Manageable Monday with MyMama’s Cut ( A Senryū)
Clip, snip, clip and snip!
Nothing like My Mama’s Cut,
head feeling lighter!
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Quote:-
I always feel good after I change my hair. You get a haircut and feel positive and ready to take on the day.- Kirstin Maldonado
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A blogger reads and writes ( haiku)
Read, read, digest them!
Assimilate, recreate.
A new synthesis!
This Haiku is about how a blogger grows! The amount of readings and researches forms the basis of new ideas for writings.
Quotes:-
SING A SONG OF FREEDOM
The following poem is about music as a plausible and healing therapy. Especially for those incarcerated in mental hospitals, prisons, or immigrant centers. A notable concept is Making music, healing souls including Sing Your Heart Out (SYHO), and Finding sanity through songs.
Sing a song of freedom
Sing a song of freedom
breaking through four walls
is a light; a beacon
In immigration detentions
prison or hospitals
do buoy up musical extensions
Rehearse a song
for sanity sake
all day long.
Sing your heart out (SYHO)
as loud as you want
even if you carry no clout.
Adopting therapy in music
as a tool for recovery
Keeping minds clear; lucid
So, do sing a song of freedom
finding sanity through songs
to free the mind of demons
for one with no intent of treason.
Chen Song Ping, 18 Jan 2021
The day I flew like a superman.
I went back to my hometown.
I remember the road was much steeper.
I skidded down this very road.
And I flew down my bicycle
like a superman!
The fading scars near my right eyebrow and right forearm are reminders.
It seems like only yesterday.
Only I have forgotten how to ride a bicycle! 🙁
Quote:-
I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it’s not going to be satisfying.:- Greg LeMond
Anniversaries: Is today less special? ( A Senryū)
This Haiku is about the celebration of anniversaries. Examples are Mother’s day, Women’s day, Mental health day, birthdays, wedding anniversary, etc. Is every day less special? Or the annual celebrations impact commercialisation?
Serious little politicians!
This video was circulating in social media. This happens to be a crucial time. My country is contemplating who will be the next prime minister!
Serious little politicians!
How painful is pain?
We visited a rural hospital. A young boy sat upon a bed with a cast on his right swollen foot. His sad and tearful face looked up as the team approached his bed.
“Sakit? (Pain?)”
He nodded his head and pointed to his foot.
The pain scores were charted as ‘2’ the whole day. (‘0′ means no pain, ’10’ means extreme pain according to a pain assessment ruler) “The boy pointed at ‘2’ most of the time!”
“Well, his face itself tells one it is at least an ‘8’ (according to a pain pictorial assessment tool).
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Quote:
Pain has a purpose. It tells us something needs to be attended to.- Chen S. P., Aug. 2021
The climb might be tough and challenging, but the view is worth it. There is a purpose for that pain; you just can’t always see it right away.- Victoria Arlen
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“Why can’t my mother die in my arm?”
This was an angry outburst from a doctor son. It was a devastating and heart-breaking voice recording forwarded in a social media chat group. He received a box of her mother’s ashes four days after her death from COVID-19.
Being a semi-retired healthcare worker, I can see where he is coming from. ICU staff with PPEs ( personal protective equipments) work round the clock on COVID-19 patients. It is a possible option for closed ones to wear PPEs to be near their loved ones. Although, no healthcare institution would take this risk.
It is important to weigh the risks and benefits of the practise and other options.
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A lady in ICU once instructed her loved ones to start chanting (Buddhist) during her final hour outside ICU. That was before COVID-19.
“A recorded prayers from close ones to be played next to ICU patients would be a good option, too!”
Hearing is thought to be the last sense to leave when a person Is unconscious or dying.
A final say; COVID-19 is indeed cruel to the last!
Airports: frozen in time?
This wall mural used to greet us upon arrival in one of our airports. How long will the travel industry be frozen in time?
Quotes:-
The travel industry enables a global community in wellness, prosperity, and in sickness.
– Chen S.P., August 2021
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The choking haze after the fire
I took these pictures a few years back in Kuching when there was a forest fire in Kalimantan. Even these news pale as compared to today’s daily reports on Covid-19!
People are busy fighting this pandemic war, there is no time and energy for deforestation and unethical developments.
Quote:
Finally, we have cleaner air, but only, with this threat of Covid-19 virus in the air! – Chen S.P., Aug, 2021
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Chen Song Ping 