prisoners of our own experience

Prisoners of our own experience 

We expect the future to unfurl like the past

To be able to manage things the way we always have

love of my life

The little one

She is the love of my life

The glue that gels the family 

The brothers brother and the sisters sister 

The little one who holds the key to her daddy's hear

Who makes us all better people just by being her and in this world 

I love her

crown

The crown season 3 is disappointing

I miss claire foy and prince Philip's o much these new actors are lifeless. 

let me be atrong

A period of trial is coming my way

I need to start meditating to keep my strength

My symposium and blau

My ministers foolish reaction to alfian

My study trip

My ss level 2? 

Pei yong

Mtr

Full sbb

Just please help me god

farewells

The season for farewells are here

So many great colleagues going away

I will miss them

But I'm also excited about new colleagues joining

About forming new teams 

Exciting

 How will we keep the culture here? 

What Leo said about me

I'm gung ho.i am not afraid to try new things and make mistakes

I cry for lit. I.e. I care deeply about the subject 

helpless

I feel utterly useless in art class. Haha. Confronted with a hyper distracted 4 year old who is hard of hearing, I could do nothing. 

I must get her to take a snack after this

tired

Why am I so tired 

Why do I not do yoga when I know I will feel better 

I feel so energy less

Am terrified. 

Of all the work to come that I may not be able to do well

I pray prof blau is well. God please keep him hale and healthy. Please God. 

Thank you God for

Being at the symposium 2020 already. 

For being with blau and keeping him healthy 

For being with us as we organise the event 

For being with each and every teacher presenter and speaker and workshop facilitator 

For making the event a resounding success that is meaningful to  everyone involved 

For being with e very teacher participant 

For the excellent food

The lovely gifts andbooks 

For every single thing ( those I've mentioned and those I've not) 

Thank you god

approaching 50

At 22, 30 seemed far away

At 42, 50 seems like tomorrow

beautiful lines

Does a poet dream in verse

What if God popped out a book we read aloud

Would he feel proud 

Every hair on my body 

Jumped as if it were old dust on a drum skin (ted hughes )?

guns again

Yesterday I shared just another manic Monday

Today us a different day 

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Every country has its crazies

Only here can they get a gun so easy 

Tackle mental health, please do

But make it hard to get a gun too

Why do you need guns anyway?  

Kids hiding under desks and chairs

Thankful it's not them, not today

This is the life you would lead

Rather than take action and remove the gun

To shoot deer and bears, and a kid a day

How will you "tackle" mental health anyway?

Might you pin it down, take a swipe at it? 

For the gun, just take it off the shelf, hey

Trust your police to protect you 

state of the world

It's just another manic Monday 

Britain asks for Brexit deal and gets a new PM every three months 

Us sees a school shooting coz, well guns in the hands of a 16 year old, yeah why not . A menace of their own making

Us seems to get into things without knowing how or when to get out

war

War is like a game to some 

The bombs you drop not different from those dropped in video games 

Ebay life lost matters to someone

A son a daughter a father a mother

A brother a sister a husband a wife

A friend 

How can loves be so dispensable..that yoinsendnone in everyone one dies 

And how can you only pick up your dead and leave your comrades . 

And when that happened, why did the south continue to fight 

Why didnt the north just adopt the south

And .. are the American watching the documentary? To avoid these mistakes in the gulf and Syria and God knows where else? 

boss

Boss oh boss

-We shall miss your stories more than we saw pretend to scoff at them but look forward to them eqxh month

-Will it be about a lizard hanging on for dear life on a windshield, resisting being pulverised

Or about your displacement theory about clean water displacing dirty water 

Sorry we never went on that personal grooming course you so wanted 

We did go formula 1 racing and we made some mean prata and some misshapen earthenware that turned out Surprisingly well shaped

We also drank tea and dabbled in water colour and fumbled in the dark with just

Good times

You made us a unit to be reckoned with and for that we thank you

Guiding us thru MTr and ftr for both el and lit! No mean feat. 

Your eye for design and aesthetics much appreciated

We will miss you more than you know

Clearr 

Lighthouse 

*Leonard’s Time*

_What you are is CLEARR to see:_

_A lighthouse keeping watch at sea_

_Ever the family man at heart_

_you’ve turned water displacement into an art._

_For a man who doesn't eat a lot_

_You sure do carry a ton of SALT;_

_And you've been steady as a clock_

_Like some tailor in Bangkok;_

_You say you want to send us all a-grooming_

_Yet grooming us is all you've been doing;_

_Like a lizard unafraid of wind_

_You've stuck by us through thick and thin

You go-karted us through tea and prata

Pity we couldn't go to Malaysia

You leave us a unit tight and strong 

Now we find it hard to say farewell, so long

You paved the way for our subjects to soar

Watching our back, in this season and more

Walking with us side by side

Bringing the unit both LuRF and pride

Suggestion for last stanza:

When you came here you were SAD,

But you built a team to make us all glad;

Now you are absolutely swell as DDELL 

May your path ahead ever be joyous and well

For these words wing our best wishes to you;

May the sun smile down daily on you

_When you came you were made SAD;_

_Now you leave us billed as DDELL;_

_May joy to all your work be wed_

_and all your endeavours turn out swell!_

Each line 7 to 8 syllables.rhyme. 

to do

My to do list unfurls like a ribbon

In all the colours of a rainbow

spiraling 

out or control.