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My much neglected blog! Juggling between eating, sleeping, exercising, reading, working, designing some online system and learning about Responsive Web Design for that system have not been easy.

So many things to write about and no time to do it.

To love at all is to be vulnerable

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”

― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

CNY Munchies!

Shiny yellow pineapple paste sitting on cookies baked to browny perfection, stacked on top of each other in a transparent rounded plastic container with a Ferrari red lid.

It is the Chinese New Year season! And like previous years, our dining table is piled with festive goodies. At noon today, I came back home hungry and did not buy any lunch. I thought maybe I will just eat the goodies to save money. Heck my resolution of losing more weight.

With my tummy growling and my salivating mouth hanging like a tired dog on a hot day, I reached for a container of pineapple tarts.

The person who sealed this container must have had rolls of scotch tape and was not afraid to use them. There must have been 3 layers of it. After feeling my way for, I swear like eternity for the tape end, I finally started peeling it with my freshly cut nails.

First peel yielded about 5 cm before it tore in the middle. Subsequent 5-6 peels were the same. "For the love of God and my growling tummy, please use better quality tapes that will come off in a single peel!!", my mind yelled.

Finally after 2-3 mins of wrestling with filmsy tapes, I finally got to the first piece of that deliciously looking tart. After swallowing 2 pieces, I decided to close the container and eat mandarin oranges instead.

They are not as nice as they look, and the price it was tagged.

Gong Xi Fa Cai!