Finally a course of another 12 months has come again. A year of learning experience. A year of laughter. A year of cry. A year of joy. A year of grief. No matter how any part of the passed year would appear to me. It will be another year to remember to me.

Look back a year ago, the unfortunate event of my birthday had just unrolled itself in front of my brown eyes. I remember that I was surrounded by mny people, many people whom I was careless, I'm sure that they might feel the same. Sadly but true. There were moment of joy and there were moment grief but the most important thing is that is there any lessons learned from the experience.

My Birthday this year went quite nice as we finally went to the Four Seasons hotel, just that I wanted to play with the famous mandrina ducks living in the hotel garden. The food there was good, the drink was good, the ambience was good, the company was good. But I couldn't see the ducks. Until we almost finished the food, finally they came out.

I crushed the indian bread into small crumbs with the hope to feed them. they are 1 nice shiny green male one and 2 brown headed females. They didn't play with me. Snobbish Mandrina Ducks!!!

Anyway, after chasing them a while, I came back to the table telling him that they didn't play with me. He said that the pretty duckling won't play with the ugly one.

There are many times in the past 12 months that I wish that it wouldn't happen but, of course, I can't stop thing from happening. The most important thing is that anybody should learn to handle the situation and accept it as it is not the way one expects it to be. My lesson learned. and when tomorrow comes I'll be ready to tackle all those trouble water, no matter how rough the water is going to be I'll have my head up high. One day I'll fly away.

Happy Birthday to myself, the ugly duckling.