100!

This is an emotional moment...
i just realized...

That (points at below post) was my 100th post.

GOSH.

2010: on hindsight

if life indeed is a school of hard knocks,
i have been a fairly diligent student in 2010,
taking more modules than is required for the year.

tough lessons they were,
but maybe these were mandatory lessons that we all must go through someday,
so better now than later.

sometimes, i just have to give credit to the trials and tribulations,
for they do make me stronger and more resilient (i know i sound masochistic),
and sift the 'good and must keep's in my life from the 'bad and must throw away's.

BUT I CAN DO WITH LESS OF SUCH TESTS PLEASE!

2011 is a blank slate.
Expect nothing. Live frugally
on surprise.
(Alice Walker)

aside: have you seen my new awesome nail color?
N.U.D.E. rocks!

stolen words of wisdom from someone else's blog

here is a kind of monkey trap used in asia.
a coconut is hollowed out and attached by a rope to a tree or stake on the ground.
at the bottom of the coconut a small slit is made and some sweet food is placed inside.
the hole on the bottom of the coconut is just big enough for the monkey to slide his open hand in, but does not allow for a closed fist to come out.
the monkey smells the food, reaches in with his hand to grasp the food but is unable to withdraw it.
the clenched fist wouldn't pass through the opening.
when the hunters come, the monkey becomes frantic but cannot get away.
there is no one keeping that monkey captive except the force of its own attachment.
all that it has to do is to open his hand, but the greed in his mind is so strong that it is very rare for a monkey to let go.
it's the desires and clinging in our minds which keep us trapped.
all we need to do is to open our hands and let it go.
- the experience of insight by joseph goldstein

LETTING GO...
is easier said than done,
especially when we choose to indulge ourselves with imbecility
and close our eyes to reason.

untitled (due to defunct state of brain)

when Good Sense is being kidnapped by Irrationality,
then Positivity goes missing,
and Happy Events fail to visit,
the spell to use is
"smallhothazelnutlattedecaftakeawayplease"

It staves off the arrival of Breakdown just a little.