wanted to do.
Maybe we set too many lofty goals that seemed too ambitious and never too realistic.
Perhaps we procrastinated and hesitated.
Procrastination is a thief of time.
Time that could never be returned to us even if we want to.
If you have a million dollars, you cannot even buy a second of time.
Maybe that’s why sometimes is better to use the highway to save time even though you might end paying more from the monetary point of view.
Simply because time is what you cannot buy with money.
Yet the value of time is unquantifiable.
From the special relativity point of view, you could slow down time if you move nearly at the speed of light.
Then again by doing that, your mass would have gained tremendously.
That’s the physics of time.
On the other hand, a friend of mine told me at the end of last year that it’s best to focus on doing one thing at the time and finding ways to ensure that the task is done in an effective manner.
This is simply because if we tried to do to many things at one time, we will lose focus and probably not achieve much in the end.
After all, life is about focusing all your energy on the greatest potential so as to achieve the desired results within the framework of the time that has been set.
Another friend of mine, told me that his primary objective every day was to focus on achieving the single primary task that would effect the results of all other secondary tasks.
As time flows undisturbed in a forward direction, subconsciously we would try to achieve as many tasks as possible in the name of efficiency.
If we could achieve the desired results then we should be extremely elated and give ourselves a treat.
Yet many a time, only some were fulfilled and the rest are still left in the doldrums.
Perhaps we should instead try to focus on what we really want to achieve.
Maybe we should narrow down all the possibilities and focus our energy only on the greatest potential.
After all, it’s not about the greediness to achieved as much as possible.
It’s about finding ways to ensure that the only and single dream that matters the most is realized.
Maybe, in that way we might be happier at the outcome.
After all, being happy is usually everything that matters the most.
Another friend who was on the way back to her hometown up north also posted on the same site sharing that she has been on the road for four hours and her hometown is nowhere in sight.
On Chinese New year s Eve my friend had coffee in one of the busiest shopping mall in the city yet she told me that the crowd dwindled drastically compared to normal days and finding car park was never an issue.
It was evident that many have embarked on the journey back home.
In the spirit of tradition, many have taken the trouble to travel far and near to their respective hometowns.
Some have taken the opportunity to go for holidays elsewhere for a different kind of Chinese New Year celebration.
If you are someone who just had your driving license and would like to gain confidence on the road for the first time this would probably be a good time to try it out.
Visiting friends, relatives and catching up over ‘lou sang’ dinners has become a norm and time seems to pass quickly when you are occupied with so many wonderful events.
When you are enjoying yourself, you always hope that you could at least slow down the time.
After all beautiful and quality moments are what we are looking for.
Yet these moments seem to accelerate quicker than before.
The next thing you know it would be the nineth day, an auspicious day for the Hokkien.
Before you realize it, it’s already Chap Goh Meh, the fifteen day of the celebration and part of the tradition was some single ladies going over to throw oranges into the lake as a symbol of the noble effort to find their life partner soon enough.
By today, the celebration is over and we need to wait for another year to celebrate all over again.
And the next thing you know wewould beventuring into the third month of the new year when it seemed not so very distant away when we last celebrated the dawning of a brand new year.
Time seemed to accelerate at a higher magnitude and with another blink of an eye, it would be another new month that have entered our life.
And as we reevaluate what we have actually achieved during such a short period of time, we might realise that we have not done much and might end up asking ourselves why is that so.
Perhaps there were too many things that we wanted to do.
Maybe we set too many lofty goals that seemed too ambitious and never too realistic.
Perhaps we procrastinated and hesitated.
Procrastination is a thief of time.
Time that could never be returned to us even if we want to.
If you have a million dollars, you cannot even buy a second of time.
Maybe that’s why sometimes is better to use the highway to save time even though you might end paying more from the monetary point of view.
Simply because time is what you cannot buy with money.
Yet the value of time is unquantifiable.
From the special relativity point of view, you could slow down time if you move nearly at the speed of light.
Then again by doing that, your mass would have gained tremendously.
That’s the physics of time.
On the other hand, a friend of mine told me at the end of last year that it’s best to focus on doing one thing at the time and finding ways to ensure that the task is done in an effective manner.
This is simply because if we tried to do to many things at one time, we will lose focus and probably not achieve much in the end.
After all, life is about focusing all your energy on the greatest potential so as to achieve the desired results within the framework of the time that has been set.
Another friend of mine, told me that his primary objective every day was to focus on achieving the single primary task that would effect the results of all other secondary tasks.
As time flows undisturbed in a forward direction, subconsciously we would try to achieve as many tasks as possible in the name of efficiency.
If we could achieve the desired results then we should be extremely elated and give ourselves a treat.
Yet many a time, only some were fulfilled and the rest are still left in the doldrums.
Perhaps we should instead try to focus on what we really want to achieve.
Maybe we should narrow down all the possibilities and focus our energy only on the greatest potential.
After all, it’s not about the greediness to achieved as much as possible.
It’s about finding ways to ensure that the only and single dream that matters the most is realized.
Maybe, in that way we might be happier at the outcome.
After all, being happy is usually everything that matters the most.