The happiest, saddest moment in my life

I was riding on the passenger side of my Nissan Sunny. My buddy and room mate was taking his turn driving the car at that time. We were cruising down the PLUS highway towards Kuala Lumpur and was just in from the Gopeng Toll gate. My buddy was feeling sorrowful as he lament about how it will devastate his mother when he breaks the news.

Earlier that day, both of us received letters from the university admin stating that we were being expelled due to low grade points.

I did not feel sorry or remorseful. I knew it was coming. I did not put up an effort to save myself and thus my fate was anticipated. So I looked at my friend with pity. Pity that he really did work hard to stay with the course. But I do felt a certain dread at breaking the news to my mom and dad.

So I was listening silently to my friend's regrets while planning my course of action, thinking about my parents and my future when it struck me that my future is a blank. I have nothing before me, nothing to look forward to. That thought strangely fills me with giddy anticipation. I was elated! Not having anything to look forward to makes me feel truly free!

It feels as if my life is a blank slate, an empty piece of paper filled with nothing but possibilities as infinite as grains of sand in the Sahara. Well not as eloquent. But my teeth were chattering with excitement.

Whenever anybody asked me about the happiest moment in my life, I kept recalling that particular moment. A moment where everything was possible. A moment where my life could turn any way at all.

With that feeling of positivity, I tried to assure my friend that everything will be okay and that our lives might still turn out to be quite exciting. But he seems reluctant to accept it and continued to feel down for the rest of the trip home.

Later that year, I was able to appeal to the university to allow me to continue with my degree, although with a change of course from engineering to technology. Fast forward a few more years later, I managed to complete my degree and had my convocation in the year 2004 with the ceremony being chaired for the first time by Tun Dr Mahathir himself.

As for my friend, he went to flight school, got his pilot wings, worked with MAS, traveled all over the world and married a hot stewardess.

The happiest moment in my life

At my last birthday, I pray to god: “I want to be happy forever.” It was Valentine’s Day, the third year for Daniel and me. I like Daniel, he is a good guy who will buy me soup when I am not feeling well, who will give me presents when I am angry, and most importantly, he is almost liked by everyone. It is not I don’t like him, it’s just he is so not romantic. I am a girl who like surprises and want my man to be a little dominant. But he is really not that type. So I still don’t know whether he is the guy I’m going to spend the rest of my life with.

Routinely, he picked me up at 7 o’clock and we went to my favorite restaurant. It was raining outside, and I was thinking, “another same year, maybe, I should end this relationship and give both of us a chance”. As I was thinking we were at the restaurant. When he offered me his hand, I realized he was wearing a new suit, and his hair made him look handsome. “Maybe something different would happen tonight; maybe he had something to say to me.”

But I stopped this kind of thinking, for it was nonsense. A guy like him could only do things according to his list. He would never change. With this in mind, I sat down and began to order. It was a wonderful dinner: the food good, the music comfortable, and the service excellent. But I was eating absent-minded.

Suddenly, all the lights went off. “Something is going to happen, who is the lucky one?” as I was thinking, a spotlight caught me, and I saw Daniel walking towards me singing Shania Twain’s From This Moment on. In that moment, I knew I was going to be the lucky one tonight. As he was right before me, he knelt down and held a light blue Tiffany box. Suddenly, I was full of tears, never had I thought I would get married like that, and Daniel could do this for me. It must kill him to sing in public.

“Will you marry me, Molly?” without thinking, I said “yes!” And I knew I was wrong about him, he was such a romantic person and even gave me the kind of wedding ring I had always expected. What a shame for me. He must love me very much and more than I loved him. It was the happiest moment in my life ever.

At that night, I said to god “Thank you for giving me the man, I will be happy forever.”