New Chapter in Singapore

 *Picture copyright by FF, taken on February 2010

I've been having this picture as my wallpaper for a couple of weeks now. If you've read about "the secret", the key is to envision yourself to where you want to be in the future. I think. I'm not exactly sure because I haven't read it, I just know it from my friend.

Anyways.

Life gives you an answer in three ways: yes, and it gives you what you want; no, and it gives you something better; and wait, and it gives you the best.

So after waiting for quite a while, the results of my admissions to this school was revealed: I'm in. Alhamdulillah. I'm really eager for the next chapter in my life.

The barefoot philosophy

I love studying law, I do. Lawyers like to think that we're a far more superior human being who knows it all, but we Google too.

Practicing law in a country that I love so dear is heartbreaking, where the practice of corruption is deemed as business-as-usual (and can be counted as an actual element in a cost-benefit analysis), which makes trusting and being in the system is always keeping you on the verge of losing your humanity.

Elizabeth Gilbert once said that the appreciation of pleasure can be an anchor of one's humanity. It is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.

Thus, I find my pleasure in taking long walks while I'm traveling, sightseeing, having conversations with people to listen to their life stories, and of course, stopping for a photograph or two. Walking barefoot, is a term that I like to use because it gives you that sense of natural harmony with the places you go to and it always reminds me to stay grounded, no matter how far your journey may take you.