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It elates the heart to wake up to a little bit sunshine today after days of rain. Although I like the rain, when it rains beyond normal, when the rivers, water and drainage systems are not able to cope, it gets worrying. The news have reported flood devastation across cities and towns. Here’s hoping that the water subsides soon for those affected.
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13 December 2021: Learn Dear Diary, Time flew by again. It felt like just recently I wrote to you but when I checked the dates again, it was more than a week ago. I was just telling myself the other day that I must not neglect you but I did. My bad. I am not going to apologize because I am doing that a little too often. I just need to take action. You may be sick and bored of me for repeating this stance too. So, I will not apologize. You may also be wondering what am I…
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A trip to a fish shop is always interesting and exciting. We get to see and learn about different kinds of fishies, most of which I have not seen or heard before. The display of shapes and colors are simply beautiful. This is added with the calming sounds of water flowing all around the space which brings a certain degree of therapeutic healing from a week of busy thoughts to the mind.
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3 December 2021 3 December 2021 Dear Diary, I am back today. I decided that I must make time to write to you every few days. Like Yoda says, "Do or do not. There is no try.". How very true. When we say that we will try, it brings a meaning that we are not entirely giving it our best, doesn’t it? I don’t know. To me, sometimes I say try because I do not want to give myself false hope, but I ask myself after that, am I shortchanging the situation by not giving it my best shot?…
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30 November 2021 Dear Diary, It’s been a long while since I wrote to you. I apologize. I have neglected you for so long. I used to write to you every night when I was in school and quite often when I was in college. But when I started working, it sucked the life out of me literally and I allowed it. My bad. I realized that after some years through. At the beginning, it was in the name of learning but after some time, it was pure stupidity. In the midst of it all, I forgot…
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Keeping hopes low Life can be funny sometimes. The more we want something, the harder it was to get what we want or the more we expect that we would achieve something, the more we won’t. It doesn’t happen always but I can say almost always. It happened enough number of times on things that matter to me, to cause me enough heartaches, pain and disappointments, for me to realize that it is what it is. When it first happened, I didn’t understand. I was young and naïve but as I…
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What is the point? “What is the point of folding them if we are going to wear them again tomorrow or in the next few days?” a child asked his mom when she asked him to fold the laundry. “Well, if you are okay with wrinkled clothes, if you are okay with rummaging through the stash of laundry in the basket every morning to find the clothes that you want to wear and then be late for school, then, don’t fold.” The mother answered casually. The child thought for a while about…
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Life can sometimes be like a jigsaw puzzle. If you find the piece you are looking for and find the place it is suppose to be at, when things go as planned, the picture would turn out as it should. But if there is a missing piece, you can only keep looking for it and it will remain a hole until you find it or if you make another piece by some form of creativity to replace it.
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Dashed She sat there waiting as patiently as she could. There was nothing she could do more except to sit and wait for the results. Anxious and worried with all sorts of thoughts racing through the little mind of hers. Little was what she thought of her mind. Nothing much there except worrying thoughts every single day. She felt tired having these thoughts but it was hard not to think about it when she has this condition. A condition with no cure but she had been reading and…
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At first glance, I thought it was a cockroach and I was ready to smack it flat. But the little fella in the kitchen sink had a different colour than the usual dark brown cockroaches that I fear. Bright orange and black stripes that looked almost like a ladybug or a bee. I stopped myself and took my phone instead to snap photos. But it still looks like a cockroach though. I let it go.
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Nothing is truly permanent When I started working after college, I was told by the employer that there were basically two kinds of employment in the company. One was as contract hires, another was as regular hires. It was the first time my colleagues and I heard the term “regular” and we wondered why did the company chose to use “regular” instead of “permanent”. In school, in college, we have always thought back then, there were only contract hires and permanent hires.…
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The silent giver He munched his breakfast cereal topped with some pumpkin seeds and fresh strawberries, quietly and quickly. The cereal had only been soaked in cold milk for just a short while because he liked them still crunchy. He didn’t like his cereal soggy and always tried to finish them before they reach that state of mushiness. Plus, he liked his milk cold too. It refreshed him as he took each bite. Today, the morning felt colder than usual. It rained quite heavily a…
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Down memory lane......Growing up, comic books such as this one, Garfield and The Archies were my main sources of entertainment. And I could re-read them a couple of times. The story lines were witty and simple too. Somehow I prefer comic books to watching the cartoon for Garfield, it reads better and I just can't help laughing. I just re-read this one and I laughed again. They never grow old!
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Breaking it down A high pile of dishes in the kitchen sink is never a sight to behold. In fact, it is a nerve wrecking sight sometimes. It makes me annoyed and frustrated, knowing the amount of washing that needs to be done until I learnt to break it down. I would first tackle the non-greasy or less greasy dishes. Less soap is needed and less work is needed. Once that is done, I can then move on to the greasier dishes and kitchen utensils, the kind that could easily come off…
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Setting reminders One of my frustrations these days is my forgetfulness and short memory span. I would think about something and the next second, literally the very next second, I would forget about it until it was too late. Just today, the battery in my car key was showing a warning sign of low battery. I was reminded that I needed to change the battery. I was thinking about it as I was closed the car door. But I totally forgot about it until the next few days after that. I…
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It is a mood thing It is true when they say it is a mood thing. Mood, generally defined as a temporary feeling or state of mind, or the way we feel at a point in time or a period of time. But mood is something that can change internally or externally and it can change within a split second. Mood can last a short period of time and it can prolong too for a long period of time. Mood can be expressed in many ways. I express mine by saying that I am in the mood to do something…
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Once I participated in a drawing contest, and the theme was to draw something scary versus something cute. Somehow, I chose to draw these two, an angry angler fish, inspired by Finding Nemo, and a cute chubby sun catfish which I currently have in my aquarium. The fun in drawing with pencils. I like it that they are easily corrected :D
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Kelsie “Look at that cute girl, so bubbly and chatty. She is the same age as you. Why can’t you be like her?” Kelsie remembered her mother chiding when she was younger. Her mother’s glare and the stare always gave her shivers. Kelsie had no answers. She didn’t know why she was not like the rest of the kids that her mother seemed to like. All she could do was to keep quiet and to cry within first before crying to herself in bed, talking to her teddy bears which her father…
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Eight months Eight months, two days and ten hours, that was how long it has been. She looked out of her little window to the world outside. The world she has not been able to feel and experience for that long of a time. The air that she has not been able to breathe, the sun ray that she has not been able to allow her skin to kiss and the plants she has not been able to touch with her fingers and flowers that she has not been able to smell at the park nearby where she usually…
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Taking the time to do it right “You are taking too much time to complete this.” I was once told when I was washing dishes. I was brushed away and the job was taken over immediately. Although I was happy to be excused from doing the work, it didn’t feel pleasant to be brushed away. It wasn’t the only time I was told that I was slow. It went on like this as I was growing up. Most of the things I do, I do take a longer time if there was time to spare. It came to a point that I…
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Quail eggs are really yummy but they are such a pain to crack and peel. Some shells would come off very easily but some are so hard to peel. It takes a lot of patience to peel them because they are small in size compared to a chicken or duck egg. But they are still delicious and are worth the time and pain.
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Finding the calm *One man’s calm may not be another man’s calm but each will have its own.* When I was studying, I worry. I worried about exams, I worried about understanding the syllabus, I worried that I might fail and not be able to graduate. I think it is human nature to worry and it is inevitable that we have a long list of things to worry about. Life, family, love, work, money, house, bills and the list goes on. While we are naturally worry-warts, some of us are…
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When the mind is set When the mind is set, It is pretty much fixed, Nothing can easily change, When the ears don’t listen. When the words don’t flow, Only stuck, linger and blow, All around and about, But not into the mind at all. When the mind is set, It takes quite a bit, To convince and to coax, But it may not change the world. It is without a doubt, That the mountain it takes, Plus the sky and the sea, But still the mind may not budge. When the mind is set, Only one…
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When my body tells me so I woke up yesterday morning with aches all over my body and I couldn’t really sleep because every turn and movement was achy. It felt weird, as though I had a really tough workout the day before or I have been punched all over or I have been involved in a bad accident. But as far as I could remember, I did nothing of that and I was not involved in a bad accident. I felt groggy somehow. Every muscle movement was hard and I had no choice but to just…
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The little joys that we get in baking. I had fun popping these scones out from the lightly kneaded and pressed dough using a glass. The fun part was when the glass was pressed down until it cuts the dough, there would be a popping sound to indicate that it had been cut. "Pop" and the flour around the glass would poof into the air. And then, there was more joy seeing the dough rise after baking :)
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I felt like scones I got up early the other day and wondered what I should do. I didn’t want to be mopping and as I sat there thinking for a bit, I decided to make some scones. It was a recipe I tried a few times before but I have not made them for more than a year. I remembered the first time I tried scones. I was in Australia, visiting an ex-colleague. He had invited me to his home and while we were chatting, his daughter came into the dining room to inform that she was…
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Nothing is truly free “Look ma! There is a buy 1 free 1 promo!” A teenage girl exclaimed excitedly to her mother while pointing to the display card. Two packets of Hershey’s chocolate chips for the price of one. Looked like a good deal, maybe a little too good to be true. “Calm down young lady. Check the expiration date first” the mother reminded her daughter. True enough, the expiration date was due soon, in two month’s time. “But ma, we can finish way before that!” the…
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Start anew The bus was arriving at her stop and she pressed the bell. The bus stopped by the road side and she got down. As she stepped on the curb, she looked up to the sky. Sunny blue sky with cottony puffy clouds. A good sign, she thought to herself. She took a deep breath and walked slowly towards the white building across the street, a majestically looking white building with a rather odd architectural shape that she couldn’t truly describe. It was as though the…
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To believe and to trust again A stranger approached two friends who were standing at the bus stop near their workplace waiting for their transport to arrive. The stranger, a young adult casually dressed in a simple T-shirt and jeans was carrying a knapsack and looked fairly innocent. He spoke gently, asking if we could lend him some money, as he needed it to pay for his transport. One of them looked at the stranger doubtfully and said he didn’t have any to lend while the…
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It takes time Many things in life take time. When I watched the recent Tokyo Olympics, I can only imagine the amount of time taken for each athlete to be where they are today. No doubt, the time taken has to be coupled with a whole lot of other things such as dedication, patience, endurance, discipline and motivation. Everyday they practiced, to be good at what they do. Then, I was reminded of the book “The Outliers: The Story of Success” where the author Malcolm Gladwell…
