Believe it or not (1)

Dimsum with Nor and SL in UNIQUE Seafood PJ

What has dimsum got to do with ghost stories?  Nothing right?  Absolutely nothing.  Several days ago while having dimsum and chatting with my 2 childhood friends for 4 hours, somehow  our childhood experiences dominated our chats.  My childhood stories focused on my ability to see apparitions when I was young.  My friends proposed I record my experiences lest the past gets lost from our memories with advancing age.   

One of my earliest memories was playing on the cherry tree with many small friends.  What I remembered was my Mother calling out to me to ask me to go back into the house for lunch.  I ignored her ...so she came to me urging me to get down from the cherry tree.  I told her I would have lunch later because I wanted  to play with my friends on the tree.  Then she suddenly frantically climbed up the cherry tree herself and pulled me away.  In the evening I overheard her telling my Father that there was nobody on  the tree.  Probably I was about 5 years old.

   

With mixed feelings today I said good bye

A small discussion area at the entrance of  the office

Today I have mixed feelings about stopping my engagement with this organization which I’ve been involved with for 17 years as an independent researcher.  I really like what I do for the organization. I like being engaged in something, I like doing research and I enjoy sharing my knowledge.  On the other hand after 17 years a kind of fatigue has set in. Maybe I should start something fresh or maybe I should just leave the working world behind, not do anything at all and just disappear quietly into my old age?   

As usual I have a bite at the canteen on the 5th
floor before proceeding upstairs to conduct
my briefng

The 5th floor canteen

Waiting for the feeder bus to take the MRT to the city

The 48 floor building that houses the office
which is on the 29th floor

I have grown attached even to this efficient
machine at the office which printed all my papers

A flower's appeal

A flower’s appeal is in its contradictions – so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect.  ~Adabella Radici

Very excited with my new plants

Zinnias

Mandevilla rocktrumpet)

Mandevilla rocktrumpet)

Marigold

Zinnias

Pink lantern plant / Medinilla scortechinii

Thunbergia grandiflora /Bengal Trumpet/Bengal clockvine/ Blue skyflower

Thunbergia grandiflora /Bengal Trumpet/Bengal clockvine/ Blue skyflower

To friendship

When we left Parit Buntar for Petaling Jaya in 1962 my father's friend came all the way from Parit Buntar by train to give us this clock as a house warming present. When father passed away 4 years ago I took it over as a memory of him, of Parit Buntar and his close friend who not only gave us this clock but ,according to mother, also helped our family whenever he thought we needed help.

Good memories also bring tears to our eyes.

CNY reunion dinner

Being a family means you are a part of something very wonderful. It means you will love and be loved for the rest of your life.

-Lisa Weedn

CNY family reunion dinner at Amber Restaurant, Bangsar South 

A ray of beauty

Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My Murraya Peniculata improved after application of epsom salt, with the flowers appearing in clumps 

A mutually beneficial symbiotic relationship

The bees and flowers have a mutually beneficial symbiotic relationship. Both the bees and the flowers  benefit from that relationship.  The bees need flowers for food and flowers need bees as pollinators. They help each other to survive and reproduce.

My Peregrina, Spicy Jatropha is a faourite of the bees.  Pictures captured this morning

My world for the moment

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment.

Some of my blooms  today

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It will be happier

“Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'...”

Happy new year 2018

The best is yet to come

None of us are immune from falling into difficult times. That plight is something we all have in common. Another thing we all have in common is the ability to choose how we are going to react to the difficult times when they come. Will we allow them to destroy our hope for the future or will we decide to view them as a learning experience meant to help us as we continue to move forward with hope that the best is yet to come.
Amy Rees Anderson 

Decorate your own soul

Something that is hard to part with

Memory is one way of holding into things that you do not want to part with, things that somehow made you happy in some point.