|| Mood Leaving 2017 Behind

After I wrote the last of something ... thought it was the summary of the year of 2017, but it was not.  So let's see, a round up of what was going on in the one month -

* back to the US on the 28th

* two trips to the chinese embassy, and still don't know if the document could ever work, also highly dependent on other people's schedule and interpretation.  I'm starting to think that it's not meant to be, maybe that's the way I am told 

* two trips to the hospital, and a major biopsy next week

* TV cabinet gone, new TV console coming in

* one week of flu, very sick, one trip to patient first after many many years since the richmond time, and multiple trips to the safeway pharmacy

* many boxing day sales events

* finished a book and started two more

* started using google home

* major decluttering efforts
* backed all digital photos and digital documents

2018 is highly uncertain - all seem to be dreadful, tasks, but they never seem to come to an end

* lots of medical screening already planned out, incl. cardio, endo, women's screening

* possible a week trip to china

* immigration multiple milestones

* possible many things possible
* organize emails and create backup archives

Life needs to be simple - many people are saying few and better, minimalist

* spend less time thinking about where I buy clothes for work and for life

* spend less time checking social media websites

* listen more to pod casts, google home

* exercise more and a lot more, walking walking walking

* eat even more healthy, esp. at lunch hours

* spend more time talking to people and socializing with people at work

* continue buying grocery from the reston farmers market

|| The Last of Something

I watched the Star Wars Episode Eight with a number of my colleagues, there had been no laughing, no clapping, no cheering, not an emotion of a thing as the performers' names roared through on screen at the end of the movie.  The dark force reigned ...

My spirits are much brighter, this is after recovering from a major flu breakout and painful few days of massively erupting headaches, sneezing, nose running, intense coughing and everything miserable that's humanly imaginable.  Good health, good well being are the most important things to be blessing for, when the head is clear, when the breath is fresh, and when the legs are agile.

The last trip back to home is more enjoyable than the many others I had experienced. I took myself out of the meds (ie. the patches), and relied on my relatively "fragile" body to overcome all the discomfort, with all the medicine in bags of course.  Good combat, good physical condition are such rarities after the long distance travel ... and figured out how to communicate without international data connection.

The things I saw are also on the pleasant side, very little to be overly critical of.  The streets seem to be happy everywhere I had been.  People are unpredictable, but they think that they are happy.

After today, I had finished all things that I had wanted to do in the year of 2017.  Let's see ...
* home improvement - new window, new patio door, new TV cabinet, new dining chairs, google home, new mi-band
* learning new clothing brands - mm la fleur, everlane, cuyana
* traveling to new places - puerto rico, hangzhou, new york
* work accomplishments - finovate in new york; acc credit college prerequisite
* medical tests - well lots of those
* ups and downs - many of them for the notary documents

Just a few books, and almost no new friends though.

The last of something ... everything has the opposite side, everything has to end.  Or, everything has to have start, and everything has to have its purpose, and everything will come to face the destiny.

|| How do we find a way

The new year starts with a new favorite band and a new favorite song ...

Your heart will beat again
Just give it time
Looks like you might’ve reached the end
Still you want her
And you need her
Made you come alive
Like a fire
That you thought would never die

How do we find the way
How do we find the one
How do we put the pieces back together
When it’s said and done
How do we break the fall
And try to move on at all
How do we start to breathe again
Without the light of day
How do we find a way

You want a miracle
Another chance
To look into her eyes again
Cuz you want her
And you need her
And it drives you insane
Like a fire
That was taken by the wind

How do we find the way
How do we find the one
How do we put the pieces back together
When it’s said and done
How do we break the fall
And try to move on at all
How do we start to breathe again
Without the light of day
How do we find a way

To start
The moving on
When all we had is dead and gone
We try to find
A reason why
To numb the pain of saying goodbye

How do we find the way
How do we find the one
How do we find the way
How do we find the one
How do we put the pieces back together
When it’s said and done
How do we break the fall
And try to move on at all
How do we start to breathe again
Without the light of day
How do we find a way

How do we find the one
How do we put the pieces back together
When it’s said and done
How do we break the fall
And try to move on at all
How do we start to breathe again
Without the light of day

How do we find the way
How do we find the way