winter= snow + extreme cold

 I forgot to write about winter...

 

It's still not over, it won't be over until April, so they say.. Which means that I have to deal with cold freezing gusts of wind, wet gloomy weather with no escape of the unrelenting cold.  It actually wouldn't have been that bad if  my heater was working and if my room was not located on the 11th floor with a balcony. The gusts of wind seep through the balcony door and this makes my room much more colder than the room in "The Exorcist".  

Sort of feels like living in a ice box.. The only thing that makes the whole winter okay is the snowing and unfortunately for me, it doesn't snow much in Wuhan. It snowed pretty much once or twice since I've been here.. For those who haven't seen the pictures, here they are..

The view from my balcony... I took this at 8:40 am.  I was constantly waking up that morning just to see if it was snowing.. :)

The Garden work done by the school.. the snow makes the smiley face more visible!

 The Park right aside my dorm.. every morning a lot of elderly Chinese people practice Taijichuan ( a form of mental and body martial arts).. They have tempoparily stopped practicing during the Chinese New Year..

 I couldn't write my name in Hanzi in the snow... :P

 

 The park once more....

SUNNY....

I just had to rave about this new movie that I watched recently...
It has been quite a while since I have been inspired to write, hence such little entries..
This movie has inspired me in a lot of ways... before I get into more about how I am feeling, let me give a bit of an introduction about the movie.

"Sunny" is a South Korean movie about life, youth, emotions, bonds and friendship. It revolves around a middle aged woman who seems to have lost herself as she gained a husband and became a mother. She fell into a routine life until she accidentally comes across one of her 7 best friends from high school. Together, we see what kind of fun, trouble and pain they all go through.. Due to a dire circumstance, she decides to locate the rest of her best friends. The movie basically revolves around these women, how much their lives had changed.


This movie made me once again realize and cherish the friends that I have in my life.. Not everyone is lucky enough to find somebody who will accept them as a whole, the good and the bad. I have been truly blessed by Allah to have found many sincere people who I believe loves me and supports me with everything that they have.

Since I am in China, far away from my loved ones, it feels as if I have left part of me behind. I have been feeling that they are moving on with their lives without me and I have become an unimportant part in their lives.  
Through this movie, I have come to the conclusion that everyone revolves. They move on with their lives with or without their friends or family. This is part of life, part of being human, being a grown up. But the one thing that we actually forget is to allow those people to know that they are still with you, that you think about them and will someday become more closer than they were before. After being apart, finding who you truly are, when your feet are firmly touching the ground, we need to grasp on to the people we love. The best thing we need to do is to hold on to them while we are going through these changes but we are human. We can't do everything we want to do.

So all I can do right now is become who I am supposed to be, not to lose who I truly am and become stronger and better. I will try my best to allow them to stay with me during this adventure but distance and time does not seem to allow it. I will do my best to be a part of their happy moments as much as I can and not let go of the ones that I respect and love...

Maybe after 25 years later or maybe even earlier, like Sunny, I can reminisce about the times I spent with my family, best friends, my classmates, my unnie, my dongsengs and the people I will eventually meet..

Life truly is something wonderful, we just need to realize it..I wish to spend it with people like them.. Who really loves me for me.. :D

 

NEW YEAR!!

I haven't blogged in a long time now..

Lots of things have happened and there have been times that I have questioned a lot of things..
The year 2011 has passed by in a blink of an eye, and within that time period I have had the pleasure of getting to know some very wonderful people, had experienced unimaginable things, had the opportunity to do inexplicable things. In short, I am very very grateful for all that has happened in the last year..

Surely not all of them have been enjoyable experiences but like they say you gotta take what you can get..and I thank Allah for keeping me alive and healthy..

I miss my mother.. my family and my family of friends.. I wish I could go back once more and tell them how much I miss them... I do have new friends but since they are of a different nationality, their way of thinking and personality are new to me.. But I am glad to have met them and grateful to be a part of their life..