Battlestar Galactica is a story of a military ship which had miraculously survived after an enemy race had destroyed their entire star system leaving only them, led by Commander (and only much later in the episodes promoted to Admiral) Adama, and only a whole fleet of survivors who are on their way to find a [...]
Archive for the ‘Muses’ Category
1 Oct
The 2 sides of a man behind his wheel and outside of his car
Can a man (and I really mean male here generally) behave one way when you’re interracting with him person-to-person yet be a bully, a despot on the road when behind his wheel?
I mused about this as I witness the drama unfolding in front of me.
My family and I were enjoying the ice-cream at Udders in [...]
20 Mar
In a relationship?
As I wrote my last post, I stopped short in the middle of the sentence “…. before my SO and I were in a relationship.”
Why does “in a relationship” narrowly define only that of 2 people dating/are in a courtship together?
Doesn’t that imply that friendship, kinship and familial ties are not relationships?
This is a symptom of our increasingly compartmentalised lives [...]
23 Feb
Nightmares…
It must be concern over my internal certification interview tomorrow, I woke up from (and remembered) a series of nightmares last night, every one of them signalling my fears…
One of being laughed at by the panel of judges for the certification interview…
One of trying frantically to watch the certification video and Murphy’s Law kicking in at every [...]
5 Jan
Emotions
If Dr John Grey is here, he will say there are generically 2 popular ways by which we deal with unpleasant ones. The Martians will bury it and woe betide the person foolish enough to dig it up (accidentally or otherwise). While the Venusians will wallow in them to the point of drowning themselves and their [...]
6 Dec
490 days: Growing into affection
After reading Fiona’s 100th day Pink Anniversary (which is awwww…. so romantic), I did a mental calculation and realised today marks the 490th day of our time together. (If only I had known that we could celebrate my 500th day on Christmas day this year, I might have held on to my singleness for another 11 [...]
17 Jul
Mixed Feelings…
Nice things (salsa trip in KL, upcoming nice challenges) are happening to me but not-so-nice things are happening to the people around me so am having a day with mixed feelings. Some of these things include:
- Just realising a friend had miscarried
- A cousin realising the cancer she thought she had conquered 10 years ago resurfacing
- A salsa [...]
