Let me start this by asking – what is the most beautiful thing that could happen to a person?
Then the love-struck will say being able to find their other half,
The ambitious will say the day their big dreams are realized,
The money-minded will say the day they strike their hundred million lottery.
But I’ll say,
The most beautiful thing is the moment when what your heart hopes for comes true right before your eyes. At that instance everything else becomes unimportant. Then true happiness surges up to your face and takes over your mind, heart and soul. You feel blessed, you feel lucky, you feel overwhelmed by the very fact that you get what you wanted and hoped for yet unexpected to see it materialize, let alone to hold it with your hands.
Although it may be just a fraction of a second, I’m sure those who experienced it will never, for their entire life, forget how that fraction of a second felt. Because it is a feeling which comes so naturally and so pure it is. You felt like a little kid who just got a candy. The smile across your face is so real and innocent. This, is what I call true happiness. It can be so simple, yet we tend to complicate things as we grow older. As a result, we rarely smile from our hearts.
Having said all that, it’s about time my story be told.
After Flag Day, the three of us – Julia, Keli and me, went to White Sands in search of something to fill our stomachs. Just when we were about to enter White Sands, we saw a rather interesting push cart by the entrance. It was selling malt candy, but not at all the usual malt candy. The guy used malt candy to make 2D drawings of animals and Chinese zodiacs and sold them mostly at $2 each. $2 may sound absurd for malt candy, but wait till you see how they look like.
So I paid $2 to spin the dial. There were 15 animals and zodiacs, and the golden dragon which is worth the most ($6) had a probability of 1 in 15 to be hit. Before I spun, I moved the needle so that it pointed in the middle of ‘golden dragon’, and said ‘Haha! I shall get a golden dragon this time!’. I took a deep breath, and pushed the needle.
It spun very fast, slowly decelerating, slower, and slower…
And finally, it stopped.
The words above read ‘golden dragon’. And the position of the needle fell exactly on where it started.
And before I knew what happened, I found myself already screaming along with Julia and Keli.
Everything else became momentarily blank. All I knew was to clap and SMILE. I could hear faint ‘whoa’ and ‘oh my’ around me, but what exhilarated me was the thought that what I wanted came true! It's as if everything else is not important anymore, because I got what I wanted!
Life's happier if it's simpler.
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Anyway here's some sidekick. I unintentionally became the focus of attention no matter where I went today. All thanks to my golden dragonXD I actually carried the dragon across Singapore! Oh man I'm SO impressed. Then from BoonLay we went all the way to Suntec to see Suzzy. Ooh man City Hall area today was horrendous! Continuous throngs of people kept flooding into the limited space in Suntec, everybody vying for a space in IT Fair, which caused the massive human traffic jam at the entrance. What's more? Half the corridor was closed due to renovations in topshop, and this resulted in another bottleneck effect, which then gave rise to barely moving traffic.
After today, I declare I hate human heads. Here I mean that kind of view where all you can see is heads bobbing in front of you. And people squeeze you from all directions.
I've got HUMAN CROWD PHOBIA.
