Touching Earth - Rani Manicka
The woman stretched out her neck and howled like a wolf. She tore at her hair until clumps came out in her clenched fists. With the same firsts she beat the dull earth. Alas, alas, the boy was dead. She sprang up suddenly, her eyes wild.
'Do not touch him till i return,' she instructed and ran all the way to the Bodhi tree to fall at Buddha's feet. 'Oh Enlightened One,' she cried, 'my son is dead. If you are indeed the true master, then bring him back to life.'
Buddha opened his eyes. Perhaps he wanted to tell her about the inevitability of birth and death for the unawakened, but he must have seen the dust of dreaming in her eyes, so he told her, 'Go forth and bring me a handful of grain from a home where death has not yet been, and I will return your son to you.'
Overwhelmed by gratitude and joy the woman bowed many times before she withdrew to begin her search. She searched, and searched, and searched and....
Labels: books
Friday, February 23, 2007 // 7:02 AM
Sheesh. Blogger is officially branded as "
Irritating". i've been trying to log on for couple of days and the website just obstinately refused to get loaded. grr. Finally, it has loaded and all that i planned to blog abt has just vanished. :
oh well, nvm.. its gona be a real random post.
Lets start, i have finally gotten back my baby compie! its all brand new..with a brand new OS. ekeke. but that sad part, i lost all my songs and photos... sighs..thank god i saved some in Photobucket. and Many Thanks to Sundari for helping me recommend the technician.
Valentine's day was nice and simple. :)
Morning was spent at tuition in Hougang..yoga class and meeting baby at Jurong Point. Wasnt expecting anything but he saved up and got for me this soft toy. real cute doggy, holding this heart shaped cushion which says I Love You. heh. Booked tickets for 'Arang', some Korean horror film. We were hoping its not be as hopeless as 'Infection' but thankfully, it was nice. Initially, for 15mins, we were the only ones in the theatre plus some scary shit background music. So we thought we were the only 2 suckers that bought tickets for this movie coz everybody else was gona watch Epic Movie.. or maybe this movie is soo hopeless that no one except us are gona watch the movie. Thank god coz there were other suckers as well. wahaha.
Feb 10 was Madhan's big 21st birthday bash. Sighs, i knew him when he was Sec 2/3 there. and now, this dashing young guy is celebrating his birthday. Went there with baby and parents. the highlight of the celebration was our dance dedicated to him. Though there was screw-ups here and there..it turned out fine and we had loads of fun. In the dance floor, hahah no one else rocked it except my baby. whahaha. why i say this coz during this 2yrs of relationship..this is the very first time (
mind you) i saw him dance. lol. but i hoped he had fun.
Ydae was my post-Valentine date with my bestie aka Durgaaaaa. Its been eons since we met up alone man. But anyway, morning i had to go for tuition den meet the woman at Dhoby Gaut. We met up and had no idea where to go. its not as if we planned or anything so we just decided to go with the flow... but it led us to walking here and there. first i suggested to go to Swensens in Plaza Singapura..Once we were at Plaza Sing..i realized she hasnt eaten in Fish & Co before so we decided to go there instead. But it was raining, sighs what to do.. we had to go..hehe. The food was good as usual and we took loads of photos.. and this gundu woman happily took a white heart-shaped balloon and gave it to me. *slaps forehead*. The staff said i cld keep it anyway. haha.
Walked to Orchard to see if got any nice movies playing..but none appealed to her.. and the best ALL shops were closed. Im like what the hell, so what if it's CNY? All the chinese will go for visiting and all..what abt the benefit of the non-chinese? All just sit at home and watch tv?
Went to CP also the same, only the restaurants, Gio and Time Zone..headed to the latter and played a few games then headed home..
Oh btw, it was Durga's treat for the Fish & Co. hehehe. i must emphasize coz she spent quite a bit. anyway, she owes it . lalla.
Cant upload the pics we took..grrr. and oh ya. i gota wear specs. sighs.
Labels: love, random
Saturday, February 17, 2007 // 10:14 PM
As usual my comp is screwing me up. First, my cpu refused to switch on. then one fine day, one day before the technician is supposed to turn up.. it then, decides to start working. but im not gona fall for any dirty trick. Out
he's gona go from my house and have a thorough check-up. hmph. *stares at cpu*
sooo just before he leaves, just a couple of updates in my life. i told you guys abt this exercise thingy that i wana take up. Yup, i joined
True Yoga. I know Yoga doesnt help lose weight but in True Yoga they dont only teach about Yoga but they have many classes like Pilates, Belly Dancing, Kick Boxing, Hot Yoga and many more. the best part, you get to choose whatever class u want to do everytime. so its kinda worth it.
My best friend's graduation is up this coming friday. haha i hope she enjoys it. at least her grad is gona be with our fellow singaporeans. if i had my grad dinner, it wld be an international one. :P
this week is packed with many things, mainly tuition and other things .. that i can hardly breathe. eesh. but at least its better than sitting home more than half the day doing nothing.
and i have yet to hand in my project proposal. eeks. oh speaking of school, i passed my modules. Though it wasnt the grade i was looking for, im at least happy that i passed and i have only one more module to finish my adv dip. woo hoooo!
ok till im back with my comp,
love you pple.
and you babyboy.
Tuesday, February 06, 2007 // 3:37 PM