Beautiful Butterfly

It has been quiet for some time on the blogs activities with everyone including me being too caught up with the Christmas and New Year celebrations. Some of us are busy meeting deadlines and clearing their annual leaves. Any of my friends busy queuing up at the National Registration Department to get their free MyKad after procrastinating for three years? December this year sped by like a bullet train to me and it’s less than 48 hours counting down to 2006.

I love fireworks but I dislike being stuck in a crowded areas with all that you see are ocean full of people that bound to be a hassle to get a good view of the stage or long queue everywhere. The good news is I can see the Petronas Twin Tower where beautiful fireworks are being displayed eventhough it’s very far away and provided it’s a clear sky that night.I can’t really recall how I celebrated New Year last year cause it’s a low-key celebration with people mourning the deaths in the wake of the tsunami disaster that hit across Asia and Africa.

While everyone is busy planning how to start the new year with a bang, it’s time to reflect the pass year before closing that chapter of our lives and look forward to the coming years. It’s time to make new year resolutions though I know not many people will keep it and it’ll probably be lost when you want to review it at the end of the year but it’s a positive note to show that you are keeping track of your progress in lives.

My resolution for year 2006 is first, to make my house look and feel more homely. The past year, my house doesn’t feel like home with me and my husband seldom come home to it as he travels often and I wouldn’t want to stay alone. Now with the addition of a new family member,my son, I would like to renovate one of my empty rooms into his nursery and bedroom. I also would like to find more time to prepare food in my own kitchen for my husband, even once in a while will do as it’s a waste not to use it after renovating it beautifully. I would like to prepare a guest room eventhough I don’t have much guest but it’s a way to tell eveyone to be my guests. Also that means I should ask my in-laws to come more often to my house.

Secondly, I would like to go back to my own size before pregnancy though everyone tells me that it’s not possible to go back 100%. If 100% is not achievable, hopefully it’s 90% and I shall find way to change my wardrobe- actually it’s my clothes as I feel many of my previous clothes doesn’t really suit my new mom personality.

Then there is my attitudes to change. Though I have learnt to be more patient I feel that I still have long way to go. Children can judge best and that explains why my baby prefer my husband than me. I hope to be a better parent to my child. It’s important to lead them by examples and it’s good to teach them from young. Most children I see nowadays are given eveything the best by their parents but their attitudes are totally unacceptable. With us working parents having not enough time for the children, it’s easy to spoil them but it’s not to say that I want to control,hit or shout at them. The old way definitely have to go but finding a best way to teach children nowadays is a challenge.

Last but not least, it’s the work…to find a higher income and improve the working environments. Now how to improve? I’m still scratching my head.

With Christmas just around the corner, everyone is planning their own memorable Christmas. From young I imagined Christmas as snow falling, house decorated in lights with a Chritmas Tree in the hall decorated with beautiful ornaments and Santa Claus delivering presents. Many people would have the idea of having a great bash with loud music, dancing and alcohols with the hope that we can party right through the next year and have a great start to the year. All these are because Christmas has become too commercialise so that people will spend more to buy presents and to frequent the pubs. I’ll say it’s quite an effective marketing strategy. It is the festival I most look forward to after Chinese New Year.

So, my good friend Angeline has the best intention to invite all her friends to celebrate Christmas with her by attending a musical in her church. Frankly speaking there was some reluctancy especially from me and being the straightforward me, I told her it’s not the way I plan to have Christmas. For this I really do apologise and I hope it does not put her off from future invitation. It is not my intention to insult any religions or put off any good intention to show us the real Christmas. How many of us really know the meaning to Christmas? 

As my good friend Angeline explains,"The whole idea Christmas came about was because of the birth of One Child, Jesus of Nazareth. He is also known as Christ Jesus, who founded the early church.. Christ-mas? That’s the whole idea.. He later on died on the cross on Good Friday as an atoning sacrifice for our sins (because He was without sin-He ganti us on the cross) and was raised again on Easter day (tat’s why we have eggs - a symbol of life). The only thing we need to do is believe in Him, and we shall have eternal life.