Well, I’m back. And I feel torn between just catching up on sleep and getting some much needed rest, and getting started on all the things I need to do. I want to do a ‘spring’ clean for my room and throw lots and lots of junk out (am in a throw-away mood which means […]
Category: Philosophical Musings
Posts I make when pensive
Travelogue VII: Roots
In less than three days I’ll be leaving Singapore again, and my mind has been full of thoughts and reflections. I’ve been so busy during the day this week that I’ve been losing sleep in the night due to all the things whirling in my mind. These two months in Singapore have been crazy busy, […]
Words
I was reading an issue of Family: Good Living, Better Parenting magazine this morning while waiting for my mom at the NUS MRI Centre. There was a short article entitled ‘Speak Wisely’ which spoke about the power of positive affirmation in parenting. As you can expect, the overwhelming tendency is for parents to focus on […]
Together, Yet Alone
A friend asked me on the phone yesterday, “How honest should we be with people?” In the past, my answer may have probably stopped at “it depends on who you’re talking to”. But this time, his question touched on a deeper theme that I’ve been learning a great deal about recently. And the theme is […]
Framing My Love
Playing with my camera the other night **************** Loving someone isn’t easy. And I don’t mean that swell of affection you feel for someone. I mean the ‘love is a decision’ kind of love. And I am not referring to loving someone when you feel like wringing the person’s neck either. What I’m thinking of […]
Too Awake
Bah! It’s useless… woke up 1.5 hrs ago and can’t get back to sleep! It’s 1:10a.m. And if I stay awake any longer I know I’m going to get hungry. I always do. *mock sigh* :P **************** Was reflecting earlier and marvelling again at how much Nouwen’s writing seems to speak to me… to address […]
À Bientôt
My 8th year in Toronto has come to a close, and what a year it has been. There isn’t an adjective I can think of that could do it justice. This was the year I ‘stepped out’ again, immersing myself in extra-curricular activities and opening my heart to new friends. It’s funny how agreeing to […]
A dream is a wish…
I dream quite often when I sleep, and I have all sorts of dreams. Most of the time, my dreams are just episodes which do not make sense. Rarely do I have a dream that makes perfect sense, or which I wish would actually come true. But I had just such a dream this morning…and […]
When Silence Speaks
I had precious little sleep last night…and I was up at 7:30a.m. to give a friend with a morning exam a wake-up call (to this friend, don’t feel bad, a promise is a promise and I hadn’t known I was going to sleep at past 3a.m.) Shortly after, I was seeing Yuandong downstairs to his […]
A Sunflower's tribute to the Sun
“One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can’t utter.†-James Earl Jones As early as I remember, I’ve taken delight in words. The loving words spoken by my mother, fantastic stories I read off the pages of a book, the sound of words in rhyme, the lyrics […]
Journey of the Heart 