I could barely enjoy the outdoors nowadays because of my allergies, and believe it or not, we’re seeing more of rain than sunshine these days. What a bummer! But last weekend we actually got lucky - we were blessed with sunshine and clear skies, and it was warm enough to just wear a shirt outside. […]
Scene One:
The year: 1995. I was hunched over my book, reading. Then one of the guys from our lab approached me from behind and exclaimed:
“Kathy, nakakalbo ka na.” (Kathy, you’re starting to go bald.)
I carelessly shrugged off the comment the way you would dust off dandruff from your shoulders. I have had super-thin fine hair […]
“You’ve got to get rid of all those papers,” Baggy told me one evening while we were sitting down for dinner.
“What papers?” I asked him.
“Those papers which you have accumulated for the last twelve years,” he replied. He was referring to the piles of papers I’ve kept all these years, and are still awaiting Judgement […]
Yep, that would be me. Sigh.
When we were young, we looked forward to birthdays. Birthdays are always happy occasions - cakes, parties, gifts, friends. We simply couldn’t wait till the next birthday celebration.
But as we grow older, more often than not we wish that the birthdays wouldn’t come anymore. We wish that we could skip […]
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