There is another typhoon brewing outside, this year alone I think there has been more than five Typhoon 8s and one Typhoon 9. Took Sophie down for a swim and the sea is rough.

My mind was wandering when I suddenly thought about my trip back home about four months ago. I had found out that an ex-colleague recently filed for a divorce. She got married the year before I came to HK and I liked her ex tremendously. Good looking, soft spoken - he was definitely the type of guy I'd liked to walk me to my car after a night out.

Why? What? How? I had all these questions. He beats her. He beats the living daylights out of her. The year 2008, women in my mind has the same equality as every man and yet there are still some of us subjected to domestic violence. I can't help but weep. I often thought of domestic voilence occuring in poor countries like India and yet it was right there, right below my nose and it happened to a friend I cared about.

That's life, who do we really know? No one.

We like to think we understand but that's really bullshit. We only see bits and pieces of a person, but trulywe have no inkling who they really are. All of us as people have compartments - we choose who we want to show you and who we want to hide.

When I was young, when I didn't understand why my father never came home anymore, I hate it when people tell me. Don't worry, I understand what you are going through.

FUCK YOU! Don't even start with me. How do you even begin to decipher how I feel?

Don't get me wrong, I am not angry anymore. I thank everything that happened to me. I thank my parents for showing me what could possibly go wrong with a marriage. I have no shame to admit that I grew up way before a lot of people did. I was never really into the idea of happily ever afters and that you grow up finding the one..

But life as we know is a comedian, it loves to prove us wrong. Life as it turns out for me, I am pleasantly surprised to find the one and for once, I'd like to say, I have a family of my own.