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Somebody once asked me how I would sum up my life in as few words as possible. I can’t really think of any other answer but dodging bullets. That’s the story of my life and that’s the feeling I get after beating one deadline after another. Of course, I don’t always dodge these bullets all the time but one thing I’ve learned over the years is the art of buying time and keeping people at bay. Buying time is when I either find a way to somehow extend my deadline or talk my way out of a tight fix, at least for the time being. There are really no hard or fast rules for this. It’s either you’re pretty good at this or you’re just darn lucky.

I probably belong to the second category. During a brief weekend sojourn to Kuala Lumpur, our group visited a Chinese temple there where lifelike figures of animals in the Chinese horoscope lay within its premises. It was there that I found out that the main characteristic of those born in the Year of the Dragon is, yes, "Lucky." The bad news is that luck isn’t consistent as a Feng Shui expert told me in a previous trip to Singapore. Maybe it has something to do with the whirling shape of the dragon but according to Feng Shui, life is pretty much a roller coaster ride for us dragons. Every good thing is followed by something that is not so good, as if there’s a trade-off for every blessing that comes our way.

This year has been a very good year for me so far. Which is why a part of me is worried about next year. With luck (no pun intended), I hope my concerns are just bullets that I can still manage to dodge. Later.