All my chickens are coming home to roost. I found myself driving to the 24-hour clinic at 5am this morning. Couldn't stand it anymore. Nausea, a bloated stomach, abdominal discomfort, and an irritated throat were keeping me awake. The doctor...
I nearly had a heart attack when my mobile phone decided it was tired of being looked at this afternoon, and the screen went blank. I swear I hadn't dropped it or anything, it was lying comfortably on the coffee...
My cough is disturbing my sleep, which is making me cranky. When I am cranky I am snarky and reluctantly nice. Note that I will still be nice -- I suppose it's too ingrained in me by now -- but...
You Are Rogue You're reluctantly special. In fact, you long to be normal.You consider your powers to be a curse, and something you can't control.Powers: absorbing other people's memories and abilities, weakening and killing people with your touch Which...
Mom is in town, so I had dinner with her and she was conveying to me something one of my uncles had said: "Tell Sunflower that she must persevere and not give up too easily." The thing is, one...
Ever thought of buying a cemetery plot? I hadn't. In church this morning, the announcements segment was enlivened by a sales pitch for plots in a new Christian cemetery that is being... err... "built" in Subang. (Do cemeteries get built?)...
"I'm addicted to porn!" -- the words jumped out at me from the contents page of Female magazine's September issue. The short description of the article says, "Three women reveal their darkest secret -- being hooked on pornography." I flipped...
Is it normal to have this much trouble listing down 10 things that bring me joy? See, all along I've said that I want to find a job that I'll enjoy, which means I have to find out what it...
I really think my body is rebelling against me. I've been sick so often lately that I've started to feel fragile. Like, I don't trust my body anymore, y'know? So this morning when I woke up and took mental inventory,...
I'm very grateful for the gift of friendship. Although I've always treasured my friends, it's only now that I realise what a truly precious thing it is to be surrounded by people I love & trust, who accept me as...
The house next to ours was burgled last night. According to my housemates Meera and Sharon, who spoke with the neighbours this morning, their living room was EMPTIED. And one guy said his mobile phone was taken from right next...
Gastritis again. I'm tempted to swear. VERY tempted....
It's so weird to wake up and have the first thing in your mind go, "I must eat I must eat I must eat!" And constantly, throughout the day, "I must eat!" I feel stalked and haunted by thoughts of...
There was an attempted break-in at our house this morning at around 7am. My housemate Adeline was downstairs preparing to leave for work when she saw movement behind the curtains covering our sliding glass door... then she saw a figure...
I was thinking about leg & underarm hair yesterday (the bane of many women's lives). Yeah, we're constantly trying to get rid of all that hair, but aren't we lucky that we don't have to keep TRIMMING it? I mean,...
What I meant to say yesterday, but forgot because I allowed myself to be sidetracked, is: who makes the rules about what is and isn't acceptable, anyway? I would say 'beautiful' but I don't think that's the right word... after...
The title of this blog comes from a story I wrote in August 2002. It's an allegory, and, as I said to the few friends I showed it to at that time -- no prizes for guessing who the Wilful...