我只想要一个家

曾经的我多么想结婚成家就是因为我真心想要拥有一个家，一个如果我有什么不开心有委屈时可以回去的家。

13年，这是我离开了自己的家去发展事业的年头。这些年许多跌跌撞撞，渐渐地我变得独立了。曾经看过人家说的寂寞10级别，其实我除了手术之外，全部做齐了。可想而知，成就我的寂寞里程碑的是因为我有很多年都无法依赖别人。

我确实缺爱所以我特别努力去爱。我不能说自己爱地轰轰烈烈但是至少依然充满憧憬。我憧憬有个爱我的人，憧憬有个给我空间的家，憧憬有人为我的成就欢呼，更加憧憬有人在我最无助的时候不离不弃。

 几个月前，男朋友跟我求婚了；正当我以为所有的憧憬都会开始实现的时候，我却对这段关系感觉越来越迷茫。

男朋友对我很好，但是是他觉得的好。

每一次我不开心就想冷静的时候，他非得逼我放下让我冷静的任何事或是物，立刻告诉他我怎么了。我其实就是需要时间消化我的情绪，可是无论我说多少次没有事，他都不相信我而要我立刻跟他说明清楚。有时候我想要立马走开，他却选择握紧我的手腕，就是要我马上与他对视并且立刻表明我有什么不开心。我要是不说，他就会闹脾气。

无法消化情绪之余，我还得安慰他。我真的压力好大。

他父母的家就在和我们一样的城市，每次有什么不开心，他可以回家放松。而我的家，在哪里？

我选择了离开自己的家13年，也习惯了对家里报喜不报忧的人生，那么努力地活好自己，那我不开心的时候要怎么做？

我只想要一个家，可以吗？

R.I.P Six Sigma

Working in corporate is interesting when you encounter people of different background reaching to an action point that is unreasonable to many.

I have recently been working closely with IT development team and our main objective was to have a program to replace redundant, manual work. 

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First, a team of analyst will make it a hard time for a requestor by making the requestor write a 25 page long of requirement for the developer to work on. Then after 20 times of changes, the document is good to go.

During development, the developer discuss with himself for the whole time, on how to do the developing, how the flow will go, how Operations can benefit from it and how it would be.

Then it is testing time. Program finally ready for testing but it didn't work as the initial requirement because developer assumed it in his version of 25 pager while the requestor have another understanding.

Analyst's final conclusion is proceed to get the system to production then only request for change because it is what the Developer understood from the program. 

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What I learn is that, if you pre-ordered a car 1 year ago, it is not the manufacturer's fault that they gave you an engine that is meant to work 1 year ago. 

I thought it would be fair if change to requirement is allowed at testing stage in order to achieve the objective but people of different background came to a conclusion that we should not fix it now, let it be rotten and shown then only get it fixed.

R.I.P Six Sigma

到底什么才是爱？

认识了他快9年，在一起都7年多了，我们依然还在磨合中。

7年多了，他是对我沉默的人，却是对朋友都会滔滔不绝。而我仿佛上辈子是个哑巴，这辈子生下来就是要说话的人。太累了，我就得说到没力气了才能睡着的那种多话之人。

7年多了，我依然还得猜他要的，而我最厌倦的就是猜测。

7年多了，我依然还是不知道他什么时候想吃什么，而我喜爱吃的他都不喜欢，我只能等朋友有空的时候陪我去吃，而我最爱的就是美食。朋友都说，我是可以用美食绑架的人。

7年多了，那种只有在极度没有安全感才出现的一丝丝不安，会不经意的在他身上突然散发出。无论我多么努力想要去除让他不开心的氛围，我都无法避免。而我大多数的朋友都是该死的异性，所以我已经处于跟大多数朋友存在着绝交状态。

7年多了，到底是时间没好好工作还是技巧没好好掌握，他如今依然是选择性聆听。而我就只剩下他一个聆听伙伴，我已经没有可以交心且不会偷偷地批评我的朋友了。

12月20日2020年，他跟我求婚了。期待已久的求婚，发生地不如期待但终究发生了。他一如既往地好笑，如我期望的计划错漏百出；当然最经典的必定是求婚前两天，他还找我＂练习＂了两次。😂

只是，就在求婚后的17天，我们吵架了。吵的是史无前列的轰烈却结局为冷战的一场闹剧。

我们正在谈论着八宝冰，一个充满我人生最快乐时段的回忆。当我说到我回忆里最精彩的记忆时，他的电话响起 - 是昨晚给我们吃免费八宝冰的朋友打来的。

他们挂了电话之后，我问他还记得我们刚才才说什么吗？他说，＂记得啊，就是在说现在要吃什么。＂

我们小争吵了一回，他忽然又说，＂是不是不想跟我一起了？我可以走。＂

7年了，他依然习惯性的不开心就想要逃避，而我已经不胜其数地反映了我对于逃避的厌恶，尤其当他不愉快就要走的时候；而他依然一如既往地重复着说。

到了餐馆，我纳闷地想要吃东西，结果递上去的点菜单就点了只有我才吃的卤面。虽然饿了，他选择不吃。他说饿了但是不想吃，而我只能难受的吃了一顿他板着脸的面。

吃完了，我不愿意上车回去，我感觉我需要空间，我需要让我冷静思考和呼吸的空间。

而他一如既往的觉得，我要发脾气就要回家发脾气。

而他一如既往的觉得，我要傲娇就不要在大街上。

而他一如既往的觉得，他都已经道歉了，我为什么还要生气。

其实我想要的就是他让我有冷静的空间和一颗聆听我想说话的心，一个卑微到我都无法自容的要求，真的那么难成全吗？

爱是不是就是我能忍多久就是爱多深，还是这就是求婚后应该拥有的另类磨合？

2020 - One Hell of a Year

2020 has been one hell of a year.

9th May 2020, I encountered sleeping difficulty while I was extremely tired. While I finally fall asleep, some unease feeling woke me up at 4.55 AM. It just didn't feel right.

I could barely open my eyes but it just feel like the wrong time to sleep. 

6:07 AM, a text rang, "I may be hospitalised". Instantly, I knew this is what kept my body awake.

With the pandemic on the rise, I thought it was Coronavirus. It turns out that my sister had a sudden pain at 3:00 AM, was rushed to the hospital by her friend. She ready herself with everything packed for hospitalization.

With extreme pain, she waited at the medical field for screening of coronavirus, blood test, x-ray, etc, from 4:30 AM to 4:30 PM, alone. My eldest sister, a community coordinator that focuses on neighbourhood well-being and how we can grow to help the community. In order to best deliver her job, she regularly travel and serve different communities across South East Asia. This happen while she away in a city, 9 hours drive from my city and 11 hours drive from home.

Medical Field she waited for 12 hours

Today, she fell sick in her city, alone. The pain was suspected to be appendicitis, she have to wait for 2 more patients before her with the same condition before she can go into a minor surgery to remove the inflamed appendix. After waiting for 12 hours, they told her, she will need to wait till 8:00 PM or 9:00 PM.

Even from afar, I can feel the pain. I don't know what she is encountering but I could feel that it might not end up a minor surgery.

4:50 PM, she informed us that her surgery was expedited by a family friend whom happen to be one of the doctors that rushed the paperwork for my sister and she was going into surgery soon.

6:04 PM, the doctors that palpated my sister's abdomen after she was anesthetized, found a mass on the right side of her abdomen. They decided to cut a bigger incision at her mid-line lower abdomen and will extend it higher if the mass is bigger. My mother whom informed us this, must be really upset because this happened on Mother's day and a day before mother's birthday. Neither one of us dare to tell her the hospitalization news in the morning nor wish her Happy Mother's day on this not so news on a "should be" happy day.

6:59 PM, after inflamed appendix was cut, the specialist team gone in and found my sister to have the important organ enlarged and twisted. The appendix was cut and the important organ were partially cut and sent for histopathology examination. 

7:30 PM, mother was informed that sister's important organ has been partially removed and surgeons are covering her wound up.

8:26 PM, surgery is over. From a 1 hour minor surgery to 3.5 hours of surgery on Mother's day, I didn't dare to ask what happen.

From 4:55 AM to 11:09 PM, her being awake from anesthetic, I couldn't breathe well. I just miss her so much for being a strict sister that have groomed me to be a better person.

I am grateful to have her as my sister to lead the way in life, being selfless to contribute to many different community's growth and to consistently achieve personal excellence in everything she does.

I love you my sister and I hope you have speedy recovery.

Congratulations?

A day ago, my ex boyfriend posted on his new born baby.

Other than being an ex boyfriend, he is also my debtor. When he needed money, I stupidly (love is blind, they say) took few loans for him and he used me as a source of income for couple years while we were together. I took the loan for a car, paid half of the car and never seen the car or the money again. I never knew what happened to the car or the money.

1 year after we broke up, he was still staying in my house, cooking all the food i bought. Soon I wanted to be dating again, I warned him to leave in a week and never to return to my life again. He left.

It has been 7 years we broke up and I have been keeping up with the debts that he always said he will pay or shall pay but never did. Always with excuses.

I am unhappy he got a baby first while I asked for the break up. Why did we break up in the first place? He was consuming me, physically, mentally and spiritually.

He was an abuser. I used to be imprisoned in the house for 2 years, hidden from the world. My family don't see me unless we ran out of food and ran out of money. He made me go home to "steal" some food.

I was regularly beaten up so badly, I was not able to work. I struggled mentally and attempted suicide for several times. It is true, when you are so badly injured, you won't feel the pain in the cut on the wrist.

Gratefully, I survived those suicidal incidences and made myself a promise that I will leave him, strong as me again.

When I met him, I was only 19. Being in network marketing at that moment, I was earning a happy 5 figures and after being with him, I lost everything. He personally gave his best friend ALL of my savings and capital fund while they spent it on alcohol, clubbing, prostitution and eventually when the money ran out, his friend left.

I planned and I worked diligently according to plan to leave him when he took my last RM50.00 and left me starving, it was 7 days to payout. I almost fainted in the office, my former colleagues gave me milk, bread and some money to survive. I cried terribly and knew I had to change it.

I worked nonstop for 18 hours a day continuously for 3 years and when I began to pick myself up financially and at work, he told me to thank him for making me a better person.

Nothing was uttered, I just smiled. Despite being a leader at work, I was being bullied by a large group of people, some of which I didn't even know until years later. I was being bullied at home, mentally, physically and I know spiritually my soul was dying. I prayed really really hard.

My prayers was answered at the most awful moment of my life. I was given an opportunity to leave the project for a better, bigger project. The opportunist side of me became the dominant and left.

I worked even harder (20 hours a day perhaps?), got into a better relationship, started to have savings, never starved myself for another day.

Chasing the debt for 7 years, listening to him telling me how bad his situation is for the many years and how his wife got pregnant and he is in tension. I frankly don't care because he cannot even afford to pay me back RM1 and he got the balls to tell me, today (yes today) that the money was spent with me.

When we were together, I used to earn 4 times of what his parents send him, monthly. He actually had the balls to tell me he spent on me too.

Instead of congratulating him, I told him that I wish his daughter will know what kind of person he was. How a liar he was about owing a person and lied for wanting to pay; when help was needed, it was given but when money has to be returned, it had to be begged.

He said I cursed him while I should congratulate him.

Everyone in the world can congratulate him but never me because only i went through the hell of being beaten, tortured mentally and walked out of that safely. I forgave him so I forgive myself but I will never forget the scar he left in my life.

Congratulate yourself if you feel you deserve it but I feel nothing other than pitiful to the baby girl born to your care.

How I remind myself to "Live while alive"

你饿了吗？

你今天饿了吗？

马来西亚2008年的金融风暴，我当时还是个念书的屁孩，根本不知道什么是金融风暴；如今我即将身在其中。

我有点紧张甚至有点兴奋，这感觉就是个成人礼。原来这就是大人要经历的，原来这就是当时候的大人要面对的。

不一样的是，政府改变了，格局改变了，科技改变了，模式改变了。

这些天的行动管制令，提供了我们反思的时间。多久没有沉淀的心情，多久没有放松的情绪，多久没有平静的日子，开始都有改变了。

这是个自我人生改变的危机时刻。有些人在担心自己的事业，有些人在担心自己的人生，有些人在担心自己的公司，有些人在担心公司如果没了员工何去何从？

这是个大规模的人生转折点，每个人都会经历的异常洗礼。

你饿了吗？你准备好过短暂不开心的日子然后有更好的未来吗？

你饿了吗？你准备好和艰难的日子肩并肩合手迎接更好的未来吗？

你饿了吗？你准备好决定以后是吃草还是吃鱼子酱的日子吗？

你对于你的未来有多饿？

都反思过了还是只是在烦死阶段？

Live while breathing

I am always intrigued by how others live their lives because I want to know how to make my life matters. My whole life, I have been searching for a meaning, the meaning.

Unsure if this is only me but everyone seems to be doing great in their lives.

I have tried to work up the corporate level, taste of sense of achievement yet I start to feel the emptiness of life, the lack of livelihood and passion driven aggressiveness. I can’t stop to wonder if this is something that happens to everyone.

Life became more and more bulky when it is going into the unknown then one tends to do more and more to get it more meaningful. This leads to living someone else’s dream, someone else’s goal and someone else’s life.

Life is too short to live for someone else.

I took a leap of faith and took 20 days off to Netherlands to meet up with the sister that I didn’t have the best relationship with, together with my mother whom I didn’t have a great relationship. 2 months ago, my sister gave birth to her 3^rd child, a baby girl.

Baby was born in a water bath and when I arrived, she was already 2 months old. She only knew how to poo, pee, sleep and cry for milk. Then on the day I left, she can already understand if a person is talking to her, she can recognize me, and she can even suck her thumb to soothe herself.

Once upon a time, that was me. I was so focused and indulged to find the next thing in life to make a tat better. One thing at the time was a thing and a big happiness for my family when they see me doing the next thing they have been longing, there were pure happiness and encouragement.

This will be my focus in life hereon, to live while breathing.