Author: leapingtoes

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Empty

Guess this is Universe still-ing our monkey minds!

Passing time

I have been un-stuck! Today is my 15th day in Singapore.

Looking within

Looking within right now, it is still a mishmash haystack of all kinds of emotions.

Remote

I am unofficially on a Stay-At-Home stint, due to my last return from Cambodia on the 12th March.

Isolate

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

Sunshine and Shade

I have decided to treat myself better amidst the stress for crossing geographical borders during such strenuous times.

Mercury Retrograde

Mercury the planet is 水星 (shui xing) in Chinese, literally translated to Water (水) Star (星).

Smooth and Flexible

Flexibility and surrender to the greater flow of life just makes life feel sooooooo smooooooth in spite of the bumpy obstacles. 

Slosh!

Slid the little penguin down the pile of roadside slushie. 

Resilience

When we let go of the material self, admit and accept that the flow in life is a greater energy than our thoughts, does it allow us to be more resilient?

Perception

The bar for my perception of normalcy has been lowered to a new level.

Evanescence

Praying very hard that this episode vaporises like the evanescence of the alcohol content in a hand sanitiser.

Home vacation

It is so good to be back home. Life looks normal here!

Most desirable

If I may dream … what is most desirable right now is some good peaceful sleep without any worries about anybody about anything.

Rainbow

There are still small happy things Mother Nature gives us amidst the rain and gloom clouds. 

Maelstrom

Maelstrom sounds like the feeling in my gut right now.

Dotdotdot

You can tell who works in office buildings by the circular little stickers in various colours on their clothes!

Quiet is scary

Quiet day on the news front! No news is good news, says the positive side of me.

Orange Jive

Our DORSCON got raised to the same level as SARS now 😦 apparently because there was some untraceability in the new cases.

15 Days of CNY

It takes so many decades for me to realise we celebrate 15 days of Chinese New Year!

Carelessness

The tiny blunder to kick myself over was that I threw out my stash of N95s just last week, during spring cleaning.

Macro angpow

Happy New Year! The perfect macro pic for Chinese New Year greetings! 鸿运当头、花开富贵、双双对对、十全十美.

LOoMB

Looking out of my backdoor – RDP Photo Challenge! I don’t have a backdoor where I live, because if I do, it will open up into 18 storeys of plain atmosphere.

Can’t!

I can’t focus when my mom is free!

Life’s knowns and unknowns

I saw the animal, it was a very beautiful, majestic hoofed animal, looking much like a humongous deer with gorgeous antlers.

Hope

Here is a photo of my favourite street sign / favourite street name.

Pop Juice

I’ve been making kefir for three months now! Exactly three months today. 😀

RealmS

Taking a short time-out from my realm of work at the moment. BECAUSE. I suddenly realised how important it is to state the obvious.

New … World ?

I am having very mixed feelings about this New Beginning as we enter the first week of the decade.

Stellar

Hope we all have a stellar year ahead in 2020, dotted with many twinkly memories and events.

K-ok

My fugacious desire to sing has arisen again when this music video popped up on my YouTube feed while I was busy catching up on 2020 horoscope readings.

Candle

My favourite candle is from WoodWick, the mint leaf and basil is very fragrant and fresh, yet light enough to not overwhelm.

Feathers are back!

It looks like a white plume has been deliberately planted on it! Gahaha. What heralds?! ❤ ❤ ❤

Enchanted

Nothing enchants me nowadays other than watching the innocence of a little almost-two-year being enchanted by everything in the world.

Pre-Resolution

And hence today is the day, I set my resolution (what an odd timing though!!! but I can’t wait a month for this!!!) giving every aspect of my life their respectful times.

HobbyHORSE!!

Getting back into the swing of things~ I love horses!

Thankful much!!

I am so so so thankful for the good Creator has brought, and how Creator has taught and brought me to do good.

Fervid

New word in my vocabulary! One thing I am very fervid about is language.

Infuriate

I do get infuriated, maybe anger is one thing that keeps me sane and knowing that I am not all that emotionless.

Childhood Firsts

Originally posted on Sgeoil:
the markers of childhood are filled with firsts rights of passage to be celebrated, first birthdays first tooth lost first knee scraped first day of kindergarten if you are lucky born on the right side of freedom and make it to your first birthday for some the markers of childhood contain…

Intangible markers

When Universe leaves us invisible markers that feels and clicks, as guide posts along the way.

Law of Wisdom

I woke up very early this morning to attend a webinar on Wisdom.

Eventually

We eventually have to grow up.
We eventually have to move.

Grasses galore

I have to cross many of them on my way to work, because my office is surrounded by empty parcels of land.

Pinggles and the Shark

The intrepid adventure of an unknown diver / snorkeler beside a tame but stern shark in the middle of the ocean with crystal clear waters and a sandy undulating seabed has come to a conclusion today.

Songs of/from Home

Some are songs dad used to sing to us, probably even as lullabies. He still sings them to Oscar, Oliver and Ruirui!

Fair and Just

This eclipse brought my eyes to a focus on things I have lived with, although much has been boiling inside. Possibly also gaining momentum and pressure in a my little cauldron.

RDP Milestone

Our ragtag community is now 505 people strong! It has just crossed the one year mark (+almost one month~) since we started from seven separate personal sites of the founding ragtaggers, and found our way to one community pool, and slowly grew to this little milestone today. On behalf of the ragtag team, thank you…

Pulchritudinous

Inuits believed them to be the frozen embers from the aurora borealis.

Suburban Paris

So we moved to Triel-sur-Seine for the final weekend.

Paris

My Mini Me joined me in Paris!

Cologne

Stopped over at Cologne to break the long train journey from Berlin back to Paris.

Backflow

My mind is now flowing backwards against time. I shall update all the photos that I so ambitiously promised to post.

Tokyo II

Ahh sooo sooo sooo is the commonly recognisable phrase I hear in the izakaya.

Tokyo

Tokyo is not at all what I imagined it to be. Even where Godzilla was probably was not where I am staying at.

Knotty thoughts

I thought I escaped the heat when I made the trip to Europe from the equator.

Morning blabber

Oh my, I am very surprised I have not blogged about Cologne yet! Been too busy rabbiting around that I lost track!

Delay

Delays for every public transport service I planned to take!

Berlin (West)

So … today I just sauntered and roamed around the other city of the Berlin, and indeed it had a lot more character.

Berlin

We stopped over at Frankfurt for lunch.

Rennes

I was expecting to enter an older(er) city of masonry buildings dotted with quaint wobbly-looking wooden facades.

Mont Saint Michel

Why are abbeys always built into such breathtaking naturalistic elements?

Surprise!

Surprise, I’m back at ohborder! Will probably be posting everyday for the next two weeks!

Teaching

I survived a year of teaching!!!

Bread monster

I recently discovered we have a bread monster in the house. 

May the

… pingbacks start working again.

Thaw…ing

I am more like melt…ing. It’s crazy hot in Phnom Penh.

Ho-Hum

Lil’O is the smallest and youngest being this Chinese New Year, and was thus the centre of attention for the huge family gathering.

Kungfu fighting

It’s Chinese New Year and it seems like a costume party galore for the little ones.

Lil’ O

I hardly write about Oscar, so today I shall put in some effort to introduce the other O to the blogosphere.

Camouflage

Babysharkdooodoodododooo. Quite a job. Not sure whether his camouflage is for the baby/mummy/daddysharkfamily, or for the Chinese New Year red packets. Vain boy in winter jacket on the equator. Getting ready for japan!

Flight(sssssss)

Many people are off for vacations, but no way am I going to make any trip out of this country. Finally some ground time and I am staying put!!!

Intangibles

There is this photo I took in class one early morning, and it matches the RDP angle! I had nowhere else to show it off, so here would be best!

Sweet Spot

I am now working towards a more balanced lifestyle where I have enough rest while also having enough time to pursue the meaningful things in life.

River(s)

Almost all the cities I have planned has river(s) running through them. Those that do not, are cities directly fronting the sea, bay, but not the ocean though.

Mystery

I normally do not do awards, but since I am still ringing the new year vibes, and today’s RDP happened to be Mystery…

Anticipate

Prelude to 2019 having meaningful conversations and meaningful relationships with meaningful people. I anticipate positive dynamics for 2019! ❤

20188888889

Wow, crossed over to 2019! Wheehee! Instead of having last year segue into this year, I felt I had to interrupt it, almost like a hard reboot.

Abstract

The abstract moment of truth when you suddenly see what it means by DNA and the thread that runs through your blood.

O-o

Came home early from work today to hang out with the double O bros. Oliver really had me in fits of laughter from his antics.

Assumption

Originally posted on Oh, border!:
On the assumption that life keeps up this momentum, this shall be the view from my office before the end of 2018 ❤

Solstice

Yay, just completed my final flight for 2018!!!

Ripples

I am seeing the ripple effects of incidents from last week. So I want to send out positive ripples instead.

Dreams and Ideals

The sparklet that says we can, and we have to, make this world a better place.

Friendship and stuffs

I think friendship is a basis, a foundation. Yet, I am very fussy about when I use the term friendship.

Rains pours

I have been very quiet lately because it was pouring crazies. The week started out really brilliant, but got much worse along the way.

Walk

My favourite walk thus far is in a cemetery – a former jungle, battleground, necropolis – so much history and heritage.

Convo with Universe

It dawned on me yesterday that whether or not we see and receive what He is waiting to give, depends sooooooo much on how ready and willing we are to receive.

Mercury dance

So Mercury retrograde has shown its face very early this round.

Sea Snooze

I had a dream of crystal clear waters again, and this time not in the still boundless ocean but in a crowded sea with waves.

Snoozy

My clock was thus pretty messed up, and I could not slumber through the flight the way I usually do.

Conversations

It is very interesting to observe the evolution, or creeping in of adulthood, in our family chats.

Baby bucket list

Oliver suddenly asked me about Shanghai this morning. What a strange strange strange bucket list to start.

Asian squirrel

Corniest of all corn in the world:
Q: Why is this an Asian squirrel?

Sowed and reaped

前人种树，后人乘凉 is a Chinese saying for the earlier generation sowing a seed for the future generation to enjoy the shade of the tree.

Baskin’ Bangkok

All weekends should be like this. I am now writing on the top floor of a very nice shopping mall, with a double volume space and natural daylight, surrounded by books and pretty decor.

Divine drench

Let’s say in this case, I am the animal, and the divine is administering me a dose of my own medicine. Via a very serendipitous anonymous hand.

Cee’s B&W Photo Challenge

So here is my rendition of (foot)Steps – the happy feet stepping on happy tiles. The tiles did come in black and white, and so did my shoes that day.

Lustrous golden light

One epiphany that stopped me in my tracks was that it takes strength to see strength in another. The other was that it takes love to see love in a situation.

Loving objects

The little ones object to anyone of us feeling blue! I woke up this morning to two chuckling bouncing objects – little bundles of joy.

Fabulist

Thanks to the very educational Ragtag Daily Prompt, which is Fabulist today, I realise that it actually means a person who relates tales/fables, or a liar. Ouch!

Serendipitous

Sometimes these things that we do/did/are doing/will do have a wayyyyy bigger picture than we realise, and by definition of serendipity, you don’t exactly know if this happy beneficial occurrence was by chance or by hard work.

(Video!) On fleek

There are so many things we lived with all our lives without questioning, “is that right?”, “is that acceptable?”, “is that fair?”. Or maybe I was just too busy following the “rules” to keep myself as safe as I possibly can.

Herd

Here is the herd of our next gen in our ah-ma daycare.

Tarot wideSpread

Just did a superduper extensive, and pretty much impressive (at least to me) spread of tarot. 😀 Look at it!

6am rolling

It’s 6am writing from the airport again. I am feeling like a plump little plum rolling around in a bunch of linguistic obstacle course.

Burble

I had a fantastic burble-ing weekend! Sis was away, and I had the double-Os to myself, and relinquishing them for abit to babybro now and then.

Brace for the ride

Something weird is happening. I cannot get my head around it, and the angels keep nudging me to write.

Comeback

Celebrating the remarkable decision for a comeback.

Contrasts and perspectives

I think how we feel and see the world really depends on how we frame it, and how we tell ourselves what is happening.

Flowers of Fall

It’s a weird feeling, not that it tastes good or bad, but it just tastes so darn interesting because I never thought of eating flowers before.

Inspired

Falalala feeling inspired by my own life.

Posh

Posh is such an apt prompt to write to, this recovery weekend with one full dozen of oysters, a honey sake topped with a pretty purple flower, and two premium sushi rolls!

Grubby

Featherlightheartedness indulging in the meaningfulness and fullness of life, however grubby I may feel with the hair, face, and skin, dry from dusty roads riding in exposed tuk-tuks.

Roboto

I am already knee deep in trying to understand the natural world, so I have never looked into this other new realm of robots before.

Coddiwomple

Guess I have been coddiwompling – travelling in a purposeful manner towards a vague destination – most of the part of my life I have control over.

Absence

Pardon me for my absence, has it been one full week already?

Cee’s B&W Photo Challenge

This black and white photo of our little boy wandering the big busy world of cold hard sculptural adults is in response to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Sculptures, Statues, Carvings.

Back

Oh gosh, I’m back (temporarily) into a sane world of normal human pace, and realised I have missed yarn, remember, elder, fluffy, and I shall be early on brio.

Love me tender

This video came around again today, so I thought I’ll share it here.

Ohmoody

We had funny names for the dogs – the one who was there with me is called Number Two because it was a second dog there; the first one was called Number One.

Mobility

Mobility is a huge freedom, and there are so many layers and aspects we can zoom into and examine why it means freedom.

Vaguely blue

I feel vaguely blue today. Vaguely because I don’t exactly know why I feel blue, and totally bewildered with big “Huhhhhhhhsss? What’sss goingsss onsss?”

Zesty

I can smell the lemony / vinegar-ish zest of the perspiration on their hair, just from looking at this picture!

Fungible

“Does this fall under the category of 没关系?” This Chinese term means “does not matter”, and in the context of what we were discussing, “fungible” would be the perfect word which I did not know before this RDP.

Cat

Unrequited love it was, I really do not like cats.

A Photo a Week Challenge: Attitude

Having an upbeat attitude makes life so much easier to deal with. Here are some pics of crazy shit we do when we are not busy saving the world.

Catching up

Time flew past like crazy airplanes! I missed so many prompts that I shall attempt to catch up on them right now.

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Fiddler on the roof

It was really hot up there on the zinc roof. I remember them pirouetting and singing “hothothothothot … where are my slipperrrssss”.

Passions abide

Reframing and pushing boundaries are way more fun than just sticking to the darn “correct” answers which I had to “abide by” in the previous education system I was in. 

Umbrella novelties

The novel aspect of this six-pack of city umbrellas is that it was the largest wooden structure in the world.

A Photo a Week Challenge: Music

My memories of Andalucian culture was mostly of music and dance – it is after all the home to Flamenco, a dance form that keeps my heart upbeat and fluttery.