Saw this quote at a cafe the other day.
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well if one has not dined well.
Virginia Wolf
While I am not exactly a “foodie” (well, perhaps more of a “dessertie”…), I have many friends who are. I will certainly agree that having an unsatisfied stomach does make it extremely difficult to concentrate on matters that are important. 🙂
A mental “snapshot” from a few months ago, just before my month-long sojourn in Argentina.
I went to a birthday dinner last night – mine, as a matter of fact 🙂 . They were friends from my first job since landing in Singapore. Looking back, it is quite amazing how time flies and we have known each other for close to 9 years. Even though by now we are no longer working at the same place, we are still having gatherings regularly. In the meantime, some of us has gone from being single to being married, and becoming proud parents.
This is a great bunch of people who have helped me through some of the lowest moments in my life. Thanks for being my friends.
Although I have pondered on this in the past, I was reminded by a friend recently that sometimes it is not only advisable but essential to let things go and embrace change.
A couple of months ago, while tidying up my bookshelf, the sight of yellow and spotty pages on some of my precious books really caused me some distress 🙁 . Well, I suppose this an unavoidable consequence of living inSingapore’s humid weather?
With the release of ebook readers such as Amazon’s Kindle 2 (all thanks to the e-Ink technology), my desire in getting a dedicated ebook reader is “re-kindled”, so to speak 😉 . In fact, I am already familiar with a few candidates on the market:
Most of us miss out on life’s big prizes. The Pulitzer. The Nobel. Oscars. Tonys. Emmys. But we’re all eligible for life’s small pleasures. A pat on the back. A kiss behind the ear. A four-pound bass. A full moon. An empty parking space. A crackling fire. A great meal. A glorious sunset. Hot soup. Cold beer. Don’t fret about copping life’s grand awards. Enjoy its tiny delights. There are plenty for all of us.
Author unknown
To all the fathers and sons out there: treasure your time together…
Will be going to a friend’s wedding tonight. Guess too late to suggest to them? But pretty neat, wouldn’t you say? 😉
Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. Most of all, other people can’t stop you. Only you can stop you.
Author Unknown
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862
American Author, Poet and Naturalist
Happened to see this bit of info on the Discovery Channel on Sunday which kind of got stuck in my head. The show was called “Time Warped” which consists of a crew going around different places to camera high-speed action using equally high-speed video cameras.
The last segment had a brief physics simulation of the male urination process, or simul-pee if you like…
The set-up consists of a filled water tank and a thin rubber tube which acts as the urinary tract. Now if the urinary tract is suspended in free space, once the, uhh, “tap” is opened, the flow as expected is consistent and on-target. Basically “the spot marked X” has a direct hit every time.