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June 18, 2012

Happy Father’s Day… a day late…

i can’t believe i missed posting on Father’s Day! i, the gal who has always felt and known what an important role a father plays in a child’s life and growing up years, didn’t forget that it was Father’s Day yesterday. But somehow my brain didn’t make to connection to posting about it here.

Oh my, i just took a long back at past years and realised i have always posted late for Father’s Day – how terrible! (See here and here.) Here’s to making up for it:

My Tributes

My father is very important to me.
He is my champion, my hero.
The one who always cheers me on.
i am who i am because my father is who he is and he loves me so very much.
My need to protect my loved ones comes from my father who was and still is very protective of me.
i laugh a lot because my father is always cracking jokes and bringing laughter into our lives.
i love life and dare to live it because my father is my example.
My father is very important to me.

I LOVE YOU DADDY!

happyfathersday20120618 — Loving time with Daddy!

To my husband, the father of my son, the one who can fix all things
(not everything in the whole wide world, just everything in my son’s & mine).
The father of my son, the one who is the strength of this family.
My son’s father, the one who loves in his silent and practical ways.
My husband, the father my son looks up to and eagerly awaits his return home each day.
My son loves his father so much, it’s fun to watch the two of them together.
Together, father and son, sharing interest and laughter.
My husband, the best father my son can have.

DADDY WE LOVE YOU!

syc

June 17, 2012

Spring Onions Spring…

My next green adventure – planting onions…

Before i get into that, i have to sob over the deaths of my beloved tulips… that’s right they died, died even before they had a chance to be anything more than green leaves… SOB!

How did that happen? Well, the cold got to them. Why didn’t i save them? Because i didn’t know that they were suffering from the cold. i’m no green thumb and have killed my share of plants. But still i wanted to grow something, something nice and/or edible. (See previous attempts here, here and here.) This year i researched and decided to go with tulips because i love tulips and they are said to be easy to grow. To cut a long story short, they popped up during unseasonal warm weather in March. Then as it is with unpredictable Swiss Spring weather, the cold set in again. However, i didn’t realise it would affect my tulips. My reasoning – they were planted before the frost and lived through the cold winter (in fact they need the cold before they can germinate) so they should be fine as temps were above freezing. Little me of no green knowledge – sigh! The bulbs needed the cold but once they popped they have to be protected from the cold! i found that out too late.

SO… i have grieved over them the last month and now feel ready to go for another green attempt.

For some strange reason, i had onions which budded while sitting in an open basket in the kitchen. Not all of them budded, just two. It has happened before and i normally just throw them out. But i thought otherwise this time. So i headed to the trusty old internet and found a couple of entries which talked about using the cut-off bottom ends of onions (normally thrown away), and another which said that it was possible to try planting onions which budded in the pantry. So i waited till the rains eased up (it had been raining almost everyday for almost 2 weeks before this past Thursday). And have planted them, hoping for some nice spring onions to eat. (Fingers, toes and eyes all crossed.)

So meet my onion babies:

syc

*happy to have sunshine days*

June 15, 2012

Is 7 Your Lucky Number?…

Well, it is mine – at least for today 😉

Charissa at Joy In The Moments awarded me the Versatile Blogger Award (i have posted about it here and here.). Thank you very much. i will pass on that award next week.

She also tagged me with the Lucky 7… what’s that you ask? Well, it’s just a fun little thing to do… Here’s how it works:

You go to page 7 or 77 in your current manuscript or work-in-progress,

Then go to line 7,

Post on your blog the next 7 lines or sentences – as they are,

Then tag 7 other people to do the same.

Well, i have 3 works-in-progress… i’m think it would be fun to do all 3, just to see if there is a difference in my writing style or not…

So starting with the latest one, at the moment untitled, based in the present day, part fantasy:

Tabitha had meant to call her last night and apologise for the way they left their last conversation. Should she call her now? Did Pea have classes this morning?

She swung herself out of bed and decided to try her luck. She picked up the phone and sighed, at the same time thinking about the random information she read somewhere so long ago – every time you sigh you lose a drop of blood. Tabitha wonders how much blood she has lost in the last twenty years, as the ringing tone fills her ear.

‘Hello?’

2nd one i wrote the year before, based in the present day, called Between Cousins:

Oh how I remember that – it was so comforting to be held so close to a warm body while the cold winter winds blew around you. I hear the girls calling out for me. Better go.

I type:
Oh yes I was but not any more – I am used to it now. Running late. Have to go now. Chat later.

He types:
Most definitely 😀

After I close MSN messenger, I notice another email had just come in – this time from Yaya. Let’s see what she has to say – I am quite sure that she is with me on this.

This last one i wrote some 4 years ago, it is also my first attempt at writing a full-length novel, entitled The Girl and The Knife (i lost the digital version of this when our harddisk crashed last year, thank God i had a printed copy):

“i’m sure it would be the same for getting timetable and tutorials arranged. You know if i knew that being late means no lines, i would have arrived late too.” grins Nelly.

“But don’t you think i’ve missed a lot by being late?” asks Lily.

“No, not really. You see, we are first years. The first week is just orientation and registration – you have already done registration in less than half the time it took me and now i’m giving you orientation – see you have already done everything we did.” explains Nelly

Lily looking worried and unconvinced, “But classes had started officially three days ago! There were lectures and tutorials i have missed.”

Oh my goodness, now reading these lines again, i cringe! Typing this, i’m seriously considering deleting it all. But as i have been reading on other writers’ blogs, i have to be brave and post my work out there and be prepared for constructive criticism.

i know i have also committed what is considered to be a “sin” among most writers, i have not finished any of the above stories but have gone on to write a different one each year. However, in my defense, these were all written for Nanowrimo which recommends writing a new story of 50,000 words or more in 30 days each time you take part.

i will finish them – i promise i will. And now that i have picked one to work on, i aim to at least finish one draft by year’s end. Maybe, just maybe, i’ll post parts of it here. After editing, of course!

Oh before i forget, i tag the following people (i only know a few who are actively writing and blogging at the same time) with this Lucky 7 Meme:

Fiction Forge – she is a fellow-writer and also lives in Switzerland. We also go to book club together. She posts great tips about writing and is currently working on a piece of work she has been very excited about.

Poetic Inspirations – i simply love Maryanne’s poems and she highlights lots of other good poets of our day. She introduced me to Spoken Word Poetry which i love soooo much… i hope to be able to catch a live performance soon.

Life Is An Adventure – Lynda’s writing is simple and inspiring. If you need a pick me up, you need to read some of Lynda’s posts. She is also working on her book, which i think will come out soon.

Have fun!

syc