Thursday 21 August 2014

Life & Memories...

Life is something that I constantly lie awake at night and think about. Life is exciting, life is also scary at times. There is so much one can say or define when it comes to the word "Life". One thing that's for sure is, life is short. It feels shorter when you hear about lives being loss in tragedy. This year, 2 incidents involving MAS Airplanes MH370 and MH17 made me wonder how and what the family and loved ones of those onboard have gone through emotionally. Losing someone you love is never an easy thing. How does one deals with not knowing what have happened to their loved ones?

I remember clearly that I was getting my Dreamcatcher Tattoo touched up on the 8th of March 2014 when my tattoo artist brought up the topic on the missing airplane. I was shocked and basically, I didn't want to think too much of it until that very night when I heard the news. That was when I started to search for articles in regards to this matter online. I remember tuning in to the radio every morning during my drive to work listening about this tragedy. Hoping for an answer which I'm sure was what everyone was seeking for too.

This incident made me wonder, if I was on board of the plane, would anyone be looking high and low for me or will no one even bother or care about me? I also thought about what if someone I loved was on board? What will I do? Will I go all out seeking for them? My answer is, I definitely will go crazy looking for him/her. How can one just sit quietly and not know the fate of their loved ones right? My deepest condolences goes out to the family of victims on board MH370 and MH17.

Anyway, I think I haven't truly lived my life as it was my very last day here on earth. I just know that I spend my money as if it's my very last day alive though. =P I know it's bad and that I need to change that bad habit of mine.

Have I ever been truly in love? Yes, I have been. I've felt so much love in my heart that I was overwhelmed with bliss and joy and I've gotten my heart broken too. I cherish all my bad and sweet memories hence that's the reason for me getting the word "Eternity" tattooed behind my neck in Chinese Character. I want to keep all my memories throughout eternity if that's ever possible. I hope when I die, my memories will go with me because they're very special to me.


XoXo, ValAtkinson

Sunday 17 August 2014

Working Over The Weekends...

Godmorgen and Happy Monday everyone. I hope that you're not having Monday Blues and that you've had a good rest over the weekend. For me, I've been working straight for the past 10 weeks with no proper break in between. First, it was the L'Oreal Men Expert Roadshow and then the last 8 weeks has been all about Nokia Lumia 630. Many would say, "FML..." For me, it wasn't too bad because the Brand Ambassador that I was looking after, "Babysitting" was really good. He's a cute young boy that has a huge heart. He bought for me breakfast when I lease expected it and he also bought lunch for me one afternoon too. That made my working weekends abit less boring and a drag. I'm thankful that the Nokia Lumia 630 Roadshow is over though. Finally some rest for me, NOT! as it's a working Saturday this coming weekend. I guess I'll have Sunday then. I'm just going to being wishful here.


On a different note, my mom's a really lucky person because guess what? My dad bought for her a spanking new iPhone 5s yesterday morning. Well, her iPhone 4s just decided to die last Friday evening. It just didn't want to work or even switch on without the charging being plugged in. I really wonder what went wrong as the phone just decided to die. My mom's not really a heavy user btw. She doesn't use her phone to serve the net or download things. She just uses it to Whatsapp and message her friends. So, when her phone decided to commit suicide, that was just shocking. LOL...

I have to admit, I'm somewhat tempted to get back on the iOS bandwagon because of all the beautiful, unique and crazy casing that you can find for the iPhone but almost impossible to find anything cool for the HTC One M7. Yes, I'm using the HTC One M7 but I'm also looking forward to the M9, I'm hoping that it's going to be extremely cool and awesome but... I need more people to make more awesome casing for the gadget. I love to dress up my phone hence the lack of cool clothes for my gadget is somehwhat turning me off. =P Talking about dressing up my gadget, I bought my mom a Red colour iPhone 5s Case so that she can dress her phone up too since she's not liking the grey - black shell that her iPhone is. They ran out of Gold and Silver colour so dad had to get her the grey - black colour instead. Mom's comment about the phone was, "It's really very slim..."


XoXo, ValAtkinson

Thursday 14 August 2014

Godmorgen (Good Morning in Dansk)...

Godmorgen to you. I know you're probably reading my title and thinking why is this Asian girl/lady greeting us in a foreign language? It's Dansk or Danish btw. I started picking up the Danish language sometime end of 2011. Why? you may ask. Well, the typical reason for an individual to do something is because of interest or they're highly motivated to do it. For me, it was because I love learning new things and learning a new language has always been something I enjoy and find interesting. Why Danish of all the many languages out there like Japanese or French? I did try my tongue at French early 2011, I started out enjoying it and after a month of growing through the Mp3 Language Tutorial, it started to get really tough and I was getting all tongue tied, so I realized that if I really wanted to pick up French, I really need a teacher or someone to guide me through it. Back to the reason for choosing to learn Danish. The Danish language can only be understood by the Scandinavians - Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and maybe even the Finnish. I had a teacher, a motivator to teach me Dansk, min kaerlighed (my boyfriend, my lover). Anders M. Olsen was a really good guy, boyfriend.

Anyway, I still get very fascinated when I hear people speaking Dansk. I know this may sound weird but when I hear someone speaking Dansk, I would imagine this was how it was when the Vikings used to speak to each other. Btw, Jeg elsker dig (I love you) is one of the many phrases that an individual will tend to want to learn to say in any new language that they learn. I guess it's somewhat important to most individuals, to express how they feel.


Talking about Vikings, I had the chance to visit the Viking Museet (Viking Museum), Roskilde and there I saw Viking Ship Relics and also Anders and I came across this old text, this was how the Vikings in the olden days would communicate in writing. He decided to encode a secret message for me based on this ancient text method.

 
Besides Anders and a few more Danish people that I know. I got to know Esben S. Krarup that's working here in Malaysia at the end of 2013. Esben left for London after about a month plus of us getting to know each other. But, guess what? He's back in town again as he just got transferred back early this month. I really need to catch up with him soon. He still thinks that me learning Dansk in useless as the language can only be used if you're living in Denmark or Scandinavia. That's Esben, he's very opinionated about things and he's very blunt. I guess most Danes are like that. They're very straight to the point, which I really like. I like honesty.


XoXo, ValAtkinson

Monday 4 August 2014

A New Beginning...

Hi!! I'm back after a long hiatus from blogging. The reason why I somewhat stopped blogging is because I didn't have anything good to say and there is a saying that goes, "If you have nothing good to say, it's better not to say anything...". So, I decided to just stop.

So, why am I blogging now, this moment? It's because, today I got a sudden motivation from reading one of my oldest motorsport friend's blog and plus, I have new dreams and plans and I have been having lots of mini roadtrips and most of the time, I have been armed with my Loyal Nikon D5100 DSLR. Those of you that knows me really well will know about my love for capturing moments through photography. I've always dreamed of traveling to far away lands, to emerge myself in adventure and also moments of magic.

I'm back this round to share my magical moments and experiences with all of you, who are reading my blog. Let's make this life an adventure worth living...


XoXo, ValAtkinson