Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember. ~ Anne SullivanDid you feel the way I did about dreading the onset of the new year? Call me uninspired but I didn't seem to be excited about reporting for work last Monday. I thought the long vacation was bitin and for the first time in a long time I did not write any New Year's resolutions. Even so, I haven't been so lazy to list down what I would like to see ... Continue Reading...

The reason why I have not been so happy this year is that there were many people I knew who died. Fortunately,none were my relatives but it is still sad if you think how you are not going to see them forever. How can somebody so full of life and who you were just eating lunch with be suffering from cancer the next? There is, of course, the Asian tsunami. The extent of this tragedy is simply mind-boggling and it's heartrending to note that a third of those who died- according to reports - were children. Tragedies such as these once again make me realize how ephemeral ... Continue Reading...

I woke up with dread this morning for the simple reason that it's my annual medical check-up. First, I am supposed to go on 12 hours fasting since last night and I got only to brush my teeth and not take anything else. Second, I had to collect my stool and urine which is not really the most desirable thing to do.This got me thinking: yes, I cannot be a medical technologist and examine all those samples of human feces even if you pay me a million bucks.I could have played truant but my company is paying 17K for this check-up so off I go. I choose The New Medical City in ... Continue Reading...

... read my diary from 11 years before. It was good to reminisce about the past when I was still single and carefree especially the part about living alone, working abroad and having a terrible crush on my single, Oxford-educated professor (the entries came complete with dialogue pa). Going through my previous angst and foibles is a good exercise in regression and makes me think if I am all the wiser.Fast forward to 2004. I am 35 and I am still nurturing a crush on somebody. He is sending positive signals but unfortunately, am no longer as impressionable. Time does ... Continue Reading...

With apologies to Robert Fulghum as well as the Giant Douche and the Turd Sandwich  who are slugging it out in the presidential elections. This post is totally irrelevant to the prevailing excitement but this list was something I wanted to do. And now that I've done it, it seems too mundane. Just bear with me, friends. Not necessarily in this order: 34.Diets almost always never work, so why diet? I am not gonna deprive myself because there just might be a deadly earthquake tomorrow. The key is in eating the right foods. If you watched “Supersize Me,” you know what ... Continue Reading...