Intoxi'Kath'ing Whispers

I had a very lovely weekend filled with blessings and touching gestures. Dear AS, thank you for the pisang goreng that I had as my tidbit to munch on as we drove to the Mines. Thank you. That feeling is warmer than the pisang goreng hot out from the kuali. I was so touched and surprised. Lots of hugs!!! May you be as fiery and warm as a pisang goreng too. :D Dear ND, thank you for the bag of grapes which you dropped by my house just to give it to me. They were big and juicy, perfect for this hot weather! You didn't have to. Hahaha. Why did you do it? Thank you so much all the same. :) Dear little boy and little boy's mom, thank you for the balloon which you gave to my niece. She was very thrilled by it. Thank you for walking all the way back in to hand her a balloon which she was looking longingly at. It was very sweet of you, little boy. May you grow up to be a lovely young man.

It is way past midnight. You are holed up in your room, rushing through your class assignments or work brought back from the office. Your eyes move from keyboard to monitor, from monitor to papers as your hands type away at the keyboard. All you hear is the noise the air-conditioner makes in your room. You are totally engrossed in your work, when suddenly, out of the corner of your eye, something moved. You stop whatever you are doing and turn to see what moved. You scrutinize your room, paying especially close attention to the corner of your bed at which you saw the movement. Nothing. So you dismiss it with a shrug as something because "you are too tired". You turn back to concentrate on your work, telling yourself to not be so silly and get distracted by childish notions of "monsters under your bed". You step back into momentum as your work begins to shape up with no further distractions. But suddenly, out of the corner of your eye, something moves ag

I should probably be sleeping now but certain things that happened today actually prompted me to think about a few things... Hahaha. One of kids told me today. "Aunty Kathleen you're so cute." Hahahah. 5 years old, boy. Why couldn't he be a guy who's 5 years older than me? Hahaha just kidding. I took over a class today which I was teaching in last year. It is now taken over by another colleague. One of the girls from this class said, "I miss you Aunty Kathleen." Awww.... don't do that to me. Please. You know, I always wondered how I survived my days in primary school. In a Chinese medium primary school at that. I will always remember this one incident which happened in Standard 4. I think we were doing multiplications with 2 digit numbers and above. There was one exercise which I did badly and where I got punished by my maths teacher. She pulled my ears...-.-' The problem with that was, I had no idea what I did wrong in my sum. She didn't

Happy Lunar New Year everyone!! Hope you had a great weekend of celebrations and holiday trips for others. Comparisons are inevitable during times like this...it's annoying but true. Questions you get asked ARE a form of comparison. Are you dating? (All your cousins are, so you better be.) When are you getting married? (Your sister is already married leh, and she's younger than you.) What are you working as now? (Ha? What kind of job is that???) Did you lose weight? (Wah.... slimmer than last time. Slimmer than me too, cannot.) See??? Comparison. It's all up in the head... hahaha. Reunions can lead to fights and arguments... seriously. Then you get people who don't want to come back for reunions anymore... sad. Jealousy? Envy? Anger? Other simpler reasons could be... "I don't want to socialize with them. I don't know them!" "Man... staying in cramped quarters for two nights!" I didn't like some of this too.... b