How happy is happiness?
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When one has experienced unhappiness,
one will appreciate happiness more!
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Quote:-
Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.- Roy T. Bennett
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“My mum likes fish bones!“
“We look back at the days when our mum used to chew fish bones. We kids took all its flesh…And we thought mum like chewing fish bones!”
Sigh! There wasn’t enough on the table then.
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Nowadays, there are mums who would still clean the left- over meat on the chicken or fish bones. This is because the kids didn’t clean the bones enough!
Sigh! There is just too much on the table!
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Carrie Underwood: “It just occurred to me that the majority of my diet is made up of food that my kid didn’t finish…”
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Trusting Tuesday and school bullies (A Senryū )
I did not take it!
I swear! I’m telling the truth!
Nothing but the truth!
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Tom witnessed a boy on the toilet floor pleading innocence.
The bullies were kicking him for stealing a mobile phone.
Did the school believe him?
Would Tom be the next victim if he had reported?
Quotes:-
A baby snake had a dorm in CHAOS! (a Haiku)
I was at a mediation center in the middle of a jungle. After a heavy thunderous night, a baby snake’s visit caused chaos in the female dorm!
Heavy thunderstorm
good morning, everybody!
It’s time to get up!
May opened the door
But quickly opened her legs!
Greeted by a snake!
The little wiggly quickly
slided in beneath her legs!!
'Snake! A baby snake!'
In seconds, all atop beds!
Help! Somebody! Please!
'Please go to the meditation hall.
We’ll take care of this baby!'
Seemed a norm to them!
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Weaning off for a while…
Hi,
I will be on a semi- hibernating mode.
🙏🙏🙏💐
Blogging: understanding my viewerships thus far
United States (7471 views)
India (3679 views)
Italy (2572 views)
Malaysia ( 2079 views)
Spain, UK, Canada, Australia, Indonesia, Turkey…
Malaysia is fourth in viewership of my posts. Many of them aren’t bloggers, probably friends and acquaintances.
I love recipes, short stories, and poems. I learn to appreciate photography and new digital arts!
It has been a good experience reading posts from the seventy-eight countries. 🙏🙏🙏
Blogging: Viewership supporters
My viewership
comprises a handful of
staunch likathoners.
They are probably trying to help me
I am sorry
I was not able
to return them as much
though I do enjoy
your posts and your recipes.
But thanks to you
all the same!
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Faithful Friday with the News Breaker
This is a poetic triplet (tercet) depicting faith and the anguish after a cancer diagnosis.
They come to break the cancer news decision over treatments, I muse with meditative prayers and cues. Vegetarian I am on Fridays Feeling dispirited, in malaise At times, in denial, fiercely ablaze. In your hand I take it all in a stride though tears came and dried this journey I will take under your guide.
Quotes:-
WORKING AND RETIRING
Work and the brain works for you, too!
Retire, and it retires, too!
So in the nothingness, boredom, and dreams,
does the brain work?
-Serena Chen S.P.
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Cancer took away her only child.
She has withdrawn to her room,
grieving with knees to her chest,
with a sense of impending doom.
Failed motherhood– in her mind.
Her family members persuade,
like pretty ribbons that bind,
with love and compassion conveyed.
Have a key to open your mind,
to release a kite into the sky,
no trees to be twinned,
up in the wind, it’s free to fly!
Being void of pain now,
liberates him… fly, fly freely.
The kite has a blue ribbon bow,
just like it was on his collar, really!
Those cows in the slaughterhouse,
anyone can see, as can a blind,
in those dishes in a coffee house,
reminds her heart to be kind.
Battling conscious against subconscious mind,
blaming with obligations and guilty conscience,
her vegetarian diets and daily meditations that bind,
with humility with reverence…
wishing that he eases into his new journey,
in this vow to her child, post-humously…
So, fly, fly with wind!
p/s: This poem offers a closure to the story ‘A White Lie- about an ostomy‘.
Mr Ponusamy’s kite coasted and fluttered in the sky freely, too, soothing those in need below, in the last few months of his life.
– Serena Chen S.P. @ TPTan –
27 October , 2020
Chen Song Ping 