Apple or not?

Did Eve really tempt Adam with an apple?
Or was it simply because it was easy to depict?

One would never really know.
After all, the bible doesn't detail specifically what fruit Eve used.
It could have been a lemon or a pomegranate or a guava.

In fact, in the early centuries, apple was a generic term for all fruit other than berries but including nuts. So a peanut would have been called an apple. So would be guava honeydew rock melon water melon durian mangosteen but not blueberries and cherries.

I suppose we should be thankful that we now have specific names for each fruit, otherwise we'll have a hard time buying fruits at the fruit store.

"Uncle, apple juice please."
"Orh, which kind of apple you want? The green round one (water melon), or the thorny green one (durian), or the...."


Of course this does makes one wonder is it really an Apple apple a day keeps a doctor away? Or a fruit other than berries but including nuts that keeps a doctor away?

The end of a year is always more important than the start.
After all, you might start a race late but if you end early, you'll be crowned a victor.
Then again, I always start the year with the same confidence and prayer-based stride.
But it's how I am at the end of the year; whether I'm crawling on my knees or leaping forward in bounds. Or have collapsed along the way.

So, I look back at this year.
It was green for three quarters. That period is speechless.
Then life started again. Honestly, I'm still adjusting. Then again, I may never adjust. Since life is always changing, we shouldn't adjust because it'll be a different experience again. So a part of me says life has just begun after the end of army. And the other part of me pops up and say well army was part of your life so what do you mean life has just begun. On and on they both squabble.

I do my own mental checklist.
Have I made a positive difference in others' lives?
What errors have I done that I might change?
What were the changes in my life?

I dare say the positive differences have been fulfilled with my current job. And the joy I know I've brought about to the colleagues around me.

No major heartbreaks this year, no major setbacks. Sure, there were challenges. But so far, nothing life threatening. But, if everything is just a challenge to me, what would be deemed life threatening?

Next year proves to be more of a challenge. Two jobs and school. And lots and lots and lots of people. The challenge is not juggling all three, but in that I would have enough time to commune with myself, and with He that resides within me.

There were a few crucial happenings I remember this year. One was when I went back to my ushering job for a refresher and caught up with my old peers there. Second was when I started work, and my past and current experiences with my colleagues. Third is the constant emotional revival I get fro my three kids. And last is this hot chick I met two days ago. :D

Now that I more or less know my own character, I am merely coping to its changes that life's events have molded it to be. Like patience definitely gets tested. Not so much of joviality, or my happy go luckiness. Several times, empathy leaves for a breather. But joy always comes in the morning.

Thank God for making me helpful and kind. Sometimes I look in the mirror and think I'm so awesome. And it's only cause I was created like that. But maybe my thick skin was self-grown. Hah. ;)

old friends

I met up with an old friend yesterday for a meal. Well, old would be apt since we've known each other ever since the age of 5? Or part thereof.

And it's really amazing, because we haven't seen each other in years. 6 years, to be exact. And there wasn't any ice at all!

But it was really cool to catch up and all. She is one strong minded, determined and has lots of foresight. Rather different from me, I dare say.
Hah, hands up whoever thought of me as strong minded. And sometimes it's the little phrases that are said that leave the deeper impressions. Like she was trying to persuade me to take up marketing, reason being it's for creative people and she thinks i'm creative.

Which got me thinking about my creativity. And i think i'm not really creative. Just idealistic.

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postcards

I was thinking of sending a postcard to my overseas friend the other day. She was born and raised here, but migrated over to the lands where sheep and ring lords roam.

But it didn't make any sense to purchase postcards of singapore flyer or the esplanade. After all, she has seen them already. And i bet the local postcards aren't cheap.

Then, it occurred to me. Wouldn't it be awesome for local scenes to be depicted on postcards? For example, an image of the helicopter that crashed landed onto the punggol field. Imagine that scene with the tagline 'look what dropped into my backyard'

Or the image of the train that broke down, and people had to walk to the next station. Put that beside the 'walk 30 mins a day to keep fit' article and it would be such an awesome match.

What do you think?

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Parents

Sometimes parents think they know everything.
But some know they don't know everything, and so, are willing to humble themselves and learn new things and adapt to new experiences.
Others aren't so selfless. Indulged by years of living, and mentally raised to be prim and proper, they refuse to acknowledge their errors.

Rather, they impose their own idealogies on their children. What they feel, is what their children should feel. Who they dislike and are bias against, so should their children follow in ostracizing the black sheep of the family.

And it's rather sad, cause you see it from bridegroom's side, but i see it from the bride's side. And nothing you say or do will stop me from going out with my friend who's married to my cousin whom you dislike. Cause i know her better than i know you.

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