Nov 16, 2005

7 Chicken Story

It was a chicken affair in our office. The hens were always clucking and making a big hoo haa over things and all the chicks would be running around crying *unfair* helplessly. They always finished their tasks ambitiously for fear of getting the chop early. All of them lived in a cage and didn’t believe that life existed beyond the coop. Anything beyond the coop was unsafe or dangerous and could not be any better than the slaughterhouse. One by one they fell ill from sleepless nights. The daily crowing from the cock at ungodly hours were beginning to tire them out. They stopped looking lively and showed symptoms of a disease. The disease...

Sep 19, 2005

5 Poisoned

Food poisoning. That was all I had? Well, serves me right for not seeing the Doctor earlier. Doctors and I aren't exactly the best of friends. I'd been down with a tummy ache for about three days with fever I never knew I had. I did take some medication which I thought would cure me.....for gastritis. It didn't work and at the rate my tummy was bloating up, I swear I thought it was going to burst. Hence, I decided to try out some chinese medication which would supposedly take out all the air in my tummy. That didn't work either. By then, I was rolling on the floor and getting dramatic. I thought I was going to die from some disease. Thoughts...

Sep 12, 2005

6 A Prayer For A Friend

I love my friends for who they are. Some are a pain in the you-know-where but it just makes them perfect and I wouldn't change any of them for the world. They make my life so exciting that it's hard to imagine what I'd do without them. Here's a prayer for all my friends. I wrote this when I was feeling very lonely. It was my first few months working in a new organisation and it was very challenging indeed. Oh and yes, I'm still working in the same organisation. Dear God, Please bless my friends wherever they are Show them they’re loved no matter how far Even if they don’t reply my mails Bless their souls, soothe their ails Let them know...

Sep 4, 2005

To BLOG or not to blog.....The typical beginning...Merc coerced me to blog somehow.Nah..let me start again...once upon a time, there was this 30-something who lost her bearings and didn't know what to do. Write poetry..create a new recipe..go jogging..*yawn*. Everything didn't feel as exciting as it ought to be.She decided "enough was enough" *play song - enough is enough* lalalalalaThe e...
 

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