goodbye 2025, hello 2026

A belated goodbye to the year 2025 that had passed and belated hello to the new year of 2026.

Where has the time gone? 

Has it slipped by unknowingly,

or has it been well spent? 

No one knows, except you alone.

Missed my 2025 gratitude review. Hmm, actually I think I wrote lesser too, these few years. Lack of time, nay, I doubt so. Just that time had been divided away by more life options and tasks to do.

I had my first road trip being a driver myself. It's not that I don't drive, but I've never drive so far out. It's really an experience out there, the driving, the sceneries and the foods.

And 2025 has been a closure for the kids 2nd chapter in life, which also means a closure of a chapter in mine, too. 

Would like to honour the teachers that have been so encouraging and dedicated to their job.

We are akin to fleeting clouds, passing through your teaching years

But TEACHERS you are the dazzling STARS throughout our pre-school years

We have had endless of fond memories with you and now etched in our hearts

May all the teachers accept our heartfelt thank you, deep from our hearts

Signing off,

PG Tomato

N1 Potato

K1 Brocolli / K1 Cauliflower

K2 Lettuce / K2 Emerald

adios casa vieja

After so long, it's finalized now. 

There's a saying "there's no banquet that doesn't end", referring to all good things must come to an end.

I guess this happens and applies to all of us - we came to this earth without anything on our back, and we will also leave without anything when we go.

But having to live, means to have emotion. Emotion is not only for the people we have engaged with, but the things we have used or lived with, and also the environment that we grew up in. But as we lived, we grew. As we grew, we moved, we changed. We are never going to be at the same place, or in the same state as we were when we are born. And the attachment may feel different, as we aged. Kids can't take off their eyes from the soft toys they cuddled since they were young, but as they grew, the same attachment may shift to other things. As we grow old, our sentimental value changed. Priorities in life shifted. Things just don't seem to be the same anymore.

It may be sad, when we let go of the things we are so used to, but that's how life is. We have to learn to say goodbye and just move on. Nothing is everlasting, as, even memories will fade as time flew. But this shouldn't stop us from living this life with purpose and enjoy what life showers us.

Adios mi vieja casa. Adios mis vecinos y vecinas. Thank you for the 33 years. Unbelievable that we've actually spent a third of our lifetime there, and now it's time to say goodbye. I'm lucky that I'm able to send you off, though not in a manner that I expected it to be. Still, you will be forever as a part of our fond memories, as long as any one of us is still around. Adios.

relationship

Life is fragile, human relationship is fragile, but it is all these fragile things that bond us together, give us hope, keep us going on a little longer, a little farther.

From a nucleus family, to extended family, to friends, to acquaintances, everyday we lived, an unseen web will keep on weaving on its own, and keep on growing, though sometimes too big, or sometimes unexpectedly small. 

The web path that we crossed, sometimes just once, sometimes kind of frequent, or sometimes tangled up or messy. A path that we might be familiar with, or thought to be familiar with, or a path broken yet somehow mended back.

To the life that we will only lived once, let's us all treasure what we have, regardless whether in this live we have more or less, as the most important is to live with love.