I WANNA BE...FOREVER YOUNG
Today's the last day of the month and my first entry of the year. I don't know what I've been busy with but yes...I've been busy since.
The long weekend is about to come to an end. I must say I had a good time eating, sleeping and of course meeting up with relatives that I hardly see. It's a nice feeling I must say...I sometimes wish that I'm closer to my extended family like how lml is to his. I only see my cousins *counts fingers* for about that number of times a year, or perhaps less.
The ice-breaker or conversation starter when we go visiting would typically be, "Wah...Ar Ni Dua Liao Ah. Kua Deo Ma Buay Lin Liao." (Wow...Grown-up already. Wouldn't recognise you if I bump into you on the streets.) <-Or at least something along that line. Makes me wonder if I've really grown or changed that much. They will then start counting how old I am which reminds me I'm going on to two and twenty. Gosh. So depressing. It wasn't until recently that it hit me that I'm no longer a little girl. I'm still coming to terms with it. It is amazing how as we grow older we want to be young again. And ironically, when we were young, we can't wait to grow up. If I could turn back time, I wouldn't mind playing with barbie dolls once again. That is if... =)
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying.
The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he’s a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he’s to setting.
The age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse and worst Times still succeed the former.
Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, go marry; For having lost but once your prime, You may forever tarry.
Robert Herrick, 1591-1674