{"id":2669,"date":"2007-01-27T01:01:18","date_gmt":"2007-01-27T01:01:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-01-27T01:01:18","modified_gmt":"2007-01-27T01:01:18","slug":"Wonderful-Tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=2669","title":{"rendered":"Wonderful Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">Every night while I drink my tea, I look out my balcony to watch life unfold in front of me. It&#39;s the closest that I get to feeling like deity watching over my creation. Only nothing is my creation. I&#39;m a mere observer. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">When I look down from the 10th floor, I see people the size of my pinky running for the bus while yelling in a foreign language (and yet somehow I know they&#39;re not-so-nice words), parents trying to keep their children from chasing stray cats, hawkers making an honest living and the like. When I look up, far and beyond, I see the buildings scraping the heavens &#8212; the Singapore skyline. Through the colorful lights that glimmer from these structures, I can almost see overworked and tired executive trying to meet deadlines and targets. I can hear them sigh all the way from my little Chinatown abode.<br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: arial\">Opposite spectrums of life and yet the same frustrations in life. Everyone goes through the same things&#8230; no matter how much you earn, whether or not you have a leather seat at work or what mode of transportation you take on the way home. We are all here to pass the same trials and obstacles. It&#39;s just that we&#39;re given different environments to work on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">That&#39;s life. And it&#39;s beautiful even amidst its ugliest moments because we know we&#39;ll get through it one day. In flying colors too. And one day, we&#39;ll be up there on some great balcony watching people going through everyday activities just like we once did&#8230; and we&#39;ll be sipping equally great tea.<br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: arial\">Until that happens, I&#39;ll settle for my balcony on the 10th floor. Tonight though&#8230; tonight is a wonderful night to watch life yet again. 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