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Now living in a country with four seasons, three being colder than not, I've come to appreciate the sun more. In sunny Singapore, we used to think foreigners were crazy to sit out in the sun – alfresco, they say. Now, I get it. When you get cold most of the time, the warmth of the sun makes for a treat. The sun was out today, and it paired well enough with the winter air to warrant a walk. So I went freestyle around my neighbourhood. With a general sense of direction, I just walked and walked, walking far enough, and then guessing my way back. Walking takes so much longer, but you see so much more. In the car driving by streets, it's just about getting to the destination. In my shoes walking down those same streets, I "got" so much more. Gardens, windows, arches, walkways, a peek in if a curtain happened to be drawn, a neighbour smiling, and cockatoos with yellow "mohawks" in the park. Soaking it all in, while reminding myself to walk fast enough for

27 September 2012 Cutest taxi ride ever. Old grandfather driver. Conversation about life (he said people who have lived overseas have a hint of caucasian in their look haha). Wasn't embarassed by my bare chinese punctuated with english. Could tell he was really contented and fulfilled. People like him show you what really matters - family. 11 October 2012 A contrast to the previous cab ride with a content grandfather driver. I was trying to figure out what made me feel somewhat burdened from tonight's cab driver. Was it loneliness? Or what? After some mulling, I realised: Judged.  That's how the uncle felt. Judged. The first thing he asked once I got in the cab was: What are your views on older men (uncle type) going out with a twenty something year old young girl? I said I didn't have an opinion (partly because I didn't have the ability to express it adeptly enough in Mandarin. He was speaking very fast. Chimification). He told me he does that s

What difference does believing, make? Last night I watched Rise of the Guardians with Ian. It was pretty good! I loved the way they imagined and portrayed the Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy, Sandman and Santa Claus, and the part they play in children's lives. Loved it! But anyway. The point: The Guardians are protectors of children's innocence – the Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy, Sandman and Santa Claus. But they are threatened by the Boogeyman who has launched an assault on Earth. His greatest gripe is that he is not believed in and hence cannot be seen. Nobody thinks he exists. To change that, he turns Sandman's dreams for children to nightmares. He steals teeth, which contain children's memories, from the Tooth Fairy. He ruins all Easter eggs so children cannot not find any on Easter. And he wrecks Santa's workshop so Santa has no presents to deliver. Through these he robs children's hopes and sense of wonder, and one by one, children stop believing in each

Dear infinitely right one, the rightness from the beginning to end of time and more – Take away all my thoughts of me being right, for they are only thoughts and have no fact to them. For there is no pleasure in living a lie, and no satisfaction in being only ever all for me. Only You are right. And I lay all my puffed up notions of me, before You. Take away my blindness and my bluntness. Cause me to see You – the way. Cause me to hear You – the truth. Cause me to live You – the life. Thank You. Thank  You. You are right for me. You are just right. You are always right. You are my Right.