Having "Me" Time

It's been two days since the earthquake in Japan, yet safe in Bangkok I still feel a certain sadness for those in northern Japan.  Some entire villages were swept away. Entire families and communities gone just like that.  In a blink of an eye.  I cannot imagine.  I cannot say I understand how it must feel to be in the midst of this devastation because I am not there and I am not the one whose house was swept away or whose relatives are missing.  All I can say is that my thoughts are with those in Japan and that I pray the worst is over.  This earthquake demonstrates how powerful nature is to destroy all in its path.  Nothing can withstand the force of 10 meter high waves hitting inland. Footage show entire houses being swept away as if they were toy houses and cars rolling around in the water like ice cubes bubbling up and down in water.   Some say it is nature's way of "cleansing" itself, it is inte...

There is so much to write about KL I could keep going on for weeks and weeks, but like all things, we need some variety in life.  A story I recently heard of a man who had been suffering from an illness has been going through my head for quite awhile now and its time I wrote something about it.  It goes like this:  "Why me, why me?"...and then "Why not me?" What on earth am I saying?  Well, if you think about it, when we complain about things that happen to us and all the injustices of this world, we always like to ask ourselves, "Why me?"   Why was I so unlucky?  Why am I so poor? Why didn't that miracle happen to me? Why didn't I get the handsome dude, or the pretty girl?  Why did I get hit on the head? Why did I get this illness?  Why did I have to suffer? Why, why and why?  We don't know "why" and will probably never find out "why."  All we know is that we dearly want to find out.  We use...