Love is powerful

Jealousy is a futile and useless energy.
Love is strong.

Stay steadfast.

K

Life's About

Life isn't about money.
It's not the colour of your hair.
It doesn't matter what you wear.
It's not about matching shoes to pants.
Not about the varnish on your nails.
Not about your occupation, reputation, your position.

It's about you. It's passion, honesty, trust.
It's how you love yourself and how you share your love.
It's the beauty in beautiful things, and also the beauty in ugly ones.
It's time you spent not regretting, yet not forgetting the things you do - words you said - places you've been.

It's about now. Life's about this - and this is life.

Imagine Wild

Well, well, well.

Right after I thought of writing this short entry, I went and did myself a little googling on the topic.

Looks like it's true.
A sleepy brain thinks more creatively.

It seems when you get sleepy, you get more insightful. Your mind stops minding you thinking nonsense.

I don't quite mind this state I'm in now. It's rather enjoyable. Happiness comes easily. Just by closing my eyes I derive much comfort and feel so relaxed. Satisfying a sleepy me by shutting my lids actually feels pleasurable. Got no place for work stress in this brain fog.

Writing seems easy too I don't feel like I'm not getting the usual writers' block as I begin the entry. I'm not saying the quality of writing is better - perhaps I'll judge my own literature on another day.

They say getting tipsy brings on the same effect. It's no wonder people enjoy drinking when they are bogged with problems. Those guys are geniuses!

Just as I'm writing this I've got another 2 product ideas edging their way into my brain. Nice. I'm going to get them sketched and documented down into my sketch book. (It's a book that's actually named 'Sketch'!)

Well if the book insists, I shall obey...

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The Bluez

Some days I think I lose myself. 
My esteem runs really low and I keep feeling inadequate.

I think I've got the bluez.

I know I have the power to change myself. To change the way I doubt myself. The only way to deal with this emotion, as quoted by Pushy (most likely stolen from an old movie) is to Follow Your Heart.

When the mind, the body, and the heart are all aligned, then happiness will ensue.

This emo-potato will go and sleep off the bluez now.

❤

Cosy December Dreams..

December will be magic again.
It's time to update my ringtone with that evergreen by Kate Bush. I would be quite surprised if I met someone else having the same ringtone.

Have had some minor shuffles in my work environment and I'm having mixed feelings. Yet I'm hopeful that I'd get what I want in this new space!

Feeling hopeful, I've gathered motivation to get back in line with my fitness routine.  If only I hadn't busted my ankle from the over-zealousness. I'm thinking I should get it checked, together with my ever aching intercostal muscle, and that sharp pain in my molar.

It's time to give myself a little bit more attention and R&R.

Have a good December dream my cyber folks.

❤

New Year is Coming...

Egad.

Just 2 months to go!

Pulse check.
In this year.. Have you been Naughty or Nice?
♥

A fulfilling weekend

A fulfilling weekend.
Worked through cough and cold. 
Persistence paid off. 
New creations, affirmations.
Rested, recovered.
It was fun, fun, fun. =)

Loving Life.
♥

Home is a Good Feeling

My humble home, my shabby abode.
I sometimes feel overwhelmed with your cluttered spaces. 
It doesn't deter me from returning to you.
I love you and the neighbourhood which you sit in.
Every family around here seems to purposefully placed.
So comfortably living and making a living.
Enjoying the park and public facilities.
I feel relaxed when I see you.
You hold all my good and bad memories.
I am protected when I live and breathe within you.
It is here that my favourite people congregate at the end of every harsh day,
Every delightful day, and every uneventful day.
In here I rest and recover, grow up and learn to be me.
I am thankful for this home.
My humble home, I will always cherish you.
I wish you will always be here for me.

♥ 

The Defiant Night Guy

Jerry's got THAT right.

The defiant Night guy over here is really exhausted right now, but is refusing to give up on scanning the last 2 pages of Poppadum's crafty posters. Night guy has been Poppadum's secretary over the last 3 days, digitizing all his artwork from hardcopies. 

How does Poppadum churn out these masterpieces at such a super-human pace?
...........Is what Night guy needs to know.

Now there are just 2 sheets to go... And the rebellious dual purpose HP scanner decided to go on strike so Night guy had to go reset it. Night guy is scanning the pages of artwork in high resos and therefore it takes gazillion minutes to do a single scanned sheet.

Night guy is a little cranky right now... Morning guy is SCREWED by Night guy.. Once again.

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Today's a Blue, Blue Day

Today's a blue, blue day.
It's not PMS. It's something else.
This blue-ness I'm experiencing - is really something else.

It's days like today that I get pensive and wonder if I am at fault, or the world is at fault.
Usually the next day I'll snap out of it and realise no one is at fault, and that we are just different. It takes all sorts to make a world.

It's days like this that I extensively doubt my intelligence and capabilities. Perhaps I'm not as smart as I thought? And the next day I'd flip it around and observe the opportunities that are reaching out to me that I can use to learn and improve myself.

It's days like this that I feel my esteem is scraping the ground. And then I would realise thereafter that I have come along quite accomplished in life and should be proud of who I have become.

Gosh but today.. is just blue.
Maybe if I rest my head early I could quickly switch on the good aura?

♥

Paws-to-ponder: Be your own person

Sometimes I care a little too much.
Some rumors should not be bothered with. But I'm just too introverted and keep self reflecting.

At the back of my mind, I know I'm right. I know the grape vine may not be right. Rumors may be true but they may not also. People cannot be a hundred percent mean. I know I should not judge before finding out. I should believe what I see and not what I hear. The opinion of others aren't mine.

I can choose to make my own fair opinion if I'm not clouded by the grape vine.

Respect. Let it be the guiding rule of my decisions.

Growth. That will be my only focus.

Living. I will not be myopic and will remember to live my life.

♥

Paws-To-Ponder: There is Always A Way

Don't distress, don't stress.
Don't despair, it's within repair.
Think through, think thorough.
Be creative, find alternatives.
It's going to be okay, there is always a way. 

♥

Alterations

These days I've been unemployed and lazy. Now with my next employment due to begin in less than a week, I've come under attack by nagging pangs of guilt.

Procrastination, they say, causes the demise of kings. And since my blood isn't blue my demise will come quicker.

I've been tugged or dragged along by my guilt this week to make little baby steps improvements.

I've learnt to alter and mend a pair of jeans and I've transformed a playsuit into a top. Supportive Poppadom also put in my hands the fate of 2 pairs of his trousers which I fixed up for him. All these results at the expense of 5 broken machine needles and 16 hours' worth of headache. I think the more I sew the more precise and consistent my stitches are - so it's all worth it.

Today I also successfully woke early to go for a run. This to attempt reset my bio-clock so I don't arrive on my first day with the resemblance of a zombie.

All in all je pretty proud of je self. Keep up keep up!

<3

Cloudy with a chance of Popcorn

It's wee hours now. It sounds like rain outside. The rain sounds like popping corn kernels. Very queer indeed!

All this fiddling with blogger really makes me sleepy. It's working! I think I can sleep naaoo...
<3

The Fiddling Finger

It's been a while, cyber world.
Many life events had passed - career changes, buddies weddings and childbirth and now we arrive at present day. Much alike the "1 year later" scenes in drama series.

Finally the official Blogger app is here so this is the trial entry. About time, I say!

Now on insomnia nights I can conveniently fiddle up a quick update for you cyber world and znngg my inner self.

Like so. Like tonight. Znngg! Fiddle fiddle.
Now that's out of the way, let me get my sleep!
<3

Insomnia

I wistfully wish to fall asleep, it's terribly hard right now.

A pain it is to count the sheep, in place of pots of gold.

My mind is cluttered my mood is bleak, tomorrow's plans will be a mess indeed.

I earnestly beg to find some sleep, before dawn arrives and daylight peeps.

Send me my pots of gold, lay forth my pots of gold.

-- written on my Kindle Paperwhite Experimental Browser
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Gratitude

With one family member undergoing cancer treatment, I am certainly jolted with a bolt of reality. Cancer is real and there is a possibility that one day my body cells may decide to hit the mutation dance floor and get crazy.

Everything I put into my body matters. My lifestyle matters. Maybe my DNA would be my downfall, but well, the least I could do is not to let everything go free-falling down the cancer rabbit hole. 

Time to think about my way-of-life and remember that I alone, is responsible for my own well-being.

I am thankful that right now I'm still able and about, in good shape to go for running sessions, having a normal body that allows me to read and write this blog. I am thankful for all the people in my life for hanging around, providing me with a comfortable working and living environment, a roof over my head. I am glad I can go to work and earn my keep, having sufficient ability to dress and eat well. I am really content with my place, really appreciative of all this.

No doubt with passing of time, signs of aging will begin to show up all over my healthy body and I will become frail and weak, but I will always be grateful that I am able to live comfortably and loved by so many right now.

Thanks, yah!
Lisa, hang in there because you have much to live for and celebrate!
♥

Paws-to-Ponder: This has Always been the Beginning..

We tend to segment our lives into chapters.

Beginning of new year.. End of day.. Start of new employment.. Start of marriage life..

What it really is - is that life is fluid and each moment just as significant as the last.

We are all great multi-taskers, even if we momentarily forget. I work, I bond, I learn, I fight, I plan, I do. These are all ongoing experiences we simultaneously take on.

It is a beautiful thing to be able to take a step back and appreciate what we have achieved. But because life is so fluid, we also want to use that information to recalibrate our minds and actions so we can continue towards our goals in life.

Be content, be happy, but don't be stagnant. Be aware of life, and that time is really a precious thing.

Love life. Savour the moment. Stay motivated.

♥

Paws-to-Ponder: December et moi

Hello December.
I'm generally pleased with you.
I like you, you make me happy.
I'm generally happy when you drop by.


Hey December.
I'm generally pleased with you.
I like the weather you bring to me.
I'm generally comfortable with your nice weather.


Howdy December.
I'm generally pleased with you.
I like you overflowing with festive spirit.
I'm generally delighted to celebrate your festivities.

Hi-Hi December.
I'm generally pleased with you.
I like that you signify Endings, and then new Beginnings.
I'm generally appreciative that you are my milestone. 


Enjoy your 30 further days of stay, December 2011!

Ellie says Helloha too!

♥

I-N-S-O-M-N-I-A

Sigh this is bad.


I'm having a little trouble here. Have been unsleepable for the last several hours. Got up and did my laundry instead. 


"Hello body-clock, you are a mess right now."


"Yeah.. well.. you can say that again.."


"Okay. Hello body-clock, you are a mess right now."


* eye-roll *


\(=_=)/


Meanwhile, Insomnia à l'acappella, a seemingly popular tune with acappella practitioners.





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