my ajumma notes

Have been on an unplanned extended break from this blog because (a) am rather busy and (b) the computer is dying, I think. On bad days, it takes, like, half an hour to start and everything responds very slowly, so I don't really have the patience to do anything more on it than what is absolutely necessary. On worse days, we can't even get on the Internet. So... Until we find out what is wrong / fix it / buy a new one (yay!), I guess I won't be doing much or any blogging.

While speaking about the weekend's Gospel reading (Matthew 22:1-14), Father Remi said something about marriage: Long before you were born, God intended this (the fullness of married life) for you. That was quite an awesome thought...

Finally, after, like, 3 months or thereabouts, I have finished Robin Sharma's The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari. I guess the book would be classified as 'new age' and 'self help'. There's a lot of practical 'wisdom' but I didn't find it all that engaging. Much of the 'wisdom' is ancient wisdom, which my friend, a Sai Baba follower, told me about some 20 years or so ago. Ha, she could have written a book like that. No doubt, in this book, the 'wisdom' was learnt from 'sages' but I just found it so weird that the guy had never heard of all this. Plus, I'm really not into re-hashing 'old' wisdom into new form, a la 'seek first to understand, then to be understood' from 7 Habits fame, which, as far as I know, came from St Francis of Assisi . And what about the re-telling of Oscar Wilde's The Selfish Giant as part of the sage's wisdom? (Of course it is possible that Wilde got inspiration from some ancient...

Hmm... I was pretty annoyed reading yesterday's papers, seeing how many people, including journalists, found it necessary to qualify their tributes to Mr JBJ. Please lah... At least today's article was positive, though I am surprised to see nothing in the Forum page, considering the fact that about 1000 went for his wake yesterday... JBJ deserves all the accolades he is getting. I think his contribution is unparalleled, with Mr Chiam, Mr Low and the rest carrying on his trailblazing political participation. Who can forget the excitement of the Anson by-election, how it changed our political landscape and how it got a lot more people at least mildly interested in local politics? He surely embodied the spirit of 'the game is never over till it's over'. May he rest in peace.