Understanding The Drama In Life

Once Feel loved and then betrayed Left alone with empty four grey walls; Loneliness crept slowly in petty pace Into the solemn veins Into the anguish heart Into the deceived mind Leaving her in great distress In the pitch dark room Trying to reach out Cried slowly in such agony In such pain Praying so hard For such torment to abscond Abandoned, discarded, cast off Is there anything else she left out? The missing piece in her life? ~Swan Princess~

for i am only a traveller finding my way among the streets of your new town, i have other places to go to. i shall someday work out a map of this city and traverse it on foot, someday. for i am only a traveller, and cannot stay longer where there is no home. take my love while you can, take my hatred, take my weathered hand if you will, for i shall have no home here, among the dull buildings where the heart cannot stay. for i am only a traveller on my way, to somewhere further than here. this is the city that broke my heart, that stole my feelings from me; this is the city that took away my love, that told me i must go away. i must go somewhere. somewhere, where they can know me; can recognise that i am a man. some night when the city is asleep i’ll walk out quietly along your cruel streets through the suburban edge and into the dawn forests. somewhere, perhaps near where the sun rises, i can sit down, and sometimes perhaps, i can tell myself, here i am a man. ~Muhammad Haji Salleh~ Mu...

My life as a secondary school teacher, a mother to a pair of young teenagers and a postgraduate literature student, all at the same time, has turned me to be a “good and bad”, and “strong and weak” woman – all at one go! Signing up for 3 courses this semester, has made a good friend of mine leave some “threatening” remarks, reminding me consistently that I have to reconsider my decision. I am not saying this on a negative note as now I have learned to see things from a brighter side (Thanks to my past experiences). Furthermore, Walter Bagehot once said, a great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. I hold strongly to that quote. Being the woman mentioned above has made T.I.M.E to be the most significant setback to actually sit and flow my thoughts here. Or perhaps this is merely my justification for “abandoning” my blog for quite some time. Nevertheless, today, despite having two assignments to be hand in next week, I will leave that aside for a moment simply becaus...

My very first video clip that I prepared for my presentation this coming Monday. How my heart bleeds to see the plight, the sufferings and most of all the deaths of the innocent young faces. They do not deserve to die this way. And everything happens due to the greed of the mankind or should I say the politicians. Wake up people! It's about time we end this war for good. Let's make this world a better place to live in, for the sake of our future generation.