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Life

Happy Is A Yuppie Word

“Happy is a yuppie word…” so goes the chorus of my background music. It’s one of the cuts in Switchfoot’s latest album. Cutie sis or better yet “Curious sis” made a comment, “Huh, what exactly does that mean?” “Dunno…” was my reply. Nowadays you can hear songs being played with senseless lyrics or maybe the […]

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Life

Four prescriptions

Happy Easter! I just want to share with you this story I got from Stephen Covey’s classic “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”. To those of you who read the book, exactly when was the last time you got hold of it and read it? Last year? I strongly suggest going back to it […]

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Life

My wish for a happy and painless death

What would you like your death to be? Would you liken it to a gradual, slow and lingering illness… or the sudden out-of-the-blue unexpected shock of an accident? This question hit me hard when my grandmother died long time ago. It was a great loss to our family. Her last days were spent in bed, […]

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Life

Scarlet, Dys and Pree

“Rejoice in your deep connection to the rhythms of the universe. Your monthly cycles are as wondrous a part of the cosmos as the tides and the phases of the moon. There is natural wisdom in your life’s cyclic pattern – your experience of shedding the old and regeneration, of fullness and emptiness, of rest […]

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Blogging

My bee-log

I’m quite aware of this blogging craze years way back… I learned about it from a friend who’s got his own homepage with a blog and he posts regularly like it’s his diary. First time I saw the word, I pronounced it separately as “bee-log”. A bit curious, I asked him, “What’s a blog anyway?” […]