responding to your queries + concern

have been back for about a week and one day but have already received heaps of well wishes. thanks guys and gals for all your concern and love. glad to know that there are still people whom I can really call friends after all this while. as for why i left without a word, i guess the only thing that i will say is that it seemed like the best thing to do at that point in time. but well, let's not go there. i'd rather not talk about it.

hmm do i regret it? even if it means deferring my studies for a year? definitely not. i'm thankful to have seen and experience much in this reflective stint in taiwan. yaya, i will flickr the photos when i finally get my act together with the uploads. so stay tuned. as for what my plans are for now? i'm also not too sure. just taking it easy, one step at a time till i rejoin next semester. parents are nagging me as always - what's new? but thank god they've backed off my case slightly lest i pull a stunt like this again. it's sad that they never seem to listen and just want things their way, all in the name of 'it's for your own good, you'll see.' but frankly, in my twenty years thus far, i don't see and i don't think i ever will. sometimes i think that it is more like because they were unable to do this or accomplish that and so they start to impose such things on us instead; to pin on us their unfulfilled hopes. but is this what we really want? they don't stop to hear or understand. anyhoo, this is my life and i will live it the way i want. just 1 more year to go and i will get to call the shots.

till then, life is too short to be miserable or resentful. like it or not, there will always be unpleasant things (and people) that we have no control over but a well-lived life is one which makes the best out of everything. and that is what i intend to do.

the first thing i need to do though is to stop grumbling ;P