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Had an ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME that left me with A HEAD FULL OF DREAMS that makes me exclaim VIVA LA VIDA no matter how EVERY TEARDROP IS A WATERFALL, and couldn't get any happier on this AMAZING DAY for their coming here IN MY PLACE making it a PARADISE spreading MAGIC and bringing out an EVERGLOW in people like me. I anxiously waited for this day from the first time I saw this ad! Exactly a year ago on new year's eve, I went on my own, straight from my second morning shift, to watch Coldplay live in Abu Dhabi not sure how am I going to get home after! I sang, danced and jumped waiving my xyloband with everyone else as how you would've seen in all of their concerts. It's so difficult not to give in to this band's infectious music.  My phone's battery was dying at that time. I didn't get to take many pictures and videos, but it was alright because I got to fully enjoy every moment of it like how it should be.

"Your legs are too long now. That's just for babies"-referring to the grocery trolley. Why I refer my mother as a half tiger mother doesn’t mean that she pushed us to play a musical instrument or required us to get grades not lower than A. It’s because I think she is a tiger mother as compared to the mothers of my generation. She gave away my baby stroller and my andador as soon as I started to walk. She then didn’t allow me to sit in the grocery trolley as well. “Your legs are too long now. That’s just for babies” was she said. She definitely didn’t carry me anymore when I learned to walk. Those were my recollections as far as I can remember, or, rather, as soon as I learned to remember and to walk. She also straightforwardly explained to me and my sister why some families can afford certain things that we can’t, without sugar coating. And one very tiger mother-like, she definitely didn’t praise us in front of other people.   That’s her. So what’s the other h...

This is where some people bask in the sun this time of the year, while others are covered in snow; where some are enjoying extreme water sports, while others are out sloping up and down in their skis in some ski resort elsewhere; where some relax on board a yacht enjoying a well-deserved break from heavy workload. This is where some and others meet to enjoy their hard earned reward.