Sometimes it doesn't take a lot to appreciate the simple things in life. For example, one day, I was fetching my two boys together with their cousin back home when I noticed that there was a slight drizzle. Evening is yet to dawn and there's still light against the maroon shade sky. I candidly announced to the kids, "Actually, when there's still light like this and there's a drizzle, you can usually find a rainbow"
"Really?!" "WOW! We have rainbows in Malaysia?" "Let's see if we can find one"
And within seconds of searching, there it was....a rainbow. It was faint and took the kids some time to find the rainbow but after a lot of straining and 'There there there!', the kids craned their necks to catch as much of the rainbow as they can.
Something so simple yet so beautiful. I can't remember when was the last time I saw a rainbow (before this time) and yet it's a part of nature that's just awe-inspiring. You should see the kids after that....glowing as they announced to everyone else "You know what, guy? We saw a rainbow, man. Really cool, huh? It was a very big but faint rainbow. Almost cannot see it there wan and I cannot see all the colors but it was still very cool"
See....you don't have to be David Copperfield to help the kids see something magical. There's magic in the very world that we live in.
I was kind of a little sad when I read the news about this - there will be no live-in Indonesian maids in Malaysia anymore . There are pros and cons to having a live-in maid, as with everything else, but for us, we enjoyed more pros than cons. Back then, when my kids were little, we brought in a family of maids to help with...well, just about everything, and we were like two families merged into one. They ate what we ate, we sleep, they sleep, we shop, they shop, they joke, we laugh, we joke, they laugh...for me, the maid I hired was more like a sister and side-kick to me. For that few years, I was dependent on her to mind-read my schedule and when I need or don't need help. She picked things up quickly and we ended up having lots of moments whereby we were in sync. Today, two of them are on my Facebook and we were gleefully chatting over Facebook Messenger since they've just discovered the wonders of the Internet and Social Media. Since we were more like partners in crim...
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work! work! work! and endless work!
but yeah, that's the thing, sometimes we just have to enjoy the simple things in life, you know. FORCE ourselves to slow down and not just barge on with work. There's more to life than just work, right, cuz???
Amazing. Last rainbow I saw was a Clown wearing a bow playing in the rain.
Marsh...Monday 3pm wanna go Atria?
Killer
BUONA DOMENICA UN CARO SALUTO
DALL'ITALIA :-)
LINA
i saw rainbow and it made my day. hardly see any these days.