Beautiful office garden

It is now 4:31pm. I have come to have a break at a cafe right after work. I had enough of looking at computer screen today and need to rest my eyes a bit. So I'm drafting this using a pen and a paper. Yeah, like the good old days! :)

I am in this cafe which offers a great view of the garden and ponds outside our office especially at where I am now sitting. When autumn is almost over like now it is no longer very bright out there even at this early hour. But it is not pitch dark and I can still see all the beautiful greeneries very well. The garden has small trees, big trees, pine trees, different species of trees and different species of shrubs. Interspersed among them are flower plants with purple blossoms and man they are in abundance this season! Often we can see ducks swimming in the ponds and a type of NZ bird called pukeko walking around as well. Sometimes even wild rabbits! Can you picture all these on a big piece of lush bright green color lawn? I should have taken a photo to show you. People say NZ is like heaven on earth. I totally agree. Although this is a landscaped garden, there is no denying that it is often the sunset seen as its backdrop that has given the garden the most amazing glow.

So do you think I am fortunate? Is my life good?

I say life is an odd thing. It is both sides of the coin. When you think it is good, it is then good. But when you think it is horrible, it is then also horrible. Human beings have emotions which change all the time. So there is no single answer to whether a person's life is good or bad. I have come a long way now on thinking through about my life issues and find that I am now in better control of my emotion.  As I write more passages, I would like to share more of my thoughts and hopefully some of you could find them insightful or even helpful in one way or another.

Today I have told you a good side of my life. I know for a fact that many readers might react with slight harmless envy in their heart because everybody would love a workplace with a cafe over-looking a great garden like the ones you will only get from a premium hotel room, wouldn't they? I fell into the same trap over and over in the past, and I admit, actually I still do sometimes! The feeling is not very good. When I was little I had less of this reaction even though many of my classmates were rich whereas I had to help my mum fold shoe boxes (and few other things) after school to augment dad's income. All there was in my mind then was to work hard, study well and get a good job. But after I graduated and realized that it is a difficult world out there where rewards do not parallel efforts, I am telling you, I had quite a lot of bitterness when I saw other people making it big in their life while I couldn't. Sounds familiar? :) Yeah. But I say - don't be like me.

Although the garden office thing is undeniably a good part of my working life right now, it is actually only a very small part of my life. As you read on (with me), you will realize that my life also has facets that will not appeal to you at all. And then you would say fortunately you weren't me!!! My point is, we always only get to see one or two facets of another person's life.

Now, what I do is always be sincerely happy for people whenever they have good news to share. At the same time, believe that good things are happening or will happen soon to my life too! That is a right thing to do and will bring good harmony to this world.

How it all began...

I love to write, and have almost always been in the mood to write. When I was little, my English teacher had me read out my composition in front of the class because I wrote well. I guess it all started from there. Back then we wrote using pen and paper, and as you can imagine, we would need to carefully formulate our thoughts and sentences fairly well before we would start to write anything. Nobody would want to go crazy making corrections  all over the paper, right?! Then it got easier when computer was introduced. By then however I was starting to take break from writing any sort of essay or article as I was getting ready to enrol into engineering school. I was fully self-reliant financially throughout the university. That means I had no time to write because I had to work after classes everyday. But the truth was even if I had not chosen to struggle my way through uni it was unlikely for me to be able to afford writing with a computer although notebook computer had already become a common item in every student's school bag! I just had no spare money...!

So that was my story. Now that I have a steady job and income for few years, and own a notebook computer, I can start to write again easily on anything I wish at anytime! That is really neat. This blog will serve the purpose of being a space for me to write and express my thoughts. Often in a day few thoughts would surface. I will write about those worthy to be recorded. They are mostly about my view on life. Many friends have encouraged me to write about them because they have enjoyed reading articles I wrote in the past and few of them had actually benefited from reading them. I certainly hope that was not just because they like being my friends. :)

So if you like some help figuring out why life is the way it is, or if you are looking around for someone with similar encounters so as to see how she deals with them, or even if you are simply just wanting a friend in cyberspace, I welcome you to check out my blog "Just Mei Kee". :)