Roaring Forties

The birth of my first blog also signifies a turning point in my life.  It was done on the day before my birthday and it is also the beginning of the rest of my life. I have done much over the years but have not really journalised them. Maybe now I should do something different.

Yesterday was the first time I actually celebrated the day my mother introduced me to the world since a very long time ago. It has always been a quiet celebration with the most important person in  my life. The last most memorable ‘public’ celebration I had was in Mega Mall; not the one in Mid Valley. At that point in time, Mid Valley was nothing but a series or piles and heavy equipment. It was the Mega Mall in Manila with EO, Sara, Carol, Rob and Chon. Still remembered I was waiting for May when someone approached me with a bouquet of flowers. Thought he was a vendor and I just waved him off. That guy was pesistent and keep saying “for you, sir”. My face turned crimson and I told I don’t want any flowers! Sara quickly came out of nowhere to say the delivery guy further embarassment. Boy! that was 10 years ago today! How time flies?

Anyway, I wanted to paint the room pink at the Red Box but Mr. River and Datuk K. were having their  golf in morning. Thought these two guys would be knocked out by afternoon, so decided to have dinner at our place instead. M and I went over to Mega Mall, the Mid Valley one this time to get stuff in the morning.  Well, we managed a real western fare; tomato &  mushroom soup, salad, lamb chops, gourmet sausages, roast beef & pork knuckles.

Black C & Chung Hwa Lass, Ms. BP, Master Wind, Bluey and Marlborough Gal made up the the rest of the guest list for the evening. Wonderful people with well behaved children. What else could I ask for? Of course, Liverpool beating Chelsea 2:0 was an added bonus.

Amidst the food, we had 5 bottles of wine with a 1999 Robert Mondavi Napa Valley Red topping the list. A German White in violin shaped bottle brought by Black C was a hit for the bottle.  Ms. BP bought me Thai fish cakes , that was something different. Anyway, the real cake was a delicious chocolate layered cake. Thank you guys!!

Also had text greetings from Joe, Dave from Sabah, Ann, Angel and Rosly making it a perfect day.

The treat on the big day itself was Blood Diamonds. Great stuff.

Everything has a begining and it is never too late to start something. So at 2.15 am after skyping with Kit who has just moved to Surrey, this blog was born. Just like that, out of the blue. Out of nothing, by this aging but never admiting to be old die hard who doesn’t know nuts about htmls, blogs or maintaining a website. Maybe the effects of a mid life crisis has really set in and has pushed sanity off the cliff. Maybe the fear of joining the elderly sparked the need to grasp on to something new. Maybe it was the desire to start recording the memories before the brain cells begin to dull and forgetfulness sets in. Maybe it was purely a need for a private corner away from the neurotics. Or maybe it was just to show off to lesser beings that this oldie still has it.

Whatever the reason, it all started in the wee hours of 20th January 2007.

M came up with the title of the “Roaring Forties” signifying our era.  No! We were not born during Adolf’s time, we are not that old.

We are at the best times of our lives; the forties. It was a great period that we had during the last forty years. Intend to have another forty great ones and maybe this blog would help to make it even more memorable.

Life is filled with good and evil, happiness and sadness, black and white as MJ says it or Ying and Yang which the Chinese believes is needed to keep a balance. So where are you? I always believe that life is grey, you can never have one without the other. It is how dark or how light is the grey. Some people are so lost that their greys are almost pitch black and very few people are like Theresa whose grey is almost pure white with maybe some tiny specks of black.

I don’t believe there are any pure ones; black or white in this life. Most unfortunately, the darker shades of grey appears to be more dominant.

I strive to keep my grey as light grey as possible and I hope that I may have along the way helped others whiten theirs. As we go through life, I would try to brighten it up or camouflage it with some colours. Life is there to live and to live fully. I hope that this blog could encourage others to brighten up their own lives and  put in the colours into them.

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