thankful for 2009

“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year.”
- Charles Dickens

sheepish

i often find myself reading magazines from back to front
this may have something to do with 12 years of chinese schooling
i don't speak or read the language, but at least i still know how to read that way

thankful i can read inside a mobile vehicle now

so

short stories or films or animation
make one feel exhilaration and dejection
but only to end as soon as they begun
oft without resolution

can't get enough of them

mad about madness

i grew up in a small town
where technology took some time to reach
maybe that explains why after having adapted to sydney's cold winds
i still can't stand cold air from air-conditioners

thankful for long train rides, despite
make me savor the book i am reading
thankful even more, for not missing my stops

kokoro

i enjoy listening to young artists perform.
today, i watched satsuki and tim performed at chatswood mall.
al fresco music is a delight to bask in.
thankful i have time to stop and listen
on my 2 feet, leaning on a post

it's the 3rd already

changed bed sheets
laundered winter jackets
kept winter boots
made chicken meatballs
a packed domestic day

magnum ecuador dark

so what, if you knew
you didn't have to bawl like that
such display of tears, what drama
you didn't have to groan so loud

right, some gentleness would do
enough of the incessant outpouring
i give you this, your cold's never bitter
i am today but gone tomorrow

dear rain.

library tomorrow, maybe

you are not mine
oh so far away
you give, i take
selfishly, greedily
not wanting any less

seeing you or not seeing you
i don't really think about
it is the goodbye the grips me
to see you and not touch you
tears me apart

the setting sun

caffeine-free night cup

book in hand
back in bed
raised to the eyes
thumb flips through the pages
the smell of a new book

surprisingly funny
giggles break the silence
sadness palpable
crickets' song
catcher in the rye

thankful for walis tambo

the maguindanao massacre made it to the nsw primetime news.
i am at a loss for words.

erratum: grapefruit is NOT pomelo

using a straw when drinking can be cheering
however, plastic drinking straws end up in landfills and oceans
a waste of resources as they break easily when i try to reuse them
thankful for the makers of stainless steel ones
i can now drink my milk from a carton using a straw

give and take

volunteering for vinnies curbs my shopping appetite
i help out in the sorting of donated goods
seeing all the stuff people bring in helps me see i don't really need much
thankful i can be in an op-shop and not bring anything home

the park is being mowed

hump day

that is wednesday
when the work week reached the midpoint
and expected to go downhill til the weekend

i also learned that macdonald's is maccas

purple trees

it's the time of the year when jacarandas are in bloom
if trees were words, jacarandas punctuate paragraphs beautifully.

thankful for the clean, crisp smell of rain.