A fisherman's tale

A boy notices a young fisherman every morning by the sea buying a new set of ropes to tie up his beautiful boat. He would continue this over and over again.

Boy: Mr. fisherman sir, why do you always spend money to buy new ropes for your boat ?

Fisherman: I'm scared the ropes will loose its strength and make my boat float away. Or worse somebody else might take it away from me .. I work very hard every day just to buy these new ropes. I hope I can afford to buy a steel anchor for it one day, so that it won't go away. The sea can be calm and can also be violent young man.. you must always hold on to something you hold dear to yourself no matter what ...

And the cycle goes on day by day.....

All created equal ? You gotta be kidding me ..

If we are all created equal , humans are created with feelings and are able to feel sensations and pain, do us men been given the same privileges too?

Are we allowed to feel pain and all the different ranges of emotions like our opposite sex ? Can we feel sad ? angry ? happy ?

If you're faced with something that was really hurtful, are we only allowed to swallow it like a pill and not show any reaction ? Is that how a man supposed to behave?

If the answer is Yes, then I'd say us men are not completely human and must not be human at all. Its like you're given a special privilege but you are not allowed to use it.

Still water runs deep. Sometimes the universe forgets that us men were created to have feelings too. I guess now we know why there are a lot of psychos out there.. suppressed emotions.

Word of Mouth

My sister has a blog ! Yes ! I have been paid handsomely to promote this and I need to do this to stop the constant plea of getting people to flood her new found hobby.

Hehe .

Click here to check it out. I'm surprised she could write , not being biased or anything. She was never the 'literary-poetic' type. I've never seen her write before.

What I'm proud of is that she learned how to blog and insert all the pictures herself . I was like 'wow' . Not bad for someone who at one time did not know what the hell Internet and those 'dot com dot my' are hehehe..

Turbulence

It's been a month since my last post. Quite turbulent 1 month hiatus, to be honest. From the highs of going snorkeling for the first time in my life in open sea (I can't swim that well fyi) , to the pressure cooker feel of having a close family member admitted and right down to the low of a mistake that should not have been committed.

Life is , about ups and downs. Amazing how God balances the books on your life. He's an exceptional book keeper. They say a measure of a man is defined by how he bounces back from adversity. I'm finding my trampoline to jump up again. I could make an auto biography. It could sell. But I think there is still a lot to be happy about. If you compare with the 'lesser' ones, life is not so bad after all.

At least you're not 60 and still working daily to get money just to buy food for the day. Yes I've seen it. At least I'm still earning my salary and getting increments (even though its just like a Ngan Yin peanut in proportion! ) and still able to buy and eat things I want. Sure you don't want to get caught up in the comfort zone, hence the pursuit of making more money for your future. I have a lot of real life sessions to learn from personal experiences.

Nothing is what it appears to be, you can be a hero one day and can be rubbish in the next. You're only as good as how you perform in that very 'moment'.

Surviving this turbulence, surviving ... hoping for clear blue skies in the weather report ..