I think I will reutrn to the days of regular blogging,
Been having a lot of ideas lately but then some of them are pretty long and I don't have the time but these are only excuses so I am back or try to be back.
First up, about a patinet I saw in the ward. He was in the British Army escaped into the jungles when the British was defeated. Got strafe by Japanese planes. Showed me his wound. Since then he has never been to hospital. He is 81 now and so for the pass 60 years he was fine until now when he is diagnosed with can cer of the ascending colon. Don't know if he will make it but even if he does..most definitely he will need a colostomy bag which is quite psychologically debilatating..imagine to survive so much only to be down by cancer.
Even as I reflect on his situation, one thing is sure: nothing in life is guaranteed. IT may be your wedding day and you are finally going to get what you have been waiting for and then you get killed on the way to the wedding. Those people that you see get killed in accidents with their blank stares looking out of the papers...well they never thought they would appeared as news when they read about a fatal accident the day before....people in New Orleans collected money for tsunami victims not knowing of the great floods that hit them.
Appreciate each day you have. If you feel bored you are not using the gift God has given you..you are taking life for granted.
The people in Noah's days were getting married and getting on with life when the flood came..imagine drowning on your wedding day..OK I am obssessed aabout getting married but..my ideas are relevant..no one expect that it will change..that it won't be same as it had happen for the pass 100 years.
Us Malaysians live a prosperous life especially the middle-class and beyond. Your typical teenager can expect to finish school, go to college, drink at Starbucks, go to some uni overseas, come back get a job, meet someone, get married and knocked someone up or get knocked up or the other way round...and go on living as they have lived....oblivious as they are to the poor and suffering all around the world..and even closer to home the Orang Aslis..but it is not going to last forever..war is going happen one day...Orang Aslis are going to decide one day that they have enough of being treated like second calss citizens and start launching suicide bombs, China with its excess men will need to blow off the energy and invades Taiwan and plunges the whole region into chaos...1930's was one the most prosperous times in Europe...culture was at its height...everyone can be said to be living a decadent life and then bang world war 2..and many years of hard rebuilding..
we should live our lives carefully..ready for life's uncertainty but not to the extent we don't enjoy anything..but when it happens we can't we never thought it woulod because as history, the Bible, logic, science, economics and everything tells us the good times won't go on forever.
Thinking about buying a house and car..live simply..if you are going to have only two kids....a simple double storey will do and Wira..no need fro the Mercedes and bungalow..because when war comes ..will it matter.no difference except you spent your whole life working to the bone paying for that big house when you could have spent more time with your family if you went for a smaller one and it is all wasted by one bomb, or storm, or vandal..when you are starving..you wouldn't care you ahve a mercedes or not....when you are dying of cancer..you won't care about the car you never had but the lost friendships and relationships.
In short, some things are important but we don't like they are and we chase after those that aren't only to regret later.