my story in the land above the sea

isn’t life so amazing when it can give surprises to you?. isn’t it lovely to have brand new things each days and be able to experience it a lot?. a word “new” to me is one significant thing that can create a strong excitement in life. so i will always try to seek the opportunities to find some new things, don’t you do the same?. i mean, when you start to realize that clock starts to tick slowly, you know you need to find something new to buzz you.

that was actually what happened to me several times ago. no alarm, no surprises, same morning, same routine, so i hit internet and look for some enlightenment. it ended up with a conversation, a very random conversation, with my bestfriend who’s currently working in shanghai. i randomly (again) said that i want to come for a visit, but still had no clue about that. so it was just a total random talk. Kinda sad to think that to travel to shanghai is an impossible thing to happen while we got more and more excited to talk all crazy stuff we could do there.

but then i remembered someone talked to me that if you think a good thing doesn’t come to you, you should, yourself, create those good things to happen. I know those surprises will never come to them who just stay and wait, but they will come to those who think.

and in the most impossible time to do travel, with these and those impossibilities, i booked a flight ticket, grabbed my passport, applied for a visa, and finally flew to shanghai. and it just happened in two weeks after i had that random idea. to let the life give me more surprises and new things to see.

i sat alone at the airport with one big luggage, and still couldn't believe what i had done. but i had done it anyway, so what i could do, was just going with the flow and let days ahead give an unforgettable surprises. and it was true. all is unforgettable. i flew alone, with 2 pills of antimo since i hate to fly, and arrived in shanghai, after a quick transit in KL, at 1 am in the morning. that appearance i saw at the first time in the airport, was so much grand and could make me happy to death. my best friend i had not met for years, stood in front of the gate to pick me up. from those moments, all good things started to happen one by one. 

keep having a random thought, and make them happened. sometimes it will not always be easy. but if you keep thinking very hard and make a move, you will always find a way. that's what happened to me when this trip suddenly happened around all those impossibilities. and my happiness is fully recharged already. 

these are the moments that are captured. 

for all learning i got, for all the best view i saw, for all beautiful noise i heard, i wish to come back there again sometimes. 

oh, for the last, a list number 7 & 8 of my 2013 bucket list is, proudly, CHECKED !