I was watching Micheal Jackson's tribute concert where his family and friends were giving their speeches. It's unbelievable how much his life has touched the people around him, with an enormous influence. Seeing now he's gone, just like that, it's hard to accept that a life can be so fragile.

I've known only a few of his famous songs, until some of his old songs were brought up in the radio as well as this song "Gone Too Soon" which was sung by Usher in the concert. It was a touching and meaningful song. Most of the time we don't know what we have till it's gone. Yes, it's true. We always know it's true. Applying this to our life, we throw tantrums to the people closest to us, we show our disagreement disregarding how they feel, we sometimes ignored spending time with them as we thought we will always have them at our side. Remind this to ourselves always, our patience will always starts with the people closest to us.

Ups and downs happened to everyone and he might have suffered pain and sorrows and struggled through the ridicule like how we normal people are going through, no exceptions. After all, what we can feel and know from this superstar, was that he's keeping his faith and always reaching for his dreams.

Like what one of his friend had said in his speech. I'm glad that I live in this era to be able to see Micheal Jackson, and how he has taken his effort and love in changing this world. What I'm affected the most is realizing time slips away before you even know it. Don't take things for granted, celebrate each and every moment that we have with the one we loved. We might not be able to influence like how Michael Jackson is capable of, but it's the least that we can do. No sentimental sense needed nor genius brain, love is what we all know and can give.

I believe we all are weekenders, coz we all love weekends! I tend to squeeze all my personal activities to the 2-day weekend. Making myself occupied that I've forgotten to rest or maybe I don't want to rest, don't want to even take a nap, maybe it's too precious for me?

Some people love to take naps during weekends. Some people enjoy taking long breakfast. I'm one of them. I like to wake up early just to have breakfast, to feel the warmth of the morning sun, to enjoy eating and talking. That's really the best part.

Some people go for a walk or jog with friends, some people enjoy sleeping till afternoon and go for lunch. Some just love shopping while some love watching series. It's great lying on the bed, watching series in whatever position you like.

Some love to lazy around surfing net, then in the afternoon, they go for tea break or coffee break, or maybe cendol + rojak. Some stay up late at night to surf net and blogging till late midnight. This would be what hardcore bloggers do I guess during weekends. :D

Some people who hardly get some rest during weekdays, weekend will be their resting day. For those people who work during weekends, please avoid and don't work too late if it's unavoidable.

So..it's Friday..have you had your plans made for the weekends? Whichever way you're spending your weekends, I do hope that you enjoy it to the max! :)

Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars—points of light and reason… And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn’t see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason for anything.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 23, p.514

Always love quotes like this. It goes right into the heart, drench the soul with the exhilarating passion. It makes you believe the head over heels and the need of feeling whole again. Expressing love has never been beautiful. :)

Going through the photos folder, then saw this pic. It's a picture of my workspace in SCIB when I was working in Bangkok.

First look, organization in mess. I put the whole stack of paper on my left table and all the little notes magnetted on the side of the CPU. Titbits as well, will be on my left. I love eating while working, mouth munching while 2 hands on the keyboard. On and off just to bring the food to my mouth. I sound "eat-a-lot" eh..

Once in a while, I will clean up my workspace, as suggested by my ex-colleague. "Clean up your workspace if you're stucked doing programming, after clean, it will come naturally to you." Not sure whether it works, but I will do that once in a while when I'm stucked. For the sake of the program and myself. :D

I believe that's basically the standard workspace look for all the programmers out there. Total mess or organized mess.

So how's your workspace look like?

Finished "Marley & Me". Can't believe that my tears actually flow towards the end of the book. I'm not being sentimental, but I can feel the loss that the author had had towards Marley when he's gone.

Reading book always give the details. Pieces here and there that I get to understand dog's training, dog's life, understand what type of dog Marley is, and to know that dogs like Marley do exist around the world. :)

I always wanted to keep dog as pet one day, when I got my own place :) "Chico" was my first pet dog, he had been my playmate for 2 years. As I'm not capable to take care of him, we had to send him away. I did miss him and still remember him always. :)

The most important part of this book would be the part where it makes us realize that, a dog has no use of fancy cars or big homes or designer clothes. Status symbols mean nothing to him. A dog judges others not by their color or class but by who they are inside. A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his. :)

A nice book to read. :)

On this weekend eve, I feel overwhelming. Yes, in terms of feeling, mind, thoughts, physically. And I'm trying to calm myself down now. No kidding. This type of overwhelming feeling has been coming on and off recently these years. And it's here again on this weekend eve. Seriously, sometimes I'm afraid that this is going to get me heart attack, coz I can sense adrenaline pumping and I'm in the state of anxiety.

Ok, guess I've gotta slow down things here. Play some songs, yes. It really helps. Now sitting here chatting with my fellow friends. Suddenly it feels great on this friday night, that I feel calm, right at this moment, missing island, missing the sand, the sea, the wave...just can't explain how much you can feel away from all the complications, the routines, the anxieties.

At last, I've found comfort before going to sleep. :)
Sweet Dream to all the dreamers. Good Night. :)

It's a wonderful photo shooting trip to Sekinchan. Thanks John for taking us to his Green Green Grass of Home and introduced us to the special cuisine - "Tiger Shark" :) Have had a great time with you guys, Auyong and Stanley. :) Really a getaway and wonderful place with the blue sky and green paddy field! ;)