The people I see almost every day.

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These are my colleagues! We celebrated a birthday not too long ago, Korean food was superb!

Had lots of fun too. They are really great and fun people to be with.

I’m very glad my life includes getting to know them

You are my muse.

I wish I could say it was facile

You are felicitous, but extraneous

What you’re capable of will forever be beyond my ken

Sempiternal is what we never will be

Rara avis; you’d have to go far and wide to find someone like that

but I found it in you, so naturally

I’ve got to put a halt to it

before it becomes an idee fixe

What we will ever be – is what we could have been

This is my swan song.

To what we once were.

There’s a clear anomaly between us now

Trying to grapple what’s left of this thing we call love

Before it eventually disappears resolutely

I hear you, ever so vociferously

And I hear it slowly but definitely, getting further and softer

We were once so adamant, and everyone was gobsmacked

But every tale has its ending, and here’s ours

You and I, we are like a labyrinth of intertwining stories

We were once strident, but I guess meagre

This is the last goodbye,

To what was once the perfect tale.

Another day of yours and mine.

Each day, I seek for excitement. I try to discover the fun in things I do. I’m so afraid of leading a mundane life and that I would become one of those lifeless souls walking on the streets pretending they have a life to lead, things to do.

As I walked through strangers on the road with my earphones on and my favourite song playing, I see people doing the exact same thing, there are so many of us passing by one another every morning and every day, but I’ve never felt more alone. We live in this world full of people yet we are not connected.

If I saw you on the train, would you smile at me? Would you chat me up and ask how is my day? Because I wouldn’t. And sometimes I wish I would. Would that place a smile on your face and warmth in your heart? Would you go home to your loved ones and tell them you met a kind stranger today?

I’m afraid of doing the same old thing every single day, experiencing the same routine on a daily basis. What if someday, I get bored of life? What if the day comes when I feel tired of the people surrounding me? What do I do then?

Do I carry on as if I have a purpose, or do I slowly rot in my own body but put on a facade as though everything is fine? Do you feel the same way as I do, or am I the only one who feels lost right now? Is the world spinning too fast, or am I too slow in my pace?

Some days I feel great, others – I feel like shit.

If you have ever felt this way, you’re not alone.

Have a little faith, part 4.

I used to think I knew everything. I was a “smart person” who “got things done”, and because of that the higher I climb the more I could look down and scoff at what seemed silly or simple, even religion.

But I realised something as I drove home that night: that I am neither better nor smarter, only luckier. And I should be ashamed of thinking I knew everything, because you can know the whole world and still feel lost in it. 

So many people are in pain – no matter how smart or accomplished – they cry, they yearn, they hurt. But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart. 

(Mitch Albom)

Hummingbirds Coffee Bar @ Beatrice Looi Boutique, Telawi Bangsar.

^Macaroons! Very yummy, RM5 per piece, RM27 for six. Not a big fan of their bestseller, Wasabi, though.

^Rainbow cake! Okay I admit that I ordered it because of the colours. So pretty!

v Durian cake. It’s amazing. Heaven in mouth!

v Red velvet cake. Tastes really good.

Hot chocolate with a smiley

Have a little faith, part 3.

Have you ever wondered how the same things in life can be good or evil, depending on what, with free will, we do with them.

Speech can bless or curse. Money can save or destroy. Science can heal or kill. Even nature can work for you or against you; fire can warm or burn; water can sustain life or flood it away.

We have this piece of divinity inside us, but with this thing called free will, hence the world is in our hands. 

(Mitch Albom)