Sunday, 22 November 2009

  • Julia & Julie

    I just watched that movie and became completely enamored with the two couples. Watch it and see for yourself. Movie's pretty decent too. Feel-Good, for the most part.



Saturday, 14 November 2009

  • "If you servant comes in from plowing or from taking care of the sheep, would you say, 'Welcome! Come on in and have something to eat?' No, you wouldn't say that. You would say, 'Fix me something to et. Get ready to serve me, so I can have my meal. Then later on you can eat and drink.' Servants don't deserve special thanks for doing what they're supposed to do.

    And that's how it should be with you. When you've done all you should, then say, 'We are merely servants, and we have simply done our duty.'"

    —The Bible.

    I am merely a servant, and I have simply done my duty.

Wednesday, 11 November 2009

  • "...locusts, who have no king, but march like an army..."—Proverbs 30:27

    "It is estimated that the largest swarms have covered hundreds of square miles and consisted of many billions of locusts..."—Wikipedia

    An army of a billion with no commander? No leader? That means none of those billion are greedy, selfish, power-hungry or proud.

    To fly in unison, with a billion of your fellow locustmen, without ever losing your way or faltering...that is amazing.

    Hm. There's a thing or two to learn from these locusts. If not anything, the art of unity.

Saturday, 07 November 2009

  • This weekend, I realize what my true, essential idea of fun is.

    It's not sitting around talking for hours or carrying on a lengthy conversation with friends.
    It's not bungee jumping and hiking 5 miles through various travel destinations.
    It's not watching a bunch of movies or going to a concert.
    It's not playing a game or feasting on delicious food.
    It's not going to the mall or meeting up with friends for dinner.

    Don't get me wrong. All of this is fun, but not the best kind of fun.

    That form of fun in these past two days have been...
    • ...sitting around at my go-to second homes and being comfortable enough to put my feet up on the sofa and feel like you've been there forever.
    • ...carrying my nephew and holding my niece's hand as we walk to the playground.
    • ...swinging on a swing with my nephew in-tow and watching him stare straight into the sky and then fall asleep.
    • ...eating pizza and watching Asianet whilst talking about old memories and simultaneously making a chubby baby laugh his little heart out.
    • ...watching my dad make steak and transform into Bobby Flay while smoking out the entire house and causing me to cough up a 2-hour storm.
    • ...drinking three glasses of apple juice and washing 'Z' on a nice, cool, breezy Saturday morning.
    • ...having lunch with my big brother and sister in-law and making fun of their kids' eating habits.
    • ...nudging my cousin every time Sharukh Khan pops up on the TV screen and then resulting comments of 'hotness' and 'ageless beauty'.
    • ...watching Spongebob Squarepants blow bubbles through his umbilical cord and then screaming at the child who would not stop watching it.

    Fun for me is just to go as slow as possible.To live the normal days out as lazily as possible.

    If you ever end up walking somewhere with me, you'll understand my life's pace. I take things slowly. I observe.
    I look. I hear. I smell. I feel. I'm realizing that it is hard to keep this pace slow but I hope, in ten years time, that I am still at this pace. Breathing every breath slowly and steadily.