As we move forward, we found a caravan. The conventional way to begin the auspicious journey, was to try to acquire a vehicle first, but we didn’t. Instead, we did it by foot, for the past 9 months, and some part of our feet got burnt. But now, the owners of the caravans offered us one, after seeing our feet, knowing we’re serious about it. Knowing we have followers. Therefore the process was painless, swift and we look forward to moving in.
Along the way, there have been people throwing twigs and stones at us, saying there were tigers in the woods, and that we should give it up. They cited a few stories where trekkers and explorers went in, and never came out. Some came back alone. Best friends came back being enemies. Some came back naked, losing their clothes, dignity and other what nots.
Well, in the beginning we were all sponsored with torchlights, enough food to last the infant stages of the expedition, and lots of lip service. We were grateful, from the heart. But while we were fighting dragons and draught, some of these sponsors decided to pull out. They started to lose confidence in us, saying that we didn’t really have what it took, and we needed ‘experience’. They wanted us to go join other expeditions first, before doing it all by ourselves.
There was no right or wrong. We all had different dreams. Some of us had taller ones. Who were we to judge? A lot of great dreams started sounding absurd and impossible. They seemed so far out in the beginning. The general public did not know what they want nor need. The Ipod was such a “I could have thought of that too” idea. “Let’s create an all white, simple to the bones device, and pair it with very cool advertisements.” And Steve Jobs managed to pull it off. Let there be no mistakes about the existence of bad products by a great and respectable company such as Apple. Google too, a multi-million company, pull the plug for some of its cloud services. Millions of dollars were poured into twitter while they find a way to make it profitable. During the beginning of their start ups, I believe these companies too wonder if they have what it takes, and the people around them would have told them they were crazy. yes. crazy.
Expedition, the word itself is a big journey, to achieve the hopes and dreams. The dream to reach the destination, scathed or otherwise, is the only motivation we have. Some great expeditions last a lifetime. It’s fantastic that not everyone is a climber, or the mountains would be filled with climbers, and then, who would be helping us manning the stations, be our emergency contact at the basecamp. There’s gotta be a balance between those who climb, and those who help em climb.
So this world is divided into 2 groups. Those visionaries who saw the tip of the mountain, or the cant even see it, as it was so high the clouds block em all them time, but they still want to go, for they know there’s a peak somewhere. And there are those who help these visionaries’ dreams come true. They saw the mountain and said, hey, it’s too high for me, it’s too risky, and I’m afraid. We would follow u, and help you instead.
Updates updates updates. Let me see. It’s been a month since we updated this blog. And a lot of things in our lives have changed. We met this fantastic young lady at a petrol kiosks, and great things happened. Hopefully if all things go well, we’ll be meeting at a petrol kiosk again. If fate permits that is.
We now have a little caravan, soon to be delivered to us in April, and thereafter, we would be able to carry more people, instead of asking them to walk with us. As we have mentioned before, we were so grateful with this that we celebrated at Carl’s Jr. haha. There were much things to celebrate this March. There were the contracts, the permanent job offer, the caravan, the almost storybook like beautiful collision between the boy from Ipoh & a girl in Perth in Singapore, the new motivations, the wedding, the reinforced friendships, the constant jamming sessions, the super addiction to yummy vegetarian food at Engin.
That being said, shit happened as well. A little reshuffling on the expedition team. It’s not a fall out, and it’s mutual I guess. The extra weight gained. The crazy sleeping hours. The misunderstandings. The prejudice. Oh well, what’s new. I have learnt to get over it.
Choice of songs in the ipod have changed. The ipod has been swapped. From the fanciful Touch, to the much meaner and lighter Shuffle. I loop songs all the time. Therefore I have only 3 songs in the Shuffle. I believe Ding needs the Touch more than I do. The Shuffle – you can run with it, it’s so freaking light! And putting it in your tight jeans is no problem as well.
2020 seemed so far away when we were much younger. Back in the 90’s. But now, it’s a blink of an eye away. Ok 2 blinks. 10 years from now, it would be 2020. I remember Malaysia has a vision of 2020. Let me google it and copy some of its visions. Oh it’s here. http://www.wawasan2020.com/vision/ And since the people around us have been relentlessly asking us about the future, we gave it a thought. And the thought was transformed into a mind map. And to achieve some of the things by 2020, I would have start to move NOW.
If we were to liken this journey to the south, to be a memorable and unforgivable expedition, then this is just the beginning. And in every beginning, we learn by falling. We learn by banging our heads in the walls, which are so obvious, on hindsight. They were there, yet we said, let’s do it, because we didn’t have a choice. The course of actions based on the current scenarios, caused us to sacrifice a little bit of our comfort, our freedom, our friendships, and sometimes, unfortunately, our values. The teething problems will always be there. Be it a new car, a new house, a new relationship, a new job. If you do not have the patience and grace to overcome the teething problem, then I don’t think you deserve the end results.
hungrygowhere.com's bosses decided to start hungrygowhere.com when they were already beginning to get comfortable with their full time jobs. When they were about to get the promotions. And I can totally understand what their parents, spouses and friends said when they decided to do that.
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