26 Jan
pocketful of sunshine
It took a phone call from my mother in the middle of my bus ride home, to pluck my nose out of the new book I was buried in. The call was quickly concluded; a glimmer of light caught my eye as I was putting IO back into my bag.
It was a slowly fading, last burst of brilliance. The sun tucked far beyond and it’s light cheekily poking through the edges of a cottony, fluffy cloud.
And it occurred to me how long had it been since the last time I’d seen the sun switch duties with the moon.
So I closed my book and just kept gazing as the golden halo played hide-and-seek with the chasing bus.
At least, for a while.
13 Jan
There’s gotta be
more to life.
There was once a time, I knew someone. His sole goal in life was to attain ultimate wealth and possibly, immortality (the latter sounds a wee bit far-fetched to me, though after tonight, I’m starting to think that all things may be possible afterall). At the time when I’d known him, I’d been on a mission- a mission to make him understand that there is more to life than riches & eternal life and his was to convert me to think more like him; damn the world as long as the self benefits. If he saw this now, he’d probably scoff at my persistent naivete.
A few months ago (last year to be exact), there was a tiny fissure between us. He’d forgotten about his appointment with me because he was negotiating terms with his father for a substantial amount of money. At that moment, it finally sank into me that whatever I did or said had been pointless and will continue to be so. He was too distant to allow any warmth other than that of monetary gains. So, I gave up.
Much as I detest to admit this, a part of me envies him. Because despite everything, he has found meaning for his life while I’m still floundering; bumbling through life day by day with no clear destination in sight.
December 2009.
2 additions to the team. 1 who strives her best at work because work is where her passion is and parties her night away because she believes nights should not be wasted away at home after work. To her, the meaning of life is to live it to the fullest regardless of work or play.
The other, a mother at 25 years old and hasn’t a clue about anything other than Louboutins, Coach, Louis Vuitton and Tiffany . One would expect a mother to show more responsibility and to be more grounded but that isn’t so.
Fast forward to 10 Jan, 2010.
My best friend registered her marriage with her high school sweetheart. They’ve dated, broken up, lost touch with each other and finally ended up with each other again. It has been a bittersweet journey for them both and the road that they’ve chosen to embark on will not be easy but they’ve done it anyway. For them, being together is all that matters; never mind that their financial capabilities at the moment are grossly insufficient to carve out a family of their own.
There’s no single formula that makes life well-rounded and fulfilling. This, I’d known for a long time now and is common knowledge for everyone. Some people may view marriage, children and size of bank accounts as road signs that lead to a meaningful life but some people go through the motions without actually growing, or so it seems.
I don’t need symbols of growth, just a way to go; to know that there is really more to life other than school, work, marriage, children, old age & finally death.
*Taken from: http://ayyyouu.wordpress.com/2009/03/07/roadsigns/
4 Dec
At this point,
I don’t think I could ask for more other than a studio apartment to return to from work on a nice cool evening like tonight. A studio apartment that overlooks the sea or a massive river.
To just sit under the stars, in the quiet wind with a glass of wine in my hands.
At the balcony, on my own.
In silence.
Visual from Getty Images.
27 Nov
I gotta feeling for
Crispy chill in the morning air.
4 seasons in 1 day
World’s best Chicken & Peri Peri Sauce
Wine Country
21 Nov
swirls of syrup and golden glory
I was browsing through the Cafe World cookbook and this new addition leapt right out of the page at me. I’m not sure which part of it caught my eye first though;”buttermilk” or the visual temptation that was a stack of golden pancakes, sinfully drenched with maple syrup topped with a flourish of butter.
That fired up a search on Google for buttermilk pancake recipes and dug up a gem of a list of breakfast places.
Once upon a time, my favorite Brunch buddy and I dreamed up a list of cafes & other foodie places to go; the mere concoction of that list had our tummies in a rumbling frenzy and our hearts tizzy with excitement & anticipation.
Alas, the list is no where to be found now though methinks my Brunch khaki’s hunger for a scrumptious brunch still remains.
It’s been a long time, my friend. But maybe and perhaps, when your deadlines are temporarily over & done with, we could venture out again once more.
*Picture taken from www.shiohochiak.blogspot.com
10 Nov
sway.
I’ve always been a dreamer
I’ve had my head among the clouds
Now that I’m coming down
Won’t you be my solid ground?
3 Nov
Say hello to iO
“Fwap!”
The cashier shook open the iconic white & red paper bag as my heart leapt in somersaults and beat faster than it ever did for all my eyecandies combined. An euphoric gurgle exploded at the base of my throat as I desperately fought the urge to punch my fist in the air and shout “YES!” in a happy dance.
Several months and a 3 hour wait later, I am proud to introduce you to iO.
Meet my brand new white iPhone 3GS.
1 Nov
Denial
You know you’re addicted to Cafe World on Facebook when:
- You plan your menu around your access to the computer 3 days in advance
- Stay up late to serve Crackling Peking Duck even though you have a pounding headache
- Set an alarm on your hand phone to serve a Triple Berry Cheesecake because of a glitch in #1 AND wake up immediately when the alarm goes off unlike work days.
Not that I have such symptoms.
Just saying . . .
17 Oct
Smells like bull.
Au pair savaged by police dog after handler let it loose in her bedroom
By Beth Hale
Last updated at 11:39 PM on 16th October 2009Injured: It took five minutes to get the police dog off Agi Toth’s legs after officers allowed it into the house where she works
A nanny has been left scarred after a police dog burst into her bedroom and bit her.
Agi Toth, 24, was listening to music in the top-floor room and did not hear officers pursue suspects into the building.
It seems the police were equally oblivious to her presence. They threw open her bedroom door and released the snarling Alsatian.
It charged - probably thinking it had found its prey - and sank its teeth into her left calf.
In the seconds before the dog latched on to her, the Hungarian au pair had time to look up.
‘At first I said hello, because I did not think anything was wrong,’ Miss Toth said. ‘Then the dog attacked me.
‘The policeman tried to stop him but he couldn’t.
‘It was so painful. I was so scared. It was like having lots of knives stuck in my leg.’
It took the dog’s handler some time to coax it into releasing its grip. Miss Toth was left with a series of deep wounds on her leg.
She was given a tetanus jab and put on a drip delivering strong antibiotics.
The tooth marks in her calf could not be stitched up because of the risk of infection.
After a series of hospital visits for treatment, she still needs to make return visits to her doctor to have her bandage changed.
According to her employer, Jan Kooy, the police have not offered Miss Toth a formal apology or contacted her since the attack.
Miss Toth, who is studying English, arrived in the UK in July to help Miss Kooy and her husband Hans Poulsen with their three young children.
The incident unfolded at Miss Kooy’s home in Clapham, South-West London on September 29, an hour before Miss Toth was due to pick up her employer’s daughter from school.
Police are understood to have visited a halfway house for ex-offenders a short distance away. When they arrived a group of suspected robbers fled.
They jumped from garden to garden behind the Victorian terrace, and even leapt into a school playground - hotly pursued by police.
Police dog: The animals are trained to bite and hold on, which is what caused the injuries to the terrified nanny’s leg
The suspects saw Miss Kooy’s basement door had been left open while builders carried out work.
They ducked inside and went up the stairs into the house. Two of them eventually clambered out of a bathroom window and on to the roof.
Last night Miss Kooy, a credit analyst, said: ‘They knocked down the trellis at both sides of my garden and ran past the builders into the basement.
‘When the police arrived they apparently shouted “coming in with a police dog”, but Agi was upstairs with her door closed listening to music and didn’t hear a thing.
‘According to her the police couldn’t get the dog off her leg for five minutes, but I’m sure it seemed like five hours.’
Residents in the family-dominated street are campaigning to have the halfway house, one of two, relocated.
‘This is just one of a number of incidents, and it could have been so much worse,’ said Miss Kooy.
‘Parents fear for the safety of their children. We feel like we don’t have a lot of power.’
A police spokesman said an internal investigation was under way, which will look into whether the dog acted within its training.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1220970/Au-pair-savaged-police-dog-handler-let-loose-bedroom.html#ixzz0UA2dT1Lm
I don’t know about you but shouldn’t the crux of the issue lie in whether the dog handler had reacted appropriately? Afterall, the dog wouldn’t have attacked if he hadn’t let go of the restraint?
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