The weather forecast has been warning for the past couple of days that my homeland will see a strong spring storm pass by in the next couple of days. They warn us not only of the direct damages caused by forceful gusts and heavy rainfall / snowfall, but of indirect impact of sharp rise in… Continue reading The spring storm spin-off
It was a long weekend this past weekend in my homeland (we got an extra day off on Monday because a holiday fell on Sunday), but I spent the last day feeling extremely nauseous and with a pounding headache. I immediately suspected the flu, reading about the deadly flu outbreak this winter only a few… Continue reading Man flu is no flu…ke?
Relationships with neighbours are so complex. Sometimes they can be your best of friends, but other times they can become your worst of foes. They are the closest who live by you, living on the same land and/or sea and living through the same history, yet too often we find ourselves too close to one… Continue reading Neighbourly conduct
Maybe you see its swirls and streaks of colours as irregularities or impurities. Maybe you feel its cold, hard texture as signs of unresponsive and unyielding nature. Maybe you think that the only use you will ever find for it is as floor tiles and stair treads, on which you can step all over. … Continue reading Marvel over the marble
It must have happened a few months ago… I do not remember exactly when. I have no recollection of that particular occasion, although I am usually very attentive with these things. It could not have been my fault… “they” caused it to happen, and I can prove it! This was the chain of thoughts… Continue reading Coming clean on the soap incident
I have seen and heard it so many times now, I am no longer surprised. But it still shocks me just the same, or more, every time I see and hear it. I vehemently deny having any part of it, but I cannot deny that it is very much a part of me, so I… Continue reading Defender of the indefensible
When you evaluate whether you can achieve a certain goal, what are the factors you consider necessary to have? Maybe knowledge and skills. Maybe experience. Maybe will and courage. These are all factors under your control – maybe some are more difficult to obtain and sustain than others, but they are obtainable and… Continue reading Critical mass
Earlier today, a large portion of the Eastern region of my country had a bit of a scare – our Earthquake Early Warning went off. It is a system based on seismic wave measurements, set to go off automatically when tremors above a certain seismic intensity are detected. Its primary aim is to alert us… Continue reading The system that cried quake
Sorry it took me this long to make a post today! It was Friday night, and I had nothing planned for the weekend, so I thought I would stay up late and do some bedtime reading… but I think I chose the wrong material! It kept me up all night, and I still have not… Continue reading Bedtime reading
Let me tell you a tale of the Easter tortoise and hare that unfolded at my place this weekend. The story began when I started to think about how I would celebrate Easter this year, and I remembered about a particular egg that had been waiting for some tatting to be done on it.… Continue reading A tale of the Easter tortoise and hare
Water flowing, flower floating 