These sort of words will make my kids laugh and they will make remarks like, ‘Man…did you hear what your mom just said?’ Or the young one will say, ‘Sure….you will murder the plant real soon’   I love myself. I don’t know what I am going to do next. That gives myself the element [...]

Posted on July 20th, 2011 by Lilian
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I am such a sissy. I planned to do a 7-day silent retreat in Chiangmai. Got the money, maybe able to find the annual leaves and yet, I chickened out. I wrote to the priest, asked a lot of questions, gave a lengthy intro and got immediate response. With social media, I am following Father [...]

Posted on July 14th, 2011 by Lilian
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My little boy has to be warded for observations due to an eruption of rashes all over his body. Poor thing scratched till many spots bleed. Last night, the nurses were foreign to us. The ward too is foreign to us. Normally, we go to the left side but we were assigned the room on [...]

Posted on July 5th, 2011 by Lilian
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It’s Sunday. It’s raining. And I just had a bowl of curry mee with an extra plate of huge prawn (I could afford only one) and some fishballs. All for RM9.50, inclusive of a glass of warm Chinese tea. Sunday means waking up at noon. Rainy mornings make it even worse if you have to [...]

Posted on July 3rd, 2011 by Lilian
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Six months just flew by. Whoosh! And it is over. There is another 6 months to go before 2012 is here. The so-called ‘World is ending on 2012′ prophecy. Actually, life is a lot shorter than that. Just that we usually think we are immortal, as in cannot die one, can live forever one…. That’s [...]

Posted on June 30th, 2011 by Lilian
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Two weeks of school holidays, two weeks of bliss. But it is back to school again tomorrow. ‘School is very depressing,’ my very eloquent, smart eight years old said. ‘Sad face…’ such is the language of kids who grow up in the Youtube and social media age. It denotes Frankly, I agree with him. School [...]

Posted on June 12th, 2011 by Lilian
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Whenever I have very early morning lector’s duty, my greatest fear is the loose phlegm that somehow appears mysteriously when I start to open my mouth at 6.45 am in the morning. By now, after so many years of reading the Bible, I have sort of become calm and collected. I can remind myself to [...]

Posted on May 16th, 2011 by Lilian
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