March 2012
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“If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it...”
– C.S. Lewis (via nameaboveallnames)
it is very easy, but we humans make it hard for ourselves
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“Buddhist Swastika: What Does It Mean? Are Buddhists Nazis?”
– From a US website, once again demonstrating the failings of American education.
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By 0240hrs
the Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns sets in
and somehow everything you read means the same thing, but it’s because you keep re-reading the same sentence not once not twice but thrice, and you try to correct the grammar only to find that you’re typing on the wrong sentence because you saw it wrongly and actually the grammar is correct but it seemed awry because you read the first...
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“Disappointed.”
– it’d be a lie to say that I ain’t, again
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Hello there, I am back
Even though forgetting is not possible, shedding the pain is. A week ago I was neither ready to give up the grief, nor was I willing to stop the memories from flooding back in. 20 years, to me, is a lifetime; I did not want to move on from the man who loved me my whole lifetime. A week ago, the finality of his departure was unfathomable and unbearable to think of. I know I will see him again in...
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“Though the fig tree may not blossom,
Nor fruit be on the vines;
Though the...”
– Habakkuk 3:17-19 (NKJV)
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29/02/2012
I get closure today, 5 days later, at the Mandai Columbarium. It was a little strange looking at the little plastic container filled with whitened bone and ashes, then watching the remains being compressed into a little ceramic cylinder.
I found myself thinking: he was a man; he talked, he walked, he laughed, he cried, he ate, he drank, he lived. He was flesh, with the warmth of life coursing...
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