‘God gives and God takes…’
I did a few surveys with cancer patients many years ago, about life with cancer… patients from private as well as public hospitals.
I remember this philosophical view from a Muslim woman with breast cancer.
“Doctor told me I came in late for treatment. He gave me the most,… two years. But I believe that God is the one who gives us life, God only will decide when to take me…”
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Pressure rising, a wake-up call and my three angels
If there is a post I MUST write in this life-time for many managers out there, this is the one.
My secretary held her phone away from her ear. Manager X was screaming at her. I went to his department to talk to him. He had a history of hypertension on medications. The consequences could have been worse than what happened to a young me as I narrated it to him.
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Three timid-looking students came to me.
“Can we practice taking vital signs on you?”
“Yes, of course!”
Just then, another two students stood in front
to report that they were not ready to present a role-play
which was assigned the day before.
I felt my face getting warmer, and
my pressure rising…
“When I come up to class, you shall present!
They ran up to prepare. (The whole night, they couldn’t think of
how to do the skit. Ironically, in 30 minutes they could!)
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“Alright, come, girls!”
I rolled up my sleeve for the girls in waiting.
The first girl took my blood pressure twice.
She whispered to her colleagues.
The other two took turns to take my blood pressure.
“It’s 190/120mmHg!”
“Are you sure? My normal readings are around 110/60mmHg!”
I took over the stethoscope, “OK, pump!”
Looking worried now… they were right.
(Both my mother and my maternal grandmother
had hypertension and a stroke!)
It was a wake-up call for me. A turning point!
A few months later, a colleague lecturer commented,
“I notice nowadays you are very calm. I seldom see you getting angry!
You are like a 360-degree change!”
Three decades on, my blood pressure is still within a normal range.
Thanks to those three angels!
Whenever I meet someone losing his or her ‘cool’,
I will tell him that the one (s) he is angry at,
will not come to change his pampers or feed him
if he collapses with a stroke or heart attack!
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Quote;
A lot of people in my family have high blood pressure. Dre told me I better start hitting the gym…so I took his advice. – Warren G.
Reaction about pressure: The harder one throws a ball, the harder it will bounce back.’. – Chen S.P.
Fascinating Saturday in the village (a senyru)
Urban kids saw fowls
Fascinating excitement!
‘Mum, chicken, chicken’!
They ran after them
sending furious wings flappings
in all directions
For kids who grow up in the cities and high-rise buildings, this is a sight to behold! Not at the birds, but the excited kids!
Motherly Monday
The baby clings to dear life
… till it swings away!
Quote:
The child seeks independence by means of work, independence of body and mind – Maria Montessori
The water I touch…
The water I touched
earlier had gone downstream
This water… is new.
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every second,
every moment is new.
No turning the clock!
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Imagination: the sky is the limit!
Knowledge is handed
to one through books and teacher.
That much one has gained.
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Imagination is
what one’s mind explores and creates;
where the sky is the limit!
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Whose special mind would stop this pandemic? A genius who is like Alexander Fleming (1881–1955): Discoverer of penicillin? Penicillin has saved millions of lives. Fleming won the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine.
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Quote:
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.- Albert Einstein
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At first he views the world…
Then empathy draws him in…
Till the weight of the world rests on his shoulders.
Photo Credit: Gotten online!
#El_Magnifico™
Killing only two birds with one stone? It challenges one to think if one can achieve more than the common idiom below.
‘Killing two birds with one stone’ means achieving two things at the same time. But it doesn’t have to stop at two! For example:-
During the earlier phase of his mental illness, Anna Chen used to send Kenneth for pottery and clay-works. There were at least five ‘birds’ to kill with that one activity in mind. They are;-
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