Further to my previous post on roller costers, I've dicovered or been experiencing a new type of roller coaster.... sleep roller coaster.
What is that? It's cyclic bouts of insomnia and rapturous sleep.
What's causing it? Mainly rubbish that comes and manifests in my mind when everything is quiet, i guess. Too much going through my mind these days... work stuff, personal stuff, emotional stuff, financial stuff, enuf stuff to stuff a gigantic teddy bear. haha.
These insomnic spells is then followed by deep restful sleeps as my body and mind goes into auto-recovery mode.
Well, i guess I have to be thankful that at least it is cyclic and not a long drawn sleeplessness. Else, I'll be a zombie in no time.
Maybe it's time for me to revisit the meditation practice that I have abandoned long ago out of sheer laziness...
Rise...Fall...Rise...Fall...
Jhana, here i come!
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Long drawn roller coaster ride
Wow, it has been ages since i last penned something here.
Guess it has been due to a mixed bunch of reasons... busy, lazy, lazy and lazy. haha...
Anyhow, I just got back from KL. Was there for a whole week to attend to some personal stuff. But along the way, I managed to meet up with old frens, recent frens and also made a whole bunch of new ones. So it was a good trip.
Exhausting perhaps, but still fun overall.
In case you're wondering from the title of this blog, no, i didn't go on any roller coaster rides on the trip. What I meant was lately it does feel as though i am on a long drawn roller coaster ride with no immediate end in sight.
And i mean this on many fronts... I am cycling through periods of extreme stress and rush, to periods of laid back boredom. Through periods of full contentment in life, to periods of wondering if i am missing out on more important stuffs. Through phases of happiness and excitement, to periods of utter disappointment.
I do recognize that is are all just part of life, but it is just that lately it swings much more rapidly and in more areas that before.
Mid-life crisis perhaps.... haha, definitely not!
Anyway, i will survive, and am surviving... based on my most fundamental belief that has carried me thus far
Life Goes On!!!
Guess it has been due to a mixed bunch of reasons... busy, lazy, lazy and lazy. haha...
Anyhow, I just got back from KL. Was there for a whole week to attend to some personal stuff. But along the way, I managed to meet up with old frens, recent frens and also made a whole bunch of new ones. So it was a good trip.
Exhausting perhaps, but still fun overall.
In case you're wondering from the title of this blog, no, i didn't go on any roller coaster rides on the trip. What I meant was lately it does feel as though i am on a long drawn roller coaster ride with no immediate end in sight.
And i mean this on many fronts... I am cycling through periods of extreme stress and rush, to periods of laid back boredom. Through periods of full contentment in life, to periods of wondering if i am missing out on more important stuffs. Through phases of happiness and excitement, to periods of utter disappointment.
I do recognize that is are all just part of life, but it is just that lately it swings much more rapidly and in more areas that before.
Mid-life crisis perhaps.... haha, definitely not!
Anyway, i will survive, and am surviving... based on my most fundamental belief that has carried me thus far
Life Goes On!!!
Monday, April 20, 2009
Hungry Fishes and Itchy Fingers
I was over at the Fish Spa place in QBMall to get a foot reflexology massage. Unfortunately when i went there the 'sifu's were all busy and i had to wait for about 1/2. So the guy started to promote a fish spa + foot massage deal, hoping that i would take it. I wasn't very keen on it, so I said I'd go grab something to eat and come back in 1/2hr. I guess the fella was afraid i wouldn't come back and offered 1/2 at the fish spa for free!
Well, how can i refuse that right? So after a quick wash of my feet, I promptly dipped my feet into the pool full of small hungry fishes. Man, they really looked happy nibbling at my feet. The first few minutes were actually quite torturing. I felt so ticklish that i had to concentrate hard not to kick all those poor fishes away.
After enduring it for about 5minutes or so, you sorta get used to it. The fishes just kept nibbling at my feet, especially my toes for the full 1/2hr.
Did it make a difference? I think so... after that treatment, my feet felt cleaner and well... more supple. {I tried hard not to use that word coz it sounded a bit feminish to me... but i can't think of another word to describe it}.
Anyways, after the fish spa thingy, i proceeded to the foot massage. It was quite decent, felt ok. Except that the masseur was too talkative. He kept talking to me when all i wanted was to relax.
Enough about the fishes, now for the fingers...
I went over to the gym for a quick workout over the weekend. After about an hour or so, I left. As i was driving back, i got a call from the gym operator asking me if i 'accidentally' took someone's handphone. Apparently someone at the gym lost his handphone and i was the last person to leave the gym when he discovered that his handphone was missing.
Well, fair enough.. I answered i didn't take any handphone from the gym but mine. He asked me again, and i confirmed again.
I didn't think much of it until I got another call. This time it was the guy who lost his handphone. He asked again if i took his handphone. I said no, but he kept on insisting that i return his handphone. He even said that i could keep the phone, but return the SIM card to him. What the heck!
What irritated me was not the fact that they called to ask. I can certainly understand it. I'd do the same if i was the one who lost the phone.
What annoyed me was being so strongly accused of the crime. I'd wouldn't say that i lead a perfect life, but I hv a strong conscience in not commiting such things. So hv someone actually think that i am capable of lifting his handphone is new to me. And something i'm not used to nor expected.
I guess i'll just hv to let bygones be bygones.
And enjoy feeding the hungry little fishes again?
Well, how can i refuse that right? So after a quick wash of my feet, I promptly dipped my feet into the pool full of small hungry fishes. Man, they really looked happy nibbling at my feet. The first few minutes were actually quite torturing. I felt so ticklish that i had to concentrate hard not to kick all those poor fishes away.
After enduring it for about 5minutes or so, you sorta get used to it. The fishes just kept nibbling at my feet, especially my toes for the full 1/2hr.
Did it make a difference? I think so... after that treatment, my feet felt cleaner and well... more supple. {I tried hard not to use that word coz it sounded a bit feminish to me... but i can't think of another word to describe it}.
Anyways, after the fish spa thingy, i proceeded to the foot massage. It was quite decent, felt ok. Except that the masseur was too talkative. He kept talking to me when all i wanted was to relax.
Enough about the fishes, now for the fingers...
I went over to the gym for a quick workout over the weekend. After about an hour or so, I left. As i was driving back, i got a call from the gym operator asking me if i 'accidentally' took someone's handphone. Apparently someone at the gym lost his handphone and i was the last person to leave the gym when he discovered that his handphone was missing.
Well, fair enough.. I answered i didn't take any handphone from the gym but mine. He asked me again, and i confirmed again.
I didn't think much of it until I got another call. This time it was the guy who lost his handphone. He asked again if i took his handphone. I said no, but he kept on insisting that i return his handphone. He even said that i could keep the phone, but return the SIM card to him. What the heck!
What irritated me was not the fact that they called to ask. I can certainly understand it. I'd do the same if i was the one who lost the phone.
What annoyed me was being so strongly accused of the crime. I'd wouldn't say that i lead a perfect life, but I hv a strong conscience in not commiting such things. So hv someone actually think that i am capable of lifting his handphone is new to me. And something i'm not used to nor expected.
I guess i'll just hv to let bygones be bygones.
And enjoy feeding the hungry little fishes again?
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