RDP – Oh, border!

Blown away

Am I blowing my own horn/trumpet? Or is it acceptable that I find myself being blown away by my own painting?

Fire Operations

Arghz, not a great word to choose for a prompt! I am in the middle of a fire operation right now.

Shoulders (to stand on?)

“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
Where there be no giants, we can build human-towers standing on one another’s shoulders.

Baby’s Shark

I cannot understand the obsession and I do wonder if I met them in Atlantis.

M – what?

With the Night Watch, I had to explain the subject of civic militia, and the first word that came to mind was The Musketeers!

Soaring

I believe I can fly, soon. In one month’s time, it will be one full year of being grounded.

Weekend slips

I have been sleeping all weekend. I was slipping in and out of consciousnessness / dream state.

Successes and shadows

Have you achieved something so great in your life that you find it impossible to do better than that?

Self-care

Self-care is a term that popped up like rabbits when I started on a journey gallivanting around my inner world.

Power to 2021

Wresting back power from the blackhole of non-existence.

Counting down

Our achievement is not pegged to the achievement of fellow competitors.

Lost in Translation

Little o could have been confused living in a bilingual environment and takes a while to catch the phonetics AND the intonation for him to articulate himself.

Eating to save my life

I cannot believe I am back at the same old cycle of reviewing my diet.

Fracas

Back at home with two noisy kids on quarantine and a shouting grandma.

Strange days

Today is the strangest day of this strange year, yet not atypical of 2020.

Frothing

With excitement about the upcoming semester.

Soaking it all in

This evening, I learnt that I have been basking in esoteric bodies of knowledge.

Fantabulous dreams

The even more fantabulous thing about the vivid dream was that it played out in a series!

Counterintuitive Instincts

I’m an Aries and I’m fiery. At a personal level, my primal instincts take me on a path of brashness and aggression.

Rainbow Connection

I have always wondered what is on “the other side”.

Beachy weekend!

Maybe Universe is really reminding me to get a beach holiday?

Whoops, it’s August

It is already August, meaning my semester break is nearly over.

Dollops of Prejudices

Now that the country is finally openING up again, I finally get to attend the World Relations class I have been waiting for!

Whimsical?

Not quite sure whether this post qualifies as whimsical or just plain rude. Or maybe something very very human that we are all guilty of.

Waves

This virus we are dealing with is such an opportunist.

truth and Truth

I share the same thought with Christine about “what is the truth about this menace that has so totally disrupted our lives”.

This world is multi-dimensional, and while we feel helpless in this physical realm we lived in, we have no idea that some other aspect of us have been busying ourselves with light work we cannot see and we do not know about.

Empty

Guess this is Universe still-ing our monkey minds!

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.

Something Strange

Each time I mention something, it happens.

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.

Viral Recovery

Yay, Case 49 is out!!!

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.

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!

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.

Stellar

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

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?! ❤ ❤ ❤

Hearts in special places

Decided to be charitable to myself today and spend a bit of time blogging happy things.

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!

Before my blog turns to Ash

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Keep my blog alive, I must, I must.

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.

Intangible markers

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

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.

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 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…

Learning Passage

I cannot remember how we grew up bilingual.

Morning blabber

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

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

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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!

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…

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.

Solstice

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

Dreams and Ideals

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Catching up

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

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”.

Umbrella novelties

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

Eclipse Challenge

Heck. It has been one full week, and I am still on the Eclipse like it is a never-ending story. Bear with me, I’m sure today’s the last post about this latest pair of eclipses. Tsk.

Pulse of youth

Managed to find a laptop with a CD-reader, and extracted all my old Melbourne photos from 2005!

Memories

Metaphorically, there’s a whole quarry of memories in this physical stack of flat circles in front of me. On the other hand, I really want to write about my memories of the gold quarry!

Whisper

The eclipse put a black shade over my life this weekend, and time flew past without any productive accomplishment, and it scares me.

Can’t do

Can’t do math. Actually. The bonus is that it is something different. 😀 We sometimes need a little jolt to shake things up a little?

Strength | Courage

Originally posted on Oh, border!:
The immediate association with Courage in tarot-speak is VIII Strength. However, I see Courage as only part of what Strength is about, while at the same time, Courage also speaks for more than what Strength is about. Every VIII Strength card comes with a lion, and a very composed human bravely co-existing with…