Havent had any entries for many months now – have taken time off to settle down, now that we have “relocated” to Melbourne, Australia. Yes, my family and I decided to take that plunge, to uproot and migrate Down Under. Very painful – it has taken me all these months before I am sufficiently settled to blog again. I hope I blog a little more after this.
Anyway, left Msia in Oct 04, returned for a month in Dec 04 and back again in Melb since Jan 05. Daughter happy in new school near home, wifey working in city with large retailer as an auditor, and I’m in a smallish law firm, enmeshed in suburban commercial life. Life is evolving into a new pattern, with life revolving around family almost exclusively. No more out drinking with friends, etc. No more late nights watching EPL or ECL games. Funny how I get to Oz and actually drink a fractionof the beer I used to drink in Msia, when the stuff costs maybe a third of what it does in Msia!
Will blog in more details some other time…
“So, I commend the enjoyment of life.” (From the Bible – really. Eccl 8:15)
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This is the new life you are facing and living. You make your own reality – wherever you go. “My Life is Mine, and I Form It” Tell yourself this often. Create your own life with your beliefs as an artist uses colour. You are given the gift of the gods and there are no limitations to the self except to those you believe in. Do not place the words of gurus, ministers, priest, doctors, psychiatrists, scientists or even friends higher than the feelings of your own being for self-understanding and growth and answers to overall life situations. Speak your name with affirmation each morning and your rightness in the universe. You create your life through the inner power of your being (whose source is within you and yet beyond the selves that you know)Use your creative abilities with understanding abandon, honour yourself and move through the godliness of your being.Trust no person who tells you that you are evil or guilty by reason of your nature or your physical existence.Trust no one who leads you away from the reality of yourself.Do not follow those who tell you that you must do penance, in whatever form.Trust instead the spontaneity of your own being and the life that is your own. If you do not like where you are, then examine closely those beliefs that you have. Bring them out in the open. There is nothing within yourself to fear.You can learn much from others, but the deepest knowledge must come from within yourself. Your own consciousness is embarked on a reality that basically can be experienced by no other, that is unique and untranslatable.You share an existence with others who are experiencing their own journeys in their own ways, and you have journeying in common, then.As one traveller to another, I salute U. Be kind to yourself and to your companions
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Congratulations for embarking bravely into a new world.Make the best of it, I do hope that you find the country much better than the one that you have been living all these whiles.I wished I am as brave a s you and jumped ship as well, but , alas, I’m too ‘chicken’.Salutations and my best wishes for a much brighter future for you and the next generation of yours!
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I have been tagged as someone who “jumped ship” but courageous (implicitly) in a same paragraph. I guess migration is a confusing issue for many.
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