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The Loving Husband Chronicles: #1

Chinese New Year is always that time of the year when everyone loves to ask that question: When are you getting maried? When are you having the first kid? As expected, before we stepped into the house, there was already these flurry of activities where they get too excited about all these gossipy news. We somehow managed to placate them by telling them that we will be doing our tea ceremony when we finished renovating our house next year. *Thankfully* Due to these 2 days of over-interaction with people, I sort of got turned off when PL tried to talk to me while I was in his room. I told him that I got a headache and it would be best if he doesn't talk to me for a couple of hours. Messaging is perfectly fine though. He got the idea and messaged me instead of talking, saving my ear and he said that it was a sort of cute weird. But I was about to faint if someone was still going to talk to me! This loving husband of mine came and hug me instead, and asked me if I want to go ba

Mindfulness: Perceptions which could be wrong (The cookie thief poem)

The Cookie Thief by Valerie Cox   A woman was waiting at an airport one night With several long hours before her flight She hunted for a book in the airport shop Bought a bag of cookies and found a place to drop She was engrossed in her book but happened to see That the man beside her as bold as could be Grabbed a cookie or two from the bag between Which she tried to ignore to avoid a scene She munched cookies and watched the clock As this gutsy cookie thief diminished her stock She was getting more irritated as the minutes ticked by Thinking "If I wasn't so nice I'd blacken his eye" With each cookie she took he took one too And when only one was left she wondered what he'd do With a smile on his face and a nervous laugh He took the last cookie and broke it in half He offered her half as he ate the other She snatched it from him and thought "Oh brother This guy has some nerve and he's also rude Why he didn't even show any gratitude" She had ne