kinda sad...

that Japan is out :( from the World Cup 2010 by penalty shoot-out 5-3 to Paraguay. enough said. and big men do cry, after all.

My shoes are taken away from me

And I'm very sad, for the fact that I lost my pair of cheap and nice New Balance running shoes. The shoes which conquered Mt. Kinabalu with me, together we fought the coldness and the rain and the slippery hills, and the ditches and God knows what else there was in the earth of the sacred highest mountain of Borneo.

The shoes that finished 10 km marathon in 70mins

The shoes that have yet to mark its first half marathon which is scheduled to happen this Nov 2010.

I'm going to miss my grey and pink pair of lovely running shoes... I do hope it finds itself in a good pair of feet and does justice to it, I hope it will travel to more places, and not ended up in junkyard or smelly disease-infected feet.

This was the pair of shoes that stayed with me when I cry in loneliness, when I laugh in joy, when I triumph the impossible, my loyal pair of shoes, may you be in a better place.

Love,

the rightful owner of the shoe

p.s. yes I know I'm crazed, when was I not anyway? sobs... mourning the loss of my shoes.

SEARCH FOR SELF

SEA: Vietnam or Thailand?

Europe: Turkey or Greece?

POACHED EGGS ((:

Poached eggs with toast, sourdough or any wheat bread for that matter ((: brings out the joy at the start of the day!

Yummylicious!

That's one of the things I am definitely going to learn to master in my lifetime.

LOVE

BLINK!

BLINK! THINK! and in a WINK!

see the strong wings on time? it flies. what happened if you catch hold on a fly, it dies. and the same goes for every lives. catch hold on life too tight, it dies, it goes with the wind with a sigh...

treat yourself better, for all that matter, as life is always getting shorter...

LIVE LIFE LOVE (:

am home (:

Piggy is home! yay! I breathe in air of freedom (: Home is good, home is always good. Home is true and honest, calm and peaceful, love and care, is a living heaven.

the island is a total contrast. ugly people with straight faces as if everyone owes them a million dollars, people are rushing as if there is a gold rush somewhere nearby, everywhere is crowded, and the saddest part is, you prob have only a square foot area of personal space. perfecto. haha.

So come home (: stay at home, that is where the true heart is.

listen

when you think that you are in a sea of people, talking so fast, chattering, thinking you are actually having real conversations with people but in actual fact you are not, you are in a sea of strangers of which you probably are just thinking that you are communicating with people. In the real world, effective communication is as rare as hen's teeth nowadays, people are so much of themselves that they have ceased listening to others. jumping into their own judgments and conclusions, and what else?

start listening to the person whom you are talking to! listening is an art. it is.

and, thank you for listening. (:

1 funeral and 3 birthdays

11 April 2010 is a day to be remembered.

may the Buddha be with you always.

love.

still a firefighter

today I failed to save a bomb. I guess, I'm still a firefighter.

hazefication

makes me cough like mad. makes it looks like as if I have a mad disease. I think I do.

the haze is killing me. seriously.

h.e.l.p.

Trust

is like a bubble (:

beautiful shimmery rainbow colored, once poked, oops, it's gone into the thin air.

well, probably, it will leave some sticky soapy after-scene.

firefighter

I'm a firefighter who is upgrading myself to qualify into the SWAT team. How exciting life is...

transformation

remember your secondary math class where you learn transformation? translation, turn, reflection etc.

I used to love that lesson, simply because it is easy. Then when I entered college, transformation chapter gets more complicated, with all the functions, Laplace, oh my god, but I still love math, nonetheless.

In life, transformation is another whole new chapter entirely, a much unexplored field, or rather unstable field, because the only constant here is change. I do not know if it is a sad or happy thing, or rather, there's nothing to be happy nor sad about. Life changes, weather changes, and certainly, people change as well.

For better or worse, we always hope for the better; but if it is otherwise, we just have to count our blessings and move on with life looking forward for a better change.

Christmas is just round the corner, well, Merry Christmas everyone!

love xoxo,

JO

December Blues?

It's December now.

Things are not exactly bright this year, but we all survived, all right.

Office politics, work restructuring, house hunting, moving, work-personal life imbalance, serious lack of luck at work etc. All in all I still want to get out of here, very much.

People can never understand each other I think. Or, rather, I can never really understand anyone. Why do people form alliances at work? Why do people never have enough, and always ask for more? Why do people hate each other so much, yet hide the vicious behind a facade smile? Why do the stars go blue at times?

Joanne needs to save more money, cut down on entertainment, and unnecessary spendings. Most of all, she needs to get her first mil at work. freak. damn stressful. Do hope luck will turn well in 2010.

So help me please.

Gotta sleep now, and it's 10:38pm. Yes, I do need to sleep this early to wake up on time for work. Life is hard, and no, can't give up at this point just yet, not till I have round the world.

xoxo (:

*wanted* intelligent community

I feel stucked, stifled, suffocated, with a bunch of idiots trying to outsmart, outwit, and outkill each other. Hmm... is there such a word, outkill? well, anyway, it exists, at least for this short post. for this 1 minute of your time, just pretend, there is such a word. who cares about the meaning anyway.

I feel sick in my stomach.

If there's one thing I can wish for and to be granted, is to disappear, to somewhere that I can breathe, like a normal being.

officially a MAC user (:

Piggy owns a MacBook Pro as of now (:

top of the world... almost

that's how it's like to be over 13,400 feet above sea level on the summit of Mount Kinabalu. Amazing (:

xoxo, Jo

call me Ashima

Ashima Menon (pronounce as May-known), and Ashima, well, is Ashima.

Oh and to be one of the smartest around is definitely not a good thing, try living with the idiots, you'll understand, if not then congratulations, you are one of them, which is not a bad thing at all, seriously, you'll probably be far of happier in life. LOL.

Piggy completed 10km this time break her own record by 3 minutes! (: pleased haha.

Went to Cameron Highlands, had tea and scones, steamboat, strawberries (: lovely place... though the road was indeed winding.

Am going to climb Mt. Kinabalu, finally, this Sunday ((:

Momentarily, work is out of the equation, at least until I come back from my holiday :p am getting the hell out of this hell of a crazy million-people cell.

Farewell, till we meet again.

Hugs (: Ashima

PINK

is the color and theme for this year's Shape Run, and yes piggy is in! Hmm... have no idea if she can complete the 10km this year. Haha.

Passed drving theory test on first attempt (: She is pleased.

Will be going on road trip next holiday, should be fun (: excited!

Health is not doing so well, not really rosy pink, but not fading either, at least she doesn't think so. Probably age is catching up, anyway will still continue exercising.

Completed 2 courses of kickboxing, enjoyed the classes a lot. Now looking for other cool classes to enrol :)

I want a MACBOOK! Oh and actually, am just writing just for the sake of fun haha!

*wink* loves, piggy.

whatever

Even if the whole world walks out the last man standing has to hold on till he falters...