My last Life in Cubes post was back in May! Almost forgot that I have got such a series of post! Been moblogging and tweeting more lately, and kinda lagging behind on all the posts for this blog and few others. So here’s a pictorial flashback of what happened lately in my life…

Work’s been going alright so far, the future looks bright.

Here’s my life in cube for the past week…

Things are slowly getting better and more organized. Looking forward to our bright future ahead!

Looking at the schedule of mine, and the task list that’s ever growing, I don’t know when and how will I ever have time for the usual long posting already. Perhaps only for my almost-regular columns here in Claudia.sg.

Already got so many columns here already, so I’ve decided to add one more in! *LOL!* This is call “My Life in Cubes” series. Basically its going to be random shots of my life over the past few weeks. If you’ve really got nothing better to do, you can follow my life on my other blog or my twitter feed, which I’d been extremely active in. If you’re not on twitter, what are you waiting for? Go sign up so that you can follow my tweets! *WAHAHAHA!*

So here’s My Life in Cubes #1…

Pssss…. if you’re as busy as me too, perhaps you can give this a try! Start your own “My Life in Cubes” too!! Super easy! If you’re having problem with the mosaic photos, try this Mosaic Maker. That’s what I use!

Photo from here. Hope he don’t mind me using it.

I’m beginning to feel that my blogging is getting kinda sad. It somehow seems like life has come to a standstill for me. Nothing I do seems like a blogable post. When one’s life get bored, their blog becomes boring too isn’t it?

I was told a real story today. And it hurts but shows that everyone can be strong when the need arises. If a 13-year-old can do it, you can too.

I’m going to call the two sisters Mandy and Gina. (These are not their real name.)

Mandy is 14-yr-old and has a brain disease (too much liquid in brain or something) since young. She has gone through numerous operations. So much that the doctor cannot do anymore operation on her already. No matter how severe or needed is the operation, she can’t have it. She walks with a limb and her body is badly aligned due to the many ops she has in her brain and spine. Mandy’s only hope is be able to experience work in her school during the holiday. (With her condition, she can never be able to work anywhere.)

Gina is the younger sister of Mandy’s. She’s 13 and studies in a secondary school.

Recently their family threw a small celebration for Gina’s good result in her exam. On the day of the celebration, Mandy fell off the stairs. She was bleeding furiously and blood was all over the floor. Gina saw it and she held her sister in her arms. Being as strong as she could, she told Mandy not to worry and comforted her that she’s not losing much blood. Gina held back her tears and fears… till Mandy was sent to the hospital in an ambulance. Gina ran to their mother and cried her heart out. She totally broke out from the strength she had when she was with Mandy. She told her mother how scared she was when she saw that happened to her sister. And she felt guilty for all that happened.

Mandy is now still in the hospital. She lost a lot of blood but is currently stable. But there’s nothing that the doctor could do to help improve her situation. Everyone in her family knows and understands that its just a matter of time for Mandy to go. Mandy knows for herself too. She even insisted that she wants to go to a school camp next week, but she’s just too fit for any of such activities. Mandy just wants to spend the last period of her life living and experiencing all that she can. When her principal visited her in the hospital, she asked what Mandy wants. Mandy said she wants to experience working in the school’s office during the holiday. So that’s what she’s going to do. The Principal will pay her for her effort and hope she’ll enjoy her working experience.

I want to salute Gina for her strength for holding on to Mandy when she needed her after the fall. And her whole family too for taking things with so much faith and strength. I wish Mandy all the best and hope she’ll stay strong too and live her life to the fullest possible.

May strength stay with Mandy and her family.

suddenly I’ve this feeling
of wanting to just write something down
don’t know how
i got to chanced upon her blog
a dear friend whom we’d worked together
she seldom updates her blog
but just those few posts
make my heart sore
i remember those days
where life was simple
everyday i was surrounded
by happy colors and things
those days were tiring
but i had great moments together
we cry we laugh we have fun
i miss those days
i miss the girls
from the big happy family
i want my life to be simple again

It has been a mind boggling period for me. For the past one month, too many things clouded my mind. It was like standing on the top of a hill and unsure of whether to climb down from the left, right, front or just fall backwards down the hill. The direction that I’m going to take determines quite a lot of what will happen to me in the months and maybe even years to come. It wasn’t as easy as I thought. [Photo taken in 2005 at Paragon]

For the past few experiences I had, deciding on the direction to take was almost clear cut. Usually there will either be a guide showing me the way, or there will be directional sign on the hill. But this time, there wasn’t any of these, and the cause the hill is too high, the road down was blurred by the clouds below my feet. No matter how strong the wind blows, the cloud simply refused to clear.

I know I had to pick a way down this hill. And because I was the one who had chosen it, I have to continue the journey no matter how many rocks or stones that come in my way. I just hope that there will not be too huge a rock that totally blocks my journey down and forces me to climb back up the same hill again.

If you’re one of the few who understands what I am describing, wish me luck. If you don’t and happened to read this, wish me luck too. I need plenty of luck for my journey down this hill and hopefully up an even higher hill.

Preparing to start on my journey down soon… and this is almost how I feel now…

Feeling caged up but wanting to fly
[Photo taken in 2005 at Changi Airport]