One day at a time

Cheeky


Every day in Maggie's life is an adventure

Why does time seem to move so slow as a kid but move so quickly as we grow older?

When I looked at Ziela's picture which she sent me recently wow I cant believe that time really flies. She already has three kids and this one I guess must be the little one.


We have known each other when we were still kids and we go to the same school. I still remember we have great times when we're just out doing stuff together as friends. Sharing stories, lollies, gossips and jokes in School.


She is the kind of person who helps people and do anything for anybody, very warm cheerful and understanding. To have such a friend in times of need is a wonderful source of strength and you gave me that strength. What a wonderful person you have been...


I loved our childhood. When I look through it I can basically see us grow up. Geez.. I miss those day.


Thank you for being my friend Ziela. No matter where we go or who we become, our friendship will still go strong.

Beautiful seagulls flying on the blue sky

Pardon me for my absent. Been missing from my column for a long time now. This blog also became idle in couple of months. I had been thinking of quitting this blog due to being so unmotivated to write - totally unmotivated to do anything whatsoever. Recently I’ve had a few emails asking about what’s going on in my lives now and I realized that I haven’t really done a personal update. The opportunity has presented itself.. so here goes..

Well of course, it is winter all over Australia. It is freezing in Melbourne and today as low as 13 degree, but sunny. During this time, the days are getting shorter, the evenings colder, and the night’s wetter. The leaves are changing colors and the air seems a bit crisper than usual. Sooner or later, those multi-colored leaves will be wrinkled and cracking in our driveways and those fall jackets will turn into winter jackets before you know it..

When it comes to winter most people hibernate in their warm homes. The wind chill was spine numbing. It was very cold this few days and the temperature has long been below zero quite last couple of weeks. The cold snap brings wild winds, snow to Victoria. Melbourne is already in the depths of winter. It hurts to be cold. I have to turn the heat up so as not to suffer with muscle pain, joint pain well, the list goes on. I can see our dogs scrunched about as close as they could get every night. I guess they were chilly too like me.


During the cold weather like this, staying warm is my priority. I've had pain in my neck and shoulders for almost three weeks now. Been to the Hospital and was advised to have my blood test and neck scan. Being lazy, I have not set any appointment with the GP as yet. Might be arthritis flaring up? Only difference was, my palms get numbed all night and had been on pain killer – My joints begin to ache, my knees hurt, my fingers begin to feel stiff and painful…*Sigh* I am wearing out..


Nothing much I could do during the winter besides completing my assignments. Sometimes I hate it; sometimes I claim to love it. So far I’ve volunteered for legal aid, read Supreme Court opinions, been a member of the ACLU, etc. But that’s definitely not necessary - which I can see, knowing the backgrounds of some of my classmates, who hadn’t had any previous exposure to the law and are doing great. For sure, though, that’s a good positive indication *is that an excuse?*

Honestly am still interested to be in the employment of legal fraternity but in case I landed in other areas, being an apprentice to a law firm too is also another choice. Ok enough talking about assignments, this shows how much this consumes my life.

So Swine Flu has been in the news a bit lately, have you noticed?

Yes. The latest news is Melbourne ranked at number three, Perth was equal 5th, and Sydney came in at equal. Melbourne has been called the cultural capital, the sports capital and the coffee capital of Australia. Well, another title to Melbourne’s fame is the flu capital. I’m unsure as to what is worse, trying to avoid people who have the flu in order to prevent getting sick or trying to avoid people who have the flu in order to not hear another lame joke about pig flu. I am getting a little bit paranoid with the swine flu outbreak I suppose I just have to console myself with the fact that it's probably still really unlikely that anything bad will happen to me personally; and other than take sensible precautions, there's not a lot I can do to stop the spread of swine flu, properly panicked or not. I’d rather leave the freaking out to people who actually enjoy it, by just being calm and collected.. As they used to say - just hope for the best.

So what else I have been up to all this while? Nothing much besides being another year older and hubby just bought me a software for my PC to make this PC gets a bit quicker – so far so good and been doing fine all this time.

Other than that, Noah and Jacob had stayed with us during the weekend and we had some fun watching some kids movie together at night or Jacob as always, is hooked on play station and end up screaming at night for having nightmares – I guess too much of absorbing too many imaginations on his mind all of a sudden he has language like, 'brain destroyer', 'blood pouring out of ears', 'blasted to bits' :q