I was an angry person for a very long time. A bruised and unsightly bucket of deep deep anger that I nursed quietly. For decades. Angry at the insipidity of ineffectual love, angry at the forgetfulness of hurt that erases events but not their sting. Then I became a Mom.. It took me a really [...]
To stop the music press stop/pause. This is a beautiful song about the seasons of life. Being a parent now makes me acutely aware of how Time strips away at all of life. Whether you do the right things or not. So the only thing I can do is to keep a heightened awareness of [...]
At 2 months and 10 days, Lucien can’t say many words and clearly he can’t yet converse. But we’ve found that he likes to engage in baby babble and some nights, when he’s not sleeping and he isn’t allowing us to anyway, talking with Lucien can be very gratifying as we find him excitably imitating [...]
8th Nov : Sunday 11pm Spent the evening watching MSN Videos under Tab called “Stupid Videos”. Laughed heartily at seriously some of the darn stupidest videos ever. Evil Baby Laughter, Dogs doing the Skateboard, etc. Maybe it’s me, I am 8 months pregnant and this is a serious source of entertainment for me. But it [...]
Thank you for making me a doll! You. Made. Me. A. Doll!!! Eternally one of those things I could never do, because I have fingers that cannot create. I love HmmBao. I love that you made it, and each stitch is you painstakingly putting together pieces of nothing into something special. And HmmBao has that [...]
You Win Already Lor. This is the first time anyone’s done this. In the way only you can orchestrate! Thank you for hiding in my room and cramping in there with the kids and the dogs. For actually picking out the limpy rabbit that I had just groped the very afternoon before the sales person [...]
Ever so often, we find ourselves witness to a situation when a person reacts, in a professional context, with their private persona. The kind that’s driven by a sense of protective survivalism (usually activated when they think they’re under attack) and which comes out in its most unmediated, unevolved, rash, unthinking, and needless to say, unattractive manner. On the other spectrum, the well-oiled professional worth his/her [...]
Being new parents, we have suddenly discovered a whole wide space of ignorance that used to be our taken for granted “wisdom” in our hitherto carefree child-less existence. Clearly, the fear and anxieties of pregnancy and a baby on its way were our motivations to seek answers and the paths that corresponded most closely with the [...]
Lately, I’ve had conversations with an array of people who got me thinking about the place, perhaps more accurately, the displacement, of Marriage. These were two of the commonly held views: – 1. Marriage is unnecessary since Love alone is the very, and only bond that needs to exist and that should matter between 2 [...]
Day 4 in Tokyo had me a little tired of the blinking video-billboards, the blasting audios and the constant stream of busy busy people. There remains a surreal feeling of being here yet not quite here. A distinct sense of smallness, of possibly being nestled and lost amongst the tall buildings and hoardes of people [...]
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