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Demi Masa

By the way, my life does not… I repeat, does not revolve around Facebook nor does it focus on what people mistakenly think I was talking about. But then go ahead and judge me anyway. One is entitled to his view.

 

This much I can tell… that if my life revolved around Facebook and what headlong shoot-first-ask-questions-later comments some people left on my blog, I would not have enough heart, love, time, energy and effort for:

 

  • me Monchies,
  • my dying Mom,
  • my missing-in-no-action father,
  • my just-married-and-just-divorced brother,
  • my other quitting-12th-grader sibling,
  • my IWC meetings,
  • my every-Tuesday-afternoon Girl Scouts volunteer activities,
  • my being discriminated-against-because-I’m-an-Asian Moscow life,
  • my new T-scooter,
  • my novel, (yes Chin… I am writing!)
  • my proofreading job,
  • my 140-acre-farmland-or-a-campervan discussions,
  • my walks,
  • my packing-pre-loved-toys-for-unfortunate-kids-in-Siberia project,
  • and oh my reading.

 

I am still reading 3 books at a time these days.

 

Berjalan di hutan cemara, langkahku terasa kecil dan lelah...So you see, by the time I have time to defend my country in a war against some neighboring country, it would already be 31st of August 2020, and I would probably be in Kecamatan Juntinyuat anyway, busy saving Bibik from the rising sea levels due to global warming.

 

So I’ll pick my battle when I know I’m winning only  for humanity’s sake. Until then, I’ll just stay away from squeezed-out toothpaste.

 

Peace!

 

 

 

 

Glossary for Neil:
demi = for the sake of
masa = time

 

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Post-Decisional Justification

Post-decisional Justification:
Right after making a choice people tend to value what they chose more, and value what they did not choose less.

 

Over three months ago I met up with a friend whom I had not seen nor spoken to since 1996. Simply because we lost touch with each other. After a roti canai-teh tarik breakfast, a summary of 1996-2006 life all in 3 breaths… I chose to tell her my post-2006 life, including my August 2008-February 2009 life.

 

Just as I turned around walking towards my car parked under the scorching sun, I started wondering why I told her as much as I told her. I never finished that wondering process until recently. All I have, as a matter of stating the painfully obvious, is one life. I have lived it in a way that no clocks can ever put yesterday back into tomorrow.

 

So I told stories the way they happened. I still do. After all, honesty is still the best (and easiest to maintain) policy! When I told her the stories of my pain with a smile, I knew what I had long gained. With every single grey strand of hair I now have on my head, and every wrinkly line on my face… I know I am justified.

 

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