I wish...

Sometime I wish I was on a desert island - free from complex human interactions and vulnerable human emotions, thus experience the tranquility from within.

很多時候
我們需要給自己的生命留下一點空隙
就像兩車之間的安全距離
一點緩衝的餘地
可以隨時調整自己
進退有餘

Let not my past experiences of deceit, misunderstanding and betrayal haunt me, let not my experiences of grief doubt me, let my character grow strong as I stand back and view the world as a forever cycling system of cause and effect.

凡事感激
感激傷害你的人 因為他磨練了你的心志
感激欺騙你的人 因為他增進了你的智慧
感激中傷你的人 因為他砥礪了你的人格
感激鞭打你的人 因為他激發了你的鬥志
感激遺棄你的人 因為他教導了你該獨立
感激絆倒你的人 因為他強化了你的雙腿
感激斥責你的人 因為他提醒了你的缺點

What are the break-up rules?

Am currently addicted to Sex and the City. It is funny how soaps can relate much more appropriately and cause resonance in accordance to a certain counter, a particular time in life, and a specific place.

Neuropsychology terms it 'associative memory'.

Charlotte believes there are mathematical formulaes to love. Apparently to get over someone, it takes half the time one has gone out with the guy to feel better. It has been seven months now out of the 22 months~~and you know what? I am feeling 7/11% there!

On a related note, it is funny how little things triggers a wealth of remembrance from the memory bank.

Little things like: When I went to Manchester I saw Lowry's work and remembered my first ever art class in Godstowe. Or when I went to Nikko I saw the little deer ornament and remembered an exact same one my dad got for me when I saw three. I only remembered he went somewhere far far away for a week - now I know it was only 6 hours plane journey plus 2 hour car drive from Tokyo..haha not so far!

On a completely unrelated note: I LOST MY PURSE TODAY...T_T It could be stolen for all I know. I have lost all my photos which I have collected over the years...ai...
I now have no money and only ONE EGG in the fridge for dinner - being an optimist I guess that would be good for my diet.

I thought this is good...crude...but good ;p

ROMANCE MATHEMATICS
Smart man + smart woman = romance
Smart man + dumb woman = affair
Dumb man + smart woman = marriage
Dumb man + dumb woman = pregnancy

OFFICE ARITHMETIC
Smart boss + smart employee = profit
Smart boss + dumb employee = production
Dumb boss + smart employee = promotion
Dumb boss + dumb employee = overtime

SHOPPING MATH
A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs.
A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn't need.

GENERAL EQUATIONS & STATISTICS
A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

HAPPINESS
To be happy with a man, you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

LONGEVITY
Married men live longer than single men do, but married men are a lot more willing to die.

PROPENSITY TO CHANGE
A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.
A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, and she does.

DISCUSSION TECHNIQUE
A woman has the last word in any argument.
Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

HOW TO STOP PEOPLE FROM BUGGING YOU ABOUT GETTING MARRIED
Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

Motivation

There is a difference between taking it easy in order to look after oneself and being lazy.

I use to have a very busy life. But people came along and told me it isn't good to always push oneself to one's limit - one will eventually wear out. So I took it easy. Coming home and giving myself room to breathe and time to enjoy life.

Recently, however, it clicked. I am not taking it easy, I am now being LAZY. This laziness has ultimately caused the subsequent ill health. I was ill for a whole week, and never in my lifetime have I been ill for that long. I went skiing with a flu and walked across half of Snowdonia with a fever, and now I have a petty cough which I cannot even deal with in the optimum weather of the British Summer.

This is serious concern. With alarm bells ringing in my head I must regain my fitness!! I am getting to that age where I actually have to worry about my health...such is the cruelty of time.

Desperate Housewives

I swear...gadgets and techno utilities have all been stamped with an intrinsic expiry date by their sneaky manufacturers. My beloved washing machine has decided to die on me, with what looks like a programming fault - it went from washing to spin back to washing to spin - leaving the batch of clothes torn and faded...

The good news is I now have a new found excuse to go shopping, the bad news - I will be spending majority of my budget on a new washing machine rather than any summer fashion in king's road/oxford circus.

In a desperate attempt to become more efficient at home, I have also removed my pretty nail work from Krakow - by soaking them in acetone brought back from the lab, thus saving up from having to go and get them removed by a manicurist in UK!! HAHA there are bonuses to working in a chemical engineering firm after all =p

Serendipity

Serendipity: to make discoveries, by accident and sagacity, of things not in quest of.

Today, I found my blue rose 'beheaded' as my Schroders employment handbook accidentally tipped over the bookshelf. I have cherished the momento and it has been stationed in the same spot for the past year. To suddenly find it destroyed at a time of uncertainty...Is everything a sign?

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Let's hope magic can still happen, if you let it; let fate or destiny steps in to lend a hand. But when it concerns love, and finding that special person you're going to spend the rest of your life with, should you really risk tempting fate with a test of that love or what is seemingly meant to be, or should you just follow your apparent destiny and embrace it?

Sometimes I want to live life following my heart and going wherever fate takes me. Just a rare thought on a lazy sunday afternoon - from a romanticist-wanna-be...

The Stalkers are Back...

Oh, did I forget to mention I have a vibe for attracting weird people??

Went to an Indian Restaurant outside East Finchley today - I honestly think it's Tae's influence - but as she goes to collect my dry cleaning and I was paying for lunch, the waitor came and asked for my number. He also mentioned he couldn't help but notice Tae and I walking pass the restaurant the day before (yes, we were hunting for pizza).

He wanted to know where I work, where I live, who I live with...ARRRRHHHHHHHH get away from me!!!