{"id":96,"date":"2006-12-31T08:14:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-31T08:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laimayleng.com\/blog\/?p=96"},"modified":"2006-12-31T08:14:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-31T08:14:00","slug":"goodbye-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/goodbye-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bid year 2006 goodbye with a smile on my face. Thinking back the past year of all the things I&#8217;ve done and some not yet accomplished.I still have many unquenchable desire to fulfill for my year 2006 resolution list. Yet, I realise my attempts are to no avail on the last day. It&#8217;s OK, I comfort myself. There&#8217;s always next year ahead. A bright new year ahead.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_M3iNL0ShtgM\/RZjHQZrmkGI\/AAAAAAAAAMg\/NMuziktrDxo\/s1600-h\/jane.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_M3iNL0ShtgM\/RZjHQZrmkGI\/AAAAAAAAAMg\/NMuziktrDxo\/s320\/jane.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5014977269662650466\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Year 2006, I was Jane. I met a Thai stranger whom I can only remember him by his yellow T-shirt and ugly green short pants on the background on this *photo.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the destination is not so important, but the people who helped you along your path is.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_M3iNL0ShtgM\/RZjGrprmkFI\/AAAAAAAAAMY\/jH57mxq2HUU\/s1600-h\/island.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_M3iNL0ShtgM\/RZjGrprmkFI\/AAAAAAAAAMY\/jH57mxq2HUU\/s320\/island.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5014976638302457938\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>I&#8217;ve seen the ocean and many islands in year 2006. Islands and oceans will always remain the same, until someone flourish it and commercialised it.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the fact is easy to understand, only human makes things complicated.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_M3iNL0ShtgM\/RZjFYJrmkEI\/AAAAAAAAAMQ\/vt3nmpgQr6Y\/s1600-h\/glory.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_M3iNL0ShtgM\/RZjFYJrmkEI\/AAAAAAAAAMQ\/vt3nmpgQr6Y\/s320\/glory.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5014975203783381058\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>I&#8217;ve seen beauty of flowers blooming in the track of year 2006. Mother earth gives us the fruit and we banish it easily with construction and development.<\/p>\n<p>We must learn to love the earth, if not we are left with options to only cherish it.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_M3iNL0ShtgM\/RZjD7JrmkDI\/AAAAAAAAAMI\/DW6GYWBK_rw\/s1600-h\/temple1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_M3iNL0ShtgM\/RZjD7JrmkDI\/AAAAAAAAAMI\/DW6GYWBK_rw\/s320\/temple1.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5014973606055546930\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>I&#8217;ve seen how human spends a fortune to show respect to the almighty Gods. I wonder, does God need a house built with golden stones?<\/p>\n<p>What good is it to have all the money in the world, but have no one to share it with?<\/p>\n<p>No well wishes ahead, I deem it meaningless. My thoughts are with those close to me.<br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><br \/>* Read &#8220;The Trek&#8221; post for more details<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bid year 2006 goodbye with a smile on my face. Thinking back the past year of all the things I&#8217;ve done and some not yet accomplished.I still have many unquenchable desire to fulfill for my year 2006 resolution list. Yet, I realise my attempts are to no avail on the last day. It&#8217;s OK, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inner-thoughts","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}