Love

Love.

What do you think of love? Wiki defines love as :

Love represents a range of emotions and experiences related to the senses of affection and sexual attraction. The word love can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from generic pleasure to intense interpersonal attraction. This diversity of meanings, combined with the complexity of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, even compared to other emotional states.

As an abstract concept love usually refers to a strong, ineffable feeling towards another person. Even this limited conception of love, however, encompasses a wealth of different feelings, from the passionate desire and intimacy of romantic love to the nonsexual.

That pretty much sums it up, don’t you think? I am sure some would agree that love, and I am referring love towards another human being here, could be quite all-encompassing, some would even agree that they would die should their partner were to leave them behind. Theatrical, I concur, but think about it. You must know at least one person who is that in love with their partner, kan?

Love could destroy a relationship, and love could help heal it. I truly believe that. I believe that sometimes love is not enough, dedication and perseverance, and a little bit of faith, could heal that hurt from loving too much.

Love is, incidentally,  also a four letter word.

Again, I am not sure why I feel like rambling about love. But there, I’ve said it. Would it makes any difference? Entahlah, kan

Oh, before I forget, let me end this short entry with E.B Browning’s sonnet.

Glittering diamonds, rubies and sapphires

I am gulping while typing this down. Just look at those very shiny gems. I know that I would have to convince the husband to work his behind off and become one of those millionaires before I could even imagine adorning those on my digits.

Oh. I am lying. I could really image having those on my finger. Any fingers. All fingers. Whichever that would fit. Now, tell me, aren’t you a little bit interested in those shiny things?

What do all those rings have in common? They are huge. And they are very expensive. I could not imagine how people would be willing to part with that kind of money, the kind of money that could be used to pay for a house for most folks like I.

Oh I know. Should I have that kind of money to spent, I would probably be getting one. Or more.

Especially if that one is from Harry Winston, like the one on the bottom right. I am salivating over that more than I would be salivating over a good bowl of Laksa Kedah/Utara, ok. And for people who really know me, they know that I really love Laksa Utara.

I am not sure why I started off about this entry. Does it mean that I am one to daydream about expensive fancy things in my life? Or does it mean that I would like to enrich my life with fancy things?

Does it mean that material things is important to me, or does it means that I just plain ‘ol crazy?

Oh. Somebody who did not know me, had the gall to advise me about material weatlh. About how material weatlh is not everything in life, and about being thankful with what I already have in life.

First of all b|tch, I don’t know you. Secondly, you don’t know me. Thirdly, refer to the second one. Fourthly, you don’t even have any responsibilities apart for your own self, so don’t be going advising people about things that you have no clue about.

And lastly, b|tch, money is important in life. You like to stay in the ditch that you are in right now, go ahead, nobody’s gonna tell otherwise. But don’t be selling such shit to me, because I ain’t buying none.

Wow!

I am honored that farha would nominate me for this one. Surprising really because my journal looks bland, sometimes. But anyway, here goes…

Brilliant Weblog is a prize given to sites and blogs that are smart and brilliant both in their content and their design. The purpose of the prize is to promote as many blogs as possible in the blogsphere. Here are the rules to follow:

1) Put the logo on your blog.

2) Add a link to the person who awarded you.

3) Nominate at least 7 other blogs.

4) Add links to those blogs on yours.

I want to nominate all of my journal readers plus these

Tia’s little online story book

My own travel journal

Disastrous attempts in my kitchen

Puan Wangi

Aida sayang

MQ

Farmgirl

Athira’s little journal

Again, I’m gonna pimp Tia’s little story book here. I have it linked over at the side through MyBlogLog, so hopefully more people would go and have a little visit.

We stated off her journal in January 2006. My husband used to write there, until it just had gotten too much for him. So I continued on this from last year until now.

There had been couple of dried spells in between, for about three months each. During that time, I would mostly update about her in my own journal here.

There is too much stories that I had shared with friends over here through the years, sometimes it felt like this is turning into her own little story book.

So I am doing what I should have done years ago - updating her own little story book. From last month, I had been going through her photo album from the first month, and updating little stories as I share more photos as she grow older.

I am up to month sixteen as of couple of days ago, about our travel to Glasgow and Edinburgh in January 2006. Actually she turned sixteen months in March , and these entries were of photos that I had forgotten about, but forget about that. The latest entry that I made was this one .

I would continue to update about her in her little story book until I reach her very recent photos. That would be last month. I had been so lax in taking her photos, and almost any other photos around. Funny to think that I used to snap at least a hundred photos a day.

Hopefully that would change, if not sooner, later.

I just have to share this photo of me and her. Taken circa December, 2005, she just turned one few weeks before.

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