Know Thyself

(Jack Yellin / Ted Shapiro)
A Musical Monologue by Sophie Tucker

I’ve often heard it said and sung
That life is sweetest when you’re young
And kids, sixteen to twenty-one
Think they’re having all the fun
I disagree, I say it isn’t so
And I’m one gal who ought to know
I started young and I’m still going strong
But I’ve learned as I’ve gone along…….

That life begins at forty
That’s when love and living start to become a gentle art
A woman who’s been careful finds that’s when she’s in her prime
And a good man when he’s forty knows just how to take his time

Conservative or sporty, it’s not until you’re forty
That you learn the how and why and the what and when
In the twenties and the thirties you want your love in large amounts
But after you reach forty, it’s the quality that counts

Yes, life begins at forty
And I’ve just begun to live all over again

You see the sweetest things in life grow sweeter as the years roll on
Like the music from a violin that has been well played upon
And the sweetest smoke is from a mellow, broken and old pipe
And the sweetest tasting peach is one that’s mature, round and ripe

In the twenties and the thirties you’re just an amateur
But after you reach forty, that’s when you become a connoisseur
Then it isn’t grab and get it and a straight line for the door
You’re not hasty, you’re tasty, you enjoy things so much more

For instance, a novice gulps his brandy down, he doesn’t understand
Observe a connoisseur, the way he holds it in his hand
How he strokes the glass, fondles it, warms it as he should
Smaks his lips, aahhh, slowly sips, hah, boy, it tastes good

Life begins at forty
Then it isn’t hit and run and you find much more fun
You romance a girl of twenty and it costs you all your dough
But when a forty thanks you, she hates to see you go

And girls of twenty, all they want are big men
Big men with strong physiques
I don’t say that it’s bad
But you do get tired of those damn Greeks

Life begins at forty
And I’m just living all over again

These are four things I consider to be the most important moments in my life :
1. Birth - 22nd October 1986 - I believe it was a beautiful day in that year - An angel was really born hahahha!
2. Graduation - 4th February 2008 - the same day with Illona’s birthday - To respect my team mates, will mention their names : Abang & Sianne 
3. Marriage - Marital status is still single =)
4. Death - I am still alive!

In between them, I should mention:

1. First day of going to school - I don’t remember anymore .. should be in 1992
2. First present - Can only recall about a radio given by sinterklaus (yet I knew
a few days later that actually my grandmother or grandfather who bought it for me)
3. Noticed that I have so many fans - 6th grade Primary School (I am not kidding hahaha!)
4. First time winning a competition - 6th grade primary school (can only remember
my friend, Hendra, to be one of the team, forgot another one T_T)
5. First time being asked to go out : 2nd grade Junior High School
6. First time got a scholarship : in 2004 - I even can remember the amount hahaha (Rp. 9.300.000)
7. First time going out - no publication about this
8. First day accepted to work - If I am not wrong it was on 12 or 13 March 2008 - Fullcast
9. First day of working - 14th April 2008 - CSPL
10. First month received my salary - on April (I’m lazy to open the payslip to know the exact date) - though the amount was kinda weird, I remember very well about the numbers haha.

And there are some more I mind to tell here : privacy matters :).

With my very much time to spend, I can only recall these things. I will add some more on the day I received a news that I am accepted a scholarship from Sweden =), the month my salary increased, the day I have a baby, etc etc hahaha! Anyway, graduation ceremony is on 2nd August 2008.

One very important thing I got for remembering all those things : I realize again that I am such a very blessed person in this world. I must have made a very good karma in my previous life =).

Have a nice day, ALL!

I am not able anymore to receive the messages you sent to my xl number since it’s already inactive. I am sorry for some misunderstandings happened. Will announce when it’s active again!

I am amazed of how much I love programming right now :).

Here are my updates :

1. I am very sleepy!

2. Found $10 on the floor of esplanade two days ago :
- spent $3 for ice cream
- spent $2 for soya bean milk and peanut pancake
- donate $5 to the temple.

3. Working almost 2 months here, I begin to notice the people who take the same bus with me everyday.

4. I just know the reason why I feel my working hours are too long. It is because the company uses the 5.5 working days pattern.

5. I decide that every Friday to be my day to eat Empal Penyet (regardless whether I am on diet or not).

6. I plan to go back on 31st July and return back to Spore on 4th August.

7. It’s like a hell to wake up every morning and realize that I have to go working. I am sooooooooo lazy! But of course, there is always some heavens on weekend :).

8. Overall, though life hasn’t been too nice recently, I will pass through it. And as a lucky person I always believe I am, I know many good things will come to me very soon.

PS : I am happy to know all of my close friends are happy with their life now :).

I just read my friend’s shoutout today complaining about her exams that keep coming over and over. Then I realize how much I miss those kinds of stuffs. Although I am such a lazy person, somehow I always love school. Until now, I am still considering I am a student, not a worker (either because most of my time in the office I spend to learn things or because I have been just working for not more than two months, I just don’t know). I wonder when I don’t work anymore I will miss the working life or not. But I know inside me the answer is yes.   

I want so I try. I get and I take. Not free, I pay. It costs me so much indeed.  Yet I knew it already from the beginning : that it’s all worthy.