Steps to Consoling Joy for her Failed Japan Trip

Step #1: Get my nails done  *check*
Step #2: Shop online  *check*
Step #3: Stuff myself with good food in Bangkok
Step #4: SPA
Step #5: Shop like crazy in Bangkok

Once in a while, you suddenly realise that a decision you made a long time ago actually plays a very important role in what you're doing currently.

It only recently occurred to me that my internship stint in Shanghai played a very important part in the things I'm doing now. Studying translation and doing designing; both started in Shanghai. I would probably be clueless about both skills now if I hadn't gone there. It was really, quite an important point in my life.

Many have asked why I chose to study translation and interpretation. Truthfully, I do not have an answer myself. So, hopefully, I made the right decision.

Love is a Great Thing

Love is a great thing, yea, a great and thorough good.
By itself it makes that which is heavy light;
and it bears evenly all that is uneven.
It carries a burden which is no burden;
it will not be kept back by anything low and mean;
It desires to be free from all wordly affections,
and not to be entangled by any outward prosperity,
or by any adversity subdued.
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble,
attempts what is above its strength,
pleads no excuse of impossibility.
It is therefore able to undertake all things,
and it completes many things and warrants them to take effect,
where he who does not love would faint and lie down.
Though weary, it is not tired;
though pressed it is not straightened;
though alarmed, it is not confounded;
but as a living flame it forces itself upwards and securely passes through all.
Love is active and sincere, courageous, patient, faithful, prudent, and manly.

-- Thomas A Kempis