WAIT!! THAT'S A.... ... ...

  

Over the last weekend I was out running an errand when this peculiar piece of weird-looking blob on the pavement caught my eye.

Curious piqued, I stepped nearer for a closer look. And gasp!! THIS PIECE OF BLOB IS ACTUALLY THE CORPSE OF AN ILL-FATED FROG!!!

I was truly disgusted, but yet at the same time, amazed. It is impressive how the outline of the corpse still remarkably resembles a frog. It is beautiful too, the intricate details which can be so easily overlooked without purposeful observation - the gagging eye, the telling triangular shape of a head, the folds of the limbs, the webbed feet. Oh my, it is so awesomely intriguing (albeit a tad morbidly) that I find myself gagging in amazed wonder.

Poor frog. It must have died a painful death. My bet is that it got ran over by a vehicle. Geez! I can't imagine! SPLAT! Just like that. Ouch.

EVENTFUL DAY

Title says it all.


Saturday was an eventfully packed day. 


Went out with the parents at 9am to 'fetch' Grandma's new maid home (Grandma had a bone fraction repair operation a couple of years back, and has difficulty walking till today. In addition, taking into consideration her old age [she's more than 85], the doctors had decided against another operation to remove the metal rods. Hence, the rods are still currently residing inside Grandma's body and a fall would be disastrous).


At 12pm, there was a massage appointment in line. I had a good 60 minutes body massage, followed by 15 minutes of hot treatment. Man, the massage feels sooo good (though it did hurt a little, but it's what makes it good!). The hot treatment was heavenly soothing and indescribably relaxing! Oooooohh! The masseur was amiable too. We had a good chat about massages and agreed unanimously on how alternative medicine / therapies is a 一门学问 - something utterly pitiable if it's lost with the passage of time and generations. She was mildly surprised to learn that I'm trained in Swedish massage, and that I have an interest in TCM and 推拿 and the likes. We had a pretty good chat; so much so that she even threw in a facial massage for free (it was not part of the package)!


At 2pm, I was at the nearby mall recontracting my phone. Finally, my mobile line is eligible for recontract! YAY!


And finally, at 6.30pm, there was a house-warming function to attend. The food was sumptuous, the hosts were gracious, and the company was awesome! 




Reached home at around 11pm, and that concludes Saturday. Busy, but totally worth it!

CONTRAST

 

BACKDATE ENTRY :

A couple of months ago, the younger brother, the family dog, and I headed down to the nearby convenient store. The primary objective was to make some grocery purchases and the second was to, well, walk the dog. THE. BIG. FAT. DOG.

On our way back, taunting dark clouds - which seemed to have manifested out of nowhere - loomed threateningly overhead. Wanting to get home fast lest we get caught in the untimely thunderstorm (no umbrella!), we made a not-so-wise choice - opting to cut across a bare open field. Not the wisest of choice, I admit, and heavens forbid if we were to do this kind of thing again!

And so, we ran and ran, with me occasionally squealing girlishly in fright at the mere display of divine temper from the skies. At the first bolt of lightning streaking across the sky and the subsequent thunder, the lot of us paused and stood momentarily still; senses heightened for approaching danger, ready to assume the 'lightning crouch position'. The younger brother was freaked out by the devious weather too, and kept urging me (and the dog) to run faster in seek of shelter.

It was then, I looked up at the seemingly-mocking sky, and realised the hidden, unspoken beauty behind the fiery wrath of Mother Nature. The dark clouds; emanated glowingly by gentle rays of empowering light. Calming sunniness and volatility. Dim and bright. Dark and light. Beauty and wrath. Oh, the contrast! It blows me away. Totally.

Anyway, yeah, the three of us survived to tell the tale!

HOOKED

Okay, I admit : I'm (kinda) hooked.

Killing and victories. It's all just too satisfying!


And advancing slowly from a noob of level 1; it's all just too gratifying!




Teng is so spot-on. I'm a closet, not-so-hardcore gamer at heart. But, still, a gamer.

END

Today is the last official day of Term 1. YAY!!!

Life. It's moving. And all these feel so uber-duber exciting because, well, life goes on - unraveling as it should!

As so is depicted aptly in one of my favourite quotes, by Max Erhman :


"You are a child of the universe
no less than the tree and the stars;
you have a right to be here,
and whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should."
- Max Erhmann
 


Geez. Life sucks sometimes; but it is exciting at moments when it's not. 


Happiness : it is not just what you feel, but what you make out of.