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I said yesterday that I would blog more regularly. So I went to the blogger page. Entered my username. Entered my password. And then clicked 'sign in'.
I then clicked the '+' sign under New Post.

So here I am blogging again. Only problem is I find I have nothing to blog about. So I get away with it by describing what I did and how I have no idea what to blog about.
Talk about getting away with murder. But all things considered I have posted a post(what else?), although it contains nothing of any note. To write a post about not knowing what to blog about and then go on and on about it until it very nearly fills up the whole page is a legitimate way to say something without saying anything at all.

Another way around the problem is to just describe inane things in my post. I can say something really cool like 'I typed as series of letters into my keyboard which formed words. The words became sentences which then became part of an actual paragraph...'

Or I could describe the various coffee stains in and around my desktop area. I am sure lots of my readers are dying to hear about that.

The usual way before of filling up my post with content was to tell what I did that day. I can say we went to Orchard and had a great time shopping. How we bought loads of stuff. The things we bought could for example include a really cute mug(with cover) with a sea turtle motif, a dress, a skirt($89.90!! most expensive skirt Agnes ever bought. Courtesy of my Taka vouchers no less) and 2 birthday cards.

With that done I could write about what I was planning to do tomorrow. I can say how I will be working tomorrow. And after work I will go back home to do up my fish tank. And then go pick Agnes up from her place and how we would proceed to Bishan Park for our weekly jog. We would then follow that up with heading back to my place to wash up and shop for mangoes (not necessarily in that order). And then take a nice long nap and spent some quality alone time together. We would then cap off the day with a nice, long drive to Beach Road to fetch Phyllis home from a wedding dinner.

Another failsafe way to put words to text would be to just whine about something like an irritating colleague(read:boss/supervisor), or some government policy, the job market or any other issue that affects me in some obscure and yet tangential way that has little or no interest to my reader.

Or just write a long list of things I would like to do. And then not actually do most or all of the stuff I listed. Would be quite redundant to make a list and actually do what I write,wouldn't it? That I would have nothing to fill in the blank spaces next time round. Talk about planning ahead. And when I actually do one of the things that I wrote about, I can devote an entire spiel on how rewarding and satisfying it was to do the task or achieve the goal that I had set. I could add on how I should do more of the stuff that I write about and how doing them is so fulfilling. This then sets me up for writing another more expansive list which I then true to form do not do most of the stuff listed and then whine how there is so little time to do the stuff that I want to do. This sequence can go on for infinitum whenever I have writers block.

So many options that I do not know which one to choose.

So meanwhile,as I try to figure out what to write in my blog you guys just click on any of the links on the right and read actual content from actual bloggers who actually write actual posts containing actual thoughts and stuff that actually happened to actual people.

me blog

Been hard to keep up blogging lately after I came back from my self-imposed hiatus. Part lack of motivation, part lack of subjects to blog about (not!) and part the lack of time(apparently).

Been wanting to meet up with Natt for a while now. Maybe next week. Maybe Agnes can join us.

Gonna meet up with my pesky insurance adviser next week also.

Gonna pay a visit to Bukit Batok nature reserve soon. And this time I am gonna bring my camera (and company,hopefully).

Bought some stones and artificial plants for my room tank. Probably gonna do it up over the weekend if time permits.

Poh and Lyn's ROM is this weekend. Yayyyyyy!!

I hate what they are doing to Marina South now. Was there with Agnes the other day. The place is being developed. The place holds lots of memories for me and Agnes among others. It looks and smells bad now. May be due in part also to the recent Powerboat thingy there last month. sigh.

Hurt my back doing the weights. Ouch. Must remember not to strain myself so much. It is better now but still a tad sore at parts.

Must endeavour to blog at least once every 2 days. Even a few inane lines will do.

Gonna post up the pics from Leo's birthday celebration at Marina South.

Noel is back from his harrowing Bali trip. Must interview him.

My guitar classes are nearly over. 8 classes. Attended 6. One 'extra' class more to go. And I seem no closer to realising my hope of ever playing a guitar than I was 8 weeks ago. maybe I do know a little, but I still can't play a tune to save my life.

I have this thing where I rotate the disc in my CD changer in the car. You know...like rock songs...and then gospel/christian contemporary music...and then love songs... or just have it 100% U2 once in a while. Anyway...the set I wanna put in now is the heavy rock one. Metallica... Guns & Roses... LIVE...and every other hard hitting CD I can find in my collection.

Watched The Corpse Bride. It was fun in the end, I was kinda skeptical at first of watching it . You can say I am not exactly the biggest Tim Burton fan. But it was a good story. In fact it was kind of sad how it ended. A flim to watch if you like dark humour.

Also watched The Dukes of Hazzard. It will not garner an Oscar, but it is one of those guilty pleasure sort films that anyone who enjoyed the series should catch. The chase scenes are good. But the real star is not the General Lee but Daisy Dukes. I do not think anyone coulda taken the role and made it her own quite like Jessica Simpson. She just does it so well. She may be a one trick pony for all we know, but I think a star is born!

Psalms 91

Psalms 91.
You can see it on the right side of my page.
These are the verses I choose to live my life by.
They speak of God's protection and providence in our times of need.
Whenever troubles or trials come my way I take these words to my heart.
It is never easy to put your trust fully in God's hands and to not rely on human understanding and effort.
For such times as these.
As nature wrecks havoc on lives the world over.
As man kills man in the name of religion.
As new diseases and viruses come to the fore.
As life in general becomes more stressful, more pointless and find all your strength is gone...
Psalms 91

Here and Now..

It is one thing to read about it in the newspapers or to see it on TV. It is quite another thing when it happens to you or those around you. You read in the news about the rising number of dengue cases in Singapore. You feel for those affected and their families. But when my mum and brother came down ill last week we feared the worst. They were hardly able to get out of bed and even ran fevers. The hardest part was that it takes 5 days to know for sure if one has contracted dengue fever. So it was nerve-wrecking to say the least for those few days to say the least. In the end it was nothing.

And then there is the Bali bombings of yesterday. Acts of terrorism in all its forms are deplorable. Especially in idyllic Bali whose only crime was that many Australians go there. Just in case you are wondering how that relates to what I am talking about, my brother Noel was over there the last few days. He was to host a show over there over the weekend for a client. He had been to some of the places that were bombed only hours before. We got the news as we were having dinner last night at Sembawang. It really put a dampener on the occasion. My mum literally broke down and wept upon hearing the news at the table. With such acts of terror you never quite know if that was the end of things are just merely the beginning with more attacks to follow. So it was a long,restless night in our home. We kept our eyes to the screen just needing to know who was hurt and developments if any in the whole thing. Noel is still over there but knowing him, he is probably affected by all that is going on around him there.

I guess it really hits home when someone you love and care about is involved in something of this nature and all you can do is ...'wait',.... 'hope' and ....'pray'.