Fate

I think life is an amazing yet profound thing. Life is full of mystery and sometimes it is beyond our control which could caught us off by surprise. Like in cny eve of eve (friday), I was walking around ntuc fairprice at jurong point with nazanin (my senior labmate). The NTUC was super crowded because there are a lot of residents in boonlay and a lot of foreigners too. It is hard to walk around. I guess when u are fated to see that person, u will see him/her amidst the crowd. God has arranged everything. I saw postdoc from my lab with his family. It is really unexpected because imagine u be in the same place and same time as your colleague and somemore it is so crowded (among so many people), u still bump into your colleague. I think it is really amazing. Yesterday, I bump into my korean senior from lab (Aram). Actually i didnt notice. I was having meal with my family at one of the fastfood near my house (bp plaza)as usual. But yesterday we chose mac and had our dinner there. We were staying a while longer (5-10mins) in mac after finishing our dinner because my bro wasnt feeling well so my mum suggested we sit for a while. Then someone stand up directly in front of me (2 tables away from my table)and she was shifting to another place while holding the icecream. I notice that she looks familiar and took a glance longer while she is shifting to a few tables to the left of the table she was occupying; I realise she is Aram and the other person is her korean friend. I think her friend realise I am looking at their direction or something else happened because Aram turned to my direction. We chatted a bit and i was wondering why she came here coz she stays in pioneer, she was here because her friend live in senja and somehow they decide to eat mac icecream. Actually i didnt notice when she came into mac because u know, people keep coming in and leaving mac and I couldnt possibly notice everyone (looking at my food and chatting with my family and the layout of the mac). I think it is too coincidental. My bro and I came back from ntu openhouse to our house at that timing, we decided to have mac, my bro wasnt feeling well so waited a while longer(which make me notice there is a person standing up in front of me after i finished my meal) , she was seated in front of me (2 tables away; I was seated facing the window). All these sequences and position (must be exact) has been arranged by god and make us bump into each other. Fate is really something that is profound. I guess being able to be working together in the same lab is a sign of the group of us from different background, being fated to meet. This is especially strong in this period, hence i am able to chance upon my labmates even when outside of the lab (no prearrangement or anything or talking abt our plans). I think this side of fate is really amazing. But I dont know whether this fate would be a temporary one because eventually, we would all return to our nation and this fate may be lost in due time.