A step at a time

Diving, the latest hobby that I've taken up a few years ago, 2004 to be exact. Ironically, the hobby was being introduced by my boss! Reluctantly, I agreed to take up diving lesson just to get him off by back, and telling myself that I would take up the activity just for exercise. I am a person who's always been afraid of water, and being in the water is the last thing that I wanted to be in! I remember declining when Susan asked me if I wanted to go on a cruise, and I told her that only after I learn how to swim that I would want to step on a boat. Voila! What do you know! Not only I learned swimming, I've also taken up diving! A certified Advanced Open Water diver, no less. I instantly fell in love in diving because through it I have made quite a number of new friends, new places to explore, or rather islands in Malaysia that I've never knew existed, or never care to go before. And, what a stress reliever it is! The fact that you can go to Malaysia's beautiful is...

Resentment, anger, frustration, worry, disappointment - negative emotional stress, justified or not, take a toll on your heart, brain and body. Don't let justified emotion rob your health and well being. Don Childre & Howard Martin I have been feeling the stress of my work place recently. Never have I felt before throughout my working years. I have always been able to separate work from my personal life till I have to work with an emotional boss! After spilling my guts out to family and close friends, I realised that they are facing the same thing. Ironically, its never the tasks that have been assigned to you, but behaviour of the boss is sometimes unbearable. The fact that they are the boss, thinking they have the right to behave the way they did. I wish that if I ever get to that level, I would not behave the same way. I certainly wouldn't want to be cursed by staff, God forbid! But I guess at the moment, I'm grateful that I have family and close friends that I can...

I guess now its time to start a blog like everyone else. Most friends that I know has got a least one blog of their own. Even my sister has started her own blog! Some are very, very interesting, funny and very imaginative. You know who you are! Well, I guess this is part of my new year resolution, a small contribution of my recollection of events and happening. I hope mine will be as interesting, imaginative and colourful as I experienced them. Like 2006, hopefully this year will be as interesting and colourful for me. Part of new resolutions, perhaps? As I sat looking outside my balcony, smiling from ear to ear as I admire my two dullest plants as they beginning to show their true images. My Frangipani beginning to flower and my Poinsettia has finally showing the red leafs as any Poinsettia would be! After totally ignoring them and being labelled as 'plant killer' by sis, there is every reason to smile. Maybe these are the type of plants that you ignore in order for them to ...