It's been almost 7 months since we left Malaysia, and some things are just meant to be laid out and not kept in small tight spaces. It got to me for just a tiny bit that I couldn't keep the individual boxes that all my jewelry came in - they just didn't make the cut. I know I'm not practical in many levels, but let me just explain that I'm pretty okay, very obsessive about keeping each piece in its proper box or in some particular order. I must admit, I hand-carried everything with me (of course, right? the diamonds, the pearls and all that gold you say......
tho, admittedly, it does get ridiculous.
- the artificial jewelry, the beads made of shells, you name it - all part of it.
Honesty, they totalled up to around 10 kg (Nicely divided up between Luis and my carry-on :)
Luckily, we weren't stopped for a, "random check" like in the U.S. :P
If you've met me, you'll know that I'm obsessed with jewelry. So obviously having them in close proximity to me brought such pleasure on our 2-day plane ride to Chilito. Lately, with most of my jewelry just squashed in a painful manner in a single jewelry box (although in an extremely beautiful box, a so-call antique from China), and also not forgetting the rest, in not so pretty but functional cases,
a couple of my favourites have been ruined -- extremely heartbreaking! <sigh>
Anyways, in general, I look back and feel mostly at peace and don't hold those very large boxes accountable for its inability to accomodate the smaller ones. However, I'm reminded of them
very so often when I suddenly find something broken or in a messy knot.
( I can't remember how many times I've gone to Luis for fixing and
He would time and time again patiently untangle and do his thing and succeed most times unless we're in a hurry)
I'm happy though, most of our furniture that we bought for our apparently, "fully furnished" apartment are in safe hands. See, that's the negative difference in Malaysia (I'm Malaysian, so allow me to carp) In Australia for instance, something like that would never happen - a fully furnished apartment would come with nice ceramic bowls, extra cutlery and even coasters !
( Ah, Australia was a beautiful experience, I would love to live Sydney again, though Chile has been pretty awesome :)
The extra things purchased for our apartment back in Kuala Lumpur are been used by my dearest parents in Kota Kinabalu. How nice, "everytime" I head back for a holiday now, I'll be reminded of the good times we had back in Kuala Lumpur - the lovely black and white chair we had in our master, the carpet where we played Wii numerous times with friends and the black couch we had to buy to fill up space.
As of last week though, all is good and rosy in Marsha's jewelry world. At least for my earrings for now. My Luis got me this gorgeous vintage like assembly to hang all my beloved earrings for our monthly anniversary. Oh, there's a bigger mannequin like one that I'm eyeing for my our very own beautiful master bedroom and which Luis so willingly wanted to get for me, even to carry around the mall while we shopped for our toaster and kettle, but that's just how sweet he is.
I've learnt not to push things :-) He's so good to me, that I so often catch myself feeling thankful and so blessed.
I'm obviously still smitten by him.
So, I'll just get that one myself. However, it wouldn't hurt and I would be forever thankful if Luis
could just help me with its heavy burden to the carpark :)
So... we loose some, we gain some aye. Good thing's that there are an abundant of pretty things out there wherever life takes us and it doesn't necessarily have to cost too much.
The beauty of this lovely gift is that, it is truly a gift in every sense of the word - I get to remember the people who gave each and every one of them, and the people I bought them with. All this makes a difference, since I'm so far from a lot of people I really care about. Everytime I pass its gorgeous presence as I enter the room, it always brings my heart home; to the people I love the most wherever they might be.
At a time in their lives, they did take that extra effort
to spend a bit of time for me.
That's indeed something so special and worth holding on too xx
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Now, now I could hang some of my necklaces at the back :) |
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| A random of us, happily in Bali ;) |
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