Do you believe in fate?

          Dear friends, tonight, I'm going to talk about FATE. Yes, fate. In other word, destiny.

          Do you guys believe in fate? Have you met anything or anyone that you think it's fate?

          I've never thought about fate, until a few incidents happen to me. Now, I do believe in fate.

          First of all, the Christian society members in my university organised this event. It's called "Evangelical Music Concert". I didn't know about this at all until one day, I was in the bus. I realised that was a piece of paper in front of the seat. Well, I was busybody enough to take the paper to read it. It was the flyer of Evangelical Music Concert. That was how I know about it. Nobody told me. Nobody gave me the flyer. Was it fate for me to go?

       Okay, moving on. After I went to the concert. There was a talk. The guy talked about "Love". He was good. It was a great talk. He has a good sense of humour and he made funny jokes and what he said is true and meaningful.

        "When someone is dying, he hoped to see his loved ones beside him for the last time. Imagine an old man is dying, sure his friends and family are beside him. Have you ever seen someone dying and he says "Please show me my UPM certificate...." or "Can I see my bank account statement?" or "On the computer, I wanna see how many Facebook friends that I have."

        "We Chinese people tend to be very SHY. When you go back to your hometown, does your father come to you and hug you and tell you how much he misses you and loves you? No. But this doesn't mean that he doesn't love you. He expresses his love by asking your mom to cook more delicious food for you."

         It was very funny. But yet it is true. This is what we do now. This is our priority. Money, studies, social networking.... That is what I do too. And we are way to shy to express our love to the person we love. I admit that. I don't tell my parents I love them. I'm too shy t tell them. But if I were to die in 5 seconds, this will be the biggest thing I feel regretted.

         I have a feeling that there is a message to be sent to me. If you read my previous post, you would know about my dream. The what-are-you-going to-do-if-you-have-5-seconds-left post. Why did I have that dream? After I have that dream, I feel there is a message in the dream. Was I thinking too much? Even if I was, but what about this talk that I went? It was such a coincident on how I get to know about this concert. It happens that I was in that bus, that particular seat, and it happens that I took the paper to read the flyer. And the content of the talk that the guy delivered is quite the same as my dream. Okay, maybe I am thinking too much, but don't you guys think this is fate? Is there a message?

         Second case, haha. If you guys read my previous post, I have this Vision 2013. One of it is to be able to present well. It's my biggest fear to talk or give a speech in front of strangers. Especially hundreds of them. I know I need to overcome it. Guess what? I was voted as the president of a coming event, called "Malam Gong Xi". It's a big event for Chinese New Year Celebration in my hostel. Well, being a president, I need to prepare a proposal letter for this event and stuffs. I'm okay with that. Plus, I need to communicate with the people in the office. It's not as simple as you think. The people there are not simple. I do not want to elaborate on that here. I might get caught. Also, my biggest fear, I need to give a speech on that night in front of hundreds of students and VIPs. At least, thank God the event is next year, I get to start preparing now. Hahahha. Seriously, I will be nervous to talk in front of so many strangers.

        During the meeting, when the seniors were asking who is interested to be the president or anyone thinks that their friends can be the president? Nobody wanted to be the president. But someone said my name. I wasn't sure if I wanted to do this. I know it will be kinda stressful, and the speech-giving part is kinda freaking me out. When they were counting votes, I prayed to God "Dear God, I don't know if I can do this. Yes, I want to improve my presenting skill, and I know this is a great opportunity. But I'm not sure if I can do it well. I leave it to You. If You think I should be, I will get it.If you think I don't, then I won't get it"

         After that, the secretary says "Okay, Sherri is the president." I was shocked. Is this fate? Of all people, why me? Why did I get it? I think it's fate to give me a chance to improve myself. I will do my best and overcome my greatest fear with the help of God. In the same time, I am very touched that all my beloved friends voted for me. I never thought that I will become the president. It's an honoured. I'm so touched that they support me. I don't know what did I do to deserve this, but yeah, thanks everybody. I will do my best as it is fate for me to overcome my fear.

         Okay, the third case. I have this friend, she is not my course mate, she is not my roommate. She is lived in the same hostel with me. That's all. But I do not know why, our relationship is very good. In fact, I have better relationship with her than my coursemates or roommate. I still remember the first day we chat. She asked me what is my name and what course I'm taking. From that day until now, though it's not long but we are so close. All our friends thought we are taking the same course or living in the same room, but no, we are not. She is my assistant when I'm in the protocol unit, and now she is also my assistant in this Malam Gong Xi. Is this fate? I think this definitely is. Sometimes we don't get close to people even though they are physically close to us, like living in the same room or studying the same course. But if we have fate, we don't need to be in the same room or same course to get close with each other. I'm so glad to have her as my friend and assistant as she is a very caring person. We can work well together.

        In conclusion, I believe there is something connect between us. That is fate. Things happen for some reasons. There are messages that God wants to send to us. We can't receive it the message in SMS or MSN. It needs some incident and fate to make us receive the message. Sometimes God send someone to us. It needs some incident and fate to make me meet that someone too. Sometimes something is just meant to be. I will appreciate everything that I have received in fate. 

       I'd like to thank God for everything I have. Thank you Lord.