Time passes so fast.

My daughter is growing day by day, and I'm just astonished that I'm loving her more and more each day. This joy of parenthood cannot be described. It has to be experienced. The joy of seeing your own child discover more new things and learn more and more every single day.

Work has been tough, as it always has. I'm beginning to think maybe I can't be doing this my whole life. Looking at other options, maybe consider stepping out of my comfort zone.

The fragility of life is also getting to me recently. A colleague of mine passed away just over a week ago, due to an illness that should not normally become so serious for someone of his age. It just seemed so sudden, and although I didn't know him very well, the very finality of his passing from this world struck me deeply. Then, just a few days ago, a prominent comic artist also passed away, at the age of 37, succumbing to cancer. It just seems to drive home the uncertainty of life, the uncertainty of tomorrow. Who knows what will happen in the next 10 minutes of our life? Will it be our last 10 minutes on this earth?

I think I've wasted enough of my time. I'm going to try and do what I've always felt called to do, and not just keep waiting for the right moment, or just be too lazy to start anything. I want to help make the world - at least the world in my sphere of influence - a better place than before.

Hoo boy, that's what happens when you just finished a night shift and had only over an hour of sleep; you turn melancholy and melodramatic.

Yay, I'm finally on leave. After an unbelievably long period of ...training... at my current posting, I'm about to see the light at the end of the tunnel. End of this month, I'll be moving on to a new posting. I had a really difficult time in my current posting, and it was already expected, since I had done the same posting 4 years ago, and it wasn't a pleasant experience too.

Anyway, I'm grateful for this little break, and I'm just going to let go and enjoy for awhile, spend time with my family, at the same time(hopefully) preparing for my next posting. Tomorrow, we're going to the zoo so that Chloe gets to see some animals, maybe even touch some of them. We're also planning to bring her to the bird park at some point.

I was actually planning to write some more, but I've just been hit by writer's block and was staring blankly at the screen for about 5 minutes before starting this paragraph. Think I'll stop here for now, and I'll get back again with some photos from tomorrow's excursion.

Seeya.

Here's a poem I wrote when I was 13 years old. Thought I would share it here. Please remember, before the knives come out, I was thirteen, one-three, fresh out of PSLE.

Life
Life is like a passing cloud,
With the many winds of doubt
They blow you from places to places,
Until you are left with lots of dazes
Sometimes I try to stop to ponder,
But heck, everything's going so fast you can't wonder
You just keep moving and moving,
Until you finally stop for some thinking
Thinking over the past, wondering about the future
Trying so hard to make things seem better
But it will always be in vain,
Then you have to move again.

More pictures of my precious baby. Surely that one picture last entry left you clamoring for more? They are not in chronological order, for the uninitiated.

Hi guys!

Okay, I don't know how many more of you are actually looking into my blog still, now that it's been dead for some time. I have severely underestimated the toll of my busy schedule and the enormity of my laziness(the latter more than the former, if I were to be brutally honest with myself), to think that I could keep my blog going with regular entries. In fact, I was just going to let this blog die along with my past spur-of-the-moment ideas, when I realised that there were still people who were actually still checking in from time to time, hoping to find some new pearls of wisdom here(yes, all 2 of you, you know who you are, I love you!). So I have pulled myself out of my languid state and made a new pledge to keep this going.


I know in my previous entry, I mentioned I was going to talk about something close to my heart, but it's been so long, the time isn't so appropriate to discuss that particular topic right now(plus the fact that I can't quite remember exactly what topic that was). So I'll just do some rambling to get things going.


Life has been moving relentlessly on for me, as it has for everyone else. I'm still in the hospital, doing my rotations before I go back to the polyclinic. My baby has gone from lying supine to turning over to wiggling her limbs ineffectively about to leopard crawling to sitting up to creeping about and now to finally stand up and take tentative steps. In fact, she just has to learn how to stop properly now without falling on her knees, before she's officially walking.



There's a picture of her. My heart just melts everytime I see her. How can you look into such a sweet, cute face and say no to her?(I got a feeling I'm going to find out how not too far into the future)

Anyway, my family life's been great. My wife has stopped working, so she's taking care of our baby full time, and I finally get wonderful home-cooked meals when I come home. I thank God regularly for my family.

That's not to say everything runs smoothly. That doesn't happen right? But I don't really want to talk negatively in this, my first post in such a long time. Maybe later on, when I get into a melancholy mood, I'll share my misery with whoever is unfortunate enough to stumble upon my blog at the time.

So anyway, that's it for the update and re-introduction. You all can go out into the streets and announce to everyone, the linguist is back, and he'll(hopefully) have many many, uh, linguistic, things to write about, so do tune in regularly.

Seeya!