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Have A Cup?
Life is best enjoyed in short spans. Take it any longer and all kinds of negative sentiment will start forcing themselves into the gaps, giving it a bitter-sweet flavour. Although, when that happens, life is actually at its fullest and would be best ...
Of Courage And A Nine-Year-Old
"It's okay to fail. Everybody fails once in a while. The important thing is how you react to the failure. I would rather be someone who is able to bounce back after a failure than someone who has never failed.""Look at the positives. It's a good chan...
Quiet Time
There's nothing more important than a cosy Sunday to cap off a working week, to prove life could still be enjoyable. It's the best time to do some much-needed soul searching, enjoying some quiet time, relaxing and recharging unless ... you have a sev...
How Can I Resist?
One would have thought that at my ripe-old-soon-to-be-senile age of 40+, I would be way too old to have a crush; my heart would be as still as mirrors barring any ripples of any sorts breaking its calm and peace. But a crush I did have. And my, my, h...
Life's A Bitch
Life's a bitch. Or an elephant. Or an ostrich. A rhino? A phoenix? A dragon? Dinosaur? Unicorn???Life can be anything you want it to be. You just need to know how to ride it.And you do need to know how to ride it, because there's no way to get rid of...
MJ And ME
So, Michael Jackson is gone. So too has another part of me.Growing up in the 80s, Michael Jackson was one of the leading artists for my adolescent days. Days that were my most carefree, when food on the table and roof over the head appeared magically...
Hold Tight
I love my two little children more than my own life. Whenever they sleep with me, I would cover all of us under the same blanket and hold onto them lest they would disappear into the deep of nights.There's nothing more content than immersing myself i...
Thoughts From Champions League Final 2009 - Part 1
* NOTE: This is a "sticky post", sort of, Part 2 is posted below."No, I think you shouldn't raise your hand," I interrupted.My nine-years old daughter came home with the story of how her class was given a collective punishment for being too noisy dur...
Thoughts From Champions League Final 2009 - Part 2
I love sports. I enjoy watching and reading about sports. The artistic expression of human motions, displayed by men and women through their skill to perfection, or otherwise; the sparkles from the interaction amongst individuals as a team, attract m...
The Answers to LIFE
What is Life?Pick up the end called "Birth", pick up the other end called "Death", and it is everything that's dangling helplessly in between.Where is Life?It starts at one end of a spectrum marked by the blissful happiness and stops with the unbeara...
The Power Of One Dollar
He knew not where to go. From where he stood, there's not a clear path in front of him.People were hurrying up and down the street. He felt as if he was the only one standing still in the busy street. "One week! That's the most I can do for you. You ...
Damn You!!!
"Yeah, F**k YOU!" - Recognise this?"A**hole!!" - Ever done that?"You piece of SHIT!" - What about this?"Ahhh! Go to HELL!" - Familiar?I used to have them up my sleeves. They would roll off my tongue readily during the moments, though not always out l...
Rainy Comfort
"Strolling along country road with my baby. It starts to rain, it begins to fall ..."Whenever the rain begins to set me into a relaxing mood, the catchy piano introduction of this oldie will echo at the back of my mind. My body will start to swing ev...
DUH!!!
It's a good dinner. So good, my taste buds are down on their knees kissing my hands to express their gratitude. It's been a fun day. The kids enjoy the day trip - the driver, not so much. But he's more than happy to see his kids' content and tired fa...
Thoughts Of Innocense
The three of them were wandering in the woods. Their thick clothing made the cold winter morning much enjoyable. The air was still, heavy with the early chill. Every breath of cold air that they drew in was released back into the atmosphere in a puff...
Don't Leave Home Without It
..................Have you ever had one of these?...Silence......................Awkward silence, in the company of another?Not the kind after some untowardly comments are made; but when two people are thrown together into a non-conversation-conduciv...
A Lonely Soul
Yes, I must have been a lonely soul in my past lives.Maybe I was an only child. Growing up around grown-ups too busy to spare five minutes, a hug or a kiss. My only playmates were myself, and my imagination. As I walked the path of life, there was no...
I Want To Die
Not now. When my time comes - preferably in about 40-50 more years, assuming I still have my health, and my bank account have his - I want to die a happy man.I'm just wondering what I need to do to be a happy-dying man.But first, I need to determine ...
Words Of Tonnes
It has always puzzled me how much words mean to my kids, seven and nine years old."You're fat!" - Well, that's not true, none of you are."You're lazy!" - At times, both of you are."You're stupid!" - Ditto."I'm gonna to take your pencil when you're no...
The String No More
I never knew the existence of the little girl. Our paths had never crossed.The only string that connected us was the fact that she was studying in the same grade at the same school with my 9-years-old daughter. Seated in different classes, they had n...
My Wonderful World of Surprises
"That's not. No, you yours gave it yesterday. Well to me, that's, today yesterday I back. You want it can't do Yes, I like that can. Mother! also no use. Tell mother Give it now. No! to me I'll take Don't you your ruler. dare, I'll take pencil. I'll ...
A 757-words Post
Painted faces, grown men's butts, and, of course, Sophie Marceau - that's how I remember Braveheart. It is not the kind of movie I would choose to watch on a lazy afternoon, and shroud my evening with a heavy mood. Luckily, I chanced upon it on TV o...
Full Moon
The place was noisy. I could hardly hear my own thoughts. Although, what suppressed my inner thoughts was not the noise, it was the freedom bustling at the place. The excitement emanating from people about to fly to places all over the world was magn...
Wake Me Up
I knew them as Steve Austin and Jaime Sommers.Them, as Mork and Mindy. Nanoo-nanoo.Jim.The Cunninghams and friends and, the Fonz. Whoa ...And, of course, the Ingalls.As we grew older and saw these characters appeared in other shows not as Steve, Jami...
Like A River Flows
“Conversation” – the informal exchange of ideas by spoken words (Oxford Dictionary) I’m an expert in conversation. For instances, “Nice weather, isn’t it?” – “Ya.”; “Watched American Idol audition last night, and it’s damn fu...
You Know ...
I can tap my index finger 332 times in a minute, my middle finger 278, my ring finger 248, and my little finger 196 times.I can tap my left foot, on average out of 6 attempts, 136 times before starting to get the feeling of a cramp. And my right foot...
Resolutions 2009
Thought I would kick start 2009 with a post that has a bit more resolve. A post that’ll make me hold my head high, chin up, shoulder back, chest out, tummy in, hands on the hips, and eyes gazing ahead, cape fluttering against the wind of future cha...
2009 is going to be a Good Year!
No? Firstly, “good” is relative. Secondly, “good” is subjective. As we see the rear of 2008, each of us will brand it with different stamps, “good”, “bad”, “success”, “failure”, “heaven”, “hell”, etc, the choice of w...
I Am Not Celebrating Christmas
Well ... I am not a Christian. So I'm not going to celebrate it religiously.I don't have a lot of friends or relatives who are Christians, and I'm not invited to any Christmas parties. So I'm not going to celebrate it secularly either.But to those of...
Hole In My Heart
I put down the phone; looked at the clock; called out to my wife; rushed through shower; dashed to the car, not forgetting to put on my clothes; hurried my wife into the car; started the engine; switched on the light; reversed the car out of the gara...
