A midday cuppa

Now that I've finally found the time to explore SIM and found the new Starbucks, I am a happy mooch :)

My caffeine tolerance has been rather low since I fell sick, I get jittery if I drink too much and I can't sleep at night. All messed up and never before unless I drank coffee after 7.30PM. Well, this experience taught me to listen to my body and treat it right, feeding it wholesome food and cutting down on cold drinks. Anyway, I compromised by allowing myself to drink Starbucks and cold coffee once in awhile. Otherwise it's always Kopi now, no more Kopi-peng much to the astonishment of my friends who gets me kopi.

It's Children Day and we get to leave 1 hour early. Yay! Long weekend this week and hoping to have some form of will power to do up my notes and study a bit.

Mugging with an iPhone 5 in the other hand

My life: Mugging hard for QEM... thought I understood it but when I read a new question, my mind goes momentarily blank! Wish I'm a full time student so that I can focus better and not get distracted so easily. On a tech note, while the whole world queues up for iPhone 6, hubby and I got an iPhone 5. Price has dropped and there's voucher in our teleco plan. Why not? iPhone 6 feels too big and light... maybe next time.

Faith - To hold on to Faith.

 “All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida 

This year has not been kind to me, health wise. After passing my 100th day of recovery for my torn ligament, I had a very, very bad allergic reaction to virus, further triggered by shellfish (prawn) that resulted in a 2 times admission to A&E in a day. Happened on my birthday somemore!

I do not wish to dwell on it, learning to let go and living positively. I am not exarggerating when I say I'm deeply tramautised. It was bad.

Faith is what I have taken away from this. To believe and have faith that God is with me at all times.
That my family, my hubby, my friends are my grounding factors. That I need to listen to my body and not get too stressed out.

Drifting petals

 

“My tears are like the quiet drift of petals from some magic rose; and all my grief flows from the rift of unremembered skies and snows. I think that if I touched the earth, it would crumble; it is so sad and beautiful, so tremulously like a dream.”

― Dylan Thomas

Waiting to leave the valley of frustration

into the 4th week....

and so the days of assisted living begins....

I've always pride my independence and mobility. A freak accident caused me to slipped on an oil spill on the road and tore my ligament. The ankle is injured badly and I can't place my weight on it. I almost blacked out in vasovagal syncope (pain) after making my way to the bus stop. Thank goodness my saviour came and whisked me off before I appear on STOMP. I went to A&E and was given 3 days MC.

Life in my current job is tough. Always others before self, no one to take over my class and with practical test commencing next week plus all those PH make up, I had no choice but to go to work. I conducted my class in wheelchair, a first time experience.

Sigh, anyway swelling has subsided but bruising is bad. I shudder at thinking about work next week.
This school is not handicap friendly.

Udon and Wan Tan Mee

Randomness: Udon from a new fave shop in Liang Court and random wan tan mee from a hawker in Ang Mo kio during data collection last Wed.

Saying goodbye to past disappointments

Randomly Puss

Puss being the manja bodyguard as I cleared the kitchen on Sunday.

Too hot to do anything other than sleep.

Life is like a cup of coffee

Shared at work...


A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups – porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite – telling them to help themselves to the coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: “If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups have been taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones.While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee.In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink.

What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups, and then you began eyeing each other’s cups to see who had the best one.

Now consider this said the professor “Life is like a cup of coffee”, and life is the coffee, the jobs, money and position in society are the cups.They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of life we live.Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee.

Savour the coffee, not the cups.

The happiest people don’t have the best of everything.
They just make the best of everything.
Live simply, Love generously, Speak kindly, Care deeply.

Life is like a Cup of Coffee : Author unknown.