5 Kilometers Per Hour

"They say it travels at five kilometers per hour." she said.

He then looked at her with eyes wide opened, but not so obvious from her view. 

"It's going to the Minamitane launch facility." she continued, 

"Looks like there'll be a launch this year. First time in a while."

As the gigantic semi-trailer truck slowly passed by them, he then added 

"Yeah. It's supposed to go to the far reaches of the solar system."

"No matter how many years it takes..."

- A scene from the second arc of 5 Centimeters Per Second

As the year of the dragon ends tonight, I decided to check out what my facebook has to show me about my top 20 moments (life events, highlighted posts and popular stories) of this year. Turns out it was just full of sht and actually missed out my dramatic bed time story of this year. Sigh, fb y u dunno? 

Why is this post called 5 kilometers per hour, is not only is a reference to my fav movie 5 Centimeter Per Second. But also because during the whole year, life felt very slow and sometimes the things you faced or you're facing now can be done with. 5 km/h is indeed very slow, but eventually everyone will reach the finish line.

No matter how many years it takes.

There goes a Chinese belief that when a child of a (insert any Chinese animal zodiac) goes into the same Chinese animal zodiac year. It's usually bad luck. And me being a dragon in this year of the dragon. Boy did I have one heck of a roller coaster ride.

First and foremost, I am really grateful to God that I've finally finished my studies. Away with the books and useless theories that are rarely applied in life. I've always hated studying, but nonetheless I learn a lot from my course. If there're a few things I learn from Mass Communication and Marketing, it's 

1. Marketing taught me how to make people buy the things they don't need.
2. People tend to believe things online without doing research.
3. The media is a powerful double edge sword.
4. People are really taking media for granted. Btches pls, if we didn't exist you won't be able to watch your favourite tv shows and movies.

Overall, people are generally stupid. 

To my friends who are struggling with their academic performance, I believe in you. Life's a constant struggle, so stay strong and "burn" all the exam papers enemies that are to come. No matter how many years it takes.

Secondly, I also went through the test of friendship with many people. And I learned that the reason why I prefer to be quiet most of the time is not because I'm too lazy to say anything, it's because my tongue is also like a poison barb. The moment someone say anything contradicting or something that does not contribute to a potential meaningful discussion to learn, or something that they say they will do it but never came to be for 3 times in a row and giving lame excuses, I shoot them indirectly with or without realizing it.  

To those who were hurt by my statements before intentionally, I'M REALLY SORRY FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART...that you're too egoistically stupid to cover up your lack of intelligence and honesty. I tried being really nice to tolerate their actions, but really sometimes they need a slap in their face to realize their bad habit and fix it.

Nobody likes losing friends of course, been there done that. I'm over that phase years ago, so to be honest I'm not sad to lose someone who cannot put up with me (not implying that I have a serious attitude problem btw haha), there's no reason to. However, to end a friendship like that is still sad. And to my former right hand, I prolly kinda screwed up the final cherry tree chapter and I apologized for the really mean things I said, but you should know why I did that because of your repeated bad habits. Not really sure if you read that msg in Skype or not, I dunno about you but I feel more peaceful now. So yeah, the show must go on.

No matter how many years it takes.

And lastly, about my third fall from the tree and being haunted by it. Actually, there is a third and final sequel to sum up this trilogy cherry tree story. And it's so mind blowing that if I could I would really want to blog about it but...hmm...I dunno, felt like it actually hasn't ended yet or I'm pretty sure it already did. Anyway All I can tell you guise and girls is that things didn't work out, the truth was also revealed, and I've yet to receive a sincere apology from the both of them in person. If you want to know the full details, pm me and I shall tell you the final chapter.

Back to the dialogue at the start of this post, the reason why the male character had his eyes wide opened (like a sudden realization moment) was because when he was with his first love. She said something similar which is, 

"They say it's five centimeters per second." she said.

Puzzled, the boy asked "Huh? What is?"

She then answered
"The speed at which cherry blossoms fall. It's five centimeters per second."

They say that, everyone struggle the most to get over their first relationship. But I beg to differ, actually in fact it is their first love (which happens to be their first relationship most of the time) that everyone struggle the most to get over with. I can understand that very well, since she was the one that I truly loved the most among the three maidens with their ever glowing aura including her. I actually really hoped for a sweet good ending for this end of the year, I have written wonderful scripts for several occasions. But unfortunately, she had written several different ideas to the script as well. Which left a bitter mark on the ending. 

Just like this one.

Despite the bitter ending, it's still a better love story than twirite.

And with the curtains closed, there's no more reason to stay on the stage anymore.

Tears with no cheers and a single rose, one must still take a bow and exit the door.

For the lessons learn from this act, I shall be firm as an anchor and face the coming war.

No matter how many years it takes.