Missing Jack

Mileage : 18089km

There has been no recent blog activity on Jack. But Jack has hardly been sitting quietly at home. Here's a summary of what Jack has been up to, in the past month while I was 'out' sorting my minorly-depressed, lack-of-interest-in-anything head.

1) Bukit Beruntung Jack
Jack goes down to Bukit Beruntung for cousin J's marriage registration dinner/drink fest. Congrats, Cousin J and New Cousin May. Toast to a wonderful married life together.

There were a lot of inevitable 'so how's your engagement preparations coming along?' questions directed to me and car-man from the multitude of family members. We don't know, folks. We're waiting for the Suns and Moons and Jupiter to align first. Due to some annoyingly kepoh aunties raising concerns to an ailing grandma while she was lying in Cardiac Care Intensive Ward (for God's sakes, how crude are you to use a sick old lady like that), our chosen-for-convenience and agreed-upon-by-ALL date was forced to be called off. Date unsuitable because bad month, with a big fat snake sitting on the date, if you consult the 'correct' calendar... Am I making sense? No? That's what I thought.

2) KLIA Jack
Jack makes two trips to KLIA to fetch and return Daddy dearest. Dad down to visit ill Grandma. She's out of the hospital now, bless her.

3) Penang Jack
Penang is... beautiful. Jack goes down for a weekend in Penang, officially for company teambuilding exercise but managing to sneak in a charming tour of Penang and catching up sessions with dear old friends.

Penang is... beautiful. Jack was a bit alarmed by the aggressive drivers (what they say about Penang drivers is True!), but otherwise it was a pleasant weekend. There were plenty of pretty buildings to drool on and plenty of yummy food to feast on.

Penang is... beautiful. Thank you company for the (sponsored) trip, thank you Fung for the time and tour, thank you Ailee for everything (HUG) and sorry YS/WM didn't get to catch up with you guys much.

Did I mention, Penang is... beautiful?

4) Football Jack
Jack was on Kesas highway on the way to Cheras when he saw an amazing sight - hordes of cars, van, motorbikes proudly trailing full-sized Selangor flags. The drivers and passengers were clothed and wrapped in yellow red jerseys, bandanas and what nots.

The sight was overwhelming. Not the flags waving proudly out of the cars, but the grinning eager faces in the cars, the thumbs up each Selangor-clad car gives another it passes. Stranger-to-stranger but united with a common passion. PASSION.

Here was I struggling internally a silly minorly-depressed head (what with amazing display of human not-so-wonderful characters in the community I call family) and there outside was plain passion. Strangers smiling at each other. Passion. People happy. Passion. People doing things they enjoy, people laughing grinning joking. Passion.

So there was hope in human character. There are people out there capable of smiling grinning joking with strangers. Passion.

Honest-to-goodness my lame depression broke that day. Where's my passion? Let's ignore the annoying not-so-wonderful characters out there and reclaim some passion. Let's just get on with life.

Passion cures.