Was very pleasantly surprised this afternoon when I received a reply email from a long lost friend – I was in fact worried that the email address I have is no longer valid. It felt so good to hear from someone whom you thought you had lost contact with.
Second best
Was chatting with my sister the other day. I made the remark that, for young kids, it may not be so good if they are the best among their peers all the time. My reason is that, once they get too accustomed to that feeling, it will be that much harder to handle and accept set-backs in future.
New faces
Created a new identity for myself – a new ‘face’ really – last night. This means in future the authors of all posts can be easily identified by a mug-shot. Currently only using this on the Dip FM sub-blog since this is the only part of my weblog which has multiple authors.
Appearances
When we are young, we’d try anything to look older than our actual age. When we are slightly older, and not just restricting to women, we realise our earlier mistakes and instead try to look younger than the real age. It is only much later that many people become comfortable with their actual age.
It seems, for some of us, we end up spending a whole time in order to really live at our actual age!?
Fishing
I really don’t recall when it started, but it seems that as far as I can remember I always had this mental picture of human relationships being like the casting of fishing nets. Whenever two strangers cross paths, even just a total stranger walking past on the street, an invisible thread is cast out and then you are tied together forever. If the ‘pull’ is strong enough, someday you will meet again even if for some reasons you two eventually become separated. I suppose this is what some people would call fate?
DIY
On the quest for things dear to you, this is one piece of advice we can do well to remember:
“Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”
Veronica A. Shoffstall
Once and again
Was over at my friend’s place tonight. We had some red wine and pizza and, after a while, started discussing relationships and in particular breakups in long distance relationships.
Pagination
Successfully incorporated the MTPaginate module into the category archives. This means that category archives are no longer huge lists of entries but will break into pages of 6 entries each.
ps. Don’t ask me why 6?? ‘Cause it sounds good!?
Shaking off the dirt
In this morning’s edition of a newsletter which I subscribe to, there is a story about a donkey which I found very interesting. It goes like this:
One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally he decided the animal was old and the well needed to be covered up anyway, it just wasn’t worth it to retrieve the donkey. He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well.
Howto's
Happened to see on TV about this (in my opinion) very interesting website called HowStuffWorks which contains tonnes of info on, well, how things work!