Monthly Archives: June 2007

Serenity

So I was dri­ving home the other night. Work was beat­ing me to a pulp but I had a light smile on my lips. So much to do, so much to tire me out, but it’s good to be work­ing, it’s good to be alive, really alive. So much to be grate­ful for, so far

Eats, Reads & Leaves

Another month, another round of litty-itty events…

1. BC5
From the teaser: “The 5th MPH Break­fast Club for Lit­Blog­gers on Sat­ur­day, June 23, 2007, will fea­ture Zhang Su Li, an award-winning copy­writer who has just come out with her first travel book called A Back­pack and a Bit of Luck. She will be intro­duced by

No More Monday Blues

It’s 10:48pm as I’m typ­ing this. In lit­tle over an hour, it will be Mon­day, and how all of us office slaves dread it. O to wake up and have to drag one’s half-asleep car­cass off to work! Such mis­ery! Such inglo­ri­ous morn­ing lament!
But does it have to be this way truly?
This morn­ing I woke up,

Home Sweet Home

What makes a home?
Too long I’ve flit­tered from place to place, coun­try to coun­try, with­out leav­ing a mark of my own. My child­hood sanc­tu­ary still per­sists in my old home­town of Malacca, but my bed­room has been stripped bare by years of me mov­ing round else­where. Noth­ing remains the same, they say.
Some­times it takes a gen­tle nudge,

Friends, They Come A-visitin’…

1. Msi­a­girl: Pey-O!

Last month, I had the plea­sure of meet­ing my first blog­ger friend from abroad. Msi­a­girl has been read­ing my blog for a good while, and me hers, so it’s fan­tas­tic that we finally got to meet when she flew in from the UK. Of course, that meant the cat’s out of the bag