Is age nothing more than a number?

You know you are getting old when you:

(1) actually had a blast at Velvet Underground last night even though it was Mambo Night – the most hated night during your uni days.

Hail The Village People for introducing YMCA to us!

(Note: Readers below the age of 24 may proceed to disregard the last sentence)

(2) noticed that you are amongst one of the oldest in the crowd when you entered Phuture, the newest R&B room at Zouk.

(3) know the lyrics to most, if not all, of the songs aired on Mix.fm.

(4) don’t have much cravings for any food in particular because it’s been quite some time since you were prohibited from eating all the stuff that you love to, whenever and wherever you feel like doing so without anyone telling you not eat too much of this or that because it’s bad for health, it'll make your hair fall out, etc.

(5) don’t know whether to address the cleaning lady in the office as ‘Kak’ (big sister) or ‘Dik’ (younger sis).

Last but definitely not least:

(6) after washing your face at night before you jump into bed under the duvet, you suddenly began to question whether you have already brushed your teeth.

And if you did, was it before you washed your face or after?

“You know you're getting old when everything hurts. And what doesn't hurt doesn't work.” – Hy Gardner

Aging gracefully,

"Are you the exception...or the rule?"

Just came back from watching this movie.

It made me wonder if 90% of women on the face of this earth are delusional.

Sounds sad but true. And to think that I may be one of them.

Sometimes we hang on to petty issues like they are matters between life and death when the fact is that they don’t really matter at all.

Guys, they just let their egos and occasionally, their ‘the other heads’ get in the way.

Gigi: Girls are taught a lot of stuff growing up. If a guy punches you he likes you. Never try to trim your own bangs and someday you will meet a wonderful guy and get your very own happy ending. Every movie we see, Every story we're told implores us to wait for it, the third act twist, the unexpected declaration of love, the exception to the rule. But sometimes we're so focused on finding our happy ending we don't learn how to read the signs. How to tell from the ones who want us and the ones who don't, the ones who will stay and the ones who will leave. And maybe a happy ending doesn't include a guy, maybe... it's you, on your own, picking up the pieces and starting over, freeing yourself up for something better in the future. Maybe the happy ending is... just... moving on. Or maybe the happy ending is this, knowing after all the unreturned phone calls, broken-hearts, through the blunders and misread signals, through all the pain and embarrassment you never gave up hope.

As for me, I don’t think I’ll ever give up. No matter what happens.

Because that’s just the way I am: hardheaded as hell.

“Dum spiro, spero” (While I breathe, I hope) – Latin Proverb

Hopeful,

The best things in life are free

Today I’m thankful for…

(1) The fact that it didn’t rain at all even though it has been raining almost every day of the week – I had just done my laundry last night.

(2) Finding a ‘bungalow’ lot amidst a fully occupied car park (mind you, this is a fee-paying car park)

I guess these are some of the things that even money can’t buy.

Unless, of course, if you own a dryer at home and can actually afford to have a chauffeur on your payroll.

This is supposed to be a ‘Be Thankful’ post so thou shall not moan and whine about how horrible the traffic is and how difficult it is to get a decent parking space these days. Ever since the price of petrol was hiked from MYR 1.92 to MYR2.70 and then finally down to MYR1.80; all in less than 6 months, my life has never been the same.

(Sorry, I just couldn't help myself. But you have to admit that there is indisputably a flow between the above paragraphs right???)

Price History of RON97

01-05-2004 RM 1.37/L
01-10-2004 RM 1.42/L
01-05-2005 RM 1.52/L
31-07-2005 RM 1.62/L
28-02-2006 RM 1.92/L
05-06-2008 RM 2.70/L
28-08-2008 RM 2.55/L
15-10-2008 RM 2.30/L
01-11-2008 RM 2.15/L
18-11-2008 RM 2.00/L
02-12-2008 RM 1.90/L
17-12-2008 RM 1.80/L

I know this sounds pathetic but I'm beginning to miss the days when 1 liter of petrol cost me 2 glasses of ‘kopi ais’.

Nowadays, each liter only comes at the price of 1 glass + 1/2 hour worth of sleep in the mornings of Mon-Fri + more grey hairs + anger management classes + a measly MYR0.50 balance to tip the waiter.

What a bargain!

“For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Indebted to life,

And now I see that you're so happy

Had lunch today with a close friend who made time for me amidst her wedding preparations.

Although I haven’t known her for a long time but I know that she’s a kind person at heart, a very rare find these days.

I’m glad to see her so happy because I believe that someone like her deserves all the happiness in the world.

All I can say is that he’s damn lucky to end up with someone like her as his wife.

“Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.” – Tom Mullen

P/S: the roast duck was extremely delicious!

Blissful,

"Let me give you my advice"

Someone commented the other day that he thinks that I’m a little too emotional; a conclusion he made after what he heard others said about my blog. He claimed that he has never read it because he doesn’t want to invade my private life.

I’m like, what??? If it’s top secret then I wouldn’t have been blogging about it.

I guess some people are still living in the Flintstone Age.

Perhaps he meant well (only God and himself knows) and although everyone is entitled to his or her opinion, I’m not about to let what people say dictate what I should and shouldn’t do.

I don’t listen to my mom (sorry, mom, but that's the truth), so what makes him think that I’ll take in what he said to me?

After all, it’s called my life for a reason and since it’s mine, guess what? I get to call the shots.

So what if I’m an emotional train-wreck? At least I’m not that person (yes, it’s a she, AGAIN, but this time it's different from the previous one) who pretends to be your friend, then turns around and gossips behind your back. You may think that you are very clever in your own cunning ways but the truth is that almost everyone you know knows what kind of person you are and they have their reservations when talking in front of you.

I suppose some women just don’t know how and when to shut up.

So if you happen to be reading this, I just want you to know that from the moment he spoke to me, I knew it was you. My advice to you is that you better watch out, or else.

“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.” – Oscar Wilde in ‘An Ideal Husband’

Not made of stone,

Dilemma

Have finally grasped the significance of the phrase ‘Damned if you do, damned if you don’t” - down to a T.

And I just can’t wait to see how the rest of this TVB drama unfolds.

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, nor to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly." – Buddha

All she wants to do is dance,

The Window

by Author Unknown

A young couple moves into the neighbourhood. The next morning, while they were eating breakfast, the young woman sees her neighbour hanging her wash outside.

That laundry is not very clean, she said, she doesn’t know how to wash correctly. Is there such a thing as ‘washing correctly’???

Perhaps she needs better laundry soap.

Her husband looked on, but remained silent.

Every time the neighbour would hang her wash to dry, the young woman would make the same comments.

About one month later, the woman was surprised to see a nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband: Look, she has learned how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her this.

The husband said: I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows. My gut feeling tells me that the wife must be a dumb blonde, don’t ask me how I know, I just do.

And so it is with life:

What we see when watching others depends on the purity of the window through which we look.

Before we give any criticism, it might be a good idea to check our state of mind and ask ourselves if we are ready to see the good rather than to be looking for something in the person we are about to judge.

Sometimes we have this negative perception about a certain person and so every tiny mistake that he/she makes, we just use them as an excuse to further re-emphasize that we were indeed right about this person in the first instance.

Perhaps all we wanted was to make ourselves feel better, at the expense of somebody else's feelings.

Always bear in mind that nobody is perfect, including you and I.