Musings

2 birthday cards, 3 calls, 7 smses and 153 facebook messages. plus more than 5 birthday songs (sung to me) and 3 cakes! Those are the number of wishes (plus cake and songs)received on my birthday this year.. :) Obviously, Facebook won over all other modes of wishing one happy birthday. Despite having 478 facebook friends, a little over a quarter wished me. Not that I'm complaining.. I suppose without facebook only less than half of the people who wished me would know it was my birthday so I suppose that's one good thing about fb.. Your birthday is forced into people's faces and they are reminded. Long gone are the days when people genuinely just remembered you and called you up or posted you a card.. I used to always look forward to receiving cards in the mail - when i was a uni student that is. Friends from afar took the trouble to buy you the card and put it in the mail. I am seriously not lamenting on this new style of wishing.. i mean i do it too! Technology has made ...

The day of results finally came yesterday. Again, anticipation was in the air; and teachers and students alike were at the edge of their seats to find out. After my first period I rushed to the office with paper and pen to get down all the details. There was already a small crowd and they had started printing the results.. Don't know why I'm narrating this.. does it sound like a beginning of good story? There was indeed a difference to this years results. A big one I guess. For me as a class teacher, a mentor and for the whole school.. The most surprising and amazing news for me was to discover that the number of students who got a 7 for English exceeded those I had predicted! 11 out of 21!!! Alhamdulillah... I was really happy and surely did not want to gloat about it but it was really difficult to contain my excitement as the previous years saw only ONE student get a 7.. (out of 8 students) Later that day I was also faced with the task (i put myself to) to break some not so g...

Woody, Tushee, Beckham, Mishka, Hiro and Snowball. My babies, my sweethearts, the ones who fill our house with life. I don't think I ever envisioned myself living with a house full of cats. (`Full' because my house is a quaint little abode..) But now that they're around, it's hard to imagine life without them. It does cross my mind sometimes about what would happen to them when we're no longer on this earth.. and also what would happen to our life should one of them leave us first.. :( I wonder who would take them in and care for them like we do.. They have such different personalities you need to know them to treat them well.. Anyway, I like to observe them on some occasions and its no secret that they lead a simple life indeed. They eat, sleep, shit and `work out' = chase birds or other moving creatures/ objects..or each other.. and of course they always need the daily strokes and pettings.. They just want to be loved. A lot like humans too huh? They clean the...

I have a weakness of liking sweet stuff. I just LOVE desserts. Cakes, puddings, chocolates, muffins.. you name it. Hence I love baking too. Though I don't know which one came first.. must be the eating part.. Anyway, lately I've been baking again after leaving that hobby for quite some time.. It's kinda therapeutic.. To prepare the ingredients, put them together and end up with a finished product. It gives me some kind of satisfaction to have made something.. and then eat it and share it with others. I suppose that could be one of the ways I channel my energy and it feels great to feed people and make them happy.. Funny how it reflects who I am too - someone who often just wants to please everybody.. That's really a tiresome trait to have as I end up being labelled as `too nice'.. But is it wrong to be nice to people? Of course not, right? Am very much capable of being firm and `strong' and sometimes not so nice.. You should see me when I'm mean.. Bottom li...