Gratitude is therapeutic. Through this episode of mourning that I am going through, my gratitude to people who reached out to me and my family seems to lighten the grief in my heart. I look back to the past three weeks since my father passed away and I think of these sympathetic friends and relatives Read More …

This month, October 2009,  is one of the most memorable yet for me. Life has just begun for me and ironically, I lost my father. Life can’t swing in two more opposite directions for anyone than that. I wasn’t thinking of this kind of emotional highs and lows when I turned 40 and looked forward Read More …

He’s a big boy now so he did not get the traditional children’s party. He had a special celebration in church the day before his birthday with two other children who were having their birthdays this month as well.

the cute celebrators with their cakes

lester, elijah & joyce – cuteness personified!
On the day itself, he brought Read More …

I attended Elijah’s Parent Consultation Evening the other day. I was very happy with the teacher’s feedback, except that he is not in the top set in Math (knowing how much I hated the subject, I can totally identify with my boy). Well, no one’s perfect so it is not an issue to me at Read More …

Pain and suffering are so prevalent in this world and inspiration is so scarce. It does not take much to encourage and inspire other people. Sometimes, all we need is a kind word or an uplifting story, to spur us on again. A smile, a kindly pat on the back or a small gift is Read More …

I turned 40 last Saturday. Yes, I am not ashamed to admit my age and unlike some women, I don’t intend to keep my age a secret. I am very secure in my being “me” that I believe that my age does not have anything to do with whether I am likeable or acceptable as Read More …

It’s the first day of the first month of the last quarter of the year. In other words, we are at the last phase of 2009 again and soon, we will bid goodbye to it and say “Hello!” to a brand new year. Looking back to the last nine months of this year, I can Read More …

 
 
The weekend is the time for us to rest, reconnect with those who mean a lot to us and to recover from the week’s challenges and problems. I hope that this wekend, you will have the opportunity to rest and relax and appreciate the goodness of God and the beauty of life.
 
 
Look at these two Read More …

School is in full swing again and so homework and school stuff are the order of the day for most of the week. When one has school-age kids, it is like going back to school again and being re-acquainted with the lessons in school. I welcome this sometimes because it makes me feel as if Read More …

For simply wanting to catch up on my posting, my mind seems to be choc-ful of ideas about what to write about that it’s almost impossible to let them flow through my fingers onto my keyboard. At the same time, my life these days seem to be spent in a daze, with me not knowing Read More …