Yesterday was a day filled with simple joys. I loved that the sky was so blue – a rare phenomenon in HK – and that the sun was shining high and bright. I love such gorgeous winter days. Well, it’s technically winter but it was a nice balmy 25 C by mid-day, so I took the opportunity to head to the park near my office during my lunch break to soak in some sun.
I love the feel of the sun on my skin. Nevermind all that talk about UV rays damaging skin. I mean, a little bit of sun won’t hurt. At the park, I could look out to the eastern side of the Hong Kong harbour and a cool sea breeze was blowing. How some colleagues can spend their entire lunch break at their desks baffles me. Me? I can’t wait to get out and walk around. So I had a beautiful lunch break munching on my falafel sandwich at the park while taking in the view of Kowloon’s peaks perched against an azure blue canvas with a gentle wind whispering in my face.
Then at about 3pm, I decided to take a gamble and ask a friend out for dinner that night. To my absolute delight, she said ‘Yes!’, adding that the homework that she had to do for her MBA could wait. After all, one has to eat anyhow, right? You know how it is these days – you can hardly ever get anyone to go out at the last minute because everyone is always too busy or has a schedule that’s packed for the next six months. It’s like you have to ‘book’ people at least six months in advance these days.
In the afternoon I had also received two separate emails from two readers – Lizzie and Cindy – dropping me a note to say hi for the first time. Thanks ladies, hearing from you two was a really pleasant surprise and it really made my day. Such a treat to receive such lovely emails!
So henceforth, I have told myself I will have to find something to be happy about every day. 🙂