Its V-Day all over the world today. A day where you have the chance to confess your admiration for that certain individual you have been eyeing on for months, the chance to prove your undying and unconditional love for your partner and, perhaps, for some, the chance to look back and try to remember past years' V-day dates and happenings to make sure that you try to do something different THIS year.
For me and hubby, I think we HAD that moment. Yesterday, we knew Valentine's would come today. And now that Valentine's had come, well, we had no idea what we wanted to do. So we had to ask ourselves AND each other- what had we done previously for Valentine's Day? The last V-day we had together, as far as we could remember, was a nice, overly-priced dinner at 'Plantation', an exquisite dining experience that you pay more than AUS$100 each for,to have that chance to profess our undying love for each other... and I think this was WAY BACK in 2002 or something like that.
Instead of reserving seats at another overly-priced restaurant that serves overly-rated food, with the odd sales man selling roses from table to table at ten bucks a pop, we had decided to go cat-cage shopping, stationary shopping, and have dinner at a simple kopitiam over some very constructive conversation on how each of us (hubby, Fhim, and myself) can work towards our own little ventures to make ourselves into millionaires. Simple. Constructive. And yet, within budget. V-day should just be like any other day. Simple, like the past two days that I have been here.
As I reminisce and analyze back to what I had done in the past two days that I have been here, I sit and realize that there is more to KL that what I had anticipated. KL, a city that truly never sleeps, is a city full of ambitions. The people here have big goals of making it big to the "Who's Who list" or the "Top 100 richest Malaysians list", they have ambitions and they all want to be part of everything that is moving, that is developing rapidly in this city. They see what they want and they go after it and when they do, some fall while others succeed. This 'go-get-it' attitude is not common in Brunei. There are some ambitious individuals, but not all are ready to get up and do something about it. There are over 2 million people in KL alone and you can already imagine the number of 'next-big-thing' ideas that go through these 2 million minds!
I must say, in every sitting encounter that I have participated in in the past two days, I have observed and analyzed that every individual, whether through their conversation topics or through their facial expressions have a big AMBITION where they will leave their mark and will make a name for theirselves. Insurance, logistics, oil and gas, fashion boutiques, tuition centres, aquaculture, magazine publishing and printing. All these AMBITIONS and big goals from individuals who are in my age group. All of them seeking and pursuing some sort of opportunity to make it into the 'list'. Like I said, these are ambitions and goals. Whether or not they will make it, is something I am sure will unfold by itself through time. Whatever the ambition or goal, I have noticed one common denominator amongst all these amazing individuals and that is PASSION. They have it and they have it big. They have faith in their idea and they have faith in their ambition. They have it so much in themselves that you can actually see through their facial structures and know that this big idea or ambition has been running in their mind for months on end. And this is something I do not see very much back home.
I know one thing is for sure, though, this 'go-get-it' attitude is infectious. I feel its creeping up on me. I feel the need to do some work even more with this infectious attitude! Its a good thing, cause to-date, the most mind-enhancing activity that I do during the day, is a game of scabulous, a game of scramble and the occassional blackjack game on facebook.
So scrabulous anyone?
For me and hubby, I think we HAD that moment. Yesterday, we knew Valentine's would come today. And now that Valentine's had come, well, we had no idea what we wanted to do. So we had to ask ourselves AND each other- what had we done previously for Valentine's Day? The last V-day we had together, as far as we could remember, was a nice, overly-priced dinner at 'Plantation', an exquisite dining experience that you pay more than AUS$100 each for,to have that chance to profess our undying love for each other... and I think this was WAY BACK in 2002 or something like that.
Instead of reserving seats at another overly-priced restaurant that serves overly-rated food, with the odd sales man selling roses from table to table at ten bucks a pop, we had decided to go cat-cage shopping, stationary shopping, and have dinner at a simple kopitiam over some very constructive conversation on how each of us (hubby, Fhim, and myself) can work towards our own little ventures to make ourselves into millionaires. Simple. Constructive. And yet, within budget. V-day should just be like any other day. Simple, like the past two days that I have been here.
As I reminisce and analyze back to what I had done in the past two days that I have been here, I sit and realize that there is more to KL that what I had anticipated. KL, a city that truly never sleeps, is a city full of ambitions. The people here have big goals of making it big to the "Who's Who list" or the "Top 100 richest Malaysians list", they have ambitions and they all want to be part of everything that is moving, that is developing rapidly in this city. They see what they want and they go after it and when they do, some fall while others succeed. This 'go-get-it' attitude is not common in Brunei. There are some ambitious individuals, but not all are ready to get up and do something about it. There are over 2 million people in KL alone and you can already imagine the number of 'next-big-thing' ideas that go through these 2 million minds!
I must say, in every sitting encounter that I have participated in in the past two days, I have observed and analyzed that every individual, whether through their conversation topics or through their facial expressions have a big AMBITION where they will leave their mark and will make a name for theirselves. Insurance, logistics, oil and gas, fashion boutiques, tuition centres, aquaculture, magazine publishing and printing. All these AMBITIONS and big goals from individuals who are in my age group. All of them seeking and pursuing some sort of opportunity to make it into the 'list'. Like I said, these are ambitions and goals. Whether or not they will make it, is something I am sure will unfold by itself through time. Whatever the ambition or goal, I have noticed one common denominator amongst all these amazing individuals and that is PASSION. They have it and they have it big. They have faith in their idea and they have faith in their ambition. They have it so much in themselves that you can actually see through their facial structures and know that this big idea or ambition has been running in their mind for months on end. And this is something I do not see very much back home.
I know one thing is for sure, though, this 'go-get-it' attitude is infectious. I feel its creeping up on me. I feel the need to do some work even more with this infectious attitude! Its a good thing, cause to-date, the most mind-enhancing activity that I do during the day, is a game of scabulous, a game of scramble and the occassional blackjack game on facebook.
So scrabulous anyone?
