The best way out is always through

For your consideration and reference please:

1. What is it that you want to do with your old wild and wonderful life come 2010? Time and tide wait for no man, and any plan is better than no plan. Think long-term!

2. Talking and watching or fixing and making bring greater long-term satisfaction and rewards than shopping and eating. Remember and appreciate what you loved Bu for in the first place.

3. You may never be the richest or the smartest or the loveliest or the luckiest, but you have healthy loved ones, enough disposable income, ridiculously beautiful flowering plans and a whole life ahead of you. Happiness can only be found by those who know where to look.

Somehow, with him, everything seems so simple, so carefree, so much like childhood perhaps. I think it’s because he is rather child-like, or has still managed to retain that touch of innocence or naivete about him, so even when one is being rather mean, catty or condescending, it never does feel like any harm is done. Of course, Bubu would beg to differ, because having a negative thought may lead to one having a negative action (I still remember Boo’s words, which ring true despite his nay-sayers), but that is not the point of this post. 

The point of this post is to celebrate the ordinary, and to be excited, entertained, enthralled and enthused by the simple joys of sitting on one’s cheap, cheerful and comfy couch (I think I’m overdoing the alliteration thing), chuckling at the misadventures of one robotic cat and his idiotic master. With your loved ones beside you, surrounded by chips and the falling light, what more could you ask for? It was an almost magical way to spend the evening, and for awhile I really felt that I had no care in the world. I could lie on my cool, ceramic floor and dream, dream away. I could roll around, giggling and gossiping, and no one would shush me. I could drink long and deep from my beer mug, and burp heartily or sheepishly, depending on the amount of gas. I could bounce around stark naked (Ha actually no lah, your home is a private space which remains public if the front door is open). It was really lovely, and true enough, after he left, Bubu and I seemed to slip back into our private funks, quietly enjoying each other’s company, but the air was thick with quiet desperation and solitude. We both craved for some excitement, meaning, explosion. Misery just loves company.

How interesting isn’t it, to have a holiday where you do nothing, and yet you are not enjoying doing nothing because you know it is denial, or if you are politically-correct, just postponing the inevitable, oops i mean work. Maybe that’s why I can’t seem to feel happy (do not confuse that with contentment, which I mostly have or stressed, which I hardly am) despite chancing upon so many pretty things online. The hours lie before me, waiting for me to fill them with a flurry of agreeable activities such as shopping or reading or sleeping. Yet I feel no joy, only a quiet, secret gratitude that I do not have to deal with what my job entails. 

I think I will try to enjoy the simple joys that my job brings. It’s a positive first step. Time to stop associating simple pleasures with something that is the antithesis of work. There is, after all, much joy to be found and savoured in the classroom, along the corridors, in the lounge, over shared chicken meals and during bumpy car rides.

Was vacillating between Livejournal and this, and I figured that I’ll stick to this blog because it allows me to write freely, to express in writing my personal trials and tribulations. Of course I hope that in time, there will be more posts bursting with joy, rather than those expressing frustration or misery, such negative emotions to feel too often. I also hope that I will be able to draw strength from what it written here, be they inspirational encounters with random strangers, sudden epiphanies, my fights with myself and with Bubu, daily encouragement and reminders or just the simple pleasure that a beautiful bloom or a routine day at work can bring.

Let’s talk about what has been going on:

It’s nearing the end of the second week of the June holidays and i’ve been having a grand time. I’ve spent a week with two lovely doggies, Salivrous and Doggerel, many days in my lovely Sesame Street home, important moments with my beloved, and happy times with my gang of pals. There really is much to be thankful for, and today during lunch, Bubu reminded me that I can shape my own reality, and build a dream. I must remembers that, even when my inner demons threaten to surface. Lunch was fantastic, you might say it’s because of the cheese and meat, and I think it’s because the owner was so sincere and kindly, and the flavours just reminded me of good old ranch-style cooking. 

Need to go pick Jason up now. Should be good fun. Later!