Life

Much have happened in the last couple of months of my life.

The lows.

I have seen my almost ten years of programming code stolen by someone. I have gone through the emotional stress resulting from it. From the countless trips to lawyers, with money as the bottomline, and the pain that came from it. It is not just the many hours of work put in and then used by someone else without my permission, but also the emotional ties to it.

Still stuck with the same job. Have applied for many, all without any result. And I have to watch as one by one, my colleague resigned and move on to a better job. And all this while, my boss goes from bad to worst. Total ignoring the many hours that we put in, how overwork we are, how worthless in terms of skill set we are, and how my other colleagues blame me for not speaking out. My explanation has always been the same, do not burnt your bridge while you are still on it. I have just too many committments and responsibilities now that I can't afford to be unemployed.

The highs.

My wife and I were decided to start looking out for a HDB flat of our own recently. And a balloting exercise by HDB was launched just a few weeks later. We went to look at the flats available, and they were all in very good locations, near to town and MRT stations. We applied. And waited. And when the letter came, we were overjoyed. We had a very good queue number, in front, a single digit queue number. We put in our first choice unit, and we got it. Now it is just a matter of waiting for the appointment to collect our keys. No matter that it is just a piece of 115sqm unit, for just 99 years, and we getting a 30 year loan to pay it off, it still feels good to have a place to call our own. The whole process of applying, choosing our units of choice, and getting our first choice unit, to the now ongoing process of looking for interior designers, thinking of how we want our house to be, I guess in way actually strengthens the relationship between my wife and I. When we were a newly married couple, we were still probing, getting used to each other, and along the way, there were the usual bumps and potholes. The whole process of getting a flat has brought us together even closer than before. I guess when a married couple actually do things together, it really strengthens the marriage.

We learn from our past, we live the present, and look forward to the future. In that way, we can live life to the fullest.