In Search Of F-r-i-e-n-d-s...

The City of Angels a.k.a Los Angeles: and yet I do not know where to begin. Just like any other major cities with huge influx of human population, I would say Los Angeles embraces all its upbeat traits of what a city should have been and likewise its own downturns.

I relocated here in this world renowned city a month ago. So much of things to be caught up on and yet too little time since I have a full-time job in this small, hip boutique hotel in the heart of downtown. I am even going to miss my friend's birthday bash in San Diego on Saturday evening just for that excuse.

Are people here superficial? Or is it just me who can't keep it up? I do not know which is what. I have been here for a good old month well may be a few days more yet hardly do I find anyone who is yet to be called dear friends.

Like any other hotel jobs, I am at my most busy moments at times when more people take breaks from work and more holidays have been created. When it is a major relaxing time for them, it is somewhat a headache at work for me to provide the worthy service on whatever they have paid for.

So there and then I was just wondering, since I have been busy dealing with guests who come with their friends and along come with their second degree friends to their acquaintances till the list goes on and on; why on earth could I ever not get any single friend here?

If I were to give up easily on certain things in life, I wouldn't even be here in the first place for one thing. So it would only makes sense if I continue on the hopes of trying to expand my social cycle and getting to know more people seriously from all walks of life. And you know what? I'll tell you next time if it really works and I might be able to write something more about some new friends the next time. May optimism gives you way ahead in life. Cheers.

When the Liu Xing (Shooting Star) Rains

You might want to know what happened after my last blog. All I could say is I lived life in Malaysia to the fullest just as I have promised to myself so much so that I was the last passenger having to be boarded in JAL that night. Not to mention the tormenting moment that I had to run to my gate once I got out from the main terminal train and I had to walk pass all those people in-charge waiting for that last passenger just for me and only myself with the kind of look people normally give when somebody had done something annoyingly wrong... But well I sure lived to its fullest that way!!! 

My new life started again right before I turned 24 here in South Lake Tahoe which resides in the stateline between California and Nevada so it has the beauty of both states. It is desert-like but still it captures serene beauty of California with endless lines of pine trees and snowy mountains all year round. It is a small tourist town surrounded by the snow-capped mountains on one side and the deep blue lake on the other. One thing I was really hoping to see there on my first night of arrival was "snow". Well it was my luck, it did not snow that day nor had it been snowing for like over a week prior to my arrival. So there was no trace of snow at all in the town at that time that could visibly be seen except from those of the mountain top. But of course it was very chilling even way back in San Francisco where I first touched down before I came up to this amazingly cute winter wonderland of over 6000 Ft elevation. 

Well even though I did not see snow on my first night right on American soil, there was still something that I saw up in the night time sky. I was just familiarizing the surroundings from my motel that I rented for the season by taking a sneezingly cold walk among the pine-tree-filled drive intersected with the Highway 50 which is famous for its restaurants, ski rentals and souvenir shops just for the tourists on vacation and work visas alike. There and then, I saw a shimmering shooting star soaring down right in the middle of the night sky in a split second. Ever since I was in my teenage years... I have always been passionate about making wishes upon shooting stars. So seeing this star once again after three years on my first night in the new nation made me just wish. That was one simple wish which must have really meant something for me, for my future and even for my great past that I possessed. That single split second projected me on what I would be doing for at least the next five years down the road and of what I would become right in this land of opportunities as well as the brave. I promise myself I would start small and that I would keep on working things out which would have come across my path and improving in a gradual pace so as to reach to the cornerstones after another. So that was my wish that encompassed over my thoughts single-handedly during the night....... And that was just when the "Liu Xing" rained...