Sleep is a gift.

Ask anyone who ever had a nightmare, a sleepless night, or an insomnia – which is everyone – and you’ll get the same answer.

Yes, some people need ten seconds between hitting the pillow and going to dreamland. However, if you are more like most people, it will take you minutes or even better part of an hour to sleep. If you are under stress, or have something big going on tomorrow, or an emotional meltdown, or a baby, or have accidentally consumed an overdosage of caffeine earlier during the day – odds are you would experience laying-on-bed-with-your-eyes-open-and-your-mind-alert-and-it-is-damn-annoying thing.

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I have found it a little bit below impossible to take care of a baby while doing something full time, or even part time, on the side.

Yes, you can always sneak out 30 minutes of cleaning stuff or 20 minutes of the baby nap time to cook or work on your project, but you almost always end up using these precious 30 minutes to do something more important: taking shower for one, preparing food for the baby for two, and eating your own lunch for three.

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Today, I’ve been thinking a lot about justice.

It’s easy to say that there’s no justice in this world. Even the best debater and philosopher can’t argue to this one. How can you say to a 14-year-old slave that there is such thing as justice? How can you look at the parents whose daughter had just been killed in the eye and talk about justice?

People with power, the ones who can actually make a change, at times are corrupted. Many others think about themselves first, then others. It’s only human nature.

Yesterday, I have stumbled on an article written by a raped victim at Harvard. Yes, Harvard. Upon reading it, I could feel my heart boiling with anger. It isn’t fair.

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A quarter of the year has gone and no, I’m not sentimental at all.

Although by the world’s standard, I guess I haven’t been doing anything.

My days are filled with taking care of baby (not mine, my sister’s) and reading books. I managed to catch up with How I Met Your Mother (and by catching up I mean skipping the entire season 8 and go straight to watch season 9) and have a lot of sleep.

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I am not big in doing favours, especially when doing favours causes a hint of inconvenience.

Why? Because despite the joy that I know exists in helping others, I can’t help but being discouraged to do so in fear that they will do better than myself.

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I believe in names.

Perhaps it’s mostly about the influence of Patrick Rothfuss’ the Kingkiller Chronicles that I have just finished reading in the last two weeks. Perhaps it’s because a dozen other fantasy books who have put great weight upon a person’s name. Perhaps it’s because God decided to change Jacob’s name to Israel, Abram to Abraham, Simon to Peter, and Saul to Paul.

Perhaps it’s because I have always been fascinated with meanings behind the names. With the stories of how one is named.

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“You lied to me once,” Terry said. “It is very hard for me.”

Jean froze. She was about to open her mouth and say something but those words burnt her from the inside. She opened her mouth again, but not a sound would come out. Powerless, she threw her body to the sofa.

Terry was frozen himself. He didn’t mean to. He never meant to hurt Jean. He loved Jean. He loved her with all his heart and even when he was in so much pain, he still loved her. But it didn’t mean his wounds had healed.

Jean froze, her legs weak, her arms lifeless. She stared with such emptiness in her eyes to the kitchen, trying to process anything to go inside her brain. She couldn’t think. She felt this piercing wound into her soul, as if it had taken the life out of her heart.

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If I can read your mind, I think the world will definitely come to an end. Why? There will be unquestionable hatreds in this world. Who would want to know one’s thoughts when he is saying this and thinking something else or when he is pretending to put his mind on the game but truthfully, one isn’t?

See it this way. You are in a meeting with three others and one is doing a presentation. Somehow you are not paying attention, not really because you are disrespectful or bored, but sometimes your mind just wander. You begin to think about your half-finished book inside your bag, begging to be read. You begin to think of what to have for lunch, or the fun you could be doing tonight. You begin to think about the most random memories and yet you are staring straight into the presenter’s eyes, as if you have been paying attention the whole time.

If one can read your thoughts, one will judge you unworthy.

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Beautiful things don't ask for attention.

James Thurber, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
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