great evening!!
whahaha... =)gins smsed me this afternoon asking if i was free for the evening..
turns out, she wanted to have dinner with me.. *grins*
So i asked her if she called the cat along..
she didn't..
so i called the cat (felix) to ask if he was free.. and yes! he was!
so yep! dinner with my two dearest buddies..
my two pillars of support through thick and thin...
haha..
and as usual, the two of them decided it'll be great to scrutinize my every move and behaviour... hahahah.. typically gillian tay..
argh!! I MISS GILLIAN TAY!!!!
felix not so much coz i see him every other week when i'm like b-o-r-e-d...
hahas..
anyway, dinner was some kway chap at kopitiam in compass point..
those two pillars of mine were splendid, picking me up direct at my door just now while i was busy napping with terra next to me.. sweet shucks..! hahas!
shall dump terra on the bed later before i sleep tonight.. i miss having that feline on my bed at night.. she's nice to cuddle up with at night.. =P
SO yeah, dinner was full of crinkled-eyed, killer smiles, rib-aching, big loud laughters, playful reminiscing ("the yar yar moments in time just stops there!") of our past..
and talking about our futures.. (Bintan, here we come!!) boy, felix i wanna learn how to SURF those fuckin' waves dude. not windsurf, i wanna SURF.
we went to BK to have a syrupy iced lemon tea which sucked like hell.. (yurgh!)
but lots of oohing and ahhing over gins' many many dogs, and those FOUR abso-bloody-lutely CUTE guinea pigs of hers... ARGH!!! just SOOOO bloody adorable little piggy doggy looking thingys...!
Alrighty..
here's today's installment of Dharma reflections:
Mindfulness should be the most natural thing in the world-without any unnecessary strain or effort. But for us, habitually unmindful beings, being mindful might be a daunting task. The more unmindful we become, the more habitual it becomes, and attaining mindfulness soon feels near impossible. How scary! Let's all guard our minds more carefully from now on.
I was walking to the subway station in the near noon sun. I remembered my promise to myself to be as mindful as I could the whole day. The sun felt hot. I caught myself screwing up my face, frowning in its glare. This, I realise, only when I realised I was having mild dizziness. The mindfulness came this "late." Suddenly, I wasn't sure whether it was the heat of the sun that made me dizzy or that it was me feeling contempt for the sun that made me dizzy. Funny. I think the latter that is true. The sun meant no harm. It was me to be blame ultimately. I should have experienced the heat mindfully without attachment-that's all-no need to grumble about it inside.
(Jan 1st issue)
(here's a little something extra)
"Cease to do evil, learn to do good,
Purify the mind -
This is the teaching of the Buddhas.
Despising none, harming none,
Being restrained by the monastic rules,
Moderation in food, living in solitude
And devotion to meditation -
This is the teaching of the Buddhas.
Therefore, the meditation on love
Should be done for oneself and others.
All should be suffused with love -
This is the teaching of the Buddhas."
- Selection taken from The Sacred Literature of Buddhism (jan 31st entry)
posted by anj @ 23:48
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