battling

i am unfazed by whatever i am thrown into because now i realise i can float. i am tired and sleepy but i am good because adament, unyielding faith turns visions into reality and even though i can’t breathe sometimes and my heart pounds and blood curdles like a very bad rockyhorror show it can become a cult hit. FULLSTOP. the first two weeks are often the worst, as most who have swam this way would tell you. no one understands it more than those who have gone through it, but we become GI JANES and although war is starting to pick up, i now have my proper amunition through learning to love. AMEN!

K is back from her blogging fast (hooray) and says that our own crosses are always the hardest to bear. how true, and(yet)embarrassing to know that she was there when i was weak with tears in my hair, falling, body crouching. veryunsightly. funny how friendships form. she says the hardest battles are fought in secret. And if you don’t fight them in the secret, you will never fight them at all, and they will never be won.

Krys, keep fighting. i’m here. we don’t necesarily need to carry everything upon ourselves but you know i’m here- and i hope that’s enough. i am grateful that we still share (albeit onlinesharing) and you are never forgotten.

If ever it’s my turn to sit by your side while you curdle up in bed, foetus like, and decide it’s too difficult to get up, let me know. I Miss You.

merely hearsay

I have never seen the ruins. Ever since wennie’s spontaneous proposal to travel and see the world together some time, my heart has been leaping at the thought of cycling in cambodia. I hear that the sunsets appear in full glory, and one can sit by the rocks and old stones just to watch the egg yolk melt and sink into the temples. I want to watch gold, dripping, and what a better way to enjoy it than to be on one of the mostmagnificant places with a journal and pen and breathing a differenttype of air. Ooohhh I’m obsessed by the thought.

Today, I was told by a colleague not to cycle amongst the ruins because the gravel is hole-ly and grounds, uneven. “You take a motorcycle” she says. That’s how they travel. It is an awkward thought imagining myself clinging to a cambodian whom I do not know and rushing through the lanes. Exhilerating, almost. New dreams birthing. While invigilating an English test today, I wondered if I should take a motorcycle license just so that I can see the Wat and explore the ruins and the carvings in style. It’s a fleeting thought, really. I’m sure a bicycle would do just fine.

Wanderlust is setting in again. OHHHDEAR.

p/s picture was taken off the wonderful search engine. beauutiful…