tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69297018701166985502024-02-07T12:43:59.866+08:00High on Life! Her Musings. ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04689018088549836582noreply@blogger.comBlogger312125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6929701870116698550.post-76560486360969100612014-05-29T11:46:00.003+08:002014-05-29T11:46:41.651+08:00As they come <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When something or someplace gets too big</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sometimes people tend to forget their beginnings</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and how to stay grateful</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for those moments will slip by when we don't cherish it</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">breathe it in and just be </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Strangely how this place I am leaving makes me feel sad,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in a good way.... it genuinely means I made some good friends</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">some more interesting than others,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and some, just plain abnormal. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like a switch, they go on and off. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Will only have a day of rest</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">before commencing work at my new place next Monday</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and this entire weekend is for errands,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">bill payments, catch up with my boys </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a great round of mahjong and more RUNNING MAN</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in a variety show gameland where the men rules</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and superbly funny yet like the normal dude</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">gentlemanly only to selected girls. Haha! </span><br />
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<br />ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04689018088549836582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6929701870116698550.post-77044719816954033362014-05-23T00:24:00.000+08:002014-05-23T00:34:19.166+08:00A month and many changes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Almost an entire<span style="font-size: small;"> month has passed,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">so many changes have taken place,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">mostly good ones. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />I will in fact do the China Posting Part 2 only this weekend.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With all the photos. <br />A new friend I had lunch with recently kept saying</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A PICTURE PAINTS A THOUSAND WORDS ~ said the engineer </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I say, its a guy thing</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">but sure, pictures will fill these pages soon! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have had the privilege of meeting many people whom I can call Friends</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and I intend to keep in close contact with them. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Just needs time and effort, that's all. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I truly am happy that the best thing that has taken place</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">was the normal nice persons I met during my almost 1 year stint</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">thou my dear Godsis would insist that its not counted as close to a year, oh well. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have had an interesting situation occurring recently</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Someone who had similar wavelength crossed paths, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">came into my life, very sweet fella, think he makes a thoughtful bf one day,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">i declared openly that I am married,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">would never deny that fact,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">but, some little part of me, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">did enjoy the attention (while it lasted)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and then it all comes one full circle, nothing happened,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">not that I wish for something to happen either,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I am a good girl that way, traditional, hold onto some old world values</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and am matronly to an extent. (Nope, I am not aging, just stating my belief system)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">After the entire fanfare has died down,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and upon closer reflection of my heart's inner linings and secret thoughts,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I can safely say, I give in to LOVE, like it touches me and the lil' nice acts,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">no matter how random or small, or subtle, really reaches out to me,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I am NOT a sucker for such, but I do notice if you are thoughtful,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">or gentlemanly, or care sincerely. Those acts, thoughts . . . Matter. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And I do somehow, reach out and care for the underdog, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I am not saying the fella I married is an underdog,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">please do not be mistaken, he isn't... he maybe an AH PEK at heart</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But he is No Underdog. Haha. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So besides thoughfulness, I seem to like a certain type,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">seems to me, after being badly burnt by Mr Handsome Big Eyes years back,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have a softer spot for the Korean Look alike male these days.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Guys with small eyes are just that much more appealing. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Blame it on the show - RUNNING MAN, <running man=""> </running></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><running man="">I am hankering after Kang Gary and Kim Jook Kook now. </running></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Oops! And for vastly different reasons. LOL</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Point is, they all stay in shape. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But let's get back to this someone whom I crossed paths with,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">let's call him Y. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He is quirky, like his passion and motivation for me is like the passing showers,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">can i ever describe feelings this way? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sounds strange right? Exactly.... he makes me feel like that. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Like one moment, he gets all riled up and motivated and all 'Boyfriend' mode on me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and then shortly after, drops me like a hot potato. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He would literally drop everything at one point, just to come and cheer me up,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">that was sincerity on a plate,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and that day, I was moved, like, I told myself, this fella, really is a keeper, as a friend. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Not that all the actions he does or say matter since I am officially off the market, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">just that, this tactic, if he so employs while woo-ing a girl,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">won't work. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And yes, being together with someone for too long, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">married or dating, well, you will take each other for granted... </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">U can only make the effort to keep things fresh and going,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">as much as you can. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Best thing to do, find something u guys enjoy doing together,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and have a common pool of friends who know u as a couple </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">so that the ebb and flow of things be kept dynamic. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As for Y.... Well, one cannot just get too intense or too slack </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">BALANCE is the key, playing your cards right </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">will ultimately win you, YOUR SPOUSE. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Oh well... but that's another story for another day. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I am so looking forward to starting a fresh page with a great new paycheck! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">THANK GOD FOR FRIENDS</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and more so for Family, Love, Acceptance and People who truly Appreciate Me! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">XoXo,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In His Service, R </span></span>ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04689018088549836582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6929701870116698550.post-20127794524869524982014-04-23T00:41:00.001+08:002014-04-23T00:41:49.238+08:00The Blow by Blow and Lowdown on Shenzhen, Guangzhou and HK (Part 1)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hello... I am back! </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ok, I got to put a disclaimer first, coz someone requested loads of photos</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I got those photos but I am too tired from packing and washing the clothes</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">to upload, I promise to do so by tomorrow or latest Thurs k? And my legs hurt, still.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">THIS POST IS SUPER LONG... Got to split into parts, here is PART 1. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My legs hurt from walking so much, </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">felt like I flew to China to take part in some race man, </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">it was draining but fun, and eye-opening at how organised the Chinese are!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What Singaporeans can do, the PRC in China, can certainly do BETTER! </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">No kidding!!! </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Our edge remains as effectively bilingual individuals,</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">that's probably the main selling point we have over our Asian counterparts, till date.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When I spotted Chinese Text and could read them,</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">be it in Shenzhen, Guangzhou or HK,</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I would be doing a flip or somersault or fireworks would go off in my head. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Like YAY, I did not let my Chinese teacher, Ms Yip and my tutor down. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(<i>Thanks Ma for the tuition!!! Haha...)</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Shenzhen</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We flew in with tiger air</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>(yes, I told a friend that i have not take SQ before, shocking eh? Me too. I am shocked, but soon, at the rate I am travelling, every two months this year, I am sure that will happen soon!!!) </i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Flight took off in the evening, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I went for a facial appointment prior my flight to preen myself</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">afterall, it was a work trip for my hubs and a half and half for me,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I went there with an open mind to look for opportunities hopefully</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I can uncover suitable products to trade in SG... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">haha, so i had to look the part of a potential Boss, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I even printed name cards for me-self. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Managed to munch a Mac Burger before flight and landed after midnight</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">it was a mere 3.5hours... and Shenzhen was impressive!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The airport had LED lights that were scattered on the HUGEASS ceiling of the airport</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and they looked like a zillion stars... pretty!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>(yes, I can feel you nagging, where are the photos?) </i>akan datang.... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Transport was organised, neat, comfortable... cab drivers were a dream</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">except you got to speak rather good Chinese for them to understand you,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">saw some Ang Mohs haggling with a small group of PRC private cab drivers over pricing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and how cute the broken English sounded</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">PRC: " How muchhhiieee?" </span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">AngMoh: "40 Dollars for 3 of us to town"</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">PRC: "How... How how? How muchhiiieee dollars?" </span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At this point, I was hysterical, yes, i got a low threshold for jokes, </span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I laugh very easily, laughter is literally free and a smile brightens any face! </span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ang Moh: *started hollering* "I just said 40 DOLLLLLARRSSSS for THREE of us!!!" </span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">PRC: "Whattt? 40 dollars?!!!" PRC started discussing with his buddy nearby before replying "NO, TOO CHEAP, 100 DOLLARS OK? Ok we go now!" </span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ang Moh: "WHAT? 100 Dollars!!???" </span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">PRC went at him like a charging bull and placed his face in front of the Ang Moh.. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"HOW HOW? Price Ok? 100 Dollars Cheap, you can pay, very cheap to you Yankees...!!" </span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">AngMoh: "I am not a Yankee and ..." his voice drowned out before I could hear the end of this banter. So fun! Pure entertainment for a flight that landed around 1am. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And it is nice for a change to see the stereotype befalling the White Man</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">that all Whites are Americans... </span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">like how most Whites assume all Chinese </span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">descend from Bruce Lee and can do Kungfu. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The next two days in Shenzhen was spent at a supplier's factory </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">we saw some cool machines that were high tech with RFID, chips etc and decently cool </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">spoke to the sales, engineering and marketing persons,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I really can click with them, I would love to think my Chinese sucks,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">like a potato trying to be rice... aha! But they kept talking to me </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and only spoke to my hubs on the technical aspects.. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">machiam I am literally working for my hubs. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Did you know, when they heard we were meeting them that morning, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">they prepare the conference room with 4 platters of fresh fruits! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Like in SG, you sometimes don't even get water,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">they serve you and heap you with fruits (so healthy!)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and different drinks for your picking. (Blown away!!!!!!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">They hosted us to great food during lunch (yes lar, photos will come!!!) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and every meal was at a restaurant </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">it was GLORIOUS! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Like Taste Paradise, Min Jiang, Cherry Garden and Wah Lok kind of standard</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Decor was avant garde and majestically chic! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Crystal walls, gold finishings, chandeliers and opulent plush velvety chairs!!! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Another restaurant looked decadent and very expensive</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Chinese really know how to 'LIVE IT UP!' </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am so glad to be Chinese. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To them, I was seen as a triple threat as I can speak English, Mandarin and Cantonese</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">but save for English, the rest is like a half pail of water, bahhh.... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Anyways, Shenzhen will be a city i wish to explore more</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I really enjoyed Shenzhen so much,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">their "SIM LIM SQUARE" is like ours except </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">that they have 20 such Buildings of Sim Lim Sq</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was HEAVEN ON EARTH FOR THE MEN,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I never seen more men shopping and buying their guts out</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I had to explore the frenzy.. observing the frenzy was magical.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Never seen men shopped like there is no tomorrow before.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My eyes nearly popped after my fifth building,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">coz each building had 10 floors to comb thru. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was a friggin' GREAT SINGAPORE WORKOUT 101 man... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">training for what's to come. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Cables, plugs, components, Xbox, laptops, mobile phones, chargers,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">TV set top boxes, every single electronic and IT gadget in the WORLD </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">is there, everything and anything electronic you can dream of, is there too!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am so happy to be Chinese. Dam proud of my roots!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The hotel was good too. Old but acceptable, I cannot recall the name,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">too hard to remember... but it was at HUA QIANG TRAIN STATION</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Shenzhen sealed the deal for me when the cab driver informed me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">that a shopping haven, similar to Bugis Village but multiply it by tenfold </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">can be found at LAO JIE FANG STATION,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I made it my mission to go there, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">even if it meant my legs had to break from all that walking</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and I got lost... in every sense of the word. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Did not know where to start, so many alleys, turns, corners, basements... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I think, we CHINESE are very 'KUA ZHANG' folks.. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">if want something, we go all the way, if not, don't do. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I was every word you can associate HAPPINESS WITH. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Gleeful, Happy, Overjoyed, Excited, Overwhelmed.. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">you get the picture? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Basking, soaking in the sights, colors, sounds and smells... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">INSPIRING! That night, i crashed into bed like a dead log. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Walked so much... Ate so little, like some weight loss regime. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But very very UBER HAPPY!!! I saw stars. :) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My hubs was a trooper, did not complain (much),</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">he just walked and helped me with my things</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">coz I shopped. Haha! Yay!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The next day, we headed to Guangzhou. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>GUANGZHOU</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Where cantonese originated from </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and the people are way too rude and curt </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and the food, according to the hubs, is unrefined (I concur) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">even the Chee Chong Fun dim sum was untidy. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">No idea how to eat man... was a plate of mess. Pppfffttt.. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Side track... 13 years back, when i met Daniel (my hubs),</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">he did not have much standard when it comes to food</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">or how it is presented .. slowly, i trained him</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">to taste his food, enjoy the presentation and food art. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Today, I kinda regret it (hahahahaha!) he can be too picky</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">even when it comes to my cooking, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and I am one of the best chefs in the entire family (his side and my side combined)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">yet, he can say, not enough salt, or too bland or why all the colors look the same..</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I mean, everyday after work, I still got to come back and try to cook</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and you want MasterChef standard, aiyo, facepalm can?? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Maybe weekends then MasterChef appear. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We went to the <canton 2014="" fair=""> </canton></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was massive. Beyond massive. It was a nightmare to walk.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You don't know massive till you have seen China's exhibitions!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And that was on top of the crazy walking I did in Shenzhen already... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My soul man was like.. "Die, die, sure mati one. How to survive?" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Daniel was flabbergasted, jaw dropped and small eyes opened to the max</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and he said, "Dear... why so many people one?" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I was like, "Come on, let's do this, you have gone thru enough NATAS Fairs with me when i worked, we can do it!" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So I had a simple plan, we comb the circumference then zigzag our way inside to the middle before moving to the next hall. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">IMAGINE A SINGLE SINGAPORE EXPO HALL and multiply that by 16 Halls. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yups... that was the scale of the Fair we originally wanted to cover. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But we gave up after 3 Halls, as their one Hall is </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">already double a singular Singapore Expo Hall.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My flats gave way, I had to buy new sandals. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My legs are still tired and painful from all that walking. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We shall continue tomorrow.... Nights!!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Xoxo,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sleepy Ruth</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04689018088549836582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6929701870116698550.post-66767309932638329592014-04-11T01:28:00.001+08:002014-04-11T01:28:34.897+08:00I think I got Stupid but there are 2 Silver Linings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I made a decision. Guided by loads of good intentions and wiser people than myself. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Supported by a large pool of uber sweet colleagues turned friends</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">who rallied behind me and want me around for longer.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I am gonna say NO to them tomorrow. Say NO to $600 more. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I think my heart pains a little. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">That's like $600 x 12 = $7,200 more a year </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But I believe in the bigger picture. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I still believe my noble intentions when I decided to join my current place </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">and literally grab the bull by its horns, is right. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">There is a place for me, room for me to ONE FINE DAY </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">flex my creative muscles, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">see my ideas translated and executed perfectly. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So goodbye $7,200.... Deep sigh... I am but human, let me bemoan the loss for today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Lunch was crazy awesome and treated by the one person I least expected</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">and I don't really work with her much,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">yet she can read my feelings and cheer me up with AWESOME WONDROUS DIM SUM!!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And I love her jolly nature. She could tell I was deeply upset yesterday. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">She need not even bother with me. Coz she doesn't work with me. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But she made the effort to cheer me up. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I AM SO MOVED. I will do so much more for her, should she need assistance one day!!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And MY OH MY, Szechuan Court has really good dim sum! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It fights pretty well with my favourite Lei Garden for No.1 spot. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Crystal Jade Golden Palace and Imperial Treasure are still in 3rd and 4th place. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">With Cherry Garden and Min Jiang in 2nd place tied... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Oops, pardon the deviation, I can rant on and on about food I love... hahahahaha</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And another two colleagues whom one wanted to buy me my fave milk tea to cheer me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">but i rejected nicely coz me on weight loss lar... no choice, discipline! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">and the other successfully dragged me for tea. (Yes, yes, i caved... I need to cut on sugar...argh!)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I am so blessed, one who treated me to great atas food, the other 2 with simple milk tea. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I am grateful. Its wonderful to have allies who care sincerely and have synergy plus chemistry with. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I believe friendships at work, do help to speed up work and make work easier </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">and it helps when crap gets thrown at you! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> So I shall pray for you all today, for God to bless u all, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Yups... all my friends at work. Whom I count as friends. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">U know exactly who u are. I am grateful .</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />Xoxo,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Ruth</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span>ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04689018088549836582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6929701870116698550.post-9855757720399281332014-04-03T01:37:00.001+08:002014-04-03T01:44:58.332+08:00And then... there are some of us<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Yons ago . . . literally like YONS ago,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I was schooling and I was tutoring at the same time. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Yeah, the independent streak in me was very prevalent</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and I had a strong backbone</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I loved what earning my own keeps did for me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and at the age of 18 to 19,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I was going for facials in the heart of Orchard,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">buying over the counter cosmetics and skincare (experimental age)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and I joined a gym!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The strange fact was,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">my metabolic rate was insanely good</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I could get away with doing little yet maintaining a decent figure then</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">in spite of eating and snacking on my fave sardine puffs in the school canteen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">OH HOW I ADORE THE LATE TEENS and ROARING TWENTIES!!! Yikes!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The gym I joined then was California Fitness</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">which was the newest and largest in LaLa land then</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and it was spanking new alright!!! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">3 floors of floor to ceiling glass windows </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">where the sun rays can peek in from all angles </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">with new state of the art equipment for gym rats</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">BUT I AM NO GYM RAT</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">so why on earth did I join one? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I got a confession.... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I loved the idea back then of running on the treadmills facing the current cineleisure </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and looking good while doing so</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">basically, I loved the full on idea of being a true blue POSER! Ha. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">What's there not to love,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">boys will look at you,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">your self esteem (and ego) basically shoots up rocket high</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">sending you to infinity and beyond at times,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">personal trainers come up to you and try to pick you up </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">offering you free tips and classes once in a while</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">You get free meals, shakes, drinks, gym bags and the likes that comes with that attention </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Those were glorious days (hahaha....)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">AND THEN... Fast forward a lot,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I met a boy whom I grew to love</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">married him, cooked a lot, ate a lot and busted my knee during a half marathon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">so I stayed away from exercising for 2 years and 35kg later</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I COULD NOT FATHOM WHAT ON EARTH HAVE I MORPHED INTO!!!????!!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It was an alien invasion!!! Of the highest order too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The image staring back at me in the mirror was.... Gasp! H-O-R-R-I-B-L-E</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I mean, even if my true love did not mind (which i like to think he didn't)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">this nagging thought was surfacing, though it often is a backburner but</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">right then, when it hit me, I was like.... "One Day, if the boy you love </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">decides to go all superficial on you and prefer a skinny monkey over you,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">you are so dead... cos you are just not attractive anymore" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Besides this deeply seeded thought that incepted itself somewhere in me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I was also avoiding a lot of my friends, a lot of weddings and basically,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">places where humans gather. It was bad. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">My self esteemed plummeted big time. And whose fault was it? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">As they say, the rest is history, I took control of the situation,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">am discipline, determined and exercise like crap, signed onto a gym that fits my personality</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and helps me attain my goals... and am consistent in the stuff I do. Including healthier intake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I lost 20kgs. I have 15kgs to go. I just got to keep on keeping on. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Today, I saw a colleague strolling into office,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">hollering my name and when I turned back, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">she had a mat with her, stating she signed for yoga classes held within my office grounds</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">gesturing if I also joined, I told her I cannot stand slow exercises,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">though I believe in yoga, the results are too slow for my liking.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">She is double my old size, meaning she will take longer to see results esp if she plans on </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">just using yoga as a form of exercise, but so long as she sticks to it, consistently,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">it will work, results will creep in, dresses will fit better and love will find her. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Just that, when we were in the ladies later in the day,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">she was like, I am wearing a sports bra, I think my top is bigger today..... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(my eyes rolled a little at this point...haha) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Hope the instructor is good looking,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(eyes kept rolling and I smirked) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I hope to be healthier and lose weight and be like you... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(at this point, i can understand her, coz being overweight can be challenging, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">you can be bullied and overlooked in promotions and gatherings and whatever else.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I am glad to have inspired her to want to work out </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">but don't be like the old me... who wants to look good going to a work out...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">instead be like the current me, where even though I got 15kg more to lose</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and am still fluffy in certain areas (yes yes, I call the fats - Fluffy ok... cuter lar)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I am comfortable and more confident under my own skin. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Coz besides good looks and a decent figure,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I got other talents and a great attitude towards life, work and people</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and I am no longer a POSER</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I just want to be a hot commodity in areas other than outer appearances</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">besides, my theory goes --- </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">GOOD LOOKS CAN TAKE YOU ONLY SO FAR, IT GIVES YOU A PASSPORT, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A PUSH THRU THE DOORS OF OPPORTUNITY BUT</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">SOLELY DEPENDS ON YOUR ATTITUDE, SKILLS AND TALENTS. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Ruth</span>ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04689018088549836582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6929701870116698550.post-34052485498356693682014-04-01T01:13:00.002+08:002014-04-01T01:15:42.301+08:00Therapy Session Harkens.... <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dejavu days seem daunting</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">they seem to hit you when you least expect it</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">yet the force feels like you got rammed by a 2kg Kettlebell on the head</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">with a bloody tear and a painful yelp,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">much like the war cry on drama "man flicks"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">However, being stuck in Dejavu land</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">seems to be a whole new ballgame altogether</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">to be exact, for 3 weeks now.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Days seem to consist of mainly and namely Mookata indulgences</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">day consists of playing dead and no cross sharing,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">a lot of mopping and side talking to at least keep creativity alive!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Then it just hits me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What the Heck Am I Doing? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My soulman asked</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A barely audible 'I dunno..." escaped from my lips</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And so the painful process of fighting with my soulman embarks</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">DEJAVU </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So I brought forth date night</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">instead, date night spurn into a life of its own</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">he became my shrink,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">my therapy session, my verbal dumping ground,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and much to my delight,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">my date provided relief, some humour and the right dash of everything,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">as if the stars had a conspiracy theory, unheard of,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">they aligned and he sought to really listen</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and then drew conclusions, recap the main points</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and rendered a huge assistance in making me see the big picture</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I COULD NOT LOVE HIM ANY MORE, BUT I DID.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Some place in my heart had more room to grow deeper in love with him,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">shocking, surprising but oh so true! </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">he is now my wise sage, my yoda, my official BFF, my muse,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">it is wonderful to really have his full attention</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and a side note, to see him kicking a fuss and </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">sort of forbiding me from mingling with too many male company.....</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">it took quite a while to get to this stage,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">but a once-in-a-blue moon fit, is welcomed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Just shows the other side of love.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The greener version. Haha! </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">At least him getting riled up is a good sign that he bothers. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And that my weight loss is not unnoticed. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Till something conclusive is drawn,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">therapy sessions sound fun! Date nights might be passe for now! Ha. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We shall see. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">basking in the cold wintery mornings </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">in glorious Seoul </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">in fun-filled Lotte World</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">where adults morph into giddy teens</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Where skies were clear</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My man skyped me a month back, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">asking me if I am interested to go for a marriage seminar, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">just to keep up with how to communicate better and perhaps, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in the course, find out if there are new methods / ideas </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to work through issues that we may have OR </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">if we develop some strange undercurrent </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that may require delicate handling... haha. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I agreed. I am all for lifelong learning. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One has to keep the brain like a sponge</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">always willing to absorb, learn, be open,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">explore and this will push your envelope,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">challenge one to be better at your craft. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So we went for: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was co-organised by Mediacorp and the "garment" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had two takeaways from the entire getup.... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(A) Speak life into your partner, ALWAYS</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it ain't a choice, it helps, spare 3 solid minutes a day to be grateful </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and positive about your spouse's pros / strengths / talents / beauty</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(B) Set aside one night in a week for "Date Night" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">without the kids, the outlaws and in-laws and friends.... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">just gaze into each other's eyes and drown there please.... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NOOTT... that will barely last for 3 secs before one of you burst out laughing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but date nights are meant to revive "Fun" and possibly do stuff</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that you did when you dated / paktor-ed </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And there was this one exercise where we looked at each other</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and show your partner if there was any stuff that transpired </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in the past (the past only starts from Day 1 of your marriage, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">DOES NOT INCLUDE PAKTOR Days...)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and using your eyes only, tell your partner if you have been hurt</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by what he / she said coz he / she was a klutz and had limited vocab</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">so in the course of communication, was too blunt in their selection of words</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I practically won the Oscars! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tears welled up at the corner of my eyes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with my poor doe-eyes filling up with tears fast and yet </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">not shedding a single drop,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My muscle man, was fast turning into a mash of pudding </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and I always declare he is cool as a cucumber,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">aka Mr Poker Face... he could only express helplessness for a brief moment</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">before displaying the look of "I am sorry I hurt you" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">without even knowing what I was thinking</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(we were not allowed to communicate during this exercise except with our eyes)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When this exercise came to an end, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">we hugged, like a big huge bear hug</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and he asked, so what did I do? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was like, we addressed it already,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but that was the only sad part of this marriage thus far,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">so I had to go back to that place so that I can express sadness,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">coz 98% of the time, I AM V HAPPY!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He makes me happy, confident, secured and perhaps, gives me steel wings to fly too!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.5% of the time, I am irritated with his quirks and lazy habits at home</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">which at times, i feel like murdering him... oh well, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the last 0.5% of the time, I am truly upset / sad with him. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He has always been my go-to person to share everything with</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">since we were merely friends</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">he ALWAYS tries to and does solve my problems</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but he is adapting, he now quips, if i merely need a ventilation outlet / listening ear</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OR Mr Fix It? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Smart aleck me, came up with Option 4 - I need Mr Hug Me Now and just tell me all will be alright... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I sometimes throw all caution and doubts to the wind and live with full abandonment </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">IN THE MOMENT! I need THOSE MOMENTS to keep me sane! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No matter how fleeting. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Coz the world out there, sometimes, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">is a big bad world. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I need my anchor, my harbour. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">God provided me my muscle man,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">as a tangible expression of HIS LOVE for me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I will always remain, grateful. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For Him, for my man, for those moments! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Xoxo. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So much has happened since my last post</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have been so swamped that i decided this blog needs to take a backseat</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">LIKE BIG TIME! </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I still enjoy being married to him</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have known him since 2000,</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">started dating him in 2003</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">married him in 2009. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The really awesome and mind blowing bit is</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I AM STILL NOT SICK of him</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">he still manages to amaze and impress me</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">even after all these years</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I still love to embark on life's adventures with him</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">travel the world as wanderlust strikes us, whenever,</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">still adjusting to his wicked sense of "encouraging" me</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and still believing in his dreams, </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">his capabilities and wanting to provide the wind beneath his wings to take flight. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yup, I fancy a wondrous flight of fantasy </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He makes me feel like I can be whoever I want to be</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Security and the freedom to focus on whatever we wish to do are just </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">starters on this huge plate of offerings that we are cooking</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have been so blessed. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Been in touch with more people</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reconciled with more</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Soaring with some of them</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Made new ones whom I know are for keeps, this lifetime and hopefully the next</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BFFs who stand by me</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">believe in me</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">cry with me</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">laugh with me</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">bitch with me</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">dance with me</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sing with me</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">dine with me</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am just so grateful</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The folks are challenging at times</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">otherwise alright</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">mum-sy isn't feeling too good</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">going for a heart check soon</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">dad had an incident and is better</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">we had a scare that morning! </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The family trip was scary </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">made me miss my man more</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">realized that I got to make a permanent mindset shift... </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i.e. my folks are here to teach me patience - whether I like it or not. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh well... </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The mum-sy-in-law has been fantastic,</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">things are great between us, what is even better is how much closer I have gotten</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with her and my grandmother-in-law... she dotes on me and spoils me silly. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am truly blessed. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This 2014, is a year of change, of greatness, of HIS GLORY</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can smell it in the air! </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Am working towards it. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Am praying for the stars to align. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While setting the foundation. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My man is asking me for a biz plan</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love how he keeps me grounded thou I hate this part</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of pulling a proposal together</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My man needs to rule the world </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">while I keep the house clean, neat and head out to work out my bod </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and enjoy shopping and do PR and Marketing consultancy work. Ideal!!! </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>(Hahahaha.... a girl can dream... can't she???) </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">I thank God for everything. Every single person. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At this point of my life, I can tell the rotten apples from the good ones</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the ones with an agenda and the ones I can count on,</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I may appear all innocent and blur and whatever else I want you to believe</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but trust me, still waters..... run really really deep. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not in a bad way, but</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in a smart way. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I strive to be, the greatest team player I ever can be!</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As they say "THE BEST IS YET TO COME!" </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Carpe Diem!!!!!!! Always! </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My determination, focus and discipline levels have reached a new high</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I cannot fathom if you asked me 2 years back,</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can you go exercise and lose weight? </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I would go and try for a month, tops!</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and revert to the sluggish lifestyle once more</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But now, after embarking on this for 15 months,</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I lost a total of 20kg to-date</b>, I am lighter than my man</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">as any good wife <i>should (be lighter than her man)</i></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">except if you are pregnant then it doesn't count. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have another 15kg to lose, making it a total of 35kg</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">my BFF says I got more room, the hubs is happy to see me drop me</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in a stable and healthy fashion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">You know how it is with some people</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">they really rattle off and let their tongues roll off the words</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">that will irritate and not thinking through the consequences . ....</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">sometimes these people just cause me to marvel .... o.O" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">LIKE how on earth they can survive and not be eaten up</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">by saying offensive stuff like that</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Maybe, the Up UPs need to deal with these people </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">and not let the middle management like myself</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">filter for them, so that THEY will realize </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">what a "gem" they have? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Some "diamonds" are not meant to be,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">they will not shine but just be.... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">be charcoal, serve its purpose and that's it</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I get the point of being nice and extending the nice-ties </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">but that's about it, that, I will do as my mum brought me up well. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I loved the 4 days of respite..... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">wished it would last longer thou. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Thing is, as I started to reflect and ask deeper questions</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I realized that seriously, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">not everyone is made equally, as much as I expect</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I guess I am wrong to. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Everyone is unique, not equal. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span>ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04689018088549836582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6929701870116698550.post-55735526769883502572013-07-22T15:58:00.001+08:002013-07-22T15:58:36.408+08:00Blues and then some<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">dle is once in a while, good</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">I am still awaiting that call</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">that promotion, please Oh Lord... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">My heart is singing, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">and my prayers are the same. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Promotion that comes from You. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Let it come true. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Let the next step take root and last. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Let me be fruitful, balance, appreciated by Bosses and happy!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Amen!</span>ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04689018088549836582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6929701870116698550.post-21011324815942542292013-07-19T09:52:00.000+08:002013-07-19T09:52:19.376+08:00Hmmm.... The Cave Woman<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">You know there is this book known as </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">THE FIVE LANGUAGES OF LOVE</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">and this other book known as </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">MEN ARE FROM MARS & WOMEN, VENUS</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">well.... the thing is,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">I am in a cave now</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">this season, this period, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">yeah, this mode works for me too</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">and it is safe, unsure why I am in the cave</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">or how I entered into one</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">either thru stumbling or chancing upon,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">but in any case, I am inside the cave now.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Emotionally, mentally and whatever else there is . . .</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">I am there. Just not physically. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">My being has to be at places</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">and look chirpy and cheery </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">sometimes, I laugh at the disdain and foolishness around me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">I feel like a spectator watching a movie scene unfold</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">and I am a bystander, not by choice, just watching</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">sometimes bemused, other times I just feel let down</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">and then, I just start missing the (regrettably) old life</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">where I feel appreciated, beloved and treated right</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Right now, I am just "used" and going thru the routine of things</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">I want to know where on earth did my joy and passion run off to? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">The heights of Mount Faber or the ends of East Coast??? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Going thru the motion of life and what it throws at me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">does not cut it for me, guess I demand a lot outta my life eh? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Hmmm.... yeah, sometimes I do think so. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">But is it a bad thing? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Not really, I for one, feel that, with no expectations and greater demand,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">you won't grow as a person. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Sure, you will feel frustrated, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">you might feel caught in a rut </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">or even bored at times, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">but its precisely, at pushing the envelope </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">that one grows and refines their game. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">I am stuck in that weird placement now</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">neither here nor there,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">still exceeding speed </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">just want to exceed myself and what I set out for. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">So Dear Lord, I know promotions come from You,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Please please PLEASE PROMOTE me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">I sure hope I am ready, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">if you deem fit, PROMOTE me,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">I need it and I am seeking / asking from You, my dear Father. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Amen! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"></span>ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04689018088549836582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6929701870116698550.post-89695115544676212762013-07-08T17:15:00.003+08:002013-07-08T17:15:27.247+08:00Feeling nowhere<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Woke up dreading today </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">turns out, people are nice here</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">generally, today is busy but nice</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">am meeting up a friend later too</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">But I am wondering, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">what am I doing with my life.... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">I used to rally around the notion of</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">"never work a day in my life, as my work is a passion, a hobby..."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">but given the speed and pressure and all</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">I made a fatal error... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">unsure if I will ever be forgiven </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">or already cast and condemned to all eternity to hell </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">by the docs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">the saying is so true,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">you can do 10 GREAT things </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">but just one error is enough to wipe u out</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">human beings. . . . go figure!!! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">I have been exercising so much</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">coz I got so much to vent</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">its insane..... I feel so beaten up</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">and I feel bad, internally, my system is still beating myself up</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">its perpetually hanged on "self-whacking" mode</span><br />
ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04689018088549836582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6929701870116698550.post-72870984869094750862013-06-26T21:30:00.001+08:002013-06-26T21:30:27.632+08:00Love my Nest, Love my Man<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Super in love today.... </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">started the day with a prayer</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">nothing fancy, simple one</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">my man sent me an encouraging short read</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">got me fruits for breakfast</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">and then I decided to make an effort to change</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">look at things differently</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And came back to a lovely meal</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Spicy n Sour Glass Noodles.... </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">totally right up my alley today</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I love how a documentary was featuring Taiwan,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">one of my favourite countries in the world</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I could move there in a heartbeat. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Today is filled with more love than all the last 3 days!</span></span>ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04689018088549836582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6929701870116698550.post-18563456000372714842013-06-25T23:07:00.002+08:002013-06-25T23:07:51.421+08:00Blog posts are suppose to be on Happy StuffThe hubs told me, that blog posts are meant for happy stuff,<br />
but to me, this serves as a diary.... for a small crowd<br />
for me to share. <br />
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Today's high was lunch, at La Catine located within Asia Square, <br />
it was real good, main course was a little salty thou<br />
but probably to cover the fishy smell of the cod fish<br />
but dessert, was awesome-ness!!! <br />
I love my friend at Citibank! :) <br />
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Today's super low, was that I am stuck with a bad egg<br />
someone whose working language needs work at<br />
and design needs lots of time<br />
of which, both we don't have. <br />
Unless you are fine with no expectations<br />
and no standards and no inclinations of any kind<br />
then, everything goes. <br />
<br />
Really feeling super demoralised. <br />
Ends up, I am getting shorter end of the straw,<br />
but no one appreciates the sort of basic expectations<br />
and standard of work I wish to bring<br />
I mean, do things well, do it right<br />
so you need not make like over 5 changes!!!!!! <br />
<br />
Anyways, the hubs offered a suggestion<br />
which may help, I will try it out. <br />
Hope it works. <br />
My coach says, its just a job.......... <br />
I am just not the sort who hand in subpar, half pass six kinda work. <br />
How to? I am not wired that way...... <br />
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No satisfaction at all like that<br />
Pissed off........... <br />
ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04689018088549836582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6929701870116698550.post-25843186937713530922013-06-24T21:23:00.000+08:002013-06-24T21:23:21.390+08:00hearing discouragements<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unsure if those things said today were purely out of things moving too slow</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">or what, I mean, for a fact, yes, business is slow</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but I am certain, over time, it will build up </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">got to quickly push for things </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope mgmt and esp my boss will support me in terms of using cashf</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for needed immediate designs as my current support is really a tad slow</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">kinda holding me back, as she can only focus on one task </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I just hope, all will be able to give this the proper 6 months for all materials t</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to be in place, am trying to half the time but still ...... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Praying to stay positive and encouraged and find the peace and joy! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Amen </span><br />
ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04689018088549836582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6929701870116698550.post-70357780486646830052013-06-21T11:03:00.001+08:002013-06-21T11:03:46.041+08:00And they all change<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Strange how sometimes the old </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">comes across as distant </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and the new comes across as tight / connected / closer</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I can never understand that . . .</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and the only logic that surfaces</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">is probably the fact that common shared experiences</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and the things we go thru in life </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">probably help shape us. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Making us better persons</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">as we decide. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So goodbye. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Farewell. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">12. </span><br />
ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04689018088549836582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6929701870116698550.post-73862749302449294412013-06-17T23:47:00.000+08:002013-06-17T23:47:04.151+08:00Almost always<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unsure why a certain female is almost always</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">predictably so, unhelpful and trying to do 'Taiji' moves here </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and there, most days and most times. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And blue murder, she gets away with, tell me again, why? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sometimes, i almost wanna succumb to the Chinese saying of, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"salted veggie life" but I know our God is bigger and better than this,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">so yeah, I am so gonna pray, me shutting up and playing nice,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">does not in anyway mean I am a "sick cat"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but rather, I am putting patience into action</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">if I erupt, I also don't like me, hahahahaa.... Roarrrr.... </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyways, this post ain't about her,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I just had to lament...... and rant. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This post is about me, being proud of </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">actually, deleting Mr. Mont Blanc's number away for good</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">if he doesn't contact me, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">which I am certain he has no good reason to anyways,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">then really, the chapter has closed, like has had closure</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">after a decade, yeah.... me being the sentimental fool</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">believing that a life lived, should have a real love story </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">one that is passionate and blazing and sets the bar</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">one that is long to be remembered (good or bad)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and one that has a dashing fella in the picture</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hahahahaha..... silly me, young and naive and rather dumb, really! </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyways, the only fantastic thing out of that love lesson,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">is, I really end up appreciating my current more</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and know that men should really be treating their women right</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and we, women, should not shortchange ourselves </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">out of a decent relationship, seriously. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Idealistic love...... is unfathomable on most days</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">all that jazz made up of heros and </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a gentleman and handing us their credit cards,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">though good, but ain't essential, the crux,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">is still his heart and how he shows his love,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and at the end of it all, it really is the small things</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and little actions that touch our hearts and show us</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">how much we are valued and accepted for. Ain't it? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Still love being married to him..... </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ironically, today I was asked if I felt the 7-year itch,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">no.... really, if I wanted to, I would have years back, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">before we even got married.... </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">this 12 year marathon of a relationship, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that blossomed from just friends to BGR to </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I still cannot believe I am married to him</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">has been an adventure, still not sick of him and that's awesome! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span>ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04689018088549836582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6929701870116698550.post-90857320640685182672013-06-13T02:21:00.001+08:002013-06-13T02:21:46.143+08:00And I hate you.... and then some<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mr Mont Blanc</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">do you really know how detestable and hateful </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and with a super capital S you are!!???!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Seriously, why can't more people speak with rounded edges</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and think before they talk? </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Like word what you want to say with some prudence / love / care</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and not just haphazardly hurt</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">with the entire barrage of words that come springing out of your mouth</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And whoever that coined the term:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"Sticks and stones will break my bones</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">but words will never hurt me...." </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Is definitely and 100% a man..... </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">No idiotic woman would coin that saying.... Ppppffttt.... </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Sigh.... Oh well. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I just deleted you... Mr Mont Blanc</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">you just ain't worth my time. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Not then, not now, not ever! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And at times, I really wish you would rot / stink / ferment</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">somewhere down there in the deepest and darkest of abyss!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And stop pounding / squashing hearts you no good person U! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">I am so proud of myself. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Kinda feeling like a trooper emerging all unscathed and smarter. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Looking forward to the retreat </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and coming back to the bustle of copywriting, meetings and mayhem. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In the meantime, a good massage and daily workouts are the order of the day! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Besides seeking HIS face! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Xoxo.... </span>ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04689018088549836582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6929701870116698550.post-7722138354032026512013-06-09T01:27:00.000+08:002013-06-09T01:29:16.454+08:00Bumping into Mont Blanc Again<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Denied ever arranging to meet for early tea </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">decided to just have lunch as per scheduled with my DF</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and almost as if it was arranged, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">we crossed path as the stars aligned </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">you waved and acknowledged me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I merely nodded a courtesy nod since you waved</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">your eyes widen, you seem to always sense me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">like you know where I would be, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">when we had a quick glance at Cathay yons back</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">once again your eyes darted to me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">like you were always searching for me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">or perhaps, like all men, just looking at pretty girls</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that's about it, I should not overthink things. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I went about my life </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">had a fun lunch with my DF and was immensed in the topics</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">then when it came time to head off</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had to bump into you, again</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mr Mont Blanc, I find it hard to fathom</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the kind of bumping into, the frequencies </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">kind of have me a tad weird out</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but we talked a bit</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">your eyes danced and observed me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">like way close, made me feel flattered</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but I was in control, I was actually thinking, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">you just wasn't the person whom I used to be with</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh Mr Mont Blanc, please let us not cross paths again</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope. Perhaps when I am around the area</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I really hope to scoot outta here</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to work alongside my dear, and crave something more meaningful out. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span>ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04689018088549836582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6929701870116698550.post-60890434143535889442013-06-07T02:06:00.004+08:002013-06-07T02:11:32.428+08:00Rough on the Edges yet Oh So Glad Inside<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Took me a whole decade or slightly more to come a full circle</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">but at least, closure has arrived. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I am so glad that the chapter will close for good</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and that I will not acknowledge this person at all, anymore</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">over the last 2 weeks, weird and distant feelings of jealousy,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">random irritations, borderline rage, longing, unexplained joy and sadness</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">seem to engulf me.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For no good reason, I would text, call upon for teh</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and I kept saying to my inner voice,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I am in control, nothing will happen, you will be the angel and </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">be able to flee at the first sign of trouble </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">but if I may, perhaps I had hoped for something more to occur,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">something that I cannot fathom and perhaps allow feelings to seep </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and maybe things will spiral for no good reason. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And really, I have a good head over these pair of beautiful shoulders</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">just that when it comes to emotions, somehow, whatever ounce of logic,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">eludes me at moments, sometimes regretful foolish moments,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">but those are all in the past and I really need them to stay past tense</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">on a permanent basis. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Answers I was searching for an entire decade, may never really come to any fruition</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But it is really okay, I sort of gotten it, even if it adds up to 80% </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">but I got to concur, we were past and we are way way past the point </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">of even bothering with the knowledge of anything</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">things can stay buried and just become dust</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">become a speck of dust.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I threw away the accessories bought</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and the clothes and whatever reminder I have of then</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">almost an entire decade ago,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">yet when we met, his eyes danced and lit up</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and he smiled that familiar happy smile. <br />Now why did he have to do that..... really, why</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I got too many good things and people in my life now</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and many more new ones being added on a daily basis</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I really do not need to deal with old things and baggages</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I had the courage to walk away then, I shall repeat this feat again</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">walk away from the need for a real answer</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">of course it would mean me going to the grave without ever knowing</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">but will that be such a biggie? a regret? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Like what would I have done different? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Actually, maybe nothing different,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I would not appreciate my current squeeze as much as I possibly can</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">should I have not gone thru hell and back emotionally. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">At least I am really happy now, not happy everyday </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">but happy generally and consistently so</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and that makes me assured and confident</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">which in turn, is always a good thing in my humble opinion. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Closure. That's all that mattered and matters now. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have it. Finally. I found real peace within. Period. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How nice. And Thank God really. </span></span>ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04689018088549836582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6929701870116698550.post-10418816405551080392013-05-23T00:12:00.000+08:002013-05-23T00:12:27.381+08:00What a Day....<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150887794751836&l=cc0d2797f7 (I miss this bunch of guys!!) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Obs<span style="font-size: small;">c</span>enely odd.... that's the way to sum up this day. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Like serendipity missed knocking on my <span style="font-size: small;">door </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Like murphy's law sort of refused to leave <span style="font-size: small;">me alone</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">I wish everything would fall back in its place soon. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Like I missed a boat and then some.<span style="font-size: small;"> . .</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">I told the <span style="font-size: small;">grumps that I have 2 husbands,</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">one, the real <span style="font-size: small;">McCo<span style="font-size: small;">y of course and<span style="font-size: small;"> then</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">another in the form of my emotional anchor</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">someone I totally and explicitly trust everything to</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">I will spill<span style="font-size: small;"> all with him.... and the favour is<span style="font-size: small;"> returned</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">I also sort of have the answer to my prayer</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">but <span style="font-size: small;">the pay package is something <span style="font-size: small;">which falls short </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">of what is preferred and I kinda screwed mysel<span style="font-size: small;">f over </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">by <span style="font-size: small;">saying I will reve<span style="font-size: small;">rt by tomorrow. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">What tomorrow??? </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Argh.... f<span style="font-size: small;">rustrat<span style="font-size: small;">ing to an extent.... </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Coz its boring to stay home... except for the ability to sleep in</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">and of course have b<span style="font-size: small;">etter complexion</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">all thanks to more sleep and less free radicals and stress... </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">ahahaha.... </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">I wish this day would hurry up end.... </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And yes, it has! It is Thursday already.... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but I am still facing Grumps. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Save me..... I am in desperate need of fun! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hurry up already!!! My career begets..... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I feel like my brain cells are rotting slowly. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Argh.... </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span> </span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span> </span> </span></span></span></span> </span> ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04689018088549836582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6929701870116698550.post-2728080831936602242013-05-21T00:08:00.002+08:002013-05-21T00:08:17.654+08:00he is feeling the blues<a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151375402456836&l=e45a81b1a1">https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151375402456836&l=e45a81b1a1 </a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">today was a record high for me, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">in more ways than one..... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I had a full day packed with interviews,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">likewise for tomorrow, I strongly believe</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">that I will be getting a career that I will be staying on </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">for a super long time to come soon... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">enough of all the grind, shit and grit saw stuff </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">and I bumped into an old friend, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">like have not met this person for 10years or more</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">and our faces lit up when we saw each other</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">he still looked as good. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Anyways, my honey bun was in the blue zone today</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">feeling all shitty and blue</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">and I know it as he is listening non-stop to praise and worship </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">which is a great way to unwind and leave it all at HIS feet</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">and he is all about the cuddling and needing hugs. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Its so akin to a soldier going out to the battlefield and coming home</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">wounded...... awwww, my poor baby. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">He deserves a great hug and an awesome massage. :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">On the other hand, i am looking forward to toomorrow's packed day</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">totally awesome!!!</span>ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04689018088549836582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6929701870116698550.post-81404773763671003832013-05-14T17:08:00.001+08:002013-05-14T17:08:12.875+08:00Happier these days<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Things I am Doing These Days:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">- Meet Friends for Lunch</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">- Head for Interviews As and When</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">- Exercise Daily, started today (restarting since I put on ....Gasp! 3kg since Taiwan trip)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">- Praying a lot more</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Basically, a lot happier and less enslaved and abused at the desk. Targetting to drop 7 to 8kg in a month or more! </span>ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04689018088549836582noreply@blogger.com