Monet

Impermanence

In this world
Nothing we own is ours
We bid farewell to our beloved home yesterday
Electricity and water had been cut off
So we saw it in the dying natural light. Appropriate.
I didn't cry. I thought i would
I nearly did downstairs as I watched my old neighbours like their things in last and talked with them. Seems I wasn't the only sad one. 
They were one of the first to move in to the estate. We followed soon after.
I didn't cry coz the house didn't look the same without the furnishing,

But it was sad. There weren't many houses with our unique design, the adjoining balcony the study hall. The room with a window into the balcony. I moved in when I was 8 and moved out at 25. And then never quite moved out! Back there for 4 to 6 months per child! That's a more than a year more of actually living there.

My friends all knew my place. So many gatherings there. Birthdays. Study sessions. Deeepavali. Surprise parties for others.

Met the neighbours again as I was leaving.  Janice. My gosh she looks the splitting image of her mum when mum was younger! Was like watching an old movie in new techni colour! And Andrew. He was born here. Now a lanky young man doing his masters. His dog refuses to eat in the new house apparently!

We were truly neighbours. We went to one another's houses. Played downstairs - catching ball games, exploring drains. Cycle signals. Not so insular as we are now.

3 projects done

I thank God for our three major projects all getting done well.
Launch
Workshops
Cie  training

Beautiful seamless flow and support. Friends at Cambridge. New ideas for next round of assessment

Big qn is
What next

For new bts. Compulsory is and assessmemt
Some course on poetry prose and drama by elis ni inckude this in guide?

Ideas for upper sec marking
-get teachers to get their kids to do the poems
Then after  the standardisation consider their own students work

Maybe do for both lower and upper sec

Mrs chan

You have a way of making people feel really comfortable
You totally made my day and my mother's when you told me to tell my mum she's done a great job raising me! Haha. Only you can make people's days like this
Such genuine care and concern
Gonna miss you!
I remember each of your conversations with us at branch level and I individual level. Each left a Mark o  me
It's one of fespect

Interests

Found interests: literature.  Reading
Discovered growing interests : art, drawing , writing poetry, astronomy, bible studies,

377a

To repeal or not to repeal
Gay rights
Accepting gays as part of mainstream culture
Hey!
Guess who didn't want to accept that earth was round
Yup you got it
The church
So this church has been going around insisting on its way
Persecuting others
Until it realises and accepts the truth
This is  no different I tell you.
All this repression is from a  fear, a need to survive
It's Darwinism of faiths
If change is the only constant
Man religion must be flexible too
Ah blasphemy.  I hear you
But not in core fundamentals
Like killing another for no reason
But Hinduism accepts human nature
It says human nature is evil and cruel and we gotta rein in things
Seek nirvana like Buddha rama
Both of whom were not perfect being ok
Even Krishna is not perfect
I hear kannan bearing down in me
What is this Ned in us to have perfect God's
Okay God is perfect. But what of its impossible to be perfect?
For Krishna to be perfect
Karna had to ill treated
And yes he was not perfect
I pray to God for protection for his love his guidance to do the best I can
For that's what we can do
The best we can

And let's just accepts gays can we
Romantic love between boys and girls was frowned upon until it wasn't
This too will come to be
Let's not deny others who They are coz we can't accept them
Stop the moralizing about sexual preferences
Had to get it out
So incan maintain a calm demeanour when Leonard provokes me again
He's a crusader behind his smile
Eerie.
Live and let live
Christians can't
Their scriptures is clever
Built in the need to survive. Knowing it won't if doesnt actively promote and market itself
Using a range of tactics.  Fear. Love.

Impermwnce

In this world
Nothing we own is ours

Parenthood

Parenthood
Means waiting while kids mumble on stage

Nervous

I may as well admit it
I'm nervous
Two colleagues having a silent war at work
I need God's help to help guide them and smooth over this angry tide

And one of them. I had to tell her to be careful of the things she posts.
She's taken down previous posts and made some big announcement about how she may not post personal things online
And then shes asking me to be her friend!
Why?
Does she want to stalk me? Scare me? Or show me shes stopped posting stuff? Or what?
I don't like accepting friend requests from colleagues ! Only friends. And currently in wary of her. Shall hold off accepting the friend request for awhile. Urgh, wish I could talk to someone but can't quite.
Not sure whom to believe.
Am going to stay involved but impartial.
Personally I think she's a very good high potential officer like kk. Bit high strung, liable to get stressed and burst into tears.

colour me wild

Nature's first gold 

I am for muzart

Guess my colours

I am the wrinkled trunk

That picks a flower
And uproots a tree

I am the feathers
That fan out in dance
Under overcast skies

I am the centre
Of the bull 's eye,
Poached, hardboiled 

I am the bird
Sent out by Noah
After the flood

I am the backdrop
Against which 

stars shine

I am the eye
Of the universe
Burning, giving life

I am the river
That runs in our veins
Spilling when sliced

I am what's left

After the last leaf

Has fallen

I am

Guess my colours

I am

The wrinkled trunk
That picks a flower
And uproots a tree

The feathers
That fan out in dance
Under overcast skies

The centre
Of the bull 's eye,
Poached, hardboiled

The eye
Of the universe
Burning, life giving

A bird
Sent out by Noah
To bring news of land

I scream stop
At traffic light

Melted I am colourless

Nature's first gold
I bring promise
After the rains

The broken curve
Proud flag bearer
Of age