12 Pictures for 2022 (Jan-June)

Foreword

The inspiration behind 12 pictures for 2022 is based off the phrase 'a picture is worth a thousand words'. Each picture represents a month of this year and sums up my thoughts and experiences as 2022 unfolded.

Side note: idk if y'all know this but I love taking pics, but I'm no photographer! It's just me and my iPhone, so all these pics are basically from my gallery.

January

I started 2022 with the worst start to any year I've ever had, I was going in and out of hospitals for most of the month. And for the first time in my life, I felt so utterly defeated: physically and psychologically... I was just suffering ya know. It felt as if I was shrouded in a thick fog of confusion.

Thank you, Amir, for always believing in me and helping me through the tough times

February

One night in February, I called up Nivesh (one of my best friends), told him about all that had happened and cuz Nivesh being Nivesh, I found myself driving to the hospital his dad practiced at to have a consult that very week. By then, I'd seen multiple specialists in Malaysia and if I were being honest I thought this was going to be no different. I remember that day so vividly cuz it was a real turning point for me; what he told me in those 20 minutes flicked a switch within me, made me realise that all of this had precipitated from how very traumatised I'd been cuz of what had happened in Cambridge. That very realisation transformed my psyche; I walked out of that hospital a different person to the one that entered it. That day, my outlook on life changed and I started to see the world through a whole new lens.

To Nivesh and his dad who helped me find my way back, I'm indebted to y'all.

March

After last month, I was determined to radically transform my life and on the

23rd of March 2022, a date that now marks the happiest day of my life, I finally told my mum the truth. It's true ya know.....the truth does liberate you, every worry I had and every moment of sadness evaporated that day.

To the person who made me realise that I only ever needed to tell the people that mattered the most, thank you.

April

I'd started putting my happiness first in life ever since, and it began to change me.

(My dad is the last person you'd count on to take a decent pic but some how he managed to capture this)

May

She needs no introduction but for those of you who've yet to meet this princess, her name is Nora. Lemme tell y'all how she came into my life - my mum had gone to visit my grandparents in Taiping and I got a call around midday waking me up ( I wasn't too happy about it ngl), our convo went like this :

Amma: Deeban, transfer me 500 ringgit!

Me: What for?

Amma: I'm at this pet store to get tick meds for your Tata's dog but I saw this really cute dog, the owner said it's the last one left out of the litter, you know how Siva (my sister ) has been wanting a dog for years, we should get a dog.

Me: Fine, but I'm not looking after it! send pics of the dog though haha.

Well I did that bank transfer & went back to sleep, now I have this pupper running around the house eating every bug that crawls within her sight.

June

Around June was when my grandpa was diagnosed with cancer. Every weekday for that month, my mum and I ferried my grandpa from Ipoh to KL and back for his radiotherapy sessions. It was a tough time for him, he's doing well now though.

We used to set out around 6:30 a.m. and every day and I got to see the most beautiful sunrises over the mountains of Ipoh.

(July to Dec) will be up by 31/12/2022, catch y'all then and thank you