I am like this only

As soon as I came to work this morning, I went to the canteen to make a cup of coffee for myself. Here it is only instant coffee with sugar and creamer...don't like it too much, but I just need this cuppa to start my day. We have a hot water dispenser and the water is really boiling hot. When I started pouring the hot water into my mug, thinking of various things as usual, I suddenly felt my hand hot and burning. I had accidentally poured the boiling water on my hand! I immediately put my cup down and ran my hand under the tap water to cool it down and then tried waving it up and down in the air to reduce the burning sensation. Though my hand was scalding, I was cool as a cucumber throughout. And then it hit me. I did not scream out in pain at all. In fact, whenever I'm hurt, have a fall, in fact even when involved in an accident, I don't scream. At all, period.

But, I will scream my head off when I see a lizard/insects or break glassware/crockery or is somebody sneaks up on me from behind. Is this some sort of a syndrome or a disease? Maybe I'm just weird this way.

Jurrasic Singapore

I still remember when I first moved to Singapore, how amazed I was that "Milo" was one popular drink at the roadside stalls or hawker centres as they call here. They are even more popular than tea/coffee & coke. I mean, as a kid, I used to run miles away from such drinks and my mom really had a tough time getting me to drink 2 glasses of Milo/Boost a day (morning and evening) and now, here I am in a country that has Milo as its national drink ! My mom still can't stop smirking. Talk about ironies.

Anyhow, just like we have our variations in tea, coffee, the Singaporeans, have their versions of Milo as we R discovered long time back. I found out about it only recently.

Milo Dinosaur (a cup of milo with an extra spoonful of powdered undissolved Milo added to it) and Milo Godzilla (a cup of Milo with ice cream or topped with whipped cream). Now we're waiting for Milo T-Rex ! (nope that does'nt exist yet, I think !)


Of course, R loves both of them and keeps trying to make me drink it as well. A healthy and yummy option, he says.

From Mummy to Hubby....sins of my previous janma, I guess. Sigh !

I'm not a Parent, but....

...I just don't understand parents who insist on calling each other as Mamma and Dadda (or whatever the child calls them) even when the child is not around...!

Do you?

Ever Ever After

I've never ever deeply thought about death or the life after death. But lately, have been thinking about it quite a bit. Two people who I cared for passed away recently. One was an old family friend turned into a relation (his brother married my sister) who I knew for more than 15 years. Such a tragedy.
The other was a friend who I got to know when I came to Singapore who unfortunately lost his battle against cancer, just one day after he celebrated his 34th birthday. My heart goes out to the respective spouses and parents. The fact that both of them (though unrelated to each other) passed away within 15 days of each other made me start thinking more about death, about what happens after, the reason for existence and such questions.
While my mind has been searching for answers, R gave me a book to read. Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian L Weiss. This book is a true story of a young psychiatrist and his patient. Its quite interesting about how this patient, Catherine is able to remember a lot of her past lives right from 1836 AD under hypnosis. Fascinating. She claims that she so far has had 86 lives. Still have not finished the book, but what I find intersting is that when talking about her past life, she mentions the people she knows in this life. In one such life, the psychiatrist was apparently her teacher. Her daughter in one of her past lives is apparently her neice in her current life. Apparently groups of souls tend to reincarnate together again and again, working out their karma. This reincarnation happens till the soul acheives their karma and then moves on to an "in-between" state. Riveting. Can't wait to finish this book ...but would recommend everbody to read this one. It is an eye opener.