LOVE, Kloudiia

I’m certain everyone of us has a list with all the traits and qualities you like your partner to be, and to possess.

I have mine when it comes to notebook too. Putting the two lists side by side – Pow wow! The uncanny similarities are too obvious to be ignored.

If you were to ask me what notebook will I buy 2 months ago, I would tell you, without batting an eyelid “IBM Thinkpad or iMac”.

Ask me this again 1 month later, I wasn’t so sure after all. What can make my stance shake when I wouldn’t even want to consider other brands just 30 days before?

Still reeling from the happiness of Tracy’s wedding barely 2 weeks ago, I am heading for another one right after I finish this entry. My god brother is going to swear by oath and ink his commitment to his wife on his marriage solemnisation today! (Click here to read more about Registry of Marriages in Singappore) Congrats Daniel and Deborah!

Gave me another thought on marriages, so just a very quick short note before I join in another day of joy and love for the couple and all their loved ones.

Ever ordered a beef steak and find it so tough that the action in chewing and swallowing a bite-size chunk alone may land your jaw in a state of shock? I had. I’m sure you experienced too, at least once in your beef-eating life, if you do eat it.

But, not all who eats beef knows how to cook it. For those who have, like me (eons ago), it would be common knowledge that the longer you continue cooking once it’s done, the tougher it will be. Contrary to other types of meat, or even fish, the longer it is put over the fire, the tenderer it becomes. Some even turned into mesh-like materials.

The more I think about it, the more convinced I should be writing this, as all the mental evidences conjure up into a nice jigsaw puzzle that I can piece together with the amazingly high correlations between the two.

What am I talking about?

I am just narrating how bemused I was when I associated my whole episode on buying a notebook to a couple’s various stages of involvement. From having the intention to buy, to research, shortlisting making the purchase, using it and lastly to sell it or trade-in for another new item, equate them to the different phases of a couple going through courtship, to dating, to marriage and after-marriage, the similarities just struck me like an iron rod.

A check on my clock shows, it’s 2300 hours. The usual knee-jerk reaction is “Oh my god! It’s 11pm!”

What is so special about 11pm then?

To me, it is a daily milestone check.

To medical researchers, results are teling us the best time to sleep is from 10-11pm, as our body starts their various repair functions from midnight to 3am (for one of the reports, click here).

11 pm is, technically speaking, just an hour before midnight, where it officially ends the day and peels off a fresh new one. It is, personally speaking, an excellent time to measure your achievements for the day. Have you cleared at least 80% if not all of your task list? Nudged a few steps towards attaining your goal? 

What makes one have a photographic memory, while the other cannot even recall the last meal eaten?

Many tests have been done and researches conducted to determine how to immensely increase one’s memory power. Techniques like Accelerated Learning have been developed that make use of multi concepts to help someone remember things much easier and faster, one of which is mind-mapping.

It is irrefutable that these methods work, and they work very well. At the same time, have we all forgotten about this one principle. That is, in the absense of all the memory enhancing methods, gingko pills, save knocking your head against the wall, the very basic lies in only one thing – Attention.

You are, aren’t you? Though this friendship started on a slightly different platform, where you basically is on the receiving end of whatever that comes out from my mind, whenever.

You know me via a 1-way traffic. But, once you start leaving your comments, sharing your thoughts or even contacting me (this is coming soon, promise!), then it turns into a 2-way relationship. Now, we are truly connecting.

How can someone suffer from mental blocks for more than 24, no, 48, no 72, no, countless consecutive hours?

When that happens, I prefer to call it hibernation. Yes, I am hibernating, and what is making it worse is the more I feel time slipping by so fast and so unnoticeably, the more I want to snap out of it, and the deeper I am stuck in the black hole.

Articles are written half-way, concepts are not fully conceived and envisioned, projects are still a mile to the finishing point. All these happening in the midst of other personal events taking place that are shouting for attention and time.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Special congratulations to our dearest Tracy, the ever loving and caring lady since the day I’ve known her till now.

A bride-to-be’s face will almost always involuntarily light up as her big day draws nearer. I’ve witnessed this in Tracy as early as 6 months before today! Naturally, her energy passed on to me and made me feel excited about her wedding too.

What is it about a wedding that makes it memorable? How lovely the bride looks with the overall ensemble of her gown, hairdo, makeup, accessory? The groom’s suit? The wedding reception? The food? The guests? The games (if any) that were played during the banquet?